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goddamnedtwisto posted:Coming from someone in my very much built-for-comfort shape, telling people Exercise Is Good would be insincere even beyond my amazing abilities to cover up. Exercise is (mostly - depending on any underlying condition / location / weather) good for you regardless of shape. You seem to do lots of walking which has many benefits, not just physical (calorie burning, heart-helping, muscle strengthening) but also head-clearing, space-giving, mood-lifting, local history learning.... so you almost certainly could tell people exercise is good without being insincere!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Exercise is (mostly - depending on any underlying condition / location / weather) good for you regardless of shape. Yeah I mean I can point at stuff like my resting heart rate, lipids profile, and general metabolic health, which are all of a man considerably younger and slimmer than me - but I'm also built like James Corden without the jaw line, so people are going to be doubtful as gently caress regardless.
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Jul 7, 2021 17:53
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Yeah I mean I can point at stuff like my resting heart rate, lipids profile, and general metabolic health, which are all of a man considerably younger and slimmer than me - but I'm also built like James Corden without the jaw line, so people are going to be doubtful as gently caress regardless. I mean 
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Jul 7, 2021 18:04
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You might not like it, but that's what peak physical and comedic performance looks like
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Jul 7, 2021 18:08
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Failed Imagineer posted:You might not like it, but that's what peak physical and comedic performance looks like Can I argue that philosophy chat had proved that this is impossible. Also that basic good taste agrees.
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Jul 7, 2021 18:11
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Case numbers today are looking great lads, very confident that dropping all restrictions in a couple of weeks is the best course of action! Quick back of the fag packet numbers (OK I used Excel) give me 22,581 hospital admissions per week and 275,990 daily cases in 6 weeks time at the current rate of increase. Luckily we're dropping all restrictions in 2 weeks so I'm sure that'll cause the numbers to change for the better or something.
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Jul 7, 2021 18:27
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Seen on fizzog bok: Post: https://www.facebook.com/FootballFansAgainstFascism/posts/1226953787766466
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Jul 7, 2021 18:40
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Luckily we're dropping all restrictions in 2 weeks so I'm sure that'll cause the numbers to change for the better or something. It's becoming increasingly likely that the Hancock story was leaked solely because he gave a bit more of a gently caress than Javid does about this and they wanted him replaced pronto so they could push this through unopposed. Murderers, the lot of them.
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Jul 7, 2021 18:44
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Saw an old work colleague today, I only worked with him a couple of times, he's a good lad and I liked working with him. He caught COVID and I didn't hear anything about him so I thought he'd been moved to a different contract which is pretty common in the rail maintenance business. Today he came to a site I was working at to visit a couple of friends. I was really shocked when I saw him, he's about 6' 3" and used to be built like a brick poo poo house only with a bit of a belly. But now, after COVID had really hosed him, he's stick thin, has difficulty speaking and needs a cane to walk. He's like a ghost of his former self. He's been told he will get better and will be able to return to work but it will take a couple of years to fully recover and he won't be nearly as strong and active as he once was. He seemed just happy to be alive, he thought he was going to die a couple of times. I see him and I think about how people are flippant over COVID and it blows my mind and makes me angry all in one.
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Jul 7, 2021 18:49
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stev posted:It's becoming increasingly likely that the Hancock story was leaked solely because he gave a bit more of a gently caress than Javid does about this and they wanted him replaced pronto so they could push this through unopposed. That's my theory too. I simply don't believe that the tape leak was accidental. They wanted shut of Hancock. (I'm no fan of Hancock). I'm darn sure quantities of government ministers are cheats and everyone knows Johnson is, so it seems hypocritical to use that as a reason to get shut of Hancock without the rest of them resigning en masse. bessantj posted:Saw an old work colleague today, I only worked with him a couple of times, he's a good lad and I liked working with him. He caught COVID and I didn't hear anything about him so I thought he'd been moved to a different contract which is pretty common in the rail maintenance business. Today he came to a site I was working at to visit a couple of friends. I was really shocked when I saw him, he's about 6' 3" and used to be built like a brick poo poo house only with a bit of a belly. But now, after COVID had really hosed him, he's stick thin, has difficulty speaking and needs a cane to walk. He's like a ghost of his former self. He's been told he will get better and will be able to return to work but it will take a couple of years to fully recover and he won't be nearly as strong and active as he once was. He seemed just happy to be alive, he thought he was going to die a couple of times. I see him and I think about how people are flippant over COVID and it blows my mind and makes me angry all in one. Yes, people are talking out their rear end. My brother's partner's son (early 20s) had it 'asymptomatically' (picked up on a test) and is now riddled with blood clots.
