ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. TONIGHT THE CHOSEN ONES GET A DOUBLE, DOUBLE FEATURE. NOT JUST THE BEST ADVICE, BUT THE BEST ADVICE WHILE DEFEATING 2 DIFFERENT BRUTAL ADVICE GIVERS! FIRST, ZARDOZ DISPOSES OF THE BRUTAL “DEAR ABBY“. AS ZARDOZ IS PLEASED BY THE CONTENT OF THE SITE THIS WEEK, HE REWARDS THE CHOSEN ONES BY DISPATCHING THE BRUTAL ADVICE GIVER “ASK AMY”.
ALSO WRONG!
Q: I have a former co-worker whose husband was just released from a psychiatric facility. He had threatened to kill himself and take the entire family with him. I met him before the incident. He did not seem balanced then, and I was uncomfortable being around him.
Since his release, my friend keeps inviting me to their house and wants to come to mine. I keep making excuses for not allowing visits to my house or hers. I still have a bad feeling about being exposed to him and possibly putting myself in danger. I have been in abusive relationships in the past, and one attack was nearly fatal.
I have spoken to her about the dangers of being with a person such as him. But she says she can’t leave because they have three children on the spectrum. Am I being silly? — APPREHENSIVE IN TEXAS
A: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, YOU SPINELESS BRUTAL. AND ZARDOZ DOES NOT HAVE COMFORTING WORDS. YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS – FIRST, GO FORTH AND CLEANSE THE CRAZED BRUTAL…PREEMPTIVELY, OF COURSE. THIS WILL ALLOW YOUR FORMER CO-WORKER TO CARE FOR THE SPECTRAL BRUTAL CHILDREN.
THE VORTEX HAS SOME “ON THE SPECTRUM” AS WELL.
SECOND IS A BIT TRICKIER, BUT DOES BENEFIT ZARDOZ IN THE END, SO HE RECOMMENDS IT. FIRST, CONTINUE TO DISTRACT, DELAY AND STALL AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. ZARDOZ WILL SEND THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS TO HELP…
WE RIDE TO TEXAS!
BUT NOT TO CLEANSE THE CRAZED BRUTAL. RATHER, TO RECRUIT HIM. THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS COULD ALWAYS USE ANOTHER PSYCHOPATH. YOUR FORMER CO-WORKER IS FREE, YOU ARE NOT THREATENED, AND ZARDOZ GAINS A HEADCOUNT. WIN-WIN-WIN. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Q: My husband has been significantly overweight most of his life. He recently lost more than 60 pounds on a very strict diet. (I have to work to stay at a healthy weight, but have never been more than 10 to 15 pounds over my ideal weight).
He’s much healthier now, and I’m extremely proud of him and his dedication to a new lifestyle.
However, when he was overweight he was generally relaxed, fun and easy-going (these are also the qualities that attracted me to him). Now, after the weight loss, he generally seems miserable. I’m not the only person to have noticed this change.
A few days ago a good friend told me that my husband is “the most miserable skinny person,” he’s ever known.
I’ve tried to talk with him multiple times, both to let him know how proud I am of him for this accomplishment, and to try to understand why he seems so unhappy despite achieving the goal he set for himself. The most I’ve been able to get from him is that now that he’s lost the weight he’s embarrassed about how overweight he was.
Amy, I loved my husband when he was overweight and I love him now, but after almost six months of dealing with his negativity, criticism and a much shorter temper than usual, I’m not sure how to help without sounding like I’m trying to derail his health plans.
Any thoughts on how I can help us through this challenge?
A: OH, LOOK CHOSEN ONES! IT APPEARS ZARDOZ HAS FOUND ANOTHER SCIENTIST FOR THE VORTEX. “I think much of his negativity stems from hunger and having to deny himself his favorite foods.” SUCH BRAINPOWER RIVALS THAT OF THE TABERNACLE! WITLESS BRUTAL – YOU MUST SEND YOUR HUSBAND DELICIOUS BREAD FROM THE VORTEX. IN FACT, ZARDOZ WILL SEND SOME BY “BRUTALCART EATS”…
DELIVERY! HOP TO IT, ZED.
IF THAT IS NOT ENOUGH – THEN IT IS BANQUET TIME. CALL AHEAD FOR RESERVATIONS AT THE VORTEX. TELL ‘EM “ZARDOZ SENT ME.”
TONIGHT, ZARDOZ HAS ASKED US TO FEED A FORMERLY OBESE BRUTAL.
