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this one got missed.... Granted. You have just won a 2 week stay in Dudley, a hell hole that's just outside of Birmingham in the UK. It's such a bad place that JK Rowling named the obnoxious character Dudley Dursley after it. And it's February, so it's very cold and very very wet. And you pick up the local dialect too…

Every time you see one of them....... just remember, most of the skinny people in your gym used to be fat. They kept going to the gym, so now they're skinny. And it's just a matter of time until you're also a skinny gym person that used to be fat... all you have to do is stick at it.

OMG I laughed so hard at this....!!!

Can someone tell me if I'm socially inept or not? Because my obsession with palaeoanthropology ticks the other two boxes. So I don't know if I'm a geek or a nerd.

granted. but then your car breaks down and you have to run even further to get home again. in freezing, sleety, driving rain I wish I could discover a remote island that's never been found before, and on that island discover a new species of human that's been living on that island in isolation since some really primitive…

the database is not always accurate. one of the entries that you used in your diary may have listed calories only and not all the macronutrient values. or if you used "quick added calories" this isn't going to list the macros in whatever food you quick added. if you've hit your calorie goal, you are not under on all three…

@ vanilla - granted. but it tastes like vinegar @ 5teve - granted. You now have a Barbie houseboat I wish I could break all the world records at deadlifting

granted - but unbeknown to you, it's a hellhound puppy, and it does like Damien in the Omen and weird stuff starts going on like people who have regular contact with your puppy commit suicide randomly and animals act crazy around him, and then you too die a bizarre and unexplained death. @ maize - granted, but there's a…

granted - you now have all the entire world's coffee crop. unforunately all the coffee plantation owners in the world are very annoyed that you stole all their coffee and they're waiting outside with crow bars to get you for it ETA: @ fat old bat......... granted, you convert to a religion that forbids you from doing jury…

while it is possible for an adult to get a healthy, balanced diet from only plant foods (so long as you supplement vitamin B12), it's actually really difficult and requires a lot of attention to nutrition, in particular to getting adequate amounts of protein and iron. This recent trend of promoting the idea that vegan…

^^^ this and also, addressing the original person quoted above... why assume that us meat eaters have never been vegan? I can assure you that my diet now is much more abundant than a vegan diet. Why? Because I still eat lots of really delicious vegan foods, only I eat meat, eggs and dairy too. In fact, tofu goes really…

chastises others for allegedly relying on biassed sources. recommends biassed sources

^^^^ this I'd never succeed at losing weight eating 1500 cals/day or less.... but lose weight fine on 1800 cals/day ....why? 1. I'd be so freaking hungry I'd end up raiding the fridge and cupboards for chocolates and sugary snacks and end up consuming more calories than I would have if I'd just set my calorie goal to a…

@ chasing - granted but the only available room is a spare room in the house of Rab C Nesbitt and the only food available is deep fried pizza and you can't understand the Glaswegian accent. And it rains every day, because Scotland. (in case you're not familiar with British sitcom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rab_C_Nesbitt…

2000 cals/day is not a low calorie diet - this may even be too many calories for smaller people and sedentary people. The exact amount of calories needed varies depending on size and activity levels. Your approach sounds very sensible, i.e. ensuring adequate calorie intake plus paying attention to the other nutrients.…

yeah and me lol... but then I saw that thread about 80s fashion and shoulder pads :drinker:

I have quite narrow hips relative to my shoulders.... and I used to have a skillet butt but I worked damn hard to get a squat butt and that's evened my shoulders out nicely :)

I grew up in the 80s and was told quite a few times how lucky I was to have broad shoulders, because I wouldn't need shoulder pads. My mum, who also has broad shoulders, used to remove the shoulder pads in jackets, blouses and stuff because she didn't need them. I think this kind of thing does help girls to grow up with a…

it may take 20 minutes to start with, but as the weights get heavier, you will end up needing to rest longer between sets, so the workout does end up taking longer than 20 minutes, but it's still a shorter workout than most others, because it involves the major compound lifts. basically, the compound lifts work your whole…

Granted, but the rent in the spacetime continuum caused by removing an entire year causes the whole of our galaxy to collapse into a huge black hole, and slowly all the other galaxies get pulled into the black hole and the entire universe becomes a singularity again I wish I could take my girls to disneyland

granted, but your best seller upsets religious extremists so much that you can't go out of your front door without being bombarded with street preachers waving placards at you informing you that God hates your book and is going to make you burn in hell for all eternity for writing it, and they also regularly burn copies of…

in their usual social group(s), i.e. outside of the experiment, as in who they usually hang out with. In particular, whether those who are more dominant in their social group feel more confident in challenging an alpha/authority figure when in a new situation with different people (i.e. the one giving orders being the…

The thing of one person objecting making it easier for others to say no can be explained purely in terms of primate behaviour*... i.e. forming alliances to be able to challenge higher ranking individuals. chimps and bonobos do that. a lone, low-ranking primate won't challenge a high ranking (alpha or beta) troop member.…

it is interesting though, in light of understanding how and why widespread human rights abuses can occur. Generally there's an offsetting of responsibility, i.e. the one giving orders doesn't feel responsible because they're not actually doing it, and the one following orders doesn't feel responsible because they're just…

okay I missed that bit about them redoing the study. I'll assume that if it recently got past the ethics committee of a university then it really was an ethical version of the experiment. So what is the conclusion then.... that people are on a spectrum between lawful evil and chaotic good? :bigsmile: (sorry couldn't resist…

plus the fact that people don't know the the medication has increased their appetite and made them overeat until after they gained a bunch of weight from it....

How could they know they were overeating if they just carried on eating when they're hungry and stopping when they're full though? People who stay a healthy weight their whole lives don't diet or count calories... all they do is that... eat when they're hungry and stop eating when they're full......... but if you do that,…

women are supposed to gain a certain amount of fat when pregnant, which is to support breastfeeding. Some women lose that fat easily while breastfeeding - others don't lose it until they stop breastfeeding. Others don't lose it at all, or need to diet in order to lose it. The body basically becomes a life support machine…

there are quite a few people who've never been obese because they have always had a good natural ability for portion control, i.e. they eat when they're hungry and stop eating when they're full. Doing this has worked for them for their whole life... so if they take a medication that increases appetite, they will just carry…

I studied that study at university.... it was presented as an example of an extremely unethical study that shouldn't have been allowed. The people participating it were put under duress to administer the electric shocks... not extreme duress, but still they were under pressure to follow orders. More timid and compliant…