Patrick Bateman

It depends, if you have really skinny arms and have ribs showing, then yeah, you probably are too skinny. But you can be small without looking skinny, which is all good :-)

Indeed, new lady friend is 5'4 and a size 6/8 ... mmmmm Me ... 34W 32L. Two years ago, I was 40W 32L ... :-|

We all had to take a 10% rate cut this week, however on the positive side, I've recently got a fantastic lady in my life. So it all balances out!

Interesting, I thought they were about the same, but I won't argue, but what I do know is that Turkey is cheaper - which isn't a bad thing when you eat as much bloody chicken as I do!!!!

Hmmm, slight problem - if you're a veggie, you need to get extra protein from somewhere else you really won't build yourself up. I'm not sure if most protein shakes are suitable or not? Personally I think they taste foul, even the chocolate bars which is why I eat shed loads of extra chicken instead. Failing that, you've always got eggs and baby food - both work!!

Because you're doing it wrong. With weights, you need a very heavy session. Pick a weight you can do 3 sets of 12 with. With up to a minute between sets. Do this (for example) with a bicup curl. Then do the same with something the dumbell kick back for your triceps, pick a few routines you like. Then, go back and start again - do all the same, 3 sets of 12. The next day your muscles should hurt. This is good. You have torn the fibres and they will repair, slightly larger (but not yet noticeable) to cope with the demand on the body. If you eat more protein (so an extra chicken breast) this will encourage faster and bigger muscle growth. Do NOT work on that muscle group that day. Sometimes a 2 day break is needed. If you go to a gym, the ideal is upper body 1 day (plus cardio), lower body the next day (plus cardio), with core muscle workout alternate days too. If you do the same routines every day, you end up with diminishing returns and almost negative muscle growth. So, alternate days. Also, don't believe that doing 3 sets of 5 reps on a much heavier weight will work, it won't. 10-12 reps is the most beneficial number of reps for muscle growth. Oh, and if you're moving your neck and back as you move the weight up and down (for example on a bicep curl), the weight is too heavy and you'll damage your neck and/or back eventually. It should be a smooth movement of the arm, only. You can thank me when you look as tonned and in shape as me

Steve - without wanting to teach you to suck eggs (but you know me, and expect it anyway, haha) ... simple solutions are: - Close ALL other forums apart from the main forum during a match - Make the main forum log in only during a match / all the time - Remove banners/avatars at peak times / all the time to lessen the server load of bytes dished up upon refresh etc. Generally, I find the forum over functional. All I want to do is read comments about the match if I'm not there, I don't want to play games, look at people's f*cking rubbish avatars, look at bloody smilies, send PMs and so on.

Reading those comments, my laptop is sticky ... Fair play, great reading, sounds like we are playing with real confidence and skill and sounds like a very different team to the one a month ago ... excellent!

Believing the internet dictionary is one of the reasons grammar has gone to pot. If you believe that, then read this: http://i-shrugged.blogspot.com/2008/02/into-or-in-to.html It's just as believable as the one you found, which is incorrect. You can reword the statement to read similar to; "he laid in, to Gordon Brown". But the comma is not needed, however it helps to show why the use of 'into' is incorrect in this instance when you read the statement properly. Bye.

Don't try and be clever when you're wrong. Now go and look up the definition and use of "into" and "in to". "In to" is associated with doing something. So by laying in to Gordon Brown, he's doing something, rather than "into" which would make no sense when used in that context. Yes; his comment about lorry drivers was hilarious. Are you a lorry driver perhaps? How many have you murdered recently?

Yes quite! I can't stand this latest craze of bashing Ross for everything, it's the Daily Mail/Express lot no doubt who cry out; Why have immigrants come here and dug up Princess Di?

Why do you think people care what you're doing over the weekend? How sad.

Well I think Clarkson is superb and very funny man who is perfectly entitled to lay in to Brown. I'm in my 30s (note that 30s doesn't need an apostrophe like you're wrongly using) and I have no intention of driving an "Evo".

Wotte a kunt.

Yes the point is about "global warming" is that it does NOT matter. The Earth has been changing for tens of millions of years, different species have "ruled" the Earth and have been and gone. So what if the human race dies out? The Earth doesn't exclusively belong to us does it? We're just here as we've evolved with the climate and food on offer over the last 10,000 years. The Earth and other species were here a long long time before we were, and will be here a long long time after we've been here. I couldn't give a stuff if the climate changes, because it will anyway in the next 10s of thousands of years, regardless of what we try to do now as humans. The Earth will continue to live as long as the Sun does and there will always be a species who will "rule" it. Why does it have to be Humans for eternity more? It doesn't. So, if we wipe out the Human, big deal. Bring on the next evolution of whatever species will cope with the warmer/colder/wetter/whatever the climate is.

Fair play to the Echo and to Wotte for finally stepping up the plate to answer the questions being asked. But why has it taken so long? Maybe members of this forum are just more nosey than certain people in the club give them credit for!

If it wasn't for the pesky kids, I'd have gotten away with it ...

I've got this; http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_duet.html Great piece of kit and looks nice too with the screen on the remote control. Use it to stream music from my storage drive, plus also for internet radio - connected via optical to my Bose system. Sounds fantastic and is really easy to use.

Two things; firstly you'll not be able to manipulate this forum on Leon's behalf in the manner Wilde and to some extent Lowe did, in the past. People are far too wise to that now on here. Secondly these people willing to support Leon, but not Wilde and Lowe. I don't buy this. Where were they when Leon had 8 (or was it longer?) months in charge? Also if they really wanted to give the club some money what's to stop them doing it on the insistence that Wilde/Lowe etc step down?

Only on the wallet and the risk of stroke :confused:

I hope he mops up after himelf?

Just in case anyone wants it, Waterstones have a "I can has cheezburger?" book with all the pictures and captions in. I wasn't stood in the shop chuckling at it and I haven't bought it for anyone, honest. Aha >>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Can-Has-Cheezburger-Icanhascheezeburger-Com/dp/0340977574

Are Woolworths really celebrating 250 years serving the public? If true, a very sad loss ...

I don't understand this? When my ex-wife's Nan was ill, they had a company come round and install a reconditioned stairlift inc. rails, free (I think it was charitable), but dealt with via the NHS (as this was in Scvnthorpe, I assume North Lincs PCT?). Then when she unfortunately died a few months later, the same company came and took the whole lot back - they said they would reuse it all elsewhere. I assume as a lot of houses in that area are the same size, build and so on that this wouldn't be an issue.

What a fantastic weekend :-|