i have been in work since 7am
my bum is stiff from walking 6.5 miles home after some vodkas last night. i have a 2 hour BD meeting now, for which i am utterly unprepared. then i have a long day of appeasing boring clients. then i have a personal training session at 8pm. only then, at 9.30pm, do i get to go out.

if that much misery doesn't piss on your chips, i don't know what will, old buddy old pal!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 8:29, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Did you walk home in your bum-toning trainers?

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 8:32, Reply)

yes!
pain. much pain.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:19, Reply)

I did loads of stomach-crunching pole stuff last night
and now it hurts to sit. I love post-workout muscle pain, it feels like validation.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:23, Reply)

i like it at the time
i hate it the morning after when i can't even put my bra on without agony!

i have been doing sit ups with a medicine ball i bought. why did i reject the 5kg one as being too light? you can't tell these things online. now i have a massive 8kg one that i can barely lift, never mind do sit-ups with.

i think it's actually trying to kill me.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:31, Reply)

but think how awesome you'll feel when you can lift it with ease!

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:41, Reply)

true true
sigh
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:50, Reply)

Yes well you're young enough to do all that and still want to go out.
I'd be going to bed at 9.30.
( girlinthehole, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 8:36, Reply)

I wish I could
Tonight is the last night my brother is here. We've been doing things every evening, and I'm so tired. However, tonight we're going to Rusholme for a curry. And I need to pack and do the laundry at some point too.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 7 Oct 2010, 8:38, Reply)

Mmmmm curry.
We're going to try the tapas bar near me on Saturday.
( girlinthehole, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 8:39, Reply)

Oh, nice
I have to go there with you and try it. Oh, yes, and know that you eat chicken, you can have proper paella as well.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 7 Oct 2010, 8:43, Reply)

Only free range chicken so I wouldn't eat chicken in a restaurant.
I don't know where it comes from.
( girlinthehole, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 8:49, Reply)

I only buy free range too
It tastes nicer and fills you up quicker.

Maybe you can ask at the restaurant. When I order fish I always ask if it's responsibly sourced.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 7 Oct 2010, 8:51, Reply)

I can't see restaurants using f/range chicken. It would be too expensive.

( girlinthehole, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 8:53, Reply)

Good restaurants would
if people asked for it. The same as with fish, they didn't use to do it, but when people started asking for good fish they had to provide it.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 7 Oct 2010, 8:58, Reply)

LoLZ.
Call me cynical but......
"Is that free range chicken in your dishes?"
"Of course madam."
Cut to kitchen.
"Is that free range chicken?" Guffaw.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:24, Reply)

Innit.
Like London's 'halal' chicken shops - found in numerous occasions to be selling chicken with PORK FAT injected into it to increase weight...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:25, Reply)

Halal doesn't mean no pork fat
it means no blood, doesn't it?

Usually they are very proud if they have free range or responsibly sourced fish, and can show you the labels or stamps to prove it.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:36, Reply)

Halal means no pork at all.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:41, Reply)

I believe the point is if you're after halal, having pork as part of the product is somewhat counterproductive

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:43, Reply)

counterproductive
is a very mild way of saying "you and your family will all burn in hell forever". you should have been around to assist in drafting the bible and the koran, you could have saved a lot of problems in the long-term with that sort of rational thinking.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:49, Reply)

It's not a sin
if they don't know they are doing it, so they wouldn't go to hell. The ones selling the chicken, though...
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:56, Reply)

I still retain my mad drafting skillz

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:01, Reply)

It seems I was wrong
I thought they were two different things:

1. Food has to be Halal - animals that weren't dead before slaughtering, and without blood
2. Can't eat pork.

But no, Halal includes both and more:
mideastfood.about.com/od/middleeasternfood101/a/halalfoods.htm
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:50, Reply)

have you been to that tapas bar
el gato negro - it's not sowerby bridge, but just before it (ripponden, i think)? was on tv a few months ago.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:32, Reply)