My son began taking lessons from the salty old guy at the archery range. By salty old guy, I mean the probably teenage girls he hired to teach the beginner class.
There will be no pics of them.
This is my review of Ommegang Bourbon Barrel Adoration:
Granted, the lessons the archery range offers is geared more towards hunting, which is primarily done via archery in Arizona due to the hunting laws. Rifle hunting is very much legal, however a rifle tag one must obtain via lottery. There are enough that if one applies every year they can get one every few years, the joke is how often noobs get one on the first try….Bowhunting just purchase a hunting license, a tag, and good to go.
To the surprise of nearly none of you, I don’t hunt. Nothing against it at all, but nobody I knew growing up did it.
Unfortunately the guy behind the counter was right: finding spare parts to a compound bow no longer in production is not easy. Go ahead and look; the model is Hoyt Aspen Contender. One limb had a gouge, it was resting on the pulleys, therefore both had to be replaced with the string. It was easier finding a machinist on the internet that let me convert it to a recurve. He asked I measure out the dimensions of the pocket to mill out a pair of plates.
The plates converted the riser meant for model-specific limbs to fit limbs conforming to International Limb Fitting (ILF) standards. This is one of those international standards developed by no governing body but is one initially developed by Hoyt and adopted by other companies. Its a convenient system if one wants to mix and match.
The result is something that got me a few compliments but with a 35 pound draw was too heavy for the boy to use. Which lead to me renting a lane.
String slap…
The other issue was getting the grouping dialed in. I got some new arrows which is much more cost effective than renting. Which lead to both of us getting better but still can improve. So I called up Francisco D’Anconia since he has some experience in the area and was given three bits of advice: buy a sight, buy a release, and DON’T YOU EVER FUCKING CALL THIS NUMBER AGAIN.
Let’s just say I did two of the three.
Not shown is the arrow we lost because it launched over the target into a bank of other targets on the other side of the range. They said I’ll get it back eventually, but I’m still skeptical. A couple things I noticed:
- Archery range rules are much looser than a gun range.
- The archery crowd is in much better shape physically than a gun range.
- I have yet to hear a random political soliloquy at an archery range.
At some point I will have to take the boy to a real range.
This beer is reminiscent of Ommegang’s excellent wine barrel offering. I don’t think bourbon goes as well with a Belgian Quadrupel ale as the wine variety but its still good. Perhaps a bit too good, as I woke up with a whiskey hangover from a few of these. Ommegang Bourbon Barrel Adoration: 4.5/5
Be a man’s man. Teach the young one to hunt with an atlatl. It is legal in Arizona. Good article.
…but I just bought him a sword? C’mon man.
Points to you for that. Double points if it was gladius.
I knew one person who tried hunting Coues Whitetails and Mule Deer with an atlatl. He gave up after a couple of seasons.
Very nice.
I approve of converting the bow to a recurve.
I need to get mine out for some shooting.
RE: string slap: I stopped using an arm guard after this one time the bowstring caught the armguard. It was more painful than string slap, so I stopped using the guard and got better about keeping my arm rotated to avoid the string.
This beer is reminiscent of Ommegang’s excellent wine barrel offering. I don’t think bourbon goes as well with a Belgian Quadrupel ale as the wine variety but its still good. Perhaps a bit too good, as I woke up with a whiskey hangover from a few of these. Ommegang Bourbon Barrel Adoration: 4.5/5
Sounds delicious.
I need to get my hands on this beer to compare it to one of my favorites, Boulevard’s Bourbon Barrel Quad.
I might have had that.
I’ve had some Boulevard Brewing beers. It’s been a while, so I don’t remember what I’ve had. I know some of their stuff makes it into Massachusetts, though I might have picked up whatever it was I tried while visiting relatives and friends in Pennsylvania.
Boulevard got a much larger distribution footprint after their acquisition by Duvel. I seem to remember that Boulevard was being pivoted to hard seltzer and canned cocktail offerings as well. They’ve got quite a few really good beers.
I’m just mildly annoyed that Firestone Walker’s acquisition by Duvel hasn’t expanded their distribution into Ohio.
We can get some Firestone Walker stuff up here in NH. Not a lot of their stuff, and it’s expensive.
I’ve enjoyed their stuff when I’m in Nevada and PA, hence being annoyed that they aren’t distributed here in Ohio. Boulevard didn’t get brought to Ohio until the acquisition, but I had a friend who was down in Missouri every couple of years to meet up with family who would bring it back.
Firestone mixed 12-packs are kind of my default when I need beer and don’t see anything else interesting on the shelves. Except during the summer when I get cans of 805 to drink poolside.
I’m looking at the Boulevard site, I see Tank 7 around here* pretty regularly, I’ve also seen Jam Band and I think I’ve seen Space Camper as well, but that’s about it.
* here being SoCal
I don’t really have a default, but I prefer mix/sample packs over the standard 12 packs. I usually go with sixers just to have variety. The one time this changes is when Sierra Nevada Celebration is out, I’ll pick that up by the 12 pack (as it costs only a couple bucks more then a six pack).
Ugh… our local beer jobber can be frustrating as he is often unwilling to break up packs of beer. I really hate dropping a tidy sum on a 4 or 6 pack of something that looks interesting only to find that I can’t stand it (Overly sour beers and IPAs redolent of grapefruit, I’m lookin’ at you.).
Yuck.
Places here are pretty good about selling singles.
Most stores here sell singles, and just ask you not break up the six pack yourself. Instead they stock them with the ones from broken packs and the like.
However, due to state law, it’s illegal for the store to then put together a mix pack for you. So they can’t grab six different Christmas ales, put it in a six pack carrier, and sell it as Grocery Store X’s Christmas beer sampler. It’s for our own protection.
Why would you want a sample pack of xmas beers?
/Teds
I have yet to hear a random political soliloquy at an archery range.
“No one wants to take your bow and arrow!”
Give it time, Comrade.
Note the lack of plural.
I read that as “Give it to me, Comrade.”
No pics?
