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Non Tool Forum => The Break Room => Topic started by: kreskin13 on January 10, 2008, 12:07:14 AM
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I got way off topic on roadies "Finally got a Fenix" thread into vegetarianism, pollution and such.
I know this is a multitool site and plenty of other sites cover these subjects, but this is where I like to hang out (cool people).
I would like to start a "healthy lifestyle/exercise section. I know I need some support to get healthier and some of you may also. I am way overweight, hooked on tranquilizers, anti-depressants and the cocoa bean. Thankfully I don't drink or smoke but I need to get out on that new Bianchi!
If there are any of you of like mind please weigh in. Opposing, but positive, opinions would of course be welcome. All this would make us live healthier and longer lives to enjoy our multitools even more!
Help me please and I will try to help you.
I gotta go now but please give me your thoughts or tell me to stuff it.
Calvin
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I don't need to be healthy, I've got a friggin' multitool! :multi:
I might leave this to the Jody-chanting military men amongst us.
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I dont exercise much. I work pretty hard at my job though. I was 200# when I started and a year and a half later I am 170# no diets or supplemental exercise. I like exercise but I would rather play golf. I'll start riding my mountain bike again when I find a safe place to ride after I move out of where I am now. Oh, Yeah, I almost forgot. An exercise section might be cool.
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I just think it might help some of us if we had some positive support from others to try and better ourselves. I could join a health forum but I couldn't then jump over and talk about my Surge or the pure joy it is to use anything made by Victorinox. We talk on this forum about music, books, cameras, all sorts of things life brings us but when you think about it it's all crap if you don't have good health. There is nothing wrong about a healthy environment either.
I think we have a "stuff it" from Nomad, but I appreciate the response.
Calvin
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I've got a weight issue- minor by some standards but enough to bother me. The middle age spread hit me around the same time I developed significant foot problems and resulted in some excess baggage.
I don't do much in the way of exercise, at least not as much as I'd like. I do some time on the exercise bike, walk the dog and fight with drunks, but that's about it. So, I've started eating less. I don;t starve myself, but I've cut back my food intake by about 30%, and I don't eat until I am full anymore. It's too soon to tell if there's any difference yet, but that's the direction I am heading in.
Def
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Maybe an official "Healthy Crap" thread would be a good starting point so you can get the ball rolling a little bit and get people talking. I too enjoy discussing a myriad of issues with the wonderful posters here but as it stands now I think an entire forum devoted to that may be a little much.
Although, it wouldn't be a bad place to hang out for me I'm sure I could learn a lot. I didn't even brush my teeth today.
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I think we have a "stuff it" from Nomad, but I appreciate the response.
Nah, I was just on my way out to door to work at the time, a one liner was all I had time for.
Summer and new year are my annual Get-fit rampage seasons (Autumn being my "Time to fatten up for winter" season, winter being Hibernation Season, and Spring being time to fatten up after winter! )
I was looking to acquire a new bicycle on the cheap, do a quick service, and have at the roads with the usual aggression of a just-quit-smoking-born-again-fitness-guru.
I say we all put aside a dollar for every 30 minutes of hard exercise (50cents for pseudo-exercise like walking, or hitting a little white ball while walking), and spend it all when we can afford a new multi! :climber:
I didn't even brush my teeth today.
Kiss me, you animal.
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I think we have a "stuff it" from Nomad, but I appreciate the response.
Nah, I was just on my way out to door to work at the time, a one liner was all I had time for.
Summer and new year are my annual Get-fit rampage seasons (Autumn being my "Time to fatten up for winter" season, winter being Hibernation Season, and Spring being time to fatten up after winter! )
I was looking to acquire a new bicycle on the cheap, do a quick service, and have at the roads with the usual aggression of a just-quit-smoking-born-again-fitness-guru.
I say we all put aside a dollar for every 30 minutes of hard exercise (50cents for pseudo-exercise like walking, or hitting a little white ball while walking), and spend it all when we can afford a new multi! :climber:
I didn't even brush my teeth today.
Kiss me, you animal.
Nomad, I like your thinking. Exercise for multitools!
