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OK, clearly you have a hard time with google and reading. Hopefully you will read what I type here. Use google, oh no I need you to do something on google, to find the state and city/town of your existing south african post code adding a trailing zero. In other words, if your code is 7806 search 78060. That is your new city and state. When you are on paypal, enter the correct name and street address of your credit card, enter the new US town, state and zip code. Your account will then be set up as a us paypal account and you use this paypal account to pay hulu, not your credit card. Of course paypal will use your credit card but hulu will not. Make sure when you go to paypal your VPN/DNS server is set for US and you don't get the ZA site as is shown here on a simple paypal url typed in the address bar: https://www.paypal.com/za/webapps/mpp/home If you do all this and have something like getflix you are now officially a septic with Trump as your president. Wired's 90241 won't ever work unless you happen to receive your bills in Mosgiel, Otago. Another thing, this method does not work on amazon as they now check the street exists in the zipcode you have selected. You have to choose a false street name but keep your zipcode accurate to match your credit card.

Did you google fake usa address for your paypal account?

Worth asking this question again. Or does everyone using Zwift just run a Garmin simultaneously?

There's your answer. You could have found just by reading the thread.

Followed all the great advice from hubbers. Thanks. Up and running with UK TV as well as as much US TV as I can watch. The Fire TV is fantastic, so much better than combo of smart TV and PC. Relatively simple questions this time. Is their a BBCiPlayer that is not phone/tablet based and works with the remote on the Fire TV rather than only with a mouse? Has anyone been able to load DSTV android app on Fire TV or Roku?

Did this. What a difference to unotelly.

Their Ts&Cs are sneakier than a fox in July. Or is that a jackal in December?

The great thing about the interwebs is that all the crackpot studies trying to disprove common held beliefs are much easier to find. Problem is how do you prove who is right short of dying. Of course Vitality is voluntary, no one has to join it. So why join it if you feel so strongly they are rewarding the wrong things?

As I said?

Or over in the Froome is/isn't a hero thread. Non nudes allowed there.

I disagree Myles. Assessment points of 2,500 in the 30k cap. As are bonus points of 5,000. Only bonus points from HPFA don't count towards cap of 30k. Not sure where the 30,000 assessment points idea came from in previous poster. One can do the assessment twice but points only accrue once. Full points pdf. Page 4 deals with activity. https://www.discovery.co.za/discovery_za/web/pdfs/vitality/our_partners/points_and_partners.pdf Edit: ambiguous use of neither bonus points corrected.

But you are still limited to 30,000 points IN TOTAL for activity, including the assessments. So what is the point of doing it twice if you are active and load your activity?

No, 1 in 10 with a BMI > 25 are not overweight. I will not disagree with <25 being overweight, I've never monitored that. Generally the claims of BMI being wrong are from overweight people claiming not to be overweight. I agree that there are more accurate methods available to determine people at risk of being too fat but your height squared divided into your weight is really easy to do. In my case I know I am currently a few kg overweight, I can feel it on my gut and when I climb hills and try tighten my pant button. But my BMI is mid the OK zone. In addition, when I broke my back I lost 5 cm in height. In a few seconds my BMI jumped 21.47 to 22.63. Without gaining a gram. I am also doubtful to ever go below 20.5 as at 21 I have a body fat content of around 4%. So yes I agree it is simplistic but it is a pretty good guide for the inactive who are not in tune with their bodies.

