Today is the first Sunday of the new football season. In years past, this was a cause for great celebration, beer drinking, and overeating. I know there is a divide in the Glibertariat between those who are so sick of the SJW nonsense they told the NFL to get bent and those of you who will spend the day on the couch. I have very mixed feelings but I’m pretty certain, with or without football, most of you will find a reason for drinking today.
As for me, I probably won’t be around for the comments today unless SP forgoes the Sunday Night Open Post. So, feel free to talk behind my back. There has been some tension in the Chafed house, and I am heading over to my best friend’s house to talk, watch football, and drink too much.
On the workout front, I’m about ready to scream. My gym is part of a chain with locations in several states. I received an email weeks ago their Nevada locations had received permission to reopen. I’m choking while writing “permission” about a business that helps people get or stay healthy. At least they are open, and the little people can get back to it.
My local location emailed me this week that the outdoor portion can reopen. You must reserve a workout time, there are severe limitations on the number of people, and it’s $5 per session. *eyeroll* I’m not mad at the gym. They are doing all they can inside a regime that threatens their existence.
Fortunately, Gavin Newsom believes in SCIENCE! so I know the same rules apply to everyone. Because we’re all in this together or alone together or something…. Then I read about what’s going on in San Francisco. How far into triple digits can my blood pressure go before blood shoots out of my eyes?
My one hope is some gadfly tracks the lack of any Covid hotspots in city owned gyms and somehow manages to embarrass every gauleiter. A man can dream, can’t he?
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I don’t have a Twatter account but sometime around the start of The Troubles I became aware of Alex Berenson. He’s a former NYT reporter who has a very skeptical view of how the government has handled things. You can find him here. If you really want to get your anti-government rage on, then just scroll down his posts.
This week’s music choice. I’m not quite sure how but it seems apropos.
I heard this while listening to Eddie Trunk and writing this article.
Black man trapped again
Holds his chains in his hand
Brother kills brother for the profit of another
Game point, nobody wins
I very much doubt that song could be released today. Related, I miss MikeS. Anyone know what’s become of him?
Anyone know what’s become of him?
As I understand it, he had to cut back commenting for work-related reasons.
Ted, your doggo is beautiful; those eye markings are great. Until recently, my mom lived on a farm in VERY rural Alabama. She had a similar problem during hunting season. Also, apparently, very many backwoods assholes abandon their coon hounds in the woods if they underperform. So, in addition to the trespassing hunters, she would have black and tan hounds showing up randomly. She ran an adoption/rescue group for many years.
We live next to 1000 acres of state forest, so we can’t do anything about hunters. There aren’t many on the state land to be honest, but you never want to take a chance.
I believe the guy who used to hunt on our woodlot moved down to SC to escape Cuomo’s reign of terror.
At any rate, the dog and I got walks in yesterday and today. Ran into a couple twice on Saturday; since we were going opposite directions, we met up twice. Ran into two larger groups of bikers today, but as is almost always the case, the mountain bikers are nice people — and they all say the dog is beautiful.
Monday being Labor Day, I went by myself up to a different area of state forest that has a small recreation area with picnic tables and whatnot attached. Big mistake. Lots of people from God knows where walking the main trail, with half of them masked and seemingly pissed that I wasn’t wearing one. (Normally, the dog is my social distancing.) The best one was two older guys where one of them was masked up and one wasn’t.
Hey creepy Joe, suck it!
https://mobile.twitter.com/EquipoTrump/status/1305212453329010699
Those are probably Cubans. Not real Latinos.
Gf is in the kitchen making a batch of crack chicken. Glib fit food. ?
Shouldn’t those be eaten/smoked separately?
https://www.swankyrecipes.com/instant-pot-crack-chicken.html
Jessica is hawt.
Second.
There has been some tension in the Chafed house
Sorry Chafed. I hope for the best.
Fortunately, Gavin Newsom believes in SCIENCE! so I know the same rules apply to everyone. Because we’re all in this together or alone together or something…. Then I read about what’s going on in San Francisco. How far into triple digits can my blood pressure go before blood shoots out of my eyes?
Repeating because I can: This site is better than PornHub. I’ve never given PornHub money. I’ve donated to the Recall Gavin campaign.
My one hope is some gadfly tracks the lack of any Covid hotspots in city owned gyms and somehow manages to embarrass every gauleiter. A man can dream, can’t he?
Yep.
I had some Schadenfreude when I read the news that Nashua’s mayor tested positive for Lil Rona. He pushed the mask ordinance.
Onto to GlibFit: My weight is slightly up. According to my body fat analyzer, I increased both fat and lean mass. I’m not too worried about a small one time increase in fat weight. The weights I use during my workouts are still going up, though I am still below pre-disc herniation strength levels.
I was discharged from physical therapy last Thursday. There really isn’t more my physical therapist can do at this point. I need time. I need to continue my stretching and other physical therapy work. I need to slowly reintroduce things at the gym plus continue to work on form. My PT did an evaluation, and my flexibility has improved greatly. I can get my right leg up to 45 degrees for a single leg raise and my left leg up to 75 degrees. This is huge.
At the gym I deadlifted with more than a dowel rod for the first time in a long time. It was a measly 10 lb kettlebell but I was able to deadlift it through the full range of motion and without pain.
This week’s music choice. I’m not quite sure how but it seems apropos.
I liked this one.
Sounds like good progress. Congrats!
Thanks!
Great job, D.
Who cares what the weight is? Next week, a little more. Then the week after that.
Pretty soon you will be kicking sand in Warty’s face!
Max wattage here is over 1,100 watts from the legs alone. I can temporarily power a microwave!
Thanks!
Germany celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday year
From the comments,
Why did beethoven get rid of his chickens?
