I started working out when I was a teenager. I don’t remember there being any gyms where I grew up at that time. I had a weight set in the basement. The collars were secured by screw. Just thinking about it makes me feel like I grew up in Olden Tymes.
When the ’80s rolled around there seemed to an explosion in workout “technology.” A slew of Nautilus® machines were installed at a local racquetball club. I remember the spiel about how the nautilus shape of the cams perfectly mimicked the power curve of your muscles or some such bullshit.
Running shoes were also taking off. No more running in Keds. Reebok and Nike were on the scene. I’m sure there was some explanation about why they were so much better. All I remember is those things had cushioning so my feet felt much better transporting my pudgy ass.
I don’t remember what brands followed and supplanted Nautilus® but they came fast and furious. It seemed as though free weights were outmoded. Only a Neanderthal would bother with them. Getting on the ground to do a pushup was positively antiquated. There’s no reason to run when you can hop on a Stairmaster.
Infomercials pitched all sorts of fitness products or, as I think of most of them, garbage. There was Soloflex, Bowflex, and a ton of other crap I’ve mercifully forgotten. I’m not sure if the Thighmaster was introduced in the late ’80s or early ’90s but… whatever. Of course, there were also any number of workout videos. You can thank me later for not linking a Jazzercise video.
Getting back to it a couple of years ago, I had no idea some of that retro stuff was ridiculously effective. Part of the conditioning I do is jumping rope. Jeebus I learned a lesson the first time I did that. Lesson 1 was I was really out of shape. Lesson 2 was rope jumping is a lot more exhausting than it looks.
The ab wheel looks like a joke. And it is if you do it wrong. But with a little coaching to do it right, I found out what a killer it is. It’s not part of the program but it is something I occasionally work in.
I never got stability balls. They look like a lot of fun for bouncing with little kids. For exercise, what’s the point. Right? Wrong.
The Shake Weight™ looks like a joke but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sorry, I couldn’t keep a straight face. Yeah, that thing was garbage from day one.
OK, Gliberinos, tell me in the comments what dinosaur age exercise turned out to be a great exercise for you.
I’ve gained a few lbs and have to work it off. Wife and I were just talking about that. I have to get my cooler temperature mindset on. I think running more is in order. Maybe less beer, God I hate that part.
Substitute liquor. There’s a reason a brand of liquor is called Skinny Girl, yet there are no beers called Fit Dude.
If you’re drinking the same amount in terms of calories, I don’t know how that will do any good.
Depends on your drinking, a 1 ounce pour of most liquor is ~100 calories, a 12 ounce of most session craft beers are ~150 calories, 12 ounces of really good craft beers are ~300 calories.
I get it. You also have to factor in your liver, hard liquor is sort of bad for you in that way.
The Atkins/keto movements mean nothing to you? It’s not ‘a calorie is a calorie is a calorie’. Simple carbs are metabolized differently than complex ones.
I agree, except that carbs are more easily burnt off than protein or fat. Calories are mostly calories, except that fat and protein foods are way more calorie dense, since carbs mostly come from plants, which are half fiber, which contains no calories.
I really hate talking about this stuff though, since it seems to be a sort of religion for too many people.
HEATHEN! *Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers point and shriek*
Ive been maintaining a “low carb” lifestyle since August 2018 (<50g-carb/day). I originally started just to lower my cholesterol and sugar, and I cut around 40 lbs. And that was still getting faded on shitty light beer nightly. Halloween this year threw me off (damn FunSized Snickers) and I put about 5 lbs back.
When I did the low carb thing (I switched to whisk[e]y for the duration), I quickly dropped ~15 pounds but then stabilized there for a month. When I do calorie counting, I’ve been able to drop ~25 pounds over 3.5 months (with a new low of 201.8/25.5 body this past week). Different things work for different people.
I don’t actually follow a low carb regimen, but I do try to avoid simple carbs.
However, like Trey, I had excess leftover Halloween candy. I kind of expected as much, though, so I got a bag of Reese’s cups. Yeah, not a problem finishing them. I figure so long as I don’t make it a habit…
We had about 10 people come by for trick or treating this year. The amount of left over candy is… upsetting. I’ve managed to be strong so far (it helps that one bag hasn’t even been opened yet). I have had to make sure to do all of the grocery shopping so random bags of chips and other snacks don’t wind up in the house.
^^^^ this
I once heard someone say “the reason there’s a 100 different diet books available is because not 1 diet works for everyone.”
Coming from a family of Type 1 diabetics (thanks, inbred Mennonite forebears!), low-carb works well for me.
Well, there is Athletic Brewing, but they’re all non-alcoholic beers. They were quite drinkable when I tried them, but I’m not paying $13 a sixer when I can get alcoholic beer for less.
Get a bike. Go for a ride. Increase distance, get better times, repeat.
