GlibFit 4.0 – Stand Up Straight

by | Jan 9, 2022 | GlibFit | 330 comments

 

I finally replaced my twenty-year-old office chair at work. One bad part of being self-employed is feeling the need to pinch pennies until they scream. One good part of being self-employed is not having to explain my purchases to anyone. I wound up getting this chair.

Boy, a good chair makes a difference. My lower back is supported. The fabric is super breathable. It’s a much better experience than what I had before.

 

 

 

I needed to replace my old chair, not only because one of the arms was beat to hell, but also because I noticed there were days I stood up and felt it in my back. Unlike the many Glib he-men, I spend most of my day slumped over a computer. All that sitting takes a toll.

So far, I’ve been lucky. My posture hasn’t been compromised. I’m guessing that’s because I’m not completely inert. Working out and stretching, even though it’s a small part of my day, probably has kept my spine, and the muscles connected to it, in reasonably good shape.

 

 

But what about couch potatoes? Is there any hope for them? Notice I said them. I know you Glibfitters don’t have to worry about this.

The short answer is yes. A series of simple stretches throughout the day goes a long way to getting or keeping good posture. Let’s be honest, it’s much better to take a few short breaks to do some stretches than walking around like a human question mark. Unless you’re into that sort of thing. I don’t kink shame.

 

 

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Completely off topic: I listened to Joe Rogan’s podcast with Dr. Robert Malone and am halfway through the one with Dr. Peter McCullough. OMG. The incredible groupthink of public health officials and academia is frightening. This is a nonpartisan, or perhaps bipartisan, phenomenon. So, as much as I enjoy pounding on Team Blue, the stupid party is also involved. [Waves at the Trump administration]

There is only one song [lyrics NSFW] that adequately captures my mood after hearing those podcasts.

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330 Comments

  1. DEG

    Let’s be honest, it’s much better to take a few short breaks to do some stretches than walking around like a human question mark.

    And walk more. It was something one of the doctors that treated my disc herniation got after me about.

    Completely off topic: I listened to Joe Rogan’s podcast with Dr. Robert Malone and am halfway through the one with Dr. Peter McCullough. OMG. The incredible groupthink of public health officials and academia is frightening. This is a nonpartisan, or perhaps bipartisan, phenomenon. So, as much as I enjoy pounding on Team Blue, the stupid party is also involved. [Waves at the Trump administration]

    I started reading Scott Atlas’s book. I just read the introduction and first chapter. I should not have done that before bed. I was infuriated just from that. He’s not even up to the White House stuff yet.

    Weight is at 273.6 lbs. Next week I start a volume program.

    Next weekend, assuming there is no snow, I’ll be in PA for a swing dance so I doubt I’ll check in. Since I’m working weekends now and want to meet with some friends from Ye Olden Days of Yore when I’m down, I doubt I’ll be trying to set another Glibs PA meet-up.

    • Ted S.

      I’m surprised Atlas’ book is available at Amazon.

      • DEG

        I got Ozy’s books through Amazon.

    • Fourscore

      DEG, MikeS will be at the HH, even if someone has to go to NoDak and get him. Tundra keeps the attendance roster.

      • DEG

        🙂

        It’s something I’d like to attend. I’ll make sure Tundra has me on the list.

      • Tundra

        You’re on the List.

  2. Plinker762

    If we didn’t have group think, we wouldn’t have any thinking at all.

    • juris imprudent

      This is sadly all too true.

    • Chafed

      Great googly moogly. Good GlibFit indeed.

  3. The Late P Brooks

    The incredible groupthink of public health officials and academia is frightening.

    Completely unsurprising, though.

    • Plinker762

      It is everywhere. I’m on a committee for an ANSI standard and I see groupthink in the meetings all the time.

  4. Ted S.

    The incredible groupthink of public health officials and academia is frightening.

    Government health, not public health.

    • Tonio

      Good point. Yes, they are concerned with the health of government, and not the public.

    • Chafed

      Sad but true.

