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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: travelling
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#14747 | |
Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition
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Sat on the couch all day, reading, with my leg up. Tomorrow I am going to Amsterdam with a tightly bandaged and taped ankle, I'll just use public transport instead of walking everywhere. |
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#14748 |
I see Russia!
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Alaska
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OK here is another rant, I'm tired of my family always using the ol' "big boned" theory to excuse their unhealthiness. Seriously. You aren't 60/80/100 pounds overweight because of the dreaded BIG BONES. You're carrying around those pounds because you stop at McDonalds for a sweet tea and a double cheeseburger after work 3 days a week. And you go to Starbucks every morning for your latte. And your idea of exercise is walking to the mailbox instead of driving to it. And your idea of a light snack is a bowl of ice cream at midnight. And you consider a six-pack of beer your appetizer. And at dinner you don't stop piling food onto your plate until you can't actually SEE the plate anymore.
That is my family in a nutshell, and it drives me crazy. I recently heard one of my relatives say this: "I sure wish I could wear something like that ... but I can't. I just wouldn't ever look as good in it, since I have big bones." I saw this same person eat an entire 14" pizza earlier that same day. GRR. I'm not denying that some folks have bigger bones than some others, but there is a huge difference between big bones and simple fat. You can have big bones and still be in shape. You can have big bones and still be healthy. Big bones don't make you eat takeout every night. Big bones don't make you watch 8 hours of TV instead of taking a walk. There is just no talking to them about it though. The big bones are their "get out of jail free card" for any and all situations. They never have to own up to their poor exercise and diet choices because those big bones have complete control over every decision they make ... |
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#14749 |
The Dank Side of the Moon
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Denver, CO
Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6
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It's not just your family....it's all of the U.S.A.!!!!
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#14750 |
Opsimath
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand
Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy
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Wrist watches. There oughta be a law...
My watch needs to be sent to a service center to have the battery changed. Not just a local watch shop, but the manufaturer's distribution service center. Usually there is one or two per country. They change the battery, clean and lubricate the mechanism, install a new gasket, then pressure test the unit to 200m of water. (It's a dive watch with built in computer.) This process takes a few weeks and costs a couple of hundred dollars. That's almost as much as the watch cost new! I think I'm going to go back to using pocket sundials. Stitchawl |
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#14751 | |
Professional Adventuress
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!)
Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle
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#14752 |
I'm watching you!
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ
Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis
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I am not sure I would cope with a watch that cost $1200 to repair! I could buy 3 x very good watches new for that price!
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#14753 |
↓↓ Skirt!! Earrings!!
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Georgia, USA
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We were talking the other day about how scrupulously my father had to keep his watch synchronized -- he was a railroad engineer. There was exactly one place in Atlanta they were required to take their pocket watches in for cleaning and service. Now a $9.99 quartz watch from Walmart keeps more accurate time than it did. Of course, those are throw-aways, and my father's watch has been passed down to the oldest grandson as an heirloom...
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#14754 |
The Dank Side of the Moon
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Denver, CO
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I could buy 120 of the one I have on right now just for that repair price. And those would last about 600 years at the rate I use them up.
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#14755 |
Professional Adventuress
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!)
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#14756 |
Banned
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Finally made it to Walmart.
Device: PRS 420
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If you guys keep passing it along sooner or later someone in your clan will be a watch repairman.
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#14757 | |
Grand Sorcerer
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![]() Not that you can necessarily do it, but find other measurements than weight to go by. Waist is a good one, seeing as unless your spine is a thick as a tree trunk, blaming "bones" is not going to cut it. Another is scales that measure body fat. Their margin for error isn't as small as the weight measurement, but if you're measuring high there you can't blame it on the bones either. Of course, there is the old "if you get puffed walking up a flight of stairs" measure too. For myself, strictly via BMI, I think I will be "thin" (in bodyfat percentages) at the high end of "Normal", and at the moment that's what I'm aiming for. People tell me recently how "healthy" I'm looking, and here I am knowing, and seeing in the mirror, that I've a good 9kg/20lbs to go, being most of the "Overweight" range to slog through. It's going well mostly, but a realistic view is certainly helpful (I'll review my estimation when I reach my goal...maybe I'm not as "big boned" as I think). A couple of months should put me there, going by the rate of weight loss over the last three months. Denial is a hard one to break, as you know. It takes self-realisation more than external comment. Mine was driven somewhat by strained vanity (the beach, my love, is a spot-lit stage for body image), and getting past the knowledge that even when I do become "thin", my being "big-boned" will not make it obvious to many (even, when younger, when I was a very fit cyclist and swimmer, I was still occasionally referred to as "chunky" due to my stumpy stature ![]() I don't know how you break through with others. Honest self-appraisal is hard to do, and hard to encourage. I suspect that any judgemental negativity hardens denial (at least initially. Later...?). Sorry. But the thing is, I think, if you break through with one, and they succeed, then "comparative anatomy" at your average family gathering will certainly put a large chink in the armour of the others (and enormous pride into the psyche of the successful one). Cheers, Marc (just back from a bike ride) |
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#14758 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Brisbane Australia
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Professional Adventuress
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Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!)
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#14760 |
Wizard
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Location: Brisbane Australia
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