New Year's Resolutions
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Christian Graus wrote:
I have never made a new years resolution in my life
I have never kept a new years resolution in my life. My wife is not adverse to making resolutions for ME therefore the track record. Having given up smoking after 25 years was enough to last me for a few more years yet. Besides I enjoy the few vices I have left.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Having given up smoking after 25 years was enough to last me for a few more years yet.
What were you smoking? :~
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Christian Graus wrote:
I have never made a new years resolution in my life
I have never kept a new years resolution in my life. My wife is not adverse to making resolutions for ME therefore the track record. Having given up smoking after 25 years was enough to last me for a few more years yet. Besides I enjoy the few vices I have left.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Having given up smoking after 25 years was enough to last me for a few more years yet.
I cut down on my smoking to just having one after a meal... I'm on 20 meals a day, now! tish-boom
If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Having given up smoking after 25 years was enough to last me for a few more years yet.
What were you smoking? :~
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesI moved to Singapore - you know about their attitude to drugs here right! I do miss living in Oz
JimmyRopes wrote:
What were you smoking?
The cancerous type
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Having given up smoking after 25 years was enough to last me for a few more years yet.
I cut down on my smoking to just having one after a meal... I'm on 20 meals a day, now! tish-boom
If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
Father Christmas wrote:
tish-boom
slaps forehead nyuk nyuk nyuk 1 crisp/peanut/fingernail = 1 meal = 1 smoke
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I moved to Singapore - you know about their attitude to drugs here right! I do miss living in Oz
JimmyRopes wrote:
What were you smoking?
The cancerous type
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
I moved to Singapore - you know about their attitude to drugs here right!
Sorry for your luck.
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
I do miss living in Oz
Sorry for your luck.
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
The cancerous type
Sorry for your luck.
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Anybody have any entertaining resolutions they'd like to share? Personally, I believe new year's resolutions are a waste of time, because if you don't have the discipline to change your behavior at any other time of year, what makes you think you're going to succeed just because the calendar changes?
Continuing last years resolution which was to get in shape. I've kept at it faithfully and lost just over 30 pounds since last Feb. and have about 20 more to go. The cool part is that I've been playing ball hockey outdoors with some friends and after 15 or 20 minutes they are all gasping for breath and have to take a beer break and I'm still fresh as a daisy and want to keep playing. It's pretty easy to be the guy in the best shape amongst a group of average 40+ year olds. :)
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Having given up smoking after 25 years was enough to last me for a few more years yet.
I cut down on my smoking to just having one after a meal... I'm on 20 meals a day, now! tish-boom
If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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Anybody have any entertaining resolutions they'd like to share? Personally, I believe new year's resolutions are a waste of time, because if you don't have the discipline to change your behavior at any other time of year, what makes you think you're going to succeed just because the calendar changes?
Why we need new year's resolutions as what we are doing is wrong?? We should have daily resolution.
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Why we need new year's resolutions as what we are doing is wrong?? We should have daily resolution.
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I resolve not to make a new year's resolution. (Oh and not to try to solve DD's CCC)
If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
Actually you should, since I'm still waiting the gift I asked you last Christmas. ;P :)
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Anybody have any entertaining resolutions they'd like to share? Personally, I believe new year's resolutions are a waste of time, because if you don't have the discipline to change your behavior at any other time of year, what makes you think you're going to succeed just because the calendar changes?
I've made New Year's resolutions and stuck to them! For instance, last year I said I wouldn't reply to any forums and I've stuck to it...... DOH!
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Continuing last years resolution which was to get in shape. I've kept at it faithfully and lost just over 30 pounds since last Feb. and have about 20 more to go. The cool part is that I've been playing ball hockey outdoors with some friends and after 15 or 20 minutes they are all gasping for breath and have to take a beer break and I'm still fresh as a daisy and want to keep playing. It's pretty easy to be the guy in the best shape amongst a group of average 40+ year olds. :)
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
Congratulations! It takes a special effort to exercise regularly. I hope you make your goal!
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Anybody have any entertaining resolutions they'd like to share? Personally, I believe new year's resolutions are a waste of time, because if you don't have the discipline to change your behavior at any other time of year, what makes you think you're going to succeed just because the calendar changes?
The big thing I don't understand about new Year's resolution is why everyone makes them negatives. Surely it would be far better to come up with something like "I'm going to train to run a marathon" rather than the endless "giving up this or that". I'm quite a fan of giving stuff up, over the last 4 or 5 years I've given up: Television, smoking, drinking and meat and I feel much better for having removed each of them from my life, but in each case I've decided that I wanted to remove the thing from my life and just got on with it. It makes no sense at all to me that people will spend what must be one of the most miserable months of the year (In the UK at least, where it's cold and dark and we can't even expect snow) wishing that they could have something that they've told themselves they don't want. I'm working towards a couple of goals in the New Year and I'm sure that Jan 1 will mark the end of the Christmas period and the start of really concentrating on these things after taking a bit of a break for Christmas but I wouldn't see that as a resolution. Russ
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Continuing last years resolution which was to get in shape. I've kept at it faithfully and lost just over 30 pounds since last Feb. and have about 20 more to go. The cool part is that I've been playing ball hockey outdoors with some friends and after 15 or 20 minutes they are all gasping for breath and have to take a beer break and I'm still fresh as a daisy and want to keep playing. It's pretty easy to be the guy in the best shape amongst a group of average 40+ year olds. :)
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
John C wrote:
Continuing last years resolution which was to get in shape. I've kept at it faithfully and lost just over 30 pounds since last Feb. and have about 20 more to go.
