spensmo.bsky.social
Musician, fundraiser, aspiring to be human
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With a good weight cut you could easily make light middle. With a severe weight cut you could do welter.
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"5 years of clean & sober parenting"
That's where you're going wrong.
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Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank buried the hatchet years ago; they're fiends. They have just watched their sons make a small fortune for a nothing fight, hyped to a gullible public on the back of a rivalry that ended years ago.
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Absolutely. And councils should quite clearly tell people to fuck off when they make complaints about long established venues, instead of pandering to them.
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True to an extent, although I think it is worth chiding people for using shops as a showroom to try stuff out, then buying the item on Amazon to save a couple of quid, and then complaining when the shop closes down. Those cunts need a good chiding.
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Surely the only people who do this are teenagers, who are already gross, unhygienic smelly bastards, regardless of any wristbands.
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Remember how as a child, summer seemed to last forever? And now as an adult, years flash by in no time at all? Yeah, that's you and popes.
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Written by someone who pulls a whitey after the second toke.
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Nah, he was a smart guy with a puerile sense of humour, who simultaneously loved pop music and thought it was beneath him.
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Both give everyone unrealistic expectations of everything and everyone, assuming they are dumb enough to believe either represents anything close to reality.
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would end up being the worst of both worlds.
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I still haven't persuaded them to watch it with me. They're teenage boys, therefore any TV that I suggest must be shit :(
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I was more interested in getting my kids opinion of it. As in, is this accurate, or is it a load of tosh, and just the latest in a long line of moral panics* (* Rock and Roll, Television, radio etc.)
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The hardest bit is that not only is it barely appreciated, but sometimes it's actively resented.
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No, it isn't.
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British people hate paying tax, and vote for parties that promise to cut them. British people like giving to charities, because it makes them feel good about themselves.
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Because they wouldn't get funded properly, and they'd be subjected to all the same tedious analysis as regular ambulances, resulting in taxpayers whining that they don't want to pay for the "wrong" people to be saved and services being more reluctant to send them out in emergencies
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also, that's not evidence, that's an anecdote
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Jon Pall Sigmarsson was. But anyway, you said "lifting weights to build muscle" and that isn't exclusive to bodybuilding. MMA fighters don't lift weight to lose muscle, do they?
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Definitely not a bodybuilder. Lifting weights stimulates muscle growth and increases strength. Not everyone has a physical job, and lifting weights is a good substitute. And so far the worlds strongest man hasn't been won by a full time scaffolder. Strongmen, wrestlers, boxers, all lift weights.
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I'm not sure why you'd go anonymous with this opinion, unless
1. you work for a large corporation
2. you're part of the Labour government
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Tell me how you build big muscles without "utilising" them, as you put it?
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Quite a lot of responders to this appear to think that "good parenting" means "not letting kids do stuff they enjoy". A bit of swearing and innuendo is perfectly age appropriate for teenage kids, but that doesn't stop YouTube gamers being annoying as fuck.
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My kids are in their teens, and a bit of swearing and sexual innuendo is age appropriate. But shrieking twats are still annoying as fuck...
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"appropriate" can still be annoying. Any parent who has endured Alvin and the Chipmunks can attest to that
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Yeah, I mean that's bollocks, but whatever.
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The question is, why do kids find these cunts entertaining? To anyone over 30 they're like fingernails down a blackboard, whilst having your brain hoovered out through your nose. But to kids this is the height of culture.
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You say this as if it’s a bad thing. It is fast food, its job is to be tasty and…fast. Currywurst fulfils these requirements. It is not haute cuisine, or even mid cuisine. It is dirty van at the side of the road cuisine.
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Live and Let Die was alright, despite numerous questionable stereotypes.
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Aren't you also meant to give the hoodie to a homeless guy who's the same build as you, then kill him, giving the police a dead perpetrator and leaving you in the clear?
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That’s a lot of words to say you’re a carrot wanker.
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"For all the women in the club, friendship is central to the experience."
The entire article pitches it as a place to make friends rather than a running club. There are loads of running clubs that don't get articles on the BBC, and aren't exclusive to women under 35.
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"Unless you wanted to go out drinking with your friends, there was nowhere to go and network with like-minded people,"
"She Strides has filled that void for me"
"I'm not social enough to go up to random people in the gym, "
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"I didn't really know where I was going in terms of my friendship group – everyone was spread apart,"
a running club for women under-35 is bringing people together
fitness, but also for friendship.
"It's crazy how easily you make friends,"
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It is a special place (or club) for people to meet, which is exactly what you're saying men shouldn't need. The OP is basically asking for something like this that isn't sport, craft, sex or booze related. I still don't understand what your objection is if this is your example of what he should do?
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"a running club for women under-35 is bringing people together, not just for fitness, but also for friendship"
"For all the women in the club, friendship is central"
Age, gender and activity specific, most members see it as a social experience. Exactly what you're saying men shouldn't need.
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Kind of doesn't matter anymore, because everyone else does, and the music industry is geared towards Spotify. A one man boycott won't bring back intro's or 12" mixes.
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But that was a "special place". A women only space set up to help women make friends. The OP was basically asking for something like that for men, but without sport, sex or booze. You're objecting to him asking for exactly the same type of thing you have used as an example of what he should do.
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"an icebreaker in social situations"
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And a shoulder strap big enough to fit over a normal human shoulder.
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No idea. But whoever posted this opinion obviously thinks so, and one assumes that's because the other options don't work for them. People organise these things out of need, like the link you posted for a women only running club. Why do you take issue with the idea of something similar for men?
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Liar
No one can mention underlay without making that joke, including self-employed carpet fitters.
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The point is that this happens until at some point it stops. Maybe not for everyone, but for a lot of people. Maybe they don’t have kids, or have them so late that all the other parents are 20 years younger. But at some point a lot of people stop making friends. It’s a thing.
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Not so much a "directors cut" as a "different, better director's cut". The prequels demonstrated that Lucas might be good worldbuilder and ideas man, but he's not a great director and storyteller.
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No, in general they don’t friends, they make acquaintances, especially it would seem men. Most work friendships are situational. When one person leaves the friendship ends, so when work ends (i. e. retirement) so do friendships. Same for all of those other situations you mention.
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asking for a friend?
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What does everyone else do? Generally, most people stop making new friends as they hit middle age.
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"that don't involve drinking, sport, sex or making things in sheds."
There isn't much else left if you exclude those.
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I haven't watched the full interview for context, but yeah, there's gaming and there's an insane hellscape of misogyny, homophobia and addictive behaviour. I'm guessing he's referring to the latter.
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“They spend more time online searching for direction and are falling into unhealthy alternatives like gaming, gambling and pornography,” Southgate said.
I don't think he's a fan