I’ve kept up with at least one spin class a week for the past month to try to keep my conditioning for when the riding season comes back around. From the three rides I did at the location that has a power meter on all of the bikes, My Average RPM has been 87 (Max RPM appears to be capped at 149, but I’ve beaten that on each of my rides there), Average wattage is 187 (Max wattage 599), and I’ve been getting in over 15 miles in 45 minutes (it’s a lot easier when you don’t have to stop and start all the time), burning an estimated 545 calories per 45 minute ride. I really want to get my century ride in sometime in 2020.
What I’ve noticed lately in observing human behavior, is do you realize how many people take stairs if an escalator or elevator is available? It has to be less than 1%, seriously. I haven’t been on an escalator of elevator in more than 8 months. I just don’t do it. But people will pile into an elevator and pack themselves in like canned sardines to avoid taking stairs.
At my old office building, there were two levels. Two. 80% of the people who worked there would wait for the single (slow-ass) elevator rather then walk the two flights of stairs (up or down). Unless I’m carrying/hauling something, I take the stairs.
We did not have such decadent items in good old Romania. We lifted boulders and such
I bet ya’ll walked to school uphill both ways in a blizzard too, just like when I was a kid.
The problem was mostly no heat in either home or school
I see ya’ll was woke, didn’t want to cause more global warming.
The other commenters think you’re kidding, but my cousin’s wife is from a village that expects men who marry women from the village to haul big rocks up to the specific spot. Supposedly, in olden days, the rocks were thrown onto attackers.
Stone lifting has a long and excellent history.
I took a hiatus for a few days, for deer season. Even with eating but no exercise I’ve managed to gain a couple pounds. I don’t understand how that works. I get up extra early, take a short walk with lots of heavy clothes on, sit for 3 hours in the fresh air, repeat in the afternoon. I limit carbs, except for breakfast. Another week and get a little more serious but then winter sets in.
The Ravens are destroying TX, holy shit.
And Denver is beating the Vikes. To the dismay of Glibs in both cities.
Don’t look now, but i’s 23-20 Denver.
But I wanna sit outside in the 80 degree sunshine!!
The Minnesodans just took the lead.
The Denver Broncos brought in a firing squad!?!!
Harsh, man.
Holy shit, how do you blow a 20 point at halftime lead. Go Raiders!
Back from a multi-gun practice.
Today I learned: If you can, start with the shotgun. I also managed to break off my thumbnail attempting to quad-load.
Also, the CZ had its first ever failure to eject (stovepipe) today at round 7401. That brings it to a total of 3 malfunctions in 7406 round fired.
Also also learned, Ruger products don’t like the cold. While zeroing a red dot on my Mark IV in 20 degree weather, it had several instances where it would not pick up a round from the magazine. Five different PC9s had failures today. I wonder if Ruger uses an oil that thickens too much in the cold.
My MKII always worked in the cold
Maybe something recent, since all of the guns I’ve seen it with have been manufactured in the past year?
I also noticed that everyone with a PC9 paid extra for the free-floated barrel. Which has got to be the most bogus performance upgrade ever.
Has anyone drank the organic Gatorade? I don’t know what that is, but a couple of weeks ago I was in a meeting with one of my co-workers who mostly works out of his Portlandia office, and he says to me ‘I don’t like this organic Gatorade, it tastes weird’. Yesterday I bought a couple of those at Fresh Market. Holy shit, that stuff is awful, lol!
I can’t imagine what would be used to make organic Gatorade. Pickle juice? Mixed with what? Sugar? Gross.
If it was pickle juice, it might actually be good.
I’m not even sure why Gatorade should be organic. I mean, we all know it’s not natural anyway. I buy organic stuff for salads, because I don’t want pesticides on my stuff and there is no way you can wash it off of salad greens. But Gatorade? Like I said, I don’t even know what it is, but it’s awful.
If it’s organic it has to be good for you just like organic cigarettes and organic hemlock.
This guy gets it.
With all the talk of pickle juice, I will say the salt content really helps on long bike rides (and I assume distance runs). When I did my 75 mile ride, several of the rest stops had set up shots of pickle juice for the riders.
Best rest stop though was near the end of the ride where they had a freezer, and dropped sugary treats into the freezer to give us. After 60 miles in the summer sun, it was ambrosia.
This week’s accountability update:
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/GFnov15.png
Hold on to your butts, fellow SoCal residents. A Red Flag warning is in effect until tonight.
No, that doesn’t mean the govt is going door to door confiscating guns (yet).
But it does mean hot, dry, high winds are gusting through. Time to close up porch umbrellas and put away other loose items.
“But it does mean hot, dry, high winds are gusting through.”
Caused by Indiana guns, right? And global warming, because it’s never happened before, right?
Pretty sure cyclical drought and Santa Ana winds here have been documented well before the industrial revolution,
But Orangemanbad, so why not?
What California needed to do as population expanded was keep dead brush clear of power lines and dig more reservoirs to collect water during rainy season (winter).