All they said was Bach Bach Bach.
My apologies.
I’m choking while writing “permission” about a business that helps people get or stay healthy. At least they are open, and the little people can get back to it.
‘Way back in May, some guy took offense when I referred to the “crypto-Stalinist” overtones of having random government functionaries declaring businesses nonessential. I haven’t seen or spoken to him since. I wonder if he has pulled his head out of his ass, or if he’s still all gung ho for lockdowns. I assume he is. And, of course, his income was completely unaffected by the closure of other people’s businesses.
I walked 27 holes and created, 5 new ones, then walked Bella for 2 hours, does that count as Glibfit stuff?
and created, 5 new ones,
Enough with the euphemisms….
Good enough for government work.
Hell yes.
But you are too skinny anyway! 😉
Not for long Tundra, I’m up here with you now
Yep.
I don’t know the gym policies in CO because I don’t go to a gym but in mask news I stopped at Wmart on my way home from work yesterday and I would say half the people in the store where shopping unmasked on a busy Saturday afternoon. I think most people gave the bullshit a chance just to not make waves but seems at least around here a lot of people are done. As more and more info comes out the glaring over reaction of the Top Men is becoming obvious and people are paying attention. At least that is my hope. My hope is also that all businesses just say fuck it and open back up.
Walmart is under rules to not push masks, the ADA might have something to say about it you know,
/ COPD
Two weeks ago there was probably 98% compliance. That has dropped by half.
I stopped using instacart and starting going to grocery stores again.
I got word through the Reopen NH group that the state threatened a local grocery store chain because some workers wore face shields. The Clown Prince’s rules require masks. The state told the chain that all employees must wear masks or the stores will be shut down. Many employees at the chain weren’t keen on masking to begin with, and those ignored shoppers without masks. Now, they’re pissed and more employees are joining their ranks..
The last two weeks I shopped at a store in this chain without a mask. No customer or employee said anything to me. In fact, the employees were quite friendly. I saw only one other person shopping without a mask. There were lots of people in the store.
Out here, the massive fires have made the masks start to make a tiny bit of sense.
I stopped at Wmart on my way home from work yesterday and I would say half the people in the store where shopping unmasked on a busy Saturday afternoon.
Good. I ran in to Murdoch’s (ranch supply) a few days ago. Not many masks in evidence. Still lots of masks at the grocery store.
Murdoch’s here you will be hard pressed to find a masked person that is not an employee.
Fuck, Chafed. We need to get you out of that place. This isn’t the Chafed that motivated us to get up off our fat asses and get it done!
Sorry to hear things are challenging right now. Every one of us of a certain age and experience nod knowingly and wish you the best.
I’m getting insanely hardcore about the lockdown of gyms. The manager of mine told me that the Health Stasi are sending people in hoping to catch them fucking up. Even though healthy people are the ones helping get us through the ‘pandemic’, by allowing the virus to run its course. Fuck off, slavers.he
Yeah, yeah, I know. “Set up your own home gym, bitch.” I work here most of the time and love getting the fuck out for a workout. I also love the people I’ve gotten to know over the last bunch of years. And I love the pretty girls. Sue me.
I’ve just listened to your first song three times in a row. Fucking awesome.
Anyone know what’s become of him?
Busy as hell. He’s good, though.
Thanks, man. This week will be better.
Busy as hell. He’s good, though.
Pass this on to him from all of us………..????????????????????????????????????????
The manager of mine told me that the Health Stasi are sending people in hoping to catch them fucking up.
The staff at mine said they’ll only enforce the Clown Prince’s rules. The Nashua mask ordinance they’re ignoring. The Clown Prince’s rules require masks as you move through the lobby. That’s the only time I wear a mask.
Unfortunately, I see more and more people working out while wearing a mask. Sad.
And I love the pretty girls.
#metoo. Except when they’re wearing a mask while working out.
It’s good that MikeS is doing well.
the Health Stasi are sending people
So creating unnecessary vectors for spread of covid…. got it.
Occupy Trader Joes
I was going to offer come advice on how to make sure there are even less grocery stores near you, but looks like you already figured it out.
some, damnit.
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We’ll all be equal when nobody has grocery stores.
That’s how this always works out. Now we’re all equally poor and miserable, and probably starving, yay!
When they outlaw grocery stores, only… well, you know. Talk about Molon Labe!
I went shopping for the wife today because the mask thing really sets her off and I want a peaceful Sunday evening. I came back with more
prepperNovember food, and she was annoyed. Meh, better it goes to waste than not have eats when the SHTF.Hi CHafed (if that is really you..I heard you were stolen or something), Greetings from NOCal. Still smokey here..but not as smokey as it was before…Gym still closed but hiking has been great this week since there has been no one on the trails; due to smoke. What a bunch of pussies. Thought about wearing a mask for the smoke but didn’t ; after thinking about the Marlboro 100 filters and still getting a pretty full lung of smoke from them.
I didn’t do the fast this week since my son was heading out to Grad school and I wanted to have a couple of good meals with him before he left. I think this week is better to try.
Other NOCal smokeagendon news: 49ers might have to cancel game due to smoke. 80’s and 90’s bars were smokey-er… Thinking about cancelling football games and remembering the ’81 AFC championship… I have never been that cold (-21F) and that happy. Good times.
I guess I outed myself as a Bengal fan…perhaps the loneliest fan in NOCal; considering the SB loses. I am thinking of taking another sabbatical year or decade. Maybe next year if the Raiders play them in LV–I’ll fly down for that if things are open.
Have a great week, keep moving and skip a meal of 3.
Hiya IRBE!
What’s your fasting routine?
