Am I the only one who feels like a fat fuck? Did everyone enjoy their Halloween? Maybe snacked on your leftover candy or your kid’s candy? Good. It’s goal setting time.
“But Chafed” you say, “I’m full of Halloween candy, I’m going to eat like a pig at Thanksgiving, and then there are office parties leading up to Christmas. Don’t even get me started on New Years Eve.” Look, I know you are a bunch of gluttonous, drunkards but you have to start some time. So, we are starting now.
Pick a goal that you will report back on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. What do you want to accomplish in four weeks? It can be anything: weight loss, distance run, amount of weight lifted, etc. Go with whatever works for you.
I told you last week that I’ve doing been AthleanX for the last two years. True confession time. It’s set up as a three-month program. At the end of each month you test. If you pass, then you go on to the next month. If you fail, then you repeat the month. Rinse and repeat.
I was seriously out of shape when I started. It was not uncommon for me to curse under my breath at myself, “you old, fat fuck.” I couldn’t even finish the test for Month 1 the first time I took it. That was sobering. Anyway, I tested for Month 3 last weekend and failed. My goal is to pass next time. Passing means doing 12 sets of the following in less than 25 minutes:
10 Burpee Pushups
10 Kettlebell Swings
10 Inverted Rows
10 V-Up Russian Twists
I need to cut off a lot time if I’m going to pass.
Here is where goal setting comes in for me. Having a time limit on when I’m going to accomplish this forces me to focus on what I need to do to prepare. My lats are my weak point and additional ab work will be helpful.
Having a time sensitive goal also makes each day critical. I was supposed to exercise 5 days this week. I’ll be in the gym Saturday night in order to get 4 in. What can I say? It was a tough week at work but I’m gutting it out instead of making an excuse not to go.
So, Glibbroads and Glibboys what will you publicly commit to for the Sunday after Thanksgiving?
P.S. No clever Babylon 5 links because Nephilium hasn’t commented on a single one. *sobs into pillow*
Man… I’m usually on a phone when commenting on the GlibFit posts.
Thankfully a Catholic upbringing has provided a strong defense against ((guilt)).
But to get on topic, I’ve been working on losing weight since August 4th. In that time, I’ve gone from 227.6 lbs to 204 lbs, with a body fat percentage dropping from 31.6% to 26%. I hope to be down to 180 lbs by April, and it looks like I’m on track to hit that. It unfortunately means sticking with my meal plan for the foreseeable future. Now to head up to the bar to watch the Browns play and get some beer and wings (things like this are why I’m planning on April being the goal).
I’ll just take that as your apology. Apology accepted.
And good work on the weight loss!
Thanks. Yesterday I was a bit lighter and crossed over the half way mark to my goal, so I was happy about that. The real tough thing is to keep up the exercise as the weather turns to shit (hence trying out the spin studios).
Congratulations on the weight loss!
Stay keto my friends.
That would require giving up beer. Not going to happen (at least for me).
Or me.
/vegetarian beer drinker
#metoo
^ this guy gets it ^
Baconfest was pretty cool.
Would recommend.
#keto
Maybe next year.
I was pleasantly surprised how well run it was and the actual size of the festival. Clean, friendly, and packed.
Not exactly vegan friendly though. ?
I have electricity! God-DAMN but people are fucking incompetent up here. I watched tornadoes from my front porch and never had a power outage last this long.
My Glibfit progress: https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/glibfit-nov-3.png
Good job on the weight loss.
If you want to experience more incompetent electric grid management then come out to California.
We started Glibfit right after I spent two weeks entertaining and dining a visiting friend, so the initial weight loss is pretty much sandbagging/returning to the mean.
Congratulations!
I need to punch another hole in my belt. Up until now, that hasn’t been a problem, but this time it’s my gunbelt with the core. I’m thinking a drill will be needed.
I dropped a little weight before my disc problem. I thought about punching a new hole in my belt, but the belt was getting a bit worn and beat up from all the years I had it. So, I decided that was a good excuse for a new belt.
I would recommend to you both that you check out slide belts. No hole, better range of adjustment. Never thought I’d be impressed by a belt, but dayum.
Get a generator.
::strips bare nekkid, steps on scale::
135.8 lbs. For context, 5’4″ish, small frame, and this is after customary Sunday brunch of waffles & sausage patties.
::puts clothes back on. (Sorry not sorry)::
Ultimate goal: 125, which I know is achievable, ‘cuz I was there earlier this year during office Biggest Loser competition. (Won the chick category.)
Goal for Sunday after Thanksgiving: 130.
Thanksgiving is the worst time for it, but you can do it!
Yes.
Thanks for the votes of confidence! Weapons in arsenal: low-carb (“Two Good” brand) yogurt for breakfast, frozen Atkins lunches, Planters “Nut-rition/Heart Healthy” single-serving packs for snacks – a bit fatty, but relatively low-carb – and trusty treadmill at home. Achilles heel: office’s proximity to break room, where the chocolate lurks.
I havent had a coke or pepsi since August of 2018. You can do it.
strips bare nekkid
Hawt.
160 elbees today. Hoping to put another 10 on and then it’s muscle time.
“how do you do it, DOOM?” You might be asking.
It’s been a struggle. I have to eat snacks all day long.
Imagine forcing Ben and Jerry’s after dinner 3 nights a week.
I tapered off a few times, had a hard plateau around 150 for a while. No longer need a belt all the time!
This is a problem I cannot comprehend; however, you are making progress towards your goal which is excellent.
I’ve probably said it before, but I had my learner’s permit with my weight listed at 099
It’s been an uphill climb. No one in my family is over 190.
That’s my wife. 5′ 4″, 106#, and she eats more than I do.
DOOMco,
Before your child arrives, may I introduce you to craft beer drinking? I don’t think you’ll have problems packing on the pounds with this method. ?
I have switchback almost always at the house. Last time I switched to Stone tangerine express ipa.
It’s helped!
/sends DOOMco a 12 pack of 10%+ Imperial Stout
I’d take it!
Don’t worry. This “problem “won’t last. Sounds like me in my twenties. Things….changed
Yeah, I was in the 120s when I graduated high school.
Me as well.
I was 110 when I graduated from college.
That was half a me ago.
You poor bastard.
3 goals:
1) by Thanksgiving I want to be doing at least 5 hours per week of cardio.
2) I want to be able to do a 45 minute treadmill session at a 3:1 run to walk cadence
3) I want the first two numbers on my scale to be 27
Hey, trashy – Got Eyepiece on the tablet, so controls are on the side instead of the bottom, so much easier to access. Thanks a bunch!
Pick a goal that you will report back on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. What do you want to accomplish in four weeks? It can be anything: weight loss, distance run, amount of weight lifted, etc. Go with whatever works for you.
I have the follow up with the doc that did my shot right around Thanksgiving. I’d like to be able to go back to normal activity afterwards. I guess that isn’t really a goal I have much control over; however, I’m setting that up anyways. I’ll keep doing my physical therapy work.
I think the shot is working.
I worked in the yard yesterday. My physical therapist wants me to do more stuff. He has approved me doing light yard work. I explained I have a backpack leaf blower for leaf clean-up and I intend to use that for leaf clean-up. He told me some things to be aware of and he wants me to stop if I have pain. I did have a little pain yesterday, but I chalked it up to my moving incorrectly or coming down hard on my one leg. When I was done I had less pain than the previous time I did yard work. The previous time being before my shot.
I have less pain in my leg today than I had before the shot. I have been celebrating (read: drinking) a bit today. As long as I am not hungover tomorrow so I can go to the gym in the morning to do a little light cardiovascular work plus some of my physical therapy work. I should also be in the office and be productive in the office.
Progress is progress. Sounds like you are slowly getting better.
Thanks. We will see how this works out. I’d like no surgery, but if that is the only to get the pain to stop, I’ll go that route.
Hey, that’s good news!
Thanks! We will see what happens.
Well, this sucks.
I was hoping he’s stay around four or five more years, turn the program into a complete dumpster fire.
Neat! The local bar has the Hershey Porter on tap, and Head Hunter and GLBC Christmas Ale for $4.
Cheering for the Colts while waiting for the Browns.
Hoping brissett isn’t too banged up.
So… I’ve got to ask. Do the non-Cleveland markets get the Progressive ads with Baker Mayfield as well?
Get ’em in Dayton.
Yes.
They make it all the way to Hawaii.
Yes.
The one where his chick has him fetch a straw? I like that one.
Yes.
We get ‘em in San Diego.
But I’m from Oklahoma so it’s certainly not difficult for me to place the face.
The local bar has the Hershey Porter on tap
Diese Bier?
I should have picked some up last time I was in PA. I think I will miss out. Sad.
Yep. Not bad if you like Hershey chocolate.
Here’s a close to accurate beer list:
Pounders Bar & Grill on Untappd http://untp.beer/dXPxB
I like Great Lakes stuff. I wonder how their Christmas Ale is.