Well done! I've been trying to shape up over the last 6 months, it's a long slow road so far but I'm definitely seeing the benefits. (still got 20-30 pounds to go though) Russell
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Having given up smoking after 25 years was enough to last me for a few more years yet.
I cut down on my smoking to just having one after a meal... I'm on 20 meals a day, now! tish-boom
If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
Many. many years ago my mother smoked a brand called 'Nelson' (UK). We always kidded her she wouldn't die of cancer but she would go blind in one eye.
Honi soit qui mal y pongs - Evil to he who thinks it stinks
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Continuing last years resolution which was to get in shape. I've kept at it faithfully and lost just over 30 pounds since last Feb. and have about 20 more to go. The cool part is that I've been playing ball hockey outdoors with some friends and after 15 or 20 minutes they are all gasping for breath and have to take a beer break and I'm still fresh as a daisy and want to keep playing. It's pretty easy to be the guy in the best shape amongst a group of average 40+ year olds. :)
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
John C wrote:
cool part is that I've been playing ball hockey outdoors with some friends
Is that anything like pocket billiards?
Honi soit qui mal y pongs - Evil to he who thinks it stinks
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I agree. I have never made a new years resolution in my life. If I want to change something, I try to change it today. And if I fail, I don't wait a year to try again. But, I'm sure most people are the same, they just see New Years as a chance to add weight to their resolution.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Christian Graus wrote:
a chance to add weight to their resolution
Oh, the irony :laugh:. It's always fun to see the latest cannon fodder in the Resolutionary War show up in my gym every year. It starts the second or third week of January, and usually lasts through March. Men and women show up, typically dressed in the mall's idea of expensive gym gear. They never know how to use the equipment and never want to be taught. I would bet half the reason they quit after a couple of months is that they've injured themselves from doing exercises improperly. There's a certain etiquette to the gym that they never adhere to. When you're done with a bench or machine, get off it and wipe it off if necessary. Put free weights back on the rack. If someone else is waiting to use the machine, offer to switch off between sets. It's not necessary to grunt and yell when you're lifting. The big one: use a spotter when you're lifting, so that we don't have to worry about cleaning up the mess when you drop the weight on yourself.
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Continuing last years resolution which was to get in shape. I've kept at it faithfully and lost just over 30 pounds since last Feb. and have about 20 more to go. The cool part is that I've been playing ball hockey outdoors with some friends and after 15 or 20 minutes they are all gasping for breath and have to take a beer break and I'm still fresh as a daisy and want to keep playing. It's pretty easy to be the guy in the best shape amongst a group of average 40+ year olds. :)
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
John C wrote:
It's pretty easy to be the guy in the best shape amongst a group of average 40+ year olds
Sounds like my world. I feel like I'm not doing enough until I look around in the store and see all the folks my age hobbling around like they're 70 (I'm 47).
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Anybody have any entertaining resolutions they'd like to share? Personally, I believe new year's resolutions are a waste of time, because if you don't have the discipline to change your behavior at any other time of year, what makes you think you're going to succeed just because the calendar changes?
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
new year's resolutions are a waste of time,
I disagree. I made a resolution, in 1976 I believe, to put more things off. I haven't got around to making any more resolutions, so I conclude that this is a very effective custom.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
modified on Monday, December 22, 2008 12:07 PM
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Christian Graus wrote:
a chance to add weight to their resolution
Oh, the irony :laugh:. It's always fun to see the latest cannon fodder in the Resolutionary War show up in my gym every year. It starts the second or third week of January, and usually lasts through March. Men and women show up, typically dressed in the mall's idea of expensive gym gear. They never know how to use the equipment and never want to be taught. I would bet half the reason they quit after a couple of months is that they've injured themselves from doing exercises improperly. There's a certain etiquette to the gym that they never adhere to. When you're done with a bench or machine, get off it and wipe it off if necessary. Put free weights back on the rack. If someone else is waiting to use the machine, offer to switch off between sets. It's not necessary to grunt and yell when you're lifting. The big one: use a spotter when you're lifting, so that we don't have to worry about cleaning up the mess when you drop the weight on yourself.
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^]Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
When you're done with a bench or machine, get off it and wipe it off if necessary. If someone else is waiting to use the machine, offer to switch off between sets.
I belonged to the local YMCA for several years, before all the kids moved out and I bought my own gym for the things I needed to do, and this particular one was violated by the regulars, the ones that were there when I joined, far more often than by the New Year's crowd.
