Jables Swan
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And it was AWESOME. And I came second
I've only played it once and it was good but I don't think it'll hold up with some of the other games we play.
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I've only played it once and it was good but I don't think it'll hold up with some of the other games we play.
Planet_JASE
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Telling someone who isn't well endowed that they need a reduction is a cunty move.The women keep telling me it's just too big. I had no idea there was such a thing
Funny but ultimately cunty.
Dude. I said I was going to be nice to you this week and you throw it back in my face. You can take your Steam codes and shove them up your arse, you monster
PS. DeathJr banned? Anyone know why? Haven't checked his history yet.
PPS. I think Death was banned for using "M$" in a thread? Didn't know it was ban-worthy, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was (given it can be seen as trolly).
PS. DeathJr banned? Anyone know why? Haven't checked his history yet.
Baked NY-style cheesecake is fucking AMAZING. But I have this gnarly lactose intolerance that sends them straight through me if I don't have mah Lacteze tablets :/
PPS. I think Death was banned for using "M$" in a thread? Didn't know it was ban-worthy, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was (given it can be seen as trolly).
codswallop
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Me either...
Dammit. I don't think there's any kebab places near work.
Was a monumental effort getting out of bed this morning to go for a run. Lay there for maybe 15 minutes willing myself out.
Oh yeah, I guess I shouldn't bother with a sandwich today then.
I've decided to get a bookdepository shipment this afternoon that should last me another half-year or so before I need to get more books. Here's my basket so far:
Cosmos, Carl Sagan
Working, Studs Turkel
Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
No Logo, Naomi Klein
The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcolm
Life Itself, Roger Ebert
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Paul Ham
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Anything cheap I should toss in as well? Thoughts? Likely to pull the trigger when I get back from uni. Got a 10% off coupon code as well. Looking for more light-hearted fiction, I think.
I've been out of it this entire week. Need to restart next week or I'm going to fall out of the habit entirely and that would suck real bad considering I barely do any other habitual exercise
I've decided to get a bookdepository shipment this afternoon that should last me another half-year or so before I need to get more books. Here's my basket so far:
Cosmos, Carl Sagan
Working, Studs Turkel
Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
No Logo, Naomi Klein
The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcolm
Life Itself, Roger Ebert
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Paul Ham
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Anything cheap I should toss in as well? Thoughts? Likely to pull the trigger when I get back from uni. Got a 10% off coupon code as well. Looking for more light-hearted fiction, I think.
I've been out of it this entire week. Need to restart next week or I'm going to fall out of the habit entirely and that would suck real bad considering I barely do any other habitual exercise
50 Shades of Grey!
Lol, took me a sec to get that one! Very clever.
Deep fried Golden Gaytime omg I'm going there later I have to try this.
Fixed.
Lol, took me a sec to get that one! Very clever.
Deep fried Golden Gaytime omg I'm going there later I have to try this.
Deep Fried Golden Gaytime sounds like something you order at a male whorehouse. I guess.
Have you read Hitchhiker's Guide? You should (I couldn't dig the last one though, something about knowing DA didn't write the whole thing made it feel off). If you have, read the Dirk Gently series.
I don't get it
Planet_JASE
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Dude. I said I was going to be nice to you this week and you throw it back in my face. You can take your Steam codes and shove them up your arse, you monster
Has midonay ever been let back after his comment? Wasn't it something similar, like "microbots can't afford $0.30 lol"
As long as you don't offer to post photos of yesterday's kebab today, you can do whatever you want.
The enboldened part is the dangerzone of your statement (speaking from my own personal point of view and experience). You need to start tomorrow, not next week. Next week gives you another 3 days of not running and breaking the habit further.
I had to stop myself from doing the "next week" thing, too. "Next week" is self-foolin' doubletalk for "probs not no biggie if not cause I didn't set a day for realz." If nothing else you need to set the day, preferably in the next day or two.
The best thing you can do for yourself is force yourself to go for a run on days you desperately wish not to. It builds character, for one, and removes the excuse of "giving permission to yourself for skipping a day because you're tired/sad/happy/bashful/comatose." Which in turn makes it a lot harder to skip days and not feel guilty about it.
Add
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Pale Fire by Vladmir Nabakov
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Demon-haunted World by Carl Sagan
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Byson
Get the first one above all else, since it's like my favorite book of all-time and immensely readable.
It is so very good. We also had a deep fried brownie and mopped up the remnants of the Golden Gaytime with it. Combining those two flavours was amazing.
I don't have much in the way of light-hearted fiction in my book collection. The closest I have would be a light read at least and I enjoyed its style.
Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
I'll do this with you, from a distance. I've decided I need to do this as well since I don't go out enough for that to be exercise in itself (working retail and walking around all day was great for that). I walk up stairs at the train station instead of the escalator because I should and it fucking kills me every time, that's a bad sign that I need to get my arse moving.
Totally is!
