I was afraid of flying for some time, not because I'd never flown before but because it had simply been a very long time. Then when I went on a lads holiday to Magaluf with some mates, I was absolutely terrified during takeoff because it was a very windy day, where even the pilot apologised after takeoff. And at the slightest turbulence mid-flight, I kept hearing a screaming voice in the back of my head like, "WE'RE CRASHING!!".

And then on the flight back over the Pyrenees it got shaky again, this time with no word from the pilot, until a while later when he told us that there were heavy thunderstorms over much of central and northern France that we had no way of flying around, and that things could "get a little bumpy from here on out". So I was like, we're fucked.

The plane was rattling like an empty spray can in that thunderstorm for over 45 minutes, at some point lifting one of the trolleys in the back of the plane where I was sitting a few centimetres off the ground. But we made it out, and the weather noticeably calmed down over the Channel.

After that, I was no longer afraid of flying, and I've flown many times since. It was extreme confrontational therapy, but it worked.

As a tip - when there's turbulence, keep looking at the facial expressions of the flight attendants. If they're still calm, then whatever you're experiencing is everyday routine for them, so even if it feels very scary to you, you'll probably be just fine.

My dad was an engineer as well, and worked exclusively on wings. Every time we would get on a plane for our family holidays, he would look at the wing through the window and say something to the effect of "oo I don't know about that" quietly as if to himself, just to shit my mam up.

>>6079
People look at Putin as a monster unreasonably inflicting suffering on innocents but then think nothing of hopping aboard a CO2 machine to go swimming in Spain. Hypocrites.

>>6083

That's enough, Teslalad.

How do you think your South African organic peaches got here. In mid-winter.

>>6084
I don't own a car or eat peaches.

>>6071

Could be a fun experiment.

>>6071
I think it's a very valid point. See also: Huel.

>>6073

Hoi, fuck off the pair of you. Projecting bastards. A) I'm doing all sorts of sensible healthy things and B) These supplements are primarily brain health related, at least that's what I prioritised. Immune system and general well-being were distinct second.

>>6074

I promise I just found that particular idea funny, you could well be a health nut outside of your shake, and good on you if so.

I have wondered about all the fancy *etam drugs, but personally it wouldn't be necessary for me until I actually get to doing enough cardio per week.

The amount of dried stuff is too thick to blend properly so I added more energy drink as I was out of juice. It's still surprisingly palatable. The tribulus gives it a plasticy pollen flavour I'm not keen on but I'm far from gagging as I drink.

>>5995

Fair enough. There are many ways to skin a cat, and calisthenics will certainly get you on your way. You might also consider buying some basic home equipment to get a feel for many of the exercises... if that's even possible, anymore. A great way to progress to a pullup is to buy a doorframe IronGym bar or one of the equally serviceable knockoffs, and combine it with a resistance band tied around the middle to keep your feet in. A strong band can take away a good amount of your bodyweight, 20kg or so, making the exercise easier.

Most gym exercises are similarly scaleable, and while it is a bit shit to have to start out with the empty barbell, everyone starts somewhere. It's can also be quite surprising how strength from bodyweight exercises doesn't necessarily carry over as well as you'd think. It's funny how many 100kg+ bench pressers get gassed out doing a set of 20 pushups.

But yeah, there's no harm in committing to a good bodyweight exercise programme until you're feeling a somewhat fitter and the gyms clear out a bit in March-April. The best way to get good at gym stuff, though, is to go to the gym. Finding one you like that's convenient to attend is half the battle.

>>5998
>Finding one you like that's convenient to attend is half the battle.

I think this is the absolute key point when choosing a gym - it needs to be near your home, or in the old days, your work - ideally a place you pass-by every day. If it's difficult to get to, or in a weird place, you're just going to waste your money.

>>5995
>I see it as a bit of a waste to have a gym membership when I can get the same impact from home workouts

I would say fair enough, were it true in all practicality.

>>5982

So I started this year obese with all the gyms shut, am now in the best shape of my life- started calisthenics in March and then got into the gym when it reopened. My advice is that calisthenics can be really good, but you need to know exactly what you're doing for it to be worthwhile, so I would recommend a PT, that's what I did. Not cheap of course but very worth it to set your foundation in the first few months. If you're starting from fatmode it can be quite difficult to push yourself hard enough to make progress with calisthenics.

Also, it is not a substitute for lifting weights. Calisthenics are very useful and still a core part of my routine for some things but they cannot do for your body what big fuckoff heavy metal can.

>>6001
I probably missed the most useful thing I wanted to say whoops.