The poles that have caused the fires are 100 or 80 years old. They haven’t been touched since new. Smart would be to check them and replace the weak ones. Instead, they spend a fortune trying make 10 % of our energy and neglect the system that already works
The anti reservoir mentality in this state is astonishing. The droughts are well documented and we know they will happen again in the near future. But dig a hole in the ground to collect water!?! Perish the thought.
The fires are absolutely caused by global warming. Because of GW, we mandated that utility companies spend all of their money on wind and solar, leaving nothing to upgrade and repair existing transmission equipment. Ergo, GW caused it.
In a manner of speaking, I guess.
Worse reasoning than Obi Wan telling Luke that, regarding Luke’s parentage “What I told you was true, from a certain point of view.”
But better than any “logic” argument the Dems have put forth yet in the shitshowtrial.
(But yeah I get the sarcasm. And you are dead nuts on to the truth about it)
So even when there’s nothing left to cut, they effectively cut the one thing that needed to be kept. Bravo.
Yeah, but politically connected insiders have a much easier time selling hallucinatory pigs-in-pokes rather than viable, proven tech that can harden and update electrical equipment. You know, equipment that can be counted on, rather than provide variable electric generation that absolutely cannot be, and (after tax subsidies are counted) cost more than double standard generation methods.
Not that I find this really irritating or anything.
If I lived in CA, I’d be livid, and want to punch anyone who spoke in praise of “renewable” energy.
I do and I do.
“Renewable” energy will only be supplemental. Still need a reliable base level energy.
My vote is nuke plants, with some natural gas on standby if needed.
Some lucky circumstances here and there make good uses of “renewables.” My favorite example is a deal Denmark has with Norway. Norway imports reliable wind power from Denmark while collecting their own (Norwegian) rain and snow into reservoirs.
Then when the seasons shift and the Danes don’t have enough wind for their own use, Norway exports their excess hydro.
But that doesn’t mean you can legislate that world wide FFS.
Using water reservoirs as energy storage is viable, but there’s always the risk of flood.
Something you can actually say the French got right.
There are niche uses for solar or wind. If Elon Musk wants to have large battery changing stations, that could be one, especially if he wants to pay for them. Something like a water desalinization plant could be another. As you alluded to, those wouldn’t rely on base load, time critical power delivery. But the keyword is ‘niche’.
Sitting at the base of the Cajon pass, winds at 8, gusting 15, no big deal. Humidity in the teens?
Very big deal,
90 degrees
This month has been awful to my work out routine. I hurt my back two weeks ago, and it flared up last night
Sorry to hear that leon, wait and heal up.
Sorry dude. What Neph said.
Heal up soon.
Pumpkins are an obsolete food: change my mind
Nope. Sweet potato pie > pumpkin pie.
They’re good for Halloween and target practice.
The only similar foods I eat are spaghetti squash (but way different texture—hence the name), and acorn squash.
Acorn squash is a much more convenient sized pumpkin, essentially.
Oh yeah, I’m quite fond of winter squashes. But this pumpkin that came in the veggie bag reminds me why nobody bothers with them. I par-baked it to get the shell off, and the meat just doesn’t taste of much.
Roasting the seeds now while I decide what to do with the rest of it.
It’s the chicken breast of the squash world. Ergo, hit it with spices (pumpkin pie’s claim to fame).
Braising it. The liquid contains cider vinegar, maple syrup and five spice powder.
Checks out.
Here you go.
https://www.carolinescooking.com/kaddo-bowrani-afghan-pumpkin-with-yoghurt-sauce/
I should have read ALL the comments before opening my mouth.
I’m partial to kabocha. Yummy.
This.
Personal favorite right now is Delicata. Delicata
“oven fries” are delicious and you can eat the skin.
Absolutely.
Most people have never had pumpkin. Considering most canned pumpkin can be any winter squash (and IIRC, is usually butternut/acorn). There’s only a couple of places around me that stock pie pumpkins at any time other then Halloween week (the large ones are not grown for food).
Libby’s has their own hybrid butternut (IIRC) that they use to make their canned pumpkin. There’s a reason they dominate that market.
For a while Trader Joe’s did sell canned Butternut squash for a while (organic, naturally, but also ~$2/can). Haven’t seen it the past couple of years.
I’ve had pumpkin pie, squash pie fresh from the garden, stewed and riced in an old-fashioned ricer.
It doesn’t really matter what it is, as the pumpkin/squash custard is just the carrier for the pumpkin spice, which is what people like.
Related: I’ll be making the week’s breakfast pies today.
No pumpkin pie on the menu this year (the left over desserts have been an issue in years past). Instead I’m making a batch of Imperial Stout Pumpkin Tiramisu and a couple of batches of cookies (current plans are snickerdoodles, meyer lemon/black pepper, dark chocolate steel cut oatmeal, and gingersnaps). Hopefully people will be more willing to take cookies home then a slice of pie (and I can always more easily throw cookies up in the freezer).
