Man o man am I tired. This was my second full week back at the gym and I went into my office three times this week. Trying to get work done at home has been like walking through maple syrup. It happens but much too slowly.
This week I’m reopening my office. The courts are half-way functional again, I’m starting to sign new clients, and I’m having trouble staying current on all my cases. The stay at home charade must end.
The return to the gym is reminding my how sore I get when certain exercises have gone by the wayside. But hot damn I am glad to be back. This week I was asked to wear a mask when entering and leaving the gym. Apparently, there was a sign up that I missed. The masks are a drag, but no way am I going to hassle the polite, young woman who opens the gym at 5 AM, if not earlier.
Going back to the office did cut into my conditioning this week. I am not pleased. In some nebulous way, I lost track of my temptation to do “just one more thing” before I leave for the day. Minimizing, in my mind, my commute time also hurt. Ah well. I’ll get back to it this week.
The good news is my weight held steady. I have been paying attention to my eating. So, that appears to be working.
Nearly every state is in phase kajillion double diamond of their multipart reopening plan. How’s exercising going for you unruly lot? Anyone want to report being particularly sore or achieving some goal?
Speaking of reopening, I feel like I’m losing my mind when I read pandemic reporting. Let’s leave aside anyone’s motivation. We have beaten that horse to death. I keep reading about the increased testing, increases in number of infections, and (in some areas) increased hospitalizations. It seems like journalistic malpractice failing to quantify any of this. We are told testing has increased but not by how much. We’re told positive test results are up but not the amount of the increase. There is no comparison in the difference between those rates nor do we know if the difference is statistically significant.
I also keep reading the infected population is getting much younger. I have no idea if this means something. Are these people symptomatic? Need treatment? What type? How much? Hospitalized? Dying? Will the death toll skyrocket? Are we achieving herd immunity? Is the virus mutating in an important way? The blissful ignorance is maddening. I can’t tell if most reporters even think to ask these questions much less understand their importance.
Notwithstanding that garbage, I’m feeling alright. Cautiously optimistic even and this week’s music shows it. I just remembered while writing this that I saw those guys in 1990 at the Rock of Boston concert. Also on the bill were the criminally underrated Tribe and Masters of Reality.
Still trying to negotiate a “personal training” deal with the owner of our local gym so my family can get in there 2 or 3 times a week. No indication of when (if?) gyms will ever reopen in NJ. The Governor seems comfortable just killing the whole industry.
Pandemic shows you don’t need a gym to work out.
Who needs gyms? We should also get rid of bars and restaurants. People can do that stuff at home too. We’ll get rid of the doors on the houses as well, that way people can be safe.
I’m not going to read the article. The URL and your summary tell me enough. The author can go fuck him/her self.
You know what else I dont need? Alex Cyr to tell me what I need.
Tunnelvision in America’s hat.
Drake are your fellow residents getting pissed or continuing to laud the gaulitier?
I live in very conservative corner of NJ. Everyone seems to despise Murphy and his bullshit. Probably means nothing in next year’s state elections.
Still on full work at home here, with no office openings even being discussed for us yet. But managed to get the girlfriend to go to a spin class with me today. They changed the class layout for a second time, and pulled out even more bikes (They’re down to ~12 seats now) for the classes. At least the weather is nice enough I should be able to get more real rides in. Weight has been a flat trend line for several weeks now, which is disappointing, but at least it’s not trending up.
Now we’ve got places going into Lockdown 2, I was supposed to be packing to go to Europe, and I still don’t know when I can plan the bike ride through PA, MD, and VA. Right now I’ve got it penciled in on the calendar for August 28th through September 13th.
Hopefully you can get your bike ride across the country in.
In checking out some other trails, there’s a trail from CLE down to Cincinnati as well. That one has some road riding for gaps in the trails. It also doesn’t really have a lot of support towns along the way (like the GAP and C&O do), but I’ll have more familiarity with the area. So if I can’t get the PA/MD/VA ride in, I’ve at least got an alternate option.
And I learned that AAA supports bikes as well (as long as it fits on a standard bike rack), which provides another little safety net.
The MoPAC Trail crosses almost the entire width of Missouri. A Hybrid is a better choice than a straight road bike because of the surface medium. Plenty of town with great support- at least in the pre Kung Flu days.
The old Milwaukee Road trails through western MT, ID panhandle and most of WA is world class, but again not road bike.
When things cool down AZ has some awesome long distance road tours. Scenic as all get out.
Fwiw, I’d be really surprised if PA recloses.
Hopefully not. I see no word from the PA Supreme Court about the head-butting between the legislature and the Gauleiter.
I agree. I had friends visiting from Philly this weekend. They were worried about being next to anyone when they arrived. After 40 min out at a brewery they started forgetting about the mask and distancing.
Concerts are being kicked off in August. The local casino will be doing tailgate concerts in their parking lots.
Like a drive in but with a stage and bands.
I think if your weight is holding steady you’re doing well. Most people have been putting on the pounds.
I’m holding steady… now. I put on ~20 pounds during the first couple months of the lockdown.
My weight is holding steady as I lose muscle and gain fat.
Masters of Reality is great. The lead singer Goss is also the producer of the desert sound of the early 2000’s
I didn’t know that. Who did he produce?
Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Screaming Trees, and others.
See desert sessions. I think there is a movie as well
Here he is playing with QOTSA.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ug-kXOCNZ-U
Wrong one.
Here it is with Billy Gibbons as well
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DFe1rwhpxEU
Early 90’s young man. I was there 🙂
I’m Not that young brother.
You are correct. My memory isn’t what it used to be.
Most of my upper body is still sore from hauling heavy rocks for a walking trail I’m fixing up behind my house. My elbow joints in particular took a lot of stress last week.
Mr. Mojeaux is still on WFH with no sign of returning to the officeplace. It’s great for our budget, though.
I had hoped to be able to report something this week. Well, I can. I lost 2 pounds. It’s not all me. Chemicals are helping (thanks, doc!).
I’m going to go see about hormone replacement post menopause. No, not estrogen. Do not want.
Well, I can. I lost 2 pounds.
Good!
Lost weight is lost weight. Good for you Mo.
Good job on 2 pounds. It’s got to start somewhere.
I’ve had 4 beers today, working on 5. Does that count towards my Glibfit goal?
Arm curls, with one pound weights, with decreasing weight between reps.
it’s a Good start, I’m only on #1,
Cans! Hovering!
Get them 16oz arm curls going, Yusef!
This week I’m reopening my office. The courts are half-way functional again, I’m starting to sign new clients, and I’m having trouble staying current on all my cases. The stay at home charade must end.
This is good news.
This week I was asked to wear a mask when entering and leaving the gym.
I have to do that too thanks to the Clown’s rules. Enforcement is spotty. I think I mentioned before that when I talked with staff about it, they hate the rules and think they are stupid. Why do you need a mask to walk in and walk out but not wear a mask while working out? Stupid.
The good news is my weight held steady. I have been paying attention to my eating. So, that appears to be working.
Good.
Speaking of reopening, I feel like I’m losing my mind when I read pandemic reporting. Let’s leave aside anyone’s motivation. We have beaten that horse to death. I keep reading about the increased testing, increases in number of infections, and (in some areas) increased hospitalizations. It seems like journalistic malpractice failing to quantify any of this. We are told testing has increased but not by how much. We’re told positive test results are up but not the amount of the increase. There is no comparison in the difference between those rates nor do we know if the difference is statistically significant.
It’s fucking theater.
I was at the Reopen NH rally at PorcFest yesterday. PorcFest was a wonderful return to normality. After the pig roast, I listened to Jeff Tucker talk about the origins of the lockdown. It was a great talk. I liked his response during the Q&A period afterwards to the question about why the libertarian movement was nowhere to be found for the opposition to the lockdowns. Tucker’s response amounted to, “There are too many professional libertarians. They are too concerned about getting a job at the NYT and being invited to parties.”
Today I had brunch at a local pub. They are pretty strict about enforcing Nashua’s mask mandate, but I like the place despite that so I’ll go along with the theater. One of the bartenders I recognized but have never been introduced to. I asked her name. We exchanged names. She said something about not being sure if shaking hands was OK in this world. I held out my hand and said, “I’ll shake.” We shook hands. She seemed to be happy about it. As close to normal as I’ll get (she was wearing a mask).
Backing up to How’s exercising going for you unruly lot? Anyone want to report being particularly sore or achieving some goal?
