tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74669469504019846212024-02-22T02:01:36.826-08:00Cossack Beard OilFat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-45558731197272871642017-12-22T06:53:00.002-08:002017-12-22T06:53:13.762-08:00Uri Is Back - It Has Been A Roller Coaster!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm afraid these last few months I have been rather busy enjoying my old life once more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was called back to active service on account that my time spent hiding away for many years spent in learning new trades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One trade is as you know, the highly successful and I must say the trade I'm rather proud of, <a href="https://www.cossackbeardoil.com/" target="_blank">Cossack Beard Oil.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other is my understanding of the internet and all things related.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Russians are often blamed for hacking and causing problems with the West when it comes to infiltrating and misinformation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course I cannot divulge information, but needless to say I have been having fun and it sure beats walking around with a poison tipped umbrella on the Underground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once I nearly got the wrong person when right at the last moment a youth with his baseball cap over his ears and his jeans at half mast sped by me on his skateboard and knocked the umbrella into the direct line of fire into an unknown at the time city gent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Gentleman was none other than Nigel Farage - Euro Politician. Some would say that I would of been doing the country a favour by getting the wrong person. However as he has caused much civil unrest with his Brexit ideas, he has ended up being a great asset to us in the East!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in the Motherland, we have been laughing at how the West has coped with a man with a dodgy hair cut and bad judgement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You wonder how he is still in power? There is a simple reason for this, and that is because we allow it to be so!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am having some time off over Christmas, where I will be feasting and enjoying some down time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be venturing over to Holland, after spending so long in the mountains I like the flatness of the place! It also means I cycle without getting out of breath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have passed the 50 years of age mark and am starting to slow down, although you would have to be mighty sharp to catch me out. Old habits die hard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year - See you all on the other side!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been back to the Motherland where it all began and have just returned from Germany!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It all started with a dead letter drop, for those who are not skilled in the art of espionage a dead letter drop is a means of communications between agents and their masters without the need to actually meet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have several secret drops which I visit on a regular basis. They have been empty for a good while now, but recently I was reactivated and my life once more became very exciting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the old days we would use all sorts of places to leave messages, all pre planned and thought out, and some of us old school spies still use them. Yes, we are still about!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, in this day and age it is far easier to use electronic means of communications.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Very simply we use an email address, both handler and spy have access to the same account. You compose an email and save it to draft. On no account would you send it. If you do then the powers who watch over us may well see it and take a closer look at your activity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By leaving it in draft format, you can read and delete without it going through the web. It is that simple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, I digress! So what have I been up-to?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm afraid Comrades, that is a State secret, but just when you expect to lead a quiet life you are suddenly thrust out into the light once more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I must say it has been fun, Hamburg is an interesting city, full of surprises, some good, some not so good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I managed to meet some very old friends and it has been good to catch up Vladimir, oh how we chuckled at the way the USA has elected a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Гребаный идиот !!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is a shame we could not spend longer together, our friendship goes back many years and is as strong now as it was back in the early days.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">I may now return to refine the art of making bespoke "Beard Oil" for the more concerning Gentleman, who appreciates, fine wine, cigars, women and a beard that a bear would die for. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">To order your beard oil please go to my website at <a href="http://www.cossackbeardoil.com/">www.cossackbeardoil.com</a> where you will find a blend of oil to match your manliness! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whether the authorities would actually wish to catch a spy opens up a whole new dilemma!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we have seen recently witnessed in Kuala Lumpur with Kim Jong-nam being killed by the deadly VX Nerve Agent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Allegedly by two women who say they had been paid to do it as they thought it was a TV prank!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the look on the women's faces, I suspect that this is true and they unwittingly carried out an assassination attack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But what will happen now? A lengthy investigation where the people who would of put the women up to this, will be by now on another continent lapping up the sun and drinking cocktails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gone are the days of spy's slipping polonium-210 in to your tea cup, a much more civilised way of doing things I would say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead we have a girl in a white sweat shirt with LOL emblazoned on the front rubbing her sweaty hands over your face! Very undignified of the "Spy World" I must say!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumour has it that North Korea are responsible, but who is to say that it was not another agency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think about it - Kim Jong-nam has in the past been critical of the Norths regime so would be a potential threat and if he were to be killed it would be logical to blame the current regime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, what if it was another agency? The assassination carried out to warn the North that they can get to anyone and potentially upset them enough to retaliate thus giving the West an excuse to deal with them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many complicated scenarios to play out, not that we will ever see the true story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Personally I preferred the poisoned tipped umbrella method. The tip of the umbrella was so made that it would pierce clothing and inject into the skin either ricin or mercury, either way a death would occur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This could be done on a busy street during rush hour with plenty of people around. Nothing as so innocent as an umbrella!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was done back in the 70's to Georgi Ivanov Markov who was a Bulgarian dissident writer. The attack happened as he waited for a bus on Waterloo Bridge in London. The assassin has never been indentified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However fresh evidence suggests that it may of been Francesco Gullino, a Danish national of Italian origin. His cover was of an antiques dealer. Nothing has been proven so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the record I was at this time in Berlin at a listening post, spending hours listening to BFBS radio picking up clues on troop movements!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you see, nothing is ever as it seems, so many twists and turns, plots, counter plots, it's a game but with lives at risk at every turn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankfully my time is now spent perfecting the perfect mix of oils rather than poisons for my infamous brand of oils - Cossack Beard Oil, they can be found by clicking <a href="http://www.cossackbeardoil.com/">www.cossackbeardoil.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you are brave enough to try them, I can assure you that I will not poison you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As told by a patron at his local barbers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(I'm the idiot in this one. I go to my local Post Office to renew my tax disc. This comes in the form of a round paper disc about four inches in diameter which slots into a holder on your windscreen. (Not used anymore). Having time before my next appointment I go to the barbers for a haircut. There is a queue, so I am thinking that I can cut out the license disc while I am waiting as I always end up tearing the disc and not the perforations....)</span><br />
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Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-64462822970809438752017-02-24T08:26:00.001-08:002017-03-15T03:36:30.741-07:00Ask Uri - How Do You Make Your Infamous Beard Oil?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spent many a long day and night perfecting the ancient art of blending my own infamous beard oils, known today as <a href="https://cossackbeardoil.com/" target="_blank">"Cossack Beard Oil".</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All my beard oils are hand blended, taking the finest oils and mixing them to create such wonderful aromas such as <a href="https://cossackbeardoil.com/shop?olsPage=products/cossack-beard-oil-freshly-dug-grave-30ml&olsFocus=false" target="_blank">"Freshly Dug Grave"</a>, <a href="https://cossackbeardoil.com/shop?olsPage=products/cossack-beard-oil-black-sea-30ml&olsFocus=false" target="_blank">"Black Sea"</a> and <a href="https://cossackbeardoil.com/shop?olsPage=products/cossack-beard-oil-citrus-mask-30ml&olsFocus=false" target="_blank">"Citrus Mask"</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each identifiable not only by name but by their own unique smell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But let me tell you, it all took many years to perfect these blends. It's not just a case of sitting down at your kitchen table and mixing a few oils together!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First you have to choose which oils to use, there are many to choose from, each with their own unique properties. As base oils I use Jojoba oil and Hazelnut oil. These are known for their ability to smooth and moisturise your skin which is vitally important when growing a beard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have to ensure that the oils you use will help your facial follicles to shine like rays of light and to keep your skin healthy and moisturised. I use a number of different oils depending on the fragrance. Each are unique and when combined have many benefits to keeping your beard healthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just look at this complex formula I have to adhere to, and this is for just one of the oils!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then there is the testing! I use myself as the "Guinea Pig" my wife refuses to help after some lip balm I made for her once made her lips expand so much she could pick up plate glass windows by sucking on them. Mind you, the local glass company did hire her full time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So Comrades, making the infamous <a href="https://cossackbeardoil.com/" target="_blank">"Cossack Beard Oil"</a> is not as easy as one thinks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you would like to try any of my oils, pop on over to my website at <a href="http://www.cossackbeardoil.com/">www.cossackbeardoil.com</a> or click on any of the links throughout the post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the age of eight I was fluent in useless sentences such as "This is the BBC World Service - Here is the news" and "The Weather in London today will be hot and humid".