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Nitpicking someone's form does not prove your point. People have to learn form and it's a process that takes time and practice. It doesn't matter whether you start barbell training with a 10lb barbell or whether you do machine exercises until you can handle a 100lb barbell - the first time you start barbell training,…

I handled dumping a barbell on the floor (rubber plates) and the "roll of shame" as a beginner. It's easy, you just look up how to do that. There's a first time for everything, for everyone. You don't need to be experienced to learn how to do these things. No-one's experienced the first time they do anything. And to…

yes. basically a foetus up to the age of about 14 weeks gestation will develop the same way, whether male or female, and all the parts are there, just in an androgenous, undeveloped form. If it has a Y chromosome, this causes it to start to develop as a male. The absence of a Y chromosome it develops into a female. Males…

Seems to me that there are a bunch of underlying issues and it's not really so much about the lice incident at all, i.e. this family being condescending to you on a regular basis. If it was me, I'd stop socialising with that family. I'd not make any kind of big deal over it, just slowly back out of the situation, as in…

I think it's a good idea that you asked :) Hope you got some useful answers :)

How is head lice even remotely comparable with TB? One is a harmless, albeit annoying, insect that can easily be killed with shampoo treatments from the pharmacy, the other is a killer disease of which there are several strains that are resistant to antibiotics.... I'm with you on the TB scare thing, but head lice are just…

I think the one that's paranoid about the lice is excessively paranoid, given that headlice are harmless, albeit a nuisance. they're easily treated so there's no need to cancel an event over fears of it. That strikes me as an excessive fear of something that her kids are going to pick up sooner or later, frankly. How's she…

well you could argue that shaving (or trimming the shape of the beard) and wearing deodorant and manscaping is dishonest for the same reasons, i.e. unless you see him looking like a wild-haired, unwashed caveman he's being dishonest... I mean it's obvious that a woman's wearing make-up, and if he doesn't know that a bra…

Fibre doesn't give you calories so it's not mentioned in the macro percentages, as in you'll get something like 40% carb, 30% fat, 30% protein (for example) - the percentages are percentages of *calories* not volume/quantity of food. So fibre isn't being excluded - high fibre foods will contain a small number of calories…

Humans are apes. The only reason why we're not currently classified as such is human bias and vanity. An unbiassed classification system would classify humans as apes. Yes, you,,,, you reading this. YOU are an ape.

you need to see a doc about whether you're recovered enough from your c-section. The main thing is to check that the ab muscles have come together again, and that there are no complications and everything's healed up right. It can take a while to recover from a c-section - it's major abdominal surgery. I've had 2…

Try playing ice hockey. Or maybe don't if you're sensitive to smells. I had a team mate who never aired her kit for a whole season. I always considered stinky body odour and kit odour to be something that happens when you play sport and that's why you take a shower afterwards.

Granted, you now live in the arctic where insurance premiums are really low and you even get a discount for keeping your Lamborghini in its own special garage igloo. I wish I could get free Indian food delivered to my door.

Here's a spaceship that can fly almost at the speed of light. Due to special relativity, you can fly at top speed in the spaceship and extend your day as long as you like. Unfortunately when you return to Earth, you find that two or three million years on Earth have passed and that humans have gone extinct and the dominant…

Granted. You love living in the city so much you can't imagine living anywhere else. But then your company relocates you so you're working in the countryside, and you miss the city so much you become suicidal, but there's no chance of relocating back again. I wish I had a pack of dragons that did my bidding.

probably they'd need to have invented nuclear warheads before they could be any threat to humans. I've always considered that if there is intelligent extra terrestrial life that have enough technological capabilities to find Earth out there, that they'd take one look at us and go "OMG bipedal apes with nuclear weapons!!!"…

Granted. Here's a 1971 matchbox toys model of a HemiCuda. I wish I could go out for a proper British fish n chips supper right now. On the seafront.

Granted. You now have a professional chef. Unfortunately he's a total food snob and rolls his eyes every time you ask him to cook normal dishes, and he acts like the dying swan when you put ketchup on your meal, and he refuses to do your steak the way you like it, it has to be done the way he thinks that kind of steak…

Actually it's nothing like a peacock's tail. Peacock's tails are hard to explain in evolutionary terms - it's more of an advert for good genes, as in if it can survive with a ridiculously big and pretty tail which has no evolutionary advantage and is probably a hinderance to survival, it can't have that bad genetics in…

ADHD (as in the actual condition, not in children whose symptoms mimic it due to a lack of free play or whatever) is not caused by anything in the diet or cured by the removal of it. That said, it is an overdiagnosed condition, and some kids diagnosed with it don't actually have it and are very likely to be helped by…

I don't think that's any reflection of their cognitive abilities though.

at what? 1 to 1 unarmed combat my money's on the chimp (assuming it's an adult male) cognitive tasks - well it depends what it was. Most tasks the Offensive Lineman should outperform the chimp.

^^^ this, plus the fact that a child in this situation has *no* control over the situation, and having no control over what's happening to you makes the impact of stress much greater. Simply punishing the child for what is a manifestation of anxiety, and not bad behaviour, is going to increase the stress on the child, and…

^^^ this too The calorie goals on this site are only appropriate to fully grown adults. They don't include calories needed for growth in children and adolescents. 1200 calories a day is inadequate for most adults. It's very inadequate for adolescents, who usually need more calories than adults due to growing and developing.

^^^^ this it sounds like a normal breakfast to me. I'd suggest adding more protein to the breakfast to make it more filling. E.g. an egg or something or even some meat or fish. If you're removing dairy from your diet for whatever reason, you need to replace the nutrients you get from it, in this case protein would be the…

Granted - you now have a genetic mutation that stops you from storing fat. Unfortunately, the planet is gripped by a huge famine, and you are the first to die because you have no fat stores to sustain you. I wish I had my mum's recipe for scones.

Granted. The rotation of the earth has now slowed down and each day is 70 hours long. Unfortunately, a year is still the same length, so there are now far fewer days in a year, but the same amount of work has to be done, so now everyone has to work 30 hour days. I wish I had a nice cup of earl grey tea.

You don't need to drink so much water that you're constantly visiting the bathroom. If your urine is clear or pale you don't need any more water. Drinking more than you need has no health benefit, and needing to use the bathroom during lesson times is a huge PITA you can do without. How much you need depends on how much…

I think gorillas do very well in nature in spite of being generally less able than chimps, bonobos, humans and orangutans.

If you're doing the MFP default method, then you should log your exercise and eat back exercise calories, as the calorie goal already has your deficit built in. If you find that the calorie burns given by the MFP calculator are excessive, then only eat back 50-80% of the exercise calories (depending on how excessive you…