I weighed myself on Friday. My weight is down roughly a half pound. 278 to 277.4. RE: my weight: While I have been careful about what I eat when I go out to eat in order to support bars and restaurants I like, over the course of last week I ate out often and today I’m day drinking (though now at home). We’ll see what my weight is like next week.
I stupidly missed my last PT appointment. I thought it was at 10:30 last Thursday, but as I was getting ready to leave a little after 10 AM, I realized my mistake. I called them up. They have no other slots to move me to. Oops.
The trainer I was working with at the gym is leaving for a new job. He is a good guy and knows a bunch of stuff. We worked together for a while and I liked him. I think his new job will be very good for him. I got assigned a new trainer. We’ll see how the new trainer is and if I continue working trainers at my gym.
So which Glib is secretly Tucker?
That was a fascinating read. It was also a great reminder W’s “compassionate conservatism” was anything but conservative. I hated that motherfucker with burning passion when he was the president. This is a good reminder why.
I thought I hated Shrub, then we got Obama.
These are not mutually exclusive. I hated him. I didn’t expect much of Obama but I’ll admit I was surprised when he became W’s third term. So yeah, I hate him too.
My opinion? Obama was easy to bend to the will of the deep state. Partially because he lacked executive experience. But also because I think he likes the laudatory aspects of it.
GWB’s “compassionate conservatism” was just Progressivism gussied up.
I remember talking to some Progressive friends of a then-girlfriend-now-ex-girlfriend about how GWB’s policies were just a natural extension of LBJ’s, and how they really aren’t all that different then what some Progressives want. Ho boy, they didn’t like that.
Masters of Reality! Yeah!!!
Re: the reporting
Not only are they not thinking about what questions to ask and what’s the significance of the answers, they’ve had almost 4 months (or about 1800 flushes) to figure it out.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I always thought from Day 1 of the lockdown the priority should have been to get as much data as possible to figure out how to open back up as quickly as possible.
What we’ve had from the media and “leaders” is a total failure.
It’s not a failure if this is the outcome they wanted – a trashed economy they blame on political opponent.
I haven’t heard a single politician pushing for hard numbers on infection rates, mortality rates, transmissibility, herd immunity, impacts on different age groups. It’s plainly obvious that this is mostly a disease of elderly people living in close quarters. Instead of looking at that, getting better data on that, and acting accordingly, they’ve just been punting to the “experts”. The “experts” aren’t responsible for making decisions; they’re responsible for providing information. Which they have been doing poorly. No one is kicking their asses and saying “Give us better data!”
Exactly this. Trump isn’t capable of thinking through any of this. What surprises me is someone like Greg Abbott or maybe Jared Kushner isn’t asking these questions. I would think someone like Mitch Daniels is asking these questions behind closed doors. Why isn’t any of this filtering out to elected officials who have some sway or friendly media outlets, like Fox News, that should be motivated to ask these questions?
Mitch Daniels is at Purdue. Are you confusing him with Pence?
No. He was a very successful governor. To his great credit, he believed in measuring things. I’d be shocked if various Republican officials don’t consult him from time to time.
Ahh… I see. Yes, Daniels was a good governor for Indiana.
I’m still enjoying my twice-a-week swimming sessions, but it might be time for me to push myself a little harder because I’m not at all fatigued afterward. I may also need to add in some treadmill time in between, but I think more than anything I need to find healthy, satisfying afternoon snacks that help keep me away from the chocolate options in the all-too-handy break room. Any minimal- or no-prep suggestions?
Also on the diet front, we’ve continued in our support-our-local-restaurateurs mode by getting carry-out for dinner several nights a week, but we’ll probably knock that off after the first of the month – the balance due for our now-completed chimney repair went on this month’s credit card bill, and I’ll want to pay that off next month if at all possible. I don’t like paying credit card-level interest, even to my own employer. Cooking at home again with a focus on meat & vegetables only (and little to no bread, pasta, or potatoes) may also help my weight, which is holding steady but not going down.
Were you still getting in some spin classes as well? Or were those all shut down?
For snacks, I’ve had good luck with the 100 calorie roasted almond packs. Since they’re pre-packaged, I don’t need to worry about getting the scale out and measuring, and then trying to resist going back out and go grab more. If you have more will power then me in that regard, you could always package them out ahead of time (and the cocoa roast almonds may even help with the chocolate control.
Spin classes are back, but I’ve been opting to swim instead. Before the shutdown, I couldn’t swim after work at all because the Y-sponsored swim team was using the entire pool during after-five hours. At least now they’re keeping two lap lanes open for other Y members (by reservation and doubling up if necessary) while the team still practices in most of the lanes. I’m trying to stick to two after-work Y visits per week because I have other things to do after work other days of the week.
I like your idea about the almond packs. I definitely need prepackaged portions to keep me from eating a whole jar!
“Any minimal- or no-prep suggestions?”
I have a root beer float every day. Does that count?
It says it right in the name, Beer, of course it’s good for you1
I have to stay strong to drive on past the Sonic that’s right on the way home from the Y!
I make it a point to get a snack after a spin class, as a way to reward myself. In the before times, it was usually a rosemary sea salt bagel with chipotle chorizio cream cheese. But that place is requiring masks to enter and order food, so they’re out. As I’ve been going to more afternoon/evening classes, it’s usually been a smoothie (with the calories logged), or on weekends, a decent meal. Today the girlfriend and I went to Hot Chicken Takeover and got some Nashville Hot Chicken, sides, and dessert.
Your mention of swimming the other night made me think I should probably do that. Backstroke laps are very Zen. However, I have to be a member of the community center’s restrictions are onerous for my purposes, especially what I’d be paying for a membership.
I’ll wait till we’re back to normal.
^^^Soooo very much this!
Any minimal- or no-prep suggestions?
I found that keeping on top of hydration has kept the snacking in control. When I start to feel like a snack, I make a cup of tea. Sometimes I grab fruit (apple, nectarine, grapes) if the tea doesn’t completely eliminate the craving, but I do pretty good at staying out of the sweets just through the tea itself.
I strongly suspect getting dehydrated, usually unknowingly, leads to most snacking.
Truth. Many times what seems like hunger is really thirst.
I make lemonade: 6 c water, 1 c lemon juice, 1 c Splenda. It’s 57 carbs for the whole thing, but I don’t drink it all in a day.
I make herbal ice tea with Bigelow’s ‘i love Kevin’s. Needs no sugar
I love lemon WTF autocorrect
Cautiously optimistic even and and this week’s music shows it.
Despite Jeffery Tucker’s exhortation to be optimistic and hopeful, I have been cynical today.
Watching the video you link in this sentence reminds me that MTV once played music videos. We didn’t have cable growing up as the cable line ended down the road. My parents never wanted to pay for it. So, my memories of watching MTV are from watching it at a relative’s place which had cable and from a high school friend recording Beavis and Butthead for me.
Sounds like my home except some friends did have cable. So, it was pretty common for young Chafed to hangout there to watch music videos.
We didn’t have cable either, but I used to watch Friday Night Videos
My full body dumbbell workout is getting me results. I tweaked it slightly. Here’s how it goes: with a 25 pound dumbbell in each hand, bend forward and touch the ground in front of you with the dumbbells. Return to standing then do a hammer curl. Bring the weights to your waist then extend your arms to make yourself into a Y-shape. Push the weights up for an overhead press. Bring the weights to shoulder level and do a bent arm chest fly. Put the weights on your shoulders and do a squat. Stand up with the weights at your sides and do a lunge on each leg.
I’d use a heavier weight, but there were only 4 dumbbells left at the sporting goods store when I went shopping.
Anyway, I like it because it’s a fluid motion that hits all the big muscles. I can 6 reps before my hands start to hurt. I try to do at least 3 sets space throughout the day.
If you about the kind of exercise a hunter gatherer or a medieval peasant got, it was probably more about endurance than speed or strength.
Georges Herbert’s natural method of exercise is interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_H%C3%A9bert
He was a French cop who was famed for his agility. His book is the reason why obstacle courses became part of military training. Modern parkour is based on his techniques.
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He eventually developed this ethos into his personal motto, “Être fort pour être utile” (“Be strong to be helpful”).
Hébert travelled extensively throughout the world and was impressed by the physical development and movement skills of indigenous peoples in Africa and elsewhere, writing:
“Their bodies were splendid, flexible, nimble, skillful, enduring, resistant and yet they had no other tutor in gymnastics but their lives in nature.”
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I have trouble thinking of any Frenchman caring about his physique. I know it’s an unfair stereotype but there it is.
