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#16541 Gorefest

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Posted 11 January 2019 - 04:56 PM

Now there's a blurb everyone would be proud of.

Yesterday, upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.

#16542 Gintokian

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Posted 11 January 2019 - 06:12 PM

Could even put it on the front cover

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#16543 Tsundoku

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Posted 11 January 2019 - 09:25 PM

'Instagram Husbands' are giving me a chuckle:

https://www.theatlan...ashamed/580033/

(watch the video)

http://instagramhusband.com/

"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker

#16544 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 12 January 2019 - 10:55 AM

First run of the New Year. Only 2.1km/1.3miles but it's a start! That's a tenth of what I'll be doing in September!

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I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.

#16545 Tsundoku

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Posted 12 January 2019 - 12:39 PM

Interval training is best for cardio, in case you're dreading jogging the same laps in increasing numbers for the next 8 months.

To condition your knees, ankles and leg muscles, sorry but nothing works like hill work.

By that I don't necessarily mean kms and kms up hill and down dale - hill sprint sessions work just as well.

#16546 Slow Ben

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Posted 12 January 2019 - 03:15 PM

Tsundoku, on 12 January 2019 - 12:39 PM, said:

By that I don't necessarily mean kms and kms up hill and down dale - hill sprint sessions work just as well.

Yes.

IMO, unless you actually like running, theres no point to it. Its a very poor way to lose weight and get in shape.

Spending Saturday morning on the couch with my girls. Cup of coffee, Words of Radiance, and actively blocking out Paw Patrol.

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

#16547 Mentalist

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Posted 14 January 2019 - 05:25 AM

Oh, wow.

Not only did my team win our quarter final playoff, but we won it 2:1, and I scored the second goal.

Granted, it wasn't anything special (I was poorly marked by the far post, and all I had to do was tap in from a perfect pass), but I'm still ridiculously pleased I didn't mess up a shot from 30 cm away (I've been known to do that in the past).

I don't score a lot of goals (maybe like 1 every 1-2 years), so it's a bit of a big deal to me. I prefer to play last man back defense, so I rarely cross the half-line. But this time I was taken down on the sideline not deep in their half, so I drifted into the box for the free kick. The play switched left, I had a lane to make a run to the far post, and I managed to bury the ball in the opposite corner with a side-foot.

Nothing really special, but I'll probably grin about this all week now.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#16548 Maark Abbott

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Posted 15 January 2019 - 08:44 AM

Someone else picked up the ole book, read it and enjoyed it. More impetus to get back to writing.

Of course, I write to acid J-EDM.

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#16549 Maark Abbott

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Posted 16 January 2019 - 08:34 AM

May getting absolutely slam dunked. Beautiful.

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#16550 Traveller

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Posted 16 January 2019 - 11:58 AM

Maark Abbott, on 16 January 2019 - 08:34 AM, said:

May getting absolutely slam dunked. Beautiful.

Ohh yes. Tusks comment is also cheering.

So that's the story. And what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.

#16551 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 16 January 2019 - 12:42 PM

For the first time in ages I feel a bit of hope. Possibly misplaced but man it get good seeing that result.

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You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.

#16552 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 16 January 2019 - 12:45 PM

Tiste Simeon, on 16 January 2019 - 12:42 PM, said:

For the first time in ages I feel a bit of hope. Possibly misplaced but man it get good seeing that result.

Basically this. I don't think there's an end in sight as such but it's nice to see this government get exactly what it deserves.

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#16553 Maark Abbott

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Posted 16 January 2019 - 12:51 PM

Traveller, on 16 January 2019 - 11:58 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 16 January 2019 - 08:34 AM, said:

May getting absolutely slam dunked. Beautiful.

Ohh yes. Tusks comment is also cheering.

I am now a Man of the Tusk. Flash your swazonds, let us see!

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#16554 Traveller

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Posted 16 January 2019 - 09:39 PM

It's been a nice, short lived hope; better than everything previous to it though.

(I still can't help thinking that if Nick Clegg hadn't jumped into a coalition government way back, kept to his own party line, and rode out the following Conservative rule, the Lib Dems not only would not have lost nearly all their seats at the last election, but would now be a viable alternative to the Tories and Corbyn...)

This post has been edited by Traveller: 16 January 2019 - 09:40 PM

So that's the story. And what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.

#16555 worry

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Posted 16 January 2019 - 11:58 PM

Virgin of High House Bachelor, on 16 January 2019 - 10:41 PM, said:

Oh me oh my I love when a product actually does what it's supposed to do! Though this wasn't it's original intent iirc.

Rep point if anyone takes a crack at guessing and is correct based on the tiny clue I left. I know it's not much of a hint but maybe y'all will get it out of the blue.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#16556 Malankazooie

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Posted 20 January 2019 - 11:32 PM

I just have the biggest grin on my face right now. Go to the NFL 2018 to Super Bowl 53 thread under Sports to know why. Posted Image

#16557 Mezla PigDog

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Posted 21 January 2019 - 06:11 AM

Grrr. I just got up to take a look and what do you know? Clouds. As per bloody usual.

Burn rubber =/= warp speed

#16558 worry

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Posted 21 January 2019 - 06:50 AM

If you skip to like ~48 minutes in you get the beginning of the reddening and can go from there.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#16559 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 22 January 2019 - 11:30 AM

Finally sorted the Justgiving page for the Yorkshire Three Peaks walk and got a meeting date in to go meet the lady in charge of the local branch of the charity to sort out a social media campaign and what have you. Suddenly feels very real and quite scary!