Here it’s iconic. Every Cleveland brewery does their own spin on it. It’s a spiced able with ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Every bar has is on tap November until it kicks. As it’s also a 7.5%, it leads to a lot of bad decisions.
Sounds delicious.
I don’t need 7.5% to make a bad decision.
Got it on NYC stations. I honestly had no idea who he was until they played the Patriots.
One of my favorite songs.
Not really related to ya’lls weight problems.
I weigh in at 135, but I’m not a number dammit, I’m a man.
You really like that song.
Nah, not that much, but it was on the radio a lot when I was a kid.
‘Sides that, everytime people call out their weight, I think of this song.
You linked the same song in comments 10 and 11. I just assumed you liked it a lot.
I guess I should check my links. Yeah, I actually do like that song. Second was intended to be another song, but I guess my clicking finger got tired.
I was expecting something else.
I’m a man
No one was thinking about this???
My goal is to not return to fat fuck status, err, fatter fuck status.
Kovač out at Bayern!
Least surprising news of the day.
I’m kind of enjoying the variety at the top this year – it’s been a looong time.
Now I wonder if Adam Gase is going to follow him out the door.
I don’t care either way, except that the Giants shills in the NYC media are obnoxious.
Yeah, I only very casually watch football so I don’t care either. But I did watch the Jets shit the bed today, again.
No idea about football media – completely ignore it.
The German and Spanish tables are kind of amazing so far this year. Will be interesting to see how the rest of the season plays out.
I like what I see in England too.
But the guy he beat 7-2 is still starting the corpse of Christian Eriksen.
Anyone else see Andre Gomes’ ankle today?
I checked in during that long overtime but didn’t know what happened. Ouch!
Yeah, unlucky injury and bullshit red card… that wasn’t even given via VAR. The premier league has completely botched using replay.
I’m at the point where I’d be happy if they ditched the whole thing. It’s ruining the game. I doubt that genie will ever be put back in the bottle, though.
I need to get back on my bike. I’d like to be able to make the climb up the the Iron Mask mine (1.5 mi 1,000′ gain) without stopping, I had gotten the number of stops down from 5 to 2.
More bad decisions.
I had eaten at the Lost Colony when I was last at the Outer Banks. It was OK at best. I picked this beer up at a beer store before I left the Outer Banks thinking I’d give the place a second try. I think I shouldn’t have. I really don’t like it that much but I will drink it anyways.
My bucket list has 1 item on it.
Wake up in the morning
I do very little physical work to burn off calories. Have a very low metabolism, about 44 bpm, tough to get that up to 60, even after an hour on the treadmill and a 1/2 hour of pumping iron. As the testosterone level declines the strength and muscle mass goes along with it.
As I’ve shrunk in height the weight settled around the middle so I am the same weight as before but the belt is bigger.
Actually I wear suspenders ’cause my belly pushes down my pants and they want to fall off. Not good
Actually I wear suspenders ’cause my belly pushes down my pants and they want to fall off. Not good
This reminds me of something. My wife and I were watching some late 80s/early 90s America’s Funniest Home Videos, and there was a large number of videos of people’s, especially older men’s pants falling off in public settings. My wife is just boggled by the idea that people’s pants just fall off like that. She gets to ranting. “you even wore a belt! How does this happen??”
If I wear a belt I’m constantly hoisting up my britches. The belt is tight but it doesn’t matter. There are a lot of cartoons of old guys at the beach with their swimsuit/shorts halfway to their chin. Its true and not funny, if you’re that person.
Yep. The men in my family all have “flat-ass syndrome” (exacerbated by not having much of a waist to speak of, and exercises specifically targeted to increase the gluteal muscle’s size don’t really seem to help much). Belts don’t do any of us much good, and we all have various GI ailments, so wearing a belt cinched tight hurts. A Lot.
Side effect of a drug Mr. GT is on – Noacetol.
Ex Mrs Tres took something similar, but for women- notittatol
A large number of men at my work wear both belts and suspenders
Relevant
Zxackly what I was talking about. Gramps needs spenders, for the sake of other people
Rule 34 suggests somebody finds it a turn-on.
Can’t you go five seconds without humiliating yourself?
That’s good. The slower the heart rate, the longer the heart keeps beating.
When I first started in the fire service, one of the older guys never worked out. His feeling was, “you only have so many heartbeats, why waste ’em?”.
‘Member when TED talks were about technology and science? I ‘member.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCLoNwVJA-0
TED stands for “Technology, Entertainment, and Design”.
Were you not entertained?
If TED is the conference version of an I fucking love science asshole neckbearding about something not nearly as profound as they think it is, TEDx is that asshole cousin who just got back from fucking and smoking his first semester at college away and decided to proselytize to his family at Thanksgiving dinner.
That’s pure poetry. man.
Here, have another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7wvXkZns5A
skip to the 7:20 mark and behold AOC referring to The Daily Caller as being linked to white supremacists. I’m sure that comes as a surprise to the orthodox Jew who founded it.
Ben Shapiro founded the Daily Wire, Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel founded the Daily Caller. Patel looks gay, but that’s just him being British.
Good catch. This is what happens when I’m too lazy to google. It’s like hearing Limbaugh confuse Wikipedia with Wikileaks.
Yes, he really does that. Often.
I stopped listening to Limbaugh when he was sucking Trump’s cod a year and a half before the election.
I remember when he organized the “deficit spending awareness” ribbon campaign.
Man, what the fuck happened?
I remember. Remember Dan’s Bake Sale?
I can’t help but have a grudging admiration for a man who earned so much money and fame with so little talent.
He’s not smart and his voice is nothing special. But he is great at portraying himself as Joe Sixpack, and is one of the few voices that isn’t parroting lefty multy kulty bullshit 24/7.
Hell, I had a friend get in trouble for wearing a dollar bill ribbon.
He got old, became a drug addict, had a couple of ex-wives and just started phoning it in?
He always said he’d quit when it wasn’t fun anymore. He hasn’t been fun for years.
I suspect he doesn’t have much else to do or that he doesn’t want to do.
He makes $20 million or so a year to skim headlines and complain about people he hates. How would that ever not be fun?
When you have enough money to live in the lap of luxury for the rest of your life (and you’ve already got one foot on a banana peel), wouldn’t you get bored?
I am not dissing making more money. I’m thinking about how bored I would be accumulating more of what I can’t spend in my lifetime.
He’s clearly got a bad case of ennui.
“…phoning it in.”
See also: Stern, Howard.
No kidding. He lost me a year or two after the move to Sirius.
I got tired of torrenting the shows anyway.
Green chili stew was awesome. Now to finish up the brisket. Using half for burnt ends. What an awesome day
I almost have my patio back. I will be smoking something next weekend.
Did you use tomatillos?
Got a question – I made a dish with those once, and it came out bitter. Admittedly, I only cooked it until the meat was done and it came together as a cohesive sauce (about the texture of Italian tomato sauce) but it was bitter. Does the bitterness go away if you cook them longer?
How long did you cook them? When I make tomatillo salsa, which is what I use in chili verde, they cook for about 20 minutes. If you roast them in the oven until they’re blackened, that’ll do it too.
Tampa was pounding on Seattle…until they weren’t.
Gay porn.
TFW you have to fight with your 75yo mother to slow down, take it easy, and relax. “Sheesh, Mom. You don’t have to keep trying to earn YOUR mother’s approval. She’s dead.”
My Sunday after T-giving goal is to actually be serious about my diet by then. I am on a week on week off sort of rotation and a guy at work keeps bringing 5lb bags of sour patch kids. Those things are my kryptonite. In an attempt to get serious about it I might even buy a scale.
I find an excel spreadsheet and chart of weights to be encouraging.
I might even want to add waistline measurements (less frequently than weight though).
I have never found an excel spreadsheet to be anything other than a pain in the ass. They sort you out at the clinic?
Waiting for CT scan results. They think my fall last Sat (8 days ago) might have effed me up more than they had thought.
Or rather, more than *I* had thought.
Best wishes.
As long as it didn’t fuck up your breasts. 🙂
Seriously, get well soon!
Geez Te’dS, show some class. They’re tits.
By New years I want to be down to Philip Lindsey’s weight.
So, I’m using worldbuilding materials from earlier stories, and it makes perfect sense for the narrator to talk to the main character of those tales, because he’s got knowledge the narrator can use.
Only problem is, I ended up renaming a lot of elements from those stories to clean up mistakes. Only, after having written the better part of (an admittedly poor) book using the character, I’m reluctant to rename him too. But the existing name doesn’t fit…
I will differ from you guys in setting 2 health related goals that aren’t about losing weight, lifting, or jogging.
M
I am cutting down on salt to help with edema and cutting out (!!) alcohol at my neurologist’s recommendation (which he says he makes for all his patients, so I’ll take that with a grain of ironic salt).
