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awec

mfceiling wrote: »

Is the X - factor a tv series awec!!

Are you seeking acceptance for your entertainment choices mfceiling?

thomond2006

The Stanley Cup playoffs are on in Chicago when I'm there.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/chicago-blackhawks-v-tampa-bay-lightning-chicago-illinois-06-15-2015/event/04004E94E62F38A9?artistid=805913&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=9&tm_link=artist_msg-0_04004E94E62F38A9

I'm guessing I won't get near a ticket right? :pac:

I can't believe how they actually allow official touting for US Sports tickets. It's mental.

Buer

thomond2006 wrote: »

I can't believe how they actually allow official touting for US Sports tickets. It's mental.

Not really....touting is the ultimate expression of capitalism!

thomond2006

Buer wrote: »

Not really....touting is the ultimate expression of capitalism!

Hmm...good spin I suppose.

I look forward to explaining to my American relatives how evil it is.

awec

thomond2006 wrote: »

The Stanley Cup playoffs are on in Chicago when I'm there.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/chicago-blackhawks-v-tampa-bay-lightning-chicago-illinois-06-15-2015/event/04004E94E62F38A9?artistid=805913&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=9&tm_link=artist_msg-0_04004E94E62F38A9

I'm guessing I won't get near a ticket right? :pac:

I can't believe how they actually allow official touting for US Sports tickets. It's mental.

you might get a ticket if you're willing to splurge thousands of dollars.

thomond2006

awec wrote: »

you might get a ticket if you're willing to splurge thousands of dollars.

Or I could get tickets for all the boardsies for.......






ONE MILLION DAWLORS.

molloyjh

pickarooney wrote: »

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

I laughed. And then I thought "why doesn't the lazy f-er just, you know, go outside and buy the DVDs from a shop?". And then I realised simultaneously how ridiculous the modern digital age has become and how old I am for thinking that.

Mad Max Fury Road is an absolutely ridiculous film.

It's completely brilliant and unique, but totally ridiculous in a way that makes ridiculous a good thing.

I saw it, and had someone ask me what I thought and I said I loved it, but it's like the wasteland apocalypse complete opposite to a Bourne film. Jason Bourne, is direct and quick, he sees a problem and deals with it fast.

Mad Max Fury Road deals with problems by addressing them in stupendously and illogically violent ways and it's magnificent.

It's also an incredibly difficult film to predict. It just doesn't follow any kind of recognisable narrative archetype. Or at least if it does, it does it in an unrecognisable fashion.

Totally recommend, go see it on the biggest screen you have and bring plenty of unhealthy shjte.

CatFromHue

It really is a Mad film.

As you say it's ridiculous but the gimme more ridiculousness!

P_1

May have left it too long between gym visits, 5k on the exercise bike and 1k on the rowing machine and I'm bushed

Wang King

P_1 wrote: »

May have left it too long between gym visits, 5k on the exercise bike and 1k on the rowing machine and I'm bushed

Fat bastard here is doing 16k

Zzippy

P_1 wrote: »

May have left it too long between gym visits, 5k on the exercise bike and 1k on the rowing machine and I'm bushed

Great to be back though, eh!
I did a long cycle on Sat after a good layoff and the last few kms were torture, could hardly stand when I got home, but felt so much better for it later

P_1

Zzippy wrote: »

Great to be back though, eh!
I did a long cycle on Sat after a good layoff and the last few kms were torture, could hardly stand when I got home, but felt so much better for it later

Yeah it'll take a bit of getting re-acclimatised, just annoyed at how unfit I've let myself get tbh

awec

Zzippy wrote: »

Great to be back though, eh!
I did a long cycle on Sat after a good layoff and the last few kms were torture, could hardly stand when I got home, but felt so much better for it later

How long did you go?

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Mad Max Fury Road is an absolutely ridiculous film.

It's completely brilliant and unique, but totally ridiculous in a way that makes ridiculous a good thing.

I saw it, and had someone ask me what I thought and I said I loved it, but it's like the wasteland apocalypse complete opposite to a Bourne film. Jason Bourne, is direct and quick, he sees a problem and deals with it fast.

Mad Max Fury Road deals with problems by addressing them in stupendously and illogically violent ways and it's magnificent.

It's also an incredibly difficult film to predict. It just doesn't follow any kind of recognisable narrative archetype. Or at least if it does, it does it in an unrecognisable fashion.

Totally recommend, go see it on the biggest screen you have and bring plenty of unhealthy shjte.

I swear that film brought me out of a mini-depression. I missed work for a week due to a very heavy session that turned into sickness, also had a funeral in the middle of all that so I was really low. I saw Mad Max at the tail of it. Its the best action film I've seen in the cinema for as long as I can remember. As embarrassing as it sounds, it really lifted my spirits and brought me back to reality.

Reams of ****e has been ploughed out into the cinema for years calling themselves action films. You just know before seeing them they're gonna be rubbish (San Andreas). Not Mad Max. It starts off with him being chased and it doesn't let up. So simple yet so effective.

.ak

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Mad Max Fury Road is an absolutely ridiculous film.

It's completely brilliant and unique, but totally ridiculous in a way that makes ridiculous a good thing.