Hey Tundra, I typically fast 18hrs a day. Last feed at ~5pm and then eat at 11 or noon next day. Once a month I do an extended fast of 44-48 hrs. Sometimes it is dry and other times just electrolytes water. I confess to drinking morning coffee because of withdrawals (head aches) and I just like it. Most important to the fast is the refeed. I have messed up on that before and the results were not pleasant. Refeed that works for me is eggs and steak in moderation.
I always have coffee, sometimes with MCT oil. I don’t care if it’s not ‘pure’ fasting.
I am not trying to lose weight right now, but I still don’t usually eat until noon or later. It’s become the routine. If I have coffee (with or without MCTs) I am generally not hungry for 16 hours or more. But if I wake up hungry, I eat.
That seems pretty natural.
I haven’t done an extended fast. I may try a 2 or 3 day just for shits and grins. Do you do any measurements?
I think 48h is easily doable for you. It kind of sucks at 24-30 hr mark for me..but that passes and at 40-48 h it is pleasant.
I will take a weight measurement at start, 24 hrs and end before refeed. I typically lose 4-6 pounds from Tstart to Tb4refeed. The t24 is interesting because the weight loss is sometimes very minimal (1lb).
After about a week, I am down 3 pounds. Depending on discipline I can keep it off; until I don’t and then it time for another fast.
I bounce btw 168 and 173, which is pretty good for me.
I am going to try a 72hr this week, which I have never.
Interesting.
I’ve done 24+ many times. The cool part of this is that if you are in a situation with shitty food (i.e. traveling), you can simply fast with no downside.
Please post your results.
I may try a 72 hour one, too. I’ve got a glucose/ketone meter, so I’ll take a bunch of readings.
We had been planning for some old friends to come over this afternoon for a social distancing barbecue in our backyard. But we woke up to a fine layer of ash covering our patio furniture after cleaning it just last night. Wife is freaking out and canceled the barbecue. Now she wants to get the cats into the car and drive east until we can find somewhere with relatively clean air (which has to be a minimum four hours, probably more). I’ve been holding her off for now, but I understand her anxiety.
We’ve pretty much exhausted all possible disasters for the year and it’s only September. What’s left? I’m thinking a space alien invasion. Perhaps that would unite the people of the world in a common cause? I wouldn’t even count on that.
Yikes.
Hopefully the fires don’t get closer to you.
Hi C.A, Sorry to hear about bbq cancellation. Based on my casual observation, west and north were less smokey and I saw some blue skies toward Martinez when I was hiking in the hills…it was smokiest along on the 24 corridor. On the bright-non-diffused side, I think the wind is supposed to pick up tonite and clear out some.
Smoky as hell between Lamorinda and the Tri Valley. I don’t even want to go out for a beer.
I am hopeful the wind and rain in the PNW clear things up here before PGE does the seasonal power outages. WTF happened to Cali.
Um, Shaver lake’s on fire. I guess it’s possible the smoke is headed south, but I’d guess the Big Valley is smokey as fuck. You probably got to go north and east. Just saying. Maybe Tahoe is clear, or Lake Almanor? IDK.
but I’d guess the Big Valley is smokey as fuck.
Barbara Stanwyck hardest hit.
Nick! Heath! Jarrod! There’s a fire in the barn!
To stay on topic, I’ve bent the curve back downward on my weight (even including a weekend at Put-In-Bay and Cedar Point). As of this morning, I’m down 3 pounds from my most recent high weight, and hope to keep the trend line pointing downward.
I did pick up a Cubii to try to help me burn calories while sitting at a desk for ~12 hours a day, and it seems to be helping. Today, I did cheat and get Goldie Hot wings with fries and beer. I need some sanity in my life.
I did pick up a Cubii to try to help me burn calories while sitting at a desk for ~12 hours a day,
Not a Hawaii Chair?
I actually want to exercise, not be swung around.
I scoffed at the Cubii at first, but after ~20 minutes using it (at a time, I’m usually at ~2 hours a day on it) I have some respect for it.
Congratulations on the weight loss!
At this point, I’m just trying to get myself back to pre-lockdown weight. That’s what irritates me the most. And I know it’s all my fault, no one else’s. My goal is calorie counting 5 days a week (and keeping it at ~1,500 for those days), and not counting for two. It worked for me before, now I just need to keep it up for the rest of the year again.
I’m lower than my pre-lockdown weight. I credit that to working from home (no work snack bar to graze on) and more physical activity despite the lockdowns.
My NJ gym is open but business is slow. There were only 3 or 4 other people there while I was there today. Good for me – I don’t even have to pretend to wear mask that way. Bad for the owner who isn’t sure if he’s staying in business. He’s hoping things pick up when the weather turns.
My lifts and cardio are slowly getting back to pre-covid levels.
On the cardio side, the spin studio I’ve been going to has been booking classes (at least the ones outside of normal work hours) like mad. You have to book them almost when they become available if you want your preferred seat (my two favorite are under both fans and A/C vents).
I’m more of an elliptical guy than the bike.
As a cyclist, I’ll stick to what I know won’t hurt me. The times I’ve done a standing elliptical for more then a minute, my knees start clicking. I’m still trying to figure out what I’ve done to my right shoulder, as it’s still generally sore after a anything stressing it.
*looks down at stomach*
Me too.
Fingers crossed he’ll pull through.
It’s good that you’re getting back to pre-Lil Rona Insanity levels.
Ended up swimming at yet a fourth local YMCA location Thursday – the one closest to my house started swimming lessons during my usual after-work slot in the last week or two, and the one in the adjacent county (but reasonably accessible from my office) inexplicably allowed no reservations past 4 p.m. Thursday. Ended up at one not too far from home and actually easier to get to from the interstate than nearest-to-home Y. Nice pool – six lanes, no waiting, or in this case, no sharing. (Last time I had to share a lane, the other guy swam right into me.) This latest location may be my go-to pool from now on. I appreciate how lucky I am to have these options.
