Could anyone who'd like to be in the podcast post in this thread, including the sort of thing you'd like to talk about? Just a subject area, like hardware, software, the news, that sort of thing.

I would surely like to contribute, but beyond my heart warming belly laugh I have no idea what I can do :$

I might try and make a musical item, but gawd only knows when. What I'm saying is I'd like to but finding the energy and time could take a while.

Me. And um general stuff.

Cloud Computing - mentioning that T mobile data loss cock up

 

Android apps

 

Google Wave? (Although seeing as none of us has an invite praps not)

 

 

Also, I liked that idea of having error messages as Haikus. Could get people to email them in or something.

Sounds good.

I'll dedicate a line of code in Beehive as a prize to the best.

:D Have your name lit up in Beehive code comments.

Good prize that.

Can we interview you about Beehive?

Sounds like a cracking idea.

In fact, that sounds like a good segment to have, The weekly interview with Matt interviews with random forumites. Find out what they do, etc.

I'd like to talk about the vicissitudes of fate.

For one minute, without hesitation or repetition?

Be more pro-active man; talk about him trying to get rid of the weight, rather than focussing on what he's become.

 

But seriously, anyone see the BBC news this morning? There were two fat women campaigning for the right for fat people not be abused and for it to be made a kind of hate crime to discriminate against those horizontally challenged people.

 

Funny thing was they kept bleating on about how genes can affect your size n' weight, then they showed a professor/scientist type bloke who said genes really don't play that big a part in determining your weight. So 'naturally fat' is a bit of a fallacy. They also mentioned that diets don't work... wonder if they ever tried my diet? I call it the eat less do more diet, and it worked for me, I used to be a heffer, but now I'm not thanks to eating less and doing more.

 

So... what I'd like to have talked about is issues.

 

Issues about being fat.

Billy Connoly summed it all up for me

1. if you want to lose weight you have to eat less and move more, that's all there is to it

2. all this 'genitic disposition to weight gain' or 'some gland not working properly' is bollocks
in all the starving african/ethopian/wherever films you've ever seen did you ever once see a huge fat guy at the back saying "I don't understand, I hardly eat a thing"?

I am overweight, and I plan to do something about it (already am doing slowly)
but it's not about glands or big-bones or genitic fat genes
it's just eating less and moving more

How many podcasts do you think you'll need?

 

Perhaps you could have another on ponyporn?

Yep, totally agree... though the bints on the news this morning were saying that they 'don't want' to go through the pain of dieting because it'd cause their quality of life to drop to a point where they had zero enjoyment. They didn't seem to realise that quality of life isn't always about food and they'd they'd no doubt be better off with a healthier body.

I didn't see the article on the BBC news, but I did read this. Oh dear.

I did have to laugh at the comments from the UK activists though. What a sad pair. Especially this:
Umm, I thought 'beating people up' /was/ a crime. :?

If they lost weight they could probably enjoy some proper sex instead of getting some poor bastard passed out drunk, giving him a shove to get him going and letting him ride the ripples.