I do expect this to help me lose weight as a side effect of less drinking and having to make most of my own meals from scratch.
I will note tomorrow’s morning no-shoe weight and log it in Excel as a “start point.”
Try Lite Salt, which is a potassium sodium mix.
Duly noted.
Things with umami help too. I love salt, but I also have low blood pressure.
My blood pressure is fine. Most people even with hypertension have no particular need or purpose to avoiding salt.
I’m doing it to try and reduce swelling in my feet and face.
When you eat salt, the body compensates by increasing blood volume. This is to keep the salt concentration in your blood constant.
Unless you have kidney or heart problems, you do not need to worry about salt intake.
If you sweat a lot, you made need to eat some salt to balance it out. Hyponatremia can be fatal.
Hey, it’s that Taubes guy again.
I am aware, and I do drink Gatorade.
I probably get enough sodium in processed foods alone!!
I should add that the increase in blood volume causes a temporary rise in blood pressure. This is how salt came to be viewed as causing high blood pressure.
Most blood pressure medicines work by making you pee more, which causes blood volume to decrease.
When I was pregnant, less than 1 month to my due date, I had something going on, I don’t remember what and I was advised to drink Gatorade. Appointments were every week at that point.
My feet and ankles swelled up past what they already were and I gained 25 pounds. In a week. Nothing else changed. They almost sent me to the ER u til I told them what I’d been drinking.
Have you tried buffered aspirin?
Shudder, it tastes like a battery terminal; it doesn’t taste like salt even a little bit.
Fat loss continues. I now have a 2-pack. Should have a 6-pack by Thanksgiving.
Diet: all of my calories are protein and fat. Target is a minimum of 200 grams of protein per day; more preferred.
The plan: fat loss, muscle gain.
The routine: pick up heavy stuff and put it down. Pick up heavier stuff the following week. Go to bed early instead of wasting time on the internet (I’ll stay up 4 hours past bedtime if I let myself). No days off. No exceptions.
Today was a day of pulling stuff, tomorrow is a day of pushing stuff
Outstanding. Good for you. I have poor self-discipline when it comes to food and drink, especially beer.
The only time in my adult life when I was close to skinny was when I got back from Tanzania. I was 130 pounds, but that was because I spent 2 years eating bananas, beans, rice and not much else.
My target is 158 and I’m 168 now. Oh well. At least I’m not lumbering around at 207 like I was 5 years ago.
That’s one hell of a change Derpetologist.
I ate my way in and walked my way out. I was 172 when I moved to TX 5 years ago. The beer and BBQ were great, but I paid a price.
I was 160 when I graduated high school. All the fit guys I know who are my height, none of them weigh more than 160. That seems like a good target.
When I was getting ready to leave for the Army, I was walking on a treadmill to make sure I didn’t fail my weigh in. On the news, I saw that ISIS had just destroyed another ancient temple.
Rage became my motivation.
This is what happens when people don’t have to spend all day chopping firewood, milking cows, and hoping the frosts don’t come early.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmG4fkmGPd8
I tapped out at the 35 second mark.
I saw the subject and didn’t watch at all.
^promote this man
Seconded.
From the sidebar and relevant to the Chafed’s Glibfit.
A relevant link!?! doG bless you.
Sketchy blind date.
That was great:)
It was good. I will steal and forward.
Horrible story but you know what we say about progs and projection.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/a-waste-texas-gun-control-activist-shoots-her-three-children-dead-in-murder-suicide
People who push for gun control are terrified what they themselves might do.
Political activism is a symptom of something broken in your head or your soul, I’m convinced.
“Political activism is a symptom of something broken in your head or your soul, I’m convinced.”
relevant: the benefits of extremism, by John Cleese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4
Filthy moderates.
ding ding ding
All the gun grabbers I’ve known are emotionally incontinent.
Yep.
I don’t care what kind of anxiety and depression she had.
She’s pure evil.
Right? I wanna resuscitate her so I can kill her slowly and painfully, this time.
Deer Park, so: the bad side of Pasadena
Cut her some slack: all chicks get really pissed off right after the divorce when their standard of living suddenly gets cut in half, there’s no one to bitch at all day, and the bastard’s out fucking her best friend / sister / former nanny / cheerleader / whatevs. FirstWife never uttered the word “budget” until I was gone two years.
Deer Park
I mean, this is low-hanging moral fruit, but given how many people suffer from anxiety and depression and go through divorce and don’t offload their burden on to others, especially their children, I have no sympathy whatsoever for this person.
When you kill your children in your suicide I am willing to be absolutist in my judgment that you are a foul, vile person. I have gotten into fights with people I otherwise respect because I do not consider the zealots at Masada heroic for precisely this reason. DO NOT KILL YOUR KIDS.
Not to get all dark or whatever, and I’m not saying this for applause, but my mom fit this woman’s profile to a tee in that she was going through a separation, diagnosed with depression, and likely suffered from anxiety although they didn’t diagnose that at the time. She intentionally overdosed on sleeping pills when she was 22, waiting for my grandparents, who we were living with at the time, to go to the grocery store and for me (I was 2 at the time) to take a nap. The only thing keeping her from killing me first was that she wasn’t the kind of person who would kill her own children because *she* had a problem. So, you know, I realize this isn’t very Christian of me and I’m trying to turn over a new leaf, but fuck Ashley.
At some point I should stop drinking. I mean, this is a GlibFit post and getting my weight under control will help with my back problems. On the other hand, despite the fact that I still feel some pain, I feel better than I have in a long time. On the gripping hand, I have to be at the office tomorrow. Wait, I thought this was supposed to be reasons to stop drinking?
In addition to vanity and general health, my back was one of the reasons I started working out.
I started out slowly to make sure my movements were symmetrical, and got to the point where I could seated row my own weight. 8 years of back problems seem to be gone. Fingers crossed.
Not bad at all.
Transgender Ted Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYx7HaUlMY
the horror. the horror.
I should be dieting. Instead I brought home a six pack of Black Butte Porter. Mmm.
Excellent choice
Indeed. Not as good as Black Amber by Big Rock Brewing, but those fuckers stopped making it a few years ago, so they’re dead to me now.
Her: That’s a lot of food
Him: Eh, I want to make the worm happy.
-overheard in a food court
Wow. Chargers up 26-3 on the Packers.
I hope SP didn’t hear you.
Anyone in Nashville Thursday evening ?
About 700,000 on any given day according to wiki.
Bloke on the Range has a new Mad Minute video on the Springfield 1903A3.
My goal is getting to bed on time.
That’s no small feat. I’m wrestling with that too.
a Tedx talk on the origins of the alt-right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoLvfGQYlFE
[Kif sigh]
OFFS!
Fuck the people who actually voted him in, amiright
1974 Volkswagen Super Beetle.
Sooo, that earlier comment about how bad the AFC West sucks… did any AFC West team lose a game today, or did I just imagine that?
FYI, Cleveland still sucks. They’re about to lose to Denver.
Elway needs to keep Flacco on the bench.
No kidding.
I don’t know what any of those are.
They sound like fru-fru cocktails
Especially the last one.
*golf clap*
Sadly, they’re not nearly as pleasant.
I know the first two, the last two not so much. I’m not doing any rows upside down, and hell no on doing Russian exercises, they gave us Trump.
Your last line got me. Lol.
Fitness museum?
Burpee Pushups – Start standing. Quickly get down on your hands, thrust your legs back, and do a pushup. Pull your legs in and jump up.
Kettlebell Swings – holding a kettlebell with both hands, drop down like a squat, push up like squatting. The force you project coming up will swing the kettlebell away from you.
Inverted rows – Adjust the bars on a squat rack to about waist height. Get under the bar a grip it for rows. Pull your chest up to the bar.
V up Russian Twists – lie on floor. Raise your legs. With you legs raised, raise your torso and swivel from one side to the other. Keeping your legs raised, lower your torso to the ground.
…
I can’t do #1 or #4, and my mental image of #2 has the kettlebell swinging back and colliding with the balls, no thank you.
#3 is questionable, depending upon where I’m expected to pivot.
For the kettlebell swings, that should not happen. There’s more hinging at the hips than squatting. The kettlebell should swing below your body and out in front.
Doesn’t stop the mind from seeing it.
Depends on what you’re training for.
Yeah, that’s definitely a hinge. You should aim to keep your knees as straight as possible. The motion is like hiking a football, and then you’re doing a pelvic thrust more or less to drive the bell up. When you do it right you feel it in the posterior chain, more like deadlifting than squatting. Ideally you’re not using your arms for anything other than to hold on to the kettlebell. It’s a pull, rather than a push, for people to whom that means anything.
Haha…OK. Yeah, hard no.
But seriously, I do need to make a fitness goal of some kind. Just one not so…extreme.
I’m in Walmart so I’ll leave it to you to insert some inspirational metal here. Just start somewhere. It’s inertia that will kill you.
