Rogerborg

Well, you shouldn't, but we have to hoe the row that we've been dealt wait what? In my case, I find it a lot easier to buy and eat none of something than a little of something. Ideally, smaller portions is probably the way to go. Google sorted their developer bloat just by putting out smaller plates in their free canteens. Why on earth would you shove them up your bum? 😲 OK, I've read that ten times now, and I still can't unsee it. Depends how you do it. It doesn't have to be steak, salmon and organic avocado, I'm doing fine on chicken, sardines and cabbage. I'm actually eating a lot more greens now than I used to, which is another benefit. At its core, low carb is just about having a salad instead of chips.

I hear this a lot, but I've got fat stacks of lipo batteries that have been drained flat, like <1V per cell, and recovered by giving them a quick boost by wiring them in parallel with a good cell, then knocking them up again by charging as lead-acid, then finally switched to lipo balance. The laptop I'm writing this on had its battery pack discharge to 1.2V, and that's an 11.1V pack with 3x3 18650 cells, so 0.4V per cell. I gave each 1x3 bank a blast, then 2x3, then finally across all 3x3. If you can read this, then it didn't explode and it still holds a decent charge. I do accept that it's bad for them, I'd avoid it possible, and I might just have been (consistently) lucky.

Site hidden as I wouldn't want to send anyone that way. Hmm, I guess they're operating on the basis that if they don't advertise it, they won't get caught at it. And they are at it because that reduces it to the level of "Our defence is that the customer was prepared to pay another £25 or so". As always, it'll be fine until it's not.

Have you tried going very-low-carb in order to test that hypothesis? I mean, for a week or more, not a day or two. For me, it's quite the opposite. A bit of Brie keeps me going for far longer than a packet of crisps or a piece of toast ever did. Protein is key though, a tin of sardines can do me half the day. I'm coming round to believing that carbs cause hunger. All the plz-no-bullying in here depressed me so much that I cheated and had some slivers of melon, and now I've got hunger pangs. My faith crumbled, and lo, I am being punished for it. 😭

All, right, I'm down, stop kicking.

They're close, but the 2021 Edge hop I've just bought has slightly different external greeblies to my 2018 ZCI plastic hop. I'd say "closely related", although they could very well be from the same factory, and the dimensions and components are indistinguishable. They both work well enough. I'm also liking a Maple Leaf macaron with the Specna hop and rubber. It's a unusual rubber, Ω shaped but longer front-to-back, as opposed to a ML omega rubber which is side-to-side. Does the job anyway.

Fair point, and I'm talking about a diet for removing excess fat by keeping you in ketosis through consuming fewer calories than you burn, which is most easily done by reducing carbs. But that's a bit of a mouthful. That's as distinct from the original keto diet for maintaining weight while controlling epilepsy which was more like 90% fat, 6% proteins, and 4% carbs (calorie-wise). That seems extreme, but it's worth noting that people can survive and thrive on it long term, and I'm experiencing only good things so far from binning the bread. I'm going more protein though and less fat (sardines, not sausages), and slipping in a sneaky carrot here and there, but the key is to rethink carb addiction. Bread is cake, as far as our bodies are concerned.

Mostly verboten, heretic. Spirits are better, and you can make trash wine from low-sugar cranberry / raspberry juice and vodka. Just be aware that alcohol trumps both fat and carbs as an energy source, and at 56 calories a unit it can add up fast. Madhouse is right, it's all about calories in versus calories burned, and keto low carb works well because it cuts out a lot of empty calories while not leaving you hungry. I'd emphasise that latter part, it's remarkable just how little hunger I feel now, with zero snacking or cheating other than some weekend alcohol. Mrs Borg bought some doughnuts and put them in the fridge, and - hand-on-heart - I found that I could reach past them without feeling any temptation to sin. Oh, I should have mentioned, I'm also cycling a fair bit, both real world, and an indoor exercise bike. I'm putting in a quick 5k as I type this, with keyboard and mouse on a board cable tied across the bars. Indoor means fewer chances to make excuses, and easier to get into a routine - I get on it before logging in each morning.

