Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

misskool

http://www.thedrinkshop.com/products/nlpdetail.php?prodid=4064&afwinid=90909

strangely, from next
http://wine.next.co.uk/product/1796/fior_di_latte_white_chocolate_and_grappa_liqueur/

GDB2222

misskool wrote: »

anyone watching paralympics? oscar pistorius making comments that the runner who beat him should have his blades looked at by the IPCC..... bit of a sore loser

Probably he's right. If longer blades make them go faster, this could quickly degenerate into a 'man on stilts' race. That might be fun, but it's a different sport. In the meantime, if it's within the rules, he needs to put up with it.

GDB2222

zagubov wrote: »

It's well worth doing at any age. Some people find it easy I think but I needed about 30 attempts to give up but I kept on trying and eventually made it.

If I was asked which was the more important ability - to give up quickly or to give up repeatedly I'd say the latter.

I know that sounds counterintuitive but anyone who gives up, and relapses, needs to know the game's not over yet!:T

I smoked a pipe for about 10 years from age 20 to age 30. I found it incredibly easy to give up. (I just realised how unhealthy it was and stopped. I've never smoked one since.)

So, my top tip for anybody wanting to give up cigarettes is to smoke a pipe instead, and then give that up.

PasturesNew

Oh, unused as I am to the world of alcohol.... a second reading shows you said "a white chocolate....", which just leaves the question of semantics. Does that mean:
1] Any white chocolate....
2] A specific white chocolate... that I've not named.
?

I'd expect to see white chocolate alcohol in any large supermarket .... close to where the coloured and pretty looking booze is....

Some quick googling throws up three leading brand names: Corky's, Mozart, de Kuyper. Prices for these being approximately £12-13 a 50-70cl bottle.

There is a miniature for £2 of Mozart - but P&P brings that up to £7.50, at the Whisky Exchange and DrinkSupermarket.com. Drinkology seem to do white chocolate booze too.... but I guess you really want to pop up the road, wander in a shop and walk out with a value-for-money bottle today.

Spirit_2

The steroids I am taking have kicked in to make me feel very hungry.

I have already had two rounds of toast and butter for breakfast, and two rounds of toast and pate.

Yesterday I tried to fill myself up by drinking a lot of diet coke.

Meanwhile I have the concentration span of a gnat, cannot even "think" to work from home so just 'vegging'.

If there is a news story shortly of obese woman levered from armchair by a crane and rescue services, that will be me.

chewmylegoff

GDB2222 wrote: »

Probably he's right. If longer blades make them go faster, this could quickly degenerate into a 'man on stilts' race. That might be fun, but it's a different sport. In the meantime, if it's within the rules, he needs to put up with it.

it was just sour grapes, at least he's come out and made a half apology about it now.

but complaining that you can't compete with someone else's stride pattern cos their blades are too long when: (a) you hold the world record; (b) you ran a faster time in the heats than the gold medal winner ran in the final; and (c) you completed the race in 47 strides to his 49, just makes him sound like a whinger who is looking for excuses rather than accepting that he did not run to the best of his abilities.

also, i have no doubt he would be using the longer blades himself if he hadn't spent so long getting the ones he uses cleared for use in races against non disabled runners.

JonnyBravo

chewmylegoff wrote: »

and (c) you completed the race in 47 strides to his 49

Over 4m a stride on average?
I can believe that at full speed but was that really the total for the race? Seems far too few.
Amazing.

chewmylegoff

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Over 4m a stride on average?
I can believe that at full speed but was that really the total for the race? Seems far too few.
Amazing.

to be fair, i just repeated something i had read somewhere else, which turns out to be rubbish. it seems the actual numbers are something like 92 for pistorius and 98 for oliveria, so 47 vs 49 must have been for one half of the race (probably the half that pistorius was complaining about).

JonnyBravo

chewmylegoff wrote: »

to be fair, i just repeated something i had read somewhere else, which turns out to be rubbish. it seems the actual numbers are something like 92 for pistorius and 98 for oliveria, so 47 vs 49 must have been for one half of the race (probably the half that pistorius was complaining about).

Ah right. Yep the more you think about it there's just no way you would get over 4m strides.
The womens long jump for amputees was being won at 4.5-5.5m ish depending on category.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

The steroids I am taking have kicked in to make me feel very hungry.

I have already had two rounds of toast and butter for breakfast, and two rounds of toast and pate.

Yesterday I tried to fill myself up by drinking a lot of diet coke.

Meanwhile I have the concentration span of a gnat, cannot even "think" to work from home so just 'vegging'.

If there is a news story shortly of obese woman levered from armchair by a crane and rescue services, that will be me.

Or me. I wish we were closer, i could come and drink a non carbonated drink and we could be gnat brains together.

I just took a diazepam, and am 'whoozying' about. Just got packed, got in the car, then got a mobile call to say its cancelled.

I cried. I am today in the right state of mind for it. Psyched. Drugged. Appropriately fasted and caffiene free with a bag of caffiented products to have afterwards and a tiramisu in the fridge for later. (that obviously now i will not eat, it was a spoonful of sugar to make the caffiene medecine go down.

I went out really early and bought cheap foundation and eyeliner (nervous purchase) and easy premade food for tomorrow (prawn cocktail and an avocado to go with the lo fish pie on the freezer.


The reason its cancelled? A booking oversight. No juniors to puncture peoe today, sop noone can have one. I had a call confirming (an odd one but thats another story...they asked why i had cancelled, i had not) on friday. Theymust have known they had not scheduled anyone to work. Lp's are only done on monday afternoons, and they are now booked up for the next few mondays, I don't want someone else cancelled so i can be done.

Not one thing bar the first eye appointment has gone to plan in the nhs hospital so far. I don't want my lp done there at all. I want to find somewhere private and clean that does not treat one like an idiot and an inconvenience, where mistakes are not met with a shrug of the shoulders and a whiney....'sooorrreeeeee' but a 'don't worry, we are fixing it...what works best now for you'.

Even though i know the nhs is good, i really, really hate it today. I am going to see if any privates in London do lp and how much that would be (gulp) and how soon. I don't treat people like the people withion the nhs treat me. I don't loke it, i dopn't, i don't i don.t.

Dh did manage to stay home but is orchestrating some deal from the 'dining room' or current furniture depositary (he has top climb over a sofa and an armchair to get to the table to work at.

I feel whoozy and cross and weepy and scared. i ate chocolate (six squares of the bottom of a supermarket posh brand' and it didn't help.

I just want to get what i need imminantly then shuffle back stick my fingers in my ears about the non acute problems and go la la la. that method has kept be going for a few years now, and its less stressful than all of this. And cheaper.

On the plus side, my right knee, which has been really sore for a few days made an almightly clunk and crack in bed last night and is now working perfectly, and the diazepam should ease my back a bit, even if it makes me feel like a floaty floaty brain person.