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TG Motocross 1, 2, 3 + 4. I especially like version 3 though.

I live in Swindon at the moment. I'm riding bmx these days but would be happy to show you around. Nobody really rides trials here anymore. Adam Storey might but I haven't been in contact with him for a while. Message me if you want a guide sometime.

I think it's good to be critical about the various laws we come into contact with, regardless of how we might view them compared to the situations in other countries. To say "well we've got it better than other people so let's no longer be critical" makes us conservative and stuck. Although it's certainly true that other things probably need addressing ahead of cannabis, it may also be true, in the broader picture of things, that a more open minded and perhaps rational view toward cannabis may relate to healthier views toward other happenings in society. Being potentially irrational about any one thing in life basically means we have a greater capacity to be irrational about many other things. We can begin to change our irrationality anywhere in life, so why not with a more rational consideration to drugs that isn't so reflexive - "drugs are bad, mmmmm'kay?".

I'm not sure we were giving opposing ideas? I was talking about how poor circulation can lead to problems of getting warm, more generally than just with riding but instead with most situations. Like when I smoked ciggarettes and ate shit all the time, I couldn't get my feet warm at night and i felt cold when other people didn't. Kris was talking about your response to warming up, regarding your (homeostatic) sweat capacity. It is true however, that lack of fitness can cause you to heat up more easily because your body is inefficient at activity, meaning more energy is required to do an activity. The utilization of controlled energy always carries with it the loss of uncontrolled energy in the form of heat. More energy used = more heat produced. We can be inefficient in this sense because of lacking muscular co-ordination or because we lack a properly working cardiovascular system, respiratory system, etc. which causes a bottleneck that requires the use of more energy to compensate for that fact.

Haha, awesome music video

Hah I'm stumped for comeback pictures

Alcohol can, but doesn't have to with respect to moderation, cause damage to every (?) vital organ in the body. Cannabis can, but doesn't have to with respect to moderation for the majority, cause those psychological effects you mentioned. The trouble is, until you've seen things differently with drugs or perhaps you've have some sort of mystical/spiritual insight, it's difficult to appreciate how differently you can see the world and how greatly that can effect your well being, increasing it considerably above the current 'normality'. I can laugh and feeling happy without drugs but your can enter more deeply into those things with drugs. I subscribe, with reference to both spiritual/mystical and drug experiences that reality offers much more appealing states of being that what we typically all start with when we enter into this world. I accept how much of a nonsense this can seem because what I say seems so abstract. It can't be pointed to so it's easy to deny. Nevermind. I will admit that the benefits are however a bit unstable with drugs but at least they offer you a glimpse of how you can be. I barely use cannabis anymore but it definitely fulfilled a great purpose in my life at one point. Meditation and yoga I now prefer as a means of developing my well being and awareness.

Well, I'd suggest that just calling it "bad" and "illegal" as the end argument for drugs completely skims over the complexities of the situation. I do certianly think that there are problems with drugs but I also think that drugs, like cannabis, can have something to offer people. I happen to think that the expansion of self and environmental awareness and the stimulation of laughter, feeling happy, etc. that arises from cannabis is quite healthy. Obviously some people, a small minority I might add, have a predisposition to cannabis that will not make it healthy but providing it is used sensibly by the majority, like alcohol or driving a car, that harm can be minimal and a worthy sacrifice for the positives that are offered. It's easy not to understand what drugs might offer when you haven't tried them. That's no criticism, just an observation. We always seems to disagree about everything, Dave

That's hardly a fair analogy. It's a completely different choice, with completely different consequences. It also misses the point of whether cannabis should or shouldn't be illegal. We don't have to respect laws that don't neccesarily make sense or are unhealthy in some sense. Although, I'm not making any statements about if cannabis should or shouldn't be illegal. The point is that a choice should exist whereby laws can be changed with respect to public feeling about a given law. Our choice shouldn't be limited to simply obeying or disobeying a law. Doing so suggests a submission that's not very democratic. I'd be wary of drug propaganda, unless you meant that as a form of irony? Seeing that "FRANK" claims to be unbiased and objective, their adverts are nothing of the sort. If they were, they might also include the positive effects of recreational drug use. With reference to what I think is a more reliable source, the most presitigious medical journal in the world (correct me if I'm wrong), The Lancet, had a drugs report showing cannabis to be less harmful than both alcohol and tobacco.

