Kez

Phew.....haven't logged in for awhile, and find you awash with jokes...so here's another: **************************************** We were dressed and ready to go out for the New Years Eve Party. We turned on a night light, turned the answering machine on, covered our pet parakeet and put the cat in the backyard. We phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi. The taxi arrived and we opened the front door to leave the house. The cat we put out in the yard, scoots back into the house. We didn't want the cat shut in the house because she always tries to eat the bird. I go out to the taxi, while my husband went inside to get the cat. The cat runs upstairs, with my husband in hot pursuit. Waiting in the cab, I don't want the driver to know that the house will be empty for the night. So, I explained to the taxi driver that he will be out soon, "He's just going upstairs to say goodbye to my mother." A few minutes later, he gets into the cab. "Sorry I took so long," he said, as we drove away. "That stupid bitch was hiding under the bed. I had to poke her with a coat hanger to get her to come out! She tried to take off, so I grabbed her by the neck. Then, I had to wrap her in a blanket to keep her from scratching me. But it worked! I hauled her fat ass downstairs and threw her out into the back yard!" The cab driver hit a parked car..

You're both right. Freedom of speech is the foundation of democracy. The Muslim community is not as innocent as people would have us believe. The so-called moderate Muslims in the UK are behind the sinister censorship that has now started: 1) Because of Muslim "sensitivity" Dudley city council has banned the use of Winnie the Pooh "Piglet" mugs by their staff. Because the pig is "unclean" in the Muslim religion. Strangely, although the pig is equally unclean to Jews, no council has ever suggested banning Piglet mugs in the last 100 years (or more) since a Jewish community has existed in Britain. Apparently a Jew can walk by a Piglet mug nonchalantly, but when a Muslim walks by a Piglet mug, he shakes with a sense of being wronged, offended and insulted. 2) Piggy banks used to be displayed in East Lancashire branches of the Halifax Building Society (Credit Union / Savings & Loans) to encourage customers to save - Jewish customers included. In October, they were removed from all branches "because of Muslim sensibilities". 3) The Cross of St George is the English national flag ( waved with pride at all international sporting occasions by OUR loyal people) and a charity collecting funds among British prison staff gave out a lapel pin with this flag displayed on it. Her Majesty's Inspecor Of Prisons ( I forget the stupid biitch's name ) decided that The Cross of St George might be "misinterpreted" and so our national flag has been BANNED in British prisons because Muslims still feel aggrieved by wars (The Crusades) that took place 1000 years ago. My uncle was killed by the Germans just SIXTY years ago, in a war which resulted in the death and maiming of millions of my countrymen, but I bear no ill-will towards today's Germans, and have German friends. What is WRONG with a) the people who are so hypersensitive to offence, real or imagined. b) the spineless weak-kneed appeasers who take a backward step whenever the stupid demands of a) are raised...?

Well gentlemen, I am reassured. ( But they're still paranoid hypersensive loonies...)

The point I'm making is that Freedom of Speech has reigned unimpaired in Britain throughout my lifetime, and ridiculing the Church has been a part and parcel of British satire. The Church has had to take it on the chin, as in the "blashphemous" Jerry Springer musical last Christmas. Now this has all changed, since it is impermissble to ridcule and satire Islam in Great Britain. In case you have forgotten, Salman Rushdie did just this (actually, what he wrote was trivial compared with Jerry Springer..) and there were riots worldwide, and he was subjected to a death sentence. This Islamic intolerance and paranoid sensitivity to "insult" has now resulted in the loss of our Freedom of Speech, since the new law has been drafted for the Islamic community, not the Christians. It's not a question of "being like them". It's a question of being intimidated by "them" into curtailing Freedom of Speech.

The one against "inciting religious hatred" you mean. Funny, during a thousand years of Christianity it wasn't needed, and people could insult the Church any way they wanted (and rightly so). Recently "Jerry Springer - The Movie" played in London, and again was basically sarcastic and derogatory about Christianity. Again, I have no problems with this ( I'm no Christian, but I DO believe in FREEDOM of sppech ) BUT, if you say anything against this new religion in our midst - Islam - you can be accused of this new sin "Islamophobia", and the new law is there to hit anyone criticisng Islam, not Christianity (othwerise, we'd have had it in place for centuries already) So it's OK to criticise Christianity, but unacceptable to criticise Islam. This is simple appeasement, and a betrayal of the British tradition of Freedom Of Speech. ..