  5. Sean

    Glib Fit – I’m down 3 lbs from my set point. I’m torn on adding more carbs or not worrying about it.

    Usually I’ll bounce back, but it seems to be sticking. *shrug*

    • Tonio

      As long as your weight doesn’t continue to drop; that’s bad.

      • Sean

        I’m still above my lowest keto weight.

      • Tres Cool

        When I was laid-up and infirm with the vid’, I went off the low-carb reasoning that my body needed all the fuel it could get. I lived on Campbell Chunky soups and those old people shakes like Boost and Ensure. I still lost around 11 lbs in about 10 days.

      • IRBE

        That’s pretty impressive. Are you gaining back after feeling better. Did you go back to keto?

      • Tres Cool

        I think Im back to 90% capacity.
        Im easing back to low-carb (<50g-carb/day) primarily because Im lazy and have a kitchen full of carb-heavy foods with Jugsy home. And I drink too much light beer to be truly keto.
        Weight was never my reason for the diet; it knocked the hell out of my cholesterol and glucose.

      • Jerms

        Low carb helped your cholesterol? Ive never heard that before, I can use some help in that area.

      • Mojeaux

        Yes and in conjunction with exercise it kills triglycerides d-e-d ded.

  6. Raven Nation

    Covid update from England…Liverpool had to postpone a number of their games because of a “severe outbreak” at the club with “multiple” cases. They also shut down their training center.

    Turns out all but one of the players tested was a false positive: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59931656

    • Ted S.

      Klopp would say that, wouldn’t he.

      • Raven Nation

        Not a fan?

      • Ted S.

        Isn’t Klopp one of the people tediously virtue signaling about how vaxed his team is? What else do you expect him to say when his players fail their covid tests?

        And yes, I’m a fan of that Mandy Rice-Davies line.

    • rhywun

      So tedious.

  7. westernsloper

    Fuck everybody. Everybody can suck my dick. I think I am understanding Steel Panther now.

    • Ted S.

      Everybody can suck my dick.

      Nobody wants to.

      • Fourscore

        Won’t need a number, walk-ins welcome

        /Sloper

      • westernsloper

        HA! Good one Ted!

    • Chafed

      Welcome to the fold WS.

  8. IRBE

    Hi Chafed, Greetings from NoCAL-BEL. Thanks for edition! Cold and clear here. Hike 5 miles today. No real elevation.

    48 hrs fast: Start to end, lost 5lbs. Gained 3 back for a net of -2lbs. I am not going to lie, this fast sux’d…I was counting the seconds.

    G-fit update: Sleep was very good. Food was really good. 1 fruit per day. Limited alcohol to weekend, Daily meditation/stretch, Wim Hoff 5X, Gym 2X, 32 mi in hikage. Weight was down to 178.

    Goal: Weight (165-170). Not met but trending in right direction. No dead from Covid: MB;MC but almost caught it…

    Plan for the upcoming week: Meatless Monday with 36hr fast, Maintain protein intake and limit fruit intake to 1/day.

    Covid Update: Both sons have been under the weather since Tues with cold symptoms. Didn’t see much of them from Wed to Friday. They are on the mend. My wife and I have not caught what they have/had. Newspaper (I didn’t pay for it) here says we have to learn to live with it, which means daily testing, distancing, passports, and vaxxing. I don’t call that living..more like waiting to succumb to it—The new brave California Man.

    To live better, fat adapt, skip a meal or three! Have a plan and some Narcan…

    • DEG

      I hope your sons get well soon.

      here says we have to learn to live with it, which means daily testing, distancing, passports, and vaxxing. I don’t call that living

      That ain’t living. That’s dying, and dying ain’t much of a living.

      • Fourscore

        “we have to learn to live with it”

        Not me, I’m a really slow learner

      • IRBE

        They are getting better slowly. Younger went out last night. Stoopid idea on his part but he was feeling up to it so who am I to judge.

      • rhywun

        daily testing, distancing, passports, and vaxxing

        Pass.

