Urban mammoth

why would the iphones battery die with headphones? no headphone takes power from the iphone, if they have noise isolation then they have batteries. what about things like bose on ear? or quiet comfort? i know bose are mightily over priced but do any other headphones compare to them? thanks Dan

hi, i am looking to buy some headphones for my iphone. I want some over ear or on ear ones as I don't like having things inside my ear. pretty open budget really, I'm just looking for some reccommendations as I don't really know much about headphones. any information greatly received! thanks Dan

yeah but does that do soud aswell?

ok.... I have a 12inch Powerbook G4. It has a mini DVI port. My TV has scart, Svideo, Red/Yellow/White, or component (blue, green, red) how can I connect the two so that i can watch my DRM protected itunes films on the TV. I have googled to my fingers bleed and can't make any sense of it. cheers Dan

oh my god well me, my dad and two friends have just got home from completing the most disgustingly painful event in the entire world. The Cheshire Ring Kayak Race 96 miles to paddle around the cheshire ring canal in manchester. 92 locks and 4 tunnels to walk around (with the kayak!) 24 hours (well we did it in 25 hours 2 minutes and 21 seconds) 4 man relay in a K2 tourer kayak (2 men at a time paddling) we had only ever been in a kayak the week before for a couple of hours practice. our support team were so awesome driving the other members to the next checkpiints for the change over and keeping the team fed and watered. soooooooooo knackered now!!!!!!!! but oh so proud we managed it! anyway we won our class!! woop woop

i thought i would hijack this thread to just ask... does anybody else get really pissed off with the fan noise from their 360?! i have to turn the TV so loud to hear any conversations on GTA its insane!! any way you can stop the fan noise? cheers dan

and to make it exciting you could run a competition to design them?? where the TF memebers vote for the winner, that way you would know we would buy them?!

BMI counts for poo all really. i know loads of professional rugby players who have huge BMI but are some of the fittest people ever! all BMI is, is a correlation between your height and weight. so if your ripped to hell with lots of muscle mass and are quite short, then according to BMI, your overweight!! if you really want to be body concious then get your body fat levels measured. last time i got my body fat checked it was 9.5%, that was about 2 weeks ago. BMI was 23.4 i'm 6'3 and 14 stone. cheers dan

i flat barbell 110kg (repping 4-5) never tried incline barbell, or flat dumbell really. incline dumbell is at 34 - 38kg depending on how my forearms/grip are holding up!! (so NOT funny when you forearms/grip just die and they just twist and flop everywhere!!) just been concentrating on chest this week and was doing supersets with flat barbell then after each set do a set of flat flies. Then same with incline dumbell, then after each set incline flies.. hurt so baaaaad!

i have a G4 12" powerbook and it is awesome, super small and portable, i do a graphic design degree and have had no problems with image editing etc. good choice with the mac sir! best off getting the macbook over the mac mini because then as you get more money you can upgrade RAM, hard drives etc etc whereas with the mac mini you cant do that. also try giving them a ring or access the store from your uni intranet for bigger discounts! cheers Dan

i find i can do way more flat than i can incline... is that normal?

i got a 16gb iphone the other week unlocked using ziphone program (google it) fully easy to do, just plug your iphone in and run the program. unlocked to all networks etc etc etc using the O2 contract i had before i got it. if your iphone locks up then all you do is do a hard reset.... hold sleep button and home button until itunes/plug in logo appears, plug in computer then itunes will say that there is an iphone in restore mode IMPORTANT BIT ---> you must download the appropriate restore file (i.e 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3) from internet and have it somewhere on your computer.. Then ctrl + click (mac) or shift + click (PC) on restore and then locate your restore file and set it going... EASY i have had no problems whatsoever and it is the best phone i have ever used. even got video capture, MMS messaging and zoom, burst mode, self timer, black & white etc on the camera now. so yeah I say if you can get one at a good price from ebay or somewhere then go for it!

I had a grade 2 tear of my hamstring playing rugby this season. they are graded 1-5 so not such a bad one. anyways i had some physio on it and did NOTHING on it for 4 weeks, first game back i did it again after bout 10 minutes! lesson = leave it much longer than you think or will continually keep tearing it! after about 4 weeks, start light training on it in the form of body weight squats, one legged squats and get hold of a rubber resistance band and do some hamstring curls. honestly DO NOT just leave it a week because YOU WILL tear it again straight away! especially with you doing high kicks etc which puts even more stress on the muscle than running. 4 weeks doing NOTHING and then 1-2 weeks strengthening it and you should be good to go. as far as treatment, RICE is good, plenty of ibuprofen (tablets, rub on gel or both) and then when you begin training again put some tiger balm or deep heat on before you start. mmmmmm tiger balm! hope this helps!! cheers Dan

this is better i think

getting this done........ going to see how much it will cost/how long it will take next week will be my first tattoo... really excited! not sure on the positioning yet though, think it needs to be a bit higher up. also think proportions of man:wings need to be a bit different i.e man bigger/longer and then wings bit wider but not as deep.

urrrmmmm did u watch the bbc breakfast show this morning? they had him on talking about it..... bout 9 ish i think.

