Understadable, it can be challenging! My advice, other than to keep at it long term, is don’t stress about doing it ‘right’! The best thing is to have that regular exercise in your life. It doesn’t matter if you have on-off spells, just focus on getting yourself going again after the off spells and make a routine if that fits your personality.

Don’t count calories as a way to see if your doing well enough (it can be handy for some people to do as a means of organising their health drive though), and don’t judge your achievement on your weight - muscle weighs more than fat so be sure to take that into account if you do weigh yourself regularly. If you need a measure, use the amount of time spent exercising, whether light or more strenuous, keeping it going will be the best benefit.

You can also be fit and healthy without being skinny, slim or toned! And lastly, try to find that exercise you can get whilst enjoying yourself.

Hope I’m not teaching you everything you already know!! :)

But what came first? The jellyfish or the egg??!!

I believe the body uses up muscles (the physical muscle tissue) first when exercising. You need to exercise for over half an hour (or something like that) before the body starts using fat reserves.

I know what you mean though! If I don’t exercise for a few days and it feels like I haven’t for weeks!

Vegetable stir-fry, curry or similar should be easily do-able. There’s plenty of fresh veg that will keep long enough out of a fridge or canned asian veg is decent. Tomato or pesto pasta. Stew made with canned beef isn’t bad. Omlette.

Do you have a cool bag/box? Grab a bag of ice and you have a fridge for a few days. Even a plastic box would do the trick.

Yeah, my first thought was, isn’t Hungarian far more complex/different. Also, Icelandic is meant to be very difficult to learn too!

So do you

Oooooffff…curtesty of the IRA…

Alas I can’t find any news reports in the UK stating hundreds of thousands, that’s a really significant number of people for the UK, rather tens of thousands. Last year saw 300,000 pro Palestine protesters head to London, but it appears to be an over-‘estimation’ for this protest. Great to see people still going out in the UK though.

Paper chains around the room!

I spend too much time at my pc or driving so get lower back pain. I recently found this workout that’s really good. It’s challenging but really works well! I sometimes have to ease back a little, especially on the last part, but it still helps.

Apologies, I can’t remember how/where to get alternative YT links.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4BOTvaRaDjI&si=4FUa7oy5yxuktPVQ

Beat me too it! Blue Screen of Death - a wall that freezes and blinds all players and can only be countered by force-reboot. Found only in the most popular rpg game that’s also played by non-rpg-ers and is derised by hardcore rpg-ers!

Additonal power - Also causes infinite ping in mmorpgs

But then who are the criminals and ‘bad’ people if not those that have rejected the contract? Life is never all or nothing, so there will be times when someone will abide by the contract, for whatever reason, and times when they wont. This discussion centres on the times that they don’t and assumes that is the option taken the majority of the time.

True, a society does demand sacrifice of free will, however it can be argued that there can never be 100% free will even if you’re a hermit in a cave 100s of miles from another human. E.g. “I want to stay in my cave all day today, but I can’t because I’ve run out of food.” Hunger removes the free will for that period of time.

No, I don’t believe so. Some might, but I think many do it purely for the selfish reason of avoiding guilt etc. Just because you and I and many others see it as being good for everyone, I don’t beleive that most people think the same! They may be able to describe the act of doing something for the benefit of all, just as we are discussing, and understand it, but otherwise only want whatever they want regardless of the impact on others. Humans are selfish, all of us are, it’s an evolutionary tool for survival used by all life and helps ensure the survival of the species. Some of us regularly think beyond that though, but I reckon you’d be surprised how few do with any regulatory, it can become quite tiring to constantly assess situations afresh, so instinct kicks in and so people just do what they want in that moment that takes the least effort.

Ah but is that not peer pressure? You and others don’t want your cars damaged etc and therefore critisise people who leave carts around selfishly. This then creates a scenario where people may feel guilty or wish to avoid said critisism and put the cart away as a result.

I agree that social contracts exist, but only between those who accept them and are willing to make an effort for everyone and anyone. Those that do not return the cart are in effect rejecting that contract.

I’d argue that doing something because of peer pressure is different to being taught or learning to be considerate, so what looks like considerate behaviour from the outside, may just be e.g. avoidance of guilt/judgement. It doesn’t necessarily equate to being civilized.

But the ‘test’ is peer pressure, no? Which exists permanently in real life so there will always be a portion of people only returning the cart because of that.

Well the discussion started off ok before ending in a rabies infested rant against humanity! Talk about going off the rails!

Anyhow, many people return the trolley so they don’t look bad/feel guilty. That doesn’t necessarily make them ‘good’ or ‘civilised’ and therefore fit into the ‘being forced’ category through peer pressure. Does that make them ‘animals’ and ‘savages’ too?

Phwarrr, that’s a sexy pose ;)

That’s me on the left with my sister. The cat was called Thomas. Any guesses as to the ‘pc’ ?

…it shrunk a bit…