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You reminded me that in Thailand - back when it was more prudish - you didn't even get to hold hands or kiss your girlfriend. You just held your faces about a hair's breadth apart, and smelled them. More fun than it may sound. *happy reminisce*

aha. And I guess if you do stop motion badly, and have varied intervals, then it looks all jerky?

You fantasize about the super hot girl with a six pack. Time flies! I tend to go for the 1940s 'Dita'/Audrey Hepburn look. Although I must say few things are quite as galling as a gf with no physical energy. Which is why i no-longer have anything to do with those stick thin women.

I know the thing you mean. I found t . You may want to PM the creator. I've been looking for the term on google as well, using "the grudge" and "tthe ring" as search terms. Everyone talks about the technique but never fething well names it.

It is an ideal nuclear fusion fuel. Excellent reactance and very high energy, without the down side of heavier fuels such as uranium and plutonium. Oh cool! I also realised the SA80 rifle has tritium sights which glow all the time. Which is also why if the sight gets cracked everyone has to leg it.

Oh, I nearly forgot. Tomorrow is a rest day, so give it laldy today, gentlemen.

What's good about tritium?

Ow. Ow ow. I thught the run was a bit weedy, so I ran the fourth block uphill, and the final block at full pelt. I was faster than I expected but I was fire engine red by the end. To my surprise I actually managed the full set of press ups, doing three blocks of ten, one five, one three, and two for luck. This was actually bad of me, since one of the points of doing a regime is not overdoing it. The sit-ups really began to hurt at forty, so I switched to blocks of four, and managed to get to 57 before I listened to the hot stomach graunching feeling. tricep dips - predictably - hurt like an indecent sex act, since my ribs will never properly heal (apparently) . but nothing went pop, so that's a win. ~~ As an aside, I don't know how you can run on a treadmill. Bloody boring.

taks, I have a question. How is it any more irrational or fascist to pay for someone else's helathcare than their security with the police and army?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/6226709...scientists.html The moon is a 'perfect' base for onward space exploration. I for one demand our next generation should think in terms of space. We can get the **** out there and any nutwit who wants to live in dusty eco/religious/racist penury can stay here.

It's the Army's special program to get you fit from nothing, basically. PTIs may be total fething abstards, but they know fitness. A dorsal raise is when you lie flat on your belly and arch you upper body back. A tricep dip is when you turn your back to a low wall or bar, put both hands to either side of you, and lower yourself down and up. They seem really easy at low numbers and kill at higher numbers.

It's great people are joining in. I'm doing mine after my singing lesson so my airways are all fired up. Anyways... Today's exercise is: " DAY 1 walk-jog for 20 minutes (jog for 2 mins, walk for 2 mins etc) 1x pressups max 2X5 Dorsal raises 2x5 triceps dips 1x sit-ups max (rest 30-90 secs between sets as you need)" ~~ I guess mkreku will want to jump up to the next phase day 1 which would be: "Steady run 18 minutes 3x pressups max 3x 8 squats 3x situps max 3x8 dorsal raises rest 30-90 secs between sets as necessary"

Applying my unerring instinct for the interesting I followed a link to a game called Raven Squad. Sounded generically entertaining, but the tag was

Fair enough, moose, although I should say that several days in the program are optional stuff like you could choose to cycle or swim. But if you want all round fitness you have to do some situps etc.

I'm going to be restarting my fitness from scratch, using a regime prepared by the Army. I'm starting on teh very lowest setting, so hope you'll all be prepared to join in with me. All you have to do today is three things: 1. Count how many press-ups you can do in two minutes. You can stop and rest in the middle if you have to, or as many tiems as you like. 2. Count how many sit-ups you can do in two minutes. Ditto conditions. Tuck your feet under something or hae someone hold them down. 3. Run 1.5 miles. Ditto conditions, although you should keep walking if you need to 'rest'. Post your counts, and I'll tell you what we're doing tomorrow when it comes. Friday will be a rest day. ~~~ My counts: 1. 39 2. 65 3. 15:15 ( )

You mean a stakeout question?