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, I could never get rid of my Russian accent, and this stayed with me for many years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I have said in a previous post, I had to spend some time away from the lime light and was posted to the back end of no where to a remote listening post high up in the Ural mountains. Miles from anywhere there was a great deal of time to devote to learning the perfect English accent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The previous occupant of my listening post left some of his personal belongings behind, it would appear that he left in a hurry, possibly even in a body bag!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have a sort of Cockney accent, which if you listen carefully can be traced back to my mentor and who I learnt a great deal from about the English way of life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But, by a stroke of luck two things he left behind have been my saviour!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had a small colour TV and a VHS video player, a luxury indeed, when you think that the average Russian would gain much amusement from watching dirty dish washer drain through the plug hole!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I only had four videos. The first was a training video issued by the KGB on how to interrogate. Boring, to say the least! I could of made a better one! I could also make a very good video on how to extract teeth but that is for another day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second was a video of Delia Smith, I am now fully capable of boiling an egg!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But, my two prized possessions, which I still have today and watch often with great fondness and where as I said earlier I learnt how to perfect the English Accent are "Mary Poppins" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes Comrades, my perfect English accent is all down to listening to Dick Van Dyke, he has total mastery of the language!</span><br />
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Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-45057633098770225182017-02-17T10:21:00.001-08:002017-02-17T10:21:52.876-08:00Ask Uri - Where Is The Oldest Barber Shop In The World?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The oldest Barber Shop in the world as confirmed by the Guinness Book Of Records in the year 2000 is right here in the UK and in old London Town!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Established in 1805 by William Francis Truefitt who styled himself as hairdresser to the Royal Court and received his first Royal Warrant from King George III.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1911, Edwin Hill set up his own barber shop on Old Bond Street and it was to this address that H.P. Truefitt (Williams nephew) moved in 1935 to create <a href="https://www.truefittandhill.co.uk/" target="_blank">Truefitt and HIll.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have to have a strong brand and loyal patronage to be still going 200 years later!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know that a lot of you believed that he was a real person, and to be honest there is some evidence to suggest otherwise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, he was created back in the Victorian times and was first heard of in the "Penny Dreadful" - "String Of Pearls"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The plot of the story was that Sweeny Todd would pull a lever on his barber chair tipping the customer down through a trap door and into the cellar below, breaking his neck on impact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sweeny would then go down and to ensure the customer was dead would slit his throat with a cut throat razor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To dispose of the bodies, he had as an accomplice a Mrs Lovett, who ran the local Pie Shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here she would dismember the body and use the body parts to fill her pies!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apparently some of the best pies in London!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bringing things up to date some what - In Cockney Rhyming Slang - "Sweeny Todd" is used as slang for the Metropolitan Police Department called the "Flying Squad"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hence the 1970's successful TV Police drama The Sweeny!</span><br />
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Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-28121585014637169862017-02-07T01:09:00.000-08:002017-02-07T01:09:21.989-08:00Ask Uri - My Beard Is Very Slow Growing Will It Ever Grow?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How slow is slow? Some people take a while for their beards to grow and others have the natural ability to grow one over night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, there is one simple test you must perform if you are having trouble with growing your beard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is what you must do:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Put your hands between your legs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. If you cannot find anything I would suggest your a woman pretending to be a man, buy some dungarees and change your name to Kevin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. If you feel two balls in a hairy sack then your in with a good chance of growing one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once you have ascertained your manliness, it just takes time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As your beard grows you will need to apply liberal amounts of Cossack Beard Oil which can be found by looking at my website at <a href="http://www.cossackbeardoil.com/">www.cossackbeardoil.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stay bearded you magnificent bastards!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You see, people have all ready got use to you with a manly beard, then you go and shave it off and all of a sudden you become a woman!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is no scientific evidence that suggests that this would work either, so rest assured, throw all your razors away - NOW!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having a beard is a most manly thing to have, the thought of wanting to shave it off, even if it is to see if it grows back thicker is a sure sign that having a beard is not for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Head to the nearest department store, and start browsing through the women's dress section to find a little number which will suit you and your feminine clean shaven look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even if it did grow back thicker, having to shave a beard off is on the verge of being a criminal offence in my book!