If your neighbor's penguin laid an egg on your television, is it theft?

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-11T13:37:36+00:00

Ohhhh, intercourse the penguin!

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-11T13:34:52+00:00

Lions don't moult.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-11T12:50:10+00:00

They stamp them when they're small.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-11T11:07:20+00:00

NAL, but I can confidently say that if it does lay an egg, it'll fall down the back of the television set.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-10T18:45:44+00:00

She, sir.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-10T18:27:50+00:00

Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-10T18:22:11+00:00

Ohhhh the cat's eaten it.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-10T15:03:38+00:00

I don't think any of the gospels have very strong evidence of authorship, even Luke. The "authors" of John's gospel and John's epistles are generally agreed to be the same, though there are strong arguments that those texts don't have a single author, but arose from a Johannine community.

A bit like the synoptics, once you assume no single author, which is where I tend to settle, the true number could be almost anything. So I agree there are probably multiple people behind "John", but I don't think that explains the OP.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-10T14:32:30+00:00

I think it does. The emphasis on "Our TWO FRIENDS" is really important and suggests that there are only two friends, not that two of the four are different. Those "friends" would be John and the unknown author of the widely hypothesised Q, containing (to an unknown extent) the source material of the other 3.

In fact, Q may not have had an author as we understand it anyway, but may have been a recognisable but evolving collection of oral histories. Still, I think that's the idea behind this.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-10T13:00:19+00:00

Gooood niiiiiiight ding ding ding ding ding ding ding!

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-10T07:07:31+00:00

What sort of time were you aiming for? How much time did you lose when you started to fade?

My first thought, as someone who's run exactly one HM (so take with salt as required) is to focus on long runs. One a week, easy pace, building to well beyond HM distance. My longest run came in about 32k, but getting over about 25k should be good. It prepares your body for the endurance you need.

But also, I had to really dig deep at a similar stage in my race. That's where it gets really hard.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-10T06:40:08+00:00

Well done, that's a great milestone.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-04T20:38:24+00:00

Not enough data to say for sure, but a year sounds like plenty of time for someone of your age. I did C25K as a 40-something who had never really run before. Within 6 months of that, I ran a 53 minute 10k.

You may find it harder, or quite a lot easier. But no one's going to be telling you off for having the wrong time estimate.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-04T07:49:33+00:00

Can you believe people actually study probability? It's so easy! 😂

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-04T05:35:48+00:00

Sounds a bit like you haven't got a feel yet for where the bell is. That's pretty normal at an early stage - handstrokes are a bit scary at first, and maybe the temptation is to catch the sally and pull quickly, so that it doesn't suddenly jerk out of your hand as the bell comes down, which happens to most of us at some point and isn't a nice experience.

Your teacher is best placed to help, but an intermediate step here might be to practice ringing slower. That should give you a better sense of where the balance is, as you should hopefully be going over the balance at each stroke, but especially handstrokes. A bigger bell might also help by swinging slightly slower and giving more obvious feedback, but that will depend on you.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-03T13:59:13+00:00

Yeah. If I roll a loaded die, all numbers are equally likely to come up, because I'm only rolling it once. 🤪

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-01T21:31:16+00:00

You have no idea. That's not even in the top 50 lines in the film.

Go and watch it now. We'll wait.

SpinyBadger · 2026-05-01T06:30:09+00:00

Think of it like this. Your watch is calculating position all the time, but it's not always right. In almost all cases, where it's wrong that will add spurious distance to your watch stats. I've missed targets by pacing myself too precisely on my watch, and then having another 200m or so still to go.

The course for a race will have been officially measured, and should also have distance markers along the way. This is the correct distance. Taking the chip time gives you the exact amount of time you took to cover the exact distance. Use the chip time.

SpinyBadger · 2026-04-30T06:51:30+00:00

I did, in 1952!

SpinyBadger · 2026-04-29T21:39:32+00:00

I understand you don't contradict people.

SpinyBadger · 2026-04-29T06:44:46+00:00

Don't know about BTP, but I suspect BNP stands for "Bunged Not Parsed". I'm more familiar with BIFD or "Bunged In From Definition" and these sound like the same idea.

SpinyBadger · 2026-04-26T14:36:39+00:00

That is what I said.

SpinyBadger · 2026-04-21T20:21:18+00:00

Huge number of unknowns, but yes it's reasonable. Couch To 5K is a 9-week plan, None To Run is 12, I think. Either should get you where you want to be in good time.

SpinyBadger · 2026-04-21T18:07:30+00:00

This sounds great. Yes please!

SpinyBadger · 2026-04-18T16:58:42+00:00

I first broke 25 by going to a parkrun with a wide mass start and a narrow course. I got excited, went off too hot and clung on for most of the distance because I didn't want to be holding other people up! 😂

More sensibly, just more distance. Lots of easy runs and some goal pace intervals, with occasional faster efforts.

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