Worst post ever
Pics or it didn’t happen.
archery sounds like fun, but I have too many hobbies as it is,
Great Beer selection, always a fun read,
Cheers!
Right on Mex. I’ve been shooting a compound regularly for three years coming up next month. I love to shoot rifles, but with three little kids and the closure of ranges here, that meant driving an hour each way, waiting for a lane and then shooting time. It ended up at least a half day project and I don’t really have that time. The archery range is two minutes from my house and free. Hopefully this year I’ll get to hunt a piggy with it.
Your view many differ, but I really like the handheld release instead of the wrist one. I have a Spot Hogg one that I really love. String slap sucks hard, I did it twice when learning and don’t want to again. Second time I had a welt the size of a tennis ball. Wrist rotation is key, knuckles at a 45 degree angle and it won’t happen. I also agree that buying a good sight is important, I have a Trophy Ridge one that is nice. When you guys get good, spring for better arrows, they make a huge difference. Have fun shooting.
The welt is from striking my forearm multiple times over the hour. They said I am just slouching, which is fair because my posture is terrible.
I need to get into this. I have the equipment for it. I need to exercise my shoulders. Since I stopped DIYing after my rotator cuff repair, I can barely lift a hammer. My fault. Didn’t take my exercises seriously.
The gun shop/range I go to has “Archery” in its name but there’s no archery. I wonder if that’s due to some obscure law.
On my way to St Pete to feel a modicum of freedom. If anyone wants to meet for a drink or kick my ass drop me a note under here. Will be in downtown area. Also if anyone has any bar suggestions or other things that are must sees let me know. From my googling i itend to check out Flamingos since i like pool. Also Stans.
I’m not in St Pete, but I did have a nice brunch at this place last year. https://yelp.to/InGHJ5bvYbb
Have fun bar hopping. Stay hydrated. I’m riding my sofa; vodka and orange/pineapple/ginger/cucumber juice. Listening to music and strumming the 00.
00. Glyph or euphemism? You be the judge.
Thanks will be a few blocks away
I like Ommegang but nowhere near me sells specialty beers. I’ll have to grab one of these next time I’m near a Total Wine or some such. Really enjoy Ommegang’s Three Philosophers.
That’s cool that you found ways to update and convert your bow; the good side of the Internet!
What set of critters are popular to bow hunt in AZ?!
I know people who hunt javalina and wild turkey with bows in AZ.
Thanks, double! I thought “white tail deer” but I don’t know how many are in AZ and whether anyone wants one.
Turkeys sounds good. Pheasant if they have them.
I reckon Gila monsters are safe from being hunted 🙂
AZ has mule deer and elk seasons as I recall.
Correct.
Coues Whitetail as well. They are the Sonoran Desert subspecies. They are super sneaky and hence a hoot to hunt. It is a very physical hunt, no sitting in a stand.
Catching up on yesterday night’s thread:
Zwak, sorry about your dad.
Derpetologist posted a Lee-Enfield Mad Minute video. While you can reload a Lee-Enfield by swapping the magazine, that is not how the British military performed Mad Minutes. The Mad Minute was an actual test British soldiers had to go through. You’d reload the magazine with chargers. The standard was 15 aimed shots in one minute. The record is 30-something in a minute.
Bloke on the Range has a series of Mad Minute videos using different rifles. Here is his video using a SMLE Mk III*. He does 29 rounds in one minute.
Here he shoots a No. 5 faster than a FAL, though as he states he could have fired the FAL faster than he did.
And sorry to Festus about Judi’s market.
Good that Hayeksploves got power back. Is there anything government can’t fuck up?
No, there is nothing the Government can’t fuck up.
The government could even fuck up nothing, meaning if their mission was to do nothing, they couldn’t do it.
They just can’t NOT interfere in our lives and in our free association.
You just blew my mind. They can’t not do nothing. Ka-boom!
SMLEs need to have the magazines fitted to the action. They’re not really interchangeable in the same way as an AR or AK.
Still, you’re obviously not going to give up much speed by loading with stripper clips.
The only Lee-Enfield magazines I’ve heard of needing some hand-fitting are for the 7.62 NATO conversions. Some of the converted rifles needed a little tweaking in order feed properly from the 7.62 NATO magazines.
The Brits made changes to the magazines over time, but I’ve never heard of a .303 magazine in good working order needing hand-fitting.
The Brits had the magazines chained to the rifle in the Lee-Metford and early Lee-Enfield days to keep the soldier from loosing the magazine. Issuing spare magazines cost too much. No, seriously: Lee Metford Mk I rifles were issued with a spare magazine, which was dropped because it cost too much.
Lee-Metfords and early Lee-Enfields could not be loaded with chargers. I don’t know that Mad Minutes started until after the introduction of the SMLE, which had the provision for charger loading.
loosing
Losing.
Err… I forgot the No. 1/SMLE rifle magazines and No. 4/No. 5 rifle magazines have different locking ribs on the back on the magazine. Those two sets of magazines aren’t interchangeable without modifications because of the different locking rib. Early Lee-Metford magazines are single stack, later magazines are all double stack.
To correct: No hand fitting should be required to interchange magazines between the same type of rifle.
Fucking Feds, they don’t want to Decriminalize Pot, they want to Tax it, Who’d a thunk…..
oh, must be Stoned,
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/12/04/as-americans-suffer-and-covid-relief-languishes-house-dems-turn-their-attention-to-pot-n1192336
And give the money to their “social justice” donor friends.
What they want to do is get as many people using it as possible, so they can pass a decree that one one who uses it can own a gun. Watch and see, this is a 100% guarantee if dems have the majority.
That already is a federal decree and is in full force. Dem prosecutors have been busy matching up lists of medical marijuana users with lists of firearm holders in those states that require a license to own a firearm.
I heard that OK is trying to reconcile both; don’t know how it’s going.
The GA video, calming your tits, or heating them up – guess it depends on what you want.
Does the tape show election observers looking under the table before the boxes were put under there, to confirm there weren’t hidden boxes full of Biden ballots that then got swapped out for real boxes?
