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I don't understand. If you made hundreds of millions of dollars for your company, wouldn't you be pretty pissed off if you weren't rewarded in kind? And then go and work for a more enlightened organisation that did pay you what you were worth? We live in an age where the value in the economy...

Hey, Not really when riding, but it wouldn't surprise me if you're on the back as you're using your arms to hold on or brace when braking and the forces involved can be pretty extreme! So when do you get your own? :)

North-west Scotland is incredible. The least populated place in Western Europe, absolutely stunning scenery and unbelievably friendly locals. The sheer remoteness is just awesome. Especially so if you're coming from Singapore, I would imagine. It is, however, a long, long way from anywhere...

I have no idea where all the money goes. The amount of tax taken per annum has doubled in the last 13 years (yes...doubled), and yet, with no noticeable increase in services...and if anything, a lower quality of life. I seem to recall reading not so long ago that the state gives around £3m a...

In the UK, the government spends around 53% of the entire nation's GDP. It's obscene. And I completely fail to see the benefit of paying such astronomical amounts of my income to the state, other than to those who live off the state. Most people aren't even particularly well off in the...

Not quite. For starters, if you were overweight before but not gaining any MORE weight, why should going back to eating the same mean you pile all the weight straight back on (plus more)? Because "dieting" in the traditional sense ie. cutting the amount of calorific intake drastically for a...

If it were that simple, people who go on diets would actually lose weight. As it is, the human body has this cunning way of adapting to the intake it is given, since having an abundance of food is a relatively new thing. If you decided to start eating only 1000 calories a day, you will lose...

It's not even remotely that simple. Different types of calories are used by the body in different ways, and when, what, how much, and how often you eat, all have a vast effect on the metabolism - and therefore how many of those calories are burned off and how many are stored as fat. Not to...

In terms of a meal plan...how long is a piece of string, depends what you spend your days doing and what you're trying to achieve. In broad terms, anything high on the glycemic index is bad. Fresh meat/fish/vegetables are good. Eating regularly is good, as opposed to having a couple of huge...

Three stone lighter and six inches off my waist since the new year. And no more glasses. Rawr.

Yeah, airsoft is cool. Unfortunately it's not particularly popular as compared to paintball, and the only site around here is built on the side of a very steep hill. Last time I went (midwinter, granted) the combination of mud, wet leaves and surfaces that are very difficult to get a footing...

In exactly the same manner that the poor countries didn't get where they are today because they weren't as good at conquest as we were. It's not that they were ethically superior in any way...their application of violence was merely far less effective. In fact, the British Empire is by far...

It's a pretty impressive ad campaign, and I'm sure it will have the desired effect. Just to pre-empt this thread inevitably turning into a rant about the white man exploiting the third world and so on, I feel it is apt to point out that ALL countries were, in very recent history all things...

Yeah. It's just a self-perpetuating cycle of quantity over quality. So everyone applies for 1000 jobs and every job receives 1000 applications. It's impossible to process that sort of volume effectively, and nothing worthwhile ever results. And of course, why on earth would any busy manager...

Awesome, I love elephants. British animals are so boring. We always try and say hi to the sheep (not in a Welsh way) whenever we go up on Dartmoor, but the timid bastads just run away. Cows and wild ponies are slightly more interesting, but still not very interactive. That's good to know...

According to that BMR calculator my maintenance level is around 3000 calories a day. That's a fair point. I usually throw caution to the wind when I'm out, and drinking usually gives me the munchies too (hello KFC). I'm pretty good the rest of the time. Doing enough exercise is the key...

Ah neat. Somewhere in Colombo is all I know (oddly, as my friend is Tamil). So I hear! My friend and his brother went there for two weeks in May and toured the country on motorbikes. There's the possibility of us doing a bit of that next year, but I'm not sure my pasty white self could take...

I always watch what I eat and how bad for you it is. I never snack, as I don't like crisps or chocolate or any other typical "snack foods", and I don't keep the stuff in the house. Aside from alcohol (which, granted, I drink far too much of on the weekends), I only ever drink water, and - at...

There's some truth in both sides of the story. Some people are naturally predisposed to be fat, some to be skinny, and others to be muscle-bound. A naturally skinny person can generally eat like a horse and never put on any weight, and equally will find it extremely difficult to gain muscle...

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