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Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Pedal abuse of power

Remember our boys on the Malabar Front.
From the BBC:
Portable pedal machines could be used in every office to improve the health of workers, according to scientists in the US.
It's at this point that I start to wonder why they don't just have us assemble for mandatory calisthenics in front of the telescreen and be done with it.
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2 comments:

  1. SergejTuesday, 15 February 2011 at 05:58:00 GMT-8

    I've had this idea for an exercise class for a while. You get a bunch of rowing machines in a room, see? And there's this big fat guy at the head of the room, with a big drum, and he sets a cheery beat for everyone to row to. And for inspiration, you project pictures of rolling waves on big screens at the sides of the room! What do y'all think!

    (Seriously, when stuck rowing for my day's exercise, I tend to think either of Salamis, or slave galleys, depending on how the rest of my life happens to be going.)

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  2. BryanTuesday, 15 February 2011 at 16:30:00 GMT-8

    When I'm hauling in cordwood in the middle of winter, I like to pretend that I'm in the gulag.

    At my old job we used to have to do this thing called "Mandatory Movement" every day at 10 and 2. A group leader would make us get up and do a stretching routine in unison. Only Outer Party members had to do this - Inner Party members could stay in their office.

    One day there was a tour of very important Japanese mucky-mucks cam through right at 10 am when all of us fat-assed American cube jockeys were grunting and bending. Management was mortified. I don't know why, I figured the Japanese guys could join in (I had previously offered to write a company song that we all could sing when stretching)>

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