Personally I think you can overdo safe sex - I saw the same post and had much the same reaction to it.
It basically boils down to relative degrees of risk, and what you consider 'safe enough'. There's a whole swathe of very dangerous diseases that you might pick up walking past somebody in the street, but there aren't many people prepared to walk around in rubber suits carrying their own air supply.
I was glad to see this thread as I'd seriously pondered starting one of my own.
I chose my current username on here because I was using it on a couple of other sites and I can only remember so many username/password combinations. To be honest I think it's crap and I'd like to change it ASAP, but I've no idea what to change it to.
I do have another online nickname, that I've been using for about five years, starting off as my handle for online Team Fortress Classic. I'd be tempted to use it here if it wasn't readily identifiable as me through Google (my Mum knows what it is as she reads my Livejournal, and I'd really rather not explain the details of my marriage to her, even if my wife and I are perfectly comfortable with it).
Definitely boxers - briefs end up riding up my ample arse, and going commando chafes far too much, not to mention the increased risk of a serious zip injury :cry:
I was just about to write an almost identical post, but having seen this one I'll simply add my comment to this one.
I sail as much as I can, which is about once a year on a hired boat at the moment. I'm currently working out which dinghy to build first so I can get some regular sailing in. I'm based in South Shields, which means I'm about as far from you as it's possible to be without being in Scotland (where I've just spent a week on a yacht on the Caledonian Canal - not much sailing but a good holiday).
Sounds like a good plan to me.
Very impressive, I think the biggest one I've ever seen in person (stretched ear piercings that is, rather than john thomases) belongs to Ed at Chrome in Cardiff - when I went to get my nipple done for the first time he decided to put me at my ease by showing me the inch+ thick bolt he'd made for it and then put his thumb through it and wiggled it at me.
One for the Brummies on here - on the grass next to the small ornamental lake in Aston University's grounds, at about 9 o'clock at night in late summer (around dusk). I think about half a dozen people must have wandered past no more than 10 feet from my naked arse bobbing up and down.
I seem to have an occasional urge to do some fairly risky things, another one (though not sexual in nature) involved smoking a herbal cigarette whilst standing on top of the customs & excise office in St. Peter Port, Guernsey.
Thanks Naughty Wigan couple, doesn't look to have worked this time (unless anyone out there's up for a quick meet this afternoon), but I figure it was worth doing anyway.