Short-sighted employers should be ex-employers – I’d be looking for a new job.

Although I’ve been lifting my heels more lately which makes life easier, but it could be causing this problem.

lifting your heels while running is a good technique as it reduces the strain on the muscles around the front of the hip like the ileopsoas. It effectively reduces the force required to bring your leg forward for the next stride. This will almost certainly reduce the strain on other muscles too.

PB on my way home.

Strava?

The winds have just died down. I wonder for how long?

I’m in North West Wales so we’re getting battered here.

Aye, I saw that the other day, dave. pretty good innit!

I don’t think we’ve got enough wood in the house to last the night and the store is at the top of the garden – eek!

If you had dark skin (and the same accent) would he have asked the same question?

Who knows,

But he may have at least got an actual answer if he did.[/quote]

this assumes I knew the answer to his question. I told him I didn’t know.

This thread seems to be: “A man said the word “Pakistanis” to me – does that mean he’s a racist?”

Not at all, its more the fact that it was the subject matter rather than, as binners points out, talking about football though I suspect he wasn’t a footy hooligan.

Did he have a white hood on and a crucifix on his law? As far as I’m concerned calling Pakistani people **** is not racist either.

If you understood where the term ‘****’ comes from you would see that it is indeed offensive – It comes from that old sport of ****-bashing by these delightful people

mine wouldn’t let me print black even though I had a full black cartridge in it on account that the Cyan one was empty! I had to buy a full set of inks to print in effing black!

Ok, so we’ve established he wasn’t being racist, I just thought it was a rather strange subject to bring up while talking about my home town. It’s certainly not something I would bring up to kick off a conversation.

Oh FFS. And what a surprise you’re a Teacher.

…and your point is?

Alternatively, he could be using that as an opening gambit to find out if *you* were racist..

interesting [strokes chin in preponderance]…

As in ‘wow, is it very different teaching in an area with so many asians?’

Yeah, he wasn’t asking me about teaching there. I’d already discussed my teaching experience before my outrageous accent was brought up.

So, well, I suppose said bloke was right really, wasn’t he?

Yes, I know he was right, but that’s not what I was getting at – it was the fact that this was the first thing he mentioned to me when he found out I was from there. I’m not saying he IS a racist but that it did make me think that he brought it up for a reason other than a professional inquisition about possible teaching differences among schools there.

Blackburn. I believe that there *is* quite a large Pakistani population there. However I’m not sure how this can be construed as a racist statement.

Did none of you see this admission from me?

Ok, maybe not racist but It did strike me as odd to bring up the racial divide of a town as an opener.

perhaps youre looking for racism, where it doesnt exist, a common problem with racists.

I’m not racist, I have a black dog.

OP amended.

someone might be is possibly a racist.

Ok, maybe not racist but It did strike me as odd to bring up the racial divide of a town as an opener. Maybe I was being a bit prejudiced myself – he was middle aged!

The Chiro has also given me lots of exercise stretches to help whereas osteo only some basic things to do outside treatment.

So because the Chiro gave you more exercises to do than the Osteo, that means the Chiro is better, how?

Maybe the Osteo doesn’t think you need extra exercises and given they are supported by research and actual physiology rather than made-up practices I’d be more inclined to go with the Osteo.

Alternative medicine woo

Quite surprised by the amount of Daily Mail-esque mouth frothing going on.
I’m not an advocate of euthanasia for incidents like this, especially when it’s clearly not the dog’s fault. The dog is not to blame for it’s owner’s inability/refusal to;
a) control their dog
b) see that their dog’s actions are their fault
c) do anything about their dog’s negative behaviours

The dog should be removed from the owner with a view to have it (re)trained at the owners expense. if the dog is deemed to be inherently dangerous i.e. at risk of further ‘incidents’ then euthanasia should be considered, but only as a last resort.

I resent reactionary ‘kill it’ attitudes being demonstrated on this and other threads like this.

Published 12 June 2013

Hasn’t this been done already? I think I remember reading a thread on the same article?

The point here, though, is that academy/free schools are by design more likely to have the wrong people running things, with their lower qualification requirements.

Given Sir Wilshaw is also advocating the employment of unqualified teachers, I don’t think we’re going to stop this from happening.

Anyone else think their rover thingy sounds like a ‘toy’ from Ann Summers?

Maybe the chinese can prove conclusively that the Americans never went to the moon?

I get asked, with monotonous frequency –

“can I go to the toilet”

My response depends on the time they ask me.

Let’s not lose sight of the real issue – her PAs who are on trial for fraud.

If you do commute, use a hack bike. Don’t be using your £2k carbon sportive bike, or anything that looks remotely nickable – My mate got his bike stolen while actually riding it through Salford (Eccles’ slightly less rough partner town!)

You’d have to do it on all fours for it to take 20 minutes!

It’s a brisk 15min or 20 min stroll or 5 mins (max) on a bike.

The ITB is quite hard to stretch on your own. I’d be paying for a physio to advise on wht you need – it might not even be anything to do with your knee or ITB.

Not some huge hermetically-sealed mall full of mouth-breathing drones.

That’s pretty much all shopping precincts you are describing.

saying carbs are more important to growing kids than protein..

I understand what you are getting at but you can’t actually survive by JUST eating protein! Respiration relies on sugar being available and last time I checked, there’s not much sugar in proteins!

While exercise isn’t the only solution to losing weight, it’s a damn sight better to do something rather than stuffing your face with Walkers and Cadbury’s and then moaning that there’s not enough sport on TV to get motivated over!

You dodged a bullet there – read the link!

Two weeks and 3 attempts (of which, 2 I was home all day) to deliver my parcel and even then it was delivered to my neighbour as ‘The addressee wasn’t in on account that their car wasn’t there’. I was in and the car was there – I was even stood at the gate while they flew past besides which how does the courior know I own a car!?

Well.. Yes, it stinks to high heaven IMO, your donations should be used for the cause your donating to,
Maybe that’s a little naive judging by some of the responses so far..
If I give a pound I expect a pound to be used for the intended purpose, not 90p and 10p to the devil..

Welcome to my world.

In reflection it is/was naive to think this judging by what I’m reading here.

My understanding ( from a quick listen to the news this morning ) is that investing the money is _exactly_ what allows Comic Relief to pay out every penny that it receives

But if the money is being invested, shirley that money is at risk of being lost – there’s no such thing as a sure thing in investments, especially ones as contentious as BAE systems.