February 2009

Friday Fun – More Funny Beer Ads

27 February 2009

Last week I posted some funny beer commercials so I thought I’d do the same this week too.  This will be the last time though, at least for a while. As before, a couple are a bit risqué, especially the last one, but were suitable for TV: This one cleverly visualises what happens to all [...]

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Training for the British Masters Weightlifting Championships

26 February 2009

I got confirmation a couple of days ago that I’m definitely in the BWLA British Masters Weightlifting Championships in Lilleshall, Shropshire in 2.5 weeks.  The bad news is, I’m lifting against Brendan Cooke an established lifter from Northern Ireland and Ian Robertson, a 14x Scottish champion. There goes my chance to sneak a title then, [...]

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Finally got a Facebook Account

25 February 2009

I finally got round to getting a Facebook Account. I have been resisting the momentum that is Facebook for some time, but was finally persuaded, in part because of my mates at Crossfit Manchester who entered the English Indoor Rowing Championships and had posted pictures and videos up on Facebook. Iif you’re interested, feel free [...]

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My WordPress Blog was Hacked… again!

22 February 2009

I periodically check my blog stats with Google Analytics, something I did the other night. Take a look at the traffic graph (click the image to see a bigger version): As you can see, something happened around the 5th Feb that knocked about 75% of the normal traffic off the site! Obviously I was bothered [...]

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Friday Fun – Best Beer Ads?

19 February 2009

Which of these commercials would you consider the best beer ad?  First up, the Aussie Big Beer Ad: WPvideo 1.10 Not bad and certainly a hefty budget, if only for all those outfits! Moving swiftly on however, we have an interview with a lady friend: WPvideo 1.10 Now that’s more like it! This best beer [...]

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Workout Update

18 February 2009

I haven’t posted much in the way of workouts recently, so thought I’d stick up what I’ve done the last 2 days at the globo gym in Cardiff. Yesterday I was really hopeful the new bumper plates had turned up so I could do some Oly lifting, but no. It’s been over 3 weeks now. [...]

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Northern Masters Champion 2009

16 February 2009

As promised this is the video of me lifting in the BWLA Northern Masters Olympic Weightlifting competition in Keighley, West Yorkshire last week. I was trying to get a 175 total. To be clear, I won due to the fact I was the only person lifting in my age and weight category, lol. WPvideo 1.10 [...]

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Friday Fun – Crossfit T-shirt Straplines

13 February 2009

Oops, I was out on the lash last night and got in far to late and too drunk to do a normal Friday fun post, so this will have to do: This is a list of t-shirt straplines, compiled by my mates at Crossfit Manchester.  All applicable to Crossfit of course: “I count my nuts” [...]

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Northern Masters – Champion of…. 1

9 February 2009

Well I went to the Northern Masters Olympic Weightlifting in Keighley, Yorkshire at the weekend, along with several other members of Crossfit Manchester. I’ll get the video edited and uploaded sometime next week (I haven’t got round to getting it off the camcorder yet). Long story short my lifts were: Snatch: 65, 70, 75F C [...]

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Friday Fun – C&J with a friend, and PowerThirst!!!

5 February 2009

This was such an amazing video, I watched it 3 times in a row! WPvideo 1.10 This spoof advert for PowerThirst had be rolling around laughing (1 use of bad language): WPvideo 1.10 And here’s the updated “In a rocket” version: WPvideo 1.10

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