Why avoid promoting something that works? If you want to lose fat, the only way to do it is to go into ketosis. It's not scary witchcraft, it just describes the state of burning fat instead of carbs for energy. You can do this by either exercising enough to burn all the carbs that you've eaten (congratulations, you are now in scary-ketosis), or by eating less of them in the first place. If it helps, stick a different label on it: low-carb diet, paleo diet, or whatever you fancy. It doesn't mean zero carbs, you'll always get some, it's just about keeping them low. There's nothing healthy or necessary about sugar (including fruit / "natural" sugar), bread, pasta, crisps, chocolate. You can make an argument for some carby fruits and veg, but if you eat them, you'll need to burn those carbs off, and there's very little in in there that you can't get through vitamin and mineral supplement, or just sticking to non-carby greens. Keto doesn't mean nothing but cheese and bacon (unless you're trying to maintain or gain weight and are highly active or in training, and I wouldn't recommend it for that). Weight loss keto can mean mostly above-ground veg, nuts, fish and chicken. Just keep all the healthy things from your regular diet, and drop the starch and sugar. Last night's dinner was cabbage, kale and broccoli with finger chillies, mushrooms and cashew nuts fried in a little butter with lashings of garlic, ginger and then pan-steamed in rice wine vinegar. I've been doing it for about three months to lose the lockdown lard. The first week is tough, sugar and carbs really are addictive, and you'll curse anyone in your household who toasts bread or bagels. But once you've kicked the habit, wow, the benefits. I don't eat breakfast now and don't miss it, so it's also a restricted-hours diet. I've shed significant visceral fat, my blood pressure has come down, I'm clearer headed, have more energy and more consistent energy, and feel far less hungry - hunger pangs seem to be a symptom of burning the last of your carbs, and your body saying "No! More cheap energy! Don't starve me, bro!" - but the only way to burn fat is to starve, it's not a dirty word. I'm aware that this is the zealotry of a convert, but I really would suggest giving it go if you want to lose fat. It's sustainable if you can get over that first week or two, and change your shopping habits. If you crack and give in, well, then you'll have learned something interesting about carb addiction.

At every site I've played at, it seems clear that most marshals get the role (I won't say job) by being mates with the site owner, not through ability. There have been some notable and welcome exceptions, but by and large they're either too lazy, nice, retiring, or randomly angry. Given that it's a labour of love though, and that I couldn't do a better job (being all of the above, as the mood takes me), this is just a low grade grumble, not an "aIrSoFt Is DyInG!!!11!" rant.

Ahoy, chap.

Wolf Armories only list UKARA, Defcon only list UKARA, British Airsoft Club and site membership, Land Warrior only list UKARA (and implicitly site membership), Crawley Surplus only list UKARA, BZ tactical only list UKARA, A2 only list UKARA and site membership. Although they may very well accept it if you ask. FireSupport, AirsoftWorld and Weekend Warrior do indeed list Sportsman Association, and/or British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). They must surely be aware that these are not VCRA defences, neither by the letter nor the spirit of the law - if your interest is in target shooting, it doesn't matter if you have a RIF or an IF, right? Still, it could be worse. There's one site that just allows you to tick a box saying "Yeah, mate, airsoft and that" (although somewhat bizarrely does want to see proof of age).

I am also bemused and intrigued.

I was going to spoiler it and say SkyRC S65, but it looks like prices on them have just jumped up significantly. Even the basic SkyRC e450 is over £30 now. I hesitate to suggest the older technology iMax B6 models, but can we find the better ones for less?

And there we go, the root of the problem. I'd rather have sites just hush up and say nothing rather than swing their dicks, then shrivel up when it comes to actually confronting the players that they know fine well are cocking around.

Well, good news, at least you won't be competing with me for the mags that are 1/3rd that price when they come back in stock.

This is why I only use genuine Poundland spray paint, not those shoddy knock-offs in Poundstretcher.

Ah, I see they're fully booked out. I'd expect this contributes to a culture of "the customer is always a nuisance, and there's plenty more paying punters where you came from, mate".

This is why I try not to get too emotionally attached to airsoft. It's a hobby, not a business, and any site can go from fun to frakked in the course of a day.

Called it. This is SOP for too many sites: the owner and his chums flicking each others' beans in the office/shop, while the paying players wonder if any airsoft is actually going to break out.

Absolute Goddamn Joeys. Here's my supposition: they knew fine well who it was. But they hoped the culprits would own up and go home without any drama. When they didn't, they had no Plan B, and just retreated into an owner-marshal circle-wank where they told each other that collective punishment was the right thing to do, and better than risking walking up to Captain Spamalot and saying "Sod off, you're not welcome here." This, right here, is what grinds my gears the most about airsoft: sites gobbing off about what they're going to do, then failing to do it. Then punishing the majority of decent players because they won't deal with the tiny minority of toxic people who need to be punted right out of the hobby.

Can you list the retailers that do accept it, versus those who don't? I ask because you said "most", which implies a demonstrable plurality.

In Dungeons and Dragons, before all this Advanced frippery, "elf" and "dwarf" were character classes - only humans could choose their class. They assumed that all non-human X or Y acted exactly identically, just as we might say "All HPA users are over-shooting, chrono-cheating spam-buckets".

You're not fooling me, I've seen every episode of Midsomer Murders. Every time an owl hoots, someone gets stabbed with a pitchfork.