Il fait soufrir pour etre belle.
One must suffer in order to be beautiful.
One of the things about prepping (and the Great Mojo Prepper Panic of 2008) that I hardly ever see is physical endurance and training.
My standard is, “Could I walk out of New Orleans [Katrina]?”
Some of the prepper stuff that I’ve run across has taken it for granted. “When you’re walking 15 miles with a 70lb ruck sack, you’re really going to want some trail mix to keep your energy steady”. Of course, most readers likely glossed the 15 miles with 70lbs on your back part, and just bought the vacuum sealed trail mix to eat while sitting on the couch.
Trail mix doesn’t keep. I get these. I actually like them (lemon flavored, natch) and have in the past snacked on them (once, long ago).
No. You cant. No one could.
It is 20 miles of locust/blackberry/cypress swamp in every direction. After Katrina the ground was sink to your ankles saturated in sewer and gasoline all the way to Baton Rouge. At that time New Orleans was a death trap. The only roads out north and west and east are bridges over Pontchartrain, bridges that failed. South is the Gulf. The city itself was a mosquito infested, corpse covered nightmare. I had to wade into that horror 5 days after the storm. What I remember the most were the packs of hunger crazed dogs eating human corpses.
San Francisco – 1906
Galveston – 1900
New Orleans – 2005
I dont think anything else matches those. It had to be seen to be believed.
Oh…and Fuck FEMA. Fuck them with rusty barbed wire.
Current day drinking entry… 32 crowler. It tastes too much like iced tea with honey and lemon. Yum.
I think you’ve identified the root cause for not losing more weight.
Yes.
Thanks for keeping this going, Chafed. I usually don’t give a fuck about anything, or anyone. But doing a weekly assessment of my health and fitness goals has been helpful. Thanks.
This week was good. Ran alot, as usual. Took today off, though. My diet improved significantly. All dinners were meat and vegetables. Keto as fuck. Lunch was not the typical sandwich/burger routine. We did keto protein shakes along with hardboiled eggs, cheese, to snack on. Wednesday we went to lunch and had a charcuterie/cheese platter. Friday we got tacos. So, pretty good for low-carb lunching. Bottom line, I stuck to my dietary goals. Feeling good.
Masters of Reality; good band. Chris Goss; I’ve partied with that dude. Been listening to Big Star for about 24 hours straight. Alex Chilton was a genius, a creep, a poet, and a decent guitar player. And a creep. https://youtu.be/8bmuMcjN0rQ
Holding steady here. #ketolife
Tried these today: https://birchbenders.com/collections/cups/products/chocolate-chip-cookie-cup
It didn’t suck, but was kinda meh. The brownie cup was much better.
I slid a bit over the weekend- buffalo wings (breaded) on friday, and I got into some watermelon last night.
It is the apocalypse, after all. ?
There’s a great new keto ice cream brand called Rebel that I’ve been buying at Safeway. Finally a low carb ice cream that doesn’t try to be low fat as well, they even proudly label “high fat” on the packaging. They come in the little Ben & Jerry’s-style pints, usually only 5-6 carbs total in the entire carton.. Delicious and a wide variety of flavors. I think the Triple Chocolate might be the best of the lot.
I did not know that. I’ll check it out. ?
Thanks. I will take a look for it.
I have a bit of a sweet tooth and have been desiring a little ice cream lately. That might be a good way to sate the sweet tooth.
On the diet front, my new routine is: Breakfast is coffee, fruit, low fat yogurt, boiled egg, cheese stick, and some pepperoni. It comes out to about 400 calories. Lunch is a bowl of chili also about 400 calories. Dinner was a can of salmon, also about 400 calories.
I was booze free for Friday and Saturday. I might drink today because my willpower is collapsing. I’m thinking 2 tall cans. For me, any day I drink less than the equivalent of a 6 pack is a win. I did that 5 out of 7 days last week.
For a long time, I compensated for a bad diet with lots of treadmill time. I don’t want to do that anymore and it was not an option for the past few months. CDC says either 75 minutes of vigorous exercise per week or 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week is the minimum for most adults. I will adjust my diet to that guideline.
I remember being a lot lighter (150 pounds) in college, but back then I didn’t drink and I walked 5 or 6 miles per day. I was even lighter (129 pounds) when I got back from Tanzania, but that was over 2 years of very little American type food.
132 is my ideal weight according to some formula. I got 146 pounds from some clinic that used electrical resistance to measure body composition. My favorite formula is that the circumference over your navel should be about half your height.
I’ve been averaging around 1400 calories a day Monday-Friday the past several weeks, with no alcohol. Weekends, I haven’t been counting, and have been drinking. For months before the lockdown, this was having me drop ~1.5 pounds a week. It hasn’t been working the past couple of weeks, which has started to irritate me. Body fat percentage has been pretty stable as well, so it doesn’t appear to be dropping fat and gaining muscle either.
I’ll give it another couple of weeks, and if the trend line hasn’t started bending down, I’ll need to revisit and revise.
Try a 36-48hr dry fast on your no ride day. Don’t eat or drink anything. Keep normal activity level. Lose 4-6# of fat.
Re-feed (hi protein, hi fat to satisfied full) and do your normal ride/spin. Bet you lose 3# for week and crush your ride… or you die of starvation/exhaustion.
What do you have to lose!
Yeah. No water would be a hard no for me.
I don’t have any issues drinking a gallon of water a day.
Yep..everybody thinks you need to drink water. Every time I have dry fasted; even on 40+ hours, the first thing I did after waking and getting out of bed was…urinate. Where did the water come from…gee I don’t know. Maybe converting my fat to sugar(energy) with a by-product of water and CO2.
IMO, if you want to loss weight in a slump or plateau , you need to be a “little” dehydrated, because your body craves water and it can get it by converting fat to energy to get it. More energy = higher metabolism. Lose weight while you sleep.
You can always go back to drinking a gallon after you lost the weight and go CICO to manage. You just have to mix it up a bit.
You’re 4′ 8″ tall?
5’4 – I got the 132 number from the Devine formula.
I mean, it’s not total bull, just that it would require me to eat like a typical Tanzanian.
Male ideal body weight = 50 kilograms (110 lb) + 0.9 kilograms (2.0 lb) × (height (cm) − 152)
For me: 110 + 2.2(163-152) = 134.2 pounds
Oops. A bit different from what I remembered.
Wait a minute, it’s 132. Should have been 2.0 instead of 2.2. Whenever I see kg, I automatically convert to moon landing units of 2.2 pounds.
132 vs 146 as goal…probably the important thing is weighing in so that you know if there is a new trend.
I need to lose enough weight that talking about an end goal is meaningless to me. I’m taking it 10lbs at a time.
I’m SOL right now. Was 182 this morning which is a no-go. Interestingly, that’s about what I weighed after my month-long road trip last year. It was a lot of beer, burgers, and sitting, and not much PT. Hella fun though.
And then when I got back, surprise! You have a weigh-in next month. I got back down to 161 in 20 odd days, during which I walked about 200 miles and ran about 100 miles.
I can haz Ranger tab now?
I started rucking a couple of weeks ago. Just the green tick and boots, plus 3l water, around the Anderson Mill park, .9 miles per lap. 40 lbs on the ruck after I removed the case of 5.56 and the 200+rounds I had packed in. I’m hovering around 174 and 5’6″, turn 54 tomorrow. Started covid @185, following a 2-level c-spine fusion in October.
Wore out the dogs after 2 miles, doing it every third day between 5 and 12 miles. Wish I healed as fast as when I was 25, and had that metabolism.
Happy Birthday Eve!
Thank you!
Diet food.
These are ridiculously good: https://lovegoodfats.com/products/coconut-chocolate-chip
The mint chocolate and peanut butter ones are also pretty good.
They also make these, which I also recommend – https://lovegoodfats.com/products/chocolatey-almond
Different texture on those, some people might not like it. The taste is quite good though.
Hi Chafed, Thanks for “keep on keeping” on with Glibfit. I upped hiking distance this week to 45 miles. Finished up the week this morning with an 8 mi with 2800ft elevation. Strange weather here inland Bay NorCal in terms of wind (25-35 mph gusts). Hiking in 60F weather and freezing is weird for June but June here is weird and sometimes is cooler than February.
Continuing using the heavy bands but the stress on my hands has made them a little sore. Not seeing any change in muscle definition but it seems to be getting easier. Maybe the bands lose elasticity..anyway something to do. Still stretching. Trying to stay busy and not sit too much.