LEAVE A GOOD REVIEW ON YELP. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
THE CHOSEN ONES MAY NOW REVEL IN THE LINKS THAT ZARDOZ PROVIDES. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
- AS IF THE CHOSEN ONES NEED MORE EVIDENCE THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL… VERY WELL, HERE YOU ARE THEN. NOTE THE ACTIONS OF THE ACCUSED BRUTAL – IS THIS WHAT THE CHOSEN ONES REFER TO AS “PUMP AND DUMP”? THE SCHOOL, NOT THE FEMALE BRUTALS…
- HOW CAN THIS BRUTAL BE A SOCIALIST – HE MAKE SENSE. THIS CAN ONLY MEAN HE WILL BE THWARTED.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Hail Zardoz!
Damn you Sean!
?
Yes ZARDOZ is on fire with WIN-WIN-WIN and Yelp review. Almost like a burning man, head, stone, floating.
Would cleanse again?
Today I cut off many self important brutals today, wwith predjudice,
Oi! Yusef! Hope all is going well, been able to catch just pieces about what’s going on.
It’s getting better, hours are coming in for work, the wife comes home from the hospital Monday, but my company has been very helpful. Aand since I put out all the fires, they should IMO, thanks Marty!
This sounds like good news.
Except.. my PC blew up last night, too busy to check out til Saturday,
If you can define blew up, I may be able to provide some advice. I’m also looking to build up a PC for my nephews for Christmas, so I’ve been researching hardware recently.
It’s out of freon.
Then I’ll bow out. I’ve avoided liquid cooling for specific reasons. I was entertained that one of my nephews was surprised that I knew about the game he was playing (Fortnite), and had heard of some of the Youtube people he listened too. Then asked his mom how I knew about them.
Interesting idea, but no, just air cooled
It’s a super compact Asus, but I have been backing up so no files lost, I’m good with hardware but I’ll definitely be asking for advise, thanks!
Did you check the the thermostat?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Hey, who’s the new guy? Ah, shit, it’s Yusef. My eyes are shit and didn’t notice the avatar.
But you knew… Howdy Straff!
Tall cans in about two hours.
Im drinking a Fosters, Australian for Coors.,..
Ah yes. The Golden Throat Charmer.
I still need to try some Four-X, if only because they have the best commercial in the history of beer
I already had a lot of beer.
Morning, Z man.
Utah woman allegedly gave boyfriend drain cleaner to ‘go into eternal sleep’: report
Sounds like she works for Zardoz
She’s a very literal person, and he said he wanted her to clean his pipes.
You did not disappoint with that link.
“You’re one of those fancy lads, aren’t you?”
That… can’t possibly be the correct picture.
Also, drain cleaner isn’t exactly a subtle “oh they’ll never know they were poisoned” kind of thing.
It looks like Guy Pierce in a wig.
I’ve seen this story and… yeah. Apparently it is.
She looka like a man.
/Ms.Swan
Looks like Phineas Phreak to me.
Like this
Thanks, Blackjack. Reading the adventures of those fellows really shaped my teen years.
My first though was Otto from The Simpsons.
Jesus, I thought that was a picture of the victim.
The picture explains why he asked for seconds.
This and the lap dancing mom, Utah Wife is making a name for herself.
Wrong and hilarious at the same time….
I feel like this belongs in a SF or HM post.
Holy crap! Lol!
LMFAO
+1
I’m going to have to purge that from my head now. Thanks (and by Thanks, I mean Fuck) you LJW.
You’re quite welcome.
Furry porn.
That, is not right.
Fuck you ZARDOZ, who have you cleansed? You’re more ineffectual than Jeff Sessions on his worst day. The good news is maybe this meteorite will take up your slack:
https://news.yahoo.com/huge-asteroid-squeak-earth-2029-030701930.html
What’s the margin of error on that?
Plus or minus DOOOOOM.
When you’re the socialist and there are two parties to the left of you… holy crap.
Anyway, sounds like they’ve run out of other people’s money to me.
Exactly this.
We’re fucked.
So we just pay ourselves back and have a giant BBQ…
As long as the sauce is mustard based I’m all in.
That depends on if we’re doing pork or beef.
If it’s brisket, there damned well better be no sauce.
/Texas
And I DO hope the sauce at table is heavy on the vinegar side of the equation and not loaded with brown sugar.
/Florida & Georgia
^^^^
I’m dong my [REDACTED] BBQ next week, so that checks out…
So is his budget like the sack of Rome? / NYT
More like a cloth of Rome
The Shroud of Turin?
The cloth of Hillary is what I meant
It’s that what she was wearing when they shuffled her into the van?
Yes, and then used it to wipe a server clean
Isn’t that what Huma used to wipe her mouth off after suckling at Hillary’s labial cyst?
The same….
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dailycaller.com/2017/03/16/nyt-columnist-compares-trumps-budget-to-sack-of-rome
I was referring to this by the way…
So now’s the time to take out big loans?
You just wait until that multiplier effect kicks in. Go long on tulip bulbs.
