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Previously on "Sitting down & standing up again."

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  • mudskipper
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    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    I can tell you right now I cannot do it, nor would I ever try to do it.
    Judging by your other thread, I think it's fair to say you're 5x as likely to die within 6 years as the average CUKer.

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  • minestrone
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    Originally posted by Unix View Post
    CUK is blocked at my new contract, what have I missed?
    In the time it took you to type that probably the fries on line 1.

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  • Unix
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    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    After CUK's little version of kristallnacht look who appears.
    CUK is blocked at my new contract, what have I missed?

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  • minestrone
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    Originally posted by Unix View Post
    Did it no problem. Standing back up took a bit of thrust though.
    After CUK's little version of kristallnacht look who appears.

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  • Unix
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    Did it no problem. Standing back up took a bit of thrust though.

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  • I just need to test it
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    I mentioned this to the current wife at breakfast. She's a sucker for this kind of thing. I then endured a very disturbing few minutes as she grunted and rocked back and forth in her dressing gown and pants.

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  • minestrone
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    I can tell you right now I cannot do it, nor would I ever try to do it.

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  • alluvial
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    Fifty, smoker, drink far too much, bugger all exercise and did this no problem.
    So time to tear up those silly new year resolutions me thinks.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    I used to do 12 unassisted stand up and sit-downs per night.
    Then I realised that I could carry a fozzies in each hand, so now I do 6



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  • Coalman
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    Sorry, but isn't something with daily mail and science/tech in the URL a contradiction in terms?
    I've not been able to do this since my early twenties and I'm not dead yet...

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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by DaveB View Post
    What load of complete bollocks that article is. Still, it is the Wail.
    That article should carry a health warning.

    Oh.

    It's right there in the title.

    <cynical mode>
    It's probably been sponsored by the Physiotherapists Marketing Board (if there is one)

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  • administrator
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    I'm not going to try just in case I can't do it and have to spend then next six years wondering when the axe will fall...

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  • DaveB
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    What load of complete bollocks that article is. Still, it is the Wail.

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  • MarillionFan
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    Getting down was fine as I sit cross legged. Then attempting to get up without a hand my knee popped.

    Thank you OP.

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  • Bunk
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    Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
    Sounds like a good party game for Friday
    You can do that. I'll be seeing how much whisky and champagne it takes to make me fall over

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