I'd be highly suspicious of our governments motivation for being there having much to do with a concern for the people of Afghanistan. That would seem to contradict many of their other actions past and present. It's probably also true that drugs aren't much of a motivation but like "concern" it's a nice cover story. In that sense, what happens in Afghanistan regarding the Taliban and drug production is a convenience to be utilized. I don't stand by that in absolutist way however, especially as I'm hard pressed to remember what I've read about Afghanistan and the west. I only know I've read a wealth of information that suggests a general trend whereby most western goverments act in accord with what benefits them in the sense of profit, over all else and this includes Afghanistan in the past. In this sense, I don't really support the motivation. If as a by product the people of Afghanistan gain from protection against the Taliban I think at least that is a good thing.

Most likely if your unhealthy habits were having some sort of ill effect, you'd more likely be struggling to get warm more generally due to poor circulation supplying warm blood across the body. Although, obviously a lack of fitness can mean you warm up more quickly because your body has to work harder (use more energy) to do certain thing. I wouldn't worry though. I went for a run this evening and I got very warm despite the minus temperature. I also find that for riding trials. It is a form of gymnastics after all.

Are you talking about Altered Beast on the megadrive?

More of the female stalking, inspired by the hair on my feet, that makes me feel like you.

I'm pretty sure it's a cat nest.

What is this 'thing' that's supposed to be Xmas?

Anyone at Exeter uni? I could do with a description of experience.

I've read a fair few social studies about how culturally deficient people are up north. Something about a general lower intelligence also. This might sound like a joke but the studies are actually quite scientific. Especially the intelligence bit.

Good shout.

Absolute awelotsness.

As I understand it, the purpose of anti-depressents is to lift somebodies mood up enough so they can begin engaging in the activities that, through their depression, they had stopped doing. A depressed individual often feels unable to eat/sleep properly, exercise and be social. Unfortunately, those things are most likely to help a depressed person not feel depressed, although they are not always the complete answer. Anti-depressents, apart from potential individuals who are fixed to depression regarding genetic reasons (which I find unlikely), are not a solution to depression. Rather they are a temporary support to allow you to engage in certain activities which reduce an individuals susceptibility to depression and begin the process of moving toward a healthy state. They can raise mood enough so somebody feels able to exercise and eat properly. Some have sedative properties so they help you sleep. Against the anti-depressent ideal however, when I saw the doctor a year or two ago, we discussed anti-depressents as I was considering trying them again. Looking at my record he said that I had pretty much tried all of those available to my condition. My experience has been that no anti-depressents helped me and in fact on one occasion they made me worse. That aside from several of them making me pretty much impotent at the time, which wasn't much fun. I do think that fundamentally, depression arises because of an individuals relationship to their experience. This can be changed but unfortunately our culture doesn't really equip individuals with the right tools for changing their situation. Self awareness, introspection, contemplation and human psychology would be apt activities and studies for individuals from young ages in terms of avoiding depression or quickly dispelling it if it arose. We're mostly on our own in that regard though, unless we see a councillor or psychologist and even then, it's often a limited means of dealing with your situation. If an individual ended up simply being able to cope, never getting depressed, then they are pretty lucky but that was most likely, but not always, a blind development. I think it makes more sense for individuals to be better rounded because they are aware about what it is that makes humans beings, in general, mentally healthy. Human beings are pretty insane at the moment in my opinion and the ones that aren't depressed are most likely just adjusted to the general insanity through the cultural opiates. Of course, that's not something people like to hear I think anti-depressents should be used if they help somebody get back on course toward better mental health, but they certainly shouldn't be viewed as a fix for depression.

And here's me thinking about university offering the chance to immerse and develop myself in an academic environment

I think what you get from university depends on your approach to it. If I didn't think I would gain from the experience, I certainly wouldn't be doing it.

Awesome stuff as normal. Really liked the manual to rail to fakie manual at the roundabout. Also good to see you nail the rail to roof line I wish the Sam Pilgram video was made up more of the brief street riding at the end. Good clean edits though. Did you create those (presumably AE) intros yourself, Rowan?

Very impressed Danny. You've got your own style of film making and I like it