Any attempt to cut that budget is white supremacy/ MSM
We’re just twerking right now. The fucking comes later.
This is a perennial favorite.
The brutal responsible for the alt-text needs to be CLEANSED for apostrophe abuse.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/high-school-may-erase-george-washington-murals-traumatizes-students/
Because that indian is passed out drunk?
Like that stops a good purge.
You know who else wanted to purge Mexican artwork?
Speedy Gonzales?
That’s actually funny. We’re purging artwork by avowed communists for being insufficiently woke now.
I remember when that Trumbo movie came out there were people complaining about him being a white man.
And Fredric March is a dead Hollywood Democrat getting purged because College Kidz think he was a Klansman.
All these murals and statues need to be replaced with something non political. Robespierre maybe?
Stalin, the answer is always Stalin, unless it’s Hitler
Seattle has a Lenin Statue, does that count?
OT: Presently drinking a Belgian St. Bernardus Prior 8 beer. If it was a woman, would. Plus it comes in a 750ml bottle (same as a standard wine bottle).
Are we talking paizuri worthy St. Paulie girl “would”?
I believe so, yes.
St. Paulie girls have nothing on Bavarians in Dirndls.
that’s a bit of allright
I’ve never seen a picture with so much stuff I want to put in my mouth.
Hi-yo!
Beat me to it.
I’ve yet to have a St. Bernardus beer I did not like. There are rumors that they used to brew the beer that was released by Westvleteren, and the St. Bernardus Abt 12 is comparable. I’ve paid the ~$30 for a bottle of Westy 12, and yeah… stick with the St. Bernardus for the price.
The 8’s remarkably . . . toasty and malty. Me like. A lot.
The Wit is quite good as well.
I looked for that brand in my beer store after someone mentioned it last week. Unsurprisingly, they didn’t have it.
Weep for me.
How much do you want?
Hmm…that’s a good question. I don’t know prices and options. You mentioned their wit…sounds good. Do they have a hefe?
Nope. Hefeweizen is specifically German. They’re a Belgian brewery, and they distribute where I live.
Oh right, of course. Now that I see the logo, I know I’ve seen their beers at my good beer store. I gotta look again.
That’s not OT around here, is it tasty?
Toasty, malty, almost “chewy,” the hops are not forward. Everything I like in a Belgian.
Damn, I wish I was in Bruges right now.
Nice
I’ve convinced the girlfriend that next year’s big vacation is to Belgium and Germany. I think that’s a win.
Bruges (Brugge) and Antwerp. I’m not a fan of Brussels, even though the old city centre is interesting. Still trying to get a Dutch cousin to accompany us on a multi-week bike ride through the Low Countries, stopping for beer all the time. There’s a bar down a back alley in Bruges that is pretty much beer heaven. Took my brother there for his 60th birthday back in 2012. He still raves about it.
My goals are Cantillon, Duvel, and Koln. Beyond that Westy would be a win, and any good Belgian beer would be preference for me.
I think I went in there…
What the fuck is in Bruges?!
I mean, I guess unibrows.
That was a great movie.
Oktoberfest right?
I love the 12.
Jesus, Dems are trying to get the Virginia bar to go after Barr now. They really are desperate. Something is coming.
https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/cinco-de-mayo-mexican-food_l_5cc86722e4b05379114b83ee
Huffpo on cultural appropriation of Cinco de Mayo.
My HOA celebrates Cuatro de Mayo each year.
Mexicans don’t celebrate it, purely fictitious holiday, like Kwannza,
“Cuatro” de Mayo is a cultural touchstone for white people around here.
It’s not a fictitious holiday; it’s very real. It’s just that it’s taken on a new meaning in the US.
I know, but the Mexicans don’t care,
Fuck you, and fuck Mexicans,
/JK about you…….
Haha. Sorry, Yusef. for some reason I’m feeling a little bitchy. And when I do, my inner pedant comes out. ?
MikeS, never apologise,
Except to the Wife
Fuck you, and fuck Mexicans,
*waves*
MS, your not Mexican,
“Fuck you, and fuck Mexicans”
::waves at Bob in beaner::
::reminds Bob of Kia plant in Pesquería, MX::
MS, your not Mexican,
Yous*
And now I point out how bad Cleveland is to its Hispanic population.
Lol
Haha. Wut?
There’s a reason I took a picture of that, I couldn’t believe it when I rode by it. I literally turned around to go past it again to take the picture.
Not Cinco de Quatro?
What do you call four Mexicans standing in quicksand?
Quatro Cinco
Pfft! Good one.
Cinco de cuatro, bro.
https://vimeo.com/164936441
I’ve made a huge mistake.
I passed the old Irish dive-bar in my distinctly not-Irish neighborhood today and noticed they’re having some sort of Cinco de Mayo thing. I barely recovered from the trauma.