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So there you have it - Ask Uri any question and he will give you a straight forward no nonsense answer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't forget to maintain your facial follicles by using liberal amounts of my infamous Cossack Beard Oil which can be found at my website <a href="http://www.cossackbeardoil.com/">www.cossackbeardoil.com</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stay bearded you magnificent bastards!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">P.S. If you have a question you would like to ask Uri, Please feel free to email me at uri@cossackbeardoil.com and I will tell you what you need to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-54095991176716367472017-02-02T03:26:00.004-08:002017-02-02T03:27:08.711-08:00Ask Uri - How Do I Stop Beard Hair From Going In The Sink?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last time you trimmed your beard, did you leave a mess in the bathroom sink?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I expect you did and I expect that you got it in the neck from your other half!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So how do we solve this problem?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quite simple in my homeland we - Kick them out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">OK - maybe a bit drastic, and maybe you do not want to be that extreme, so how about an ingenious idea such as the "Shave Apron".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A great idea, simply attach it around your neck, then with the two suction cups attached to the apron, simply stick it to your mirror.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No more hair clogging up your sink, no more hair to have to wash and wipe away!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Best of all, no more nagging from your other half!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just don't forget to take if off before walking away!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's deal with the first one <b>Carbon Monoxide</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b> is a highly poisonous gas, not only can it cause death but also serious long term health problems such as brain damage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b> is produced by the incomplete burning of fuel. This can happen when a gas appliance has been incorrectly fitted, badly repaired or poorly maintained. It can also occur if flues, chimneys or vents are blocked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oil and solid fuels such as coal, wood, petrol and oil can also produce <b>Carbon Monoxide</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poisoning occurs when you breathe in the gas and it replaces oxygen in your bloodstream, without oxygen your body tissue and cells die.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So it really is very simple - Buy a <b>Carbon Monoxide Detector</b> and fit it - <b><span style="color: red;">NOW</span></b></span><br />
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Now the other type of silent killer is an <b>Assassin</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Generally they are unassuming, you would not be able to spot one if they came up and poked you in the eye. They blend in, act regular, giving nothing away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There methods of putting you to sleep vary, but the one thing that is common is you will never know anything about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An <b>Assassin</b>, may have a very ordinary job, such as driving a bus, he may not look like the films portray these days, always dressed in black and hanging out in seedy pubs hiding behind a paper. No, he could be the fat jolly fellow with a beard who said good morning to you today!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So be aware, just like <b>Carbon Monoxide</b> they are just as deadly, give no warnings and leave no sign of a struggle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My best advice would be to stay clear of fat men with beards and buy a detector like the one above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have been warned!</span><br />
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Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-50959005368559370922017-01-28T05:15:00.000-08:002017-01-28T05:15:41.850-08:00Ask Uri - How Can I Make My Beard Grow Faster?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A question asked often by those who are struggling to grow a beard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are many claims that by using certain lotions and potions you can speed up the process of beard growth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have to be honest with you all now, they are all rubbish, you may as well sit under a tree and pray to the Lord Almighty for what little good it will do you</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, there are things that you can do to make yourself become more manly and in doing so your beard will grow just fine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. You must be a man, and not just in the sense that you have balls! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. You must learn how to wrestle bears and be friends with them afterwards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. You must learn how to drink vodka, shoot a gun, whilst riding a motorcycle and sidecar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. To be able to stand on your own two feet when every one else is trying to step on yours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. You must show compassion, but no mercy to those who do you wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Never hold a grudge! Get even.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Eat as if it is your last meal - You never know it may well be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Keep your feet dry at all times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9. Make your enemies your friends and your friends fearful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10. Never shave!