      • Sean

        More like – “racks AK”

      • rhywun

        We do what we can.

  9. Fourscore

    As a taller skinny guy I always had to bend over to work at table height. That and genetics gave me less than perfect posture. Now standing straight is a real chore but life is what it is. The plan for Spring, when the snow disappears is to get some walking in. I added a few lbs past my usual weight but with careful eating I’ll be OK.

  10. westernsloper

    I listened to Joe Rogan’s podcast with Dr. Robert Malone and am halfway through the one with Dr. Peter McCullough.
    I did finish the one with Dr Malone. I don’t know what to think. He at first came across as a typical institutional know it all. I do not trust top men. Top men got us where we are and I don’t want to be here.

    • IRBE

      I agree…I saw it somewhere that Malone might be controlled opposition. He’s vaxx’d. He was on the receiving end of some pretty hefty grants during his career. Once you go grant you never go back…

      • Chafed

        Did you listen to the interview? I think his three hours with Rogan says a lot more than a purity test.

      • IRBE

        I just watched the video. He seems credible and summarizes most of what I believe is going on with the vax. He knows what he is talking about from my perspective since this is my business.

        What I find unpossible is why this guy would ever get vaxx’d after already having covid. He should have known better! He knew the risk benefit of the vax was terrible. He knew the lack of pre-clinical testing (mRNA preclinical data was an animal killer, too) and complete lack of data. He had a serious adverse event from it. He was a stoopid patient.

        He doesn’t talk about the design of the vax taking only a month and vax being available for trials in weeks after design, which is not possible (it takes months to make and months to test without problems….)

        He is hiding something.

    • Chafed

      I don’t think that’s a fair characterization. Yes, he has credentials up the ass. His points were:

      1. Show us the data.
      2. Let’s discuss the accuracy and utility of that data.
      3. What data isn’t the government collecting/analyzing/using/etc.
      4. Let’s have a real discussion about what policy/policies come from all of that. No one has a lock on truth (including him). Good policy comes from airing it all out.

      • westernsloper

        Ya, I saw some of that. I don’t know I probably need to watch it again. I don’t trust anybody these days.

      • rhywun

        I don’t trust anybody these days.

        I hear you, but don’t necessarily agree. Needs more evidence. 😉

      • IRBE

        What covid has taught me is to be skeptical of all data, utility and analysis. I lost the illusion that we ever get much of the truth; much less altruistic (good) policy.

      • Fourscore

        Sunshine is the best disinfectant

  11. Mojeaux

    I started back on low-carb with some difficulties (ulcers) on Tuesday. Despite the difficulties, I am pleased with my progress.

    My posture is…suboptimal. I’ll add that to my awareness when I’ve got my current habit goal ingrained.

    • Tres Cool

      Top-heavy?

      /requesting pics

    • westernsloper

      I listen to the Revero podcast often. Many people there talk about curing all sorts of ills by going 100% carnivore. I go back and forth. A week of meat only and then I need a salad. I also have a fair share of tequila which is not meat based as far as I know. Good luck on low carb!

      • Sean

        I couldn’t live without cheese.

      • westernsloper

        Word

      • Tres Cool

        I don’t know how long evolution takes. We’ve been an agrarian group of ani-mules for how long now? 5,000 years? 10,000?
        I firmly believe that we’re designed to be mostly carnivores, with a splash of fruits and veggies mixed in. We were hunter/gatherers longer than we’ve had bread.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Grain is for Beer, not bread,
        Problem solved
        /Tall Cans!

      • kinnath

        Our teeth say we are omnivores. We eat everything.

        Agriculture turned us from scattered tribes constantly on the brink of being wiped out to taking over the whole globe.

        We do just fine with whole grains. Ultra refined grains . . . . not so much.

      • Don escaped Cancun

        “Our teeth say”

        exactly…..and our guts, too: not short to make quick work of putrid meals like carnivores and not over-long or multi-chambered like ungulates so we don’t really process cellulose…..somewhere in the middle for a mix of sorts

      • Animal

        Yeah, the human digestive system is basically a garbage disposal. Being able to eat almost anything is a great evolutionary strategy.