Wait, I’ve got it. Here you go.
https://youtu.be/CmXWkMlKFkI
H/T Mojeaux
????
MikeS is too busy talking about pastry to watch it. Let’s just keep it between us.
And bats. Don’t forget about the bat.
…and tater tots dancing in his head…
The wife just made her
worldstatecountytownshipresidence famous tator-tot hotdish last night! Work lunch is going to be extraordinary tomorrow!How’s this?
Here’s what I did today
You made a bat puke?
Poor thing.
I actually like bats.
So do I. He decided to hibernate on my MIL’s patio screen door. Since that was untenable for various reasons, we went and got him. He’s currently in his shoe box in the garage awaiting advice from the state Game and Fish Dept.
The hope is to release him into our trees, but I want to be sure he has as good of a chance as possible before I just kick him out.
*Game & Fish Dept SWAT team activated*
Haha! Right!? It’s been nice knowing you all!
Aww, he looks sad.
You’re a mensch.
I’m honored. Thank you.
Pie in the Sky made it to the USA!
Not saying you are batshit crazy, Mike, but I spy bat shit.
He wouldn’t come to my house!
And, I’m gonna have to plead guilty to the batshit….
You created a blank page?
4 other people saw it. Maybe it’s you Ted! Did you think of that?!
?
It’s on One drive, it fails at least 33% of the time.
/didn’t load for me either.
Tried turning off the adblockers, and that didn’t help. And it won’t show the page source.
I’ve had troubles of my own loading OneDrive on the web, but I’ve always attributed it to my terrible internet service. It seems that loading every single page on OneDrive is very data intensive.
For those who can’t get it to load, it’s a picture of a small bat in a shoe box. He (yes, I’m assuming its gender) has a towel under him and has obviously repaid my kindness by soiling the towel in some undetermined way.
What a cutie!
I have no problems loading it – on an Apple device *snort*.
He came for Halloween and stayed. You’re a good host, Mike S
Thanks, Fourscore. He did actually show up on her screen Halloween eve. We hoped he would fly away one day after getting enough sun, but he apparently had settled in to hibernate (and almost certain freeze solid) on her patio door.
Hopefully we can find a better home for the little guy, although I’m concerned with the unseasonably cold temps that he won’t make it. I hope I don’t have to let him live in the garage all winter. ??♂️
Hail Satan! Oh wait, did I say that outloud?
Terminator: Dark Fate is great. Well worth watching.
Wait, no. Mike and Jay discussing Terminator: Dark Fate is great and well worth watching.
The movie sounds like predictable pap.
Got her exercise.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/zimbabwe-girl-crocodile-gouges-eyes-wrestle
Well, for a first try, they are ok. They shatter and are flaky. https://photos.app.goo.gl/tpuNEdhgKvwMVRdZ6
Where are the hotdogs?
Look great! I’d help you eat them. Great butter delivery vehicles:)
Looks great!
Google thinks I’m not connected to the internet. Funny that.
I suppose you want to know the Cal score, too?
I know exactly how much work those are.
I am impressed.
They shatter and are flaky
My guess is overworking the dough or needs moar butter and holy crap how many did you make? They sure look good.
I think the dough is overworked too, plus it got a little warm on the 3rd and 4th turns.
I almost always let my puff pastry dough get too warm.
If I do this again (or make puff pastry) I will stand on a step stool. The dough got overworked in part, because I’m short and can’t get the right angle over the dough and had to keep rolling and turning the dough. I think if I could get my weight over the dough, it would need less handling.
Nice! They look great. A lot of people assume that they’re really difficult because they’re 1) French, and 2) incredibly delicious, but I was surprised at how easy they were. Just an ordinary yeast dough with cold butter folded in.
You can also try making sausage rolls, which are just rectangles of croissant dough wrapped around a lump of sausage meat. The best part is that as it bakes, the pork fat melts out and further contributes to the frying of the dough as it bakes in the oven. They’re very, very filling.
*drool*
All the important food groups.
Except for chocolate.
This is where I always mess up. My instinct is to fully incorporate the butter and it invariably ends up room temperature and not inclined to create flakes.
As I mentioned to Tulip this morning, give ham, swiss and sliced jalepenos in your next croissant creation. I haven’t made them but my favorite doughnut shop does.
They shatter and are flaky.
So they’re snowflake milennial college students?
Now cover them in caramel.
*Homer Simpson food moan*
Throw some chocolate inside.
https://burpple-3.imgix.net/foods/a6f501ba2bfa5b77261129801_original.?w=645&dpr=1&fit=crop&q=80&auto=format
Talk about shatter and flaky.
https://www.burpple.com/f/Ypi5ihOu
They look delicious.
Ack!
Carbs!
?
In my defense, kneading and then rolling out cold dough (it gets harder with every turn) is a good workout.
My goal is to get at least 7 hours of sleep every night.
Seven is a lot. I typically get 4-5. This does not make me happy, and I end up oversleeping when I do finally get a solid night.
It would be nice not to need as much sleep, but if I don’t get enough things start to snowball quickly. I got about 3 hours Friday night, and lo and behold I now have a miserable cold.
Oh, I need as much sleep, I just have lifelong insomnia.
Benadryl is like the antidepressant of sleep aids. I never feel well-rested, but at least I wasn’t awake.
I prefer melatonin to Bendryl for when I can’t fall asleep. My problem is that I lose track of time and go to bed too late.
What is this word “time,” please?
If i don’t get enough sleep, I get sick too. Plus, I tend to overeat or skip exercise, so it snowballs. Then, without exercise, I don’t sleep well and around and around we go.
^THIS
Plus I stop being able to think straight.
Someone’s being unrealistic.
That’s a good goal, and one I should adopt as well.
Go to bed at 9 PM, try to be up around 5:30 AM. The important thing is consistency, the body adapts to regularity. If I can’t go back to sleep after 4 AM just get up and start the day. I used to be a 7 hour guy but the part 10 years or so my sleep time has lengthen.
Is Leslie Stahl wearing Halloween makeup?
This is a trick question isn’t it?
youtube comment gold: I sexually identify as Michael Jackson. My pronouns are He/Hee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iKHjl5xAaA
I am starting to think the whole transgender rights movement is the 21st century equivalent of the old practice of opening insane asylums to the public for entertainment. If you are campaigning for civil rights and your complaint can be addressed by members of the in group treating you in basically the same way they treat each other, you have a valid complaint. If your complaint can only be addressed by treating you differently than they treat each other, go fuck yourself.
I wonder what trannies whose language does not differentiate between `he` and `she` do.
Wikipedia seems to indicate that almost all the non-gendered languages are Turkic or Austronesian. The Pacific Islander trannies probably sit in the sun eating like everyone else in the Islands, and the Turkic ones are probably dead.
Yeah, Turkish was one example I had in mind.
Mandarin Chinese also does not distinguish, but only in speech. The written characters are different.
But if it is so fucking important to compel others to use unnatural language on your say-so, surely these folks must have developed some neologisms of their own?
Hungarian, too.
I’m still not clear on whether Hungarian is a Turkic language. I haven’t studied it but the little things I’ve read it sounds like it shares a lot of similarities with Turkish which I have studied.
Hungarian is usually considered a member of the Uralic or Finno-Ugric family. There’s no distinction in Finnish between he and she either.
In Swahili, yeye can mean he or she. Pronouns are not used often in Swahili because the verb contains a prefix indicating who is doing what.
Ninakula – I eat
Unakula – you eat
Anakula – he/she eats
Tunakula – we eat
Mnakula – y’all eat
Wanakula – they eat
The verb system is much easier than other languages. Na for present tense, li fro past tense, etc.
Gender shows up in other ways. A man marries (mwanaume anaoa) but a woman is married (mwanamke anaolewa).
‘It’s OK to be white’ banner hanging over Mass. Pike sparks outrage
So the ADL is saying it’s not okay to be white? What sort of racists are they?!
Blackmailing racists.
That’s exactly what they are saying.
“It’s a statement that being white is under attack right now and it’s just not true,” Roche told 7NEWS
Right after he tore down a sign that said it is ok to be white.
“It’s important for people not to be persuaded or attracted to a message like this because behind the words is bigotry, behind the words is hate,” Trestan said.
Looks like canvas or plastic to me, but I defer to the ADL.
Boy, there’s an awful lot of racist bullshit crammed into 9 sentences. Also, apparently no attempt to talk to the people who put it up, even though they link to a group that has done similar things. That’s some great
propagandareporting there.I see the 4chan Meatspace Division has been active lately. They did this with parking meters too.
We have tons of examples of people who fabricated or exaggerated non-white lineage in order to boost their chances in college admissions. Can this guy find sufficient counter-examples of people who had to conceal such lineage in order to get into college? Didn’t think so.
They seem so intent on pushing this SJW anti-white mentality so far that average white people get sick of it and vote for whoever will make it stop, and that will probably be someone who makes Richard Spencer look like Mr. Rogers.
