SEE YOU! A brand spanking new modern fitba thread 2024/2025

There is one within a thirty mile radius of Gateshead. One.

MTF

 

I've joined a health/padel club near me. I've switched from my old spot and been swayed to paying over £100 per month, includes gym, spa, jacuzzi and all that stuff so works out ok. I know I will have to completely turn my back on fast food, (and with all my genuine love Feebs, London Fish n Chips has yet to be surpassed), but hey, it has to be done.

Absolutely still vaping though. The big difference that separates tobacco from vapour is purely the major thing that fucks up your lungs - tar.

I do not get the opposition to vapes, at all.

 

I'm glad to hear it. In my own experience I literally vaped for a week and one day at work I had to sit down and take a break. I was out of breath. Perhaps I was just knackered and it was nothing to do with vaping. I haven't tried it since. I'm genuinely pleased for many others who have given up smoking and moved on to vaping and haven't looked back. I admit, after a session the night before and you wake up stinking of cigarette smoke on your hands, skin and clothes, it's really unpleasant. I might actually buy a vape the next time I go out on the beers and see how I get on.

 

Glad to hear it, Slice. 28 years is a long time. For you to not crave a cigarette now is terrific. What's it been like when you've had a pint or two? No cravings whatsoever then?

 

I LOVE scampi, chips with mushy peas. Throw in a couple of slices of bread with butter to mop it all up. Delightful.

 

I've never had a good fish and chips in London. Granted, I think I've probably only had a dozen or so, which is a very small sample, but I've been disappointed by them all.

I must have had fish and chips in well over two hundred different places. I started a fish and chip blog, years ago, but didn't have the time to keep it going. The best I've had are at a tiny cafe in Scarborough called The Small Fry. Two apron-wearing dears in their seventies cooking in beef dripping and serving the best chips you'll ever eat. They actually taste like chips did when you were a kid. If you're ever up north, give it a try.

MTF

 

I don't like the disposable vapes. I find them too harsh on my throat and there is too much nicotine in them relative to how often your use them. Vapes require more puffs (ahem) to get the nicotine in than a cigarette, so I end up with a headache if I try to use a disposable vape.

I bought a tank based system years ago. You can reduce the nicotine level to a much more sensible level - I use 3mg during the week and 12mg for boozer time. It helps so cravings when you're on the booze, because you can feel the difference.

MTF

 

Wait till you hear how the guys on the boats are treated ..... Most guys doing fish and chips today are not family chippers. It's done schmuck who just needed a job.

And they think vinegar is rationed like a wartime essential. It's not. Lash it on mate. Don't be shy.

I could go on. I won't.

 

That would explain my experience with the erroneously named 'elf bars'.....my ears and face start to burn because the blood vessels are constricting. The first 50 whacks are huge.

I also find I start to drool in my sleep because my throat gets frozen by the menthol ones. I haven't bought and used them since I headed up to Huts in 2002.

Then it starts to dwindle,and you're drawing away trying to revisit that fresh-out-the-packet feeling.

Then there's the eco aspects. You're throwing away a lithium battery, a led, a steel tube, plastic,rubber,foam,wiring.

If I had to have one now I'd avoid the menthol. Coffee and Tobacco is better. Fuck all that Passion fruit Iced Mango bollox. Like smoking a packet of Juicy Fruit.

 

You didn't like The Magpie? I thought it was amazing. To be fair it was the only fish n chips I had in Whitby, love that place.

 

If they banned disposable vapes, I'd support it. They are an environmental disaster and they are a shit version of the product. The tank systems are miles better.much cheaper, too.

I used to smoke menthol tabs so I use a menthol vape. I'd question the life choices of any grown man who chooses to inhale pineapple ice blast favoured steam.

MTF

 

Whitby and Scarborough are going to get gentrified hard in the next 20 years. You'll be reading reviews about the best place to get a haddock cappuccino in the Guardian.

 

It's good, but ridiculously overrated and not worth the wait or money. There are several better chippies in Whitby and at least one on that road. Try the Quayside next-door when you are next up. Its much better.

MTF

 

I was at the pub last night, many pints and zero cravings mate.

 

That's what I noticed with the disposable vapes...they were so harsh on my throat and left a weird aftertaste. They only cost a few quid so I guess that plays a part in the quality. Which brand do you use?