Does the tape show when the boxes were put under the table, and that election observers checked the boxes first? And that the number of boxes put in matched the number taken out?
Cause I’m not taking the word of election officials on this.
I saw video of people putting ballots into bins, sealing them and then storing them under the table, ballots that were processed with poll watchers and challengers and supervisors watching. It seems to me that those aren’t mysterious or manufactured, or fake ballots, however they never should have been run through the tabulating machines without the required people there. The “Stop the Steal” crowd made it easy for the debunkers by over playing their hand. If they had stuck to why are they tabulating ballots without oversight, instead of going all “magical suitcases full of fake ballots” people couldn’t dismiss them so quickly.
They should be concentrating on validating the mail in ballots. That’s where the potential for big fraud is. And they should just get recounts on the ballots to eliminate the possibility of counting machine shenanigans.
agreed.
Imagine being gullible enough to believe that b.s. story.
That lied to election observers to get them to leave, pulled out stashed ballots, and spent hours running them through counting machines multiple times. And that exact time coincides with a huge lopsided spike in Biden votes.
I read the NRO whenever I want to know what the worst sort of sell out, fake conservative cucks are thinking.
Thanks for parroting obvious lies Rich Lowry you pussy.
What obvious lies?
Forget it The Hyperbole. This is Chinatown.
If anyone needs some hints for Xmas giving:
https://youtu.be/_kCsWVUcWQc
That looks cool.
Good video too; nice pacing. I hate the ones where the speaker drones on and on without edits. This guys delivered the info without making me cringe.
Yeah, he is pleasant to listen to. I can’t stand the ones where they use music/noise to wash out the video or the ones that splice audio together because they’re too lazy to do a retake.
PROVEN EFFECTIVE!
Masks are “critical” to controlling the spread of coronavirus, and that includes at home sometimes, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
A CDC review of what works makes it clear that mask use, physical distancing, avoiding crowds and washing hands all could help control the spread of the virus — and would allow kids to go back to school and businesses to reopen.
“Consistent and correct use of face masks is a public health strategy critical to reducing respiratory transmission of SARS-CoV-2, particularly in light of estimates that approximately one half of new infections are transmitted by persons who have no symptoms,” the CDC summary of guidance reads.
The CDC has gradually been strengthening its recommendations on mask use. “Compelling evidence now supports the benefits of cloth face masks for both source control (to protect others) and, to a lesser extent, protection of the wearer,” the CDC’s Margaret Honein, Dr. Henry Walke and colleagues wrote.
Masks work so well that certain communities should consider giving them out, the CDC team said.
“A community-level plan for distribution of face masks to specific populations, such as those who might experience barriers to access, should be developed,” the CDC team wrote in the agency’s weekly report.
If it isn’t working, you’re just not hitting it hard enough.
Masks work so well transmission rates have fallen to zero! Or they would, if you bastards would only clap harder.
The CDC that told us months ago that we didn’t need masks? Sometimes science works at blistering speed I guess.
I got all excited about this mask until I saw it was a bulldozer instead of a wood chipper.
https://www.teepublic.com/mask/11677334-tread-on-them-killdozer
“A community-level plan for distribution of face masks to specific populations, such as those who might experience barriers to access, should be developed,” the CDC team wrote in the agency’s weekly report.
Translation: need to create a new government bureaucracy to implement this.
Meanwhile in the real world, even the bums manage to get facemasks to enter the kwikie mart or liquor store. Disposable masks are under a quarter again. There are no barriers except in their fantasy world.
Until the government provides it “for free” there is a barrier.
Speaking of which, there is a barrier to vodka in my life at this very moment. When will the government deliver my vodka? Does society really expect me to walk to the liquor store and buy it myself? C’mon government. Be better.
Sorry. Victory only cones in “gin”.
Not the only victory out there
Exactly. Who the fuck do they think isn’t playing along with the mask thing anymore?
I thought asymptomatic spread had been debunked.
That science has not been approved for public consumption.
So have masks. And “six feet”. And (fill in the blank). I think too many people are starting to see through the bullshit and that’s why they’re pushing it harder than ever.
The CDC can go fuck themselves.
“To preserve the supply of N95 respirators for health care workers and other medical first responders, CDC recommends nonvalved, multilayer cloth masks or nonmedical disposable masks for community use,” the team added.
By the Power of the Placebo, I cast thee out, Devil!
So much this.
Since 40% or more of all people with coronavirus infections don’t have symptoms, symptom screening — like temperature checks — don’t do much good, the team noted.
Plus, testing is not always foolproof because of the possibility of false negatives. So people need to do everything: wear masks, stay apart, ventilate indoor spaces as much as possible and wash hands frequently.
Testing is, however, important. That’s especially true for people who interact a lot with others and are at higher risk, the CDC team said. That includes people who work in dense settings or college students.
SCIENCE!
Plus, testing is not always foolproof because of the possibility of false negatives.
They don’t mention the possibility of false positives, or that the tests may be way too sensitive.
Why do you hate science?
Covid tests make me think of the draconian WADA testing scheme for elite athletes.
Alex Berens on has been all over the incorrectly high sensitivity being used for PCR testing. It’s infuriating this gets brushed aside. I guess science is only what supports the narrative.
Berens = Berenson
Which is interesting because RC Dean I believe highted this a few months back about the testing sensativity.
Seems news medias are slow dripping information
The State of Florida is now requiring the testing facilities to report how many cycles they’re running for the tests. Apparently if you run enough cycles, a cup of water tests positive for the coronavirus.
Dr. Bhattarcharya (sp?) of the Great Barrington Declaration has been harping on PCR test sensitivity. He thinks in order to get data from the test, you need to know both whether it had a positive result and the number of cycles run. He thinks 40 (the usual number of cycles) is too high. He thinks if the number of cycles is 25 or lower and the test result is positive, the person is actually sick.
Fauci himself is on record that anything above 35 is just “dead nucleotides.”
There are no false positives, you disease-spreading denier!