It’s been awhile, but we used to make 50/50 spaghetti using spaghetti squash as a healthy substitute. I kind of liked it. My son hated it.
My wife makes a nice stuffed acorn squash dish that I like when it is served fresh. For some reason, it gags me as a leftover.
Spaghetti squash is a pain to make. Zucchini noodles on a spiralizer is easy and fast.
#lazycook
It’s easy and perfectly repeatable in the instant pot.
Huh.
I’ve been doing the baking method.
*Googles*
Still takes longer than zoodles, but not by much more.
Instant Pot, I love you.
Had instant pot jambalaya tonight; eazy-peazy and delicious.
Yeah. Just put together a pork tenderloin with mustard cream sauce and parmesan. Took a whole twenty minutes cooking time. Came out fantastic.
What California needed to do as population expanded was keep dead brush clear of power lines and dig more reservoirs to collect water during rainy season (winter).
Who are you, so wise in the ways of the obvious?
There are those who would call me…Hayek?
in the 70’s Jerry Brown and the enivros halted the Call water project started by his Dad, had we finished, we would not have to worry about drought as much,
there is a lot of water in California, we just mismanage the fuck out of it
I see Denver is busily snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Just like the old days.
Aaaah, yes, the nostalgia brought a tear to my eye.
Only one? I’d think you’d be sadder at blowing a 20-point lead.
Meeeh, it happens.
/Bronco Fan
Come to Cleveland, we can talk about that…
🙂
OK, Gliberinos, tell me in the comments what dinosaur age exercise turned out to be a great exercise for you.
Shovel
dirt
wheelbarrow.
Whatever works. Exercise is exercise. Except when it’s keto exercise. Then it’s better.
/keto nut
I put gravel around the garage recently to fill in some low spots and gaps around the edges. I thought it would be around 4 tons which is doable in a half-ton truck over a couple of weekends. I started dumping that out and when I raked it smooth, it was like it disappeared. Ended up being 16 loads over four weeks, around 17 tons.
To stay on topic: in the wintertime, I usually just do do a few pushups and stretches. Otherwise, it cutting brush and other chores
Some of those fitness informercials had hot women in them.
Eight days until my follow-up with the doc. I expect that I’ll get another shot to my back.
I had a couple of bad days last week, but today has been pretty pain free.
Last week I didn’t do a good job doing my physical therapy exercises. I probably should not have spent yesterday alternating drinking beer and getting work done around the house. I should have been alternating physical therapy exercises and house work.
I had a little pain after I got out of bed. It stopped while I was working in the yard. I did another round of leaf clean-up today. I’ve been pain free since I finished the clean-up. I had a good lunch at a local bar, and sitting at the bar caused me no pain. I have no pain right now. We’ll see what the upcoming week brings.
That Soloflex commercial was a f’in rite of passage.
Teenage Chafed was willing to watch exercise infomercials for that very reason.
when you’re down by the sea
And an eel bites your knee
That’s a moray…
When youre down by the docks
and a girl sucks your cock
That’s a whore-ay
When Othello’s poor wife,
she gets stabbed with a knife
that’s a Moor, eh?
/with apologies to Spider Robinson, who had over a dozen of these in one of his books.
Oh, I’m sorry; the card says “Moops”.
My workout came from digging a firepit with my boys. It has paid off during the week since we have spent several nights just outside, in our primal state in front of a fire talking life.
For the bike-trek folks – don’t recall who wrote the last article – the Capital trail between Richmond and Williamsburg looks pretty good. I think I heard about it on the radio – just drove along it today – parallels VA-5 and seems pretty convenient and in great condition the whole route. Not sure about camping options, but looks good for a day trip.
in the 70’s Jerry Brown and the enivros halted the Call water project started by his Dad, had we finished, we would not have to worry about drought as much,
there is a lot of water in California, we just mismanage the fuck out of it
I read a thing, a few years ago, about water in California. Apparently, the state works harder to get rid of fresh water (running stormwater and snowmelt off to the sea) than capturing it.
maybe I’ll finish my Central valley article, the place was all farms, now it’s a dustbowl, all for a three inch fish….
Check Victor Davis Hanson – he’s done quite a few pieces on this issue- since he’s apparently still a gentleman-farmer with his family almond farm.
I have his books, long time influence
Has anyone drank the organic Gatorade? I don’t know what that is, but a couple of weeks ago I was in a meeting with one of my co-workers who mostly works out of his Portlandia office, and he says to me ‘I don’t like this organic Gatorade, it tastes weird’. Yesterday I bought a couple of those at Fresh Market. Holy shit, that stuff is awful, lol!
I have never heard of “organic” gatorade, but I made the grievous error of buying a six pack of low sodium V8 juice once. Gack. I gagged a couple cans down, and eventually tossed the rest.
