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BizarroAzrael posted:I've been hitting the gym for a while, usually Tuesday Wednesday Thursday whilst I'm away on work. Because I'm on expenses and in a hotel in not eating well as I can cook for myself. I'm doing my best with eating, but I don't seem to be losing weight. Weight change is not the be-all and end-all; if your performance is improving, and you're happier with how you feel and look, ignore the weight. You're aiming to build muscle and lose fat, but muscle is both more dense, and somewhat easier to build than fat is to lose. Keep at it, try to improve the diet as best you can (as that's probably a bigger impactor on fat loss if that's what you care about), and don't sweat the scales if the important measures are improving (how you feel (including how you feel about your appearance), and how you're performing). E: 84 years ago, on 30 July 1935, Penguin Books was founded. WHich is nice.
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Weights are a good thing to buy second hand, since so many people get them and quickly give up.BizarroAzrael posted:I've been hitting the gym for a while, usually Tuesday Wednesday Thursday whilst I'm away on work. Because I'm on expenses and in a hotel in not eating well as I can cook for myself. I'm doing my best with eating, but I don't seem to be losing weight. I exercised quite a lot for like a couple years and got into good shape but it wasn't until I started calorie counting my food and tracking my calories burned that I actually lost my belly.
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baka kaba posted:£1 per lb is pretty typical I think
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Ratjaculation posted:How much does your mum weigh? Because I lift that every day Like 8 stone, that's not very impressive.
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Aug 11, 2019 22:43
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WhatEvil posted:Like 8 stone, that's not very impressive. Depends what exercise you're doing with it, it's a very good single arm biceps curl.
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Guavanaut posted:Especially when he's only lifting 2 inches. hey rude. only im allowed to add inches on
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Heya folks. I am back but not for too long. Firstly, my brother is getting married next week so I got to go home and tried on the suit I have to wear. At the same time him and his fiance have just purchased an entire house. It's left me feeling very sad because I haven't done anything and I had a friend who had sent me some stuff on co-dependence and boy howdy did THAT hit a lot of nerves. Like the top one and the bottom one are defo things I have thought/acted on in the before now.   Ended up having a mini breakdown talk to my friend and ended up saying stuff like: "Partially because nothing I do DOES matter. I am not "enough". I've not got the store of self belief or self righteousness or anything to really be sure I stand on anything." and "I am scared that if I do all I'm doing is setting myself up to hurt either others or myself and so I need to keep telling myself I'm a worthless piece of poo poo because then I can't get hurt by anyone. If I hurt myself enough I can not be hurt by anyone else." I've kind of wandered into a few blind alleys mentally haven't I? I'm also finding it tricky to treat my mental health as an actual illness, because if I do I'm worried I will use it as a crutch. Anyway going to be back for tonight and a bit of tomorrow, wanted to just say hello and vomit words everywhere as usual. Hope everyone is having a good day and can also recommend starting strength. Back when I was going to the gym it worked really well!
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Most of the people in my gym are goony as hell, in the last few weeks I've seen guys wearing a fortnite, eve online and TESO shirt.
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WhatEvil posted:145kg set with 7ft 20kg Olympic bar: Oh sweet, I guess I wasn't looking that hard because that's much more reasonable than I've been seeing. I'm handing in my notice at Royal Mail soon, but I wanna make sure I don't put all the weight I've lost back on when I stop walking like 8 miles a day, so I figured it's time to try and get buff and strong. Can any weight lifting goons weigh in on a decent program to start with? The stronglifts 5x5 one looks pretty straightforward and there's a hugely detailed free guide for it.
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Aug 11, 2019 23:23
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Starting Strength, then on to one of Alfalfa's programs in YLLS or, if you're a goodlooking sexhaver like me, Wendler's 5/3/1 with lots of volume accessory lifts.
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I have a friend who's making a PIP application because she suffers from Graves Disease (thyroid thing) I'm not entirely sure of the details, but she said that she had been accepted based on her own circumstances twice, but denied due to the fact her girlfriend earned too much? I'm not sure what I'm asking for here but I just wondered if anyone could share any experiences theyve had or point me in the directions of any resources I could use to help her.
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CptAwesome posted:I have a friend who's making a PIP application because she suffers from Graves Disease (thyroid thing) I'm not entirely sure of the details, but she said that she had been accepted based on her own circumstances twice, but denied due to the fact her girlfriend earned too much? PIP isn't means tested, her girlfriend's income shouldn't matter. Is she thinking of previous ESA applications maybe? If so be warned, the criteria are different and you really need to be aware of what precisely they are to make an effective case. Strongly recommend a subscription to Benefits And Work to get their guide to PIP applications - it's not free but it definitely helped me.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Catte taxe: I bought some food for the cattes  CptAwesome posted:I have a friend who's making a PIP application because she suffers from Graves Disease (thyroid thing) I'm not entirely sure of the details, but she said that she had been accepted based on her own circumstances twice, but denied due to the fact her girlfriend earned too much? I'm not sure what I'm asking for here but I just wondered if anyone could share any experiences theyve had or point me in the directions of any resources I could use to help her. I'm not exactly an expert but I thought PIP was specifically non-means-tested and not linked to anything else going on in your life, either you're disabled enough to get it or you aren't? I don't recall having to give any info about anyone's earnings on my application, though I'm notoriously dumb so I could easily just not be remembering. I'd say CAB would be a good port of call for her to get started.