Yeah, this is only going to get uglier.
Congratulations, collectivists. You win: 1 race war.
That’s top-level trolling there.
Ravens are making Brady look average.
You have no idea how much I’m enjoying this so far.
#metoo
…
Ah, fuck.
I can’t believe they’re crediting Pats special teams for that play. No, the Raven trying to make the fair catch served that to them all on his own.
What do you want to accomplish in four weeks?
10 more pounds.
20 pullups
100 push ups
Yeah, I could probably do all that in 4 weeks.
You mean gain 10 pounds, right?
I could gain 25 easy in 4 weeks.
I’m coming to the realization that a keto-type diet may have to be my thing.
Fuck.
If you enjoy (and can cook) Indian food, you can adapt all kinds of Tasty, exotic, loveliness to low carb versions.
Have to substitute whole sour cream for the plain yogurt but it actually is better that way. And easier to find.
I love Indian food and have no fucking clue how to cook it. I picture a required trip to Jersey City just to find the ingredients.
Get a jar of Garam masala and put it on what you’d normally cook
It’s not so bad. For dinner, I had beef shawarma (no pita), pickled onions, dressed cucumbers, and shredded purple cabbage. No carbs, very satisfying
No, it’s not bad.
This experiment has been wonderful overall. I’ve dropped a bunch of weight and feel great, but it pisses me off I am not a carb-burner!
Certainly not while you’re losing weight, though after you hit your target weight, your set point will allow at least some carbs.
Yep. Easily.
After fuckin around with various LC strategies, they all work to lose weight.
This one makes my brain and body much happier. No idea why.
I think I may have stumbled onto the perfect opportunity to actually stick a character in a chainmail bikini and not even strain suspension of disbelief.
When the narrator meets her, she’s taken up a profession as a venator, and battles animals in the amphitheater. Her whole stage persona is playing up the fact that she’s from a barbarian tribe outside the empire’s boundaries, and her fighting style requires agility. So her response to the question of skimpy chain armor is “This is jewelery.”
Why would someone ask her about it? Should she be wearing more? Something different? Not the approved uniform for venatrices?
Because the character is the sort of person to wonder why not full armor.
And I’m not sure there’s another Venatrix at the moment.
Forward that idea to at least 5 other glibs or something bad will happen to you.
Jewelry that pinches sensitive parts.
She’s wearing furs under it.
Well, abbreviated furs.
Why fur?
Why not cotton or linen?
Because she’s playing up the “Barbarian woman” element for the audience.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just a fur-trimmed garment so there’s no hairs poking through the chainmail (which is likely going to be silver instead of steel)
This is just a suggestion, keeping in mind she’s putting on a show.
The mail bikini is fine, but I can’t imagine having fur underneath it. Needs to be light fabric, cotton or linen, but a couple of layers. Not silk or wool.
What she could do is have a cape of a solid animal skin with the head still attached (like a bearskin rug) when she comes out to the cheers of the crowd.
Of course there’s fur under her armor. The razor hasn’t been invented yet.
Heh.
Untrue, Spud. Shaving implements have been with us since at least ancient egypt in the real world. What got shaved is a matter of culture.
It’s a joke, son. A joke!
/best Foghorn Leghorn voice
Merkin?
Go on…
As a wearer of a fantastic Stainless steel chainmaille bra, I can state with authority that chainmaille doesn’t pinch.
Surprised me too at (and after) my fitting.
No lining needed. Amazingly comfortable.
Okay, listen to the chick who actually wears it. LOL
Best all day support evah!!
Some gals just wore simple bikini style bras with basic triangle breast covers and simple chains as straps.
Gals with good sized sweater kittens have to get custom contoured cups and serious chainmaille woven straps over the shoulders and also around the rib cage under the bustline.
Then the fun part is choosing a few decorative chains hanging with pendants (or not) hanging from the decorative chains.
I opted for fairly plain draped decorative chains because I like to wear it sometimes under ordinary clothes, with none the wiser. It amuses me.
Ha! I totally want one for days I have to deliver bad news to a client
Once (before I was a semi respectable manager type), I was wearing it under a sweatshirt working with some other guys on assembling a prototype.
The wide-ish neck of the shirt slipped slightly and the strap showed for a second.
One of the guys said “Was that a…?”
I straightened up my shirt collar and smiled and said “you know what you saw.”
::drops stack of papers::
I, uh…..I’m just gonna…..you know….be, uh….yeah.
The more you know…
Nobody said “Pics or not real”?
Overwhelming awe if she chose the “pics” option?
So the joke is that otherwise she’d fight naked?
Fun fact: In early primitive societies clothing was worn not only to protect and for warmth, but in warmer climes, also to flaunt genitalia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koteka
I’m not sure she would. I know the character’s personality from two-three years before this story, and while this is a ‘making the most of a bad situation’ job, she hasn’t gone that far.
You’ll be the cock of the walk.
That would be an interesting exercise in public decency. I mean, you’re not naked. You’re just, well, accurately tailored. Maybe upholstered rather than clothed. It’s not like someone can tell you to put some pants on or something.
NSFW.
Where have I seen this
That has to be for shock value. The designer can’t believe one of those would ever be sold.
Fashion shows like that are never about clothes that real people would buy or wear. They’re “art” shows.
THAT is NOT A PEEPHOLE.
OFFS.
Hmmm…
That was a frequent rant topic in my house growing up.
Holy shit this site. Let’s compare and contrast:
Messy Nessy:
Wikipedia:
Modern primitives, too.
SP is cranking out grilled pizzas and the Ravens are looking great. It’s 70 degrees out.
More of that miserable Phoenix weather.
Ravens are going to lose.
24-13 so far.
It’s not quite over, but with a 17 point lead, I think it’s safe to think that Spud is fabulously incorrect.
Buffalo 6-2
What year is it?!
Trolling is fun.
Goals by Thanksgiving Sunday?
Let’s see. I just went up a weight in this Quick and Dead routine I’m doing for kettlebell snatches. Now I’m starting from the beginning again with a 32kg kettlebell. One goal is to get to a solid 100 reps in 20 minutes by the end of the month. That should be doable. For reference, it’s not just doing 100 reps in 20 minutes however you get it done. It’s a specific protocol that’s a lot like HIIT with purposely lengthy rests, so think 10 reps as fast as you can, rest the remainder of the minute, 10 more same arm, rest the remainder of the minute and then two more minutes, then same thing on the other side. Roll dice to vary total reps and whether you do 10/2 or 5/4.
Another one: one really good pistol squat on each side. That shit is tough. I’m getting better by easing into it. For instance, I can do them down to a foot tall brick fireplace apron (?) at my house, but that’s pushin’ it. That last foot is gonna be a bitch to get through.
Another one: five good reps of one-arm overhead presses with a 40kg kettlebell. In probably mid-December I’ll be switching back to the exercise regime I was doing a few months ago, only with a heavier weight, i.e. the 40 kg. I need to be able to put that weight up at least five times in a row before I start, or else it’ll be a lot of catch-up work. The schedule is basically just presses followed by swings for time, i.e. kettlebell swings in sets of ten for, say, eight minutes. For convenience, I’ll use the 40 kg for those, too. One-handed when nobody’s home, because I don’t want to lose my grip on the bell and send it through a wall or a door without having at least fifteen minutes to come up with a good lie to tell the wife.
You ever try the bottoms up press with the kettlebell?
Yeah, and man, it’s a challenge. It’ll definitely show you where your form is lacking, that’s for sure. You really can’t cheat that.
Ooh, in fact, doing a Turkish get-up with a kettlebell upside-down is like the best way to smoke test your form in that exercise. I can do those normally with a 32kg no problem, but I struggle with a 24kg upside down. It’s like all of a sudden weird little stabilizing muscles you’ve never thought about start having to fire off to keep you from dropping a cannon ball on your head.
You’re a beast NB.
Thanks, but I just came back from a friend’s house who looks like a shorter Hafthor. I don’t know what happened but it’s like my entire peer group decided sometime around our mid-30s that we were a bunch of slovenly, chubby drunks and all needed to get our shit together. It’s great on the one hand because there’s a lot of mutual support and it isn’t weird to go over to someone’s house to hang out and do deadlifts before beers on the patio. On the other hand, you can’t look at your peers and gloat at how much better shape you’re in…
I get it. Unless you are a competitive lifter, the only comparison that matters is how far you have come.
For sure. And at 41 I’m in the “impress friends’ wives and the other parents at daycare” circuit. I know I can get to a pretty good place in terms of strength, but my apex is going to be somewhere around “Damn, that guy’s pretty strong compared to random dudes you see walking around” as opposed to “Oh, I see, that guy started a serious lifting program when he was 16 and has done it ever since.” And I’m fine with that. Every now and again I can do fun stuff like deadlift the front of our camper and drag it down the driveway to impress the wife and kids, and that’s enough for me.