On non-swim days, I try to get on the treadmill. Did 45 minutes last Sunday and Monday, but after skipping a day to swim, I could only manage 30 minutes on Wednesday and Friday. Some of that may have to do with how late in the evening I start. Meant to get in some treadmill time yesterday but just plain forgot. I’ll hop on later today after naptime and after Sunday Big Brunch (waffles & sausage) has fully digested. Weight is still holding steady but stubbornly refusing to drop.
Will think good thoughts for you & yours, Chafed, for whatever it’s worth.
Weight is still holding steady but stubbornly refusing to drop.
Wander on up to the weight room, GT! I promise results…
Seconded.
Thirded, and no, you will not accidentally become a “weight lifting woman” as my girlfriend is afraid of becoming if she does any resistance/weight training.
Even if she did, who cares?
Strong is better than weak. Lean is better than fat. Being harder to kill is ALWAYS a good thing.
Go to the weight room. Right fucking now!
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200129133310-02-pizza-billboard-backlash-trnd-super-tease.jpg
I have two pairs of 3-lb. hand weights, one pair of 5-lb’ers, and a pair of adjustable dumbbells with a total of four 2.5 lb. and four 6 lb. weights for them. Anything I can do with those? On gym days, prepping for and cleaning up after swimming pretty much takes up all my time there. I have outrageously expensive hair color to protect from the chlorine, dammit!
Yep, you can do some stuff with those, but I want you to aim bigger.
Your Y has a weight room. It would make you all tingly to go to the weight room and learn to squat, bench, deadlift and press. Loading your skeleton makes you stronger and builds bone mass. None of the supplements really does shit. Chicks need bone mass!!
There are a ton of resources out there. If any of us can help, we will.
Lift heavy shit!
No argument here! Especially post-menopausal white chicks with small frames. To give you an idea how small – I can wrap one hand around my other hand’s wrist joint and touch the tip of my middle finger to my thumb. And I have clubbed thumbs.
I do take a calcium supplement every day, but I know the weight-bearing exercise is more effective. I’ll see if I can work in another day at the Y just for weight work. Maybe Saturdays – I can do that with Tom T. That’s the sort of thing he does when he goes (which he hasn’t done for a while, mainly because of the mask crap.)
#metoo
Had my first DEXA scan about a year and a half ago after my ulcer incident. I had a tiny bit of loss, but I looked it up and it was less than for someone of my demo. They were quite a bit more alarmist than they needed to be.
MIL had a THR replaced this week. At a minimum, you need good wood to graft the fixes to.
I hadn’t considered that.
I’ve got an MRI this week on my good foot: might have some dead bone that’s causing a tendon and articulation problem. I need to get this done while I’ve paid off my deductible.
We’re considering doing my left rotator cuff; my only hangup is that I won’t be able to close the car door.
My husband has some vein thing he needs done to his lower legs, but he has to prep for a couple of months for that, so the plan would be to do my rotator cuff, then his legs at the end of the year.
Mojo, I had a vein thing done to my lower legs a couple years ago. What requires prep?
The vein place wants him to wear some compression thing for 60 days.
Okay, that makes sense. I had my procedure done during the last week of December since it was going to be “free”. They knew that when they scheduled me.
*Looks at sexy compression socks*
Break up the Redskins.
Fixin to watch Old Guy Bowl I
Sorry to hear about the tension. The evil that dictators like Newsome and Murphy have infected on people is something I couldn’t have 8magine a tear ago. I hope they pay some day.
I’m choking while writing “permission” about a business
that helps people get or stay healthy.Even if it’s the local all you can eat Tub’o Lard Palace, “permission” should have nothing to do with it.
yep
Suck it Floridastatetarians!
That is my football comment for the week.
Never gets old
I think the squirrels ate my previous attempt:
https://youtu.be/bV0YvPnmZsU
This came up in the sidebar for your music link.
Reminds me of a few years ago (which now apparently means 15 or so, lol) when I used to introduce my buddy to hot chicks as the bassist for Krokus. It was well past a time when anyone would know, and we were always at motorcycle events. He almost got with a few chicks because of it, but it was crazy fun. Sometimes they’d ask who Krokus was and I’d start humming their hits. They’d listen and just say ” no, still don’t get it” HA!
Screaming in the night!
Find the right chick and Long Stick Goes Boom!
I saw them with Quiet Riot and Iron Maiden at Lakeland in ’84.
God, I’m old.
Post Randy Rhodes, I guess I’m old too!
I’m going to try a variation on the 1 squat + each day. I’m at Day 3 of this:
Day 1: 1 pullup, 2 pushups, 3 squats
Day 2: 2/4/6
Day 3: 3/6/9… and so on until I get to the end of the month (should be 25 pullups, 50 pushups, 75 squats).
Some rules I use.
A – Do this sometime in the morning after I get up (close to ‘first thing’ as possible)
B – Do each exercise in one complete set (pullups start DH until 15 and then “whatever it takes” to get chin over the bar)
C – After each 5 days completed, add in something else in the evening.
Here are the something elses:
Day 6-10: Start at 1/2/3 again in the PM and continue up through 5/10/15
Day 11-15: Start at 500m row and add 250m each time up to 1500m
Day 16-20: 10-20-10 of back squats at 95/135/185
Wife and I are starting back to the gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays and I’m playing hockey on Wednesday nights, so I’m hoping to trim off some of this lockdown excess and get back down to fighting trim (~180 lb, which usually has me at about 12% BF.) HUGE help has been the heat finally breaking; now I can start running again without risking death in the desert.
