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    Minor complaints thread

    I have a pair of these in the press I bought to wear at my brother's wedding about 12 or 13 years ago. Are they fashionable now? I think the buckle is cool, made me feel like Bobby Shafto
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    Your Health Is Your Wealth

    No, it's shit. Hope it's not long covid you have dude
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    Happy Birthday, 7 - No tomorrow

    Happy birthday!
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    Your Health Is Your Wealth

    You could have. Mrs. egg_ is just (hopefully) coming out of yet another bout of weakness and occasional immobility, 4 years after she first had covid. Thought she was 100% better at the end of the summer last year (and at the end of summer 2022), but nope
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    Your Health Is Your Wealth

    I'd say that's for people who have more "normal" diets than you, and get fats in other ways. Doubling your olive oil intake to 3tbsp per day isn't going to do you any harm, and might do you some good I dunno how many carbs I eat a day tbh, but I aim for 25g protein with every meal.
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    Your Health Is Your Wealth

    Oh and fwiw - fat intake is required for production of hormones, and protein intake is required to maintain your muscles and stop you getting frail as you age
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    Your Health Is Your Wealth

    ... also your fat intake is very low. 1.5 tbsp of olive oil is 21g fat. It's hard to get a definite answer on the minimum amount of fat required per day, but this article says 0.25g per pound of bodyweight. If you really are 12 stone that's 168 pounds which means you're only getting around half...
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    Your Health Is Your Wealth

    @nuke terrorist - just a comment on your food intake from above. Flahavan's organic jumbo oats are 11% protein (according to the packet in my kitchen) so your 250g of gives you 27.g of protein Protein content of canned chickpeas varies a lot - in my kitchen there's a can from Tesco that's 6.7%...
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    Miscellaneous Articles You Should Read

    Is there some concrete action that someplace like Ireland can actually take? Serious question.
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    The Russian invasion of Ukraine

    In a documentary where actual real people actually really get killed?
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    Miscellaneous Articles You Should Read

    Did you read that all the way through? Reminds me of a DEI talk I attended in work, where we were informed that racism was invented by the pope in the middle ages
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    You know you're getting old....

    Her first book was about someone leaving her kid in the car on a hot day and the kid dying. I just couldn't bear the thought of reading it
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    bad reviews

    Hahaha I never liked The Arcade Fire much except for their handful of disco-y tunes
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    Poor arseholes thread

    Isn't that exactly why Guinness etc suddenly have zero beeros? I don't mind. The Guinness zero is good - they actually have it on proper draught in my local
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    Livestock fetival

    Home - Livestock Music & Arts Festival Anyone know anybody involved in this who might be booking acts?
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