Really Good Stuff or Swarfega Orange?

[Andy Dingley]

Damned hard on your skin though.

I prefer Comma's "Manista" or a little pack of the red "Lava" wipes (every toolbox needs a pack, they're really good)

[:::Jerry::::]

Well, I'm the complete opposite, Swarfega does me no harm but Manista does !

What hand cleaner to use must be a personal choice in the end, but at least you don't seem to be advocating the use of straight detergents, like some...

[Taz]

Whatever happened to real men? Dry skin, harumph !!!!!!

[Bob Eager]

I personally use Swarfega (well, Tufanega Green; that seems to have been obscured by the rantings of that idiot).

I do find that it dries the skin if I use it a lot; I find some moisturising cream (pretty well anything will do) helps.

[John Rumm]

They like to be allowed to touch real women perhaps ;-)

[Ben Blaney]

Go on - what's the difference?

[Tim S Kemp]

People who do IT know how to use computers, people who do computer science /think/ they do.

[Huge]

Where did I say which news client you should use? Use whatever s**te you like. Just don't expect any sympathy when it's brokenness bites you.

No Microsoft shit in this house, old bean.

No it isn't. Well, Outlook Express, anyway. And there's no way you can fix it.

[Huge]

Your whining certainly looked like it. What else did you want?

Emerson. (Just for the hard of thinking like your good self, it's a quote concerning pedantry and small minds. Look it up.)

Sadly, it isn't. The fact that you're too stupid to know that is, fortunately, your problem and not mine. Laughing at you provides fine entertainment, though.

You miss the point completely. No suprise there, then.

I look forward to hearing that a car "didn't see you".

[Nice1]

Would salt be better than suger as its got healing properties? good for them cuts you get when cheapy spanner slips :/

[Sleeker GT Phwoar]

Microplanet Gravity, the free version. Constantly in development, but fantastically stable. Has so many options, if it doesn't do what you need, you don't need a newsreader you need a miracle.

And it knows where to place the cursor when placing a follow up. Allows rules and filter that let you choose which way up you want the news to be displayed when the messages are threaded rather than by date or poster (you can have the earliest or latest first with the threads maintained properly), also, it can warn you about whether text goes beyond 80 chars (normally quoted from a less careful reader), or when the follow up consists mainly of previous text (when you need to snip), or you can turn off the warnings.

You can choose to customise your quote character, and display different sigs for different groups, or news server accounts.

[shazzbat]

SNIP

A bit like posting in some NGs I could mention :-)) Steve

[Sleeker GT Phwoar]

Washing up liquid or liquid soap with washing powder or dry sand.

Works well, and if I don't do it too often in a week, my hands are fine. Normally wear latex gloves now, but they split so often, you can be sure that they will rip just when I can't stop to fetch a new pair, so I rip them off and just finish up before getting fresh ones so I end up covered in crap anyway.

Which reminds me, I've just ran out.

[Martin]

B&Q DO IT.......

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] (Steve Firth) saying something like:

Barrier cream to start with makes any hand washing at the end much easier and also protects against dermatitis.

I was unconvinced of it until I started using it some years ago. It certainly does the job.

[RichardS]

Wish I'd known about barrier cream when I spent 6th form and university holidays picking tomatos at a local market garden. Ended up scrubbing my hands with bleach to get rid of the dark green. (yeah, I know. and me with a nice fresh chemistry A level at the time. should have known better!)

Still, learned a thing or two about how to remove fingerprints ahead of ID card scans....

[AstraVanMan]

Barrier cream's good stuff, but it's also a PITA as you can't grip things properly. Decent latex gloves that don't split are the best way.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "AstraVanMan" saying something like:

I've tried various types of barrier cream and yes, some get a bit slippery if you get your hands wet in the course of your work, but others work in to the skin and don't get that way.

The trick is just enough and work it well in to the skin until it dries off.