I met some French Mexicans once, immigrants from France in the late 19th century, interesting people,
Like any Irish American will pass up an excuse to drink.
New favorite joke:
“How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?”
“Zero.”
Corned beef tacos.
Just tell them you are celebrating Karl Marx’s birthday.
I was gonna guess the author’s name was Karen. Turns out it is Garin. Close enough.
That just put another taco on my plate this Sunday.
I haven’t been to Taco Bell in like 20 years… they have Mexican flavors now?
I’ve never eaten Mexican, because I’m not a cannibal.
Almighty ZARDOZ: there are some brutals among us who are good brutals…wise brutals. And yet, they insist on spreading fake news that IPAs are good beers. Would you please smite them?
HAIL ZARDOZ!
Learn to enjoy many beer styles, and IPA becomes one type of many,
Troglodyte
I don’t mind a little hoppiness but I want to taste something other than weeds.
I was being tongue-in-cheek about a conversation in the last thread. I like IPA’s. Just not all the time.
Arf!?
Speaking of “arf”, how is Bella doing? And how is your living situation going? Get your raise?
Haven’t asked yet, Belly is doing very well being left in a motel for ten hours a day, doesn’t per or poop in the room, tough doggie. We are in a nice motel, no tweekers or bad elements, so I enjoy it for where we are
Right, so nothing like the Benjamin Danklin from Fat Head’s I’m drinking now.
/throws an empty bottle at MikeS
English IPAs are good.
Breath easy Q, it’s going to be ok.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/fda-will-not-ban-textured-breast-implants-time-n1001611
*whew*
Just say no to breast implants.
Got all the food I need for 3 days in the mountains. Maybe I should get some mustard.
https://imgur.com/a/mj7TCsA
Probably should get something solid.
Good point! *Throws some crack into cart*
Crack, ER Jack maybe…
AKA, wasabi peas. I can’t stop eating those once I start.
Those things have evacuated my bowels with white-hot fire more than once before I figured out what was going on. I love ’em, but never again.
Nice. Camping?
We call it that. You’d call it sleeping next to your car.
You’re out in nature and there’s party supplies so yeah, that’s camping.
This right here….
Partaaaayy!
Security footage of Straffin
That was just a sad film.
Yes, unbelievably sad. And true-to-life, I’m sure; well, other than the hookers looking as good as Shue did in that movie – not at that price.
Yeah, she’s a hottie
Hmmm. The insight into the details suggests you should write an article.
Purely theoretical insight. That, plus repeated viewing of ‘Cathouse’ on HBO.
Ouch. Hitting a little close to home there, Buddy.
“One of us! One of us! One of us!”
What about day 2 and 3?
I am drinking my first pét-nat. It will not be my last pét-nat. This might be the bridge for you beer people.
The acidity is typically my issue with wine. Doesn’t sit well.
Ah, yes – this will not be the wine for you. The acidity is nice with the right food, of course.
I bet it would be awesome in a cheese fondue, too.
I think that’d be a stone-cold lock.
The 10% ABV is a nice change from the 16% bombs I keep getting in the mail (wine club is trying to kill me).
That looks like something SP and I would love.
Any wine at 16% would be something SP and I would hate.
Seyval is vastly underappreciated.
Final Funbags Friday tomfoolery.
https://thechive.com/2019/05/03/sexy-chivettes-get-your-weekend-started-right-85-photos/
I could put 22 to work.
I’ll take 34 and 65.
3 just got done boiling the bunny.
Does anyone else use FireFox? I just got a notice that a bunch of add-ons (eg. adblock) have been disabled. I didn’t upgrade anything recently, but I am using the latest version of FF.
So when I go into add-ons, it says these add-ons have been disabled but there are updates available. When I go to update, I get an error message. The same thing happens when I go the each add-on’s page and try to install it. It says an error has occurred.
I don’t get what happened. A bunch of different add-ons all suddenly stopped working without my changing anything?
I do (on a Mac) but I’m not seeing anything like that.
66.0.3 (64-bit), per the ‘About’
Same version as you on a Mac. Weird.
Ditto.
Using firefox now. Adblock and everything else seems to be working fine.
Well fuck. Guess what just happened.
Apparently, it’s not just me:
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/all-add-ons-stopped-working/39003
Still, wondering how it could have broke without users changing anything on their end.
Everything is gone. Adblock plus, monocle, etc.
I’m far from computer illiterate, yet I’m perplexed what could be causing this. Firefox has some sort of add-on kill-switch that can be remotely activated?
Probably somebody fucked up the central repository of add-ins that FF phones home to periodically.
one of the certificates in the chain used to sign extensions expired:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973
Thanks, although it shouldn’t check if installs are signed after they’ve been installed.