Sorry about your forearm Ms. That’s look a bit painful.
“losAngeles mayor Eric Garcetti bans non-essential walking, and no we didn’t think he could do that either.“
https://notthebee.com/article/los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-bans-non-essential-walking-and-no-we-didnt-think-he-could-do-that-either?fbclid=IwAR3BzsbH6zL3-ED_U4F4dXMklYBgwubJtEqq8Cs1-jY1YmjVN3o9bI3MK1s
California seems to always want to be the first to do some dumb shit. The tragedy of all of this is that the voters in CA won’t have learned a damned thing and will vote for these asshats at the first opportunity given.
And then they get tired of it, move, and vote for all the same stuff all over again, and wonder why it’s happening.
It’s maddening. It’s a lost cause in Illinois but it’s amazing that people leave high tax states like California and be like, “We can use more of the same here in Texas/Arizona/Utah.”
LA parents to their children: “Sorry kids, Santa is banned from bringing you gifts this year. Maybe, if you’re extra good, Mayor Garcetti will stuff a brand-new mask into your stocking.”
I’d rather have a lump of coal.
I have a bucket of coal next to my rock salt.
No, I don’t know why I bought it.
Climate Wrecker!!!
Disposable masks are under a quarter again
A lot (if not most) of the stores have a pile of free masks at the entrance, in case you ‘forgot” to wear one.
I can’t think of a better disease vector than a pile of masks out in the open where anyone can touch them.
Winston’s Mom?
I’m not touching her!
Still pondering a mask stamp. Disposables only, for me. My new idea:
KABUKI PLACEBO
Most people would not get it, but most people suck, anyway.
I think far more people than you realize would get it.
A Facebook group for the local community of a nearby town announced the closure of a well-loved restaurant. People in the comments lamented the closure and said “darned Coronavirus!” “Another Covid victim” etc.
One guy commented, “The virus didn’t put the restaurant out of business, Newsom did.” He was IMMEDIATELY attacked, ridiculed, labeled as stupid, selfish, greedy, etc. it was 12 women vs 1 man. He had more sense than all of them put together.
Sensible people are all around us, but they keep quiet in the face of shrieking harridans and professional victims because they just want to go about their lives.
That’s where snarky masks are helpful. Guys like the one I mentioned above would wear a mask that says “Placebo” instead of getting into it with a gaggle of Karens.
So far I only wear one in Walmart and the handful of McDonald’s that are open in Washington.
‘This is what tyranny looks like’
I get some losses off looks by the maskarati. The staff usually gives me knowing nods.
Pissed off.
The CDC can go fuck themselves.
Also in the running.
One of my FB friends posted
“Imagine a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it, for a disease so deadly you have to be tested to know you have it.
Yep, saw that meme, too.
https://otvet.imgsmail.ru/download/73371702_6c3ded1f9906b3ade50456362fd83e88_800.jpg
The rat on the left asks “Will you get a vaccine?”
The one on the right replies “You’re crazy. It wasn’t event tested on people…”
event=even
but actually “yet” works better
a humor warm-up
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Phillistines Call for Common Sense Sling Control After Goliath Tragedy
GATH – “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of the beloved warrior Goliath”, said King Abimelech. Known as “The Gentle Giant”, Goliath gained prominence for his size and strength. An aspiring bard, he also excelled in skull crushing. The chief suspect in his slaying is one David of Bethlehem, a loner with a long history of violence against animals and writing disturbing poetry. According to High Priestess of Baal Joah Nagam Bol Path of Ai, “ranged weapons are forbidden except to Enlil, God of Storms. Real men do not fight with rocks. This coward David should have fought Goliath with his bare hands.” According to the latest sheep entrails, the sling used in the killing was most likely acquired in Canaan, a land known for its loose sling laws. “The sling peddlers of Canaan have blood on their hands once more”, added King Abimelech as his spear bearer adjusted the king’s breastplate. As of chiseling time, the Philistine host is standing by as they wait for their new helmets to arrive.
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Anyone got funny headline ideas?
Humor writing is a gift I do not have, so I envy your gift. The funniest thing I’ve come up with lately is a one-liner in my Krampus/Santa Claus tale: “I was not a happy Krampus.”
Watch what Swiss narrows his gaze at. Those are the funny lines.
I agree. I can’t intentionally write humor, when it comes along it’s accidental from character banter.
Farce/Satire/etc is too far out of my wheelhouse to come up with it on demand.
I struggle to write dialog, which is why my longer fiction projects fizzle. It’s my nature to summarize.
Illegal Sling Kills Local Man
The soul of wit is brevity. – Some fucking white male
My Shakespeare reading project continues. The most amusing phrase so far is referring to lady parts as “nest of spicery”.
Wait till you get to where the Bard calls her “pink sink” a Quinny.
“Je le rêve du moment quand nous sommes nus ensemble au lit où je peux caresser votre cuisse et peut-être même votre quinny? Aimeriez-vous cela?”
I still remember enough French to read that. Had 3 years in high school along with 3 years of German.
Ah, French. They use silent letters the way a horse shits.
Standing ?
Oh, sorry—you meant new ideas, not for the sling thing (loved the “disturbing poetry” and Canaan as Indians thing, btw).
It’s slings and arrows all the way down.
The nice thing about arguing online is that you don’t actually have to type anything. You have to stop and think about whatyou want to say. It’s easier to be discreet than it is in person.
My SIL just posted a response to my husband and I want so desperately to argue with her, but I won’t. There is no persuading people anymore and credible sources—ones your opposition would accept as credible—don’t exist. Even if they exist, they will not be taken seriously no matter how serious. Ye olde Usenet “call for references!” demand is no longer useful.
It’s the narrative or silence. What we don’t know is how many people are choosing silence.
One thing I have to remind people is my silence is in no way to be seen as acceptance or agreement. I, like you, pick my battles and right now there just isn’t good ground for a proper discussion or debate on almost any topic.
It’s maddening, to quote Ed from upthread.
