https://youtu.be/IMw5orGf2tY This is f**ked up! Some will say it doesn't matter because alcohol is poison anyway while others will say it's just cost cutting and a symptom of capitalism and greed, but it starts to look more and more like eugenics to me being orchestrated by sick and twisted creeps like Bill Gates "Let's see how many working class people we can kill off with cancer by putting antifreeze chemicals in Carling" Ale in Medieval times was low-alcohol and nutritious, often called liquid bread and contained protein, vitamins, minerals, and calories from the malt, had no preservatives so was brewed fresh every week or few days. We really do live in a sick society where everything is being poisoned, can you even trust anything sold in supermarkets?

LA & Miami bros like racing supercars while on their Kawasaki H2Rs or Hayabusas with extended swing arms but these late 80s early 90s 2 strokes still do it for me, these Suzuki RG500s are becoming classics now and going for about £20k on Ebay. Maybe it's the sound and the smell and as modern vehicles become loaded with more electronic driving aides people will long for the older raw experience.

Gym bros love to focus on how much someone can benchpress and often quote ridiculous figures for a minimum that an adult male should be able to achieve. At the end of the day you're either naturally a big lump of a dude or you're someone who has trained and built up to bigger weight. I remember watching WSM a few years ago when Mikhail Koklyaev turned up on the Strongman scene and coming from an Olympic weightlifting background had never trained benchpress, he even turned up in his wooden heel weightlifting shoes 😁. Each to their own and any form of working out is better than sitting on the sofa eating crap but I can't see the appeal of being some meathead wearing a triple ply bench shirt and becoming that immobile you can hardly reach your own ass to wipe it. Most dudes like me probably grew up on Schwarzenegger action movies and Pro Wrestling and always thought bigger muscles were better or having them makes you "hard" but once you grow up you learn that a guy's chances of winning a fight hinge more on how much he's trained to fight vs how big his muscles are. Probably more impressed nowadays with stories of how GSP used to train gymnastics when he was in UFC, Diaz brothers doing triathlons or Goggins being able to run long distances but still maintain enough muscle mass to lift more weight than most people.

Most people are probably already aware and know all about soft shell and hard shell jackets but if you didn't, these Microlight Alpine Down jackets are useless when in rains. Got absolutely drenched yesterday out on the bike, it was only spitting when I left but it got worse the further I got from home, gloves were soaked, trousers drenched and sticking to my legs, shoes and socks squelching, jacket and tshirt soaked right through - all insulation value gone, surface water spraying off my tyres like a sprinkler, cold, windy, numb fingers and toes, another 26 miles to get home. Got back and struggled to undo a buckle or get my shoes off as my fingers were too numb, unpleasant but not serious, makes you think about people who have got into trouble by gallivanting off ill-prepared on expeditions into the wilderness with the wrong gear and lacking survival skills. I recall watching one of those Mountain Men programmes on Discovery where a guy called Marty would fly solo in a small single propeller aeroplane deep into remote parts of Alaska for trapping, on one episode his old snowmobile brokedown and he had to hike back to his cabin in well below zero conditions, he noted that one of the most dangerous things he could do was get too hot and start sweating, presumably because insulation is trapped air and getting it wet collapses it, wet layers wick away your body heat and the moisture can also freeze. Me trying to undo a buckle with cold hands in above zero conditions is just a small insight into what it would be like for someone hiking in a remote location and falling through thin ice and getting soaked, if they got out and hypothermia started to set in, how long before their hands weren't even functioning properly to try and light a fire or change into dry stuff if they have any?