DH?
Dead-Hang
Thought so. Ok, I am down with this. Except the last time I tried a pullup it hurt. I tore my right bicep 2016(?) and never got it fixed so it is weak as most of Hyperboles arguments. So the pullups will be lacking but I will give it a shot until I can.
First they laugh at you…or something
Good thing, or you chose a poor namesake.
After a couple of weeks of slacking off physically due to vacation and then rain, back to lifting heavy rocks tomorrow until I get too sore, for the hiking trail I’m building.
Cancelled gym membership when all this shite started.
Sorry for your domestic tensions, but on the plus side, if you’re heading out, then you’re not chained to the bedpost.
Knew what the link was from the lyrics. Horribly horribly dated, but I still like it and pretty much all of the classic lineup until they fractured after Promised Land. So unfortunate. So I guess the answer is no, it couldn’t be released today. 😉
Smokey AF today. Started off with fog and visibility was down to nothing. Yet morons still can’t be arsed to turn on their lights. But they can see everyone else (who do have their lights on) so why would they need to? HEPA filters are completely sold out at the stores.
I still can’t believe The Young Turks can get away with that name.
Mad Minute with a Gras and Comblain.
I was outside, doing a little tinkering on the Suburban preparatory to putting the carb back on (again). i think I have that goofy choke linkage where it needs to be, this time. I decided to do an “option delete” on a manifold heat riser vacuum diaphragm; I think it’s supposed to operate the door on the air cleaner for cold starts. It was in the way, serving no useful purpose. Pull it off, make a little cover plate, red silicone it on. No big deal, except I walked into the middle of a big hatch of little tiny flying ants. I had to stop, they were all over me. Very annoying, they are. Some of them followed me inside. I’ll finish up tomorrow. Time to go have a beer at some friends’ house.
You have friends?
*jealous*
Every Quadrajet needs the well plugs epoxied. Every one. It might run OK and it might seem fine, but fuel is seeping, unmetered from the well plugs until epoxy is covering them.
In the dead thread, here’s mention of the police hiding their identities to shield them from antifa attacks. I heartily oppose this. The cops NEED to be visible and identify themselves. What is the difference going to be? Are they going to hide behind masks like the lowlifes? Fuck no. If you’re a cop, your name and face should be public record. As well as your actual duty record. If you can hide like the criminals, you aren’t a good guy. We should have a running update on what you might be disciplined for. We pay you. We aren’t looking for more shady grifters hiding in the shadows. Wives and children, yes, but cops themselves? Hell no. You serve the public, do it publicly. Everybody should know sargeant Friday’s name.
Right there with you. In the woke HBO Watchman series, that was a point of contention, as the cops had won the right to wear masks. It made them a lot less trusted among the populace.
There’s also a part of me that thinks that the only way to get rid of the bad laws is to enforce them strictly on everyone. One of the local suburbs did that back in the day when a city imposed a curfew for teenagers. The first person they pulled in for it was the mayor’s daughter on her way home from work (there were no exemptions in the law).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHzEz6ezFK8&ab_channel=Descendents-Topic
If only she had been prosecuted. The Mayor pardoned her the next morning. Then there’s all the people who have gotten caught and allowed to walk on rioting and violence charges.
I’m aware it’s not a popular opinion, but I’m of the opinion that the best way to get rid of bad laws is to enforce them strictly against everyone. Otherwise most people don’t worry about the bad laws since they’ll only be used against “bad people”.
Agreed. This is not an encouraging development.
The root cause is that these antifa goons aren’t being prosecuted.
The root cause is qualified immunity and
antifacop goons not being prosecuted.So, you agree we need police reform, but you think i’t OK to let antifa goons destroying property and putting a lot of people’s lives in danger, to just walk free because of why?
I hope you’re going to correct me on that assumption, but that’s how I read it.
You said “root” cause.
Police brutality came before antifa, BLM, et al. Hell, it came before Black Panthers.
“Came before” does not equal “caused”.
No, and I did not say “it’s OK to let antifa goons destroy property and put a lot of people’s lives in danger, to just walk free”.
The putative problem that antifa and BLM are “protesting” is police brutality. (Black Panthers, I don’t really know, that was before my time.) If that is true, then police brutality is the ROOT problem. Would antifa and BLM exist in some other incarnation? Sure, they’re marxists organizations. But even without that, goons gonna goon and find something to goon over.
Hyperion crushed himself on a lemon juicer to squeeze “it’s OK to let antifa goons destroy property and put a lot of people’s lives in danger, to just walk free” out of what I said.
Antifa has not a thing to do with police brutality. They’re communist. Just because they’re using this to push their commie agenda has nothing to do with police brutality. They were around way before this.
So, you’re saying that police brutality created Marxism? I have to completely disagree.
You are working awfully hard to shove words into my mouth.
Not at all. Never mind.
That’s all great until Antifa really does start targeting their families while cops are on duty. Let that shit go on and you’ll quickly have no cops or cops who kill antifa on site (since the DAs aren’t going to prosecute).
^This. I’m not a fan of the fuzz at all but Antifa can and will target families if it furthers their cause. I’m somewhat ambivalent about the police but their families don’t deserve it.
Don’t much matter. If the good guys can’t act the part, they ain’t the good guys. You wanna be a hero in blue? Be a fucking hero in blue.
Yep. They shouldn’t be emulating the Punisher they should be emulating Captain America.
By not having a family?
Does anyone find the fake piped-in crowd noise in an empty stadium just stupid and annoying?
Yes.
It’s why my foray into NHL was about 3 minutes.
