Posts by giovanni tiso
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t's PAS heresy to suggest that I was overweight because I ate badly and didn't exercise and lost weight by changing that, but it does happen to be true
Nobody I think is denying that 'eat less and exercise' is good advice - well, the Listener did once, in the penultimate issue of our subscription if I recall correctly, but I digress - and that it shouldn't have to be competing with so much conflicting advice from the food industry, and pressures to work long hours in sedentary jobs, and the commutes in our badly designed cities... but I think you'll find that in past discussions on these very boards it has too often devolved into absolutism - what Danielle said above* - or worse, puritanical crap all-too-easily morphing into the implication that it's your moral duty to be healthy and thin. I think that's where the resistance to the 'look at me, I run for miles every day and eat only celery' line comes from.
*I think T-Shirt One in the PAS merchandising line should read What Danielle Said on one side and What Stephen Judd said on the other. I'll take one in beige, size M (for I eat little and exercise).
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Oh, excellent. Divided loyalties, here I come!
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Dyan: I'm relieved that you meant sports in the sense of organised sports for little ones. The idea that sports in itself doesn't encourage fitness had my head very close to the desk there while I awaited the clarification.
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That's kind of unfair Gio.
He may well be obsessed and he certainly has stamina but it's unlikely that you can achieve that without being at least reasonably smart.
He has a stamina of 2517 and an intellect of 204. That's all I meant!
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I know a lot of people like that - who have ten times as much stamina as intellect.
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… does not appear to be an overly onerous test, unless I am missing something?
It seems to me you're missing Tolley regaling her subordinates with rat-centred parables.
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Because this is the Friday thread I'd like to know what people think of this.
I like how the article first says that Tolley threw her weight behind the union, then quotes her as saying that "to claim the code of conduct has anything to do with muzzling schools and their opinions on any subject is ludicrous."
The DomPost will be happy anyhow, it fits into their "teachers should shut up and follow orders" editorial line.
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My father settled at about 95 kg, which was all that a man of his mobility could aspire to, and we certainly never tried to make him feel a failure but yeah, he was still fat, and it was pointed out to him often. On the other hand he had really low cholesterol, and whenever a health professional praised him for that he replied "I'm going to be a very healthy corpse some day".
God I miss him.
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Thanks Matthew, illuminating.
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Basically, what I'm saying here is that the mental side of this affliction is huge. There is no other gatekeeper to my fingernails than myself.
It reminds me of Nanni Moretti's excellent Dear Diary, the doctors episode, where he suffers from dermatitis, and they tell him it's all in his head and it's all up to him. "And I just know that if it's all up to me," he says "I'm done for."
(It turns out it wasn't dermatitis, it was cancer. True story.)