Brixton news, rumour and general chat - January 2016

[TruXta]

According to this someone doing little or no excercise will burn about 83% of their total daily energy expenditure on account of their basal metabolic rate.

And someone extremely active will only burn 52% of their total on account of their BMR.

So, the truth is that the proportion of calories we burn as a result of just sitting around varies between about 50 and 80% (ie quite a lot) depending on the amount of excercise we do. Not "two thirds".

Excuse me?

 

[teuchter]

Excuse me?

Please refer to this guidance:

You seem to be struggling to differentiate between (a) the effect of physical excercise on BMR and (b) the effect of physical exercise on the proportion of total calories expended via BMR. You keep going on about (a) when from the beginning I have been talking about (b).

 

[TruXta]

I'm clearly not the only one with reading comprehension problems.

 

[CH1]

I am on my knees wearing expensive celery. Can someone tell me whether this is calorie negative or positive. It certainly feels very positive.

If you're not careful you'll end up on the gay thread answering questions about the Brixton Fairies (as indeed I have been). I won't ask where you are wearing the celery.

 

[TruXta]

I'm clearly not the only one with reading comprehension problems.

Actually I take that back. Apologies, I was wrong. teuchter

 

[Rushy]

Hang on. Is this even allowed ^^^?

 

[Angellic]

Yes, you are. You brought it up in this post:



I had not said anything about physical activity impacting BMR previous to that post. You thought I had because you weren't reading anything properly.

Now is the point at which you should apologise to the whole class for disrupting the thread with your carelessness.

Does eating or wearing celery impact on BMR?

 

[deadringer]

What constitutes expensive gym wear? I'm assuming the axis of evil of Adidas/Reebok/Nike, but these can be picked up fairly cheap at Sports Direct. It's a bloody mine field!

 

[EastEnder]

What constitutes expensive gym wear? I'm assuming the axis of evil of Adidas/Reebok/Nike, but these can be picked up fairly cheap at Sports Direct. It's a bloody mine field!

I would imagine there may be an inverse correlation between swankiness of gym wear & attendance at a gym.

 

[Winot]

Hang on. Is this even allowed ^^^?

Post reported.

 

[teuchter]

Actually I take that back. Apologies, I was wrong. teuchter

 

[CH1]

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My own eyesight is not 100% with this shingles I've got.
That photo looked like Reagan and IDS for a moment.

 

[editor]

Brixton wise I would like to know what is happening with two shops up on the hill. The antiques shop is supposedly going to be a coffee shop but it looks like it’s still being fitted out. The old record shop opposite has some fancy new tiling and signage (I think it says ‘alkaline’) but is also still boarded up….


Anyone know anything?

I love that old antiques shop. I hope they don't trash it too much.

 

[editor]

Here's a selection of gigs and clubs for the weekend in and around Brixton: What’s on in Brixton this weekend – bar, gig and club selection for Fri 8th – Sun 10th Jan 2016

Full listing here: Brixton listings

Who's going where tonight?

 

[MissL]

I love that old antiques shop. I hope they don't trash it too much.

Brixton

 

[editor]

Brixton

"Gospel" "nomadic by nature."

 

[MissL]

"Gospel" "nomadic by nature."

i know. it's just a(nother) coffee shop right?

 

[friendofdorothy]

I'm not the person that brought up the impact of physical activity on BMR am I?

Sorry everyone on this thread I'll never mention food, exercise or BBC tv programs ever again

What's the point then?

the point was that I hate jogging and lyrca

Im surprised that sitting on your Arsenal burns more than 10% of a normal daily intake. I suppose it obscures the (to me) most important point about weight loss; you still need to burn x calories to not be a fat burden on society

that is a really impolite way to talk about me.

Now all please shut up about it! unless it is particularly Brixton related.

 

[Mr Retro]

What constitutes expensive gym wear? I'm assuming the axis of evil of Adidas/Reebok/Nike, but these can be picked up fairly cheap at Sports Direct. It's a bloody mine field!

<sniggers disdainfully at deadringer> At a push you can have Nike. At a push like.

If you're not wearing as a minimum entry level Lululemon and Athleta you're probably fat. Sorry.

 

[friendofdorothy]

Here's a selection of gigs and clubs for the weekend in and around Brixton: What’s on in Brixton this weekend – bar, gig and club selection for Fri 8th – Sun 10th Jan 2016

Full listing here: Brixton listings

Who's going where tonight?

Not much in Brixton for us older femmes these days so we're off to Vauxhall tonight. It's a big night at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, drag, cabaret, armwrestling . . . and no one has ever asked me for ID, or called me fat.

 

[aka]

i know. it's just a(nother) coffee shop right?

we've already got F-Mondays, but I guess that's on the other side of the road, so good luck to them. I was holding out for a decent cafe to give 'cafe on the hill' a bit of competition.

 

[SpamMisery]

 

[aka]

F-Mondays is a coffee shop on the RHS of the hill (heading south) 100 yards after the White Horse. HTH.

 

[leanderman]

we've already got F-Mondays, but I guess that's on the other side of the road, so good luck to them. I was holding out for a decent cafe to give 'cafe on the hill' a bit of competition.

A coffee shop's good news for us on this side of the road.

The ex-record shop is going to serve 'healthy alkaline pressed drinks'

Niece has been singing the praises of Cafe on the Hill, outstanding value breakfasts apparently.

 

[Winot]

The ex-record shop is going to serve 'healthy alkaline pressed drinks'

For neutralising acid casualties?

 

[editor]

Not much in Brixton for us older femmes these days so we're off to Vauxhall tonight. It's a big night at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, drag, cabaret, armwrestling . . . and no one has ever asked me for ID, or called me fat.

There's a Bowie and Elvis night at the Effra Social tonight and Brasilian Beats and World Music at Cabana Brixton's Caipirinha Bar. I might pop in....

 

[happyshopper]

Niece has been singing the praises of Cafe on the Hill, outstanding value breakfasts apparently.

I still miss the pad Thai.

 

[Casaubon]

"Gospel" "nomadic by nature."

'Science has propelled the coffee industry into a new era of enlightenment. We’re now learning new ways to extract coffee, control variables and focus on details that produce the perfect cup of coffee.

Baristas have become scientists in their own right and cafes are starting to look remarkably like labs.

We are not scientists, nor do we want to work in a lab. We are a couple of guys who have a passion for slinging good coffee, anytime, anywhere.'

They're not exactly winning me over.
'Scientists in their own right' is the most pretentious thing I've seen in a long time.

 

[Rushy]

'Science has propelled the coffee industry into a new era of enlightenment. We’re now learning new ways to extract coffee, control variables and focus on details that produce the perfect cup of coffee.

Baristas have become scientists in their own right and cafes are starting to look remarkably like labs.

We are not scientists, nor do we want to work in a lab. We are a couple of guys who have a passion for slinging good coffee, anytime, anywhere.'

They're not exactly winning me over.
'Scientists in their own right' is the most pretentious thing I've seen in a long time.

I thought that. But then I concluded that that was what they were trying to differentiate themselves from. Rather clumsily.

 

[Rushy]

I still miss the pad Thai.

Jars of chilli on every table. Oh yeah.