Get a TRX/suspension trainer and some resistance bands, these are the key to progression. For stuff like press-ups, pull-ups etc, it's about starting with support (eg a band under your feet, starting at a more forgiving angle than the floor for pressups) and gradually removing that support as you get stronger. For example I started with pressups at around a 80 degree angle against a wall or but of furniture and now do them on the floor.

>>5976
> Anyway.

I agree with you and am much of the same person. I'm gonna die from something, I'm pretty healthy in most other ways, and like you said, I fucking ENJOY nictoine. An early morning fag, with a strong coffee, the whores breakfast, is one of the best things in the world.

>>5975

Maybe my mouth or brain is broken, but I've never habitually smoked cigarettes, yet I smoke cigars relatively often but also infrequently, and I enjoy the taste very much.

>>5975
I had 2 more cigars and they weren't bad. I have 2 left and and I'm starting to regret this whole thing as the monster in my head comes out.

Still, I'm far too tight to ever start up again. I know how much I save now and how much better my life is with that £200-odd a month in my pocket. If I don't then Purps can find me and you can all come kick the shit out of me.

>>5976
Its great that you can hop in and out but I used to tell myself stuff like this and you know it's bollocks. Learn new coping mechanisms like wanking or drawing.

>>5978
You hear of people getting lung cancer having never smoked at all though - that must be fucking heartbreaking.

i quit years ago using nicotine gum, i just chewed it all day long for about a month until all the nicotine was out my system and the cravings were gone, it was pretty easy

Cauliflower rice is fantastic. It feels similar enough to real rice and does just as good of a job at being a neutral sauce absorber for the stir-fries and curry-esque dishes I always make.

Worth the cost of getting a cheap food processor (I tried using a cheese grater but the little cauliflower bits fly around everywhere).

Is there a way to work out in advance how much weight I would lose if I did this? I have never even considered such a thing for a variety of reasons, but as I sit here with the Wuhan wheeze, I've noticed I have not eaten between meals for three full days now. I don't do any exercise either, and I basically just nap off and on, but if snack foods are so bad for me, I would expect the weight to start dropping off me soon, even though my actual meals are unchanged.

Based on guesses made by someone who doesn't give a shit and has always refused to care about these things out of principle, I would estimate my intake has gone from 3000 calories/day down to 2500 calories/day by leaving the Kit Kats in the cupboard. It's like the habit has just vanished, although I guess it will return. In terms of my size, I'm 5'8" and I weigh approximately 96kg. I can't say how many calories it burns to just live my normal life, but I usually cycle 50 miles a week to and from work, and then sit moderately still while I'm at work.

Let's say I kept this up for two weeks. Would I lose a visible amount of weight? How can I calculate such a thing?

>>5970

https://calculator-online.net/weightloss-calculator/

>>5971
Hey, I'll lose a pound a week! So if I do this all Christmas, that's 1.5kg. Thank you for the helpful website, although I can't imagine I will actually do that.

>>5970
https://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

You need to calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). Your BMR is how many calories you burn per day just living. Eat fewer than that many calories per day, you lose weight. Add some exercise calories, you lose weight.

Most people can cope with a 500 - 800 calorie deficit per day, and lose weight quickly, they just don't know how. You can then easily turn that into 2kg per month loss. Picture related, I lost almost 14kg this year.

>>5956
>she has a baggy vagina and it'll shut her little comedy club right down.
I did that and she wouldn't talk to me for 4 or 5 days.

>>5956

I quite like a slack fanny.

>>5954

Chipping in my two pence on the big knob stuff: I'm a healthy enough size and if the statistics online are anywhere near true then something something bell curve something something (make your own joke). I've been with enough women for it to have come up in conversation, but actually only two of them ever made direct comments about my size.

Both were flattering, but I didn't like it that much. It struck me as clumsy, blunt, and a bit porn-y, if I'm honest. In retrospect, it makes sense that it was the girls who seemed more sexually inexperienced that mentioned it. It was said in a "this is what they want to hear" kind of way.

It was also objectifying, like my cock is some sort of tool to get a job done, rather than sensitive sexual organ whose shape and feeling changes depending on the mood of the idiot attached to it. The key to enjoyable sex for me has always been about really wanting the person, to the point where squeamishness or judgement about their body doesn't really cross my mind. I tend to compliment the girls I'm with a lot because I'm genuinely attracted to them, and it wouldn't matter if they revealed a paunch or stretch/birth marks or whatever else. It doesn't erase the stuff that got me into bed with them in the first place. If anything, it's exciting to see the variation and experience something (someone) new.

