So what frivolous things have you bought lately? Why?

[Doc Strange]

Might check out the Nürburgring Nordschleife and Porsche offers some cool events on the Hockenheimring.
Don’t know yet. But it is definitely a car made for curves.

Sweet!

Now I'm jealous

DS

 

[Sarky B’stard]

Nothing frivolous about these. In my youth I would mock the ads for Bert Greeves Body Belts as worn by Jeff Smith.
No longer!

Fortunately they still had my size: 'Fat Bastard'

 

[MartytheMartian]

I take it the aim is to keep your posture good and stop you slumping into a bad position more than anything else?

 

[Old Nick]

I take it the aim is to keep your posture good and stop you slumping into a bad position more than anything else?

The one my wife wears keeps her belly in

 

[Sarky B’stard]

I gave my old one to the chippy who helped fix my deck. They support your back muscles particularly when bending and lifting. I find repetitive weeding can cripple me for days which ruins riding pleasure 🫣

 

[MartytheMartian]

I've got several weightlifting belts but I don't wear them as research seemed to indicate that, when it comes to weightlifting they inspire overconfidence and don't actually provide any real support in a lift unless you are cinched in so tight that you have difficulty breathing.

 

[Don the Don]

I've got several weightlifting belts but I don't wear them as research seemed to indicate that, when it comes to weightlifting they inspire overconfidence and don't actually provide any real support in a lift unless you are cinched in so tight that you have difficulty breathing.

It does help to support your back especially if you are tall as you have further to bend, One of the best known weight lifters of old was a little guy called Precious Mckenzie a short guy who's arse was nearer to the ground than most

 

[Scrappy]

It does help to support your back especially if you are tall as you have further to bend,

So it's for big benders?

 

[Don the Don]

So it's for big benders?

Got it in one.........ooh matron

 

[MartytheMartian]

The things I read were from Sports Medicine folks, one was a lassie who was an olympic weightlifter and she reckoned that belts had a minimal help in support while having a negative effect in making you feel supported more than you are. They seemed to reckon that there was a danger that you push your stomach out against the belt rather than pulling your core in tight and it encouraged poor form.

The little guys do have a definite advantage because they aren't nearly so compressed or bent over at the start of the lift. They also have an advantage in arm wrestling I have found. Those short stubby little levers are a definite edge.

 

[Sarky B’stard]

Now you folks who follow these things will notice good, friendly Inter Service rivalry in which the Navy and Army Departments generally take the rise out of the RAF/Light Blue/Crabs but the resurgence of Maverick kind of straddles these things as he's Marine Corps whose Air Force is about the same size as the RAF......

Anyway, I was wondering how to adopt the 'look' without appearing a total sellout.

And I came up with this:

I've been snoring like a B'stard for 40 yrs and more but did a sleep test and got diagnosed with sleep apnoea which explains why I feel hung over most mornings until I re-oxygenate

Any other night flyers out there who have blazed this trail?

 

[Old Nick]

Now you folks who follow these things will notice good, friendly Inter Service rivalry in which the Navy and Army Departments generally take the rise out of the RAF/Light Blue/Crabs but the resurgence of Maverick kind of straddles these things as he's Marine Corps whose Air Force is about the same size as the RAF......

Anyway, I was wondering how to adopt the 'look' without appearing a total sellout.
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And I came up with this:
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I've been snoring like a B'stard for 40 yrs and more but did a sleep test and got diagnosed with sleep apnoea which explains why I feel hung over most mornings until I re-oxygenate

Any other night flyers out there who have blazed this trail?

Not me, but a guy at work has/does and it appears to work same diagnosis as you

Although apparently his wife isn’t too keen on the look but at least she sleeps better

 

[chas]

Now you folks who follow these things will notice good, friendly Inter Service rivalry in which the Navy and Army Departments generally take the rise out of the RAF/Light Blue/Crabs but the resurgence of Maverick kind of straddles these things as he's Marine Corps whose Air Force is about the same size as the RAF......

Anyway, I was wondering how to adopt the 'look' without appearing a total sellout.
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And I came up with this:
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I've been snoring like a B'stard for 40 yrs and more but did a sleep test and got diagnosed with sleep apnoea which explains why I feel hung over most mornings until I re-oxygenate

Any other night flyers out there who have blazed this trail?

My fat work colleague has one, the only problems he encounters is getting a mask that fits well and is comfortable. The base level issue from the NHS is a bit crap aparra

 

[half ton]

My wife can wake the dead with her snoring and gurgling.....didn't buy her a mask ...I just kicked her out of the bedroom ...I sleep like a baby now..still have to get up 4 or 5 times for a piss though

 

[Sarky B’stard]

I quit sharing a bed when my haemohydraulic anti roll mechanism could no longer support the steep downhill gradient to her side of the bed.

 

[half ton]

I quit sharing a bed when my haemohydraulic anti roll mechanism could no longer support the steep downhill gradient to her side of the bed.

Yeh my missus is fat as well

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

I've been stupidly frivolous and invested in some more cameras..I've bought two trail cameras with microphone, motion sensors, night vision and measure the temperature..I've also got two tripods a load of rechargeable batteries a laptop that needs an operating system put on it whatever that means and gotta pick up some SD cards today and then I'm going Ghostbusting this evening...
If the ghost busting is a bust I shall use them for wildlife purposes as I'm really getting into watching the birds bats and owl's in my garden...

 

[Don the Don]

I've been stupidly frivolous and invested in some more cameras..I've bought two trail cameras with microphone, motion sensors, night vision and measure the temperature..I've also got two tripods a load of rechargeable batteries a laptop that needs an operating system put on it whatever that means and gotta pick up some SD cards today and then I'm going Ghostbusting this evening...
If the ghost busting is a bust I shall use them for wildlife purposes as I'm really getting into watching the birds bats and owl's in my garden...

Fuggin 12 Bore is what you need @BAD LUCK DUCK it would at least frighten that batty old sow that you rent from

 

[Capt. Drunkey]

that needs an operating system put on it whatever that means

Computers are stupid to start with. Yours did not yet learn how to be stupid…

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

Computers are stupid to start with. Yours did not yet learn how to be stupid…

It will learn how to be stupid from it's master...
After all I'm a master in stupiditynessism