I get the point about going off topic. However, it's an important subject for many of us (parents or recent graduate cavers) so I think it's pertinent to discuss it. If moderators want to open a separate thread, that's up to them and I'd be happy to continue it there.

Looks very similar to the Robin Gray pictures I have

If you're a hospital doctor, you're likely to hit the sort of salaries Fjell mentions - ie you'll end up paying it all off. Given the current interest rates, this is akin to having a rather expensive second mortgage. However, if you try to pay it off as a lump sum, you either need generous...

Practically, saliva is easier for mums, urine for dads. And dads might find the concept slightly less repellent....

Ouch. Very good but definitely Ouch....

Perhaps a little too accurate. Unless you're trying to fit down Strans Gill (insert improbably narrow cave of choice) when being .57142 etc might be an advantage. By that token I probably represent 1.2 or, if our formidable and unbribeable practice nurse is involved, 1.6. OK, 2.

If you carry a first aid kit in your car, I suggest adding a waterproof kneeler to your stuff (the sort of padded kneeler they sell in garden centres). I spent an uncomfortable couple of hours a few months ago, kneeling next to a broken motorcyclist who kept trying to obstruct his airway. By the...

I haven't. Should I? However, fungi seem the best solution to feeding everyone when (insert cataclysm of choice) occurs. Which is a bugger cos I've recently bought a very fine barbecue which can incinerate meat or vegetables perfectly. Non-standard mushrooms are more challenging....

Hard to avoid fungi, whatever you eat. However, they don't belong to either animal or plant kingdoms. Does that mean we need to anticipate a new category of fungivore who eats neither plant nor animal? Realistically, this may describe the standard survivor in a post-utopian world....

In answer to Hannah B: I'm basing my statement on personal experience; thirty years as consultant physician sharing a medical firm with two gastroenterologists with specific expertise in coeliac disease and irritable bowel syndrome (hence, as a coeliac, I took great interest in the subject and...

I haven't read every post in this thread, but most of the 'GF-bashing" has been nothing of the sort, rather the posts criticising GF have been pointing out its problems. I spent 40 years eating normal food and enjoying it far too much before I developed symptoms and was diagnosed as a coeliac...

Gluten free is fairly easy though a little inconvenient. More importantly, there are three categories of gluten freedom. First, people with coeliac disease (me) where gluten is poisonous. Avoid. Eating gluten has demonstrably evil consequences. Second, people with a 'wheat intolerance'. This...

Interestingly, in the time it took to write the previous post, the original thread has disappeared!

I tried to complain about the modafinil australia post but the report button said the thread couldn't be found, nor could I post a reply complaining about it, hence the new post. Modafinil is a prescription only medicine which is very effective when prescribed appropriately but is subject to...

Some people would have thought it was a poltergeist.