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Jul 7, 2021 18:55
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Speaking of which, this parliawint aged exceptionally well.
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Jul 7, 2021 19:03
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bessantj posted:Saw an old work colleague today, I only worked with him a couple of times, he's a good lad and I liked working with him. He caught COVID and I didn't hear anything about him so I thought he'd been moved to a different contract which is pretty common in the rail maintenance business. Today he came to a site I was working at to visit a couple of friends. I was really shocked when I saw him, he's about 6' 3" and used to be built like a brick poo poo house only with a bit of a belly. But now, after COVID had really hosed him, he's stick thin, has difficulty speaking and needs a cane to walk. He's like a ghost of his former self. He's been told he will get better and will be able to return to work but it will take a couple of years to fully recover and he won't be nearly as strong and active as he once was. He seemed just happy to be alive, he thought he was going to die a couple of times. I see him and I think about how people are flippant over COVID and it blows my mind and makes me angry all in one. A colleague at works partner got covid back in May 2020 and still hasn't recovered properly. Struggles to move around much. Only in her 20's.
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Jul 7, 2021 19:14
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Covid; the new Tuberculosis.... not that the old one is truly gone. Booze talk; not had a drink since January but with the 12th coming up here in glorious Norn Irn i will see if they are selling any very cheaply priced spirits in Tesco/Lidl this Friday, i may or may not get a bottle... i'm not even protestant but cheap is cheap.  My own addiction is food but no matter what it is for everyone else; the fight goes on; to strive, to seek, to find..... and not to yield.
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Jul 7, 2021 19:27
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Also this thread moves too fast for me to really keep track of everything but if you asked for some help with house stuff and I didn't reply can you either post it again or PM me?
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Jul 7, 2021 19:32
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How long do you think it will take before the shitehawk media start claiming long covid sufferers are malingering scroungers? I give it another 4 months.
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Jul 7, 2021 19:37
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keep punching joe posted:How long do you think it will take before the shitehawk media start claiming long covid sufferers are malingering scroungers? They will get lumped in with the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis sufferers, job done.
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Jul 7, 2021 19:41
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keep punching joe posted:How long do you think it will take before the shitehawk media start claiming long covid sufferers are malingering scroungers? They've managed not to acknowledge it as a real thing for the last year so they'll probably just keep doing that.
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Jul 7, 2021 19:47
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Just Another Lurker posted:They will get lumped in with the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis sufferers, job done.
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Jul 7, 2021 19:54
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stev posted:They've managed not to acknowledge it as a real thing for the last year so they'll probably just keep doing that. I think some study is claiming to show that ‘long COVID’ is actually the reactivation of a different virus which flourishes while the immune system is busy (people who know what they are talking about, don’t shoot me for simplifying). That virus is widely prevalent, and not really characterised as a disease. I kind of suspect that there are a lot of unknown medical conditions like that, which don’t kill you, just make your life somewhat lovely, in some undefinable way. Perhaps identifying and curing those would do more for the population of the first world than just about anything else. Philosophically, existentialism, absurdism and son on have been described and argued for, but no one has covered humanism. As I understand it, that is the view that, as humans, we are all machineries of joy Such a machine can be broken, but a broken machine can be fixed.
