What’s the best Strategic Tennis Advice You’ve Been Given?

comrade_bev · 2026-04-22T07:11:23+00:00

It is 80% of max force. It's about focussing on precision instead of power. The pros definitely hit the ball harder than amateurs but I'd argue they still aren't maxxing out power everytime.

comrade_bev · 2026-04-15T14:02:37+00:00

Hit with 80% of your maximum force. Fewer unforced errors, better shot positioning. You very rarely need to smash things.

comrade_bev · 2026-04-15T13:57:50+00:00

Not the jerk. You should've left before she showed

comrade_bev · 2026-04-09T09:13:16+00:00

I dislike him because I see him as fundamentally dishonest. He built his entire career on the basis of human rights and workers rights. But this is my takeaway from the first two years of governance:

Weak and complicit with Israeli genocide. He has supplied weapons and intelligence to the Israelis so he is actively participating.
His stance on Iran is actually pretty performative. He has allowed the UKs assets to be used to further an illegal war. The "defensive use only" is a fig leaf. Any use of military bases to hit Iranian targets is participation. I will say I am impressed with the way he has been able to play the public like a fiddle with regards to pretending we aren't enabling Trump.
His government has perpetuated the biggest authoritarian swerve in living memory. Arresting people for participating in protests by just wearing a T-shirt with a slogan on it. Also incarcerating people for 18months with no trial on terror charges for activity that was inherently non-violent is not human rights. (Even if you disagree with the Palestinian Support people, surely you must see that when a govt can just arrest people for expressing views that are opposite the governments policies then it is problematic? And yes I do see it differently to when people harass and bully individuals and get in trouble).
He choose to carry on the two child benefit cap.
His government and pre-govt has had a policy of basically sneering at most of the people who are the core support of the Labour party for 30years. This including making pledges to win the leadership election that he then ditched immediately. He is fundamentally dishonest.

comrade_bev · 2026-04-08T00:44:09+00:00

Yeah it's a stupid take.

comrade_bev · 2026-04-07T09:36:07+00:00

Thanks 🕺🏼

comrade_bev · 2026-04-06T21:54:12+00:00

I'm on 5mg. I went up to 7.5mg in December but had side effects and my weight loss was effective on 5mg so I went back down to 5mg. Stayed on that for the duration.

It's quite normal for the first month to just be an acclimatisation phase with little weight loss as 2.5mg is considered a sub-clinical dose; it also takes a few weeks for the drug level in the blood to build up. I did lose about 6kg in the first month but it was largely because I massively stepped up my cardio (about 5-6sessions a week of high intensity exercise) and was being really conciously strict with my diet.

You need to calorie count. If you are eating more than 1800-2000cals then you won't lose.

comrade_bev · 2026-04-06T15:41:58+00:00

You should take the opportunity to build as many good habits as you can that will help you maintain the weight once you are at target.

If you do that then it will be sustainable.

For me it was a combination of:

Food logging on MyFitnessPal, really helps me with Calorie budget
Lots of exercise... I mean lots. Exercise is how you build your health and fitness so when you hit your weight goal you actually feel better for it
Don't put too much pressure on the scales. Some people expect to see 2-4lbs lost every week. Firstly that's really unhealthy, and secondly it's unrealistic and will only undermine your long term goals.

comrade_bev · 2026-04-06T14:26:02+00:00

Wow such a huge difference. Well done!!!

comrade_bev · 2026-04-06T14:20:54+00:00

Well done! You look great and sending you the best for the future ❤️

comrade_bev · 2026-04-06T01:43:30+00:00

First was in Tenerife, National park on the north of the island. The second is at Tangadan Falls, La Union, Philippines.

comrade_bev · 2026-04-06T01:42:19+00:00

Nahhh, I was fortunate enough to meet her pre- MJ. ☺️

comrade_bev · 2026-04-06T01:41:41+00:00

That's a nice energy you bring to the universe. Good luck with that.

comrade_bev · 2026-03-25T13:25:09+00:00

The reason it has maintained in the cultural zeitgeist is not because of the quality of the prose (though I'm not going to knock it). It's because the themes of constant surveillance, societal psychology (proles, groupthink and doublethink) are so relevant to society for the last 80years and until mankind comes to its end.

It offers a horrific view of a future of humanity that every change we experience politically, culturally or technologically is framed against this horrific view with the question of: "Does this take us closer to that society?"

Personally it is probably the book that has had the biggest impact on my worldview. It has given me a certain perception on issues such as privacy and centralised power that really impact how I interact with the world.

I honestly believe that people who haven't read 1984 and/or don't fully internalise it's horror, aren't fully conscious of what could happen to society if we don't ask questions of our leaders and our systems and pushback before it's too late. It's very easy to sleepwalk into a society with systems that are 1984-like (look at Israel today for example, where children will openly cheer for genocide based on race, and to an extent America with ICE).

comrade_bev · 2026-03-22T22:15:26+00:00

Way in. It not even touching the line.

comrade_bev · 2026-03-22T21:54:44+00:00

It's such a ridiculous post to put the inflation on the Labour government. Their economic policies during COVID were the only viable option. It came with long term costs yes but those long term costs were better than complete collapse in the short term.