 

They'll have a very hard time gentrifying Scarborough. I love the place - I used to work on the caravan parks down there when I was a young 'un - but once you get off the seafront, it's an incredibly deprived town. There is very little to gentrify, and the locals are as rough as badger's arses.

MTF

 

I used to hate salt and vinegar on my chips, but will not go without now. Definitely adds to the flavour, if you get good quality chips.

 

Will check it out, cheers! I think we are planning to go again at some point early next year.

 

Passion fruit Global Mango Iced Explosion!! Gimme two of them, three tins of Jake Paul's Juice, a packet of Crips and three tins of Iron Bru, 4 Stella's and 3 packets of chocolate digestives for my lunch.

When I was in Slough a guy rocked up for a days labouring with 2 packets of Jaffa Cakes for his sustenance.

Other guys were on tins of spaghetti hoops.

The Polacks by contrast are sausage and meats and bread. Not that Warburton's shite either.

The difference in physiques and application was obvious.

People are being slowly turned into helpless easily controlled blobs.

 

Do you use the disposable vapes or similar to feebs?

 

Stella? Pure piss

 

No, mine isn't disposable. Like Feebs said, I wouldn't recommend disposable at all.

The NHS will give you refillable vapes so that you can monitor and adjust the strength as you go.

 

Are we paying for your Whitby trip too?

 

To get them on the NHS you have to be a proven smoker, they do a breathaliser reading of your carbon monoxide levels. I'd stopped for a week and bought a store-bought disposable vape by the time I first went in to get the free NHS one. My carbon monoxide reading was 2, which was below the threshold. I was basically told, without explicitly being told, to go smoke a packet of fags and come back tomorrow to do it again. I did so and my reading was 22.8 or something crazy. Was a real eye opener to how much shit I've been putting into my lungs for over 20 years.

 

Aye, leave the disposable shite alone. This is my kit:

Battery costs £35 and lasts about three years. Tanks last a year and cost £8 to replace. Fluids are 5 for £8 - they do me for a fortnight.

MTF

 

Whitby is great, if expensive. If you get a chance, give Scarborough a try. The seafront is grand and there are five or six absolutely cracking chippies off the promenade and into the town (which is otherwise a glorious shithole).

MTF

 

You ever seen Wall-e? I have an eight year old so I'm subjected to all kinds of animated shite but you'd like it...

MTF

 

I remember doing that years ago at the docs. My lungs were basically dead.

MTF

 

Have always been intrigued by Scarborough, will definitely check it out next year. I remember when Sky did a piece on Paul Ingle (pre-injury) and he was on the seafront wearing his belt with a load of fans. Looked great.

 

I'm just fucking with you .


I'm glad you're off it. You never really appreciate the magnitude of any problem until it's solved. That's because we make such adaptations,we cope, mentally and physically, with the problem, rather than just fixing it

My weight was always the issue. I thought I was fat but ok because I had some strength. Functional weight advantage,etc. All bollox. All cope.

The slimmer I get, the more I realise how unhealthy I was. A fit person hates a pound of fat more than a fat person hates 50 of them.

I started off trying to just run 1km and when I did I thought it was massive. Now I'm angry if I can't do 10k in under 48 minutes .

As you age, these things move from questions of appearance, clothes, fashion, six packs, pecs etc to the mere matter of staying alive and avoiding hospital trips .

It goes from landing that fit bird to avoiding the routine of a camera being shoved inside you.

Sooner we all make adjustments the better.

I've come to realise that we are surrounded by very powerful people who want us to eat shit smoke shit drink shit, get sick, get treated, do it all again and die.

I use that as motivation. I see things now. A guy once described corner stores as "drug dealers". I told him he was mad. He says "well what do they sell? Drugs. Caffeine,alcohol,nicotine and sugar ". Guy wasn't wrong. He was one of these "I went to Costa Rica for 9 months and lived on the beach" guys. The sort of guy who went from "mad" to having 5,000,000 followers on YouTube.

We're being poisoned. Poisoned,stressed to death, worked to distraction.

Less is more for me now. I routinely don't eat until 2pm. I stand as much as possible. That "good job" in the office? Killing you. Sitting. Stress. Commute.

Fucking lies we've been told since birth.

I feel sorry for anybody who can't get out for a 10k walk every day. It's a birthright. We are upright bipedals by dint of 250,000 years of biological evolution and we're being told to sit and eat cakes.