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By following the above code your beard will grow magnificently and you will be the envy of your town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bearded brothers - stay bearded! </span>Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-70173518070280414322017-01-22T03:38:00.001-08:002017-01-22T03:38:17.338-08:00To Beard Or Not To Beard<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is a beard?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A beard can be many things to many people. You can hide behind a beard or your can use your beard as a statement much like a peacock!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It can wreck havoc with peoples minds, some love a beard, whilst others shy away and actually have a phobia about them, commonly known as pogonophobia!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In some countries a beard is a cultural symbol, gaining the wearer authority, dominance and respect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the Western world and in modern times it is seen mainly as a fashion statement worn by hipsters who like to think they are cool eating lasagna from a bed pan whilst perched on a stool with the table at knee height! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Or like myself who views simply having a beard as a manly thing to have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A majestic beard instantly commands respect, it also gives oneself a sense of worth. Not everyone can grow a beard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many attempt and fail dismally, some men are just not cut out for it at all. There are some spectacular fails around. In fact there are women around with better beards than some men.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But, your beard is only as good as the man behind it - Your beard requires maintenance, not a lot, but nevertheless it requires nourishment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What better way than with one of three blends of oil, hand crafted by myself - Uri, Master Monger of Beard Oils.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pop along to <a href="http://www.cossackbeardoil.com/">www.cossackbeardoil.com</a> to choose your poison!</span><br />
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<br />Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-34976204068441592322017-01-16T12:23:00.000-08:002017-01-16T12:36:04.209-08:00Having A Beard Is A Very Handy Thing To Have!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having travelled the world many times over in my old job as a KGB secret agent, it was always a good job to blend in with the locals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you can see I take it very seriously, the art of blending in with one's surroundings is a must, to be a top secret agent!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I knew from an early age that I would always have a beard, it just seemed the natural thing to have!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the years my beard has developed, as has my bone structure and body shape. Looking at me today you would never guess my past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I miss the old days, so many stories to tell, maybe I will enlighten you all on here - who knows!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One thing is for sure - my legacy continues.............</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For further information on my fabulous beard oils trot on over to <a href="http://www.cossackbeardoil.com/">www.cossackbeardoil.com</a> </span></div>
Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-30396972097243016162017-01-11T03:57:00.000-08:002017-01-11T03:57:19.252-08:00Why Do You Grow A Beard?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm often asked - Why did you start growing a beard?</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always wanted to grow a beard.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I look more handsome with a beard.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hate to shave.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, that is all total bollocks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I simply had no choice. Having to lay low after a botched job where my security was compromised meant I was posted to a listening station high up in the Russian Tundra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly during the summer it was excellent for keeping the midges away from your skin. They can be pesky blighters and a thick beard certainly made them work hard for your blood!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thirdly, it is amazing what a beard can do, it is brilliant for storage, I have found peas, peanuts, a small allen key and watchmakers screwdriver in mine!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, having a beard gave me something to do. Listening to white static noise and the Archers is hardly riveting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent many hours perfecting the right smells and ingredients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did make one serious mistake - There is no where any where that tells you that the smell of Rosewood, Pine, Musk and Jojoba oil is similar to the smell of a hormonal female moose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankfully the door to my cabin was narrow and the male moose had a mighty fine and wide set of antlers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a tricky business I can tell you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So having had a beard for some time now would I ever shave it off? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No - never, it has defined who I now am, whilst some men build a legacy, I decided to grow mine.</span></div>