As for lock-down: We are on a watch list since there has been a “spike” increase in my county; so instead of not opening up, we may be regressing back to more stricter lock-down. Forecasting via local news seems to make lock down a certainty. As someone who was in favor of lock-down in early March and opening up in late March this is getting tiresome. I predict a shitty week for the markets with the open/close uncertainty hang-over– there is no way to optimistically plan or forecast.
Keep moving everyone. Remember a really good workout only burns a couple hundred calories. Remember to “fatten the curve” and increase your caloric AUC.
Diet drinks.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B06VT923LQ
This stuff makes fantastic mixers. I recommend.
For our resident cyclists and/or mountain bikers.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
I’ll deal with the traffic on the roads over that.
My glib fit goals for June have been to climb the 6 flights of stairs twice a day at my workplace. My July goal is to not start to be winded after reaching the top.
These are serious flights in a factory, not apartment stairs.
August will be two at a time.
Walking 3-5 miles every day plus yardwork and hitting the gym on rainy or hot days. The gym is very light so a pleasant atmosphere and I was finally able to identify the member with a John Galt sticker on his pick-up.
Regarding increased positives among younger population – in our area, most of these people are identified via work testing requirements or contact tracing. Both my sons are relatively active and know a number of age 18-30 individuals who have tested positive – they claim not a single one has any symptoms other than loss of taste.
That was what I suspect as well. The testing increased as they became more widely available. The seriously sick are no longer the ones seeking testing.
GlibFit.
http://archive.li/NHCbV
I was waiting for this and thinking about digging up some links of my own to post.
#3’s picture in this gallery looks like someone you’d run into at the gym. Her iChive gallery shows someone that is dedicated.
I wonder if #24’s thighs are photoshopped. Her iChive gallery is inconclusive.
#27. Yes.
#33 is cute. She has a good iChive gallery.
#42 likes guns based on her iChive gallery.
It’s a tie between #27 and #42.
I’m going for a run.I’ll be in my bunk.My “what are you reading “ goal for July arrived in the mail today.
Python Crash Course. I’ll be learning to code in no time.
Nice. Python is fantastic and a lot of fun (imo) because it simple, yet powerful. The most common complaint i hear is that it uses spaces to delimit things like function or class bodies, rather than braces. But i don’t really know why. Everyone formats their code that way anyway.
Heh.
A coworker of mine really enjoyed debugging a case where someone had screwed up the indentation for a set of if-else statements.
I hate the type system. I like having a compiler catching type errors.
Heh. I like aspects of both, but often i feel like compilers and static typing is make work projects for programmers.
My opinion is a bit colored by coming from the C/Java world and then working on big systems someone built in Python. “What the fuck type is this? What can I do with it? Why the fuck do I only find out I used the wrong type when I run the program?”
For a glibfit post i thought i’d go over my complaints with the Crossfit like exercises.
I don’t like it.
Oh you expected more? Well i’m not a fan because whenever i do a “crossfit” like workout i am so beaten and whiped that i don’t want to ever do it again. I don’t feel or see improvement. Weight lifting is something where i can see progress, feel like i got a workout, and yet not feel existential dread every time i get ready to go do it.
Crossfit at Suthenboy’s house = push mower, pressure washing house, repairing back porch. In between, holding down the couch.
I have to get my ass to the woods soon, if it will quit raining. That will be a nice 10 mile hike and lots of machete work.
Is there something preventing you from weightlifting instead of Crossfit?
No. I do weightlift. Just my Opinon. Nothing wrong with Crossfit, just not for me.
All this glibfit talk has inspired me to remove sweet temptation from the house.
So I ate the rest of the ice cream. Temptation eliminated.?
Ah, the sea food diet- you see food, you eat it.
I’ve got a small amount of leftover pound cake that’s been tempting me from a going away cookout yesterday. Thankfully, lots of people took some home.
Poundcake
There are a few decent Haggar-era Van Halen songs.
Those women look a bit thin for you.
Not after he makes them this. I ran through the calorie calculations for it once.
Once.
That’s the base, I usually use Irish butter, demerara sugar, and different extracts/herbs/spices to flavor it. This one was made with a small dash of maple extract in it, which came through at a nice level, and lead to a discussion about using maple syrup/sugar as a full substitute for the regular sugar (which would make it a damned expensive cake).
That looks delicious.
I make it rarely. It makes two loaves, or a bundt pan. The keys to it are to properly cream the butter and sugar, and scrape down the bowl regularly, The demerara is a personal preference, as it crystallizes in the crust and adds a wonderful crunch to it.
what’s good for the goose is good for gander
https://www.foxnews.com/us/missouri-st-louis-mayor-intimidate-defund-police-protesters-names-address-facebook-live
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“They presented some papers to me about how they wanted the budget to be spent,” Krewson said, holding a pile of crumpled papers. “Here’s one that wants $50 million to go to Cure Violence, $75 million to go to Affordable Housing, $60 million to go to Health and Human Services and have zero go to the police.”
Krewson then read the person’s name and the street they lived on, adding the person “wants no police — no money going to police.”
The mayor repeated the names and streets of at least 10 activists on Facebook Live and said most advocated to defund the police and shift that money into social services, according to the River Front Times.
“I agree with all these things, by the way — except we’re not going to take all the money from the police,” she said. “I think we need our police department.”
The video has since been deleted.
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I like what the Idaho congresscritter proposes in response to the “defund the police” calls: he introduced a bill to prohibit any obstacle between a citizen and his right to bear arms.
Seems a good fit, rather than closing up the police precinct and leaving the cities to the wolves.
That makes good sense. I wonder if it has a chance in Idaho.
I love watching all these Blue cities implode.
OT: this is pretty good reading,
https://www.aier.org/article/why-facts-dont-matter-to-people/
Feelings don’t care about your facts?
Confirmation bias
Fact has the same root as factory. The basic meaning is to do. It survives in the modern French word faire. It’s likely that it merged with the Latin word fabrica, which means to make with skill, which is where the words fabric and fabricate come from.
Faber est quisque fortunae suae – every man is the blacksmith of his own destiny; Latin proverb.
Faber College from Animal House was filmed at the University of Oregon. The motto of the fictional school is “Knowledge is good”. That’s actually less corny than most real mottoes. Harvard’s motto is veritas (truth) and Yale’s is lux et ceritas (light and truth). At least Faber College’s motto is a complete sentence that does not require knowledge of Latin to understand.
I want a college with the motto Blackjack and Hookers. In fact, forget about the college.
Fun fact- everyone knows that ‘ménage à trois’ means a 3-way
But “faire le ménage” means to do housework.
oui translates roughly to “if I were you, I’d want that to” or, if you prefer, “we’ll see”
funnier as too
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Modern French for “yes,” from Old French oïl “yes,” at first two words meaning “yes, he,” or “yes, they,” which gradually came to mean simply “yes.” From the Latin phrase hoc ille “yes,” literally “this he, so he” (did or said).
The French originally said “yes, I,” “yes, you,” “yes, we,” etc., where the pronoun was the subject of an unexpressed verb easily supplied from the question. [C.H.C. Wright, “A History of French Literature,” Haskell House, 1969]
Thus the o is from Latin hoc “this,” and the rest of the word is from the Latin personal pronoun ille “he” (in Vulgar Latin illi which is also “they”). Old French also had o alone as “yes.”
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faire de la grasse mantinée means to sleep in – do the fat morning is the literal meaning
And of course there is le petit mort – the little death, which means orgasm. There was French guy who died during sex. His tomb is sculpture of hi lying in bed.
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Faure died suddenly from apoplexy in the Élysée Palace on 16 February 1899, while engaged in sexual activities in his office with 30-year-old Marguerite Steinheil.
It has been widely reported that Felix Faure had his fatal seizure while Steinheil was fellating him, but the exact nature of their sexual intercourse is unknown and such reports may have stemmed from various jeux de mots (puns) made up afterward by his political opponents. One such pun was to nickname Mme Steinheil “la pompe funèbre” (wordplay in French: “pompes funèbres” means “death care business” and “pompe funèbre” could be translated, literally, as “funeral pump”). George Clemenceau’s epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was “Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée” (another wordplay in French; could mean both “he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey”, or “he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown”: the verb “pomper” in French is also slang for performing oral sex); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper L’Aurore, wrote that “upon entering the void, he [Faure] must have felt at home”.[4] After his death, some alleged extracts from his private journals, dealing with French policy, were published in the Paris press.
