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rick_chasey

richVSrich wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

richVSrich wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Sat down on the sofa last night at around 9pm.

Suddenly, my back hurts.

Cue night of writhing pain.

Figured I could still get on the bike - tried getting on it in the morning to check.

Err no.

Fingers crossed this doesn't continue.

I'm 23 FFS.

yoga / pilates
if youre feeling tough: bikram / hot yoga
(i only manage to go about every other week to hot yoga but it really helps - esp if most of the day is spent sat at a desk)

Ssh..

My girlfriend's yoga obsessed. She's desperate to do couples yoga.

Will. Not. Do.

lol! think of the brownie points dude!

my friend had a funny yoga story last week:
she's in yoga and the instructor speaks to a guy who is struggling next to her (who has obviously been dragged along by the girlfriend).. the instructor goes: "do you do any other sports? no? thought so..."
ouch

Yeah they do that a lot.

I heard one guy go "I think I'll need a block for that pose, my muscles there are too big"

Instructuor "No they're not." *presses firmly on his back so he yelps in pain*

veronese68

Rick Chasey wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Couples yoga? Is that not some sort of euphemism. Where's GregT when you need him?

I said more or less the same when she mentioned it.

I got ಠ_ಠ.

I now have an image of a load of saggy old hippies baring all in a room lit by candles, with lots of swaying and tantric nonsense going on.
I may need to visit cakestop to reset the images in my mind.

notsoblue

Whoa, harsh instructors! I like it, even though I'm terrible at it, and my instructors are pretty cool.

rick_chasey

notsoblue wrote:

Whoa, harsh instructors! I like it, even though I'm terrible at it, and my instructors are pretty cool.

You get a lot of men going "I do yoga only to enhance my sport and show off how manly I am" types in the yoga studio the gf goes to (I've gone once or twice).

I don't mind the yoga but I get irritating with all the humming and the aaring and the bloody hare-krishna-style mood music they play.

Just whack on some ambient aphex twin and be done with it.

jedster

Pretty foggy at the start of my commute today. I added some flashers to the usual dyno powered lights.

Rant 1: about 1 in 10 vehicles didnt have any lights on. Why???? I mean what is the upside of leaving your lights off? Fuel economy? You're having a laugh. I reckon you could see cars with lights 3 x the distance away.

Rant 2: I quite often pass a guy on a MTB coming the other way. He tends to wear black trousers and a black jacket and very rarely has any lights on. Today, I'd just pulled out of a patch of fog when I saw him. Couldn't resist shouting "good luck!" at him. He looked rather surprised. In fairness, we've probably passed each other more than a 100 times and this is the first words spoken :oops:

jedster

Instructuor "No they're not." *presses firmly on his back so he yelps in pain*

I went along to yoga a few times with my wife. I actually thought it was OK - I'm not the most supple so a bit of stretching seemed like a good thing. Probably was. Then I pushed one position a bit hard and ended up with a groin strain that 8 months later is still giving me a few problems. Our instructor was very careful - it was just silly masculine behaviour pushing things too far. Any instructor who pushes someone into a position that hurts them is a fookin' eedyit.

notsoblue

Rick Chasey wrote:

notsoblue wrote:

Whoa, harsh instructors! I like it, even though I'm terrible at it, and my instructors are pretty cool.

You get a lot of men going "I do yoga only to enhance my sport and show off how manly I am" types in the yoga studio the gf goes to (I've gone once or twice).

I don't mind the yoga but I get irritating with all the humming and the aaring and the bloody hare-krishna-style mood music they play.

Just whack on some ambient aphex twin and be done with it.

Fair enough. One of the guys I work with is a Yoga instructor so he gives a weekly class to me and about 5 others. Pretty relaxed and secular. No posers.

rick_chasey

jedster wrote:

Instructuor "No they're not." *presses firmly on his back so he yelps in pain*

I went along to yoga a few times with my wife. I actually thought it was OK - I'm not the most supple so a bit of stretching seemed like a good thing. Probably was. Then I pushed one position a bit hard and ended up with a groin strain that 8 months later is still giving me a few problems. Our instructor was very careful - it was just silly masculine behaviour pushing things too far. Any instructor who pushes someone into a position that hurts them is a fookin' eedyit.

*shrugs* the guy had it coming to him.