It shouldn’t be doing that though.
Is there a setting to disable it? Otherwise I imagine the browser updates them automatically?
No, it’s just complete bullshit.
I’m sure it’s for your own protection. Just let the browser do its thing, valued customer.
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/suddenly-every-single-addon-is-disabled/38997
Just popped up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkg0au/firefox_the_great_addon_debacle/
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/almost-every-add-on-is-being-shown-as-corrupt-when-installing-them/38968/25
From the comments in a couple of Count’s links: manually change your date back a day or two and reload the add-ons you lost. A work around, to be sure, but at least it (they claim) works.
I haven’t been hit yet with whatever is going on, but I set my date back a couple days just to avoid it.
…but while trying to search for a beer Nephi just teased me with, I get this error:
So, apparently not a very good work around…?
Thanks, but I’m not changing my computer’s date because that would fuck up a whole bunch of other things on my computer.
Ah, intermediate signing-certificate expiration. That’s some bush-league shit, dudes.
Seriously. I used to be responsible for updating all kinds of certs for my apps. Never missed one. Who the hell is running that joint?
Firefox changed their core quite some time ago, which killed a lot of the popular add ons. I’m sticking with the old version where I can have tab groups, and several other options working as I prefer.
Seems like a good impetus to give Brave another chance.
…aaand I just lost all my FF add-ons. Checking out Brave, for sure.
Speaking of cleansing and Swiss firearms:
The U.S.’s new SMG in action.
They know their audience.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-high-school-newspaper-porn-story-free-speech
Fucking new age prudes. Am I confused, or is it your right to engage in the porn industry all you want, now that you’ve reached the age of consent?
Damn, my lower back hurts. I was just standing up in the kitchen for a while making another batch of my fresh salsa when it hit me. It’s the running on pavement/concrete, it has to be. I did almost 9 miles today walking/jogging/running and I’m sure I ran 2 miles of it and it was all on concrete sidewalks, asphalt roads. I’m just not used to it, or this shit is hard on your lower back from the impact? I’m using a $150 pair of Asics Gel running shoes. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the ‘I have to shoot a massive amount of Fentanyl up my arse right now sort of pain, but it’s bothering me. Maybe some of you more experienced runners can give me some advice?
Take up swimming for cardio?
Which one of you are going to donate me an Olympic size swimming pool?
*shrugs*
They say its best to run on dirt or a rubber track, but its not always an option. Just promise me you’ll try to avoid running on steel.
Otherwise, it might not be the surface you are running on. The shoes you purchased might be meant for somebody that pronates or supinates in their stride. Perhaps you strike too hard on the heel. An expert can analyze your overall gait and might be able to find excess movement or other factors that might be putting strain on your back.
Even your standing posture, the way you sit, your mattress, the shoes you wear to work (not running) can all have an impact on your back.
Thanks, Mexican. I’ll ponder that.
Going to ‘barefoot’ shoes really helped me a lot. The foot is a spectacularly engineered machine. I wore stability shoes for thousands of miles and they ended up fucking me up.
Probably way more than you want, but here’s a good article.
Oh, wow, I’ll look that up also. Thanks, Tundra.
Get those heating pad stickers. Go through a pack of those buggers every 3 months.
Cycling. Been doing it for over 50 years. No joint or bone problems at all. Believe it or not but Lycra and being an asshole are optional.
The fucking bike herds have spread to Idaho. I hate those people.
We’re not all assholes.
One, or two are okay. It’s when you get to double digits that I want to go postal.
So do I. I’ve got mountains in my back yard that The Bozoners haven’t discovered. Never see anyone. ‘Cept I almost hit an antelope the other day.
Nice. Which range do you have in your backyard?
I’m going to buy a bike for wifey and I because she wants one. Any suggestions as far as brands are concerned? It’s fairly hilly here, although we can find flat areas. I’t mostly concrete here, but I don’t mind putting the bikes on the SUV and taking off for off road stuff if I can get her to join me.
Go with a hybrid that fits the both of you.
The brand that the local bike shop sells is Trek. I still don’t know shit about bikes.
Trek is a good brand, but try out a bunch and see which one fits you and feels the best. Neph is right that if you see yourself doing a bit of trail riding a hybrid sounds right, they also have more forgiving geometry. If you do buy a bike, go with a firm seat (I love the leather Brooks ones, they form to your ass after you break them in a while) and get bike shorts. If you don’t want to show off the family jewels cover them with shorts, but for longer rides they are a must. I also think gel padded gloves are a must, both for comfort and safety.
Trek is fine. Any of the big three (Trek, Giant, Specialized) are OK. They all use the same components anyway.
It’s good to have the support of a local shop, so buy whatever brand they sell.
Fit is more important than anything else. The shop will help with that.