      • Raven Nation

        Tequila’s made from the blue agave plant so I would see it’s part of a good salad.

      • westernsloper

        Preach it.

      • Mojeaux

        I do salad as part of my low-carb. The chef salad (sans tomato) is a thing of beauty.

        I too, cannot do this without cheese. In fact, I must have cheese along with my meat to be able to keep the ulcer-induced nausea at bay. February 22 canNOT come fast enough.

      • Jerms

        Are you testing to see if you are in ketosis?
        And yeah I gotta have some cheese too.

      • Mojeaux

        No, I don’t test for it. I never have. As long as I’m under 20g carbs/day and losing (or at least not gaining), I see no point.

        If I were in a situation like yours where I’m nearing goal weight but seeing no progress, I might start testing.

  12. l0b0t

    Ugh… Daughter was exposed at school last week, had a negative test on Friday and a negative test today, son was negative on home tests last week, negative on Doc’s test Thursday, and negative today. The ex took a test today and immediately popped positive. She has no symptoms. My 12 day cold/flu went away yesterday and came back and kicked my teeth in this morning: clogged, painful sinus, sore throat, aches but no fever, hacking cough (this on top of wisdom tooth/jaw pain so uncomfortable I’m on liquids). I still test negative for the ChiComPox.

    • rhywun

      Sorry. Does the one pos mean more quarantine theater for the kids?

      • l0b0t

        Yep, all of us in the house for the rest of the week. On the whole, I rather be in Philadelphia catching it from WebDom, SP, and OMWC.

      • rhywun

        Tell her to stop taking tests.

      • Sean

        ?

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, pos == positive. I thought you were referring to the ex as a pos.

      • rhywun

        Heavens to Betsy… I am fanatical about my capitalization.

      • Mojeaux

        My bad. Bitchy joke gone awry at the wrong person.

      • l0b0t

        Not wrong though.

      • rhywun

        Nah, I appreciated it.

    • westernsloper

      Damn. Hope you feel better soon.

      • l0b0t

        I would give my eye-teeth for a few of the Army issued Fentanyl lollypops.

      • Tres Cool

        One of the most fucked-up times Ive ever been was when I let the Army take my wisdom teeth out. I made it clear I didn’t like needles, so that dentist eased me into it with a mask full of nitrous. Then, when he pushed w/e was on that tray into my arm, he said, “see you in a couple days”. I was fucked-up for at least 48 hours after. 10/10 would let that guy work on me again.
        Also when I had my heart cath, they shot me full of the versed/fentanyl cocktail. I’d do another tomorrow just for those drugs.

      • westernsloper

        You missed the wisdom tooth zoom discussion last night. Seems I might be the only glib who still has wisdom teeth. Which would explain why I am smarter than all you other motherfuckers.

      • Animal

        I have mine.

      • westernsloper

        Ok fine, that explains why me and Animal are smarter than all you motherfuckers.

      • Q Continuum

        I was only born with the top ones. I am the next step in evolution.

      • westernsloper

        How big is your forehead?

      • Tres Cool

        My bottoms were coming in sideways based on what I recall about the x-rays.
        I awoke once during the procedure with a hammer-drill in my mouth and the dentist said “oh, he woke up”. Something else was pushed into my IV and I was knocked the fuck out.

      • juris imprudent

        I was born without any. So I have never had wisdom extracted from my body!

      • DEG

        I have mine.

        Mine have fillings. My dentists have told me that if I ever problem with those fillings, they’re pull my wisdom teeth instead of fixing the filling.

      • robodruid

        I have all three of mine.

    • Sean

      That sucks. Hope you get better soon.

    • DEG

      Sorry, get well soon!

  13. Jerms

    I ate carbs during my 5 day bout of covid. Got right back into it and back in the gym on the 5th day. Eating low carb but have just about given up on the ketone/ketosis thing. Ive tried everything but cant get the ketones up over .4 on the meter. I feel good so thats going to have to be good enough for now. Been taking this SARM called ostarine but havent noticed much difference probably because of 4 day no gym due to covid.