“I gagged a couple cans down”
Been there, sister.
I find V8 disgusting, but I will drink the hell out of tomato juice. Weirdly, I won’t actually eat tomatoes.
I give tomato juice (and V8) a try every couple of years, and still dislike it. Fresh tomatoes on the other hand, are awesome.
I can drink tomato juice, but I prefer V-8. I also use V-8 on the rare occasions I make a Bloody Mary. I had a hard time eating tomatoes as a kid, but I love them now. I eat them like apples, or grapes.
#metoo – Actually, that’s the only thing I use it for.
For all my love of spicy food, I can’t stand Bloody Marys (or a Red Snapper).
V-8 fiend here. Buy the stuff by the case at Costco.
Really picks up the mornings.
Also, since I should have at least one on-topic comment,
Pretty cheap, too. Jump ropes cost next to nothing, and you can use water gallon jugs as ~15 lb. dumbbells. That way, you can wait until you’ve proven to yourself you’re committed to the workout regime before buying pricey equipment.
Ab wheels are cheap as well. I have one around here somewhere.
Very much this and something I didn’t appreciate when I was young. I was definitely seduced by the latest and greatest. Now I realize what matters is what’s proven effective.
I injured by thumb trail running and was pretty much unable to grip anything with one hand, and then when the injury “healed” it still feels week and there is pain when lifting heavy weights, so I turned my attention to pushups.
Pushups, with the proper form, are the bomb diggity.
David Mamet’s “Spartan,” starring Val Kilmer, is excellent.
Your fitness motivation.
http://archive.li/Ra2Py
^^^This guy gets it. ^^^ At the risk of telling you what to do… feel free to post stuff like this each week. Completely on topic.
Not a bad gallery.
Hapless Bungles..:
Hope springs eternal…..its also painful.
A modern-day Warren Beatty.
JFC. You have got to be kidding me.
I don’t get it. He’s so fucking gross.
Nobody understands chicks, bro.
He’s not an attractive man at all. Maybe he’s hung.
He definitely has got game.
In Sunday school, talking about joy coexisting with sorrow.
Random dude: Like a mother giving birth.
Me, turning clear around in the pew to look at this asshole and say in a very loud voice: Have you ever given birth?!
Every woman in the room: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
“I’d like to bear my testimony…that you are full of shit.”
I was raised Mormon then gradually became non-religious.
I like to say I went from Latter-day Saint to Latter-day Ain’t.
I speak up, not always nicely. I threw a full-on tantrum one Sunday.
The only place I ever held my tongue but shouldn’t have was once in sacrament meeting when the speaker talked about obeying the commandments so we could go to heaven when we die.
W.T.F.
I thought Mormons didn’t believe in Heaven so much as just being closer to/further from God.
Here’s what I remember from Sunday school, etc
Everybody starts out in the Pre-existence (don’t look at me, I didn’t name it). Then when a zygote forms, a soul gets plucked and injected in there like the gunk in a jelly donut.
Yada, yada, yada, if you become a good Mormon while your alive you get to go to first class heaven, the celestial kingdom, with option to become god of your own planet later (sorry, men only). This heaven has been open to black people since 1978.
There’s a crummier heaven for lackluster Mormons and a budget heaven for non-Mormons who mostly got it right. Everybody else goes to Spirit Prison (yes, that’s the name) until JC comes back and redeems them.
The only other way to get out of Spirit Prison is if living Mormons perform a baptism for you. This is the reason why Mormons are so into genealogy – they want to get their dead non-Mormon relatives into heaven.
If I seem salty, it’s because I was annoyed at being made to feel guilty about doubting the tall tales of a 19th century treasure hunter and con-artist.
Oh well, I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time.
while you’re alive, is what I meant.
s’top apo’stophe abus’e
We believe in heaven, but you don’t have to do anything to go there. You’re born saved. But if you want to get into the 5-star heaven and become a god, you have to strive to be perfect according to how we define it.
The other heavens are nothing to sneeze at. The worst one is like the best parts of Earth on steroids.
Best parts of earth on steroids? I have never tried it but I think I would want the best parts of earth on MDMA.
Drug of your choice.
fun Mormon memory
So on the first Sunday of the month, you’re supposed to fast and then at church, instead of the regular sacrament (Mormon communion) and a sermon, anybody can go up to the pulpit a give their testimony. It’s sort of like open mic night.
Well, at the church I went to, there was a guy who I’ll call Brother InfoWars. Brother InfoWars pumped fuel for the C-130s are the local air national guard base, and some say the fumes are what scrambled his brain. Anyway, he always got a turn to speak, and even when he tried to keep things kosher, he would always end up talking about how lizard people are going to take over the world.
Well, at the first mention of lizard people, the bishop would slowly walk over to him, put his arm on his shoulder, smile very compassionately, and say “thank you, Brother InfoWars”. Brother InfoWars would then say “in the name of Jesus Christ, amen”. And then an “amen” from the congregation.