I get the “show me the peer reviewed paper.” Fuck those fools.
I have one person that we spar in actual debate and discussion online. We give and take, see each others points and views. It is so refreshing and healthy.
That person is the only one I will discuss anything with outside my wife, kids, and here.
“The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?”
― Dr. Stockmann, An Enemy of the People
It’s easier to stay silent because if you choose to fight all the time, you’ll destroy your mind because you’re constantly fighting against those who want to tell people how to live and want to be protected from every evil this world can foist upon us.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain, famous asshole
I was introduced to archery as a Cub Scout. Years later, I got the archery merit badge at a Boy Scout summer camp, which is one of the harder ones to get. Didn’t touch a bow after that for about 12 years. I gave archery another try when I lived in TX in 2014. I bought a 60 lb re-curve bow and bruised up my left forearm real good while relearning how not to hit myself with the string. My favorite piece of archery trivia is that archaeologists can identify the skeletons of archers by the oversized bones of their left arms.
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Evidence of increased muscle use in the “archer” skeletons was found on the collarbones, upper arm bones, and lower arm bones, such as at the bony attachment sites for the pecs, delts, and lats, suggesting greater use of the muscles involved in archery.
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Brawny Bones Reveal Medieval Hungarian Warriors Were Accomplished Archers
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/09/30/brawny-bones-reveal-10th-century-hungarian-warriors-were-accomplished-archers/?sh=358fadeb5f71
I had it in high school PE.
It was one of my college elective PE courses, alongside fencing.
I took martial arts in college.
It was one of my college elective PE courses
#metoo
Ballroom Dancing and skiing were the others.
It proves that they were archers, not that they were able to hit anything.
See? You can write humor.
It doesn’t even prove they were archers. Maybe they were chronic masturbaters?
https://youtu.be/uwAtifCoB3I
Oh man… Thanks. I saw them on some early 1990s reunion tour in San Jose, CA. They were all gracefully sliding into middle age but still trying to stuff their dad bods into the same sized Edwardian frock coats they were wearing in the 1970s. They looked old and silly but they really, really rocked. They played about 90 minutes straight before taking a break and coming back for another 30 -45 minutes. It was a great show and I’m happy I got the chance to see them.
Aw. RIP Pete Shelley and his cute young face.
PS. Happy belated bday, L0b0t!
Thank you very much.
There are people that aren’t orgasm addicts?
I can quit anytime I want!
Another Covid Cultist in the wild
She followed him all over the store – not appreciating that, according to her own logic, she was “putting herself at risk” by following him and his putative vapor trail of death. He ignored her fulminations, which made her fulminate all the more. Keep in mind this is a person my friend had been on friendly terms with for something approaching ten years; she knows him – knows his profession, too.
But his disobedience – his refusal to let her fear determine his actions – negated all of that. All the putative goodwill of a decade, burned to a cinder over the not-wearing of a Holy Rag, the religious vestment of the Sickness Cult. Which is exactly what it is. Not a term of abuse but rather a definition.
‘This is what tyranny looks like’
Nice.
My mil found them on the internets.
There is a Japanese type bow where the top half is longer than the bottom. I believe the reason was to make it easier to fire from horseback. I saw a demo of it at an archery contest at a Buddhist monastery in Vermont.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumi
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The upper and lower curves also differ. Several hypotheses have been offered for this asymmetric shape. Some believe it was designed for use on a horse, where the yumi could be moved from one side of the horse to the other with ease, however there is evidence that the asymmetrical shape predates its use on horseback.[5]
Others claim that asymmetry was needed to enable shooting from a kneeling position. Yet another explanation is the characteristics of the wood from a time before laminating techniques. In case the bow is made from a single piece of wood, its modulus of elasticity is different between the part taken from the treetop side and the other side. A lower grip balances it.
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Originally known as “Tail of the Tiger”, Karmê Chöling is a Shambhala Buddhist meditation retreat center and community in Barnet, Vermont. The staff there offers meditation programs and retreats in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition to hundreds of students each year
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It was there that I trained with the League of Derp ninjas.
Or it’s made for short guys.
My teens cultural education is complete. They have seen Friday and Swingers and now they can be men in the world that absolutely hates what both of those movies portray.
Friday is so funny. Ice Cube has great comic timing.
Mm, Ice Cubes. https://www.thechocolatestore.com/chocolate-ice-cubes-moritz
I guess science is only what supports the narrative.
By George, I think you’ve got it!
My husband told me he thinks I’m on the Aspergers Syndrome Spectrum.
I took a quiz and came up with a 29, where 30 and above is possible aspies.
I don’t think the Aspie thing fits. My answers regarding strong preference for fact over fiction were countered by my ability to interpret other people’s feelings and motivations.
Some of it was just poorly phrased like “I have trouble doing more than one thing at a time”, for which the answer is no. I CAN multitask but it’s not my preference.
My mom thought I might be deaf as a child because she found me putting together a 1000 piece puzzle as a child, and I was so wrapped up in it that I was oblivious to her calling my name. That sort of thing still happens if I’m not actively scanning for other happenings in the background.
Also stuff like “I find it easy to make small talk.” Yes was my answer. It didn’t ask whether I LIKED it.
So I’m either a well-adjusted Aspie who’s learned a ton of coping mechanisms, or I’m just a curmudgeon with a friendly exterior.
No. That’s ADHD.
Possibly minus the “H”.
Girls manifest the H differently. Their minds are going 6 miles a minute all the time while their bodies stay still. It never shuts off. We’re like ducks, calm on the surface while our feet are paddling like crazy. Girls are often overlooked (and un/derdiagnosed), because of this.
Isn’t that POCD?
I dunno. The quiz said Aspie. I can’t be arsed to look at it further.
Whatever I am is working for me. I know my natural weak points and have learned to make up for them with conscious effort.
Maybe I should stop saying “What are you planning to do with that information?” as a reply to pesky and pointless questions about what/how/why I am doing…
I would put as much credence in that as you would in any other free online quiz. Exactly zero.