CiB

I had a stint of going to yoga with t'wife for a while but stopped when it became clear to all that when we did the deep relax towards the end of the session that gentle snoring sound was coming from my corner, and it wasn't OH either. Some of the stretchy poses were chuffing hard work though, and when I found out that this was pretty much beginners yoga and it gets a lot harder, I made my excuses and stopped doing it.

dhope

I've been a few times (maybe once a month) to the class next to work which is very much a stretchy yoga (Ashtanga) rather than a humming and meditating yoga. It's hard work, I'm fairly flexible for a bloke but nowhere near half the people there. Curious to find I'm far more flexible on one side of my body than the other. Must be being right handed and right footed makes a noticeable difference. Nice way to warm up for the ride home.

veronese68

My wife has been, mostly, out of work since July last year. She's had a couple of crappy temping jobs, but that's it. She's applied for lots of jobs, she works really hard to prepare for every interview she's had. She has got to the last 2 or 3 several times. She went for an interview last Thursday and they told her she was the first they'd seen and she'd set the bar really high and they'd be calling her back for a second interview.
She rang them today to find they've found somebody. 2 other jobs she's been told she was the best candidate, to be told later they've decided not to take anyone on. I understand that times are hard, but building her up and knocking her down is absolutely destroying the little confidence she has.
I feel utterly useless in all this and want to go and slap someone. Think I'll make a cup of tea instead.

rjsterry

Don't know what she does, but could she freelance/start up on her own? It's certainly not an easy option, but there are a lot of pluses.

veronese68

rjsterry wrote:

Don't know what she does, but could she freelance/start up on her own? It's certainly not an easy option, but there are a lot of pluses.

She could for some of what she does. I've tried to get her to do this, set up a dedicated pc she could work from and offered encouragement.
She does marketing support stuff. Proof reading, plain english and can lay out leaflets and such like. She used to do all types of marketing but has become more specialised in publications and promotional literature. She worked for a local council for 11 years doing schools stuff. Unfortunately she's not very computer and web savvy. I think she should go on a course to learn more about that side of it, but she has convinced herself she can't do it.
The other thing is she's not one for self promotion. If she could see herself the way others do it would be a big help. I'm obviously more than a bit biased, but others seem to think this too.

rjsterry

Mrs RJS is a freelance graphic designer - when she's not bringing up the littl'uns - so a lot of her work sits alongside that kind of job. From her experience, making a go of it on your own is all about cultivating contacts by whatever means.

veronese68

rjsterry wrote:

Mrs RJS is a freelance graphic designer - when she's not bringing up the littl'uns - so a lot of her work sits alongside that kind of job. From her experience, making a go of it on your own is all about cultivating contacts by whatever means.

I think you need to be of a particular mindset to be freelance. Unfortunately, my lovely wife is of completely the wrong mindset. She really needs security. She has had a little bit of freelance work, from her former employers. I'm sure if she pushed she could get more.
I'll pick up a bottle of wine and some flowers on the way home and try to be nice to her tonight, before I go to the pub with a few of my neighbours.
Thanks RJS.

McNulty

The better weather is bringing the "best" cyclists out - to the bloke on the lightspeed in wakefield city centre this morning, the lack of helmet makes me think that you are a tool, the RLJ just confirmed it - I hope you get nicked for it.

chedabob

Pedestrians: Jesus god almighty, do I not register with you at all? Am I invisible? Does the concept of a cyclist doing more than 10km/h elude you? One guy did apologize after sprinting across one lane of traffic and then dawdling across the bike lane, so there's some hope.

Chap in the flatbed truck: Yeah, I get you're knarked at the cyclist that had the audacity to stop you pinching him 10 metres from the traffic lights that were on red, and then subsequently jumped them, but that's no reason to punish me. I waited behind you at the lights instead of filtering into the ASL (because I'd already established you were a twat), which you responded to by crawling out of the lights and then weaving in and out of the bike lane in front of me. What I wouldn't have given for him to get stuck at the next set of lights...

suzyb

Veronese68 wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Mrs RJS is a freelance graphic designer - when she's not bringing up the littl'uns - so a lot of her work sits alongside that kind of job. From her experience, making a go of it on your own is all about cultivating contacts by whatever means.

I think you need to be of a particular mindset to be freelance. Unfortunately, my lovely wife is of completely the wrong mindset. She really needs security. She has had a little bit of freelance work, from her former employers. I'm sure if she pushed she could get more.
I'll pick up a bottle of wine and some flowers on the way home and try to be nice to her tonight, before I go to the pub with a few of my neighbours.
Thanks RJS.

That's me. I'm of the completely wrong mindset to freelance but have picked up work from my former employer.

Mr Sworld

McNulty wrote:

The better weather is bringing the "best" cyclists out - to the bloke on the lightspeed in wakefield city centre this morning, the lack of helmet makes me think that you are a tool, the RLJ just confirmed it - I hope you get nicked for it.

Helmet choice is personal....