LOL we have one kinda like that. Brother Ancient InfoWars Lite.
I hate it when he’s asked to give the closing prayer (like he was today), he gives another Sunday school lesson in his disjointed and crazy-man way. He’s almost like a Pentecostal preacher without the PRAISE THE LORDS! and the SAY AMENS!
My dad used to listen to Art Bell and currently likes the “Ancient Aliens” show on the History Channel.
Ancient astronaut theorists make everything better.
I mean, that’s what you could have said to Mr I Feel Your Pain. Or:
“Elder xyz, I think the burning in your bosom has spread to your head and burned up your brain.”
“Elder XYZ, I think that burning in your bosom came from that STD you haven’t yet taken care of.”
Most painful condition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache
Mothers say these are far worse. My cousin gets them and since they started he’s become a hermit.
What about trying to pass kidney stones through your dick?
A cousin of mine that has given birth and had kidney stones claims the pain is about equal.
What was his name?
I am not giving out her name.
Yes, I knew Ted was posting about men when I posted. I posted what I posted because I know someone, yes a woman, that has been through both.
“both” meaning passing kidney stones and giving birth.
Way to ruin my joke. Men giving birth blah blah blah. Nice avatar change btw. That movie is the reason I own the gun in my pic change.
Men giving birth blah blah blah.
HAH! I guess I should have had more to drink today. I cut myself off at the bar because I have stuff to do this evening and I probably should just cut back in general.
I guess I shouldn’t mention the good looking bartenders as I’m in deep enough of a hole as it is by not getting the joke.
Nice avatar change btw.
Danke! I love the “Endeavor to Persevere” speech and the old guns shown in the movie.
On the way out, walking behind teacher.
Asshole to teacher (proudly): Wow, I really struck a chord there!
Me (contemptuously): Not a good one.
When you are dead, you do not know that you are dead, only others do.
It is the same way when you are stupid.
-sign seen in sarcastic old engineer’s office
another sign from the same office:
PowerPoint- making bad public speakers even worse since 1997
Unfit for office! 25th Amendment protocol!
President Donald Trump’s visit to Walter Reed on Saturday did not follow the protocol of a routine presidential medical exam, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Medical staff at Walter Reed did not get a staff-wide notice about a presidential visit to the medical center in Bethesda, Maryland, ahead of Trump’s arrival, according to that source.
Typically, Walter Reed’s medical staff would get a general notice about a “VIP” visit to the medical center ahead of a presidential visit, notifying them of certain closures at the facility. That did not happen this time, indicating the visit was a non-routine visit and scheduled last minute.
The source said it was possible a small group of doctors involved in Trump’s medical exams were notified before Trump arrived at Walter Reed, but said all medical staff at Walter Reed would typically be aware if the President was arriving for a routine medical exam.
——-
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, in response to a CNN request for comment on Sunday, said: “We’re not going to get into security and movement protocols when it comes to the President, but as my statements said he’s in good health and it was a routine checkup as part of his annual physical. I’ve given plenty of on the record statements that were truthful and accurate — actively trying to find and report conspiracy theories really needs to stop.”
They’ve got him now. Call the bullpen and tell Pence to start warming up.
Every time you see “a person familiar with the matter” or one of its variations, just substitute “a random idiot on the street”. This way, you can properly contextualize how journalism works.
I see HIPAA violation.
When I got my plumbing nuked, my OR nurse was a woman from church.
I got to church the Sunday following and I was asked by the prez of the women’s auxiliary how I was doing.
Mmmm yeah…that was not cool.
I’m old enough to have lived through a cultural 180 on this. Iowa /South Dakota/Nebraska border, late 50s through the 60s, my folks checked the paper every day to see who’d been admitted to the hospital, and the obituaries. It sure looked like ‘no secrets’. Everybody talked about everybody else’s medical issues. Now HIPAA and all the rest, and the cultural expectations, too — although perhaps not quite as much.
I don’t think they’d like Pence any more than they like Trump but maybe they could just pivot to impeaching him too.
And yet none of these people called for removing McCain from the Senate when it was clear he was never returning.
routine checkup as part of his annual physical
As part? How is that not all of his annual physical?
Me, turning clear around in the pew to look at this asshole and say in a very loud voice: Have you ever given birth?!
Totally not inclusive and welcoming.
“Men can give birth too, you transphobe!”
Yeah, but to what? {think men’s room on the Monday after the Superbowl}
Where’s it going to gestate? A cardboard box!
/Loretta
The Streets of San Francisco.
Girl Turned Hollywood Rising Star: How Sex Work Saved My Life
My masturbation habit saves lives.
It’s not a habit. It’s therapy. Prostate cancer prevention therapy.
