Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

PasturesNew

Lying in the bath early this morning (before the demo chaps turned up) ... and contemplating my navel, I thought "there's less blubber round that this week than the other week ... I think/hope".

So, back on the all-knowing, all-calculating, Internet I googled for a weight maintenance calculator and found this one:
http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html

The question is: "how many calories do I need to maintain my weight".

The figure of "2000 calories/day for a woman" is bandied about like Gospel, but I know it's not true as there are huge/tall women and there are women like the little swimmer in the Paralympics team.

So, what's my figure?

I looked at Basal Metabolic Rate, so "how many calories if I lie on the floor 24/7 and just breathe in and out".

It said I need 1100 calories/day to stay this weight. To lose 1 lb/week I'd need 830 calories/day.

If I choose Sedentary I get 1300 calories/day.

To eat all the pies I fancy, I need to grow to be 10 feet high - that means eating 2000 calories/day.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah, so you deliberately rebelled and chose the Village Idiot route for life's journey.

Of course

What sort of thing do you do?

Having slaved away for BT for 29 years, i took early retirement so I'm now a [STRIKE]gentleman of leisure[/STRIKE] layabout :rotfl:

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

To eat all the pies I fancy, I need to grow to be 10 feet high

ROTFLMAO

I remember when I went to see my doctor about something he decided he'd better give the once-over as I hadn't been to them for year (decades maybe?) and he asked if I had any other problems, to which I replied that I was about a foot too short for my weight.
His reply was "Yes, I have that problem too." :rotfl:

Pyxis

It's interesting how coincidences happen.

When I read what you said, Chris, about your ancester who coined the phrase 'the ghost in the machine', I hadn't heard that expression before, and found it interesting.

Not an hour later, I was watching an episode of 'Lewis' that I'd recorded, and suddenly one of the characters said 'it's the ghost in the machine!'.

You get that a lot where you're thinking and you say a word to yourself and then someone on the TV says that self-same word, but that expression is quite unusual.



Now I know that it's simply that you notice things at the forefront of your mind., like when you're doing a fast day and everyone seems to be talking about food, or when you're newly pregnant, you see pregnant ladies everywhere, etc., but it's still interesting, especially when it's something a bit more unusual.

Pure coincidence, nothing more, but interesting.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah, so you deliberately rebelled and chose the Village Idiot route for life's journey.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Nothing if not direct! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

:kisses3: :A

You really cheer me up, Pastures! I was feeling rather down until I read that! :rotfl:

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

It's interesting how coincidences happen.
When I read what you said, Chris, about your ancester who coined the phrase 'the ghost in the machine', I hadn't heard that expression before, and found it interesting.

The strange thing is that I had heard of it, but didn't know until a few years ago that it was Great-Uncle Gilbert who'd coined it.

Another odd coincidence - when I was a kid we holidayed for about six summers in Cornwall, and often visited a place called Lanhydrock House, near Bodmin. when I was doing some digging a while ago, I found that Sir George Gilbert Scott had been involved in the 19th century rebuilding, something that Dad hadn't realised before.

You get that a lot where you're thinking and you say a word to yourself and then someone on the TV says that self-same word, but that expression is quite unusual.

One thing I find when watching telly is that I suddenly think, "I recognise that actor, but from where?", so I go to look them up. I frequently have Wikipedia and IMDB open when watching telly now

I was rewatching the early nineties BBC series "Between the Lines" recently - it was like a Who's Who of actors/actresses that I recognised from other programmes of that period.

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

One thing I find when watching telly is that I suddenly think, "I recognise that actor, but from where?", so I go to look them up. I frequently have Wikipedia and IMDB open when watching telly now

Ooh yes! Me too! I'm always googling things/people when the TV's on!

Much as I love my dictionaries and reference books, you can't beat google for "What programme have I seen that actor in before?"

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

.... when watching telly ... I frequently have Wikipedia and IMDB open when watching telly now

I do this all the time. I was watching an old episode of Steptoe last night and I knew the old fella and the son were both dead. I'd looked them up in the past and one thing I like to do is compare characters' real ages with programme ages. The father/son are quite similar in real ages. Old man Steptoe looked a LOT older than he was.

Yesterday's episode, old man was getting married; son finally agreed he'd be happy for his dad and the fiance turned up - and it turned out to be the old girlfriend (and long lost love for both of them) of young Steptoe.

I opened Wiki to discover who she was - or "is she dead?". She was.

I then sometimes go deeper - and look at their whole life stories. "Is this person still alive?" "When/how did they die?" "If married, is the spouse still alive?" "If children, are they still alive?"

I find that with film stars of the 50s-60s you find a lot of tragic accidents. e.g. you might find that the star you're looking up died in a plane accident, their spouse died in another accident, their child died in a car accident.

The other day I was watching a film and the actor in it died 2 weeks after filming. It turned out that it was his last job and he went out of his way to film/complete it before dying.

Porridge has been another one this week for lookups.

So many on the telly now are all dead.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

The other day I was watching a film and the actor in it died 2 weeks after filming. It turned out that it was his last job and he went out of his way to film/complete it before dying.

There was an actor in Gladiator who died before filming was finished, Oliver Reed.

An unexpected post-production job was caused by the death of Oliver Reed of a heart attack during the filming in Malta, before all his scenes had been shot. The Mill created a digital body double for the remaining scenes involving his character Proximo by photographing a live action body-double in the shadows and by mapping a three-dimensional computer-generated imagery mask of Reed's face to the remaining scenes during production at an estimated cost of $3.2 million for two minutes of additional footage.

Despite this, he was posthumously nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

So many on the telly now are all dead.

There's more than a few that I wish were - or, at least, weren't on the telly :rotfl: