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Topic History of: Obesity Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Rich
GM, I always post only on a high spec Dell laptop, not a phone or tablet. For the life of me I cannot manage to do what you do with your video's and I don't know why, I've gone through the boardcode with that video icon on the far right side, filled in the details, pasted the relevant code into the box like it says and still get an error message when I preview before submission. What am I doing wrong? I did finally work out how to do the photo of the football programme last week after much trial and error! I'm normally good at this kind of thing too with intuition.
Keeping to topic on obesity, did anyone have a gym class like this one? All kept in magnificent shape, no obesity here in sight. The choreography was good too, talk about disciplined for their age. Impressive. Some nice bits on the BFI (British Film Institute) website for free.
It's easier to post YouTube videos on a forum via laptop, you need the full URL.
Wyot, said he had the Spectrum or the C64 what do you own?
Rich
You see more adults riding bikes nowadays than children where I am. That is a complete reverse to how it was in the 80's.
But then anyone who knows MK will know how great it is for the cyclist who can travel long distances without ever interacting with a car and the only hazard being a yapping dog in the way. I've been riding these routes since 1980 aged eleven when there were only a few major ones and there are more laid every year. This is how to do proper cycleways, not paint off a section at the side of an existing road to push the motor traffic aside. You can even get to The Stables this way now too GM, recently hooked up too.
Alexei Sayle has actually done some You Tube videos riding his bike around them. Mr "Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?" I would've never had him down as a keen cyclist for some reason. Here's his first in a series, from the MK Central Station he just got off at.
(I've been trying endlessly to place these links in the way you do GM so you see them properly but without success, no idea what I'm doing wrong, I thought I'd filled the boardcode correctly!)
Green Man
Rich wrote: My school was a one mile walk from home, and for a while at it I even came back home for lunch just to escape the place. This was 4 miles walking each day, equalling 20 miles walking each week, just coming and going from school. That amounted to the same as about 5 cross country runs in a week, before any actual PE. Looking back I don't know why I didn't cycle it. The bike rack was massive and used to be filled solid with all types of bikes from racers to mountain bike types. All of us doing our own fitness regime just to arrive at school. Then of course there was all the cycling many of us used to do after school as well.If cycling had been on the PE timetable I think many people would have adored it. Electric scooters buzzing around with tiny wheels are no substitute. No wonder almost none of us were even slightly overweight at school in the 1970's and 1980's and I actually agree that more of us were probably on the thinner side and concerned by that rather than obesity.
In the 1980s many kids spent hours on end doing basic programming on their Spectrums, C64s and BBC Micros after school and school holidays. They still found time to socialise with friends and go for bike rides.
Rich
Jo wrote: Sounds as if that PE teacher was a real creep, Rich. Thankfully the PE teachers I had at school were OK (it was the drama teacher who was dodgy, with girls) and I don't remember ever having to shower at school, though there were showers in the PE department. Showering after swimming in the local pool was done with costumes on.
I missed this comment a couple of weeks ago Jo, you mentioned a drama teacher, well we had one who had a penchant for creating roles to be played out on the school drama studio stage for viewing by the rest of school which involved collections of boys minus their shirts, one I watched involved another entire drama class of boys like this, a loose adaptation along the lines of the old William Golding story The Lord Of The Flies about a derert island scenario. Our own drama class faced similar here and there where we role played with shirts off to each other or danced about to music from the current charts. He was keen to place people into uncomfortable situations to try and boost confidence it was said and would give out parts to people rather than ask for volunteers. Most of us hated most of what we did and were not destined for an extroverted outgoing career in the dramatic arts. Whether this little anecdote makes him dodgy I've no idea but I never got such a vibe off the guy personally.
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