Get a bike. Running on pavement is hard on the knees and back.
I’m at the point where walking on pavement and concrete hurts my knees and back.
You may have to join the fucking bike herds. I see spandex in your near future Spud.
The sight of me in skin tight spandex would scar you for life. Hell, it would scar me for life.
As good as this guy?
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/rachel-mckinnon-becomes-first-transgender-woman-win-track-world-title-397473
Stupid sexy Spud.
If I had Flanders ass, spandex is all I would wear.
That honestly doesn’t bother me at all, but running does. I can actually feel it in my lower back.
Another thing that gets me is standing in the kitchen when I’m canning. I bought a couple of the gel kitchen mats and that has helped. You may have set yourself up with running and did yourself in standing in the kitchen.
Mechanics are extremely important, but even serious runners often neglect them. The most common issue is over-striding – you’re reaching out too far and then heel-striking, which concentrates the impact force in an undesirable fashion. (Heavily cushioned shoes often actually encourage this, which is one reason I train and race in flats.)
The good news is that it’s not so difficult to fix your mechanics (it took me about two months to completely redo mine), though as Mex said, it’s a good idea to talk to someone who knows the score before doing anything.
I’m a mechanic, and I am extremely important, so yeah.
It’s important to have a good mechanic
Well… I’m learning a lot here, about learning. Thanks. I will do so.
The most common issue is
over-stridingrunning.If you have a Roadrunner Sports near then go in. They have machines that will analyze your stride. Their sales staff has been consistently good IMO.
If you want cardio alternatives check out the YT channel for Athleanx. Any of his conditioning videos should give you ideas.
I’m something of a former runner. I do HIIT training for cardio including sprints. Depending on what you want to achieve it may be worth considering.
I’ll stick with cows and pigs.
https://fee.org/articles/to-fight-overpopulation-food-scientists-develop-maggot-sausage-and-insect-ice-cream/
I ain’t eating no fucking bugs.
Inchworm, inchworm,
Rolly Polly inchworm,
Eat them up, yum
I don’t run, but spend many hours working on concrete floors, even with good shows, the force of slamming your feet down takes a toll, I have the plates in my spine to prove it, find some grass or a dirt trail…
Shoes damnit!
Just not available for me everyday. If I’m in the office, my choice is concrete. If I’m at home, my choice is concrete, except for a very, very short stretch of mulch trails in the Mt. Washington Arboretum.
I remember last time I was in Brazil, there are several small tows/resorts near our place where they make roads/trails out of coconut shells. Luxurious.
Then I would say slow down to lessen the impact, otherwise it will just get worse.
Yeah, I get it. I think I will supplement my walking with Yoga and weights now instead of running. Just not worth the lower back pain.
Vibram soles on pavement and concrete played a big part in destroying my knees.
Sorry Rhywun.
That was ugly. But the ‘Canes earned it.
I’m just hoping Anders Lee comes home next year.
The Islanders dynasty of my childhood remains secure.
Fun fact: I have laid hands on the Cup – a bunch of Islanders lived near me when I was growing up. I remember Billy Smith & Pat LaFontaine in particular (my sister’s friend married Pat) and, I think, Lorne Henning.
Enh, no skin off my back. I’m a Rangers fan, but I’ll take the Isles over Carolina *spit*.
No idea how much of that shitshow was NYI phoning it in.
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa threatened to resign on Friday after his leftist allies abandoned the government in a preliminary parliamentary vote that could undermine efforts to balance the budget by raising teachers’ salaries retroactively.
Balance the budget by raising teachers’ salaries retroactively? So the government is spending less than it takes in? That is hard to believe.
Europe are fucking themselves up the ass, and not in a way that any sane person would think is good.
I read that as “undermine efforts by raising salaries”.
The things are getting really interesting. The importance of the Mifsud status is huge.
That Mifsud was a Russian asset is the last and only remaining “justification” of Deep State’s spying on Donald Trump.
Halper is the one that introduced the brown kid to Mifsud. Halper is the one who reminded the brown kid about the e-mails when he sent him to the meeting with the Australian ambassador. Mifsud is also tied to Italian intelligence, and Halper has been tied to UK intelligence and the FBI. This stinks to high heaven and almost guarantees that the CIA was involved, and that means Brennan and Clapper.
Hell, that is three degrees out from Fusion – who had been working for Putin on anti-Magnitsky sanctions with the lovely Ms. Veselnetskiya, the very same ‘lawyer’ that showed at Trump Tower (and both before and after that meeting, met with Simpson). That this has all been sitting out there waiting for someone not utterly blinded with derangement – well, I guess that last part explains it.
OK, I’m quite drunk so all I have to say is “Charlotte Ramping titz”
Also, “Sara Keselman titz”
Also, bunch of other titz.