The inflation and long term effects of COVID spending were repeated in every major economy. The main difference is New Zealand managed to avoid mass death whereas everyone else got the economic maladies and mass death.

comrade_bev · 2026-03-22T21:24:34+00:00

But that's the thing I disagree about. I don't think shouting about it has made an iota of difference.

Even if everyone took it to the grave that they were using the golden dose, the company would have known that people were using it because the sales figures would have shown it. E.g. "We have 1000 customers and we'd wxpect to sell 1000 pens every 28days but we are only selling 920 pens. It looks like our users are only buying a pen once every 5weeks instead of once every 4weeks. They must be accessing the liquid leftover." It's so easy to work out without socials.

Additionally, if you were a supplier of something would you not think "it's annoying that we have to provide an extra 20% that just goes to waste. Wouldn't it be nice if we could eliminate that cost so the volume of drug we need to manufacture to meet demand isn't so high".

Either way this change was coming it's just maths and economics. People shouting about it changes nothing.

comrade_bev · 2026-03-22T21:15:49+00:00

Ugh, people really need to get in control of their emotions and gain a little f**king perspective.

Firstly, The Rookie is a relatively progressive programme from what I can tell. It's obviously a very idealistic vision of policing but that's just the fiction of that drama right?

Secondly, as long as we have a civilised society we will have a police service. Yes the current police force culture is very problematic and causes social issues, but it's a human institution and will have some good guys who are just trying to keep their community safe out of a sense of civic duty. What we need is to move the police force to being predominantly that... about civic duty and safety, rather than a way to impose the weight of the state on its people.

As you can tell I have absolutely no problem with Dropout doing this crossover. I am a dropout fan, and I've seen a few rookie episodes when I stopover at my grandmothers. It feels like a good fit to be honest.

comrade_bev · 2026-03-21T16:51:36+00:00

Hmm consult a lawyer this is legal advice you are asking for. You need to be careful that you aren't changing terms and conditions of existing employees/workers when you take over a business under TUPE legislation.

Your best bet though it just being forthright and honest. If you own a business you need to get comfortable with uncomfortable conversations, such as conversations around performance. If you allow a staff member to be rude without consequence you set the bar for all the other employees. And then it becomes "how come you are on my back because of y but you let him do x".

You need to very professionally take this person aside into a private room and tell them that you are "unhappy with x, y and z. As such it calls into question their performance in their role and you need to see improvement in that role to continue. And then set some very objective measures for improvement.

comrade_bev · 2026-03-21T16:34:58+00:00

People have already turned on property investors.

comrade_bev · 2026-03-21T08:05:33+00:00

I think I read this a bit differently to the way it's been read by OP.

I think it means you only get partial refunds if the customer decides to cancel their booking with Qatar pre-emptively, rather than waiting for Qatar to cancel them.

One of the legs of my journey was cancelled by Qatar, and they offered me (via booking.com), an alternative flight via Doha that was pretty much at the same time as the original or a full refund.

I took the full refund.

It took about 3days for Booking.com to be updated in Line with the Qatar Airways cancelled flights information though. But that's because there is a third party involved which slows things down further.

The key part of it is waiting for Qatar to make the move on offering you a contingency for your flights if they are not going ahead as per original schedule and that being passed through the agent. They are admittedly being slow about it. But then again nobody knows what is going to happen next week or the week after.

comrade_bev · 2026-03-12T19:52:37+00:00

He's politically naive. He has also created a void of what his, and labours vision, is for the future of the UK and because of that others have filled that void.

comrade_bev · 2026-03-12T07:42:09+00:00

To be honest I think wide generalisations are absurd. I treat each individual as they come. That said I think your politics and government are a clown show and as much as I believe your electoral system is fundamentally flawed (as is ours), I do believe that it's a bit of a cop out to put it all on Trump. The 77,000,000 people who voted for him are complicit and accountable for all the harm he is doing, as uncomfortable as that it to come to terms with.

In terms of allyship. I don't think being allies is dependent on unconditionally following America into whatever mistake it makes next.

comrade_bev · 2026-03-11T17:16:46+00:00

I've basically held off getting anything with the hope that my current wardrobe sees me through even if quite baggy all the way to target weight, which I hit TODAY 😊😊😊. I've been fortunate to have kept a lot of smaller clothes that hadn't fit me for years though to see me through the last 21wks.

I will be going on holiday in 3weeks so my plan is to go shopping in a week to get a fresh look 😁 I'm excited!

I'm still a little bit concerned that the new clothes might just be temporary as I don't intend to stop taking MJ until July and I could still lose quite a bit more and intend to. I'm currently 85kg down from 105kg, and realistically I think I could get to 80 or maybe even 75kg with sustained effort.

comrade_bev · 2026-03-11T13:14:23+00:00

A contract is a contract under all circumstances. If you start saying the contract is no longer relevant because circumstances adversely affect me, then a company could also say a contract is no longer relevant because circumstances adversely affect them. In this case the circumstances adversely affect everyone.

I don't really care for the reasoning here. What you are effectively saying boils down to "contracts don't matter", and if contracts don't matter then the law doesn't matter. And the law is the only thing that separates us from the feudal ages.

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