I’m getting better about getting on the treadmill after work or, over the weekend, in the late afternoon/early evening. My weight’s holding steady, but I’m not losing. I think I need to stop at the Y that’s on my way home from work and try something else to change it up. Looks like there’s a Cycle & Sculpt class at a time that works for me on Tuesdays & Thursdays, so I may give that a go.
I mean, c’mon! I’m only trying to lose about ten pounds and not be so thick (sadly, probably doesn’t qualify as thicc) in the middle. And I just did it earlier this year. WTF??
If you’re going to a cycling class, I recommend picking up some cycling shorts (with all the padding).
They’re stationary bikes people, there’s no weight penalty to having padded seats! You don’t have to carry them anywhere!
So my natural padding isn’t enough?
Without a personal inspection, this is only a guess… but probably not. For some reason, most of the spin studios up here say it takes a while to “get used” to the seats. No, they’re just uncomfortable fscking seats. After my first ride, I started bringing my cycling shorts to wear for the ride. So I get to bring my own padding with me.
I think someone here mentioned the 5-3-1 method. I’ve been doing it reverse. I put the gym machine on max weight, and if I can’t do 1 rep, I drop weight until I can. Then I drop some more until I can do 3 and then some more until 5.
My muscles are sore, but in a good way.
I’ve been trying to run half a mile on a treadmill at 9 mph every day. That maxes out my heart rate quickly. Perhaps if I had done more running when I was younger, I wouldn’t be such a slow poke now.
Incorporating at least a day or two a week of hiit sprints on a treadmill really helped increase my stamina.
Hm. I’ll try that tomorrow. It might be more of a hill jog, though.
You just have to make sure to rest because the key is to exhaust yourself. If you can do it every day you aren’t exhausting yourself.
[rubs chin thoughtfully]
Confucius say: man who run behind car get exhausted.
Completely agree
How FedEx Cut Its Tax Bill to $0
Lobbying works?
They need to hold show trials and put the executives in jail like they’re talking about doing with the fossil fuel producers because keeping your money is really reverse theft.
So the stockholders are paying it in capital gains and taxes on dividends.
FedEx also paid – the NYT is conflating paying with owing, see also the Amazon story from last year.
This is the longest Babylon Bee article I’ve read. Probably due to the plethora of source material.
https://babylonbee.com/news/why-cant-we-return-to-how-peaceful-the-world-was-before-guns
I have learned something new. Here I was thinking the inventor was Pierre Arbalest.
I liked the “as peaceful as a John Lennon song or living in a Communist country.”
That was nice. Is that what they call a juxtaposition?
At February’s physical exam, Trump weighed 243 pounds, four pounds more than last year’s exam. His blood pressure was measured as 118/80, and results showed he had increased his daily dose of rosuvastatin, a medication used to treat high cholesterol, according to the exam results.
Last year’s exam revealed that Trump has a common form of heart disease and high cholesterol.
Then-White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson recommended the President get on a diet, start exercising and set a goal of losing a dozen pounds, but sources told CNN in February that Trump had made only minor changes to his diet and exercise regimen since his 2018 exam.
Impeach him.
His physical health does matter.
It’s impressive so few presidents have died of natural causes while in office. The average age upon taking office is 55, and living past 60 with good health was rare until about 50 years ago.
This company will pay you $1,000 to binge Hallmark Christmas movies
I told my mother, and now my father has a hit out on me.
Does he have a GoFundMe page?
🙁
LOL
Yeah, I signed up for that. Mr. Mojeaux doesn’t have to be home or even awake for me to watch them.
So… just started watching The Devil Next Door on Netflix. I remember the story being a big deal here when I was a kid. For reference, Demjanjuk worked at the plant around the corner from where I live now.
The continuing mispronunciation of Demjanjuk’s name is irritating, I didn’t notice it when I was young, and the only news on it I saw was local.
How are they mispronouncing it?
Instead of Dem-yan-yuck, there’s been quite a few that have said Dem-an-uk. (Knows I’m way off on the pronunciation symbols).
Mojeaux, I saw your posts from late last night. Best wishes on the latest crop of problems.
Thank you. Things are pretty level today. I need to spend the next week getting XY into an intensive therapy program.
Good luck.
I completely missed whatever happened. I hope everything is getting better.
*Checks NFL highlights* LOL or should I say Sklol. Nice job, Donkeys.
Ya, that was a doozy.
Cousins must have been lights out. O line wasn’t very good, but he still managed to go 29/35, 3 TDS, no ints. Almost a perfect game on paper.
The Sodaians had pretty much a perfect second half. I think they scored every time they touched the ball. First half not so much. Broncos actually looked like they could win for awhile there.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/11/17/whitest-thing-in-the-universe-pete-buttigiegs-stunt-to-prove-black-people-really-do-like-him-backfires-in-a-huge-way/
Honk honk.
Honky honky.
Who the eff thought an email blast Telling you that you’d have to opt out of endorsing a candidate would fly??!!
I ignore most of not all campaign emails.