It's a massive generalisation to say BMI is stupid as a measure to indicate fatness or obesity. Yes, it's not a perfect science. But actuaries do need a starting point to check if someone is in range and BMI is pretty good for that in the general population. Most anomalies occur in the designated fat zones, rarely in the too skinny zones. There will definitely be outliers or exceptions to the general classification, such as muscle bound people. But even Springbok prop forwards have shed masses of weight once they stopped playing. Was that all muscle? Or was some of it fat? If someone has a BMI over 25 then I believe it is valid that the "patient" is examined further to assess health. In 9 times out of 10 there are no extenuating factors and they ARE packing a bit of fat. Over a BMI of 30 I reckon the fat quotient moves to 99/100. At 35, well, stop kidding yourself that you are big boned. Or muscle bound. Particularly if you are not very tall. BMI tends to skew towards the higher ranges for taller people. Women do tend towards to bottom of the 18-25 range while men tend towards the top of that range. This is for similar body fat numbers. But there are obvious exceptions: Froome weighs in at around 67kg at the start of the TDF. That gives him a BMI of 19.5. I doubt he could lose another gram, never mind 5.4kg to make him officially too skinny. Quintana has a BMI of 20.7. To match Froome BMI he would have to lose 4kg. But like the 220 - age heart rate, it should only ever be a guide.

They almost force you to do the medical early as the PnP/Woolies cash back at 25% gets cut to 15% until the medical is completed for all adults on vitality.

True story. I distributed a very expensive Swiss push scooter years ago. SWH sold the scooter in their top 8 stores nationally and I did extensive training of the sales staff. Often as staff turnover was very high. One day I visited the Attabury store in Faerie Glen. New salesman on the floor, doesn't know me. I pretend to be interested in a scooter for my 4 year old. He pushes the cheapest one really hard. I ask about my brand which is double the price. He replies "You don't want to buy that plastic piece of ****." Polycarbonate, non-marking wheels with sealed bearings, modular system for parts replacement. Real quality that lasts all the kids in the family as a hand me down. The brand is still the world's best selling push scooter and is still the most expensive in all countries. I increased the sales training but still prefer to go to specialist shops for my own shopping.

Basic flexibility tests? They make you touch your toes. I know I can't do that with a 98cm inner leg measurement. In the past assessment points were over and above exercise points. Now they are included in the 30k max. Which will take me about 4 months to achieve. The assessment is targeted at the unfit and fat who won't get 30k points from workouts. Also hopefully giving the biokineticist a chance to sell them some unfat and fit workout stuff.

I agree. IMO doing the medical is beneficial to me so I do it. And I then get the 25% cash back at PnP. My broker pays for it. I don't do the fitness assessment, even though my broker pays for it twice a year, as I don't need anyone to tell me I'm neither subtle nor supple. And I have no problem getting the 30,000 exercise points max anyway. Each family member. So why pay for it? Really silly behaviour. I don't shop at SWH so don't need the status for cash back. But I guess if you do then do the assessment. Or get your broker to pay for it. After all he/she earns a fortune from your premiums. Achieving Gold is dead easy without paying out money to do it. As for paying to get to Gold by end Jan or Feb.....no other word than daft springs to mind. I lie, lots of other non PG words do. Rather spend that money on your bike.

When someone has to be paid it is never free. Someone pays. With Discovery medical aid picks up the bill no matter what plan you are on.

Just came to post mine and I see you have one too. Great minds, hey.

Of course not. But discretion is the better part of valour. Or when the horse is dead you can stop beating it.

Majority of riders do not get dressed to ride. They get dressed for work and ride there and ride home. So yes, putting on a helmet can be a massive schlep. Don't confuse your cycling with how the world cycles.

61,000 posts on one thread. Five million one hundred and sixty thousand four hundred and thirteen views. The loss of TNT1 to the hub should be regretted. I enjoyed his input. And his regular battles with The Sheriff. They did not like each other much.

Thing is I rarely do not. I love my pink rudi project sterling and the way it matches my bar tape but clashes with my stay wider shirt.

Common sense at last. Although under the rules of self-aggrandising I can't say that is a point I tried top make earlier. I neither express an opinion on the benefits or not of wearing a helmet, but I do take exception to someone who thinks he has the right to call me out if I choose not to. Hell, what's next on the do-gooders list? My socks are too short? My tyres are too soft? I'm not hard enough? So OP, next time pick a thread that is not reactionary to someone else not causing any harm to anyone else. And to the "it's the law" brigade, focus on laws that are there to protect others innocently enjoying their pleasures, such as driving dangerously close to a cyclist, rather than those that when infringed actually do no harm to anyone. Time to go read the new helmet thread.