Spoonrobot, "kissing booth" for multitools? :ahhh
Calvin
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Maybe an official "Healthy Crap" thread would be a good starting point so you can get the ball rolling a little bit and get people talking.
The greatest minds of the Online Generation have yet to solve the question of when a thread is too off topic to be acceptable within any given fora. (is fora plural of forum?)
There's no laughs in this post, quick!
would you have any Grey Poupon?
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I had 30 seconds of "exercise" this morning. :D :D :D :D :D
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What's a healthy lifestyle?
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I had 30 seconds of "exercise" this morning. :D :D :D :D :D
30 seconds, you stud!
Calvin
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I had 30 seconds of "exercise" this morning. :D :D :D :D :D
Go easy mate! :D
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In all seriousness I think an exercise and/or health forum ain't a bad idea. I had kidney cancer last year and had my kidney removed the last of June. I'm just now getting recovered enough to where I'm thinking about getting back into exercising a little. I have to go easy as I have 3 bad disks but as out of shape as I am right now I'm sure I won't feel like jumping back into it hardcore. I don't have a lot of exercise equipment but I have enough. I have a bench and a few dumbbells. You can exercise almost any muscle with dumbbells and they're a lot cheaper than machines that can break down.
I also have a standing punching bag that I used to work too. I shattered my ankle in the Army and between that and my back running isn't an option. Going back there and punching and kicking on that bag for 30 minutes gets the heart rate up though. Plus it's a good stress reliever.
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Punch bag's are excelent cardio vascula workout's :)
Have thought about cycling, it can be as easy or as hard as you want to make it, plus it's doing you some good and it's a great family activity too :)
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Have thought about cycling, it can be as easy or as hard as you want to make it, plus it's doing you some good and it's a great family activity too
No, I'm pretty clumsy, when I was a kid I tended to fall off my bike a lot. :oops:
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I'm all for a health and fitness forum.....we all need encouragement at times to stick with a regimen,plus tips and advice on what works and doesn't work.
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If my favourite multitool forum and reviews site was down for a month I'd probably come back built and cut harder than the Thunder from Downunder boys!
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I'm all for a health and fitness forum.....we all need encouragement at times to stick with a regimen,plus tips and advice on what works and doesn't work.
I can see right through you Bison. You want me to send you my new Bianchi! :drool: Very clever you are, but it won't work, it's mine, all mine. :D
Lets try and make this happen. I like the idea of reading/talking some healthy stuff and then bouncing over and discussing something about multitools, knives, flashlights, EDC, and even Defs kayak/u-boat. :ahhh
Calvin
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Actually, I've been meaning to get into kayaking a bit more.
My kayak sank (apparently Fibreglass repairs are not my special talent, Oh well. That narrows the field to clog dancing or guiding souls through the afterlife)
My home-made kayak had the other problem, and floated too well, with nothing below the water, it was unstable and challenging to get up to a functional pace.
With two respectable failures lodged firmly under my belt, I figure I'm due a moderate a success.
Oh wise and handsome leader, share your watersporting ways.
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I kayak in the summer months- the lake is a little too solid to attempt it right now....
If you look at most kayaking websites they say that the best way to repair a punctured hull is with sponsor's stickers!
Def
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I kayak in the summer months- the lake is a little too solid to attempt it right now....
If you look at most kayaking websites they say that the best way to repair a punctured hull is with sponsor's stickers!
Def
For some reason that does not suprise me one bit. It probally started as "dude I have a hole in my kayak, I wonder if these stickers from the shop where I bought this would patch it for the day." :)
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I wonder if that would be an interesting product to try and sell? Really tough stickers, similar to duct tape for emergency kayak/canoe repair? Hmm, you got me thinking about it now! :D
Def
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I earned $2 towards my next multitool today.
Huzzah! (and yes, that means I have not done any dedicated exercise from the start of this thread until now. )
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Exercise? What the frig is that? :D
I can't wait until Spring gets here. Maybe this year I'll finally do a Century on the bike. Last year's high was 57miles, practically nonstop except for lights and stopping twice to buy a bottle of water.