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Good article, the graphs at the top were the best part. It’s a shame that people can’t acknowledge good news even when it’s right in front of their eyes.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-deletes-tweet-video-white-power-chant
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President Trump on Sunday deleted a tweet that included video of dueling protests in Florida’s retirement community The Villages, in which senior citizens shouted profanity at each other and one man was heard shouting, “White power!”
Trump had written, “Thank you to the great people of The Villages” in his post, but the White House later claimed he did not hear the phrase.
“President Trump is a big fan of The Villages. He did not hear the one statement made on the video,” White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere said in a statement. “What he did see was tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters.”
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Angry old people make me smile.
At least angry old people have had some life experiences. I don’t even know what the yutes are out there complaining about.
Any self-respecting yute makes his own grits.
+1 Sack o Suds
I grow more angry every day.
Get off my rocks!
We’re livestreaming today’s Glibs meetup right now.
Reminds me of the English English bit with Michael Cane from Austin Powers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWUaT5ovZ50
“Shat on a turtle!”
Michael Caine, that is. Whatever. You know who I mean. He was Hoagie in Jaws the Revenge. You know, the one with the roaring shark and that Jamaican guy,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbrDTO9asW4
I always thought that movie should have had the 2 note shark theme reggae style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ytTKZf344
I love his comment about “Jaws the Revenge”:
“I have not seen it, but by all accounts it is a terrible picture. I have, however, seen the house it paid for, and that is magnificent.”
They seem too sober to be a Glibs meet-up.
They invented the damned language but never bothered to learn to speak it.
+1 My Fair Lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Vx0VvcQyY
fun fact – there was a professor who really could figure where someone in England grew up just from listening to them say a few words. I forget his name.
Henry Higgins
Higgins from Magnum, PI ?
I’d believe it.
Just you wait!
I was raised in an older English dialect and often muse over the dropped h. I presume the Normans brought that to Britain: Vikings speaking bad French destroy Old English?
Maybe the h should be dropped in historic in some places (I’m not sure what’s common in the UK), but it’s usually pronounced in the US. But then we’ll go ahead and use the article an instead of a as if the h were dropped (another tangent: does anyone still use the subjunctive in English?).
The only thing weirder than dead vestiges in languages are the undead.
HM opined that the “an ‘istorical” used by Americans is one of those things that seem like better English than “a historical”, but isn’t really.
I still use “an historical” in writing. In speaking, my tongue gets tripped up by which one I should use. “An ‘istorical” sounds pretentious. “A historical” sounds ugly.
I liken it to vehicle. I was taught not to pronounce the H: “VEE’ukul” as opposed to “VEE’hickel” and especially not “vee HICKEL”. But my tongue doesn’t trip on that one.
“an tobacconist’s shop” always struck me as odd
That’s because your tongue is fighting against its natural impulse of seeking “ease of articulation”.
Pronunciations change to minimize the movement of the tongue and facial muscles. That’s the reason why we say impossible and not inpossible. m and p are bilabial (2 lip) consonants, and n is a nasal.
The ls in walk, chalk, and talk are silent for the same reason. It’s easier to say wok than wall-k.
For some reason, in English, s becomes voiced (z) in words that end in a vowel sound.
Trees does not rhyme with fleece.
I actually believed that until no one pulled their dick out.
Just spent a couple hours at our watering hole. Bartender there is a good friend and her life has been one hurdle after another.
She said “why are we not updating the science behind COVID and realizing this is contagious but not as deadly than we thought” it was of course rhetorical.
And sensible. So it’s beyond the comprehension of most politicians.
Props to her for being aware of that. Most casual news consumers I know are talking about the “spikes” everywhere. Spike in what, I say? In cases!!
I’ve lost 4 lbs since my last Glibfit post, total weight loss is 36 lbs since the end of March. I’ve been hitting the beer a bit more lately, surprised I lost any weight at all. I put myself back on the wagon for a couple of weeks.
On my first set of sit-ups I can hit 50 now, sets 2 – 3 I can do 20 – 25. Goal is to complete 3 x 60. I’m improving but still have a chunk of belly fat to lose.
Added some new exercises to my repertoire: barbell squats, barbell rows, barbell shrugs, incline dumbbell chest flys, 1 minute planks.
I get intermittent sharp pain in my right shoulder when attempting push-ups, have not been able to improve much on those. Occasionally the bench press and seated shoulder press will bring it on, too. Suspect it’s arthritis.
The Olympic bar I ordered 3 weeks ago is being shipped. Next piece of gear will be a good bench and a height adjustable rack – one that’s tall enough to do squats with.
That pain may be arthritis or it may be your form. It’s worth checking it.
People with various disabilities play ping pong at the Paralympics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjuhGad1gQc
A guy with no arms playing ping pong is quite a sight.
“ping pong” is racist and problematic. The preferred term is “Sideways Table Tennis”
This is way too close to the truth.
That was impressive. That is not the kind of dude who sits in the dark corner sobbing “Why me?”
Several of the people shown became disabled as “late” as 13 or 16 yo, so they had to adjust to a major change too.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
“That was impressive. That is not the kind of dude who sits in the dark corner sobbing “Why me?”’
This dude got to me. Focus on what you’ve got and not on what you’ve lost. This seems to be a running theme in my life, but I got nothing on this dude. BOWS. I’d shake his hand with respect, but obviously we’re gonna have to improvise that! I’ll shake *something* of his! Not a euphemism!
I succumbed to temptation. Finishing #2 of 2 tall cans. Oh well. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere.
Great Drunks in History: Peter the Great – there are many cases of a leader modernizing a backwards nation, but he did while partying like a 18th century rock star.
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There was a man named Peter the Great who was a Russian Tzar;
When remodeling his the castle put the throne behind the bar;
He lined the walls with vodka, rum, and 40 kinds of beers;
And advanced the Russian culture by 120 years!
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God loves a drunk
Watch “God Loves A Drunk” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/uJB_cOrxqf4
It’s been a while since I posted a link to a magazine that entertains me.
Well I know what I’m doing at work (from home) tomorrow
They did subscriptions in the before time. It took them several years to fill my 6 issue subscription. Each issue came with an explanation as to why it was late, and what they were drinking instead of editing the magazine.
debt is good
Hiya Chafed!
Glad to hear everything in your world is moving the proper way. Sore is good. Busy is good.
Commuting is shit.
On day 48 of my 75Hard and it’s going really well. This morning I weighed in below 170 for the first time in many, many years. 29 pounds down since May 12. I don’t really have an end goal, but it sure is nice to see the body fat going away.
Just finished my second full week at the gym and I am already feeling better. I started a 5/3/1 cycle again, so it’s back to slow, steady gains.
I am kicking myself for not doing some blood work before I started. I have some, but it’s a year old so fairly useless. I’ll do a battery of stuff at the end, just to see where my numbers are at. I’ve been tracking bp, hr, sleep and some other metrics and that is helpful.
I’m considering buying a ketone/glucose meter – any of you have an opinion?
Good luck this week, people. The Call is a great fucking band and should absolutely get your head right for a week of awesomeness.
Thanks again for doing these, Chafed (or Chefed)!
I got piss-strips for ketones, and they’re largely ineffective unless I absolutely leave beer alone and go back to <20g-carb/day. I have a glucose meter compliments of my VA (being pre-diabetic is why I started the diet), and its like the printer-ink or razor-blade business model: the meter, needles, and everything else are cheap. They get you on the co$t of the gluco$e $trip$
I still have several hundred of those Tres, Just say’n,
Tall Cans Hovering!
Just cracked my 3rd double-deuce
HEY YUFUS!
That is awesome and your start to current is basically where I am/would like to go. 48 days?! Would you mind posting the cliffnotes to what your 75 hard is?
Sure. A buddy of mine did it and challenged my fat ass to do it. It’s really not a weight loss thing, or even a workout thing per se. It’s really about disciplining the shit out of yourself.
5 things per day for 75 days:
1) Strict Diet – No cheat meals, no refeeds, etc. No booze (sorry)
2) Two workouts per day – At least one outside and both at least 45 minutes each
3) Drink One Gallon of Water per Day – Nothing but clear, plain water counts
4) Read Ten Pages per Day – Non-Fiction self help or business book
5) Take a Progress Picture Every Day
If you fuck up, it’s back to Day 1!
I have some experience with a modified keto diet, so that’s what I went with. I started out keeping carbs below 50g/day for a couple weeks and then dropped down to <20 since then. I target protein at around 95g/day and the rest is fat.
