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What did you learn today?
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The lady has the real talent. I'm just dipping my toes in the pool and hoping I don't drown. Got a great lifeguard in any case!Wait... Are you the master baker or is your girlfriend a master baker?
EDIT: Oh, just looked up the term master baker and while I initially, and, technically incorrectly, used it to describe one who is an extremely talented baker, and not a professional/teacher, well, I'd be a madman to walk back that compliment so I shall not. My taste buds and stomach still say masterful and I'm sticking to it! (But my mouth is seriously watering at the BIL master proof above. Mmm...)
Soooo... TIL that "master baker" describes a profession and not just an abundance of skill and passion. Who knew! (Okay a bunch of folks in here knew, but this thread is all about self-improvement right?)
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Here is said (now retired) master baker.
Does your wife dress like him while baking, and does she have a humongous stone oven like that in the background?
Having a strong Swiss accent helps, here.
Does your wife dress like him while baking, and does she have a humongous stone oven like that in the background?
Having a strong Swiss accent helps, here.
Today I met people ‘on the other side of the tracks’, and was reminded how blessed and fortunate my life is and has been.
My heart goes out to anyone here who hasn’t had an easy life.
My heart goes out to anyone here who hasn’t had an easy life.
When children of the 1980s and ’90s meet Rob Nelson, they share with him a version of the same misty, water-colored memory: the dusty dugout of a hometown baseball field, a scrappy summer little-league team, and a communal pouch of Big League Chew—the shredded bubble gum that Nelson, a former minor-league pitcher, invented in 1979.
Forty years later, Nelson’s creation has become closely allied with our national pastime, a sport of spitting and gum chewing and chewing things over. More than 800 million pouches of Big League Chew have been sold. The company does about $16 to $17 million in revenue each year. And a pouch hangs in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
“I like to say that my arm’s not in the Hall of Fame, but my gum is,” Nelson told me. “It’s not the way I thought I’d get in, but I have no complaints.”
The Incredible History of Big League Chew
Forty years later, Nelson’s creation has become closely allied with our national pastime, a sport of spitting and gum chewing and chewing things over. More than 800 million pouches of Big League Chew have been sold. The company does about $16 to $17 million in revenue each year. And a pouch hangs in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
“I like to say that my arm’s not in the Hall of Fame, but my gum is,” Nelson told me. “It’s not the way I thought I’d get in, but I have no complaints.”
The Incredible History of Big League Chew
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I learned all about big teeth being pulled....man that hurts. Luckily the dentist was a sweet woman. She made the experience less hellish....
The Fasting Mimicking Diet.
TL/DR:
just 5 days of Keto foods at 40% of your caloric requirement will give you 60% of the benefits of a full Fasting/Keto diet. Do this twice a year as maintenance, or up to once a month for optimal results.
Fasting Mimicking Diet: What It Is and How to Do It - Perfect Keto
TL/DR:
just 5 days of Keto foods at 40% of your caloric requirement will give you 60% of the benefits of a full Fasting/Keto diet. Do this twice a year as maintenance, or up to once a month for optimal results.
Fasting Mimicking Diet: What It Is and How to Do It - Perfect Keto
Is this the diet poor old Shane Warne should've been on?
(His fate, mapped out here — “Avoid ‘savage’ dieting,” cautions top doctor over Warne’s death)
Sham article. Pure speculation. He was on a ‘boys weekend’ at the time. His notoriety for alcohol, drugs, wild partying, plus a pre-existing heart condition with recent symptoms requiring a doctors visit all coalesced. Or maybe it was his love of pizza.
Okay. Try this one on then.
After Warne's death from a suspected heart attack in Thailand, his manager James Erskine said the cricket legend had recently finished a "ridiculous diet" where he consumed only "black and green juices" for two weeks. …
'Fluid-only' diets like Shane Warne's can be risky, experts say
'Fluid-only' diets like Shane Warne's can be risky, experts say
Just speculation & sensationalist media BS. I expected more depth from you TBH. Try digging a little deeper.
“ The great Australian bowler was a chain smoker who had recently undergone treatment for Covid-19 and was suffering from other health problems (Asthma, Two bouts of Covid, a long-term pre-existing heart condition, profuse sweating the week prior) . There's no conclusive evidence that Warne's diet contributed to his heart attack.”
Did Shane Warne's 14-day liquid diet trigger heart attack? Experts link extreme detox to death
Let’s not forget the elephant in the room.
Covid questions arise over Warne's death
PS. Not interested in a petty tit-for-tat online ‘debate’, especially after what has bern dug up. DYOR. I’m done.
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It's really interesting. I bowl leg spin and swing, and I've got a few years on Warny, so his story is a particularly savage wake up call for all of us in my circle. Thick on the ground we are — emphasis on thick
This sort of stuff can be just what the doctor ordered. I won't be dieting, looking for an easy way out, as a consequence. Just being staid and healthy, seeking wisdom, eating the right food, steering clear of the traps, and hydrating, along with exercising and sleeping well should do the trick. This, if you tune in, is pretty much the best advice flowing on from this story. People should take notice.I was taking this in, in the followup, as it hit me pretty hard, Warny's untimely passing.
Kenza's a personal trainer who, if I'm not mistaken, has a pretty good head on her shoulders, for such a young woman. Her no nonsense, down-to-earth approach to health and wellbeing is really very refreshing — augers well for the future. She's not a big fan of extreme dieting either, I'm pleased to note.
Shane was an exceptional bowler — taught me a thing or two about playing the game —
… but off the field, he was sometimes less than great, as you mention,
He was also off the beam with some of his beliefs. Wouldn't eat anything but vegemite sandwiches and canned baked beans whenever he was on the subcontinent
I imagine the culture played a hand — he, like many may have been misled by dumb ideas — plenty of them about the traps — and bad behavior, and, worryingly, the lad himself had a hand in the influencing of many of us, perhaps sometimes unduly, too — not always a good thing, not cricket. Worth taking onboard.
So, worth repeating, some good may come of this — that's what my nan would be saying, always looking on the bright side, she was. Thanks for your involvement, @Groove Doctor.
These things are sent to test us. I'm all the better for having this little adventure. Brokenhearted to have lost old Warny, sad for his family and friends, and he had a good many. But I'm more than ready now to roll the arm over again next summer. I may get a game in his absence, as long as the body's properly juiced up and still willing. I'll be there, sure as eggs, when the whips are cracking
He was also off the beam with some of his beliefs. Wouldn't eat anything but vegemite sandwiches and canned baked beans whenever he was on the subcontinent
I imagine the culture played a hand — he, like many may have been misled by dumb ideas — plenty of them about the traps — and bad behavior, and, worryingly, the lad himself had a hand in the influencing of many of us, perhaps sometimes unduly, too — not always a good thing, not cricket. Worth taking onboard.So, worth repeating, some good may come of this — that's what my nan would be saying, always looking on the bright side, she was. Thanks for your involvement, @Groove Doctor.
These things are sent to test us. I'm all the better for having this little adventure. Brokenhearted to have lost old Warny, sad for his family and friends, and he had a good many. But I'm more than ready now to roll the arm over again next summer. I may get a game in his absence, as long as the body's properly juiced up and still willing. I'll be there, sure as eggs, when the whips are cracking
I have to say, while I like a lot of what is said in that clip from personal trainer Kenza, her platform IS a little bit wobbly. I took a few of her other offerings in — I still like her spirit — and I may have been wrong to single her out as an expert. She's convinced, on one hand, that her irritable bowel syndrome will likely be a product of stress and anxiety.
I wonder if all the powered, processed, packaged brotein-shake type dietary supplements she's involving herself with aren't part of the iBS problem she's experiencing. I'd better rethink some of this. I'll get back to you.
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Well I have stopped my diet since Warne passed, can’t be too careful.
I must admit when I heard he died in Thailand my first thought was he went out John Entwistle style.
I must admit when I heard he died in Thailand my first thought was he went out John Entwistle style.
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