There is an instrument called the ADOS that can be used to diagnosis Autism Spectrum Disorder (which Asperger’s now falls into) when administered by certain health care professionals. It is expensive, expect to pay close to a grand against your deductible, but has high sensitivity and specificity.
There are also measures that track Autism-like symptoms. These measures are not valid for diagnosing, but can be useful when combined with the ADOS. For example, I read one interesting study where some fathers of children with confirmed autism diagnoses scored significantly higher on a symptom measure than mothers did or of either parent for the control (parents of children without autism). These fathers did not have autism, including Aspergers, but still displayed more symptoms than typical.
ADorable Human Disorder? You all have ADHD.
I’m more on the Adorkable spectrum.
*Trips over own feet walking down the stairs*
Eh, Asperger’s is a description of symptoms, not a diagnosis. As such, it exists on a broad spectrum
My son is an Aspie, but able to function. I know others that aren’t so fortunate. True Aspies are fairly unmistakeable.
I’m sure I carry some of the traits, or I might just be an asshole. Can’t be certain on that count.
A lot of the recent Autism Spectrum ‘research’ has just been about pathologizing behaviors that the present dominant culture doesn’t like or understand.
Yes.
Thomas Szasz waves from the grave.
On this note, I can’t figure out how this wiki article is still up.
That’s a tragic read. Thanks for linking it. We’re headed that direction.
‘Article 190-1 “Dissemination of fabrications known to be false, which defame the Soviet political and social system’
Hmm, that sounds so familiar. Where have I heard something like this before?
There was a time we thought my son (above) was on the spectrum. They gave us a test and asked us to be honest about his reactions.
So I took it myself and told them their test determined I was on the spectrum. They stopped worrying about it.
I have taken these quizzes. They say that I am extremely high on the spectrum. However, that is not the way the test is supposed to be used.
Assuming someone with the proper qualifications have examined a person and determined that that person is on the spectrum, the test can be used to determine where that person is on the spectrum. Which can be useful information for creating a treatment program.
So If you’re on the spectrum, then you will score high on the test.
If you score high on the test, then that DOES NOT mean you are on the spectrum.
One of my direct reports mentioned that there is a 3 week lockdown in California now. “Huh.” Was my response.
I didn’t get anything in the mail about it. I don’t watch TV commercials, so nothing there either. No emergency alerts or any other form of communication of such a “guideline.”
Therefore I don’t intend to do anything that I want already planning to do.
I suppose I’ll just have to call ahead at stores where I need to shop.
Do the COVID cultists believe this can go on forever without any lasting harm?
Do the COVID cultists believe this can go on forever without any lasting harm?
Yes.
In the rare case they acknowledge harm, it’s something that would have happened anyway (economic collapse because the economy is shakey, businesses failing because the business wasn’t sound, suicides because the person already had a problem, etc. etc. etc. etc.).
poor old man
he had an “accident” with a three-bar fire
but that’s ok
because he wasn’t very happy anyway
poor woman
strangled in her very own bed as she read
but that’s ok
because she was old and she would have died anyway
don’t blame the sweet and tender hooligan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO-Qq2cZCK4
Whoa. I’m about to go eat lunch at a restaurant called S/T Hooligan.
Smiths fans, I take it.
(shouldn’t you be EG206 or 425 by now?)
PS. Damn if your OCPG juice doesn’t sound good, even sans vodka.
Good song.
The economy can be turned on and off like a switch.
New businesses will move in once the restrictions end.
We just need the government to send more money to people who have selected to work in a non-essential job.
It would be easier if the government just handed out essential jobs to everybody.
If I didn’t know better, I’d suspect that the big crones who have made it already (Amazon, Costco, BestBuy, regional grocery chains) are “donating” to politicians who are putting draconian COVID rules in place to force new, small competitors out of business.
It will be much easier to control the means of production once the number of corporations is reduced.
In the rare case they acknowledge harm, it’s something that would have happened anyway (economic collapse because the economy is shakey, businesses failing because the business wasn’t sound, suicides because the person already had a problem, etc. etc. etc. etc.).
Ah yes, the “dry tinder” argument.
Funny how that argument is used by lockdownistas to hand-wave away the worst effects of lockdowns, but when the same argument is made by anti-lockdowners — pointing out that the people who died of the Commie Cough were people who were on the way out the door anyways and thus lockdowns are pointless — the lockdownistas go apeshit and accuse their counterparts of being evil, inhuman, uncaring, etc.
I’ve noticed that too.
I consider it a variation of “Rules for thee, not for me.”
Or, as I realized after I hit the submit button, “THAT’S DIFFERENT!!1!1!!111”
My mom thought I might be deaf as a child
I got that a lot when I was a kid.
“His hearing’s fine. He’s just not listening.”
Say something interesting, and I may pay attention.
Ha I probably tried that one a couple times when I was little.
How’d that work out for you?
Guess.
A boxed ear?
I have been bitchy enough to look up from what I had already been doing before an unwanted would-be conversationalist interrupted me, and say “Are you still talking?”
I only did it once. It was a sick burn, and the recipient is a real shit, but I still felt bad retroactively.
New businesses will move in once the restrictions end.
Six months later:
“Where have all our ambitious young entrepreneurs gone?”
I am spending my Saturday doing a bunch of online training for the new job. I am sitting through a bunch of videos about forklift safety. I am not sure exactly why they need an IT guy to drive a forklift, but whatever. I am finding the somber and serious tone of the videos and the ‘Band of Brothers’-esque soundtrack mildly amusing. I keep waiting for the, ‘We were young once’ voice over to start.
The good news is that I discovered I can speed it up to x2 speed.
Driving a forklift at x2 speed is dangerous.
Cue polite laughter.
I choose to interpret x as mach because it’s funny to me.
Supersonic forklift training would be way cooler.
You need a really fast processor for that.
Should I wait for Rocket Lake then?
This is a genuine question, I’m looking to build a new PC when stock availability improves, should I buy in now with Ryzen chips or wait for new Intel chips, or go for 10900k because it’s the best clock speed? I need real answers no troll pls
Guess I will have to break out the 486.