Workouts can really be anything. I walk every morning, rain or shine. Boom. One done. I lift, do stretch stuff and yoga, sometimes rollerblade. It's hard, but you definitely get into a routine.
Water is simple for me.
I've been hammering nutrition books. Learning a ton.
Fucking pictures are brutal. I look at Day 1 every day. It keeps you motivated for sure!
The podcast is worth a listen.
Have fun and feel free to reach out if I can help.
There is absolutely no way I am taking a picture of myself.
Lol. You ever take a pic with your phone and accidentally be on selfie mode and reel back in horror wondering what happened to your jaw line and where all those chins came from?
Right?!
“Hey, who’s that old lady that kinda looks like my mom?”
If I don’t shave every day now, I look like Jay Leno’s chin, Yikes!
Thanks. Appreciate it. The keto style thing with lifting and some treadmill has worked for me but i didn’t cut out the alcohol other than limit myself to vodka and avoid beer.
Though I understand the body burns alcohol before anything else so there is opportunity cost there.
Reading is no issue.
I’ve lost 15 pounds in 2 months but while drinking
Thanks again
I drink Milwaukee’s Diet Beast. 3.5g-carb/can, so if I run carb-deficient all day, I can easily get faded at night.
I try to stay <50g-carb/day.
I cut 30lbs inadvertently, getting crunk daily.
Never seen that! Michelobs best id lowest carb beer I’ve come across
That’s great work on the weight loss. Congratulations Tundra.
This morning I weighed in below 170 for the first time in many, many years.
Good.
I moved from Saint Paul to a small town south of the Twin Cities at the beginning of the month. I managed to find a gym down here that happens to also offer jiu jitsu training. I’d forgotten that one of the perks of being in a small town is a certain level of trust that I don’t think is granted in a city. I’ve not been training there even a week, and already the owner is offering access to the place 24/7. Definitely glad to be out of Saint Paul, although I will miss seeing the gorgeous cathedral regularly.
What cathedral? I enjoy a good church picture. Bonus points if it’s in the opening credits of the Mary Tyler Moore show.
I know you’ve all been on the edge of your seats. But its finally here! The Flathead Valley Crime Update!
excellent; never gets old
9:39 a.m. A man with a tiger on his hoodie was looking for a “female in a yellow house.” is easily my favorite: we’ve all been there.
Gym is still closed in my building. Wish they’d at least offer waivers to sign or something.
I wonder if Brett L. is able to account for his activities last weekend
I love everything about that story except the weed weight in grams.
That is vintage Floridaman.
Not to be out-done, FloridaWoman™ gets in the paper, too.
Damn it….too many Tall Cans too quick.
FloridaWoman™
I just scarfed a box of wheat thins. It was 75% off at the store. Should not have bought it. But only 2 tall cans today though. That’s something.
I ate a container of chocolate covered cashews today. After I ate a salad.
You should drink a diet coke just be sure you neutralize it completely.
Science FTW.
next up for the memory hole, a Johnny Cash song
God Bless Robert E. Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9H57dJujg
I’m sure any number of Civil War Songs will be on the chopping block.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zGvbjfHTy2Y
Too bad – The Bonnie Blue Flag is a great tune regardless of lyrical content.
Well I know what I’m doing at work (from home) tomorrow
What?
Not much bike riding this week as we are ripping up some of our old floor in preparation for a new wood floor. I got a workout with the jackhammer instead. It reminded me that I should start wearing deodorant again. Today we went for a short hike but it was too windy so we went to a winery instead.
I jackhammered a 12′ x 12′ concrete slab yesterday.
I don’t want to do that again anytime soon.
“I jackhammered a 12′ x 12′ concrete slab yesterday”
Are we even doing euphemisms anymore?
Apparently not. My god, man – pace yourself!
And, pick better ‘recipients’….
Slowly starting to get back in the swing of martial arts. No contact, so I’m just going to the boxing classes. It’s just a step above Tae Bo.
I’m still 4 pounds away from my goal of 150 pounds. Until recently I didn’t even think that I would ever be close to the weight I had in my 20s.
I made mine at 190, then fell another lb, took a long time to lose 4 lbs, now the belly ain’t goin’ away, but one day it will. Same weight as most of my adult life, only now I’m shorter.
I’m at 180 something. Up ten pounds over the last 4 months and nobody can tell. Might as well keep it on, eh?
Two walks with the dog, didn’t see anybody else mostly because the weather wasn’t particularly nice. It was muggy this afternoon and we got in before the thunderstorm came.
what it’s like to be sane during coronapalooza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_rvE_8naJI
I’d laugh if MS went back to this flag
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_Flag
Another wager- how long until one of the states adds a hammer and sickle to their flag?
Oregon hasn’t already?
Wife came down with a fever last night. 38.5. Down a bit this morning. 38. Taking her in to get tested in an hour. Ugh.
Sorry to hear that. Best wishes to you and yours.
She’s mid 40’s and not unhealthy. Shouldn’t be a problem, but just having someone in the house with a fever means that I can’t even go into the office. Pretty sure the kid wasn’t supposed to go to school today either. *Shhhhh, secret*
And thanks for the wishes.
Im sure you’ll be fine. And isnt it “shhh….seclet?”
I’m not really too worried about the illness. People get sick all the time and recover. I’m worried about getting all my gigs temporarily suspended. Sick of WFH.
+14 quarantine
*Sigh* Might happen. Fingers crossed.
http://archive.li/5iq3J/3178a09039a3b4af973a4d5969afc38b86a44159.jpg
FECK OFF!
Still positive thoughts @ your way, Sconnie
You talk like a fag, and your shit’s retarded
Late to this, but best of luck!
(I just got word one of my Japanese friends wound up in the hospital. Non-COVID. Hadn’t heard from her in a few weeks and her son reached out to a mutual friend. Here she is in the hospital and she’s worried about all us worrying about her.)
Spanish language Biden ad links Trump to Maduro, Chavez, and Castro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCpfVqnZ2W4
Accuse your enemy of what you yourself is guilty of. Typical revolutionary tactic.
Kang ‘enry innit?
So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf;
So first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece
And next his throat unto the butcher’s knife.
What scene of death hath Roscius now to act?
G-dawg:
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Oh WaPo- never change
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/25/trump-keeps-claiming-that-most-dangerous-cities-america-are-all-run-by-democrats-they-arent/
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“You hear about certain places like Chicago and you hear about what’s going on in Detroit and other — other cities, all Democrat run,” he said. “Every one of them is Democrat run. Twenty out of 20. The 20 worst, the 20 most dangerous are Democrat run.”
It’s not clear how Trump is defining “most dangerous” in this context. So let’s look at two related sets of data compiled by the FBI: most violent crime and most violent crime per capita.
…
Most of the current mayors of these cities are Democrats. Two of the mayors of cities with the most reported violent crimes overall, though, are independents and one, the mayor of Jacksonville, Fla., is a Republican. Among the 20 cities with the most violent crime per capita, one isn’t a Democrat: the independent mayor of Springfield, Mo.
…
Trump would no doubt shrug at that detail, decrying as “fake news” the revelation that his assertion was only slightly wrong. And, in fairness, it actually doesn’t matter that four of the 32 cities listed above have non-Democratic mayors — because it doesn’t really matter that the other mayors are Democrats.
…
Cities generally have more crime than suburban and rural areas. That’s been true for decades if not centuries and is true across the planet. The connection has been the focus of repeated research. In other words, if it were the case that cities were also more prone to elect members of one party over another, it might seem as though the most crime-riddled places in America were a function of leadership from that party.
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gee, ya think?
How does Gulliani’s NY fit in this story?
QUIET, YOU!
Not at all.
Btw – the “independent” mayor of San Antonio is a prog who is Democrat in every way but official affiliation.
Philip Bump is a goddamned moron.
No mention that Jacksonville is a city-county government, which might help explain why a Republican was able to win?
َQUIET, YOU!
That’s interesting. Are the crime stats also countywide?
Trump’s favourite move is to find something the Dems want to keep unremarked, and point it out in his characteristic over the top, exaggerated way. The Dems then rush to explain how he’s gotten the details totally wrong because he’s such a big dummy… and in the process, they talk very loudly for days in their own outlets about all the details of something they really wanted to keep quiet, and which most people wouldn’t have ever heard about otherwise.
My favourite remains “Akshually, Bernie didn’t get married in the Soviet Union – he only honey-mooned there!” But this is a very solid entrant.
Yeah, let’s go there.