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Jul 7, 2021 20:14
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I have been progressing towards a cfs/me/fibro/neuro thingy by eliminating other illnesses for years now and was referred in april to a specialist apparently I should have heard back about an appointment by now but the gp said they were utterly swamped with new referrals
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Jul 7, 2021 20:49
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The study you were thinking of was on Epstein-Barr virus which is a type of herpesvirus functionally everyone has and can cause ME/CFS symptoms if it reactivates.
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CGI Stardust posted:back when Long Covid first made an appearance I was hoping the seeming commonalities with ME would maybe lead to both being taken more seriously, some research done, find out if there's anything common and whether they're treatable (also maybe getting rid of doctors who don't believe it exists or think it's shorthand for "lack of willpower"). but nooooope, it's falling into the same pit, isn't it? "here's some people who say they've got it. my, how terrible. now, to forget all about it" My sisters hubby has M.E., he had to fight that poo poo for years.
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Jul 7, 2021 20:56
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https://twitter.com/agirlcalledlina/status/1412871098732056582?s=19 Worra oval office
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Jul 7, 2021 21:44
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Shart Casual
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Jul 7, 2021 21:45
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God I hate him so much, I hope he dies.
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Jul 7, 2021 21:45
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it's coming home
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Jul 7, 2021 22:37
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kecske posted:it's coming home
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kecske posted:it's coming
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Jul 7, 2021 22:38
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Baddiel in the crowd it's ruined
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Jul 7, 2021 22:40
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Oh. Excellent.
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Jul 7, 2021 22:40
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I really think they should keep the shots of people in the crowd zoomed out a bit further
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Jul 7, 2021 22:40
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fuming that Sterling didn't let tripper have his carlos alberto moment
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Jul 7, 2021 22:42
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Please don't suddenly stop drinking if you are drinking a lot and have been for years. Alcohol is a physical addiction and withdrawl can be serious - hallucinations and seizures type serious. Taper down if you need to. Josef Bugman, I kind of get where you're coming from with needing to do good, because there are times when I judge my own worth based on how useful I am to other people. There are plenty of people who are content with their mundane routine of work/TV/sleep, but I absolutely believe their lives are of value and have meaning. And yet I hold myself to a different standard. I'm also a vaccination clinic volunteer, doing both the crowd control and vaccinations depending on what's needed. The people coming through have been out and about, so the concept of being around other people isn't too scary, but there are a lot of people who are either worried because they hate needles or excited it will mean they can see their families, and both need that human touch. I actually got told by a doctor that it wasn't necessary to talk to them as much as I did, then he proceeded to greet the next person by asking them their date of birth, never asked their name or told them his, and didn't explain what the potential side effects were because 'it is in the leaflet'. People have waited months for their opportunity to book an appointment and then stood for an hour in a queue, they deserve a Hello.
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Jul 7, 2021 22:43
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congrats to bojo on the ten point bump
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Jul 7, 2021 22:48
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Hope UEFA ban Sterling for being a cheat and he at least misses the final.
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Jul 7, 2021 22:48
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kecske posted:it's coming home
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Jul 7, 2021 22:50
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forkboy84 posted:Hope UEFA ban Sterling for being a cheat and he at least misses the final. https://twitter.com/Coldwar_Steve/status/1412803094979690497
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Jul 7, 2021 22:50
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forkboy84 posted:Hope UEFA ban Sterling for being a cheat and he at least misses the final. he's on pep brand enhancements op and will run rings around that creaky italian defence
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Jul 7, 2021 22:51
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Lady Demelza posted:Josef Bugman, I kind of get where you're coming from with needing to do good, because there are times when I judge my own worth based on how useful I am to other people. There are plenty of people who are content with their mundane routine of work/TV/sleep, but I absolutely believe their lives are of value and have meaning. And yet I hold myself to a different standard. It's silly to do, but I understand that very well. bump_fn posted:imagine supporting england lol I just hope everyone had fun. It sounds like a lot of people are excited by it near me at least.
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