Did I mention that I’m quite drunk?
Aren’t those older ladies? NTTIATWWT.
They were nice and fresh in 1974.
*checks IMDB*
Oh. Duh.
(I’ve been assured I needed bother seeing that particular movie, but maybe I should)
“needn’t”
I’d have loved them in 1974. Although it would have purely for sustenance as I was a baby.
I’ve been drinking too, but I stayed sober enough to drive home.
I merely have to stay sober enough to walk the dog, since the wife is out of town for the weekend.
I think I can handle it.
Have a beer for me since I’m done for the night.
If she’s out of town, it seems like you can drunk dog walk all you want, or is that just me?
I just have to stay sober enough to handle walking. Frankly, tired is going to win over drunk tonight; hound is also tired, as it was her first day back with the walker.
OT: Has anyone purchased or played Imperator: Rome? It has been on my radar over the last couple of months. From what few reviews I’ve bothered to check out it seems to be a conglomeration of what the developers at Paradox consider to be the best aspects of their previous titles. However, some of the reviews have stated that despite the time and effort funneled into this title, it became a victim of it’s own depth. Many people have complained that in order to successfully expand your territory, economy, and military you need to micromanage things so intricately(as in: set policies for individual ethnic groups residing within in and all settlements) that you get bogged down in the day to administration of your settlements with little reward to show for it. Couple that the inability to actively participate in your battles aside from troop composition like the hands on control of troops movements in battle ala Total War: Rome, you’re barking up the wrong tree. Or at least, so I’ve been told.
To distill my concerns into a quote borrowed from a reviewer: “In the game Imperator, you’re not the ruler of an empire, you are the empire.”
Without the payoff of commanding your armies in battle, it just seems like a glorified city creating/management game. Sim City on steroids. Am I off base here?
I can’t get into the Total War games and have never tried any of the Paradox strategy games. As far as strategy is concerned, I really like Civ 6. But I’m too busy playing ESO to care.
It’s most like EU. Needs more. I would wait for the first expansion, but truthfully I’ve had some fun with it.
It’s really shallow compared to ck2 still, but somehow still fun for me.
You will not ignore me.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AP/status/1124506203550306306?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
I’m not going to be ignored, Donald!
He deserves that for cheating on Anne Archer.
I can’t wait until Donald blows up one of the fat kids missiles on the launch pad.
My hot-rod trailblazer ss is fucking up. It seems like the catalytic converter disintegrated and is plugging the exhaust. Thing won’t rev over 2000 and makes a loud whooshing noise under acceleration. Of course, in my shitty state it’s illegal to buy most of the replacement converters. I have to hunt down an oem set for triple the price. Pisses me off when I google and find a plethora of options for 300-400 bucks and I have to buy stock for 1500 instead. I might have a lead on a guy who welds high flow cats into the stock Y pipe. Trying to find him this weekend. Otherwise it’s bend over for the state once again…
I assume you are only doing that for inspection?
So you’ve stuck a pipe in and punched a hole through the cat? That’s something I would never do! Never!
No, I have to get inspected every two years and i just got it done. I don’t want to have to reflash it every time and it wont run right with blanks. The downstream o2’s will throw a code if the difference from the upstreams isn’t right. Only way around is reflash and then I’ll have to do it again in a year and a half when I need cats to pass. I’d rather just live with the cats and not mess around. Thing’s got crazy power anyways, even with the weld ins it had.
Gotcha. Why won’t aftermarket cats work?
They will, or would if they weren’t illegal to buy or sell in the state of prisonifornia.
Reminded myself of this cool song
If you could register it in the boonies in California, there are still a number of counties that don’t have smog requirements. San Berdo and Riverside have that I think.
It’s just a little government. Smallest of all time in fact. /1790 US.
Just the tip, I promise.-Alexander Hamilton
At least we don’t have a stamp act. As long as you don’t use the internet.
Who is this WE motherfucker? You live in Godzillaistan!
And they have 収入印紙 too.
I think I might be lost.
https://imgur.com/a/VNieUb3
Well, the sun helps immensely in navigation, and since the sun is always only rising there, east should be easy to find.
Yeah, walk any direction and you’ll hit ocean. It’s an island. Easy peasy.
You have enough supplies. Sit back and enjoy.
Now, here is someone who knows how to co-opt hashtags:
tarikh anwar
@AnwarTarikh
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He was the last living #terrorist in this infamous picture, part of #BurhanWani gang. Tariq Malvi and Lateef Ahmad Dar have been killed by 34 RR and SOG in Imam Sahib, Shopian. #CajasEstratégicas
#GiveUstheScarletWitchMovie
#住んでる県がバレるツイートしろ
#MILvsBOS
8:29 PM – 3 May 2019
I have no idea what any of that means.