Since it looks like we have no evening links, here’s your Slutty Sunday.
http://archive.li/y6pvR
Somebody should do a spoof of “Sunday, Bloody Sunday by U2. It should be “Sunday, Slutty Sunday”
I believe the rule is when GlibFit is also the evening open post (which should be always) you are required to favor us NSFW photos of fit women.
Won my Gunbroker auction for a very reasonable price so good night for me
Good deal, now time to get back in the game, can’t win if you don’t play. Winning is the only thing!
Careful crossing bridges or going in boats, its a jungle out there.
Lost mine ?
Congrats.
For fuck’s sake idiots. If you’re going to try to offend someone, at least do it fucking right.
That’s horrid….you can even see the baked-in pepperoni and the ones moved.
“They told 19 News reporter, Sia Nyorkor, they tried calling the location Saturday night but were unable to reach anyone.”
Sure Sia…cause a pizza place never answers the phone.
They didn’t cut the pizza, so they could pass on the savings to you.
I beg to differ.
Oh… not if it’s fake.
Here’s a local news story about it.
That plaza also has my go to local liquor store, so I know exactly where it is. GWAR will explain how they failed.
Just got back from backpacking the high Sierras with the family and my buddy and his wife and kids and about to open beer two to decompress. Very happy with the trip, we accomplished what we set out to do. Our kids have been camping since they were babies, but this is the first backpacking. We had six kids between us, ages 5-11. We picked a pretty easy trip to introduce them, it was two miles in and two out at a starting elevation of 7000 and our camp spot at 7800. We did three days out there and took a side trip to another lake that was about three miles in and out. Kids were troopers, hardly any complaints. All the adults had 50-60 lb packs, and we made the kids carry packs with their sleeping bags, some food and water. I think we can safely add on a few miles to the next one.
Kids learn from their parents. You done good.
Thanks Four. The wife and I are big on outdoors stuff and we try to pass it on to the kids. When we asked at the end if they wanted to do another pack trip we got three thumbs up from our boys, so we must’ve done something right.
GlibFit approved.
Cheers Chafed. Glad you’re getting back in the swing of work and workouts. Good song choice btw, love that tune.
Thanks KSuell.
You know who else went trekking through the high sierras with their kids…
Heh, heh. I was actually fairly worried we wouldn’t be able to pack enough food to satiate our five year old. The kid can put away serious amounts of grub.
For Mojeaux.
And backatcha!
Still waiting for my ribs to heal completely. Still a little sore when I use the abs on that side. I’ve tried a few single-rep pull-ups just to see how it feels – not ready to do more yet.
Not able to run so I got for 10 km hikes – just got back from one now. Now that kids are back in school – once this heals up – I’m going to get back into the gym. Hopefully that won’t be too long.
Not wise. Not not understandble. Not gonna turn out well for lawyers who should know better.
https://twitter.com/LaurieSkrivan/status/1277419900559142912
Do we know why BLM protesters were doing at their home and what happened before they came out?
True. Suppose I should wait. Just looks real bad for them at this point justified or not.
Yeah, that seems like an overreaction, and it is one in the sense that they will probably be paying a serious price, but I wonder what the story is there.
They’re fucxjed. Insta felons, regardless of any back story.
Disagree with the comments. Her index finger is wrapped around the outside of the triggerguard. Can clearly see the entire finger.
They are personal injury attorneys. They are indeed about to see some more time in court, on the other side of the room.
Dunno, but I’m just on a tablet.
I’ll bet the crowd in the heat of moment wouldn’t notice that.
She could be the victim a good shoot.
If an off-duty cop is passing by, she’s dead and the cop gets a raise.
Shouldn’t Pie be rising from his crypt about now? And shouldn’t Sir Digby be logging on to his work computer?
You rang?
Marklar!
/Sup Digby!
Sup?! Good weekend?
Yes and no, but I got an article out of it……
Oh….well, good, and sorry to hear that.
I think that’s how it works in that particular situation.
Tons of fun, stupid people, but the best time for BhC is Monday, tomorrow will be a lot of fun,
Damn straight. Amuse me.
EEEWWWWW!
You want straight, or, “amuse”?
/gotta adjust the chair
Any recommendations for something to brew single serve cups of loose leaf tea? I’ve done tea balls in the past, and they suck. I have one of those contraptions with a valve at the bottom, and it leaks unless I reach my hand under the hot water and seat the seal properly each and every time.
T-sac tea filter bags.
Another euphemism?
Don’t t-sac me bro.
T-Sac filter bags.
Too slow!
The problem with tea is that it doesn’t even have any coffee in it.
“I believe the rule is when GlibFit is also the evening open post (which should be always) you are required to favor us NSFW photos of fit women.”
http://archive.li/5dRtY/ca32f37787238580f20d19fc061c62004bc78721.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/lteM5/ce83c3626ae54458e1fe3b47183a881185b6f347.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/5E4lX/6aef52d7c414f5aa657f408e3b101ec865fe9649.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/g8ltA/4f8d1ac88c75d12865865d9ea24f69086716264d.jpg
NSFW.
I guess I’m old, Meh…
If none of them work for you then you’re old.
I wonder what Q is doing for the rest of the night?
Do you, really?
You are the man Q!
Dude needs an intervention, a la Queer Eye for the Communist Guy
I guess it’s too late for him to grow up with a father at home.
Well, we can’t all be that lucky. Besides, doing so only made me just so much of a schmuck, and not at all inclined to wear a mesh shirt.
Dude gets 10 years*, his smile won’t look quite like that when he gets out.
*yeah, I know the likelihood for him getting the max is low
I was wondering if that asshole got prosecuted.
Looks like it…er, he will.
Then, the asshole shall be persecuted.
Up continues to be down, night continues to be day, as Matt Taibbi continues to write most sensibly about just how bugfuck crazy the grift that is the great racism hunt of 2020 is:
Taibbi is very unusual nowadays. A genuine liberal (not progressive) who remembers his principles and is willing to energetically call out the left for violating those principles.
Just don’t read the comments.
I want so much to make that a saying, but, it would have to be ironic here, and….well, piss on that.
I have a problem believing the Obama girls are less privileged than some poor white man who grew up in the deepest hollow of Kentucky who is the first person in his family to graduate from the eight grade and still does not have indoor plumbing.
I am getting so fed up with seeing people who are pissed at the ‘lack of leadership’ from the government, vis-a-vis the Wu Flu. Often, it’s people who would be calling out government for police abuse, taxes, wars, etc.
But, throw in a virus that’s easily transmittable, and can lead to death, and suddenly, “Government is our Lord and Savior!! Why have you forsaken us?!?!?”
The hell is wrong with you??
Daddy! Save us! we can’t think for ourselves! Something like that…………..
Yes; very much like that.
It’s become quasi-religious. One must believe in government. If one believes hard enough then government will protect you from the virus.
What’s so infuriating, is that these people will pull out historically conservative talking points to defend their views–
“Government is supposed to be about public safety. This is about our safety!” Yeah, and that’s the argument for ObamaCare and soda taxes, ya fuckheads.
“Public health is different from policing” Then, stop using police and agents of the state to make mask-wearing and social distancing happen. If the idea is so good, it doesn’t require force to implement.
“The Constitution isn’t a suicide pact” Not at all–it’s to limit the size and scope of government. Besides, you can go ahead and off yourself without my presence. Please.
Back from a business trip. Spokane to Silverthorne CO for one week. Drove I90 and I15 to Idaho Falls and then mostly two lane roads through Wyoming and Colorado. Slight variation on the way back and cut through the north east corner of Utah. A lot of interesting geology and a lot that wasn’t so interesting. I did get to use my ex-military white privilege to get a verbal speeding warning in Utah.
Instead of I15 on the way back, I went up along the Bitterroot Mountains and into Missoula via Lost Trail Pass. I did notice a lot of property for sale south of the pass. Driving these less populated areas really remind me of how I miss living in a rural area. I really need to start planning my escape from the city.
Welcome home. It is now a misdemeanor to have normal social interaction with someone you do not live with.
It was so nice in ID, MT & WY. People were just living normally. A few less tables at the restaurants and packages of condiments instead of bottles. Summit Counting in Colorado had the face mask requirement.
Are you from the future? Is this Demolition Man?
No. Possibly.
Apropos of nothing, anyone want to have a 40 minute chat?
Can’t–@ work, with no cam or mic.
I can see that. Too bad, you’re late nite glib.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_asNhzXq72w&list=WL&index=14&t=0s
What do we have for our guest, Alex?