Mr Sworld

RLJ'ing does make you a tawt however...

mudcow007

to the old guy who filtered through the lights Here

who then jumped the lights, you are very lucky were not squished by the 7.5 tonne truck coming the other way

Also

to the coffin dodger in the lime green TVR Tuscan (with one headlight) you are a penis, you an aggressive, white haired, small penises (im guessing) old fart and if i see you or your car again i will make my views known to you

and breathe

rick_chasey

Mental articulated lorry (had two shorter carriage things behind him like a train) today.

Almost took out a bloke in a jag (really really close), who in turn, (through no fault of his own in fairness) cut up a cyclist (though apologised afterwards) just by albert bridge when the road curves left past Cheyne walk.

Jag was on the inside, lorry on the outside...well, it was to begin with.

Scary stuff.

Later shouted at a chap who was going to go for a narrowing gap between said lorry and parked car.

He stopped his effort to give me abuse, but, as far as I'm concerned, I saved him from injury or death, so kudos to me.

Blacktemplar

First serious sh1t-scary road rage incident today.

Heading into work, there’s a single-lane restriction over a railway bridge. Room for one car - or one bike. I’m heading into the narrow bit when I hear an engine revving behind, and a little silver people-carrier van thingy (like the ones they convert for wheelchair users) shoots into the gap and almost hits me. Of course I give the customary gesture.

The van is in the queue at the next set lights, and as I come up the inside in the cycle lane, I’m expecting to see some little old guy with bottle-bottom glasses - I will shake my head sadly as usual, and get an apologetic wave in return. Surprise, surprise, it’s two builder-types, and the stream of foul-mouthed invective that gets spat out of both driver and passenger windows is frankly astonishing. The little dude in the passenger seat actually had flecks of spittle on his lips he was so wound up. For a nanosecond I considered not responding, but then the red mist came down. I called into question his parentage, his intellect, his gender, and likened him to small female genitalia, using words that would make a sailor blush. All from a range of about three feet. I laughed in his face and cycled off.

The van then proceeded to follow me, with the passenger getting more and more wound up, to the extent he was half out the window shouting abuse at me. Needless to say I was giving as good as I got on the insult front, but when driver started to veer towards (don't know if he was just trying to scare me, or put the passenger within grabbing/punching distance) I decided to stop short of my customary invitation to exit the vehicle and engage in some healthy fisticuffs. On the rare occasions I’ve resorted to that it usually results in the vehicle speeding off hastened on by my middle digit, but these two characters were so incandescent by now I was worried they might take me up on the offer. Fortunately the traffic behind was getting a bit fed up by now with the pantomime and had started to toot horns at the nutter, and I had a left turn coming up. The van shot off with a continuing stream of anger trailing out the windows. I gave him a cheery wave and stuck my tongue out - hopefully the additional insult caused some internal organ to burst in the little scrote. Unfortunately I was so enjoying the banter I forgot to get his number. :oops:

Some folk need to get a grip. Really. I know – I’m one of them. :twisted:

rick_chasey

Yeah, it's not worth getting involved in the slanging match...

Blacktemplar

Rick Chasey wrote:

Yeah, it's not worth getting involved in the slanging match...

Mind you, it's really hard to execute a decent roundhouse kick in cleats.......

rick_chasey

Blacktemplar wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Yeah, it's not worth getting involved in the slanging match...

Mind you, it's really hard to execute a decent roundhouse kick in cleats.......

Yeah.

Problem is, when they get all angry like they do there - rationality goes out the window, and you genuinely don't know what they will do.

clarkey cat

so my missus has decided winter is over and has washed my beloved Rapha / Paul Smith winter hat.

my 1 year old now has a new hat.

Blacktemplar

Rick Chasey wrote:

Blacktemplar wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Yeah, it's not worth getting involved in the slanging match...

Mind you, it's really hard to execute a decent roundhouse kick in cleats.......

Yeah.

Problem is, when they get all angry like they do there - rationality goes out the window, and you genuinely don't know what they will do.

+1

I'll take running away every time, no matter how 'ard (or well-trained) you think you are. Some folks have absolutely no moral code to start with and wouldn't think twice about stabbing you or running you over when they're in that state. I'm a nice middle-class boy that wants to keep all his organs on the inside.

rick_chasey

Blacktemplar wrote:

I'll take running away every time, no matter how 'ard (or well-trained) you think you are. Some folks have absolutely no moral code to start with and wouldn't think twice about stabbing you or running you over when they're in that state. I'm a nice middle-class boy that wants to keep all his organs on the inside.

And free of bruising!!

veronese68

Blacktemplar wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Yeah, it's not worth getting involved in the slanging match...

Mind you, it's really hard to execute a decent roundhouse kick in cleats.......

Indeed, falling over all on you're own when trying to hit someone is not good. Mind you the other party may be laughing too hard to kick you before you get up.