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-PJ- wrote:Yep..

But id gladly pay you $1000 to come and do it.. :)
I’ll cut it down for $1000. It lands where it lands though
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Sid wrote: February 1, 2020, 2:16 pm
-PJ- wrote:Yep..

But id gladly pay you $1000 to come and do it.. :)
I’ll cut it down for $1000. It lands where it lands though
Cut and get rid of Sid..
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Everything is so expensive. I need to fix a part of my fence - maybe about 8 - 10 metres of fence. A fencing company did my neighbours place for 10,000. I got a quote for the wood which came to 1,400.

8 and a half grand for labour is crazy.

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-PJ- wrote: Cut and get rid of Sid..
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gangrenous wrote: February 1, 2020, 3:50 pm
-PJ- wrote: Cut and get rid of Sid..
Woah! That escalated quickly! He just made a joke Image
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gergreg wrote: February 1, 2020, 3:28 pm Everything is so expensive. I need to fix a part of my fence - maybe about 8 - 10 metres of fence. A fencing company did my neighbours place for 10,000. I got a quote for the wood which came to 1,400.

8 and a half grand for labour is crazy.

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$4000 and council have told me because the tree is a native I must replace it with another native.

I've got a gymea lily ready to plant..
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gangrenous wrote:
-PJ- wrote: Cut and get rid of Sid..
Woah! That escalated quickly! He just made a joke Image
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50 not out, retired dying.
We won.
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-PJ- wrote:
gergreg wrote: February 1, 2020, 3:28 pm Everything is so expensive. I need to fix a part of my fence - maybe about 8 - 10 metres of fence. A fencing company did my neighbours place for 10,000. I got a quote for the wood which came to 1,400.

8 and a half grand for labour is crazy.

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$4000 and council have told me because the tree is a native I must replace it with another native.

I've got a gymea lily ready to plant..
I have a massive eucalyptus behind my garage, must be around 10 - 15 metres high and planted about 4 metres away. I'll probably get it taken down later this year. I'll let you know how much that is - hopefully my strata will pay for it.

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bonehead wrote:50 not out, retired dying.
We won.
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Congrats Boney, would’ve been a tough innings
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bonehead wrote: February 1, 2020, 5:29 pm 50 not out, retired dying.
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Geez boney, I was worried all day about cha..

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was actually a bit of a grind, massive boundaries, took me 20 overs, square leg had my water bottle.
Fitbit app said I batted for an hour, heart rate avg 165 peaked at 185.

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I grant you a day of rest 2mrw...
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thanks boss man, going to the beach

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That's why you slog.. you could have made that off 20 balls with no running required

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-PJ- wrote:
gergreg wrote: February 1, 2020, 3:28 pm Everything is so expensive. I need to fix a part of my fence - maybe about 8 - 10 metres of fence. A fencing company did my neighbours place for 10,000. I got a quote for the wood which came to 1,400.

8 and a half grand for labour is crazy.

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$4000 and council have told me because the tree is a native I must replace it with another native.

I've got a gymea lily ready to plant..
Not a bad gig. Cut down a tree ... 4 grand please. How much do they then make from the wood?

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gergreg wrote: February 1, 2020, 7:20 pm
-PJ- wrote:
gergreg wrote: February 1, 2020, 3:28 pm Everything is so expensive. I need to fix a part of my fence - maybe about 8 - 10 metres of fence. A fencing company did my neighbours place for 10,000. I got a quote for the wood which came to 1,400.

8 and a half grand for labour is crazy.

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$4000 and council have told me because the tree is a native I must replace it with another native.

I've got a gymea lily ready to plant..
Not a bad gig. Cut down a tree ... 4 grand please. How much do they then make from the wood?