Thanks for taking care of that for me. Now if I could just find something else to watch.
Have you made it through Babylon 5 yet?
How about Fringe?
My mistake, I should have written, “Now if ‘we’ could just find something to watch together.” I think we tried watching B5 back in the day. Mrs. T did not like it, and I was ambivalent. I vaguely remember Fringe, but that was during the years that I watched very little TV except for Hockey and football. I remember watching Supernatural and SW: The Clone Wars with my daughter, and that’s about it.
For Fringe I requested the girlfriend watch the pilot episode with me. If she wasn’t interested after that, I would never ask again. Really good hook, and nice build up of the story arc.
For B5, I had to request the first season (skipping some of the non-essential episodes).
I’ve enjoyed Supernatural, as well as most of the Arrowverse on the CW for the past couple of years. Currently the girlfriend and I are working our way through Titans Season 2, and we’ve got the Boys season 2 and the Alienist’s second season on tap.
We both like The Boys, but she can’t get Letterkenny, and did not care for Cobra Kai. I find her reasoning illogical which is none of the characters are likeable. Yet she’ll watch reruns of Mom, Modern Family, and Family Guy. There is not a single character in those shows I would call likeable, not even the adopted Asian girl or the FG dog.
The only show I’ve ever had that reaction to is It’s Always Sunny. I know that’s the joke but geebus.
Yes. We just had a lot of trash talk and bitching at the local bar, the audio was turned down.
I barely notice because sports is mostly background noise for me.
Dominic Mannschaft takes it to a fifth set against Zverev.
?
You know which other Austrian I rooted for?
Barbara Schett?
Herbert Prohaska?
/blame Google
Carl Menger?
Niki Lauda?
I love this place for sole reason that people answer rhetorical questions.
I here for the puns.
Sports is awful without noise too. Sounds like scrimmage.
They have to practice for Biden’t debate performance, greatest in history, somehow.
The noise they pipe into baseball games is like the office white noise – really annoying.
“Cuties is the result of libertarianism and lax moral standards (or lack thereof). The law must be grounded in moral absolutes, not abstract concepts like the “non-aggression principle.”
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1304983724317052929
what?
Libertarianism has long been an important influence in French cinema. /snerk
?
Somebody knows what’s up.
Another one!
/STILLGRAY – don’t you tell me how my narrative goes!!!
That guy is way upper right corner.
He spelled “libertine” wrong.
Pigs/cows/chicken aren’t “legally capable of” any consent either
Yet, you exploit them
And why do you restrict it to “child porn”? What about any other form of child exploitation such as child acting/playing/singing, child labor, child housework, child homework, child schooling…
A butt-hurt pedo.
Yecch, I’m not clicking on that.
Well, I put in the text of the tweet so you don’t have to. ?
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Moral absolutes… like don’t steal from people?
More like “drugs are bad, m’kay?” “Guns are icky!” Things like that.
Being libertarian and being libertine aren’t the same thing. Why is that so hard for some to get?
I’m boycotting all child porn until Netflix removes “Cuties”.
The Japanese don’t quite view it the same way do they or is that not true?
Child porn? Pretty sure they don’t like it either. You could find contrary examples, but for the most part, Japan is not as hypersexualized (for the average person) as America. I’m always a bit amused when I see TV commercials from the states.
I guess the schoolgirl fetishization threw me off a bit although that show or movie or whatever it is involves girls who are unambiguously too young.
Japan has it’s fair share of pervy guys, to be sure.
Straffinrun chief among them.
Relevant
If a film as marketed as snuff, should I watch it before passing judgement on it?
Nick is nothing but predictable.
“Egypt has uncovered a mysterious collection of coffins thought to contain human mummies that have been sealed inside for more than 2,500 years”
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1304950953980973059
Everyone is saying that these shouldn’t be opened until 2021. Obviously, they don’t understand the science of how curses work.
From Burgess Owens: I’m so glad after living through segregation and the racial tensions of the 60’s that I now have woke white college kids willing explain what real racism is to me.
They say some people just need formal training. Maybe he needs a class? I’m sure whitey can recommend one.
A thread for us early GenXers.
I like all those bands.
Pretty much.
/don’t pigeonhole me
Metoo
Nice list, saved and gracias. I’m going to go back when I get the time and populate my Amazon Music list with all of those bands (minus Journey).
I like Journey, but then, I was a teenage girl and very basic.
They’ll probably find their way in there too to tell the truth. Now that I’m thinking about it they weren’t my favorite but they weren’t that bad.
So I’m supposed to be Bender? I doubt he would have been a friend of the punk subculture.
Did jocks listen to Rush?
Good point, they were more of a nerd band. There was a limited amount of crossover though with Tom Sawyer and a few of their more popular songs.
Signals (1982) had a couple of mainstream hits, “Subdivisions” and “New World Man”. I would call it a gateway album.
I do remember Rush being big time into baseball, they were huge fans. Don’t know if the favor was returned.
Then there freaky assed me! Hey check out this Duane Allman Anthology album! Or hey, you guys into Graham Nash’s solo record? ( me at 16 y/o)
BTW, from Songs for Beginners
Don’t get me wrong, I was into hard rock in the early eighties too, I just tried to push the old timey shit on my friends, maybe too much.
Yes.
Although me and my friends might have been outliers.
If they chose not to decide, they still had made a choice.
Pretty much everyone seemed to like Rush back when.
Do one for TedS.
I can just queue up a couple of 70s and 80s one-hit wonder YouTube mixes for him. I probably have every song on any of those lists, and I’m pretty sure Ted’S would be able to win Name That Song no matter what.
I pick music based on whether the lyrics or title fit a thread; if the songs make you guys recoil in horror so much the better. I don’t pick them based on whether I like them.
