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Tom Penny’s dad was our art Teacher. Looked like Tom does now but in blue cords and hush puppies.
Same voice it’s spooky. Mr Penny had similar demons to Tom, he didn’t really teach, he just created a place where kids who wanted to draw and paint could do so without getting harassed by the kids that wanted to headlock each other and huff their farts.One day he decided for some reason to engage the class as a whole. He took out a pencil and paper and drew a portrait of one of the girls in the class. Total silence for the half hour it took. The picture of course to our eyes was at the same level as a da Vinci or Raphael sketch.
The problem with our school was that in general the teachers were average - some cripplingly so, but the kids they were primo cunts...lord of the flies would have been a fuckin holiday
@yetidamo and I were talking about both Penny’s last week, we skated with Tom once or twice when he was just a 12 year old ripper. He was ridiculously good then
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Ok some weirdness. I don’t feel super heavy by normal bloke standards, but a bit porky around cyclists or runners...
Last August I got gastritis/small stomach ulcer. It caused a fair amount of discomfort.
For some the discomfort stops you eating. For me it made me eat more because I’m greedy and that eating gave temporary respite from the pain.So I’m ok now meds sorted the problem, but I put on 8% of body weight. Ive had to cut out spicy food, neat spirits, ibuprofen and reduce dairy. I’ve been really struggling to shed the weight. I’ve been training more than before- just not as intensely due to winter/job/family constraints.
And for about three months nothing really to report in weight loss. Then a slow tilt in the right directionEarlier this week I had a dinner that was spicer than it was supposed to be considering the no chilli ban. I didn’t suffer any gastric problems. Two days later, I accidentally over-spiced a curry. I ate that and again for packed lunch.
Suddenly a significant lurch in weight lossIn the space of 7 days I’m 80% of the way to my usual weight.
OK from experience, my weight can lurch up or down. I’m guessing hydration & glycogen stores can move the needle on a day to day basis, but has the chilli done some kind of metabolic magic?
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I was based in Bristol (my nearest office that I visited once a month) lived somewhere else and worked all over the country.
Now I’m based in Oxford and generally work from there but live 50 miles away and work in various other locations.
It’s a thing,it’s not the dark ages where we all work in a factory at the end of our street like a caveman
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Nah they were shit....really shit
The only good thing they ever did was the video where Noel talks over their promo videos and he realises how fucking awful they were. They fucked up a perfectly decent record label, they made it ok for silly cunts to wear coats on stage, they were responsible for making live shows into punchy swaggering side eye cuntfests, they caused Brexit, they caused Cast, suddenly these music experts popped up in the pub talking earnestly about the Beatles when you know full well they were listening to Simply Fucking Red 12 months prior.
You know what? All of the above would have been ok if they could have constructed a lyric that made any Fucking sense what so ever. Instead gibberish. The cheeky girls had stronger lyrics
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