“Oh, I see, that guy started a serious lifting program when he was 16 and has done it ever since.”
Most of those guys are on steroids.
Build muscle, lose fat.
Mostly I’d like to stick to my general “plan”, which is currently: Lifting 1x/week, HIIT 1x/week, Taekwondo class 1x/week, walk 10k+ steps at least 3x/week. On the dietary side, avoid vegetable oil, other bad fats, and added sugar as much as possible, and maybe drink a bit less alcohol.
On the lifting side, my progress seems to have stalled on several lifts, so I may try switching to a different exercise for some body parts and see if it makes any difference.
Last two weeks have been garbage on both the exercise side (because of work) and dietary side (because of social commitments), so I just hope to get back on track.
Do you find that eating bad fats/oils, etc. fucks you up? I travelled the week before last and even trying to go ‘steak and salad’ wasn’t enough from having gut issues.
I really just like cooking for myself.
I use travel as an opportunity to go on extended fasts for that reason. Also, it means I can pocket my per diem 🙂 .
It’s my favorite part of keto. Being able to go 20 hours with no discomfort is fucking awesome.
It frustrates me, though, that a lot of the oils, etc that kitchens use are shit.
Not sure, probably because I haven’t been ruthlessly strict with it, and I’m also kind of bad at noticing these correlations.
I think you were the one who mentioned Cate Shanahan a while back, right? Anyways, after I listed to some podcast with her, I went to her site and got her list of “bad fats”, and I’ve been avoiding buying anything from the store with those fats listed in the ingredients. I’ve been staying away from obvious offenders at restaurants like fried foods too, but I’m probably still getting then in salad dressings or sauces. I’d already stopped cooking at home with canola/vegetable/corn oil years ago, so this might be too incremental for me to really notice an effect.
Yeah, I’m a fan of hers.
We’ve only used coconut, olive and avocado oils for years. It’s weird, though. The stricter you get, the more the bad shit seems to affect you.
I don’t notice any difference between canola and olive except in my wallet. ??♂️
I get it, but have you ever avoided those oils completely and then added them back in?
No. I don’t have any of the above-mentioned gut issues *knock on wood*.
Mojeaux:
Since I know you’re a DHEA advocate, give this a try:
https://www.amazon.com/Iconic-Formulations-Dermacrine/dp/B078BD63BY/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
It’s kind of expensive but it seems that the epidermal absorption is more effective; it has been for me.
I’m not sure DHEA is doing anything for me anymore, but I have so much stress, I don’t know if anything can cut it. I have found myself gritting my teeth with my jaw slid left and clenched. It was continuous. I don’t know how long I’ve been doing that, so if the DHEA is doing anything for me, I can’t tell now.
Cortisol, generated by stress, is a real motherfuck.
Meant to include this- (wiki, but it was better than http://www.beatcortisolstressfatload.ru) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol#Stress_and_mood
Yeah, I know, but I don’t know how long I’ve been doing this. I have often wondered if I had/have adrenal fatigue.
Oh…..I can’t even
Q, serious question. I read a bit about DHEA the last time you mentioned it. It doesn’t appear there is good proof it raises testosterone levels. What makes you believe it is effective?
Anecdotal and experiential.
When I started taking it, I was able to get over several plateaus in my lifting and my body fat percentage starting going down with no alterations in diet.
I also noticed improved performance of Q Jr.
Were you able to isolate that, even with your dietary regimen?
He knew where his dick is even before changing his diet.
Like I said, it’s anecdotal and I haven’t gotten my T-levels tested in a long time. But I noticed all these positive effects without consciously changing anything else. So, it’s not rigorous, but it’s convincing enough to myself that I’m keeping with it.
Thanks Q. If I decide to try it, how do you tell the difference between quality versus junk DHEA?
This is what I use pill-wise:
https://www.amazon.com/DHEA-100mg-200-capsules-Capsules/dp/B01I1Y2LA8/ref=sr_1_16?keywords=We+Like+Vitamins&qid=1572835429&sr=8-16
That and the Dermacrine upthread.
RAD140.
If you want to boost testosterone, use 1-Andro.
Fitness-wise: been staying keto as best I can. Weight is staying steady, but getting good gains on my lifts since I started doing 4 sets alternating near max for 3-5 reps, then cutting the weight in half for 12-15 reps. Lots of body weight stuff like pull-ups and dips.
Seems to be working out pretty well.
Bully for you! ?
I read somewhere that one of the great things about bodyweight exercises is that as a side-effect they help regulate your weight. You can be 350 lbs. with a wicked case of sleep apnea but still put up massive weight, but chances are you’re not grinding out five strict pullups without having a stroke.
For those who followed my urgent care adventures today, CT scan says the skull is fine, no hematomas or anything. But it does show a hellacious sinus infection that needs treatment w/antibiotics before it gets dangerous (it’s not in a good place if left untreated—could lead to blindness or meningitis).
I said I didn’t know they could see inflammation on a CT scan. They said, oh yeah, especially one this bad. I have to see a head and neck specialist about it.
But I will live to blow something up another day!!
“…hellacious sinus infection that needs treatment w/antibiotics…”
Enjoy your Monistat-7
Ugh. Didn’t think of that. Works though.
Excellent news! No MRI, though?
None needed!
Coolio. I hate those fucking things.
Love the avatar, btw. We miss you.
I adore an MRI. Im immediately asleep in that tube.
Good lord HS. It’s been a rough ride for you recently. Get well.
Take care of yourself, please. We need to keep our myths around.
“could lead to blindness or meningitis”
Crikey.
Take care, HK!
Good news, bad news kind of thing. Take your meds.
Jeepers, lady. Let’s start getting better! Soon!
Bad sinus infection is better than what you feared, eh? That’s a good way to find the silver lining. Not sure if I should say, “Good news!” or “Sorry to hear that” so I’ll say both.
This is good news.
Thanks, all! For several minutes there, my posts all evaporated.
So I have to apologize for giving a blanket thank you.
Look in to getting the Pneumovax (better than Prevnar 13). If you get a sinus infection, you’re going to get another one.
Spot the Not: assorted nonsense
1. Queering Late Stage Capitalism: The Sociological Implications of Weaponized Transphobia
2. Going beyond the binary: Marxism, gender and trans politics
3. A Map of Feminist and Queer Theories of Sexuality and Sexual Regulation
4. A Marxist Perspective on Women’s and LGBT Oppression in North America
5. The New Transgender Movement: Race, Poverty, Gender, Policing, and Pinkwashing
6. Transgressing Gender Normativity through Gender Identity Development: Exploring Transgender, Non-Conforming, and Non-Binary Identities of College Students
*spins in chair for sixty seconds, points*
#1
I like your method.
#4
1 is the Not? The fact that 5 of those are real makes my head hurt.
I’m afraid I’ve seen that before.
I’ll go with 2 since it sounds the least crazy.
I liked 2 for the answer too.
I’ll go with #6, because they always use five dedicated college students, but apply whatever randomness they produce to the populace at large.
Trick question: some disturbed individuals wrote every one of them
Quiet, you!
I resemble that remark!
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
[shoots frightened henchman with bang-flag revolver]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fn36l_z3WY
Is this a trick where they’re all real?
Can you translate those into nongibberish? If not, I’m going with Rhywun’s method.
[frustrated Babel fish puts on reading glass, rubs chin thoughtfully, then shrugs as if tosay “well, I got nothin.”]
I wonder how Jabberwocky got translated. I guess they just left the gibberish words untranslated.
Latin Jabberwocky
***
Hora aderat briligi. Nunc et Slythia Tova
Plurima gyrabant gymbolitare vabo;
Et Borogovorum mimzebant undique formae,
Momiferique omnes exgrabure Rathi.
***
I’m getting so jaded they all look real. I’ll guess 5 is the not.
Whichever one you thiink the Not is is not a not. You’ve either missed it or it is getting published shortly.
[evil smile, street organ starts playing Entry of the Gladiators]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbQZ7jAvgoI
I’ll guess 5 since it seems like a lot for one article.
Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQJigIBllbU
oh dear god.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q
1 is the Not. I wrote that. Prize for our winners:
What is Queer BDS? Pinkwashing, Intersections,Struggles, Politics (Angela Davis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4VX6z5FV4Y
#winning
Clinging bitterly to that ball of hatred in my gut count as exercise?
Yes, but only for the darkness in your soul.
I thought you’re supposed to cling to guns and religion.
Both of those things are hard to cling to here.
Harsh but fair?
https://twitter.com/JaniceFiamengo/status/1190403679079161856
Harsh, maybe. But definitely truth.
I’ve been saying that for years here. The salary man would work himself to death to feed his family, but at least his family and society gave him respect. It’s becoming common for people to ridicule the rumpled suit oyaji falling asleep on the train at night. Fuck that. The guy worked hard and doesn’t spend his limited time trying to impress strangers on the train.