Don’t you forget about me.
“Bender
Iron Maiden
Slayer
Judas Priest
Megadeath
Motörhead”
Bender wouldn’t have known about Slayer in 1985.
Queensryche could rock, once upon a time.
Good choice.
I saw them open for Judas Priest back in the early oughts. They were pretty damn good.
Yes, they certainly could
One of the best concerts I ever saw in my life, was Queensryche, Dream Theater, and Fates Warning at the Pier 6 Pavilion in Baltimore. This was maybe in 2006. Amazing show.
First concert I paid for was Morbid Angel, Motorhead, and Black Sabbath back in 1993. IIRC, Tony Martin was singing for Sabbath at that show.
My first day of totally boycotting the NFL. I have this feeling, this will not be my last day.
You don’t like seeing people who get paid more in a year than you’ll make in your lifetime bitching about inequality? Say it ain’t so.
I listened to the game on the radio.
I’ve been a fan for 50 years. I don’t care how much they make, good for them. But I’m not supporting them to tell me what to believe in or who to vote for. At that point, they can go fuck themselves and I won’t shed a tear when they’re flipping burgers for minimum wage. And I hope a good grease fire pops them in the face real good.
Seen at the grocery store
https://shop.clifbar.com/products/luna-bar-lemonzest
Yes, because nothing says equality like a product marketed specifically towards women.
Cleaning wipes still sold out again, toilet paper is starting to thin out. Vegetable oil sold out too along with presliced cheddar.
I got your creamy cirtrus dream right here, baby.
Yuzu horny?
I only narrowed one eye.
I’m surprised what is still out of stock at the store. Why haven’t they caught up by now?
The last NFLteam to interest me was the 1977ish Steelers. The NFL is full of world-class whatevertheyares: the physiciality is unmeasurable and unequaled; it is unspeakably fast and brutal.
But who cares? Team sports is fun because of teams, but these aren’t teams: they’re cynical, well-paid prima-donnas. I checked out when I smelled it going all Terrell Owens. The last guy I could remotely stand was Jason Witten. I’ll drink beer and play poker while it’s on in the background, but there’s no way I’m wasting my Sunday on these punk-ass thugs unless it’s a special on the Ice Bowl or SuperB*wl III.
But I’m going to watch every SEC snap I can fit in. The dance, the urgency, the randomness, the tradition . . . I was born to it. Those guys aren’t enemies; they’re cousins, neighbors. Kids trying to catch a break. I watch MLB spring training for the same reason: your heart is in your throat for these kids.
Entertainment: get me on the edge of my seat; make me care, tug my heartstrings. Don’t insult me; don’t piss me off; don’t NFL me.
The Scottish Hammer has built up some reputation here in Cleveland. The story is he was out with his dad at a Tremont bar when he got the call he was being hired for the Browns last year. He tried to buy the bar a round, and the bar said no, and got him as drunk as they could that night. From what I heard in the before times, he was still a regular at that bar.
Glad you enjoyed the good old days. My favorite team was the Raiders with Lyle Alzado, Ten Hendricks, Matuszak, Lester Hayes, all those guys. They got on the field to terrify people, especially QBs. I do remember the steel curtain as well, grew up around plenty of Steeler fans.
I can even remember, as recently as the 90s when ESPN had a post Sunday skit about the best hits of the week. They’d say shit like ‘OMG, that was a de-cleeter’, because some poor wide out would go up for a pass and literally get knocked out of his shoes, lol. Everyone loved that sort of thing.
That’s all over. Pretty soon, you will not be able to even touch a QB or receiver without getting fined and probably banned for the season.
Once the NFL went woke it was over. Pretty soon it will be touch football only, played by pink and green haired xes and xers trying to do their best non-body shaming ballet.
pink
I can just remember the old Colts- Unitas, Moore, Berry, Marchetti, Ameche, Joyce, Lipscomb, and most of all, Donovan. They don’t make ’em like Artie any more.
https://mobile.twitter.com/HikindDov/status/1305220593927598080
Great meme.
If you don’t vote for Joe, you’re no Jew.
My parents live in a Conservative neighborhood. They’re Trumpsters, even the students from NYC at yeshiva.
Everything on twitter is all about me me me.
I think this one is damn near perfect.
The Bee brings it.
I liked this one. (Not Bee).
https://twitter.com/mad_liberals/status/1305246291522396160
What’s that song?
nm Found it.
:p
This. Never watched an episode, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLxSUKA–Dg
Thank you anyway, though!
Then…I scrolled down. You missed out, that was one of the best shows ever!
Sounds like the theme from Sopranos guy. Jake Black
He has a voice reminiscent of Morphine’s Mark Sandman (RIP).
For reference:
“Rope on Fire”
“Whisper”
Any more recommendations along these lines will be welcome. That style and that voice timbre/quality is like ear crack to me.
There’s an earlier version that I like
He sounds a little Lou Reed-ish, vioce-wise. I can heartily recommend watching the Sopranos, though. That and the Shield likely saved TV for me. I had quit it completely until those two shows.
Better than Falcon Crest?
“Facebook And FBI Wage Infowar On West Coast Wildfire Arson “Conspiracy Theories”“
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/facebook-and-fbi-wage-infowar-arson-conspiracy-theories
So what is the deal with that, is it happening or not?
I have this feeling, don’t ask me why, that antifa is doing this. If so, CNN will sell their souls to Satan to cover it up.
It’s a natural progression. They love some good arson, why keep trying to burn heavily guarded places? The public is not going to be very pleased with the daily body count numbers, I bet.
If it is a conspiracy theory, then it is NOT actually happening.
