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11 minutes ago, BaaLocks said:

Children In Need. I find it infuriating that the only way for many of these projects to get completed is by celebrities convincing us to fund it with our own earned cash (often, though not always, post tax). We all still do it, coz we need to, but what a sad state of affairs that our society relies on pulling at the heart strings of tv watchers on a Friday night to raise nearly £50m (in excess of a pound per working person).

Or you could say, how great that our society pulls together and raises all that dosh for childrens' charities on a Friday night.

On 10/11/2019 at 22:25, Ewe Ram said:

People who shop at Aldi and insist on packing their shopping into bags as it comes through the check out. Do they do it just to be arsey? Everyone knows you whizz it through and then use the shelves to pack. 

I love playing beat the checkout operator. I even spread the stuff along the belt to give myself a better chance. Am I a bad person?

21 hours ago, BaaLocks said:

Businessmen on planes, particularly short haul, who race to passport control like their life depends on it. So utterly important to society, they need to barge past anything living or otherwise for fear that the world might miss thirty seconds of their brilliance.

Honorary mention to the bloke at Birmingham last week - he simply say on a bench at passport control, logged into the free wi-fi and caught up on whatever he needed to do while he waited for the queue to die down. Lateral thinking - respect to that.

Said businessmen have probably been slogging their guts out away from family for a few days, bouncing from hotel to hotel having to dine with people they don't particularlt want to dine which all goes a long way to keeping others in jobs. The idea is not any superiority complex, it is more to do with not getting caught behind idiot holidaymakers who suddenly can't remember where they have put their passports and have to empty their handbag / manbag looking for it, It is the same at security going to the flight, never go in the same line as family holidaymakers or old women. 

1 hour ago, Wolfie said:

People who take laptops into meetings or presentations & sit there catching up on emails etc. Makes my blood boil. Show some respect!

Or improve the quality of the meetings. They can usually be done in 5 or 10 minutes standing up. Have been in so many that go on and on because they are badly prepared and not controlled. 

Has it all gone wrong?

6 minutes ago, De22Ram said:

Can understand ince! Unsure about Bent and most of the others last summer! Having said that i do wonder how ince effects the harmony in the squad, in terms of his attitude! 

What is wrong with his attitude? Whenever I have seen him with the players he seems to be pretty popular.

5 hours ago, Tony Le Mesmer said:

or faulty bone structure.............

It's not just fast food though. It's also the rows and rows and aisles and aisles of complete ***** that fill our supermarket shelves in the name of convenience and feeding the masses.

The likelihood is that if comes in a box or a packet then it's likely to be full of ***** too. Sugar, salt and fat. I'm a trolley voyeur. I look at what some parents are putting in their trolleys and just about give up on the human race.

Heard one mum chatting to someone about 'flavoured water' and saying how it's a godsend as her little un doesn't like the taste of 'normal' water. FFS! It's water. First of all it's tasteless and secondly flavoured water is just so full of chemical rubbish that you may as well let the kid drink a bottle of WD40!

Don't get me started on 'fruit shoots'. What makes me laugh is that manufacturers love to put on the bottle things like 'made with REAL fruit juice', well that's a fookin' relief. Until you find out it's 0.01% and made from concentrate. Then they highlight 'no artificial colours or preservatives' but don't flag up the benzoates, aspartame or acesulfame k and then you form a picture that perhaps these companies are indulging in some kind of chemical warfare with our kids.

You go to a kids playcentre, swimming baths café or anywhere that caters for kids and if you can find a food source that isn't fried, processed or in a packet then i'll go and support Forest. (although the last bit is negotiable, maybe Notts County then ).

It's partly food companies / manufacturers and partly parents. Parents either having absolutely no interest in nor care what they or their kids are eating or parents who just read something on a label and believe it no questions asked. Food companies are just out to make money and so long as people keep buying their ***** then they have no incentive or reason to improve their product or make it healthier.

Like Paul says it's about moderation. A can of coke here and there isn't likely to put you in hospital and treats are a rewarding aspect of life but if you are eating and drinking all this stuff day in day out then it's a timebomb.

I'm not preaching here, anybody can eat whatever they want. It's a free country. Just my opinion on tiny aspects of the 'obese' debate.

Isn't much (most) of the problem lazy parenting. 

Just now, bigbadbob said:

Have you knocked one out yet?

You may need to translate that!!

6 hours ago, SaintRam said:

I mean petition to get less Burton, not more Chesterfield. As you say, it's Radio Derby.

Why would they want to do that? Why does a few minutes on Burton Albion trouble you so much? It's about 6 or 7 minutes driving from one place to the other. The Radio Derby audience covers Derbyshire and East Staffs.

10 minutes ago, LesterRam said:

yes I have tried running, I have very bad knees, I displaced my left knee cap 24 times and my right 19 so bearing down on my knees at speed frightens me.

Ouch you!! Sorry to hear that. Enjoy the walking. 

2 hours ago, LesterRam said:

 I have had real lows the last few weeks so i decided Monday that i shall walk myself fit, i decided in my wisdom that due to my weight that running was never going to achieve my goals so i decided that i shall walk a set route each day of this week, i have now covered 44k (27m), it is having a positive effect with my sleeping pattern because i am now going to bed physically tired and not just emotionally, i am really coping which is fantastic.

You might surprise yourself re: running. If you can walk at a reasonable pace, enough to get your heart beating a bit faster, then you can probably walk/run then run/walk, and progress to running 5 / 10k. If an overweight old git like me can do it, I think anyone can. 

 

19 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:

so, just to give an update to the hordes of you that messaged me privately, and here publicly, with your concerns and support.

I shelled out £400 on a pretty damned good treadmill from Argos (Reebok ZR9 if you're after a bargain!), and burned off a few calories putting the bloody thing together. I've had three workouts in 3 days and my calves are a bit tight, but I can already feel that I am feeling a bit...no, quite a lot better about myself.

I also got hold of Vitamin D tablets, which have definitely, without doubt, given me more energy in the office at work.

I saw this article today:- http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/18/sad-exercise-antidepressants and made me think about writing this.

So, firstly, I'm not too proud to admit I took the advice from posters on here, and secondly, thanks to anyone in here who gave a ****, cos I do about others, and it gave me a little bit of a boost that people didn't just slate me for starting this thread.

Here's to better times x

Get your trainers on and get outside for a run, this is great weather to be out there blowing the cobwebs off. Try out your local parkrun on a Saturday morning (google it), there are enough of them about when you can run with anything from 150 to 400 other people. Hope all goes well for you.

Is anyone on suicide watch on the other threads, I am sure there are some very irrational people out there. 

Cheers LR. I 'm loving the peace in here. I have brought 3 bottles of Chateau Neuf Du Pape with me 2005 if you would like a nice glass of red.

Right. Bars open, what's everybody havin?

G&T for me please - a large one. Can I put a blindfold and headphones on or do I have to talk to people. I think I saw Mostyn and SS Bob out there on my way here.