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Calvin I think this thread is a great idea . I've thought about starting something similar in the past but by doing so I would be admitting I have a problem . I'm overweight , I smoke ( although none for three days , and I've really cut down ) , I drink ( Hhhmmm Beer ) :cheers: And I dont exercise enough :( My grandmother had angina and my father had a ruptured aorta and I had cancer 12 years ago :( Now I written that the future doesnt look to bright does it :oops:
Of course I have the body of a God :D Just a shame its Buddha ;)
On the plus side someone once said I move quite quick for a fat boy :ahhh
I'm not a total lard a*se and do get out and about and do a fair bit of walking on the beach , plus you should see me move when my pager goes off :o
Thanks for starting this :D Perhaps its time we got out and started using them multitools .
Dunc
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Got to say I think it's a great idea I am looking to improve my fitness levels (the neds have the advantage of tracksuit and trainers a head start and the motivation of not getting the jail)
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Why not just learn to throw your truncheon more accurately :D
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Maybe as an incentive we should all post our weights every Sunday and see who is sticking to their diet and exercise! :ahhh
Def
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I'm a day late,but this morning I was 198.2
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Maybe as an incentive we should all post our weights every Sunday and see who is sticking to their diet and exercise! :ahhh
Def
But lets not let any of those skinny 20-something-year-olds post in here and make the rest of us look bad >:( ;)
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Maybe as an incentive we should all post our weights every Sunday and see who is sticking to their diet and exercise! :ahhh
Def
But lets not let any of those skinny 20-something-year-olds post in here and make the rest of us look bad >:( ;)
They dare not do it,we have ban buttons :D
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Maybe as an incentive we should all post our weights every Sunday and see who is sticking to their diet and exercise! :ahhh
Def
But lets not let any of those skinny 20-something-year-olds post in here and make the rest of us look bad >:( ;)
You don't want to know what I weigh. I have seen more meat on a butchers pencil.
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I suggested Sundays because that's my "day off" from my diet. I eat whatever I want on Sundays but eat healthier and smaller portions the rest if the week.
I started out looking like Benner but now I look like Hank Hill!
(http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/hank.jpg)
Def
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I suggested Sundays because that's my "day off" from my diet. I eat whatever I want on Sundays but eat healthier and smaller portions the rest if the week.
I started out looking like Benner but now I look like Hank Hill!
(http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/hank.jpg)
Def
:D
That's another programme I loved to watch. I actually used the theme music in a music project I did at school. :)
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Benner what are you still doing in this thread ?
No man boobs = No Entry :D
Dunc
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Benner what are you still doing in this thread ?
No man boobs = No Entry :D
Dunc
I'm sorry. :( Me and Roadie should start a topic on how to put weight on. :)
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Benner what are you still doing in this thread ?
No man boobs = No Entry :D
Dunc
I'm sorry. :( Me and Roadie should start a topic on how to put weight on. :)
I've tried! Just can't seem to do it, never have been able to. Ahh the joys of youth! :)
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Benner what are you still doing in this thread ?
No man boobs = No Entry :D
Dunc
I'm sorry. :( Me and Roadie should start a topic on how to put weight on. :)
I've tried! Just can't seem to do it, never have been able to. Ahh the joys of youth! :)
So have I pal. :( Isn't it just soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo annoying when people say "It's ok for you your thin!" People never seem to realise that being unable to put weight on is just as much of a problem as people being unable to lose it.
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Yep totally agree with you!
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I used to be like that . Then I found beer :cheers:
Dunc
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I used to be like that . Then I found beer :cheers:
Dunc
Well I have found that as well and it hasn't worked for me.
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I used to be like that . Then I found beer :cheers:
Dunc
Well I have found that as well and it hasn't worked for me.
I'm talking about proper beer ( Ale ) not girly larger :P Four pints of that a night ( cider works well too ) , chuck in a bottle or red wine every couple of nights and a half bottle of vodka or rum at the weekends . Then the next morning a ginsters pasty or sausage roll to soak up the beer . Not to mention the large bars of cadburys chocolate and fizzy drink :o Now do any of the above every day for the next 14 years and we can start talking about sharing clothes :D
Dunc
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Well I pretty much did that for 2 years. I used to drink Speckled Hen and Bishops finger most evenings and then follow it up with junk and Vodka but nothing.