I also do my best to be free of insecurity about stuff I have less control over. It's a bit like getting upset about face shape or height or baldness or whatever. I'm a bit indifferent to comments about these things positive or negative. The times I do distinctly remember enjoying being complimented, though, it's on things I do have some control over. I love being complimented on my general fitness and body shape, grooming, sometimes even clothes, because these are things I put a load of effort and thought into.

>>5958
I'm not sure. I like a slack fanny that's packed out with a big BG dildo, but of itself? They're sort of ugly.

>>5958
>>5960
I've tried to have an opinion on this but honestly I'm happy with any kind of fanny as long as I'm getting some.

With that proviso out the way I will say that they're usually representative of different styles, a nice tight fanny is a beautiful thing to be cherished but a looser fanny can just as easily let you go at it like a bull in a china shop all night long. But every fanny has been different so far for me, I'm just doing a broad generalisation that some women prefer a more gentle clit stimulation and some are all about the penetration aspect and as a lad with a lot of stamina that has a noticeable impact even if ultimately I prefer the feel of that first contact stretching her out.

Before you judge me about the above I have several close friends who are lesbians and when I asked them for tips it didn't sound like they really knew either.

I do once a day, regardless of exercise. More than once a day is idiotic. And I don't wash my hair in the shower every day, but I do use shower gel and shave in there every day.

I do every other day, sometimes three.

I'll say this though, I've gone weeks in the past and it's never as bad as you think it would be, assuming you're not being hugely active and/or ay least wipe your knob every now and then.

I know what you're thinking "you stank and people were too nice to tell you" no, I work with cunts, I'd have been told immediately.

>>5942

You can get away with it as long as you give your bollocks and your pits a whore's wash, and perhaps have a good Polish bath. But you definitely looked like shit, that I can assure you. People just don't tend to say anything because it's easier to ignore than if you stink of BO.

I know because I did the same when I was really depressed in a job I didn't care about, and I turned up looking like I'd just rolled in from a night sleeping rough most days. I think some people actually may have suspected that. I just didn't care.

Looking back though it's quite shameful, because these days I realise I can actually be quite handsome when I look after myself.

>>5943

I dunno, I shave my head and my skin has always been shit, so there's not much else a shower improves.

I love a nice long shower now, even when I'm depressed. I think the fancy rain head shower thingy helps.

>>5938
Oil production in animals gives them a glossy coat, for us it festers. I seem to remember reading a theory that we actually get acne because the excess oil helps lube up a babies head for birth.

Then there are Koreans who have that gene that stops them smelling so they just walk around without any deodorant on.

>>5940
>My ex and current missus always said I smell good

Maybe they just like a stinky-man though?

I don't fall for the shower-gel scam either but use a bar of soap and a proper sponge to get the grease. And stick the imperial leather stickers all over the place.

Have you considered discussing this with the health professional who approves your prescriptions?

>>5829
She told me to go cold turkey and no I'm not joking.

The half life of citalopram is meant to be about 35hours, this means that even though you go 2-3 days without a dose, there's probably a bit left in your body that's enough to prevent withdrawal symptoms starting (I discovered with sertraline -half life of about 26 hours- that the withdrawal symptoms only started after about 2-3 days after going cold turkey and were bad enough that I had to start taking it again). So I think it would be a good idea for you to try and just take a tablet every 3 days and see how you feel after a couple of weeks. Then if possible try and split the dose by half and keep on taking it every 3 days for a while.

Ultimately you can try and taper the dose down so slowly that you don't notice, or you can try and cut down until you notice withdrawal effects and just take a small enough dose to stave them off for a little longer.

The doctor has told you to go cold turkey, and she's probably right to say that the withdrawal effects aren't dangerous, but whilst not dangerous they can be incredibly unpleasant and last for weeks after you stop taking it so tapering off is better.

I tried to kill myself then threw them all in the bin.

>>5832
Glad you're still with us.
Remember to check back in over the next few days and let us know how you're doing.

>>5806
>You're just choking it down and forcing yourself to remain composed, instead of conclusively addressing anything.

To an extent, you're right, but what you're actually doing with the breathing exercises is making sure the sick never reaches your mouth. You might feel sick, but the exercises help you see that it's coming and deal with it, rather than just vomit randomly over the nearest person.

>>5806
Well, I recall watching this many years ago.

Iirc, the gist was about anger being at least partly due to incorrect expectations.

For example, you may have an expectation that your colleagues will have a basic level of competence. But as many people have found out, that's not always the case. And if you can't change that, then one has to learn to accept it to some extent.