Kinda goes back to what we were talking about last night. You said “a samurai doesn’t belong on a commuter train,” and that is true, but he IS a samurai.
the OTHER night, not “last” night
Oh, and a begrudging Congrats to your Chiefs.
Thanks! I was pretty sure we were going to lose.
There is a “will to live” still burning inside these guys. We’re approaching the “Meh, fuckit!” stage that Ayn writes about.
What would that look like, a bunch of salarymen saying “fuckit”? In Japan, doesn’t that usually mean a trip to the forest?
When you say “will to live,” do you mean live well or just keep plodding along?
From my limited knowledge of Japanese: Gaman means endurance/perseverance in Japanese. A common phrase is gamashite, which means “endure it”.
Another common phrase is shikata ga nai, which means “it can’t be helped.”
Japanese culture is big on stoicism and accepting your fate without complaint. Hence the very high casualty rates during WW2.
“Perhaps we die this time.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_e4m3bl5_U
“Gaman suru” has a negative nuance, so the go to phrase people use instead is “gambaru” which has a positive feeling. “Shikata ga nai” is basically, “Eh, waddayagonnado?”
As in Shopenhauer’s “will to live”. Just chose that because of its similarity to the Buddhist idea. Suicide is one possibility, but just not ever getting married or retreating into solitude while maintaining a loveless marriage are more common.
I think the hikikomori phenomenon was the result of Japanese men deciding that society had nothing to offer them.
Led me back to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men
And I said “Samurai Commuter Train” we be a great band name.
Yes it is.
The Battle of the Sexes doesn’t have much to say to me but even I see something unpleasant going on.
To me, it looks like a battle between gratitude and ingrates, objectivity and confirmation bias, benefit of the doubt and mind reading evil intention. These battles are being fought anywhere it’s possible to divide people into groups.
Zing!
https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1191080605464715264
Senile Joe.
You’d think he’d learn after his own boss got burned with his line, “At least I’ll be called President of the United States”.
LOL!
Come and get it!
https://aimsurplus.com/leo-trade-in-glock-22-gen-4-40s-w-handgun/
Glock?
tupperware
*sigh*
I’m not nearly as productive as I was this time last year. I only got 3500 words today, and with heavy eyelids I must try to sleep. Maybe monday I will manage to put more words down.
And if I get him out of the capital, the pace might pick up too.
Not yet knowing the local language hurts the degree of candid interactions he can have.
Do you listen to music while you’re writing?
In any case, sleep. I often find that my plot problems resolve themselves by the time I wake up.
On the subject of what we want, Splosives’ sweater kittens, and chain mail:
HS, I think it is totally awesome and badass that you still dress up and cosplay. I never had the opportunity (or confidence) to domit even though I wanted to. I thought I had let that go as a goal that had to be retired unattained.
But you’ve given me a reason to reassess my willingness to let that go. The idea of wearing mail under regular clothes and nobody knows the difference is really arousing and there was a time I had fantasized about doing that.
So. Back to the topic of this post. When we get our stressors sorted out and I can start worrying about my weight again, what I want is to wear chain mail under my Sunday dress.
Mo do you do any exercise to relieve your stress. You’ve talked about what you are going through. I get a structured program is pretty unattractive right now. Do you walk or bike or whatever just to blow off some steam?
No. I should. I’ve been eating my stress, which is twice as bad as not walking it off.
I need a massage. That’s what I need.
When everyone is out of the house, go for a walk and BREATHE. Pay attention to the moment and let the thoughts just breeze through. It helps.
Walking is underrated. Quiet places where your mind can wander to those issues that really matter.
I get that with jogging. Clears my head like nothing else, especially at night when there’s not another living soul outside in this small-ish Ohio town.
Matter of fact, I’m gonna bust out a few miles tonight. Great evening for it.
Or go to a place that Bob Kraft liked and get “full release”
/what? Everyone else was thinking it anyhow
Good advice.
Read Kierkegaard.
Why?
I will, because I read the wiki and he seems right up my alley, but why is that your suggestion?
He is the philosopher which threads the needle between Faith, existential despair, nihilism and redemption the best IMO. He speaks the closest to Truth of any philosopher I know. It may bring you some peace.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Go for it, MoJo!
You do have to be careful about the fabric choice though because the texture will show.
But only as careful as you want to be…
Eh, I don’t have to go to work anywhere so I can wear what I want. I am intent on going down the hippy dippy boho wardrobe path, as well.
I took belly dancing lessons once. I loved it. I still have my coin skirts and zills.
Thinking about changing my avatar over to my corset one.
Boho clothes, eh? Allow me to introduce you to Lotus Trading.
https://www.lotustradersclothing.com/
OMG I love you so much.
I will change mine to a corset pic if you change yours.
Now which one to choose…
What would you charge to have a long conversation with Mrs. Chafed?
I too have more than one to choose from.
Dang it! I don’t have all my corset pics on my phone. I’ll have to dig around for a good one on my pc (or backup drive…?)
This will have to do for now.
Quite the perfectionist!
And I see you have done so! You go ahead on with yer bad self!
I don’t have a corset pic. : ( That may be because I don’t have a corset.
I know! When I hit my ultimate target weight (stated above,) I’ll get one! : D Last I checked, there was still a Victoria’s Secret in the semi-dying mall near my office.
OK, this particular glib thread is taking a rather hawt tone.
/glad I’m seated……
All right then! My work here is done! I’m off to bed. Nighty night!
Fine! R-u-n-n-o-f-t! Leave us all here, just, hangin’….
And us without our Mr. Cooper…
To be fair, I was hoping for Ms. Cooper.
Night!
Night, MoJo!
It takes GT signing out to get the the three of you in a
groupthread?/still seated
We are also missing SP, MLW, Athena, RAHeinlein, Cannoli…
Yes, very much noted. Of course, I was referring to…what, the “inner circle”? “Terrific Trio”? “Saucy Sirens”?
/not a writer
Jeff Zucker tossed and turned. It was the same nightmare again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDQ7hXMLxGc
Derpy. You need this.
https://essaytopicgenerator.com/
I typed in “transgender Marxist professor” and got this, among other things:
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4. Marxist criticism theory and the novel the trial by franz fafka
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“The card says *Moops*!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_e4m3bl5_U
Phrase I just heard for the first time: Non black people of color.
Fuck me, this racial terminology is getting ridiculous.
“Brown people” is the one that gets me. Who the fuck is that referring to? Mexicans? Arabs? Indonesians? Inuits? Sicilians?
Strafe, I just came very close to spitting out beer.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-widatalla-poc-intersectionality-race-20190428-story.html
[Homer scream]
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Op-Ed: The term ‘people of color’ erases black people. Let’s retire it
As a black woman, I seek out inclusive spaces because I lack them in my everyday life. I don’t think I’ve ever unintentionally entered a space and immediately felt like I was a part of the majority. I remember when I joined my first women’s group. I went to one club meeting, and never returned. I felt like every issue these women were struggling with affected me more intensely because of my race. It wasn’t empowering, just depressing.
No one looked like me. I didn’t expect to be in a room filled with black women, but I also didn’t think I’d be the only one. And while the others went on about empowerment, sisterhood and freedom, I was met with, yet again, a feeling I knew only I could understand. In a room full of women discussing ways to be heard among men, ironically, I was grappling with how to do just that in the room we were in.
I should have known better when I saw the group advertised as “women of color-friendly.”
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Paywall won’t let me be included. ;(
Control a and control c real fast. Then control v into notepad. Defeats nearly 100% of paywalls.
This speaks volumes.
She hasn’t visited an insane asylum.
Every sentence is so ridiculous, I’m afraid to say more in case we’re being trolled.
I like how her attempt to ‘prove’ her thesis is opening up Vogue and counting supermodels. And then even she realizes that’s stupid but tries to make hay out of it anyway.
Sweetie, trust me, the Hadid sisters may be “white passing” but they sure as hell don’t look like me, either. That’s why they’re supermodels and I’m not.
https://archive.li/syZYm/1617be1bcef27378b02ab2664b95028ade05ba5e.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/78YCt/bbeb90829f3e27efe166eb930d5f9422cdb69a4a.jpg
NSFW.
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/0b/94/7c/0b947cb552f7e630f19fa18707361917.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/E4V6G/b59991815ecd78922ca359c7c22f61a309864d9f.jpg
NSFW.
This one. That smile, those eyes…
She’s the only one who looks like she works out.
Met my goal of doing a century ride today. The distance wasn’t so bad, but 10,000 feet of climbing is tough. 20% grades 80 miles into the ride are just plain sadistic. Killed any thought I had of riding Dirty Kanza.
Great work.
Reverse PBrooking.
Using desktop for first time in weeks and stupid WP doesn’t have a Post Comment button for the bottom most non-threaded comment.
Have you installed Monocle or Eyepiece?
No. I haven’t been using the desktop at all so probably just go back to the tablet.
