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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,364
    Pross said:

    Jezyboy said:

    What happened to the guy on here that used to post his investment tips. I'm sure he was deep into ocado stock at one point?

    He flounced off as he was a Walter Mitty and everyone let him know they knew he was full of horseshit
    Sure but I don't know why people point these 'characters' out.
    They are pure entertainment.

    No sex, 2 bowls of rice a day Cody springs to mind.
    Then there was that conspiracy theorist Manc33.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,803
    pinno said:

    Pross said:

    Jezyboy said:

    What happened to the guy on here that used to post his investment tips. I'm sure he was deep into ocado stock at one point?

    He flounced off as he was a Walter Mitty and everyone let him know they knew he was full of horseshit
    Sure but I don't know why people point these 'characters' out.
    They are pure entertainment.

    No sex, 2 bowls of rice a day Cody springs to mind.
    Then there was that conspiracy theorist Manc33.
    Banana man and water man too.
    Trouble being that newbies might well take them seriously.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,364
    Was banana man that 'ripped' Ozzie who ate 12 banana's a day?
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,803
    pinno said:

    Was banana man that 'ripped' Ozzie who ate 12 banana's a day?

    Can't remember who, just an extraordinary amount.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,364
    pblakeney said:

    pinno said:

    Was banana man that 'ripped' Ozzie who ate 12 banana's a day?

    Can't remember who, just an extraordinary amount.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zby-QglmRRc
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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    Durian - so foul smelling its banned from public transport and many apartment buildings.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,803
    pinno said:

    pblakeney said:

    pinno said:

    Was banana man that 'ripped' Ozzie who ate 12 banana's a day?

    Can't remember who, just an extraordinary amount.
    WTAF?
    But no, not him. Was someone from that there London IIRC.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,364
    pblakeney said:


    WTAF?

    Precisely.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,588
    Why is being fat an advantage in weightlifting? I know there's a fair bit of muscle beneath the flab and there's an old adage about taking mass to move mass but having a huge gut doesn't seem to provide anything. Lose a bit of weight and you could potentially drop into a lower weight category where even lifting slightly less could give you far more chance of winning.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Apparently they need to consume up to 10,000 calories a day in order to get strong and train. Getting fat is a side effect of that, if they were to try and get cut like body builders. They get weak.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,588
    Apart from the lifting heavy weights part that sounds like a sport for me.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,642
    Pross said:

    Why is being fat an advantage in weightlifting? I know there's a fair bit of muscle beneath the flab and there's an old adage about taking mass to move mass but having a huge gut doesn't seem to provide anything. Lose a bit of weight and you could potentially drop into a lower weight category where even lifting slightly less could give you far more chance of winning.

    I googled this exact thing a week ago.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,364
    ...but there are different weight categories.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,588
    pinno said:

    ...but there are different weight categories.

    Yeah, the heavyweights (male and female) are generally obese though. The Georgian guy that won was seriously impressive though, didn't enter the competition until all the others had done their final weight in both elements.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Afghanistan.
    After decades of foreign involvement from both east then west, a military vacuum leaves the place to descend into unrest.

    Who will be the next to get sucked in? And what has been achieved in the last 20 years?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,364
    morstar said:

    Afghanistan.
    After decades of foreign involvement from both east then west, a military vacuum leaves the place to descend into unrest.

    You're a poet and you don't know it.

    Afghanistan: Victim of the cold war and political football.
    Any wonder it's such a mess?

    A solution: offer the Taliban dollars for opium which we can use to treat heroin addicts (like in France) and satisfy the shortfall in medicinal morphine (the synthetic stuff is horrible - I know) and in the process:
    We will no longer be seen as the infidel
    We may achieve peace (all bet it in a fragmented Afghanistan)
    We could have a bit more control over Heroin use


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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,646
    edited August 2021
    Like a lot of the UK countryside this year, we are being over run by a plague of wild campers, paddle boarders and wild swimmers, who think that shutting in the bushes, leaving unwanted belongings behind and arson (bbq's) is fashionable.

    Some are walking past at the moment, about 2 miles in to a 6 mile walk. In the rain. They look like they packed to board a plane (dragging suit cases, not a back pack in sight) and we've been able to hear them for about the last half hour, from around half a mile away.