The one true forklift safety video
Don’t laugh. It took me three years to get two types of forklift on my army drivers lisence. Never drove one afterward. Those in our motorpool sat and rotted. Many backs were ruined.
Funny you should say that about forklifts. XX TD can’t wait until she’s 18 so she can learn how to drive a forklift. She says there’s money to be made in them thar Walmart warehouses.
I like the way she thinks.
A lot of the recent Autism Spectrum ‘research’ has just been about pathologizing behaviors that the present dominant culture doesn’t like or understand.
See, also: “Boy”
I eagerly await Ballgag Joe’s announcement of the first militant-queer-of-color Secretary of Education. We need someone willing to do away with the heteronormative bias and repression inherent in our educational system.
When I was forced to watch TV commercials recently (NFL games and some Hulu content), it occurred to me that if I hadn’t ever lived in the USA, I’d be under the impression that 80% of Americans are “of color” (African, Asian, NA “indigenous” or mixed) and 30% are homosexual or cross dressers.
NTTAWWT. But it is suggestive of the White Shame they want the majority of Americans to feel so that we are accepting of the redistribution of wealth through taxes and reparations. The check your “White Privilege” campaign is just one step on the journey to payday.
White is still 76.3% of the population.
Gay or alphabet is less than 3%.
Gender Dysphoric is less than a rounding error.
As with covid, a lot of those in the GD are unaware that they have it but one day it will blossom out, as in a governmental edict that proclaims some benefits.
Good observations.
It makes me want to sell the TV. Not that I care about the racial or sexual makeup of the people in the commercials, but it’s yet another way that TMITE and their buddies in the advertising industry subconsciously fuck with people’s heads. Just as the need to have product X goes way down when the TV is off and the crisis pitch of the political issue of the day vaporizes when the TV stays off, woke issues dry up when you shut off the TV and ground yourself in the real world.
Same exact process works for social media, too.
It is tiresome to be watching some period drama and have them shoehorn in black characters and a bunch of gay characters.
And of course, the black and gay characters are treated just like anyone else. The drama that spent so much time and effort to make everything look exactly like it would have in the Tudor period of England suddenly has some senior advisor to the king be black and the priest is openly gay.
In the future, this shit will stick out just as much as the 1930s and 40s depictions of blacks.
The sequel of Marry Poppins did this. Screwed an otherwise good movie.
“I am making a horseth asseth of myself!”
I do think this phenomenon applies to ADD-type disorders as well.
More boys are raised by single mothers, taught in public schools that are staffed by an overwhelming majority of women. Not that women are not capable of doing these things, but they don’t understand that boys are, until age ~15, basically human cannonballs that need to be kinetic to one degree or another. Since this is outside their experience, they tend to throw medications at the problem.
This is true, unfortunately.
My high school still had some male teachers who’d been soldiers, one policeman, and other “real life” jobs.
Now, not only do women pervade the teaching profession, they’ve closed the doors to such career and demographic diversity in the teaching ranks. You have to have a 4 year degree in teaching in order to teach. And no self respecting chemist, or any self-respecting male, is going to pay for and sit through 4 years of university taught “teacher” training.
It’s a shame. Boys with no father figure. This cannot end well.
It really is, I don’t think we will understand the scale of the problem, nor the consequences until it is too late.
And a male schoolteacher is just one complaint away from being unemployable or ending up behind bars. The risk-reward just does not incentivize guys to go into teaching.
Outside of mine, too, FWIW. But I know I was not an ordinary child.
The little monsters that live underneath me are very much in the “human cannonball” mold and I have to grind my teeth and count the days until I can move somewhere without fucking children. Oh well.
A few years?
Well, no. I won’t live in one of those places. Just move somewhere else and discreetly ask first. Of course, there are no guarantees unless I buy a house to live in myself.
Are you implying they can literally be fired out of a Karen?
Sunuvabitch *CANNON
I like your original version better.
I was in this bar in Thailand once……..
Yup, likewise.
I’ve decided I’m a pedophobe.
I found an Etsy shop that will make a COVID-19 compliant mask with any message or photo on it.
Hmmmm….
At Costco the other day, one of the employees was wearing a mask printed with a photo of the bottom half of her own smiling face, and it was the creepiest fucking uncanny valley shit I’ve seen in ages.
“OBEY”, done up to look like the signs from. “They Live”
Ouch.
I got word that Goose Island closed their brewhouse in Philly due to fall-out from the Lil Rona Panic lockdowns.
Oops. Their Derpbook page isn’t public. I’ll cut and paste the announcement here:
To our Philadelphia friends and neighbors,
As a direct result of the global health crisis, and the significant impact COVID-19 has had on our business in Philadelphia, we have had to make the difficult decision to close the Goose Island Philadelphia Brewhouse effective today. Over the past several months, the Goose Island team in Philadelphia has shown incredible resilience in the face of tough challenges. We are grateful for each employees’ contribution to making the Philly Brewhouse a true extension of Goose Island.
Philadelphia and its beer lovers will continue to be very important to Goose Island. Philadelphia has been our second home and we are so appreciative to the city for visiting, sharing beers with us and allowing us to be part of your hometown. Here’s to you, Philly.
If I had to close my biz because of this horseshit I would not be blaming it on the “global health crisis”. That’s telling that even in this situation they can’t bring themselves to lay the blame where it belongs, on the decrees by governments and their public health gestapos.
The company has other locations, too. They still want to portray themselves as good corporate citizens. Barf.
They’re also part of a multi-national company.
Yeah. You have to watch what you say in that situation (and many others).
Just because you all probably need a new Christmas song, here you go. From the beloved holiday classic Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
/has one saved for the next Zardoz post
Starred in “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”
Apropos of nothing, this cartoon was my very first childhood exposure to Lenny Bruce. When going to the in-law’s house out Lawn Guyland way, we have to drive through Freeport. Every single time I launch into the “…Leo Carillo from Freeport, Long Island…” part. It drives wifey crazy.
https://youtu.be/1tjWYEMQ70w
God dammit, I like that.