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deletebeepbeepbeep posted:Most of the people in my gym are goony as hell, in the last few weeks I've seen guys wearing a fortnite, eve online and TESO shirt. I dread the prospect of swole gamers rising up 
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Ms Adequate posted:I bought some food for the cattes Thanks  I follow them on facebook and buy their calendar every year.
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CptAwesome posted:I have a friend who's making a PIP application because she suffers from Graves Disease (thyroid thing) I'm not entirely sure of the details, but she said that she had been accepted based on her own circumstances twice, but denied due to the fact her girlfriend earned too much? I'm not sure what I'm asking for here but I just wondered if anyone could share any experiences theyve had or point me in the directions of any resources I could use to help her. 
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Josef bugman posted:I've kind of wandered into a few blind alleys mentally haven't I? Recognising where you are is an important step though! That's the thing about this stuff, it clouds your perceptions, and being able to see that is what gives you the ability to do something about it. So yeah don't be ashamed of seeing this or having a strong emotional reaction to it And as far as the crutch thing goes... you said you're already retreating to a negative place as a way to protect yourself (really to do the damage before anyone else can), isn't that sort of a crutch in itself? Recognising it as a symptom of an illness won't be any worse at least, right? And it puts you in a better place to understand and fight it and get out from under it So yeah, you're doing good buddy and it's honestly good to see you updating us with this stuff - you're on the right track, and it sounds like you have people who want to help too Bardeh posted:Can any weight lifting goons weigh in on a decent program to start with? The stronglifts 5x5 one looks pretty straightforward and there's a hugely detailed free guide for it. If you like the look of it go for it! The important thing is to get started with something, if you want to move onto something else you'll have at least learned the important lifts and worked on your form, so it's not like you're losing out
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Pilchenstein posted:PIP definitely isn't means tested and your friend should get in touch with your local council's welfare rights office - they should be able to help with the application and also with the inevitable appeal when the company doing the assessment lies about how she was double healthy. Yeah, turns out she did mean the system that came before it. Thanks for the leads, everyone, ill get them to her.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Catte taxe: I also bought them some food, so your link posting was worthwhile.
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Bardeh posted:Oh sweet, I guess I wasn't looking that hard because that's much more reasonable than I've been seeing. I'm handing in my notice at Royal Mail soon, but I wanna make sure I don't put all the weight I've lost back on when I stop walking like 8 miles a day, so I figured it's time to try and get buff and strong. I recommend Sean10mm's stripped 5x5. http://newbie-fitness.blogspot.com/2007/01/stripped-5x5.html (Sean10mm is a goon who I think has posted in this thread occasionally and he has a thread in W&W for this program). It's very much like Stronglifts 5x5 but it doesn't have you doing Squats and Deadlifts on the same day which IMO is better.
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£v $ went down to 1.20182 this evening for a short while, lower than the previous post EU referendum rate which was 1.20390 of 16th Jan 2017. Late 1984/85 it got lower than this because the dollar was very strong. Now, the dollar isn't that strong and the £ is very weak. Euro briefly went down to 1.06439 this evening just before far east markets opened and that is the lowest for at least 10 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gACCCmFKP80
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Qwertycoatl posted:What the gently caress is wrong with these people? A second referendum would always have to be between the proposed outcome of Brexit and calling it off. With Boris in, No Deal is the proposed outcome. The time for faulting FBPEs for suggesting No Deal vs Remain is over.
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Jedit posted:A second referendum would always have to be between the proposed outcome of Brexit and calling it off. With Boris in, No Deal is the proposed outcome. The time for faulting FBPEs for suggesting No Deal vs Remain is over. the problem is that if you spend all your time shouting about how No Deal is going to gently caress us over and then you agree that it should be one of the options in a second referendum then you look incredibly stupid
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Julio Cruz posted:the problem is that if you spend all your time shouting about how No Deal is going to gently caress us over and then you agree that it should be one of the options in a second referendum then you look incredibly stupid To be fair, what else would be on a second referendum at this point? You can’t send out a vote with one option.