I was only told last night that there is such a thing as a Monaco bar. When it was described to me, it sounded like the biscuit part of a Maxibon, which is the best part of a Maxibon. Another bar in Sydney deep fries them too, turns out one of the people I was with last night knows the awesome cook that came up with the idea and got these pubs doing them. I'm sure it's wonderful, but it's no Golden Gaytime; you can't beat that coating!
codswallop
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Or start today, if you can make (not find! you'll never find it) the time.
Get a C25K (Couch to 5K) app, and get started today, or tomorrow morning. I started in January on a whim with no real reasoning behind it, thinking I'd hate running. Then, after half a dozen sessions I told myself that I'd started something so may as well try to finish it, to at least accomplish something. I "graduated" about a month ago and have been running 5km distances since. I've not pushed much further yet because I want to feel at least a little plateau where I don't feel wrecked for a week or two before I think about moving forward. But I can't really make much more time in the mornings to run much farther anyway.
I don't love running (at least not yet, is it a thing that happens?), but I do like being able to have the time to listen to podcasts and just sort of zone out for a little while. I've been running mostly in the morning (originally was afternoons but it was way too hot in March) and find that in the morning sets me up nicely for the day. It's also cool watching the sun rise and not having to worry about feeling self conscious that I'm not wearing the best running gear or that my legs flick out to the sides or whatever else I'm feeling that day because there's hardly anyone around.
Just like with this morning, it can be tough to get out of bed, or will myself to go and run, but once I do I never regret having done it.
codswallop
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Frasier stole this plot device.
reptilescorpio
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Free Grill'd burger from Southern Cross in Melbourne from now until 3pm!
This place is fucking loopy in terms of moderation. You see threadshitting and personal attacks every day that are allowed because they are popular posters.
Eh, not as bad as other sites I guess. Hopefully it is only for a week.
Making Money (also cheap cover copy or fancy mature cover)
Reaper Man (also cheap cover copy or fancy mature cover)
Pyramids (also cheap cover copy or fancy mature cover)
Going Postal (also cheap cover copy or fancy mature cover)
Thief of Time (also cheap cover copy or fancy mature cover)
The Truth (you need to read this since you are in journalism!) (also cheap cover copy or fancy mature cover)
OG art covers are still the best.
Beta! They won't clean it all up until PS4 launch now.
Started a thread that had already been made, used M$, gets a ban.
This place is fucking loopy in terms of moderation. You see threadshitting and personal attacks every day that are allowed because they are popular posters.
Eh, not as bad as other sites I guess. Hopefully it is only for a week.
These are my favourite Discworld books which are really light-hearted and fun.
Making Money (also cheap cover copy or fancy mature cover)
Reaper Man (also cheap cover copy or fancy mature cover)
Pyramids (also cheap cover copy or fancy mature cover)
Going Postal (also cheap cover copy or fancy mature cover)
Thief of Time (also cheap cover copy or fancy mature cover)
The Truth (you need to read this since you are in journalism!) (also cheap cover copy or fancy mature cover)
OG art covers are still the best.
Do this. It works.
I can't run for very far or for prolonged periods. My left knee is buggered from a motorcycle accident and my right ankle healed poorly from a sports injury in high school. The added weight on top of those exacerbates these problems. I can walk though, and apparently as long as I do so briskly it's fine (for me and for weight loss potential).
Ive seen every episode of Frasier and never saw bear driving!
reptilescorpio
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As long as the heart rate is up it will be helping. I need to get back into it, might have to make it a morning thing too as evenings are out due to the stabbings.
Planet_JASE
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I love running and for all the reasons that you mentioned. Podcast time, lost in thought time, makes me more prepared for the day by waking up my mind and body.
It worth buying a good pair of shoes if you're running fair distances regularly but I don't worry about the clothes I'm wearing. Shitty shorts and my worst shirts. They get trashed on the distances that I've been running and I've got plenty of crappy shirts. I don't really care what other people think of what I'm wearing because if I wore nice clothes I would just the nicely-dressed-stinky-drenched-in-sweat guy.
But, I do miss it on the days that I don't go running first thing. My day feel flatter and my body craves the endorphins they gets. It's now an addiction, but a socially acceptable addiction.
You can probably count the stabbing as exercise, rep. And the run after the victim. And from the crime scene. It all counts, dude.
Grats! What suburb?
Also, there's nowhere that sells kebabs near my work. Can I still hang out here?
I've never heard of C25K before this post, I just bought Zombies Run 5K and I'm gonna do it, thanks for the tip!
reptilescorpio
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Oh also having a stomach bug at the same time as your wife while having to take care of a child is not fun.
SOMEONE COME TAKE MY POSSIBLY INFECTED CHILD AWAY SO I CAN GET SOME SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
I don't have time for all that mumbo jumbo though! If I have to do all this other stabbing/running/scheming it will really cut into my trawl-internet-for-bargains time!
