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Ouch! I did my extremely slow and gentle squats after a trip to IKEA with the kids. I've been looking into equipment-free exercises for toning and improving my shape without trashing my joints. Today I did a few exercises from a chair (seated) workout video. It seems like nothing doing at first, but by the time you hit the 50ish mark you're starting to feel odd muscles activate. I never got the hang of Pilates, I think I'd have to do it in front of a mirror to get it right and there's insufficient space in front of mirrors at my place.

I just wish the tv ads would stop so I don't keep getting Oasis stuck in my head

I don’t remember there being so much interest in an upcoming movie from this group before

Woooo join the club!!

I'm up to chapter 8 and really enjoying it! It's been so easy to apply Ryan Gosling's voice to the main character.

I had a breakthrough today in some of my understanding of relativistic physics. 🐱🚀

I think. 🤔

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

I have a two size set and prefer to use the smalls just for hand size. I don't host the sort of do where both would be on the table at once. More likely fingers or chopsticks. Except for Boyo, I've given up on sticks for him.

Big knives & forks for eating dinner, smaller knife for buttering bread, smaller forks for dessert along with spooons was what I was taught as a kid. So the table setting would be big knife/fork at each side of the big plate, with the smaller knife next to the big knife on the outside OR resting on the side plate, and the smaller fork & spoon at the top of the big plate space. Soup spoon goes outside the big knife as it will be used first. Gets more complicated if there's going to be a fish course, so the fish knife & fork (which have a special shape) go inside the big knife & fork on each side of the plate. Basically you work from the outside in, except for the bread buttering knife and the dessert fork/spoon. You can put the dessert fork/spoon inside the fish knife/fork if you prefer and have enough tableroom. Note, the bread buttering smaller knife should NOT be serrated as you don't cut anything with it. The big knife can be if you like that style.

My mum uses the small knives and forks. It's like trying to eat your meal with a kiddie set.

I have the big set and use the small knives to make sandwiches and the big ones to eat dinner

the small forks I use for desserts and salads

My cutlery set has bigs and smalls and I don’t really use the smalls. I think cutlery sets should come with fork, knife, spoon, teaspoon. Optional extras are cake fork and long teaspoon/sundae spoon/parfait spoon.

That’s horrific. But I really really really don’t agree with the explanation for murder being because someone was banned from social media or didn’t play outside enough, so of course they’re gonna go murdering?! You’re right about one thing though, these kids are growing up in families where no one cares about them. The parents are disinterested in what the kid is doing socially, where they are at 3am on a Tuesday, if they are doing ok in school, if the 10 knives and 3 machetes the kid has in their bedroom seems normal. The kids themselves are motivated by approval of their peers, kudos, and no repercussions. I don’t know what the answer is.

The movie Alpha covers this, sort of. It's fiction, nice caveman dog fiction. Not a deep film but nice.

And to all those that thought it would be fun to pat a sabre tooth, poisonous frog, giant bears etc, the gene pool thanks you for your service.

Imagine losing your arm to a wolf, then a few thousand years of selective breeding your ancestor loses a toe to an aggressive inbred pug.

Edit:

Okay turns out I'm not far off