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Exactly...
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-TW- wrote: February 1, 2020, 7:19 pm That's why you slog.. you could have made that off 20 balls with no running required

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Even better, more time at the pub and seasons done by round 1 of the footy season

I missed round 1 and 2 in 2016 cause we made a elimination final in one grade, and then I got put up for a semi in another grade. Worst part was "I'm injured" wasn't accepted as an excuse

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I'm too old to slog, i have a grudge against our selectors. I've taken the approach to win the club batting awards, I'm averaging 60 just need the aggregate up over 300 with 3 games to go should be pretty easy.
Massive ground today, not a lot of boundaries. we made 130 bowled them out 80, last time we met we made 245 and got run down

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The Nickman wrote:
-TW- wrote: December 20, 2019, 9:29 am Noone needs to give up anything

As long as you're in a caloric deficit then you'll lose weight, if you're about even you wont gain weight.

Giving up **** makes you miserable and defeats the purpose of what you're trying to achieve

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Exactly. Intermittent fasting is the go because it allows you to eat and drink what you like, but also allows your body to be truly empty and to process waste more efficiently.

You should look it up. Other health benefits for things such as slowing aging and cell regeneration are also tremendous.
OK so I've looked into this. I went to the scientific literature, rather than to fastingisawesome.com.

Intermittent Fasting is comparable to conventional calorie restriction dieting for weight loss. Intermittent Fasting seems to work via inducing a calorie deficit, nothing magical or mysterious about it. Any benefit to it other than the benefit derived from weight loss is completely overstated. Apart from a few studies in mice (which didn't have spectacular results) there is simply no evidence to suggest otherwise. As is usually the case on the internet, someone has stated their philosophy as fact, and it's been replicated on lots of websites as a truism.

I'm generally pretty lean, but am keen to shed a few of the festive season kegs given I'm running a 100km race in three months. I'm finding this harder and harder as the years go on. I also fail at calorie restriction, I've got bugger all will power and usually cave when suprise goodies are on offer like at work. I've tried 5:2 but just can't do it. I'm starving by the end of the day and succumb so that I can sleep.

For the last couple of weeks I've tried Timed Fasting (doing 16 hours), and it's working for me. I'm eating from 2pm to 10pm. My mornings and days are usually so crazy busy I don't notice that I'm hungry, and if I am I just drink some more black coffee. If goodies are presented at work, I'll eat some after 2pm, otherwise I'm finding it easy to not eat them. I can only eat so much in the evening, so counting my calories I can confirm that I'm in deficit, but I've got a full belly and am satisfied when I go to bed.

Like TW said, so long as you are in deficit you'll lose weight. The science doesn't support any specific diet altering metabolism and miraculously shedding fat (not to say that they don't, there is just no current evidence for it). You just need to find a way of restricting your calories that works for you.
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Dr Zaius wrote: February 3, 2020, 1:28 pm
The Nickman wrote:
-TW- wrote: December 20, 2019, 9:29 am Noone needs to give up anything

As long as you're in a caloric deficit then you'll lose weight, if you're about even you wont gain weight.

Giving up **** makes you miserable and defeats the purpose of what you're trying to achieve

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Exactly. Intermittent fasting is the go because it allows you to eat and drink what you like, but also allows your body to be truly empty and to process waste more efficiently.

You should look it up. Other health benefits for things such as slowing aging and cell regeneration are also tremendous.
OK so I've looked into this. I went to the scientific literature, rather than to fastingisawesome.com.

Intermittent Fasting is comparable to conventional calorie restriction dieting for weight loss. Intermittent Fasting seems to work via inducing a calorie deficit, nothing magical or mysterious about it. Any benefit to it other than the benefit derived from weight loss is completely overstated. Apart from a few studies in mice (which didn't have spectacular results) there is simply no evidence to suggest otherwise. As is usually the case on the internet, someone has stated their philosophy as fact, and it's been replicated on lots of websites as a truism.