    Why is there a correlation between intellect and volume?


  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,646
    UPDATE:

    They've just knocked on the door to ask us to call a taxi.

    "Oor phonesr deed."

    (Yes, that's because you've been camping next to someone else's house nearby for 3 days, probably at the same volume).
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,646
    UPDATE 2:

    They are now waiting outside for a taxi, admiring my car. The house smells of weed. They have observed that my neighbour has a WEE DOGGIE. LOOK AT THE WEE DOGGIE..
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,866
    First.Aspect said:

    UPDATE 2:

    They are now waiting outside for a taxi, admiring my car. The house smells of weed. They have observed that my neighbour has a WEE DOGGIE. LOOK AT THE WEE DOGGIE..

    They went outside because your house smells of weed?
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,646
    surrey_commuter said:

    First.Aspect said:

    UPDATE 2:

    They are now waiting outside for a taxi, admiring my car. The house smells of weed. They have observed that my neighbour has a WEE DOGGIE. LOOK AT THE WEE DOGGIE..

    They went outside because your house smells of weed?
    I was stoned out of my mind it would make the experience easier. But no.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,646
    edited August 2021
    We had someone crash their car outside last night at 11pm as well. Knocked on the door, didn't know where they were. Got caught oot by the gravel doon the hill.

    Nothing to do with the speed you were going.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,329
    You are Dr Frank N Furter AICMFP
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,646
    surrey_commuter said:

    First.Aspect said:

    UPDATE 2:

    They are now waiting outside for a taxi, admiring my car. The house smells of weed. They have observed that my neighbour has a WEE DOGGIE. LOOK AT THE WEE DOGGIE..

    They went outside because your house smells of weed?
    We didn't ask them in, oddly enough. Aside from there being 9 of them, we have a vulnerable person staying at the moment.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,642
    morstar said:

    Afghanistan.
    After decades of foreign involvement from both east then west, a military vacuum leaves the place to descend into unrest.

    Who will be the next to get sucked in? And what has been achieved in the last 20 years?

    The lesson of history is that no one conquers Afghanistan. I read that in a guidebook prior to the US led invasion.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    TheBigBean said:

    morstar said:

    Afghanistan.
    After decades of foreign involvement from both east then west, a military vacuum leaves the place to descend into unrest.

    Who will be the next to get sucked in? And what has been achieved in the last 20 years?

    The lesson of history is that no one conquers Afghanistan. I read that in a guidebook prior to the US led invasion.
    Didn’t Alexandar the Great conquer Afghanistan.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,803
    Ghenkis Khan?
    We are scraping the bottom of the historical bucket though.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,364
    pblakeney said:

    Ghenkis Khan?
    We are scraping the bottom of the historical bucket though.

    Probably the only one who really sorted them out.
    Did Alexander sort them too?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,738
    TheBigBean said:

    morstar said:

    Afghanistan.
    After decades of foreign involvement from both east then west, a military vacuum leaves the place to descend into unrest.

    Who will be the next to get sucked in? And what has been achieved in the last 20 years?

    The lesson of history is that no one conquers Afghanistan. I read that in a guidebook prior to the US led invasion.
    What was the logic for invading Iraq and Afghanistan?
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  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    edited August 2021
    rick_chasey said:

    TheBigBean said:

    morstar said:

    Afghanistan.
    After decades of foreign involvement from both east then west, a military vacuum leaves the place to descend into unrest.

    Who will be the next to get sucked in? And what has been achieved in the last 20 years?

    The lesson of history is that no one conquers Afghanistan. I read that in a guidebook prior to the US led invasion.
    What was the logic for invading Iraq and Afghanistan?
    You youngsters don’t know nuffink!

    But, post 911 attempt to find OBL / punish Afghanistan for harbouring him.

    Also, there were lots of legitimate concerns about Taliban and this was a convenient opportunity to suppress (I’d say overthrow but y’know) them.

    Iraq was unfinished business from Gulf war 1. WMD were trumped up in order to justify expanding the operation into Iraq to make up for the missed opportunity a decade earlier.

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