The Penguin Has Landed

[Shifty]

And there goes the neighbourhood... :smiley2:

Howzit ekse.

A good friend of mine told me about this place, and since I happened to be passing, I thought I'd come and check it out. I see a few familiar 'faces' here :smiley20:

I'm living in Wellington, NZ these days. I see there are a few ouens living in Orcland. So I'd like to apologise in advance for the thrashing you guys are going to receive from the Hurricanes in the Super 14 this year.:13:
But if you could beat the Crusaders this year that would be good. :smiley32:

Anyway, that's all for now. Time for my injection.


Nuuuuuuuuurse!

[Poison]

Hello and welcome to the site.. Great to have another NZ based person join..

With the Super 14, I hope Auckland get thumped this year...

[Peas]

Shifty!! :smiley9:

glad you popped in! long time!

how the heck are you?! :smiley17:

[Shayne]

Greetings Shifty and welcome aboard :)

I'm surprised Wellington have the net let alone power! And they cant play rugby for their lives thats why you should support a real Super 14 side like the Brumbies.

Anyway, see you in the sports section.

[Shifty]

Shifty!! :smiley9:

glad you popped in! long time!

how the heck are you?! :smiley17:

Sleasypeas! How the hell? Good to see you. Love you long time :smiley31: :smiley32:

[nightape]

Hey Shifty, nice to see you on here, enjoy.

[sally]

welcome to the site i am sure you will have loads of fun here!!

[Shifty]

Greetings Shifty and welcome aboard :)

Thanks for the welcome Shayne.

I'm surprised Wellington have the net let alone power! And they cant play rugby for their lives thats why you should support a real Super 14 side like the Brumbies.


lol.. I'll try to ignore ignore their 6th place ranking in the table shall I? I've attached an image below for you. Feel free to use it as your avatar. :smiley2:


Thanks Poison. You weren't "PoisonDwarf" in another time and place were you?

[Steve]

Hi shifty! Where have we met? How is that beautifull wife of yours she is never on line any more, maybe you have caged her lol.
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[sally]

steve why did you quote me????

[Steve]

steve why did you quote me????

Dunno fo shua Sally lol! Must have pressed the wrong tit!

[Poison]

Thanks Poison. You weren't "PoisonDwarf" in another time and place were you?

No I wasn't sorry..

[sally]

Dunno fo shua Sally lol! Must have pressed the wrong tit!

no worries mate!!:smiley2:

[Steve]

no worries mate!!:smiley2:

I have deleted it! Happy now???

[Shifty]

Thanks Sally. Much appreciated.

Thanks Steve. Yup she keeps a low profile these days.

Hey Melz. You well? ;-)

[Bianca]

Welcome Shifty - a name I haven't seen in a while! Hope you have fun on this site!

[galeforce]

Hello there shifty dude ;)

[biffon]

hmmm the Force are gonna rock the socks off the favorites this year.... watch this space...

oh and welcome Shifty! heres an avatar to replace that has-been youve put up in your first post.... :smiley20:

[sassy]

:smiley20: Now then Shifty, yet another friendly face I see:smiley2:

[Blazzo]

Chichirikuspaga!!?? Welcome and yeah even the force will be giving the canes a whipping this year(thanks biff for beating me to the comment)

[biffon]

no probs blazzo .... you going to their first game?

[Nyala]

Hi...you seem to known here already. Hope you enjoy!!

[zambezilover]

welcome shifty. Sweet now we have a place to crash when we come down for the Wellington 7's

[Peas]

Sleasypeas! How the hell? Good to see you. Love you long time :smiley31: :smiley32:

good thanks & damn good to see you here! You betta stick around!


gimme 5 dolla .. i love you long time :smiley2:

[Shifty]

oh and welcome Shifty! heres an avatar to replace that has-been youve put up in your first post.... :smiley20:


lol

'The Force' is not so strong with that one.

You'd might have better luck with this one instead.

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[Shifty]

Hey Binky. Long time no see. You haven't aged a bit.:smiley20:

Hi Sassy. Thanks Blazzo. Hey Zambezi, 7's are going to be full on this year. Can't wait..:alc:

[nightape]

Hey Melz. You well? ;-)

lol ok here thanks, you guys? You will have a blast on here mate!

[Bianca]

Hey Binky. Long time no see. You haven't aged a bit.:smiley20:


Ahhh - you too kind!

[Shifty]

Most welcome Binky-kins. You still in regular contact with Chaela these days?

Thanks for the welcome Nyala.

Btw does anyone know where you can advertise stuff for sale?

Because for several months now I've been wanting to keep fit and generally just strengthen my muscles.


The other day I read in a health and fitness magazine that a cheap way to go about this is to buy yourself a pair of barbells and work out at home. I was very surprised to read this but the author of the article is a well respected body builder, so obviously knew what he was talking about.


Anyway this seemed like an excellent idea because it wouldn't clash with my working hours and I could do it in the privacy of my own home.
It was around about now that the problems began.


For starters, I had a hell of a job finding them in any of the usual sports shops and when I eventually did find a place that stocked them,they only had one in the shop. This was very frustrating but they were able to order me another, which arrived a week later.


Upon getting home I then realised that finding space for them was going to be a real problem.


Fortunately, it occured to me that I could leave them in the bath tub and then remove them whenever I needed to workout or my wife wanted to bath.

The real challenge however, came whenever I had to do my evening work out.

When doing bench press, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't hold them in a firm grip. :angry!: I eventually overcame this problem by wearing rubber gloves which also stopped the rough edges digging into me.

However I would still hit myself in the face quite often, particulary when trying to do chest press.

The final straw was when one of them slipped out of my hand and glanced on my head, giving me a black eye! :motz:
At this point, I decided that I'd had enough.


It wasn't as if I'd gained much muscle during my workouts either.What a complete waste of money!


So if anyone out there would like to buy a pair of barbells for gym, I'm selling this pair for $70. I've attached a picture of them below. :biggrin:

[Cez]

lol

hello and welcome!

[sally]

hey, that is so funny!!

[Shifty]

hey, that is so funny!!

Really? I was angling for the sympathy vote. Sigh.. :icon10:





Thanks Cez.

[biffon]

haha - a real joker - oh noes not another one~!!! :D

[Bianca]

tee hee Shifty - you so funny!

Chaela is really busy these days so I haven't really spoken to her in ages! Miss her though....

Are you in contact with Vee still?

[Shifty]

tee hee Shifty - you so funny!

Chaela is really busy these days so I haven't really spoken to her in ages! Miss her though....

Are you in contact with Vee still?

Hey Binks. Yup, she's not at work today. She's off to "The Big Day Out".

Was hoping to catch up with her at Zimstock but turns out that NZ Sevens are happening that weekend so it's fallen thru for now.:smiley6:

[Shifty]

Chaela is really busy these days so I haven't really spoken to her in ages! Miss her though....



If you've got a new email address for her could you PM it across for me, or maybe you should just get her to sign up? We need the numbers. :smiley2: