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| » Northwest Powerlifting Champs Dec 9th (Go to post) | 01-12-2007 @ 00:45 | ||
ianshaw said: i think that shaw will win the 90kg class this year hes on fire hes like a wild animal wating to be let loose on stage Welcome Ian - at last! What's all this shagger business? You and Porky been getting it on? | |||
| » Northwest Powerlifting Champs Dec 9th (Go to post) | 01-12-2007 @ 00:44 | ||
Carl said: remeber our deal martin 1000 virgins Hope they're not the ones that came down from Inverness, cos if they are they ain't any more. | |||
| » TOMS TRAINING LOG. (Go to post) | 01-12-2007 @ 00:38 | ||
tbench said: Rob said: Good stuff Tom mate, looking good! I don't get why the qualifying total is only another 2.5 kilos from the 110s to the 125s.. that's an extra 15 kilos! Seems strange  yes i agree Rob i had a look at the BDFPA site and for my age group next year m2 the british record is 165 110s and 167.5 125s,quallifying is the same diff 125 110s 127.5 125s so i dont see the point in trying to lose the weight If you do, you'll be lifting against guys two stones lighter, plus you can go up a weight in the British but not down. You're just reducing your options and lifting against bigger guys. Plus a bit of weight loss is part of the discipline of the sport. I seem to remember it used to be a good challenge when I was a mere youth in my 40s! | |||
| » A Quiz... Of Sorts! (Go to post) | 01-12-2007 @ 00:32 | ||
Post Edited: 01.12.2007 @ 00:35 AM Without getting too heavy here, the dog warden service is part of the council's Environmental Services department. Council's exist to provide services, not to make a profit. Their principal income is tax revenues, made up of central government subsidy (80%) and council tax (20%). I already pay £1500 a year in council tax and Christ knows how much in other direct and indirect taxes. I have no objection in principle to making some payment, but not an exploitative amount extorted from me under extreme pressure.Rick, I think you were missing my main point, which was not that a £10 a day kennelling fee was unreasonable but that they would have taken my dogs there even although they had identified the owner if I had not been in a position to pay £140. This time last year, I was living on £10 a week and would not have been able to pay that. Do you think it reasonable in these circumstances that my dogs would have been taken somewhere and put up for rehoming? Rob, I'm getting into writing as a secondary source of income, so I would write any article myself and try and sell it as a freelance. You remember right about the older pup running off one night last week. As she matures, she's getting more of a wanderlust, because she's very wolflike in character as well as appearance. Previously I could just let them out into the garden, but now I don't any more. I was with them when she ran off. Now she goes on a lead before I open the back door! We'll just have to agree to disagree about what's a reasonable return fee, I guess, but it's been useful to get a range of reactions. Thanks for them all. On the silver linings from clouds front, it's given me a great source of after dinner material based around councils using the mafia as contractors for various services. I've already got about 10 minutes material and rising out of it. PS - It happened in daytime. I don't think the council operates a 24 hour service, but there might be an on call requirement on staff. I reckon they pay a dog warden £5 to £10 an hour, so recovering my dogs would have paid her salary for at least two days. | |||
| » Joe The Terrible's Stink'in Log (Go to post) | 30-11-2007 @ 19:57 | ||
| Very impressive, Joe. Looks like there's plenty more there. (Easy for me to say, I know!) | |||
| » WOODY ALLEN SYNDROME (Go to post) | 30-11-2007 @ 19:49 | ||