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Comrade Fakename posted:To be fair, what else would be on a second referendum at this point? You can’t send out a vote with one option. you seem to have struck upon one of the reasons why (despite the repeated shrieking of the fubpees) a second referendum is not in fact a very good idea right now
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Josef bugman posted:Heya folks. I am back but not for too long. If I have any advice it's to keep in mind that people aren't equal. We don't start in the same place, we don't grow the same way, we aren't given the same chances, we couldn't all have the same things even if we were. We live in a world that makes us unequal. So comparing yourself to others is not really a fair comparison. I know of course that you're pressured to do so, even if nobody says it to you outright, there's a whole industry devoted to making us feel inferior for what we don't have because they want to sell us things to make up that difference, but that's just another way that the world is set up to hurt you for the profit of some rich assholes. You're not foolish for reacting to that pressure but it isn't interested in your wellbeing, it's interested in you feeling exactly the way you do in the hopes that you'll spend money to fix it, and it doesn't much care whether you have that money or not. The world isn't built to actually measure your worth as a person because the only way it can do that is with money. Unfortunately that means that if you want an accurate view of yourself you're reliant on developing it yourself, which is hard, or having someone else do it for you, which is rare and also hard to accept. But I will tell you that it's extremely likely that your interactions with other people are extremely worthwhile. Hell I am nice to people at work, and a lot of people would probably say "who cares?" but I like to think that helping little old ladies with their shopping is a very worthwhile use of my time, they are generally smiling when they leave and that, to me, is a good thing. That some people get rewarded a lot more than others has very little bearing on their actual contribution to society. In fact I would suggest that what relation it does have tracks inversely. The more wealthy you are, the more you are taking away from everyone else, on average. You're a good egg Josef, and I hope one day you can feel like one.
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Any people here potentially interested in starting the gym/weights should definitely go over to the general thread in YLLS which is super super helpful and knowledgeable. It was the main thing that helped me start being a fitness-haver a few years ago.
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Jedit posted:A second referendum would always have to be between the proposed outcome of Brexit and calling it off. With Boris in, No Deal is the proposed outcome. The time for faulting FBPEs for suggesting No Deal vs Remain is over. Why are they suggesting a referendum at all if they think one outcome would be catastrophic? The answer is they're so phenomenally arrogant they think remain will automatically win, and they want No Deal on the ballot because they think the more damaging the alternative the better remain will do. They're idiots.
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They could have a referendum between remain and May's deal (or Corbyn's deal, most likely a fairly minor tweak on May's deal in practice, if there's an election)
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Qwertycoatl posted:They could have a referendum between remain and May's deal (or Corbyn's deal, most likely a fairly minor tweak on May's deal in practice, if there's an election) No they can't because Corbyns deal isn't a firm proposal, they could only have the choice as 'let Corbyn negotiate a new deal' which considering the whole point of the cabinet is to stop Corbyn being in charge to do things like try to negotiate a new deal would be even more nonsense.
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including one's own pension and union funds, unfortunately... and its own internal legitimacy if it rejecting balloting its members. This isn't rhetorical, it was Thatcher's answer to the flying pickets and secondary strikes - rather than relying on police confrontation alone, the government could also sequester union funds for illegal strikes, and still enjoy legitimacy for doing so because the strikers did not want to risk losing a ballot. The effectiveness of this measure was much underestimated initially on the left. It would turn out that the unions and union officers themselves also required the law's protection of private property to keep the lights on and the strike going, and conversely ad-hoc working-class illegalism is very hard to sustain if there's no legitimacy granted by a ballot the clip is an accurate snapshot of the high-stakes politics of the period - hence, e.g., dropping concrete blocks on taxi drivers it does also reflect that miners did not want state aid for a dignified transition out of a sunset industry, no matter what claims made in hindsight may say - they wanted to continue the mines as a way of life. Likewise, it is only after the fact that it became obvious that the struggle would turn on the question of British public opinion, because the miners were not actually in a position to exercise physical power over the means of production as they had before under Heath. If it was a physical veto, advocating killing scabs and arranging for Libyan or Soviet funds made sense - opinion be damned, the only thing that mattered who controlled the means of production. If it was about trying to sway the public, it did not.
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namesake posted:No they can't because Corbyns deal isn't a firm proposal, they could only have the choice as 'let Corbyn negotiate a new deal' which considering the whole point of the cabinet is to stop Corbyn being in charge to do things like try to negotiate a new deal would be even more nonsense. Well yeah Corbyn's deal would only be a possibility if they were the remain alliance instead of the no Corbyns alliance. May's deal is still available though. But instead of a somewhat bad option that nobody wants, they'd rather offer the horrible disaster that gammons lust for
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I don't suppose anyone knows how to help/recover a uk individual currently suffering from psychosis in a large spanish city who is on their own and with no travel insurance? The UK embassy are apparently pretty poo poo.
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I am currently trying to browse SA at 288 kpbs. Is there an easy way of stopping gifs loading?
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Jippa posted:I am currently trying to browse SA at 288 kpbs. Is there an easy way of stopping gifs loading? Use Awful app, there's an option to turn off gif playing.
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Jippa posted:I am currently trying to browse SA at 288 kpbs. Is there an easy way of stopping gifs loading? If WiFi is an option then the Android app lets you disable them under settings, the iOS app I'm not sure about though.
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