    • Q Continuum

      What’s your dosage?

      • Jerms

        About 30 mg. Tastes awful.

      • Q Continuum

        Mind telling me where you got it?

      • Jerms

        I got two of the $75 dollar eye dropper bottles here.
        https://science.bio/

    • westernsloper

      just about given up on the ketone/ketosis thing.

      Ya me too over the holidays I have been a flake. I hope to get serious about it again over the next few weeks. I wish I had covid to just get it out of the way but I identify as immune.

    • Q Continuum

      “Ive tried everything but cant get the ketones up over .4 on the meter”

      My experience (keto for 4 years) is that the volume of ketones doesn’t matter, just that they’re there. Hydration can dilute.

    • Mojeaux

      If I may be so bold, I think you’re putting way too much emphasis on ketones and not looking at your other gains/losses.

      If you’re at/near goal weight and you feel good, that should be enough.

      • Jerms

        Youre right. In the past when Ive done low carb it was simple for me. I would always get to ketosis and when I stuck to the diet I lost weight.
        I need to accept that something has changed and all I can do is hit the gym and eat right and hope for the best.
        Im a sugar addict like you, and abstaining from it is best for me physically and mentally-I need to just be happy with how Im feeling and stop obsessing about the ketones. Im actually going to put the ketone meter away in my closet.

      • Mojeaux

        Sugar is de debbil.

        Glad you’re putting it away. I was afraid it was going to start ruling your life.

      • Mojeaux

        As for what changed for me…

        I rarely like to share this, but—about 20 years ago, I lost 150 lbs low-carbing. I’d struggled all my life, getting fat on low-fat, high-carb diets, then I found Dr. Atkins, who saved my life. It was not easy, but it wasn’t difficult, either. It solved a whole host of seemingly unrelated health and mental health problems for me. I had 5 cheat days a year and I got to where I couldn’t do one without a severe hangover.

        So here I am now, 20 years older, post 2 kids, postmenopausal, and the diet is more difficult. I can fall back into my LC habits that worked before, and they still do work, but not as quickly. So I get impatient and throw tantrums at my body. I have to adjust, because I just can’t go into old age sick and tired and depressed and broken down from carb consumption.

      • Jerms

        Sounds like we are in the same boat. Im going to do my best to adjust also, thanks for sharing your story.
        And losing 150 pounds is amazing. God bless.

  14. rhywun

    A bunch of supremely fit millionaire athletes wearing knit caps reading “EQUITY” is peak this era. ?

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I think it means they want ownership of the teams.

    • Tres Cool

      You have the Bills game on too.
      I made a similar comment to Jugsy.

      • rhywun

        GO BILLS! They seem to need some help. At least their kicker does… yikes.

      • rhywun

        JFC how many punts in a row can this guy completely fuck up.

  15. Gustave Lytton

    And I thought the Aeron chairs were spendy. No office liquidators nearby.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, jealous of that chair. It’s like wine – no upper limit on the price. I dropped about a quarter of that on a decent-for-me office chair last summer.

    • hayeksplosives

      By coincidence I was looking for a new home office chair today, and I was looking at the X chair site (the power of advertising).

      I didn’t know if they were really worth it so I was planning to ask you Glibs. Now I have my answer.

      My Apple Watch tells me to stand up now and then, and I comply.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Look for promo codes. They sponsor the London Calling podcast, for one.

      • slumbrew

        My SIL now works for Herman Miller. We will be taking advantage of her (sizable) employee discount.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I’ve owned an Aeron since 2001.

        Superlatives fail to adequately describe my admiration for this chair. I spend too many hours a day in front of a computer screen to not own one. I seem to recall paying around $1,200 CDN for it at the time. Totally worth it.

      • rhywun

        I think dropping a nice chunk of money on a mattress is a higher priority for me and my comfort. I’m still riding a mattress I bought 14 years ago for a couple hundred bucks. I put one of those foam pads on it a year or so ago but yeah… who am I kidding.