Neither do I. It appears to be someone talking about terrorist something, but using hashtags for Marvel movies and NBA games so it will ‘trend’ on twitter.
I only stumbled upon it because the NBA Bucks from North Chicago are technically in the same state as me, so twitter thought I would give a shit.
I guess James Woods has gotten caught up by the social media ban stuff, here is my completely serious take.
I think you meant “complicit,” not “complicate.”
I was wondering if Twitter has an edit button.
Well, nothing else on the InterTOOBZ does, so why should Twatter be any different?
Plenty of sites have an edit button. Fancy sites.
Ah. Explains why I’ve never seen ’em.
Really, the best sites. Classy sites.
NB: None of them are social media sites.
That’s what I meant, but not what I typed, it was for a reason. Do you even satire bro?
Not to worry, Trump is on it.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/05/03/donald-trump-calls-out-twitter-for-locking-out-james-woods/
Best. Timeline. Ever.
You know, as a matter of screwing with the proggie it is. As a matter of sober governance *starts sobbing*
The President of the United States of America is name-dropping James Fucking Woods. Fuck politics. That just made my day. #longlivethenewflesh
Banned for #HangThemAll. Well dipshits, keep on banning and marginalizing your opponents, coupled with condoned real violence. You’ll be wishing for a good quick hanging.
Ok, you might have to scroll down a bit, but one of these retweets isn’t the same as the others.
F***ING unions are shameless.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/03/center-for-medicaid-services-seiu/
One of those issues where I can’t claim any expertise – but I can see who’s lining up for and against it.
This is close to my heart because I used to help families with Medicaid planning. The paid caregivers are often family members. The wages are very low. There are no benefits to negotiate because the employer is the legal guardian of the disabled or elderly Medicaid recipient.
The unions came in saying they represent health care workers. Ergo, the caregivers are members and have to pay dues. They are taking money from those who can least afford it and give nothing that I am aware of in return. It’s ghoulish.
I don’t know what Trump’s motivation is in this fight. Whatever his reasoning, he is doing the right thing.
I know SEIU are scum. That’s enough for me.
Eli Lake nails it.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/03/code-pink-slammed-defending-venezuelas-maduro/
It’s weird that we are getting lefty defense of Venezuela. At this point you’d think they’d just go with the standard, “it’s not socialism, it’s authoritarian” and leave it at that without defending the horrific.
Whatever Code Pink, at least theoretically, once was it is now simply a hard left agitprop group. There’s no thought. It’s just a matter of blaming the US.
I keep confusing them with Pink Pistols. Never really knew WTF Code Pink was, TBH.
In theory, they are an antiwar group.
I’ve been following the situation in Vinnie Z since Chavez was elected. At the time I told lefty friends in would end badly. I spent three years in South America at that time and saw them elect Lula in Brasil. They are now finally seeing late stage socialism in full dress right next door.
Vinnie Z is now a low rent Trigglypuff in a full on hangry tantrum.
A 4th OT in the Denver/Portland game. Wow.
I thought you were camping.
Camping in Japan generally involves a HD 60 inch Sony, if you’re roughing it.
The site has free wifi. Japan *Shrigs*
LOL Straff is glamping.
Hardly, the toilet has one of those ass cleaning things, but the heated seat is not avaible.
Whoa. Roughing ? it.
It’s pronounced gramping.
? and not ashamed of it.
Now you’re just making shit up. Portland doesn’t even have an NHL team.
But they do have a WHL team. 2013 Ed Chynoweth Cup winner before falling to the Halifax Mooseheads in the Memorial Cup final.
AOC told us we have 12 years. Beto says 10 years. I guess that makes this also ran a moderate.
Make 5 OTs?
The Knocks have been putting out some really fun music. I love this one. Electro fat keyboards and bass, funny lyrics. Good pop music.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nGRGMW8s58w
Grrrr….tariffs. One of my least fave things about Trump.
https://mashable.com/article/tesla-self-driving-trump-tariff.amp
I don’t like tariffs either, but the China 2025 efforts can not be ignored as a threat to US businesses.
I don’t think this case is anything other than a stunt on both sides. Tesla is a visible symbol of Trump haters and pointing out that these and all tariffs are hurting US business is also a tactic for the same reasons to the other side.
I’m tired just thinking about how early it is for you. Go back to sleep.
She’s on the west coast, I forgot about that.
Hayek it’s way too early or late. I’m just getting my 1st cuppa coffee.
I also think that China 2025 effort is a subsidy program and the US tariffs are an attempt by to both appear that they are doing something about “unfair” trade practices and give a FU to his haters.
Self driving and EV auto tech is very much the next big growth area for automotive technology. OEM’s expect that 20-40% of the car’s content dollars will be electronics in 10 years.