Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
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yellowjack said:
...and to be serious for a moment. I ride about 150 miles a week, going on the last couple of months' averages. Sometimes I exercise for 8 hours in a day. I eat a diet that is borderline healthy, with a few too many takeaways if I'm honest with myself. I'm down from an all-time worst weight of nearly 16 stone (after depression and half a year recovering from a serious injury) to near 11 stone. Other than starving myself (NOT 'healthy' BTW) there's no way I'm losing much more weight at all. So for that reason I'm firmly in the "BMI is far too simplified, and flawed" camp. The print-out I got at last weigh-in says I'd be within the "Healthy" range if I weighed 8 stone. WTF??? I was naturally skinny as a teenager and still struggled to keep below 8st 11lb to make my boxing weight. In the end I had to give in and move up from Bantamweight to Lightweight. 8 stone = healthy? 
I agree. I've lost a lot of weight recently, and am still near the upper limit of what the NHS have as my "healthy" weight, yet when my mother last saw me a few weeks ago she said I looked drawn and asked me to stop dieting and accused me of being anorexic, FFS! For the record, I'm 5'8", medium build, and weigh 11 stone.
yellowjack said:
The print-out I got at last weigh-in says I'd be within the "Healthy" range if I weighed 8 stone. WTF??? I was naturally skinny as a teenager and still struggled to keep below 8st 11lb to make my boxing weight. In the end I had to give in and move up from Bantamweight to Lightweight. 8 stone = healthy?
Are you really short?8 stone = 51kg, let's say a healthy BMI is 22.5.
sqrt(51/22.5) = 1.50m... so are you less than 5ft tall?
Shaoxter said:
yellowjack said:
The print-out I got at last weigh-in says I'd be within the "Healthy" range if I weighed 8 stone. WTF??? I was naturally skinny as a teenager and still struggled to keep below 8st 11lb to make my boxing weight. In the end I had to give in and move up from Bantamweight to Lightweight. 8 stone = healthy?
Are you really short?8 stone = 51kg, let's say a healthy BMI is 22.5.
sqrt(51/22.5) = 1.50m... so are you less than 5ft tall?
A BMI of 22 would have me weighing about 9st 9lb.
To be honest, I've no interest in BMI anymore. I'm getting older, but still getting quicker on my bicycle over routes I've ridden regularly for years. My resting heart rate and blood pressure are very good, and I can keep plugging away all day if I want to. So even if I put weight on, I'd keep on "kidding myself" that I'm healthy. Because I am healthy. I'll start to worry when my pace slows or I struggle to ride a hilly century without specific training/preparation.
yellowjack said:
My BMI is (was at last weigh-in) 26.5
Laughably I was offered "healthy lifestyle advice" by the clinically obese practice nurse at the GP surgery.
FYI love, I ride about 6,000 miles a year on my bikes, race mountain bikes, and wear 30" waist skinny jeans and even need a belt with those. At 23% body fat I'm pretty happy with how I look in Lycra shorts, thank-you-very-much.
Now, nursey, if you'd like to "swish-swish" on down that corridor again with your big old thighs rubbing together in those oh-so-sexy nylon trousers with the elasticated waistband straining fit to burst, I'd be ever so grateful...
...and to be serious for a moment. I ride about 150 miles a week, going on the last couple of months' averages. Sometimes I exercise for 8 hours in a day. I eat a diet that is borderline healthy, with a few too many takeaways if I'm honest with myself. I'm down from an all-time worst weight of nearly 16 stone (after depression and half a year recovering from a serious injury) to near 11 stone. Other than starving myself (NOT 'healthy' BTW) there's no way I'm losing much more weight at all. So for that reason I'm firmly in the "BMI is far too simplified, and flawed" camp. The print-out I got at last weigh-in says I'd be within the "Healthy" range if I weighed 8 stone. WTF??? I was naturally skinny as a teenager and still struggled to keep below 8st 11lb to make my boxing weight. In the end I had to give in and move up from Bantamweight to Lightweight. 8 stone = healthy?
I've read somewhere that KFC offers discounts for the NHS staff. I'll just leave it here.Laughably I was offered "healthy lifestyle advice" by the clinically obese practice nurse at the GP surgery.
