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Aenimence said:
Underrated: knee pads - I have fallen off many bicycles, skateboards, scooters and trolleys and my first regret is most often not wearing knee pads
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Miqar_Baqfhied said:
Overrated: Gatorade - scientifcally it does f*ck all, and doesnt even taste that good. The only thing going for it in terms of hydration over water is that it has flavour, therefore is likely to be consumed more than water. Electrolyte replacement stuff is a load of shit unless your an absolute top line athlete. And its about 5 times more expensive that petrol. And if you dont exercise it will just help you put on kilos cos its full of sugar.

Underrated: Drinking water
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I’ve found it’s great for hangovers however. As I get older I have different strategies for avoiding and treating hangovers, have found that if I get home after a big day / night, if I can manage to stay awake and down a Powerade before bed, it makes a world of difference in the morning. I’m sure it helps with hydration like water, but the taste also helps get that beer / alcohol taste out of your mouth and throat in a way that water never can.

It’s funny it’s marketed as recovery for athletes, the thing it’s best for is recovery for absolute non-athletes.
 
Sports drinks are alright, they're just sold in much greater concentrations than they are needed. I drop about a kilo an hour when exercising heavily on a warm day. I drink a 1 in 4 dilution of Powerade at the rate of about a litre an hour, which is what my physio used to recommend.

Even diluted, I think you need to be losing a lot of fluid to need the electrolyte replacement.
 
Yeah, I drink powerade while playing squash and usually cut it with water at a similar ratio.

Not convinced I actually need it though.
 
If I'm coherent enough on my way home from a big night, I always grab two Powerades/Gatorades and a litre of water. I try and drink most of the water and one of the sport drinks before bed. Then get the rest down when I wake up to piss five times during the night. It's a pain in the ass having to get up and piss so much, but the amount of fluid (and I think the electrolytes or whatever is in them) you get in really kills the hangover.

One the topic of sport drinks/water...
Our local cricket association decided not to cancel matches on Black Saturday. Temp was about 43 degrees where we were playing, and the hot north wind was blowing about a million miles an hour. Trees were nearly touching the ground the wind was so strong. Such a surreal afternoon. We didn't realise what had happened with the fires til we finished.

Anyway, that day I distinctly recall how much I drank. I'd bought along three litres of Powerade, and as well as that I drank four litres of water, and probably a litre of cordial in the four or five hours we played (we were bowling and I bowled about 15 overs). I kid you not, NOTHING came out of me that night, and I didn't need to piss until after lunch on the Sunday. Bizarre.
 
Stratton_Gun said:
WTF is a Parmi. When I first saw it on the menu, I had to ask by Dad what it was not being entirely sure that it meant a Parmigiana
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A parmigiana, of course. WTF is a parma? I don't see the letters p-a-r-m-a in sequence in the word parmigiana, do you?!
dales.girl38 said:
I think our soulmate status is under threat here :p
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If it must be, it must be :D. Parmi is right damnit!
 

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Stratton_Gun said:
You must not live in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne because no one here says "parmi" :cool:
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Whenever I go to Melbourne and see the word "parma" it makes me confused. What is this mythical meal?
 
Oooh Igloo and dales.girl38 really are soulmates. I love making things awkard so.....

Word on the street in that igloo has a really big sex drive. dalesgirl will you be able to keep up?
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Stratton_Gun said:
When you say Parmigiana you really prounounce the first part as Parma not Parmi. The plot thickens
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It's sort of in between. Not quite parmigiana, but not paramagiana.
 
Igloo said:
A parmigiana, of course. WTF is a parma? I don't see the letters p-a-r-m-a in sequence in the word parmigiana, do you?!

If it must be, it must be :D. Parmi is right damnit!
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Spell it however you like. It's pronounced "par-ma".
 

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