Can you do this?

[Jamie]

Yes NEXT!!

[Lynn]

You are allowed to bend your standing leg as much as you so desire.

Phew! Will keep practising till I can do it on the right now.

Wonder why it is easier on the left? I would have thought my balance on my right would be better.

[Connie]

Yes NEXT!!

Try this one, it took my quite a few attempts to get right

First of all find a cigarette packet or something of a similar height, a bottle of tipex would do the trick.

Place it on the floor.

Lie down on the floor on your right side, now place one ankel on top of the other. Lift up your body weight on your right hand, tighten your tummy muscles as they will do most of the work! Now lower yourself and pick up the packet/tip-ex bottle with your teeth.
Its easiest if you make your body as stiff as possible, keep your left ankle directly on top of the one "resting" on the floor, tighten those tummy muscles, and slightly twist your body when you go to pick up the packet.

I can do it on my right side on my right..... keep on collapsing in a not very attractive giggling heap

[Ghost]

Yup - both legs

[Jamie]

Nope I'm buggared with the other one... I have no physical upper body strength lol xx

[Trouble]

jeez, you trying to kill us old folk off one at a time.

have not tried it yet as in office and would suspect people would think i have serously lost it if they saw me through the glass trying to pick up a peice of paper or a pack of tipex with my teeth.

But, the thought of it is making my eyes water..... just thinking of attempting it is giving me a headache.

[Tartaniad]

I asked my friend Heather McCartney to do this and she cheated the damn bitch..,.she took off her bloody leg..

Mind you she did fall over when she tried to stand back up

[whitetiger1518]

jeez, you trying to kill us old folk off one at a time.

have not tried it yet as in office and would suspect people would think i have serously lost it if they saw me through the glass trying to pick up a peice of paper or a pack of tipex with my teeth.

But, the thought of it is making my eyes water..... just thinking of attempting it is giving me a headache.

I think I know what you are talking about Connie - but I have a vivid image of the comfy white jacket (that does up at the back ) that my boss (with the support of the whole floor - courtesy of the open plan office) would be ordering for me..

Serious for you if you can manage it!

Somehow the fact that Jamie has no problem with this does not surprise me in the slightest!

Whitetiger

[Barry Shnikov]

Only 31? pah! Lightweight !!

How big's yours, then, tough guy?

[Beowulf]

How big's yours, then, tough guy?

You know I've never ACTUALLY counted.. I just started memorising them one day.

one minute.

*writes down pi from memory.. checks against calculated version for accuracy .. counts digits up to first mistake *

hehe.. Although I wrote down 70 or 80 digits I did make an error at digit 63 where I went 3207 as opposed to 2307. (blast!)

(checks again) and no further mistakes until digit 78 where I wrote 3 instead of 8! ok.. so not as good as I thought

so that makes it 62 !! hehe still twice yours

(Geek posse in the house say YO !!! )

To be fair though.. The saddest day of my life was when I was in B&Q getting some DIY supplies and I realised to estimate the amount of material to go round the outside of a round object. trust me.. Multiply Diameter by 3 and round up .. chances are you'll have MORE than enough

so much for precision!

I believe the World record is 83,431 decimal places.. so we've both got a long way to go yet

[Twirly]

You know I've never ACTUALLY counted.. I just started memorising them one day.

Sometimes the person you can be soooo

[David Bailey]

Sometimes the person you can be soooo

Yeah, you must be so proud

[Beowulf]

Sometimes the person you can be soooo

Yeah, you must be so proud

I'll get my anorak

[Little Monkey]

We just conducted the following balance/flexibility experiment in the office.

Take a sheet of A4 paper, now fold it in half across the width of the paper. Place the paper on the floor, with the fold in it it should be able to stand up.

Stand on the floor behind the paper, stand on your right leg with the left leg bend behind you. Grab your right leg with your left hand (behind not in front)
Now bend forward until your face is level with the piece of paper and pick it up with your teeth.

Now who can do it?

Standing on left leg only. The nerve is trapped in my right leg at the moment, so I shall try again when my back is better!

[Mythical]

I can't do that...but what I CAN do, is go to the pub on a saturday after football, and persuade my step-dad and his half-cut mates that it's a really brilliant thing to be doing! then roll about laughing as they attempt it!!

[Ghost]

I can't do that...but what I CAN do, is go to the pub on a saturday after football, and persuade my step-dad and his half-cut mates that it's a really brilliant thing to be doing! then roll about laughing as they attempt it!!

It is very, very wrong to say to someone who is drunk but thinks they're sober that this is a sobriety test

But very, very funny

[JCB]

... Stand on the floor behind the paper, stand on your right leg with the left leg bend behind you. Grab your left leg with your right hand (behind not in front). Now bend forward until your face is level with the piece of paper and pick it up with your teeth.

It has taken me a long while, but I finally figured out how to do this!
I'm going to put my teeth back in their storage case now.
'Night all!

...sorry, but some-one had to say it!