Perhaps I just need to try for longer. :D
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Benner what are you still doing in this thread ?
No man boobs = No Entry :D
Dunc
I'm sorry. :( Me and Roadie should start a topic on how to put weight on. :)
I've tried! Just can't seem to do it, never have been able to. Ahh the joys of youth! :)
So have I pal. :( Isn't it just soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo annoying when people say "It's ok for you your thin!" People never seem to realise that being unable to put weight on is just as much of a problem as people being unable to lose it.
Yep me too ::)
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I used to be that way too gents. Enjoy it while you can and develop good habits before it's too late. When I started working security in my early 20's I weighed about 120 pounds, then when I got married I was about 140 pounds. That was just over 50 pounds ago.
Def
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I earned another $1 on Monday night.
Woo, I'm onna roll.
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Well,Sunday's weight was 192,but I lost 8 pounds in two days from a gastric virus...definitely not recommended for a weight reduction program.
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Well,Sunday's weight was 192,but I lost 8 pounds in two days from a gastric virus...definitely not recommended for a weight reduction program.
Why not? It seems like "Puke Away The Pounds" would be a catchy slogan...? ??? :D
(Just kidding. Hope you're feeling better soon Bob.) :-\
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Well I've really started pushing myself on the old bike, to get my body of steel back for summer :D
Anyone else still keeping there new year resolutions ???
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I am eating less and less these days, but it may be more because I keep forgetting to stop and eat!
At the SHOT Show Bob and I were too distracted to feel hungry and we had to force ourselves to stop and eat! When we did, it was amazing to feel how much of a difference it made in our stomachs since we were half starved but hadn't noticed! :D
I've been eating pretty well the same stuff I always did, but in lesser quantities in hopes of reducing my overall baggage. I can't really tell if it's working yet- I think I've lost a bit around the waist (according to my belt) but my scale disagrees...
Def
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I have been working real hard recently, so I am losing weight, again! ::) (Even though I ate a whole cheesecake to myself the other night. :-\)
BTW, for those of you that don't know me, I am very thin so losing weight is a big no no.
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I've been out on my bike quite a bit recently too, mainly as uni has started up again so its back and forth a couple of times a day. I have to start going on some long rides as well though as i've just found out from my mate that i am probably going on quite a long ride over the summer. No idea when/where/why but it should be fun! And I'm still eating vast quantities of food like Ben!
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It sucks doesn't it. :(
What I can't understand (Any Dr's in the house? :D) is that they say to gain weight you need to eat more than 2500 calories (if you are male) a day. I do this every day and like I said the other evening after eating 3 largish meals and snacking all day, I ate a whole cheesecake which was nearly 3000 calories on its own! :o
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mmmmm cheesecake!! I think it's just some peoples metabolism is faster than others, just wish i could bottle it and sell it! Would make millions out of it! Haribo are my weakness, once finished a whole tub (600ish) of Haribo Gummy Bears in a day! Now that was a sugar rush, the day after was a bit 'orrible though!
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mmmmm cheesecake!! I think it's just some peoples metabolism is faster than others, just wish i could bottle it and sell it! Would make millions out of it! Haribo are my weakness, once finished a whole tub (600ish) of Haribo Gummy Bears in a day! Now that was a sugar rush, the day after was a bit 'orrible though!
Been there my friend! :D I have a thing with gummies. I just can't get enough! :D I will only stop eating them when I have run out. I especially like the Tangfastic Haribo. :drool:
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Tangfastic are brilliant aren't they! I used to live 6miles from the Haribo factory shop, it was only about £5 a tub, and worth every penny!!
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Tangfastic are brilliant aren't they! I used to live 6miles from the Haribo factory shop, it was only about £5 a tub, and worth every penny!!
Thanks Ryan! I wan't bloody Haribo now! >:D
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So do I! Gonna have to get one of my friends to call into the shop and get me few tubs for next time i'm home!
