Posts by Recusant

  • down with the kids

    I went to an old and backwards state grammar school. Not particularly harsh on the pupils and overall the behaviour was better than many of the other local schools. But we´ve all learnt to hate most traditions in all their forms! Try sitting through the pointlessness of going to Southwark cathedral to sit there for several hours to thank the guys who put money forward to build the original school in the 16th century!

  • Dramatic Olympia

    Anyone see the weightlifting? The bits I saw were a bloody shambles! The British guy got messed around by his own coach and ended up with just 7 seconds within which to make his first lift. It made me grimace as he jumped straight to it without warming up and completely put his back out. He tried again, made it worse and got stretchered off! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Then they showed us the Albanian lifter, a 16 year old boy! I really think there should be some sort of rules against training children in a sport like weightlifting. It will seriously affect a child´s growth. Anyway, the poor guy buggered up his ankle completely while dropping low to push the weights over his head. He could only shuffle off after.<img src=smilies/icon_smile_disapprove.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

  • I´m going to South Africa tomorrow...

    It´s all been said before. There´s supposed to be a pretty good police presence in the main touristy areas in Jo´burg, so you should be OK there. This might not be such a big deal anymore, but perhaps it would be best to avoid the taxis. There were big taxi wars a few years ago where cabbies from rival firms were known to open fire on each other. I´m not sure if it still goes on now. I think sw will be the best person to give you any tips. EDIT: If anything I´d say you might be in more danger while staying with your relatives. My grandparents live in Pretoria too in a WW2 veterans village. They´re supposed to have security guards manning the gates and the perimeter, but it wasn´t long ago when they were drugged in their sleep to keep them unconscious longer while they completely emptied out the house. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - Recusant on 8/17/2004 2:33:49 PM

  • Dramatic Olympia

    Every sport has its dangers, that´s what makes it fun! Let´s see what happens in the XC mountain biking; much the same idea but with added rough terrain!

  • Well...

    Does this mean the crazy hermit has given up his ways and found other things to occupy his time? What´s happening to this world? See ya Krazy Scout, keep confusing people wherever you go.

  • The Other White Powder

    At my school the snow was always a big excuse for the younger year groups to take on the 6th form. So during our free study periods we would go out onto the field. Build a huge, somewhat phallic tower and then if we had time we´d add protective walls and stock pile snowballs. Once the bell went for the end of school the hordes would spill out to come for us. This was a snowball fight of about 600 vs 200. If we caught one of them, we´d knock him over and then drag him by his hands through the snow. We called this &quot;snow-pantsing&quot; since you could fill a kids trousers with snow in about 3 seconds! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> At all costs the tower had to be protected, we took to lining the snow walls with sticks to make it harder to run them down and serial trouble makers had shoes removed and placed in snowmen! One particular fight lasted well over an hour before one kid eventually broke through and knocked down the 10 foot tower!

  • wow... is This thread smoking or what??

    I don´t mind it when people smoke at home, but it´s pretty ****ing anti-social when you force the people around you to breathe in some foul smelling crap that´s already been through your body. When I´m walking someplace, I prefer it if I´m not walking into clouds of bad smelling smoke smacking me in the face as the guy walking a few feet ahead puffs away. Non-smokers really don´t appreciate going home to find that their clothes reek of ciggie smoke and if you wear contacts, the smoke can seriously irritate the eyes when particles get trapped under. As for whether or not it truly affects your health, it seems 50-50 to me. I worked in a newsagent for 4 years, among the older cigarette customers about half of them would come in wheezing and coughing up their lungs. They´d have ragged yellow fingernails and yellow/brown teeth. Sometimes you could smell them coming before you saw them. The other half would have similarly bad teeth but at least weren´t going to die on the shop floor. So smoke all you like, just keep it out of my face.

  • History of TLR

    Maybe I´m getting mixed up but wasn´t Mad Dog a mod? <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>Question: Who you as l ´oldest member´ do you mean as longest member or physical years of living? If the latter, which it seems what you mean, that could be interesting. So, taking it that is what you mean. I shall start off by saying I doubt if I am the physical years oldest BUT should be up there at 53 years &amp; 8 months. <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> There was some guy who joined up shortly after Freelancer hit the shops who claimed to be in his late 60s or 70s. IIRC he had some trouble with using a mouse rather than a joystick due to joint problems

  • down with the kids

    It´s a little odd that they separate grungers, nu-metal kids and skaters when most people will look at them and consider them the same thing. For most people it´s a case of &quot;oh, you´re wearing baggy combat style trousers and a T-shirt, you must be a grunger. If you wear black, you´re a goth and if you where excessive amounts of burberry or sports wear you´re a townie/chav/pikey etc. That´s about all the &quot;tribes&quot; there is!

  • What´s so good about the Olympics anyway?

    I love it, all the minority sports get to come to the fore for once. About the only sport I can regularly see on TV in the UK that I actually take an interest in is rugby. I´ll be watching the kayaking (both flatwater and slalom whitewater), judo, freestyle wrestling, mountain biking and some of the swimming.

  • KAIST &lt; anyone heard of it?

    That´s odd! Oxford and Cambridge both have several open days throughout the year for different colleges and departments and faculties. And I´m sure that the American Ivy League unis are much the same. What makes KAIST that special? It´d be pretty risky just jumping into the unknown like that, hoping that it´ll be any good without having the slightest clue.

  • explains a few things...

    Didn´t we have a similar scare a few months ago? Except instead of prozac, it was oestrogen or progesterone in the urine from women on birth control pills that was making its way into the drinking water. It was supposedly reducing the sperm count of all the men in the area. Personally I think it´s just a huge conspiracy set up by a cabal consisiting of the CEOs of Evian, Vittel, Volvic and Perrier <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

  • I´m Back

    You were gone? <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> *starts running away from incoming thwacks*