Pet Peeves

[Caomhaoin]

If you're not willing to stop eating (if you know what I mean) or only booze very infrequently, you need to exercise daily to look and feel good.

This sounds mental but about 2 years ago, I started getting up at about 3am, spending an hour on the French or German, out for a 5/6k run, 100 push ups and then brekkers. Back to bed for an hour if I have time. Got used to it very fast. Bit of strength training in the evenings, 45 mins max. Longer run on Saturday and rest Sunday.

My wife thinks I have lost a marble or two and she's probably right

[Eoin McLove]

Fuck. That.

[astfgyl]

Yeah fuck that

[Ollkiller]

If you're not willing to stop eating (if you know what I mean) or only booze very infrequently, you need to exercise daily to look and feel good.

This sounds mental but about 2 years ago, I started getting up at about 3am, spending an hour on the French or German, out for a 5/6k run, 100 push ups and then brekkers. Back to bed for an hour if I have time. Got used to it very fast. Bit of strength training in the evenings, 45 mins max. Longer run on Saturday and rest Sunday.

My wife thinks I have lost a marble or two and she's probably right

Once you go hardcore like that it becomes a drug. I do weights twice a week at home (fuck the gym) and soccer twice a week. Keeps me nice and fit. What you're doing is mental though lol

[Caomhaoin]

I play old man 6 a side soccer on Tuesdays aswell, but I don't kill myself, unless I get pissed off (which is nearly every week with some of the flabby bastards I play with).

I like the gym as long as it's not jammers, and the elliptical is a good alternative if the legs are sore from running. The gains waning will drive you into action though, even when you couldn't be arsed.

If I had any discipline with food I could probably do something less mental but I can't help myself with grub.

[91/30]

If you're not willing to stop eating (if you know what I mean) or only booze very infrequently, you need to exercise daily to look and feel good.

This sounds mental but about 2 years ago, I started getting up at about 3am, spending an hour on the French or German, out for a 5/6k run, 100 push ups and then brekkers. Back to bed for an hour if I have time. Got used to it very fast. Bit of strength training in the evenings, 45 mins max. Longer run on Saturday and rest Sunday.

My wife thinks I have lost a marble or two and she's probably right

Fair dues.  It's great to be able to get in to and them stick to a routine.  I used to have trouble sleeping after an evening training session whatever it releases in to the system so you're lucky there to be able to go to bed and get sleep.

[astfgyl]

https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1644107524797345793?t=qYUWqlewwJrvy4h5cKUmIA&s=19

This is slightly covid related but I didn't put it in that thread because I don't think that's the point at all. I have no time for the interviewer before the ad hominems get going but the argument that the interviewee is putting forward has to be the weakest thing I've ever heard.

I would love for my old sparring partner the shepherd to take me to task on this one because I reckon he's the only lad here who has any chance of putting forward any argument as to how that's not the worst possible way to look at things. He will lose for definite but the best argument for the absurd will be put forward by no-one better than him.

What say you, Shep?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I don't have much respect for Neil De Grasse Tyson as a popularizer of science.

Consensus generally functions well.
But I don't think censorship or silencing is the way to defend consensus.
Dissent, which the very notion of consensus is an acknowledgement of, should be countered empirically.

The existential stakes put into play with the pandemic brought out the worst in rational thinking. Like here is Carl Sagan talking about the Velikovsky case in astronomy, and what Sagan says about censorship towards the end sounds great, but the context is worlds apart. I don't know what he might have said in a situation where he (rightly or wrongly) believed there were lives on the line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es7424qX70U

[astfgyl]

I get ya I actually do. The reason I asked for you in particular was because of the argument being made that the consensus is the earth isn't flat after all but yet consensus seems to go against all the principles of science in a way. It's a mad one really but the two strong pipes of strong hash have done for me as it stands for this evening and I've become rather incoherent so as it stands I feel I would be in a far better position to continue the discussion that i admittedly asked for tomorrow. I still reckon there's a good discussion to be had about the ins and outs of consensus.

[astfgyl]

Yeah I really don't want to bring it back to covid at all I don't even read about it anymore I just come across the odd thing like that on Twitter. That Tyson lad sounds like a right gimp but I've never watched his other stuff which I believe is sort of about space. No time for that del bigtree lad either but he had Tyson on the ropes with that one. I think consensus isn't the worst idea but definitely dissent should be heard and then countered with rational argument so it becomes obvious what's shite and what's to the best of everyone's knowledge. Things change all the time too so consensus isn't permanent but Tyson there sounds more like The Science than actual science. Maybe that's the extent of the discussion to be had, that some people are just fools who despite all their education haven't learned how to think about things at all.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yeah, I'd be happy enough with that conclusion!

[Carnage]

AIB card frozen out of the blue. Got a text earlier, but from an 086 number, so I assumed it was a scam. Apparently not. But now, bank holiday weekend, fucked 'til Tuesday. I have another account/card but it's a pain in the soul moving money around to cover what's what.

[astfgyl]

Can you not unfreeze it using your app? Just go into the cards section on it and it should show there. Otherwise the card services phone number on the back of the card should still be in action even today. Or last of all you could reply to the automated text with the 1 or the 9 whichever it wants but I can't remember if those are timed.

[Carnage]

No option in the app, the texts are timed. Gonna ring again now.

Edit: Sorted. Yer man on the phone sounded like he had the hangover from hell. 😂

[astfgyl]

No option in the app, the texts are timed. Gonna ring again now.

Edit: Sorted. Yer man on the phone sounded like he had the hangover from hell. 😂

Ah grand job. Yeah all those lads are working from home these days so I'd imagine he's probably sitting in his underpants with a cold towel over his head