InfoWars, but I’ve seen this elsewhere as well.
https://www.infowars.com/four-arrested-for-arson-on-the-west-coast-one-a-regular-attendee-of-anti-cop-rallies-in-seattle/
I failed to lift the Atlas Stone last night. But I have been getting better at jump rope and my booze-free streak is now at 8 days. Today, I did clean and jerks. It’s pretty cool taking 110 pounds off the ground and lifting it over your head.
In other health news, Foochy the Great and Powerful “believes Americans will be able to sit in theaters again once a coronavirus vaccine has existed “for almost a year.”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/fauci-jennifer-garner-theaters
♫ Oh we’re going…to the Foochy Lau! The foochy, foochy, foochy, foochy lau!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVAd5EBR8Us
I walked 50 miles this week too. Have walked that much in a week in months.
*haven’t
typos – I make them
Kia Se
interesting: http://saratogafm.com/forest-management/
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Lodgepole Pines grow at elevations between about 8,500 and 10,000 feet and are the predominant species in the Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming forests.
Healthy Lodgpole pine forests depend on fire. Moderate fires thin the stand density and create well-spaced park-like forests. These thinned stands allow each tree sufficient access to the nutrients and water they need to thrive and fight off disease, insect infestations and intermittent droughts.
Shade provided by the tree canopy inhibits new growth, but more intense fires will periodically clear the mature trees. The cones, sealed with a dense pitch, open in the high temperature of the fire and release their seeds. The bare mineral soil and fresh ashes produced by a fire provide an excellent seedbed for lodgepole pine seedlings and the lack of tree canopy after the death of the mature trees, allows the seedling the sunlight needed to quickly regenerate the forest.
In areas where fires suppression is required, the lodgepole pine forest grows more dense which increases competition for nutrients and moisture resulting in smaller trees more susceptible to disease and insect infestations. The dense groves also make it easier for disease, insects and wildfires to spread rapidly after the initial outbreak.
Lodgepole pine forests not cleared by fire or harvesting will die off naturally in an estimated 100 years.
In areas where fire suppression is necessary, harvesting tree stands mimics the natural effects of fire in lodgepole pine forests. By removing mature trees, the cones scattered on the forest floor are exposed to sunlight and open to disperse their seeds and begin the regeneration process. Cutting sections of lodgepole pines, while leaving adjoining sections in place, creates a diversity of tree ages, which is essential to maintaining healthy forests.
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I was thinking of getting a job at a saw mill in WY. I know what I want, so why not go for it? It would make it easier to look for dino bones on the weekends.
Oh, and for those thinking of sailing around the world, what do you think of hugging the coasts? My route would start in Miami, then through the Caribbean and follow the coast of South America to Recife in Brazil. Now comes the first tricky part – sailing hundreds of miles to Ascension Island and then to St Helena. Then to Swakopmund, and around the Cape of Good Hope up past Madagascar. Do I risk hugging the coast and sailing through the pirate infested waters off Somalia or do I hop from the Comoros, to the Maldives, and then Sri Lanka? Well, either way, I’d follow the coast of India and Burma, stop in Phuket, then through the Straits of Malacca, the Philippines, Okinawa, Japan, Kamchatka peninsula, Attu, then finally follow the coast down to San Francisco.
I like the idea of staying close to land and avoiding canals.
“the coast of South America to Recife in Brazil”
Don’t fall out of your boat in high tide around Recife. Great Whites the size of school buses. People get swallowed whole.
So it’s a mostly safe ocean?
Ocean, safe, no,
Eh, only 30 fatal attacks since records began.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkcmKsoqrgk
I’m steering clear of Portugal, though. The orcas have been ramming a lot of boats lately:
https://www.foxnews.com/science/scientists-baffled-reports-orca-attacks
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Alfonso Gomez-Jordana Martin, a member of a delivery crew boat, said that their boat was brought to a halt by a pod of four orcas.
“Once we were stopped, they came in faster: 10-15 knots, from a distance of 25m,” Martin said. “The impact tipped the boat sideways.
The skipper’s report of the incident said that the force “nearly dislocated the helmsman’s shoulder and spun the whole yacht through 120 degrees.”
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It is always good to stay away from Somalia.
Seems like they only go after tankers and cargo ships:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_attacked_by_Somali_pirates
Not many attacks in recent years.
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Pirates attacked the North Korean cargo ship MV Dai Hong Dan and captured its bridge, while the crew managed to retain control of the steering and engineering spaces. On October 30, the crew regained control of their ship, killing one pirate and capturing six. Three sailors were injured in the fight, and received medical assistance from US Navy Corpman from the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS James E. Williams.[29]
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Wow, the US Navy helped North Koreans? Did they at least get a thank you note and a fruit basket?
I honestly thought it was Sunday morning (Yes, I know it’s Sunday for most of you, but feel free to say it anyways) and only figured it out when my kid put on her randosel (backpack thingy) and said, “Bye, Bye!” Glad my work starts late today.
Hey Rhy, You watching the US Open. 5th set tie breaker baby! Go Thiem.
I’m glad this finally got interesting.
They are giving a great show..The german’s serve is gone. 68 mph
A Dementieva-like serve.
It wasn’t the most exciting match I’ve ever seen, I’ll just leave it at that. My guy won, that’s about it.
I thought it was pretty exciting..but I was watching on the Spanish ESPN… their announcers are more interesting for me since I dont know any Spanish.
The announcers on ESPN are complete shit. McEnroe needs to go yell at clouds somewhere.
I will be happier when the tournaments move back to Tennis Channel.
4 hrs of play. Great final IMO. Nice to see someone other than the big 3 win for a change.
Very much this. I dislike all three of those guys.
The lie is in the transmission management. Don’t mess with them.