I don't find anything particularly disgusting or controversial about this thread, except the actions of the murderers under Lenin and co which LoF describes. The idea is that you come in expecting a partisan, hypocritical rant on communism, but instead are greeted to a neutral, factual, interesting account of Russia during the World War eras. Roll with it. Hmph. Very well. I will give it a read later.

Okay. One-third of all teenagers who commit suicide are gay, but gays make up at most 10% of the teenage population. If you were a teacher at a high school, would you let your students call a gay student a ****, or talk about how homosexuals are unnatural and will burn in hell? I believe in free speech. I also believe that people have a right to a living environment where they

I actually go no further than reading this, and got distracted by your avatar.

I actually emitted a sigh of disgust when I saw what this was about and who it was from. Seriously.

After much reflection (mostly on these fora) I have decided I treat my choice of partners the way a Victorian explorer treats foreign countries. I like variety, and in my time I've gone for looks, personality, intellect, insanity, being a nurse, being a trained killer etc etc. I think most people, male an female treat partnering like trading for a carpet. They sort of weigh up what they've got and seek out someone slightly better than themselves. Maybe that's sensible, and maybe I'm being adversely brainwashed by LoF, but don't you think that's rather a revolting notion? That one, and the object of one's love should be weighed like a pound of flour, or an ipod? Love ought to be more than a calculation, surely, if it is to be worthy of the name?

My mother had a sense of humour. Which I made the subject of my oration. I am not exagerrating when I say i had people crying with laughter and sadness at the same time. Felt quite good to give her such a high send off. I also sang, 'Suzanne' by Leonard Cohen, but there's not much you can do with that.

Still recovering from the funeral on Saturday. I did my final duty and obeyed the last instructions to give my oration wearing a dress. Apparently i did so with 'astonishing gravitas'.

There is a big problem with the attitude expressed. The higher management swan in, pick something up, or point at something and ask "what does this do, and how does it make money?" receiving no answer immediately, they bin it or sell it off. After a while things go mysteriously suboptimal or catastrophically explode. This is for three main reasons: 1. Sometimes multiple distinct small items combine to deliver a cumulative effect which is necessary. For example, you require your employees to be motivated. Fact. How you do it is of course up to you, but it has to happen. If you can achieve it by a combination of salary, free crisps, backrubs and so on then fine. But if you pick away at that, then for ****'s sake be certain you can replace the source. Also, be alert to how economical some sources are. An ounce of kindness can be worth a pound of gold, and a lot cheaper. As can an ounce of pure fear. 2. Sometimes the effect produced by a process or object is second or third order. For example, why give employee's time off work to go to the gym if they work in an office? Surely time at work is vital? In fact their fitness levels impacts overall health, overall health impacts sick days, sick days hit their time at work in a more significant way. 3. Sometimes you can be miserable for its own sake. All businesses have a culture. If you intend to sacrifice fun for costs it becomes very easy for simpletons to conflate the former with the latter. A culture of penitent self-sacrifice emerges where even obviously useful things are cut to demonstrate loyalty to the new order. ~~~ I'm basing this on my observatins running a business, and been trained up in various ways to study psychology and management. I'm confident in my observations, but curious to see what everyone else thinks.

If you think women's minds exist in straight lines you are mistaken, my friend. There is no 'train of logic' here. There's possibly some sort of maelstrom of thoughts. She's probably just thinking about these things. I know I talk about the same thing with people. it doesn't mean I'm trying to have babies. I'm just testing out loud the idea to see how it sounds. However, the fact that she's mentioned it to you means at least she is reasonably interested in what you think. She probably expects you to be supportive or against. Or she's mental, and thinking about omellettes. There's literally no way of knowing. The one thing i would be dead against is asking her to explain what she's thinking. You might just as well ask a mountain to dance.