Careful. Excessive honk consumption made lead to doo-doo-dooda-doodoodoo syndrome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqIY3NfoYvw
Side effects of clownshoeserin include rainbow hair, red nose, and long foot.
I’m pretty sure I’m allergic.
Why is it so hard for every single team blue candidate not to do something unbelievably stupid? I honestly thought Butterstuff was going to be the last one standing simply due to attrition. Nope. Maybe he needs a “You can grab’em by the …” moment.
And he calls it the Frederick Douglass Plan for Black America when of course Douglass famously wanted the Government to do nothing with the emancipated slaves.
To be fair, the campaign says it never claimed it was a “list of black people”.
(I wanted to see what this plan is – seems to be nothing more than the usual lefty grab-bag + quotas.)
Pushups, pullups, and squats. And deadlifts.
I went through a phase where every morning when I woke up I did 3-5 sets of pushups, anywhere from 10-20. I worked up to 100 pushups a day. That helped a lot.
Another great program is to start with 1 squat on day one, and then add a squat each day until you get to 100 days/100 squats. Squats must be done all at one “session” (though you can rest as needed in that session). In the beginning it’s laughably easy; seems stupid. Somewhere after a month you notice it. By the end it sums to 5500 squats.
Pullups are the great force that drives you to lose weight. Any excess weight is punished in pullups. It’s why muscleheads tend to hate them. Scale until you get strong enough for one. Then go nuts. When you can do 100 pullups in <10 minutes, I guarantee you are fitter and healthier than 98% of humanity. e.g. You won't find someone who can do that task who also has high blood pressure, diabetes, etc.
The deadlift is one of the two slow lifts that can change your life in a short time. (The squat is the other). You get a TON of return from learning to deadlift properly and the strength that comes with it. Older folks should do 5 x 5, maybe some triples (7 x 3), but don't try to kills yourself. Just learn to set your back properly, take in a belly full of air, bear down, then lift in a smooth process, keeping the bar up against your shins. Knees go back and then once the bar clears the knees, it should be the hips opening up that finishes the lift. Then go back down (a true rep does not include dropping it from the top). There's a ton of benefit in the 'negative' – lowering the bar in a controlled manner through the eccentric portion of the lift.
Nautilus and other "machines" are bullshit, but I don't have time for that explanation/rant here.
5 times a week of 1 hr will get you fit; but diet will make the real difference ion aesthetics.
Nautilus and other “machines” are bullshit, but I don’t have time for that explanation/rant here.
No explanation needed. Did a half year of that in Uni and got almost zero results. Started using free weights and saw what real improvement means. That was 30 years ago. I’d have guessed no one uses Nautilus these days.
When I was in high school, the “jocks” (the school won a single football game a year, against a team that hadn’t won in ~7 years) got pissed when I could do more pullups then them (I weighted 120 lb. at the time).
I lean toward the functional fitness/caveman pt philosophy. It’s sort of like paleo diet applied to exercise.
Training for competition leads to lopsided outcomes: marathon runners who can’t lift and body builders who can’t run, for example.
Walking is the most natural form of exercise. The reason stone age people can hunt animals that are much faster and stronger is an animal that walks on 2 legs uses half as much energy as an animal that walks on 4.
Stone age exercise was mainly about walking, running, jumping, and climbing.
My goal right now is three-fold:
1) Drop weight (at 5′ 10″ and 200 lbs, I’m overweight)
2) Complete a century bike ride (personal goal of mine, longest ride so far is 75 miles)
3) Get off the gods damned meds the doctor has me on.
Pullups are for the upper body very similar to what the squat is for the lower body. L-pullups, weighted pullups, and bar-muscle-ups can bring a supreme level of fitness. One ‘level up’ for the upper body is the still rings. For reference, an iron cross is a B level move: they go in order of difficulty up to “G.”
Rope climbs are also a superb exercise, both legless, with legs, and weighted. Climb a rope with a moderately weighted pack (25-35 lb) for 5 repetitions, as fast as you can. Mark the time. Cut the time in half and you’re twice as “fit” – at least by that measure – as you were. You’re lungs will benefit as much as any other part of your body; your mind will be proportionally stronger, too, because it will be a concentrated exercise of will to make yourself do it.
I use a 15′ rope.
Proof gun buy back programs work … for somebody.
The cop totally didn’t plant that gun after the shoot.
Disability pay for PTSD – “only Cicero” would hire him!
Oh good grief.
How do they decide the value of the guns they are “buying” “”back”” from us anyway?
Is there a Kelley Blue Book for used firearms?
Do i get to add in the sentimental value?
How about I ask them the going price to one of my constitutional rights?
Woot! New thread up!! —->
Hey kids! Whatcha doing? I just cooked up a batch of pizza sauce for tonight’s pizza run.
Running with a pizza seems like quite a test of agility and fitness… bravo!
Notice how I fit that into a Glibfit article? Totes on topic.