So I think my point was that anger isn't necessarily some infallible righteous force, with external causes that must be rectified in order to quell the anger - but something that can be lessened by internal things. And maybe yoga etc could help.

>>5808
What you're describing there is really the backbone of cognitive behavioural therapy. Which works as long as you actually subscribe to it.

>>5805
And as everybody knows, the only devices it's possible to watch YouTube on in 2021 are a phone and a personal computer.

>>5810
Well the weight of a smart TV mounted to your head might be uncomfortable.

Just dab it dry with a bit of bog roll mate. Getting old innit.

Do you think you got more sensitive to the drip or did it actually get worse? As in, are you leaking post pee or are you more bothered that you dribble a bit?

I'm uncomfortably close to my 40s and noticed similar, I was quite sporty before the work-from-home times so I don't think that was the issue. There are basically no occluding muscles between your urethral sphincter and your glans, so you have a couple of inches of "dead" pipe which no amount of training or will power can empty on its own.

Lightly pinch the base of your shaft with thumb and forefinger on either side and run it up to your bellend. You can't do this at a busy urinal but it works.

I'd still mention this to a doctor which should be the policy for anything slowly knackering with time. Your theory seems off like the otherlad said, I'm not in shape at 32 and certainly not now but don't have the issue which can only be explained by all the wanking I do. Do more of that possibly?

Push down on the perineum lightly, it'll get out the last drops. Do you drink much?

It probably doesn't cause lasting problems. Someone be a pal and let me know if it does.

You know, I was actually thinking about making a thread on this exact issue myself. It's not just you lad.

I thought it was because I've been putting too much up my arse as I've gotten older and more deviant, leaving the muscles saggier and weaker, like a leather sofa you've been sitting on for ten years. But I am more rationally compelled to believe it's just age.

The mystery is why it was so much less of an issue as a younger man. What exactly has changed here, considering the fundamental anatomy is the same.

>>5668
Just because you might have a better diet than a serf in the dark ages doesn't mean it's not bad. We all probably don't get the same amount of greens as back then - when's the last time you had a hearty pottage or made horse bread?

>>5676

My point is human diets were 'never good' they were always a ham fisted 'good enough' our current health looks like it well on the way to powering quite probably millions of under 30s in the uk over the age of 100. Unless the implication is that we would live to be 200 if only we ate a bit more kale I fail to see what meaningful implications bad diet could mean that can't be patched with a few multivitamins.

If anything the biggest threat diet wise is that we eat too much not that we are eating the wrong things.

If anything thinks we've never had it so good they need to compare a bar of Cadburys now with what it was like before the takeover.

>>5678
Galaxy has always been better anyway.

>>5677
>I fail to see what meaningful implications bad diet could mean that can't be patched with a few multivitamins.

My original point was exactly that we need multivitamins. And no, on your broader point life expectancy evidently does vary wildly across the country demonstrating the continued importance of diet - this saying nothing of the years of good health.

>If anything the biggest threat diet wise is that we eat too much not that we are eating the wrong things.

People in this country have dry flaky lips and kidney stones because they don't drink enough water. This clear liquid being something that is piped into peoples homes.
74% of people have suboptimum amounts of Vitamin D with 24% outright deficient - symptoms include depression, hair loss and poor immune health. We have rising levels of rickets ffs.

>>5652
Your reading comprehension needs work, lad.

I'll take it as read that nobody is giving up pedantry for Lent then

>>5659

"You know who thinks suffering builds character? black people who grow up to be criminals."

>>5660
Is English your first language?

>>5661
Fine, whatever.

Specialist pornographers?

>>5608
I wouldn't mind seeing a vaulting horse on ultimate surrender. Maybe have some kind of death match battle on the ropes followed by aerial shagging.

>>5603

Most large scale leisure centre complexes have some sort of acrobatics related cubs that would have this stuff. They are usually really weird if you've never been in one before as you walk passed different rooms where people are training different skills and sports, you half expect to open the wrong door and find Q teaching people to using an umbrella to shoot crash dummies.


> where can i find one?
They are almost always state run so I would recommend checking council websites for leisure centres, if there is a sport stadium nearby and it seems to be more general rather than devoted to a sports team off the telly that is probably the place.

>>5603

ONE THAT'LL FIX IT FOR YOU.

>>5603
Hey it's the gym cupboard at my school. Or perhaps every school.

>>5592
effect

>>5592
U wot?

>>5593
I don't say effect, I say affect.

If the colouring of the bumper plates is standard, he's lifting a good 140kg there. An impressive squat no matter what way you slice it, especially seeing as they look on the lighter side of bodyweight scale.

>>5596
Retard strength is well documented.