SOMEONE COME TAKE MY POSSIBLY INFECTED CHILD AWAY SO I CAN GET SOME SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
I don't have time for all that mumbo jumbo though! If I have to do all this other stabbing/running/scheming it will really cut into my trawl-internet-for-bargains time!
Just checked it out, I was using the regular C25K app but this looks like a lot more fun!Fusebox said:
Already got a Hitchhikers omnibus and all the Dirk Gently books (inc. Salmon of Time). Cheers though. (Personally Adam's best book was the nonfiction Last Chance to See)
Awesome, will look into it. I have a copy of Moby Dick around somewhere though.
I've got all of them except Pyramids, and I've already read I'm pretty sure every Discworld book... I'm just buying them now > >. Cheers nonetheless.
I'll look into it, cheers.
Running is rad but I need better shoes. Been thinking of restarting the C25K program again since I've been running on my own sort of rough thing of "Sprint for three power poles, walk for one" and I end up dead around 2/3rds of the way through my route. I also noticed I was working up more of a sweat when I was doing C25K.
The other thing is that I've gotten into the habit of sleeping later and later and later which is meaning I'm waking up later and later. I scheduled my lectures around it, but running at 6:30-7AM was way, way better than running at 9-9:30am when the sun's already up and at it :/
FormallyMegadrive
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That is just a fast way to make you tired, not worked out.
Rad. I did something to my foot last weekend so I don't think it's up for running yet, but I'm still walking at lunchtimes and such. Need to get a schedule together and stick to it. Maybe just work on getting out of the house once I get home every night and go from there. With daylight savings kicking in this weekend it should be even easier (that's how it works, right? Getting more daylight?)
I don't know how you've not heard of the Monaco Bar before. Fucking amazing. The closest thing to it is the Bulla (I think) ice-cream sandwich, vanilla flavour, that they sell in supermarkets. I remember it from when I was REALLY young, then it went away for at least a decade or so and it was brought back only a few years ago.
What's the sort of daily time commitment C25K requires? I honestly don't know whether it's 30 minutes or two hours.
Creating a dupe thread is banworthy? Fucking hell. Despite saying he looked for it anyway, still gets the chop :/
Cocaine is a socially acceptable addiction... it's just that people be jelly.
Rad! It sounds like there's a bunch of people in here thinking about it, definitely a good way to keep tabs on each other (not necessarily anything formal, just checking in and giving progress updates etc.).
reptilescorpio
Member
Was under the impression sprint-training was good for cardio moreso than endurance. That's the problem with the internet age, there's too much goddamn fitness (and diet) information and I never know what to follow
Anyway, if we're getting back into C25K let's do it. Maybe you bastards will keep me honest.
The good thing is I think the principles of staying healthy are pretty much the same - regular exercise, but a bigger emphasis on not over eating.
The problems seem to come when people want to get huge or super fit or something. Building heaps of muscle and all that just seems like such a waste of time for me. What's the point? How does it really benefit my life if I can bench press 100kgs? Seems like such vanity.
In other words, I don't even lift bro.
I would like to do C25K though. I've false started like 4 different times. Last attempt I got to week 3 and then stopped. I worry about running on the road. I don't know if it's killing my knees. Three days a week of it should be okay though.
codswallop
Member
I'm a pretty slow runner. My 800m times (timing 800m segments gives you a rough estimate of how long you would take to run a 42km marathon - 5 min 800m segments would roughly equate to 5 hour marathons) vary from around 4:50 to 5:20, which is quite slow (at least compared to skilled long distance runners).
It takes me around 45 minutes total (including some pre-stretching, a 5 minute brisk walk, and then the 5km run itself, some post-stretching and maybe a shower). The actual 5km run is around 30-35 minutes at my pathetic speeds.
reptilescorpio
Member
Gonna buy that too. Provided it's discounted the same amount on iOS.
really crappy weather here, been going on for the past week. 930am and it's like night time raining sleepy dogs:/
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not light-hearted fiction, but I've been reading The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy. It's interesting and you might be interested in it jint
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not light-hearted fiction, but I've been reading The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy. It's interesting and you might be interested in it jint
I... You... But...
Your life will be better now that you know they exist. They are godly.Fuck the kebab, I'm having a Monaco Bar for lunch.I... You... But...
Planet_JASE
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Hey Dead Man!
I've been meaning to ask: What's the deal with the "#FACE" in your avatar?
Signed,
Inquisitive Minds That Need To Know
I've been meaning to ask: What's the deal with the "#FACE" in your avatar?
Signed,
Inquisitive Minds That Need To Know
https://twitter.com/search?q=#face
??
Or more likely, he's making fun of everyone hashtagging everything all the time
#lol
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Or more likely, he's making fun of everyone hashtagging everything all the time
#lol
Avatar bet over in the Wrestlemania thread. I am betting on WWE remaining the same stale shit it has become. If I lose I will wear John Cena for a fortnight.
I wish that was it, that would be clever.
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