“Well, I’ll explain if you get your God damned hands off of me, you barbarian!”
You sure can talk some shit buddy *whistles*
Mine too, but it didn’t happen until college. Love it.
I have an archery range in the back yard. I can shoot out to 25 yards. I can drag a target out to the side yard and get 50 to 60 yards if I want to.
I have three recurves at 35 lbs, 40 lbs, and 45 lbs. I am too old to do more than that. I made most of my own arrows.
I do not use a sight.
That’s… well, shit. That’s just impressive and awesome as all get out.
Seconded.
Uh. I buy shafts, nocks, points, and fletching and assemble the arrows. Tedious, but not particularly difficult (all wooden arrows).
I have a friend that starts with square stock and hand planes them into round shafts. That’s impressive.
It’s neat the he does that, but it’s not that complicated a process.
I bought a Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout to enjoy tonight during the zoom (If I make it that late).
Excellent.
Peter should ask Ylva to make him a sammich.
That would be a bit rude. Ylva is Karl’s wife.
Let’s see. Wet, heavy snow causing trees and tree limbs to bend under the weight of the snow. Winds picking up. Prediction: I lose power tonight.
Full disclosure – I’m a little drunk
How dare people talk of hobbling the electricity distribution network with “green” nonsense when humanity still hasn’t achieved uninterrupted municipal power distribution?
Oh come now, you aren’t that short, are you?
It’s to punish you for harming the planet. If you weren’t such a wasteful American pig, there would be enough for everybody.
This
I am sad to say I mis-spoke last night. Seems Sierra Nevada is non existent in the beer store here now. I remember it being an established brand in the cooler but now they are filled with CO ski town breweries of pretension. It could have been there and I just missed it I was a bit foggy this morning. I was way too hungover and way too late to town to go searching so I got this. I was craving convenience store pizza as one does but they had none so I had a bag of jerky a beer and coffee for breakfast. (uurp)
I’ve noticed that too. Less imports at the grocery store too but a wall of shiny preschool art level cans of hipster hop piss. And ciders.
At Costco the other day, one of the employees was wearing a mask printed with a photo of the bottom half of her own smiling face, and it was the creepiest fucking uncanny valley shit I’ve seen in ages.
A Juggalo clown face mask would less creepy than that.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
Don’t lie to me.
This isn’t Costco.
Denny Hamlin was doing that, at least earlier in the NASCAR season. We stopped watching, so I don’t know if he kept at it all year.
https://i.redd.it/fplxkwphuqg41.jpg
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.1T25VqjJ6598oDu3CDpxZgHaJ4?pid=Api&rs=1
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xO9rRkwYUEU/maxresdefault.jpg
I very much hope this is a real product.
YES
I suppose I should wait for GlibFit tomorrow to discuss this but I wanted to push back on the received medical wisdom about heart rates above 100 being too fast. Any time I check my resting heart rate it’s around 105 or something similar and I’m fine. Surely there can’t be a one size fits all approach. No idea what my blood pressure is.
According to my Fitbit, my resting heart rate is 51.
I beat your score by more than 100%! Ha. Low energy mrfamous couldn’t even pump his blood all the way around with a heart rate like that, and let me tell you, the doctors say they can’t even explain why I am so fast and I tell them – true story – I tell them, and by the way, they’ve never seen anything like it, that I’ve never felt better. I really do, I feel great ?
No idea what my blood pressure is.
No need to guess: high.
Are you using metric seconds?
Yes. Metric time standard here until January, or something, when we witch back to using the King’s foot and weighing women against a duck.
The fools keep dropping the acceptable blood pressure. I’ve got to get a DOT physical and that’s all they care about. ‘Omg you’re about 80/120!’ Pay is $155 and we’ll fail you.
Above.
They seriously yank your license for that?
Why when you bake a cake, you always run out of frosting? I end up buying to containers and only using 1 and 1 1/4th, is it like the Hot dog/Bun conspiracy?
or two containers…
Explain the the hot dog buns conspiracy please Mr Yusef I no integrate properly into your culture to understand I just illegally immigrate here and not make effort.
The number of hot dogs per package never matches the number of buns per package, so you never come out even until you buy the least common multiple.
I was handling one of these in the shop today. https://www.limcat.com/wildcat
Yikes it’s beautiful. It looks like robocop’s pistol. Probably the nicest pistol I ever handled with a whisper light crisp trigger. The slide and lower appeared to be one pice when the action was closed.
It was the shop owner’s former race gun.
Too nice for me, but if I had big bucks I’d wear one around my neck like favor flav.
Johnny Lim does nice work. He’s probably one of the top three semi-custom 2011 builders out there.
Very nice.
Decent cover.
Meh, too note for note, if you’re gonna cover a song bring something new/unique to it. The Slash wanna be is even rocking a Jewfro fer Christ’s sake.
She is cuter than Axl ya downer.
I’m a sucker for dimples.
Low bar.
Very low bar.
Like saying “smarter than Brochettaward.”
People smiling, playing games, dancing, enjoying themselves. Not a face mask in sight.
This will drive me to drink.
Any suggestions for positional vertigo?
My truck has been stuck in my garage with a leaking power steering hose and bad axle seal.
Tried again to crawl under her and as soon as I look up, the damn room starts spinning. I rinse my nose every day and take 2 Meclizine Chewable Tablets – 25mg.
I felt fine for the last couple weeks, so I thought I could do something today and now after one attempt I feel a little seasick.
So frustrating, that’s how I spend a lot of my free time and I really don’t want to give that up and send her to a shop.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I feel a little seasick
Sorry, that sucks. Does rinsing your sinuses really help? I can’t see getting the fluid everywhere it really needs to go. It might work on the sinuses in your face, but it never works for the deeper cavities; at least for me anyway.
Also, if I have to take 2 pills, I’m done for the day. I just have to lie on whichever side doesn’t make me want to vomit and not move.