*cough* april fools *cough* anyone found any other good ones on telly? fern and phil had a fashion article on jeans with holes in the bum! haha and on calendar they had an old granny who had got an ASBO for chainsaw abuse and playing loud music from cars! haha funnily enough they didn't have anyone to interview. not bad attempt. I like how the bbc got david attenbrough (sp?) to back the flying penguins up. any others?

woooo benched 110kg 4 sets of 5 and last set of about 2!! haha EZ bar went up to 45kg aswell! quality, well happy!! now for squats tomorrow!! grrr lol looking for some form of protein to take as my supply has run out and i fancy a change. sick of maximuscle, tastes like bin juice. had USN muscle fuel, really nice! but cyclone was good because it had a bit of creatine in it for some explosive power. any reccommendations? cheers dan

spend a bit on a new mobile phone.... i heard urbanmammoth is selling his awesome sony ericsson W880i in mint condish for £60........ check classifieds thanks dan

going from 12 stone to 18 stone isn't too good really. obviously depending on your goal! but most people will find they stay a similar weight but just lose fat and gain muscle. it's completely addictive, although you really need to have enough rest as well because over training is bad for your muscles. supplements are not 'bad' for your body. they are giving your muscles the protein that they need to rebuild and get bigger after you break them down at the gym. protein you don't necessarily get from your everyday diet. steroids are bad.. end of. although i can understand why people take them. you will eventually reach your peak where you simply cannot get any bigger and cannot lift any more, your body just doesnt have the stuff to fuel them. which is why you see such a difference between natural bodybuilders and roid rage monsters!! haha its all fun though and all part of a healthy lifestyle, whilst building your confidence and looking good. but also people do it for sports specific reasons. i do it for rugby/rowing for example, a lot of people will find that their trials will improve greatly after weight training for a length of time. anyways, each to their own, if you don't like it then don't do it. and to the guys saying they can't lift much. eat plenty of good stuff, drink plenty of water. keep going to the gym and don't train the same body part more than once a week. train each major part really hard. chest/biceps... legs.... shoulders/traps......back/triceps.... that way you will be able to maximise the weight and also recovery time for each part. stick at it and don't give up. stick to 3 sets of about 8. and if you complete all the sets then next time up the weight by 2.5kg... that way you are always progressing.. write down what you lift when you do it and then you can visually see your progress. cheers dan

woooooooo 4 inches of snow when i woke up this morning!!! hahahaha how very random in the middle of march!!! i live in selby, near york by the way.

do you do your lat pull downs in front or behind your head?

not bad going mate!! does anyone else have trouble with wide grip pull ups!!? if i weigh 90kgs its like lat pull down at 90kg int it?! i see these light little basts just leaping up and busting 20 out but they must only weigh 60 kgs wet through! i can just about make 10 but i properly struggle with the last 2-3. meh im improving.... when i started doing them about 3 weeks ago i could only do 3-4!! haha chest /biceps tonight! gonna kill it and try up everything by at least 2.5 kg. lol should be fun trying to play at pocklington rugby 7s tomorrow!! eek!

haha not sub 18 then, but pretty damn close! floor wipers look like fun!

hahaha yer front squats are disgusting!! i think its the whole high elbows thing! ermm squats are fairly deep, not totally sitting on my heels but over 90 degrees. was totally shown up the other day when the guy after me bumped it up to 140kg!! i had to stop myself staring!! haha yeah upright row is free weights man! grrr might get some videos of techniques going on so we can all help each other!? and i'll dig an old pic of me out and compare it with the new me!! haha I had all my weight and stuff done the other day..... height - 6"3 Weight - 89kg Body Fat - 9.1% BMI - 23.5 pretty happy with that. anyone read about the "300 test" that gerard butler and the rest of the spartans did as a final challenge after all their training for the film... 25 wide grip pull ups 50 deadlifts with 70 kg barbell 50 press ups 50 24" box jumps 50 floor wipers with 70kg barbell 25 kettlebell clean/press 15kg 25 wide grip pull ups all straight after each other no rest... shit! apparently one of them did it in sub 18 mins!! here's two videos about it... Youtube Video -> ">" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350">