Posts made by EdH

@scooter As long as we go as late again!

Will do my best, but Mrs H has now made plans to go out for dinner with a friend, so I'll be doing Little Miss H's dinner and bedtime. Might be able to catch the end of the happy hour. Cheers @scooter

Egg, egg, egg!

@Go-For-Chill I don't know what you mean mate. All the measurements on IH's website are done with measuring the IH way. This is clearly stated on the product pages.

Are you saying that you think the waist measurement row in the sizing tables should literally say "Waist - measured the IH way"?

@Nik Dayum! If I was running ultras like you I think I could justify those. Still, it has been good to compare those shorts and figure out the little details that I should be looking out for in an alternative. Thanks!

Need a new pair of running shorts, the zipper finally went on the pair I've had for 15+ years and is not repairable.

My runs are typically with the dog, so for pleasure and easy-going, just aiming to get some low intensity cardio in. My usual route to- through- and back-from- the park is 6-7.5km depending on the route taken in the park. Stopping occasionally to pick up poop, or wait for dog to realise he's fallen behind and catch up. Pocket-wise, I'd need small ones for a house-key, a few doggy poo-bags, and some motivational dog treats.

Who's making good running shorts these days? Any recommends for my needs?

@jordanscollected Dude, tell me about it. I need to speak to a human being at Substack about one of my subscriptions going all fuckey and I cannot for the life of me get hold of a real human being. The chatbot just directs me to the same unhelpful FAQ pages, or to an email address which is answered by, you guessed it, another chatbot.

Good luck with the migration!

Update on sandbag training, I've been playing with them for 4-5 months or so and the workout you get is like nothing else. Because the weight shifts around while you're trying to manipulate them they consistently require max-effort, and the sheer size of them makes them hard to handle.

I have found that the volume taken up by the builder's sand decreases as the sand dries out in the bags, so I've refilled them each a few times since I got them. Every time I do so is like a new challenge, as the bag becomes larger and heavier, and harder to handle.

I predominantly train the main lift - picking the bag off the floor, getting it to your lap, then standing up with it and trying to wrestle it onto one shoulder or the other - with accessory work to support that.

So far I can do a workout with my 80kg bag - Mama Bear - for 15 of these each side, with a lift every minute on the minute, alternating sides between lifts.

The 100kg bag I am still yet to get onto my shoulder. Papa Bear is a mean bastard.

More fetch, this time on the beach.

@goosehd I remember a regular at a bar I worked at while a student getting bored of waiting and accidentally coming out with “Don’t you know who I think I am!”

Said it all really.

CATCH!

@JamesB said in Anyone here play video games?:

looks awesome and very fallout ish but set in the UK

From what I've read/heard/seen about the game, beyond the nuclear-disaster retro-futurism of the setting, it is not very fallout-ish when you actually play it.

There's no player-stats, for instance. The RPG seems to come from making dialogue choices with NPCs (which apparently go quite deep, you can offend everyone and end up without any allies, for instance. I also saw another reviewer say that he came across as too crazy when telling one NPC about the weird things that had been happening to his character, and the NPC shut the conversation down and then blanked him thereafter).

It also apparently tells you very little, leaving you to figure out what to do, where to go (you might get a clue that a location is "west" of another location, but no more than that, and no map markers), so has some immersive sim vibes. You can apparently murder every other character in your quest, and still achieve an ending. There are also apparently severe limits on what you can carry, forcing you to make meaningful choices about which objectives to pursue.

I'm definitely interested myself and think I will pick Atomfall up at some point when I clear a few more things from my backlog.

For my part, I cleared Immortals of Aveum from my backlog last week. A very enjoyable magic-themed FPS. The cutscenes and dialogue were a bit Marvel-esque with all the quips, and there was a lot of nonsense Proper Noun lore-dumping, but I thought the mechanics were good and enemy variety forced you to keep mixing up how you played. It was 'free' on PS+ last year or so, and I'm pleased I finally got around to playing it. A shame it didn't sell well and EA closed the studio, as I think this had B-movie-like potential to become a fairly decent franchise.

Currently playing Animal Well (which I'm finding quite hard) and Persona 5: Royal for the most part.

@Alex Can we also get pics taken from the side and rear (ahem) of this new cut being worn?

Well, colour me interested. It's like someone read my complaint that I'd have to size up a pair of 634 twice to accommodate my thighs. Very interested to see more.

@Alex said in NEW CUT - Relaxed Straight Cut Jeans:

Not 21oz, but we're not ready for that detail just yet.. Keep watching this space!

Partly just to set hares racing, but that reads like a new denim might be coming too?

@ARNC said in Ultra Heavy Happy Hour (IHF Virtual Gatherings) Thread:

@EdH beat me to it on the BST point!

It helps that I'm running a case at the moment which has experts, some lawyers, and one member of the tribunal based in the USA, so I am acutely aware (because they email me at all hours!) of time differences!

@scooter Just double checking timings, because we shift onto daylight savings time this weekend (i.e. British Summer Time or BST, which is GMT+1). Do you mean 18:00 GMT specifically (i.e. 19:00 in London), or "whatever time it's 18:00 in London on that day"?

@ConBu Has he been watching all that bullshit online about the health benefits of sunning your perineum?

@mdavidson Can I just say, from one bro-with-a-mo to another, you have an absolutely cracking moustache, sir.

@thevintagefuture I'm based in the UK and would feel bad about the jeans making two trips across the Atlantic. Plus I'll then be hit with import taxes at the border.

Some of my fun money is currently having to be diverted elsewhere so when these 1955s dropped I decided I had to prioritise the 727s (which restock even less frequently, I think I've been on the "notify me" since at least 2022) which are expected to restock this season.

But thanks for looking out for me!