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Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-55567747620749588292017-01-03T04:43:00.002-08:002017-01-03T04:43:58.773-08:00Website Launch Of Cossack Beard Oil<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's taken a bit of doing, but we have finally got there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The website is now up and running with all the links checked out, a few teething problems along the way, but it has all worked out fine so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The site finally went live this morning, no fanfares or caviar, just sat in a cold room due to the boiler breaking down last night at 4am!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At least the cold reminds me of Mother Russia, now that was cold! -38 with the wolves howling at night!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My wood burner would glow red hot at night, but with the bear skins thrown over my bed I was as warm as a rabbit in a stew! Is that not how you say it in the UK?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I miss those simple days, nostalgia is a wonderful thing, but it is a thing of the past, you cannot recreate it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So onwards Comrades - the fight to enlighten all those who grow a beard has just begun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We need to tell all those beardy folk how to nourish, care and handle one's finest asset.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With this blog and my infamous range of beard oils of "Freshly Dug Grave", "Black Sea" and "Citrus Mask" we can bring life to your beard where once I only brought death!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How times have changed!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some men build a legacy - I decided to grow mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-87294954794597058592017-01-02T09:18:00.000-08:002017-01-03T01:01:06.740-08:00Happy New Year - Website About To Go Live!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, its 2017 and some serious changes are about to happen!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's taken a while but at last the finishing touches are being made to the website and it will be launched within the next 24hrs!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here you will be able to buy my fabulous range of beard oils, "Freshly Dug Grave", "Black Sea", and of course "Citrus Mask".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each identifiable and unique.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whilst there are plenty of beard oil companies to choose from, most if not all appear to have the same recipe of pine or eucalyptus!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Neither of these are what a man should smell of unless he has a cold or is a squirrel!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May your 2017 be as wonderful as I expect mine to be!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some men build a legacy - I decided to grow mine!</span>Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-78565141759406575362016-07-05T09:50:00.000-07:002016-07-05T09:50:41.705-07:00Cossack Beard Oil - Why Men Should Use Beard Oil<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a number of very good reasons why men should use beard oil.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Reason No 1:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a very simple reason and one that most men would not argue with. When an ex member of the KGB tells you to do something, it would be wise to listen and take note of his clear instructions. Failure to comply with his request in a timely manner can only be seen as non compliance and a sticky end no doubt will be his demise.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Reason No 2:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A beard that is not looked after makes a man look older than his years. Beard oil will rejuvenate your beard and make you feel and look more attractive. However, if you look like you chase parked cars for a hobby, not even a finely kept beard will help you!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A healthy beard gives you healthy skin. Every day use of beard oil replenishes natural oils in your beard and stops it from becoming dry and frizzy. Beard oil gets right to the root of the hair and can reduce itchiness and dry skin.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beard oil oxidises unlike water based conditioners, thus the beard oil will soak into your beard giving it a shine and lustre, moisturising your skin to provide you with a healthy complexion of a Cossack!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The subtle tones that the range of Cossack Beard Oils give off are particularly attractive to those who like their men to smell like men. We take no responsibility for swooning, fainting, sniffing of ones facial follicles or being followed home by strays.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst some men build a legacy, I decided to grow mine.</span>Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-29245024012995246352016-07-05T09:13:00.000-07:002016-07-05T09:16:25.531-07:00Cossack Beard Oil - The Story So Far<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The beard oils have all been developed an are being used on Human Guinea Pigs (friends) who so far have not developed any signs of burns, rashes or flaky skin!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This I think is a good thing, No?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bottles have been sourced and the labels are being designed and printed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The packaging for the bottles have also been sourced along with the information sheets, which tells you that it is not good to drink or rub into your eyes, unless you wish to use it to extract information from someone. It is then an excellent product which makes it then look like a bizarre accident.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm sorry old habits do not just fade away!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The website is slowly under construction, this will take a little while as I am not brilliant with modern technology.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Give me a 12v battery, a wet sponge and a length of cable any day!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My Ural motorcycle and side car is also going to be displaying the brand of "Cossack Beard Oil" Designs are being drawn up as I type.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So a busy couple of days, it is all coming together slowly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you would like to pre-order any of my fabulous oils, please feel free to message me.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some men build a legacy - I decided to grown mine</span></span>Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466946950401984621.post-72587876402022398272016-07-05T08:53:00.000-07:002016-07-05T08:53:12.360-07:00Cossack Beard Oil - My Introduction<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Jojoba and hazelnut oil, blended with white musk, rosewood and the hint of cut grass giving a zesty citrus smell, ideal to mask the smell of death.</span></span>Fat Bloke Travelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09672612098633907950noreply@blogger.com0