Nollaig
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I just discovered that my brother has No Country For Old Men, I didn't realise he had gotten it! I LOVE this movie.
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My name is pretty elaborate. My real name is Steve but there are always loads of Steves so I just added some e's.
Pretty confusing I know. I'll explain it in more detail if anyone needs it.
This is the funny post (see 'What Are You Reading? thread if you read this first). I cracked up when I read this. It's the kinda wonderfully sarcastic thing I would say.
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You wrote a very funny one at some point, I'm sure it was you.... I'm gonna go look for it and reply to it so you know which it was.
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Has anyone read something called 'Twilight'?
I kid, I kid. I'm a tad hyper and I thought I'd find this funny. I'm giggling profusely, so I would say mission accomplished
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Those are great tips. Water is great but I have a hard time drinking it straight so I drink a lot of tea and Crystal Light.
Do you eat a lot of bread and dairy? I discovered that I was lactose intolorant about a year and a half ago and ever since I started incorporating soy products into my diet I've really noticed a big difference in my digestion. I feel healthier getting rid of all of that cheese and dairy. Every so often I'll still have some of the real stuff, but it makes me really sick to the point of not even being worth it. The veggie cheese is actually pretty good and they have pizza crust that you can make with rice flour so you can have a whole pizza that doesn't have any dairy or gluten in it. Very healthy.
Tea is bad. I used to drink a load of tea, but several people on here pointed out it's a diuretic. It makes you expel water. If you drink water, and then drink tea, you're negating the water. Tea is good for you, but it doesn't give you any water.
I eat a lot of bread with meat and salad in it, I don't have much dairy really - low fat mayo in my sandwiches and milk in my cereal. No eggs, cheese, creams, butter, anything like that.
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I have picked up some great tips though. One of the best I ever got was from Ceinwenn: drink water. Drink a LOT of water. Your body will reject the excess at first because it won't be used to it, but drink it anyway. You'll start absorbing it and it will make you feel brighter, fresher, fuller with less food. I drink up to 2 litres a day now and can't do without it.
Another good tip from Kell: cook in bulk. When you go back to your proper meals, cook a LOAD and freeze portions so it's easier to just heat one up and you don't do rushing for take outs and other easy options.
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14lbs, sorry. I'm back in the stone age still with my system of measurements. Literally.
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I tried Slim Fast. I lost nearly a stone in a couple of weeks. I came off Slimfast and ate actual (healthy) meals, and put the weight back on.
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I just went to Tesco for food and came back with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It's not safe to let me out by myself.
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This is probably actually a better idea for a thread than all the individual threads that get abandoned, including my own.
I'm not actively trying to lose weight - I'm eating healthily and so far I'm losing weight as a side effect. I'm not going to diet anymore because as soon as you come off the diet, you put weight back on without fail. You have to change your eating habits for good and due to my recent illness putting me off any kind of solid chocolate that isn't on a wafer or biscuit, I'm eating far less rubbish.
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It is, however, hilarious that you didn't find it funny, yet felt the need to put a nonsensical reply that made no point about anything at all. FYL.
Agreed
I want the Coldfire Trilogy to be made into movies! They'd be LOTR style epic, only, like, 18 certs! (If done right). I don't know who could play Gerald Tarrant. That dude's level of pure awesome succeeds that known to any living man.
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Slices of Easi-Singles cheese. I don't know why, I just had a craving for them.
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The Lost World (Jurassic Park 2)
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I love the name Mephisto! And Memphis, actually (when I was walking in Memphis, yeah with my feet ten feet off of.... okay I'll stop). And yes Vinay, his name was Mephistopheles.
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I'll be interested to hear what you think of his other book you book, Pipread
I finished The Magicians a few days ago. Not yet sure if I'll write a review - I find it harder to do so with some books, I don't know why. Though I do have quite a few thoughts on it, so maybe I will. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed it, despite it arguably going off the wall (although in a manner which, strangely, tied up nicely in the end).
I'm currently read 3 books (
); one being the ongoing Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell from which I keep finding myself distracted - I did pick it up tonight and read another 50 pages so I'm over halfway officially, and am planning to plough through to the third volume in the next couple of days (which is just under two thirds of it). I've also started, against my better organisational judgement, Norwegian Wood. *Gasp* says you all, 'you haven't read any Murakami yet?!' Well, I was always a bit slow, but I get there in the end. So far I'm about 80 pages in, and while it's alright, the main characters are rather dull and I don't really know what all the fuss is about, but maybe it will get better.
Lastly I'm working my way through Explorers by Beau Riffenburgh in association with the Royal Geographical Society. It's a colourful book full of facsimiles, similar to the Titanic one I read last year. It's very good! Not massively in-depth, but that's good for someone like me who knows little more than 'Christopher Colombus, 1492'. It covers centuries worth of explorers across every continent too.
So that's my reading activity lately.
All that on top of furiously researching vertebrate evolution from the first boney fish up until my guilty nerd pleasure, dinosaurs! I've covered a straight line from acquatic vertebrates through semi-terrestrial vertebrates through the first terrestrial tetrapod amniota through Diapsid reptiles which branched into Archosaurs whose Ornithodira sub-clave became Dinosaurs of the Late Triassic epoch. Once again:
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Ohhh okay. Thanks for the info. Now that you've made the association for me, the name rings a bell
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I'm guessing we have two Chuck Palahniuk threads because I KNOW I've voiced my opinion on his attempts to gross out and horrify. (Which is that for someone like me, not disturbed by books, that all I see is a gratuituous attempt to do the above with nothing of any depth to substantiate it, ultimately leaving me bored and disinterested.)
I'm going to hunt down the other thread and see why there are two.
ETA: There's only one Palahniuk thread, but considerable discussion about him in this thread which anyone who wanders in here might like to check out.
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I just read that again for the first time in nearly two years. Still doesn't bother me.
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What the heck is wrong with you people??
Peas are gross in ANY form.
Potatoes are delicious in ANY form.
That's the key difference.
Mushiness just ACCENTUATES the relative tasty-factor. Therefore, peas becomes more gross when mushy, and potatoes become more insanely awesome when mashed.
Ta-daaa! I just invented my own personal logic for what I like and don't like.
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Do you have shares in Kellogs?
Don't mock my addiction
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Fat free Raspberry & Cranberry Muller yoghurt, Strawberry Nutri-Grain and a cup of tea.
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Just finished The Picture of Dorian Gray. Hopefully Nollaig won't kill me but I found it quite disappointing. Sowwee
I'll let you off I suppose
I've read a bit more of Norwegian Wood but I've mostly been reading up on the evolution of vertebrate life on earth
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Mushy peas are gross. They were gross even before Reagan vomited them everywhere.
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"And if all the world was beautiful I would
Only ever wanna see your scars,
You know they can have their universe,
We'll be in the dirt designing stars.
And if all the world was smiling I would
Only ever wanna see your frown,
You know they can sail away in sunsets
We'll be right here stranded on the ground,
Just happy to be found.'
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LOL!