FYI love, I ride about 6,000 miles a year on my bikes, race mountain bikes, and wear 30" waist skinny jeans and even need a belt with those. At 23% body fat I'm pretty happy with how I look in Lycra shorts, thank-you-very-much.
Now, nursey, if you'd like to "swish-swish" on down that corridor again with your big old thighs rubbing together in those oh-so-sexy nylon trousers with the elasticated waistband straining fit to burst, I'd be ever so grateful...
...and to be serious for a moment. I ride about 150 miles a week, going on the last couple of months' averages. Sometimes I exercise for 8 hours in a day. I eat a diet that is borderline healthy, with a few too many takeaways if I'm honest with myself. I'm down from an all-time worst weight of nearly 16 stone (after depression and half a year recovering from a serious injury) to near 11 stone. Other than starving myself (NOT 'healthy' BTW) there's no way I'm losing much more weight at all. So for that reason I'm firmly in the "BMI is far too simplified, and flawed" camp. The print-out I got at last weigh-in says I'd be within the "Healthy" range if I weighed 8 stone. WTF??? I was naturally skinny as a teenager and still struggled to keep below 8st 11lb to make my boxing weight. In the end I had to give in and move up from Bantamweight to Lightweight. 8 stone = healthy?
Ordering something online to then find out, a few days later, that they are out of stock, after they have already despatched and delivered the rest of the order, but the rest of the order was only a couple of small items to bring the total into the threshold for free delivery.
So having ordered items to give as a gift to the friends I am seeing this weekend, being told that my order is accepted, paid for, and then today confirmation it is delivered. Opening the box - the main items are missing. Then later getting the explanatory email that these items were out of stock, and are now discontinued! OK, I've got a couple of bits,but for f
ks sake its the rest of the order I actually need and if you'd told me 3 days ago you were out of stock I would have ordered them elsewhere and cancelled my order!
Grr! I now have to find something else, at very short notice, and hope it is on Amazon Prime or similar, so that it gets delivered before I leave tomorrow to see said friends..
So having ordered items to give as a gift to the friends I am seeing this weekend, being told that my order is accepted, paid for, and then today confirmation it is delivered. Opening the box - the main items are missing. Then later getting the explanatory email that these items were out of stock, and are now discontinued! OK, I've got a couple of bits,but for f
ks sake its the rest of the order I actually need and if you'd told me 3 days ago you were out of stock I would have ordered them elsewhere and cancelled my order!Grr! I now have to find something else, at very short notice, and hope it is on Amazon Prime or similar, so that it gets delivered before I leave tomorrow to see said friends..
Craft, not crafts, is the plural of craft !
That is all
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popeyewhite said:
yellowjack said:
and wear 30" waist skinny jeans and even need a belt with those. At 23% body fat I'm pretty happy with how I look in Lycra shorts, thank-you-very-much.
And you weigh 11 stone? Are you triangular?Car buying time wasters, offering 57% of advertised price, then when accepted they ask if it can be delivered too. When given a delivery price they knock it down and say cash on the car's arrival, rather than commit anything upfront to cover delivery/time costs.
Just how much of a deal do people expect?
Just how much of a deal do people expect?
oceanview said:
popeyewhite said:
yellowjack said:
and wear 30" waist skinny jeans and even need a belt with those. At 23% body fat I'm pretty happy with how I look in Lycra shorts, thank-you-very-much.
And you weigh 11 stone? Are you triangular?
Evanivitch said:
oceanview said:
popeyewhite said:
yellowjack said:
and wear 30" waist skinny jeans and even need a belt with those. At 23% body fat I'm pretty happy with how I look in Lycra shorts, thank-you-very-much.
And you weigh 11 stone? Are you triangular?ClockworkCupcake said:
People who say or write "tix" instead of "tickets".
I can understand the lure of abbreviations but it just sounds very wky to me and annoys me beyond reason.
Never seen this one before but I'd be sharing your annoyance if I did. I can understand the lure of abbreviations but it just sounds very w
ky to me and annoys me beyond reason. On a separate note - people who walk slower than me (which when I'm in a hurry and late for a meeting is pretty much everyone) annoy me beyond reason. Mainly tourists in London, getting in my bloody way as they enjoy the sights and iconic locations and stop to 'selfie' themselves every 10m or so. Get out of my bloody way!
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