Edit:
Maybe we should take this discussion out of the "Healthy lifestyle/ exercise forum" :D
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When I went to go into the forces at 17 they told me I had to put on 3 stone :o, so I'd eat huge main meals, snack endlessly between them, drink loads of those slim fast shakes (high in calories), trouble was though that I was running cycling, swimming, weight training too ::)
So I went back after 6 months 6 pounds heavier ::) :D
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Serious question to all my fellow skinny bods, do you float well ???
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Serious question to all my fellow skinny bods, do you float well ???
Nope.
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Not just me then :-\, I know most type's of primates can't swim because of a lack of body fat, I guess we're the same :(, doesn't say a lot for our evolution does it :D
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Not just me then :-\, I know most type's of primates can't swim because of a lack of body fat, I guess we're the same :(, doesn't say a lot for our evolution does it :D
No not just you. I do sink well though! :)
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I'm like a sodding U-boat ::), in fact I'd say I don't swim at all, as it's more like controlled drowning :D
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I wouldn't say i float but i don't sink either i'm sort of in between it takes very little effort to stay afloat. Do like going for a swim, especially in the sea, there's something satisfying about it!
I'm like a sodding U-boat ::), in fact I'd say I don't swim at all, as it's more like controlled drowning :D
:D :D :D
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So what about you Ryan sink or swim :D
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So what about you Ryan sink or swim :D
See post above..... :twak: :)
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So what about you Ryan sink or swim :D
See post above..... :twak: :)
Doh, sorry old age and infirmity catching up with me again :D
I'm just think who I can turn into a human raft, should the campsite flood, your not totally boyant, and I've already decided to use Ben as a paddle :D
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Just use the life raft that dunc will have stowed away somewhere on his person! :D
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I'm just glad I have a use! :D
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Just use the life raft that dunc will have stowed away somewhere on his person! :D
That's brilliant, why didn't I think of that :D
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I'm just glad I have a use! :D
Keeping me alive and afloat is a valiant effort :D
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BTW, for those of you that don't know me, I am very thin so losing weight is a big no no.
I hope you don't mind me asking but how old are you?
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BTW, for those of you that don't know me, I am very thin so losing weight is a big no no.
I hope you don't mind me asking but how old are you?
Of course I don't mind. :) I am 22.
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He's not a woman, so it's quite safe to ask how old he is :D
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I'm just glad I have a use! :D
Keeping me alive and afloat is a valiant effort :D
It helps if the folks take their feet off your head! :D
Def
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I'm just glad I have a use! :D
Keeping me alive and afloat is a valiant effort :D
It helps if the folks take their feet off your head! :D
Def
Maybe that's where I've been going wrong all these years then :D
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Just use the life raft that dunc will have stowed away somewhere on his person! :D
Someone mention my EDC liferaft ? :D
Pic from last Sunday
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/ebbingtide/PICT0010.jpg)
Dunc
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You have got to bring that with you to the meet :D
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You have got to bring that with you to the meet :D
Last Sunday that was used as a photo shoot platform for the publicity shots for the old boat going off service and the new one coming on . Over the next few days I'm going to post some hell of some photos :D We had both boats screaming round that liferaft :D
Dunc
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You have got to bring that with you to the meet :D
Last Sunday that was used as a photo shoot platform for the publicity shots for the old boat going off service and the new one coming on . Over the next few days I'm going to post some hell of some photos :D We had both boats screaming round that liferaft :D
Dunc
That sounds really cool, look forward to them mate :cheers:
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You have got to bring that with you to the meet :D
Last Sunday that was used as a photo shoot platform for the publicity shots for the old boat going off service and the new one coming on . Over the next few days I'm going to post some hell of some photos :D We had both boats screaming round that liferaft :D
Dunc
That sounds really cool, look forward to them mate :cheers:
What he said! :ahhh
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Right I'm off to bed , had a very busy time in the last few days and am knackered :D
Night all
Dunc
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Right I'm off to bed , had a very busy time in the last few days and am knackered :D
Night all
Dunc
Night matey :)
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Night Pal!!
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I've been in one of those liferafts.
You know that "10 persons" it has on the outside?
Yeah, that's a load of rubbish.