How much longer do we need to vamp before Sir Digby shows up/Glibfit becomes the Night Shift?
I still don’t know what’s to come next week!
I’m steering well clear of GF.
Are you sure? Your spleen will thank you.
I view it like many view religion: a private matter.
Spleen seems to be doing fine, and, while I may never know (due to testing that is happening well after the fact) was probably due to an infection of some kind.
The modern day NFL in a nutshell.
Don’t harsh Mojeaux’s buzz.
That wasn’t my dude who slid just short of a 1st down. That was the Other Team’s dude.
My dude.
Imagine minding your own business coaching high school football after you’ve been out of the NFL for more than a season, and you get a call from Andy Reid, who said, “Hey, I got no QBs. Get on a plane and get on the field. Like, now.”
Totally awesome.
Scene: mid 90s. Derpy and bro are watching the Saturday Night Movie on the family Radiation King TV
D.A.R.Y.L.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ziA2n1OT0
What, no Flight of the Navigator?
No idea why, but, that’s one I associate with you…well, young you.
Oh, we watched that too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTxRveph1Ys
My elementary school had a mural of Wile E Coyote flying the SR-71.
When my brother solo’d at 15, they cut the back off his shirt and drew a Wile E Coyote cartoon on it.
Get bent, cultural Marxists…
Sorry, Derpy–I don’t quite grokk this.
Yeah, at 15 I solo’d like 3 times a day, at least.
Hmmm. Would explain the bulging eyes and elongated fingers….
His brother was frozen in carbonite.
See, this is what I was thinking.
Just figured it was too risky, and, he wouldn’t be good to the bounty hunters if he was dead, so I just dismissed the thought.
90s bounty hunters were notorious for not living up to the Mandelorian code of conduct.
My brother flew a plane with no one else in the cockpit (Cessna 152) and landed it by himself at age 15. He’s short like me. He had to sit on some pillows bound with my dad’s extra neck ties.
There is a tradition that when someone flies solo, they take the shirt he was wearing, cut off the back, and make a drawing,
For my brother, the drawing was Wile E Coyote using an Atari joy stick to land a plane.
He always loved flying video games like Star Fox. He became a Blackhawk pilot in the Army and flew many medevac missions.
Ah! Now that you’ve said that here–you’ve mentioned it before, right? It seems familiar, now that I’ve read it.
When you mentioned “solo’d”, I glossed over the idea of piloting because assumptions, I guess.
He didn’t say his brother wasn’t frozen in carbonite though, so I still think that’s it.
Ummm….I’ll allow it.
On the subject of walking, when I do go walking, I have to have peppy music. That makes me feel better. Actually, peppy music makes me feel better anyway. But to the point: If I am just walking nowhere with no purpose without music, I get tired and my body hurts. If I have a destination, I’m good. But walking aimlessly is painful. My hands have nothing to do. My mind has nothing to do. I’m completely fractured.
I have been known to walk around my neighborhood at midnight with mambo in my ears so I can dance with no one seeing me.
Boo! Hiss!You probably don’t need me reminding you, but, don’t give up your situational awareness re: solo walking with music.
Oh no. My karate teachers taught me well. Also, I wear a reflective yellow safety vest.
So you’re one of them socialist French protesters, eh?
Good on ya!
Bah! Fitness is a cultural construct! *Downs another beer*
There are only TWO body types!!
Right, me and the ugly people.
Well, I’m definitely not giving you a fist bump for that…
I never claimed to be modest, or sane…
Well, couldn’t you have cut just a little slack? Like, “unsightly”? Or, “homely”?
It’s after midnight, the sucker’s faded, Turn out the porch light and feel the frontside
Thir Digby, did you see this? (You need the sound on)
I had not. Now, to put on my vest and helmet…..
Every time I see these kinds of videos though, I’m left wondering, is this person constantly recording their TV with their phone (or other camera) in case they see something funny? Or are they rewinding a DVR and still can’t hold the camera still? Do they not know their are ways to record the TV that don’t involve pointing a camera at it?
Good point. Could be someone who knows the guy, and wanted to record it, but, that seems odd, too.
I would go with recording a dvr playback.
Maybe we should update the old “Carthagio delenda est”. The closest to “Epstein did not kill himself” through various translation sites comes up as “Epstein non occident se ipsum”.
To save time we can use the abbreviation method common on Roman coinage: ENOSI
ENOSI…QANON…ILUMINATI CONFIRMED!
I did find this one on my phone…
Good choice. Do you own the handgun?
Yes,, but’s a replica.
That’s a great phone!
…or this one. You late nighters get to decide.
By the time I refreshed they were both the same picture.
Oh, wow……….
Um, I’ma go with this current one. While I’m a fan of hot ladies with flintlocks, the expression in this one is sublime.
Also, you wouldn’t have to change anything, so, energy saved.
I figured you’d Digg that one 😉
Indeed!
Alright here’s a totally safe for work Kik link of corset pics.
https://imgur.com/a/RJGwLTl
Is “Yummy!” an acceptable response?
Also, Sir Digby would be remiss in failing to ask if you are feeling better.
Quite ok, my good Sir Digby! It was well covered earlier.
But I’m feeling better now, thank you! I still look like an auburn haired Pam Poovey when she was mistakenly kidnapped.
::swoon::
I still haven’t lived up to Pam’s billiard ball in the mouth record though…
OK, time to faint, now….
I saw what you posted! Glad that it wasn’t anything bigger/more severe. Please do take good care of our hayeksplosives.
/I would say “your hayeksplosives”, but, that gets awfully saucy, and I have a title to uphold.
I have a friend who makes super-luxe corsets. I should dig up his info.
Indeed!
I can’t find a proper link – some old NYC goth scene links but totally outdated 🙁
I’d look at his site.
When your best Twitter posts are on the weekend at midnight, but Twitter posters be all like I need the weekend off, Except it’s Vanilla Ice.
Lol!
Chick-Fil-A>>Popeyes though
Wendy’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich is the best though. The others are just running on hype. Chicken isn’t even Wendy’s main focus, but still the best.
I’m torn on this one. On the one hand, HS is correct about the overall betterness of CFA over Wendy’s chicken.
But, I agree that Wendy’s spicy chicken is tops. I had the opportunity to try out the CFA spicy chicken in a test market thing–way too hot for me. Wendy’s is just right.
I went and waited 45 minutes in line at the local (an hour away) Chik-Fil-A a couple weeks after it opened and ordered their Spicy Chicken Sandwich. It was very ‘meh’, no spice or taste at all. I won’t say the Wendy’s Spicy Chicken is actually spicy, but it has a good flavor. My second favorite fast food Chicken sandwich is the Arby’s Bacon Swiss Chicken Sammich. Bottom of the rung is KFC’s sandwiches. Even the McChicken beats that flavorless shit.
Once in a while I get a hankering for chicken strips from Golden Chick in Duncan , Oklahoma.
They have those down your way, sir Diggs?
They sure do. You ever get to the Metroplex, I will be honored to provide them to you.
The problem with McD is everything fried there tastes the same. Their oil is effed up.
And that’s before they start microwaving, err Qing the food.
Gustave speaks the truth.
What is a better site than KiK for sharing “private” albums? I don’t like that I have to be on WiFi to reach it.
Something I (and others) can reach on cell data OR WiFi?
I don’t know bout wifi or not, but postimg.cc will let you totally anonymously upload an image, or have an account.
That was….interesting. o_0
He-man, fake tan, grab her by the pussy…it was The Hat and The Hair before I made the cartoon…
By the power of Orange-skull!
Err, I’ll keep looking!
Thanks.
If I might–something that ISN’T Google (said the Chromebook user). They seem to provide everything online in a big way, but, you’ve eloquently stated your disgust of the goog.
Mornin’ folks. It ain’t normal for me to sleep through the night, but I zonked out about 11, and woke up about 7. Now my brain’s confused because that never happens.
Good morning. Hold on – back in a couple of minutes…
There! I just finished BTEOTM! So…is the sequel done yet? ; )
I am 34,883 words into the sequel. My efforts this week are on getting that to a finished state.
So, what did you think of the first book? What did you like or dislike about the characters? Etc
I’m afraid I don’t have time just now to respond as fully as you deserve, but I assure you I enjoyed it much more than any other such fantasy/adventure I’ve read (or tried to read.) For instance, I always found Tolkein a difficult read – way too much description of the landscape for my taste. This had just enough, and not too much. Toward the end, I DID wish for some map illustrations, as I found it a challenge to visualize some of the routes Dug was describing.
As for characters, I’ll just say for now I loved the banter between Dug and Peter. It also struck me toward the end how Dug had developed subtly to earn the loyalty and respect of all those who gladly stayed with him on their voyages.
I’ll try to get back to you with more thoughts this evening or tomorrow morning. I wish you a satisfying, productive day of writing!
Goal: Down to 205.