Thanks for your thoughts, fellas. Actually London suffered more in a single hour in 1940 at the hands of the Luftwaffe than anything the Islamo-fascists have come up with. Personally I feel we're at risk not so much because of the bombers, but from the English political and judicial elite, who seem to think that the "Human Rights" of extreme Muslim clerics preaching hatred in London mosques is more important than the right to life of our citizens. The French, German, Egyptian, Saudi governments have, since 9/11 been exasperated at the UK governments refusal to extradite Muslim fanatics holed up in "Londonistan" as they witheringly call it. In the last two years the French have come down hard on Islamic extremists in their midst, expelling 40, 14 of which were thrown out since 7/7. They are subject to identical EU Human Rights laws as the British, yet the UK has thrown out NOT ONE of the hatred-mongers, who operate with impunity in the society they despise and terrorise. (One left the country voluntarily, & the UK has "courageously" banned his return ) Muslim lawyers make big bucks from taxpayer funded "legal aid" defending Muslim clients from police prosecutions, and advise their clients to give no information to the UK police about extremist activity in London. One woman lawyer, Mudassar Arani, operating in Southall, West London, has made ??1 million from this scam & warns young Muslims that those who speak up against Muslim terrorism "are playing into the hands of the government".

I'm sure this has been dealt with somewhere, but do you know how prices for Proscar compare with Canada? When I had my HT there I picked up a year's supply with a prescription from my surgeon, and it seemed a good price.

I do this in my groin. One side is losing hair a bit, so before I see my g/f I give the other side a quick combover to cover up the sparse bits, and she never even notices!

Hmmm, I kindof agree with you. Seems a bit scrappy. I went for a big job.

I don't know how old you are mate, but it might be possible for you to follow the route I did. It takes some patience and acceptance, but it was OK for me. When I started losing hair it upset me as much as it does most of us, but I accepted it, and simply cut my hair short, since I feel the worst thing is to be thin on top & hairy elsewhere - like these bald blokes with long hair/beards - ugh. Time passed, and I got to the point where I was completely bald on top - what's called a "Norwood 5" on the scale of baldness. At this point, I felt, since the top was now completely bald, it can't get worse, so I came here, did the research, and selected an HT physician, and had 3,500 grafts done. In the year since, I've seen the grafts grow, and problem solved. It takes patience and forebearance to wait until you're "really bald", but IMHO you can then do a big job "once and for all" rather than messing with partial solutions when you're less than "completely bald".

This is exciting stuff. A year or so ago I had a long strip of scalp at the back of my head ( from ear to shining ear ) chopped out ( expertly, nicely, painlessly of course ) to provide follicles to transform my shining Norwood 5 into something respectable. Now we hear this. The question is of course, how long before it's "tried & tested"? I suppose the question only concerns you lads who're at an earlier stage of balding than I was. But it's interesting all the same.

Bravo mate. However you do it, the main thing is that you're DOING something. I look around at so many men who walk around bald on top, and think WHY? Why do you accept looking so bloody awful ( just like my NW5 did ).

I didn't stop at the eyelids, mate. Flushed with success, I went on to have Botox 6 months ago,and one thing led to another...my Botoxer ( a dishy lady of 52, who looked in her early thirties, as a result of her own beauty/ facial care ) advised me to use certain moisturisers and sunscreen, as a result of which I have women falling over themselves......( I tell them not to wear such long dresses...)

JacobS - I'm just a pouncer by nature, sorry. Cape St Francis is SUCH a beautiful place. Have you seen the surf movies? Outstanding. As for Dr Rogers, I honestly have no idea. I went with the "unmentionables" when I had my transplant ( yes, and where have all their groupies gone? Not just this forum, but everywhere. It's like they never existed!! )

You say you're really troubled that people would leave the US for this procedure, but you don't state why. Why does it trouble you? I'd go anywhere in the world if necessary. At a certain time the only place you could get a heart transplant was from the pioneer surgeon, Christian Barnard, in South Africa. People left the US and other countries simply because they wanted the best. If I were a dedicated surfer, I'd want to ride the "longest wave in the world", at Cape St Francis, also in South Africa. If I were a mountaineer, I'd go to the Himalayas, because that's where the best mountains are. And so on. In any case, there are excellent hair transplant surgeons in the United States, so you don't have to have this concern for yourself.