I saw it, and had someone ask me what I thought and I said I loved it, but it's like the wasteland apocalypse complete opposite to a Bourne film. Jason Bourne, is direct and quick, he sees a problem and deals with it fast.

Mad Max Fury Road deals with problems by addressing them in stupendously and illogically violent ways and it's magnificent.

It's also an incredibly difficult film to predict. It just doesn't follow any kind of recognisable narrative archetype. Or at least if it does, it does it in an unrecognisable fashion.

Totally recommend, go see it on the biggest screen you have and bring plenty of unhealthy shjte.

Easily the best bit of action cinema in a long, long time. Revived cinema as a medium to be honest, those wide angle pan shots are drool worthy.

Swiwi.

Speaking of films...plug for the NZ film "What we do in the shadows". If you like black comedy (which I do) it's pretty enjoyable.

Edit: First 6 minutes here

Swiwi.

Swiwi. wrote: »

Speaking of films...plug for the NZ film "What we do in the shadows". If you like black comedy (which I do) it's pretty enjoyable.

Jemaine Clement!

Stheno

P_1 wrote: »

May have left it too long between gym visits, 5k on the exercise bike and 1k on the rowing machine and I'm bushed

I decided I was going to get fit about six months ago with the help is a gym bunny friend

After a few yoga classes which were fine, they suggested I do a trx class, which I got through fine

But sweet suffering Jesus, for about a week after I walked like a cowboy, and cried when needing to go to the toilet as any squatting motion was agony

Never again

sullivlo

Stheno wrote: »

I decided I was going to get fit about six months ago with the help is a gym bunny friend

After a few yoga classes which were fine, they suggested I do a trx class, which I got through fine

But sweet suffering Jesus, for about a week after I walked like a cowboy, and cried when needing to go to the toilet as any squatting motion was agony

Never again

I had to walk down the stairs backwards after trx

Stheno

sullivlo wrote: »

I had to walk down the stairs backwards after trx

Bizarrely with a dodgy knee stairs were fine

I've a friend who took it up and resorted to disabled loos in work for the handles

Just talking about it is painful, it was my legs from hip to knee that literally burned for a week

Worst DOMS ever

.ak

.ak wrote: »

Easily the best bit of action cinema in a long, long time. Revived cinema as a medium to be honest, those wide angle pan shots are drool worthy.

Yeah it's something.

Films in the 80's and early 90's had started to get a little cheap and conveyor belt'y but the way they were shot still projected something sensory that has been discarded and missed especially when a film needed a bit of wonder to carry it along.

Have a look at a film called Raw Courage (many of you may remember it from childhood and its on youtube) which is exactly the type of cinematography that carries an otherwise poor film.

Zzippy

awec wrote: »

How long did you go?

When I say "long" I really mean I was in the saddle for a long time* (by my pitiful standards) but my distance was too embarrassing to mention here.

*(just under 3 hours)

Doing an 80k charity sportive next week, looking to do a few longer ones later in the summer. Need a lot more rides to build up to that

RuggieBear

I'm off to watch a few mates run a 10k next sunday morning...i'm bringing a picnic.

.ak

Stheno wrote: »

I decided I was going to get fit about six months ago with the help is a gym bunny friend

After a few yoga classes which were fine, they suggested I do a trx class, which I got through fine

But sweet suffering Jesus, for about a week after I walked like a cowboy, and cried when needing to go to the toilet as any squatting motion was agony

Never again

That means it's working. Embrace it!

I long for those pains. Means you're getting somewhere... (or you're not stretching properly!)

Love the doms.

mfceiling

RuggieBear wrote: »

I'm off to watch a few mates run a 10k next sunday morning...i'm bringing a picnic.

*high five*

Heading on holidays in the middle of August. Can't see me having the beach body by then. Lucky I'll be mostly by the pool or walking around small Italian villages...

b.gud

Stheno wrote: »

I decided I was going to get fit about six months ago with the help is a gym bunny friend

After a few yoga classes which were fine, they suggested I do a trx class, which I got through fine

But sweet suffering Jesus, for about a week after I walked like a cowboy, and cried when needing to go to the toilet as any squatting motion was agony

Never again

I've been doing TRX twice a week now for a few week and while it's an absolute killer in terms of pain at times, I find it really good.

I didn't get the sore legs, but that's because I'd been building up my leg strength for a while before that to help with a knee injury. I do remember though something like that happening to me before when I started working out for the first time in a long time a year or 2 ago. I did a kettle bells class and like you I couldn't walk for a week had to take the elevators at work and everything I never felt pain like it. If you want to get back to TRX try working squats, with some weight if you can, into your workout for a while and it'll build up your legs and you'll be better able to manage the leg work part of TRX. For me I struggle with the upper body part more so so I've started to add more of that into my non TRX workouts to help build muscle

Clearlier

RuggieBear wrote: »

I'm off to watch a few mates run a 10k next sunday morning...i'm bringing a picnic.

Watching is good but picnics taste even better after running a 10k!

.ak

Clearlier wrote: »

Watching is good but picnics taste even better after running a 10k!

So do kebabs.

Zzippy

So do pints! I win...