I'm generally pretty lean, but am keen to shed a few of the festive season kegs given I'm running a 100km race in three months. I'm finding this harder and harder as the years go on. I also fail at calorie restriction, I've got bugger all will power and usually cave when suprise goodies are on offer like at work. I've tried 5:2 but just can't do it. I'm starving by the end of the day and succumb so that I can sleep.

For the last couple of weeks I've tried Timed Fasting (doing 16 hours), and it's working for me. I'm eating from 2pm to 10pm. My mornings and days are usually so crazy busy I don't notice that I'm hungry, and if I am I just drink some more black coffee. If goodies are presented at work, I'll eat some after 2pm, otherwise I'm finding it easy to not eat them. I can only eat so much in the evening, so counting my calories I can confirm that I'm in deficit, but I've got a full belly and am satisfied when I go to bed.

Like TW said, so long as you are in deficit you'll lose weight. The science doesn't support any specific diet altering metabolism and miraculously shedding fat (not to say that they don't, there is just no current evidence for it). You just need to find a way of restricting your calories that works for you.
I find a good version of fasting when I’m trying to drop a couple of kg before a race is to fast of an evening. I’ll do my morning session, eat normally all day, but plan a second session on the bike or treadmill for the evening - that way I will have a really light meal with the family when they eat dinner, put the kids to bed and then head into the pain cave. By about 9pm I’m done training, have a quick recovery shake and go to bed. It means I’m skipping the biggest meal of the day, not trying to digest and burn all those calories while I sleep, but the shake still gives me the protein and aminos and electrolytes to recover while I sleep.

It is also the period when you do the most hours of training as you ramp up to a big race, so the fat just falls off.

I probably do that 3-4 times a week in the last 2 Months of a build.
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I’ve lost myself 3kgs this year so far. Haven’t done anything crazy, just eating less calories than I burn.

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Other news, my 2nd batch of cider has been bottled. This is my first batch not using a kit, so I’m keen to see how it goes. It’s Pineapple, Apple, Passionfruit and Mango cider. Should work out around 1.3% Alcohol

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Nice work Fui
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I took today off work with an earache today and my supervisor, Bec, asked me what my login is...

It led to an embarrassing text exchange with my password being ‘8=========D’
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earache, soft

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It's ok sid. I hear that isn't much below average size.
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Fuifui Bradbrad wrote: February 4, 2020, 7:44 am Other news, my 2nd batch of cider has been bottled. This is my first batch not using a kit, so I’m keen to see how it goes. It’s Pineapple, Apple, Passionfruit and Mango cider. Should work out around 1.3% Alcohol
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Sid wrote:I took today off work with an earache today and my supervisor, Bec, asked me what my login is...

It led to an embarrassing text exchange with my password being ‘8=========D’
Similar thing happened to me with this spreadsheet I built. I changed teams and had to hand it over last year. 6 months ago I got Skyped by the team and was asked what was the password to unlock the VBA.

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T_R wrote:
Fuifui Bradbrad wrote: February 4, 2020, 7:44 am Other news, my 2nd batch of cider has been bottled. This is my first batch not using a kit, so I’m keen to see how it goes. It’s Pineapple, Apple, Passionfruit and Mango cider. Should work out around 1.3% Alcohol
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zim wrote:It's ok sid. I hear that isn't much below average size.
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There's no way I'm admitting to taking time off for an ear ache.

It's just un-Australian..

Like blokes on mopeds.
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-PJ- wrote:There's no way I'm admitting to taking time off for an ear ache.

It's just un-Australian..

Like blokes on mopeds.
The amount of people you see on mopeds wearing shorts and a t-shirt is staggering - or skirts/dresses. Bitumen isn't so forgiving.

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gergreg wrote: February 6, 2020, 7:00 am
-PJ- wrote:There's no way I'm admitting to taking time off for an ear ache.

It's just un-Australian..

Like blokes on mopeds.
The amount of people you see on mopeds wearing shorts and a t-shirt is staggering - or skirts/dresses. Bitumen isn't so forgiving.

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