I phrased my last comment poorly – ‘I understand your point, it’s sad, because you’re the pre-eminent late night Glib’ would have been a better way to put that together. Hope to see you on the next weekend Zoom.
Heh….I hate to admit that I like that, but, damn well right.
I have found that I don’t want to sit in front of a computer screen when I’m not at work. (who am I, my wife??)
So, I haven’t had much motivation to get in on the Zooms, even though I do miss the chatting. Maybe someday soon.
He’s too busy watching the girl’s shower on the “security” cam
No cam and no mic? Your career as a cam girl isn’t going to work.
Hey–they pay me to be the watcher, not the watched. ?️
I don’t know about that. I’ve heard ThaiLadyBoys.com is looking for help. And I have experience in the phone sex industry.
You “heard”, did ya?
Also…what, uh…what kind of experience?
No experience necessary. Just a willingness (and ability) to be ‘flexible’. They don’t require resumes.
I never had a position where I had to review the candidates (thank Jeebus), and the place I worked at actually dealt only in female to male transactions. However, if you saw the women there, it might have been a conversion moment. Yeesh. “Are any of you not currently on parole or probation?” would have been a valid question.
Oh, I am aware that it doesn’t take much to have a voice that the Y chromosome finds appealing. Just….yeeesh.
I never got a pic of the phone room, but yeah… probably could’ve shut down the industry.
I watch South Park late night on Comedy Central, and see commercials for sbabes and Phone Sexy, and just have to laugh. No, the girls answering your phone don’t look like that.
Hell naw! Those ladies are already sleeping on piles of sugar daddy (and, modelling) cash.
Plus, I thought phone talking was a dinosaur thing, anyway. Not something girls of a certain legal age even know what to do.
I think higher ed may be beyond help at this point.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-the-activists-are-now-stalking-the-hard-scientists/wcm/e6e84649-4a24-4ab7-8462-47580d115e25/
Good to see JP back though.
I will not let them pick on sempai!
And it is good to see JP appears to be back to his “torch the MFers!” ways. Equality of outcomes… SMDH. This dystopian shit needs to stop now before the people who are getting the short end start firing back.
Making the most of your 2 minutes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj3Hh5VAqIk
That was str8 up Two Minutes of Hate.
I’d imagine city/county councils are eventually gonna shut down these open mics at least for wrongthinkerz. All to save gramma.
Of course. If people in power have one thing in common, it’s a desire to hold on to that power. They do that, in part, by not allowing open dissent.
No transparency needed, proles.
Rosa Parks would’ve been thrown off the bus for not wearing a mask today. Let that sink in.
Of course, there may be a Corona-based Rosa Parks waiting to rip off a mask.
CoRosa Parks.
I’m gonna make that when I get home. Great, Digs. Corosa Parks. Have her unmasked on the bus filled with masked Karens scowling at her. Corosa Parks or just Corona Parks?
Ooooh…decisions, decisions.
Something makes me think that Corona is too much of a stretch, verbally.
Deal. Corosa.
(got interrupted there)
The CoRosa ties both names together. Then again, this is probably why I’m wrong.
Split the diff–“Rona Parks”?
CoRosa is the right choice.
He was on fire. Should have ditched the burn 8n hell part though.
I say keep it, with the change of, “if there’s a place in Hell for corrupt, fear-mongering politicians, you better know you’ll be there”.
Being a POS means you are already in hell. You may “power” or money, doesn’t matter. Your corrupted conscience gets you in the end. We just can’t let them drag us into their hell with them. That is what they think they want.
Garage door rope is violence and broadcast across the world as an example of right wing danger. Bet this doesn’t make CNN.
https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1277463294450651137
Stop taking the jobs he offers, jagoffs.
We’re all tired of the, “What if a conservative did that?” game. Fuck Bezos for being the crony capitalist he is, but I wouldn’t lop his head off. After the woodchipper incident here and then seeing millions of examples like this one, why should anyone have respect for laws that are so obviously being selectively enforced?
Good point.
BTW, I am probably out of the loop regarding everything Bezos has “done”, but, it’s hard to blame him for playing the political game, since it was in effect long before he came along. Player < Game, and all that.
The rule of law (if it ever really existed in practice) is dead.
Further down
https://twitter.com/terrence_str/status/1277461917389459468?s=21
Finally someone seems to take Reginald Denny to heart.
I think the original Death Race 2000 was better.
When the knives come out, the guns come out. Tell him(?) to ask that dude in NM.
Nope. Jerry Nadler still doesn’t think they exist. Probably because he watches CNN.
Jerry “The Nad” Nadler….damn, childhood had to be rough. Explains the power-seeking.
I wonder if his peers, as a kid, saw him out with his family and said, “It’s the Nads!”
Or, threw something at the group and said, “Right in the Nads!”
/hey, you started me down this road…
Still around, Sir D?
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78538408317?pwd=WDhWSUgvUGU3djlZZW5Ubmc3bVZ6Zz09
Still at work
Did the Zoom thing happen?
Nope.
Well, damn. I’m still around, in a quasi-lurk mode, if that’s sufficient.
see above
Also, no one else joined. Unless Gustave’s willing, it’ll be a pretty boring monologue.
Pale bitchez be cray cray
My normally mild mannered wife, who sometimes says I’m essentially a tin foil whack job, started talking about Cambodia today and how what’s going reminded me of what the Khmer Rogue did. Then said that helicopters might be needed to deal with those people because they’re too far gone. Well, Pb not helicopters but it’s the same thing.
What happened in Cambodia?
My poor grammar. Today, she brought up what the KR did after they took over.
Tell her about Pinochet.
Pol Pol got canceled after calling the kettle black.
straffin-san – got time for a 40 minute pointless conversation, or do you have actual productive things to do?
Got a little time if you want
BTW, “Pol Pol” would be a pretty good gay porn name. I mean, I figure it would
::ahem::
Only if you had the goods to match.
We can have a short talk if everyone’s agreed. Link above
That link doesn’t work anymore.
eh, fuck… https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78260273142?pwd=Ti81V0ZnTzZwTWVnVUNPS1VKdFdRQT09
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78538408317?pwd=WDhWSUgvUGU3djlZZW5Ubmc3bVZ6Zz09
Can’t log in right now. Zoom reset my password and I can’t get my mail until I get on my PC.
For an interesting take on a truly silly lawsuit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1-wzTsoxQ8
Everything is stupid.
Defund 2020.
…and I hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it….
Now, this is a movement I would be glad to join. If I were much for being a joiner.
Join.
https://aempf32337.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1519i7C494B1659688396?v=1.0
An article with some interesting tables showing the percentage of total COVID deaths that occurred in nursing homes state by state:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nursing-homes-are-11-covid-19-cases-43-deaths-us
Looks like 43% nationwide and surprisingly low in NY but I trust their numbers only a little more than China’s.
I’d be curious to see the NYC metro area separated out from the rest of the state. I could see that skewing the percentage lower in part due to heavy dependence on – and consequently higher transmission via – mass transit (and, of course, on fudging figures.)
If you were to measure it that way it’d get rid of a big chunk of the long term care deaths, minus the employees that died. That’s not panic inducing enough.
I’d like to know China’s numbers since they stopped tallying and testing. The CBC keeps telling us that you guys are the world hot spot for some damn reason or other.
White fragility. Duh.
Chattel Slavery. The answer is always chattel slavery. Everyone on Earth knows that you guys patented it in 1619. I read a project about it and it seemed pretty solid.
At work.
Yelling “Slow ass bitches, get out of the left lane!” is no way to start the work week.
My greatest achievement so far today has been remembering to take out the trash.
Thanks. Nearly forgot.
Getting out of bed was pretty rough. It wasn’t that I was tired, I was just so damn comfortable.
It’s always TB. Tiny Bladder. I wish I had the ability to sleep more than 3 hours at a time. Getting old sucks.
Internet is spotty once more. Time to get Judi cracking the whip yet again. Funny how service becomes normal when you threaten to turn off the money tap.
https://fox8.com/news/man-arrested-after-being-caught-on-video-swimming-in-bass-pro-shop-aquarium/
It was bound to happen. DON’T LIE! We’ve all thought about it! The next thought in my head was always ‘what if catch one of those weird aquarium fish diseases?’
Simple! Just have your wife feed you chloraquine! Done and done!
WE’RE ALL GUNNA DIE!
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/504950-choir-of-more-than-100-people-sing-without-masks-at-pence-event-in
Just wear black clothing and you should be fine.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1277559923157549056
ROFLMAO
I LOVE the tiny “Hitler” eyebrows! This is a new thing!