| Tonight's stuff... Dips Machine - 3 sets of 10 with 10 plates; 2 sets of 10 with 12; 1 set of 10 with 15; 1 set of 10 with 18. Triceps Pressdowns - sets of 10 with 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Hammer Curls - sets of 10 with 10s, 12.5s, 15s, 17.5s and 20s Cardio - 35 minutes for 527 calories output. Ab Roller - 3 sets of 20 DB Curls - 3 sets of 20 with 7s. Got a good burn off the triceps work. Backed off last set of pressdowns because there was just a little twinge where I had my golfers elbow. Not getting that again for the sake of a set of pressdowns! Nice solid cardio session. First time on ab roller in about 2 years! And didn't it tell? First "proper" curls in a long time - just nice and light and get the muscles working again, but no golfers elbow twinges which was fantastic. Btw there are two reasons I'm going to do curls - to help fill out the arms of the bench shirt and give me a bit more; and to impress drunken girls less than half my age on Friday nights. You need to do things like that when you haven't got a tongue like a goat. | |||
| » Life is like a box of Chocolates (Go to post) | 30-11-2007 @ 19:37 | ||
JC said: would have to become one fat f**k to get to 100KG+, as Im only 5ft 8" So when are you going to tell Clive Henry this? | |||
| » TOMS TRAINING LOG. (Go to post) | 30-11-2007 @ 19:35 | ||
| Very impressed by these. Looking spot on, Tom! | |||
| » It (Go to post) | 30-11-2007 @ 13:50 | ||
Long and impressive!! Interesting. I'd have guessed from MT posts that they'd have been goat-loving women. You live and learn. | |||
| » A Quiz... Of Sorts! (Go to post) | 30-11-2007 @ 11:35 | ||
IainKendrick said: I think charging is unacceptable in principle. What if you couldn't pay? Even worse is increasing payments, what a mounts to a fine, when you don't pay straight away. I would be overwhelmingly relived that my dogs were safe. Then very, very, angry they where being held to randsom. That absolutely sums up my feelings, Iain, only rather more concisely! | |||
| » A Quiz... Of Sorts! (Go to post) | 30-11-2007 @ 11:27 | ||
| You're right Andy. The overwhelming emotion is relief! Just checked out the "charging scheme" and the cost goes up £10 per day per dog. Part of my point is the "charge" bears no relationship to the actual costs incurred. So if we accept £140 because the relief should override anything else, why not £240, or £420? Or £1000? The principal remains the same. I actually would have paid £1000 if they'd been dognapped, but that doesn't excuse a council from basically operating a stealth tax. | |||
| » Northwest Powerlifting Champs Dec 9th (Go to post) | 30-11-2007 @ 10:56 | ||
| Joe the Terrible mano a mano with the Shagger. Will the man on the mike be able to control himself? | |||
| » A Quiz... Of Sorts! (Go to post) | 30-11-2007 @ 09:47 | ||
little_a said: Tough one this. Both my pups are chipped. Stupid fee or looking round on your own for them in all hours? Not a clue about the fee though, or the legality. Dogs are legally property. The warden has found and returned your property. Andy, I hadn't a clue what to do on the looking for them front. I had a brief look nearby. Do I wait for them to find their way back? Or do I look for them (where?!), they come back to a locked house when I'm looking and then run off again? | |||
| » A Quiz... Of Sorts! (Go to post) | 30-11-2007 @ 09:45 | ||
| And the answer is... £140. I'm not blaming the dog warden. She was great and only did her job. I was very grateful to get them back David. That doesn't mean I can't be outraged at what the council charges for a service. £70 a dog and I got charged twice. A couple of interesting issues arise, which I plan to contact the council about. I feel like a victim of extortion. "Give us £140 or you'll never see you dogs again. And the longer you wait, the more you'll pay" (which was the implicit message if not the specific words from the woman that phoned me) feels like the mafia has taken over the local authority. What if I hadn't had £140 there and then? As Thing says, the dogs are my property and were chipped. Does the council have a right to deprive me of property which it knows is mine if I don't pay an on the spot fine, because that's what it really is? Where is the wit to differentiate between habitual strays that cause a nuisance and a couple of chipped puppies that have never escaped before. Not saying I'm not grateful to have them back; not saying I shouldn't have to pay something for the ssrvice that returned them; just criticising the cost and the "pay us or you won't get your dogs back" approach. This might be a local papers job if I don't at least get £70 back because charging twice for one job is outrageous. Watch this space! | |||
| » Hayden v Carl (Go to post) | 30-11-2007 @ 00:02 | ||
| Have you two lovebirds ever actually met? | |||
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