  16. Sean

    And so it begins…hot pepper seeds planted in the little hot house.

    Grow, my pretties, grow.

    • Fourscore

      Too early for me, I’ll start plants inside about mid April.

    • Tulip

      That seems early. I don’t start mine until March

      • Sean

        Trying something new this year.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        You could also stagger the plantings every two weeks, and see what works best for your local climate.

        I’m gonna plant some rosemary in the next ten days or so and nurse it along until mid-May, when it can then safely go outside.

  17. Sean

    Bacon wrapped filets for dinner. It’s cold and sucky outside, gonna have to do them in the cast iron.

    • westernsloper

      Bacon wrapped filets sounds great. I just took a pork loin and a rack of ribs off the smoker. My first smoke not using my go to rub because it has sugar. It was a killer rub though. I am sure they will be good without. Bone broth simmered for two days in the crock and I will have a slice of pork loin in broth topped with a couple eggs over medium. Not fillets but good enough for this white trash.

      • Sean

        Mmmm….pork loin…

    • juris imprudent

      Beef bourguignon here, with a side of olive-oil, rosemary bread (we don’t eat much bread, but when we do – its the really good stuff).

    • Mojeaux

      Seared pork chops with rosemary, minced garlic, and sea salt.

  18. hayeksplosives

    GlibFit, feline edition:

    I’ve noticed my cat is getting a little tubby. I don’t want him to suffer from carrying extra weight, so he’s going to go on a strict diet. He’s a sucker for his canned food, so now that will be cut back to a measured amount once a day.

    His kibble will be in a new feeder that dispenses a programmed amount three times a day.

    My previous cat wasn’t a foodie at all, so this is new territory. Maybe I need a kibble dispenser for me…

    • Tulip

      He will not be happy.

  19. Grumbletarian

    Absolute bulllshit personal foul call in the Patriots/Dolphins game. Apparently all you have to do is be near someone’s helmet now.

  20. hayeksplosives

    OT:

    Alien (1979)
    Synopsis from the back of
    the DVD case of a Hong Kong bootleg copy:

    ” Space ship people get up from sleeping
    coffin and have eat. Computer woman find
    strange noisings on planet and astronauts go
    to seeing. Astronauts find big elephant man
    who dead then find too many egg.

    Astronaut is possess by egg demon and new
    egg demon is come when eat bad noodle.
    Seven friends and cat all try to find egg demon
    before space ship go home but is hard
    working,

    Who will life to escaping? Who is bad milk
    blood robot? Scream not working because
    space make deaf”

    • rhywun

      “Bad Milk Blood Robot” was the name of my last album.

    • R C Dean

      Oddly accurate.

      • Chafed

        Yeah, that’s a good synopsis.

      • hayeksplosives

        I am pleased that the cat gets a shout-out.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        As it should in this instance — it was the smartest animal aboard the Nostromo.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Alien?

  21. R C Dean

    One thing I have noticed from working out is that my posture (usually an office drone slouch) has improved. Apparently, you need muscles to stand up straight. Who knew?

  22. Jerms

    I was searching for an article today about Japan and how they used ivermectin to get cases way down. Wanted to show a friend. Before I finally found it I came across about ten articles about how Japan defeated covid with strict masking and vaccines. Its like they are just writing whatever story they want. It feels like its useless to even try.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Everyone wants to cherry pick what reinforces their own preexisting assumptions. No one wants to challenge their own thinking.

  23. grrizzly

    Hating On Novak Has Become A National Sport In Australia

    The whole country is hating on Novak Djokovic right now because he had the courage to do what most of us did not – stand up for himself.

    Novak’s principled stance has only served to highlight the fact that millions of Australians have allowed themselves to be abused for the past two years. And no one wants to admit that.

    It is far easier to demonise a Serbian millionaire who took a stand than it is to agree that we have been bullied into submission by politicians and health bureaucrats.

    • rhywun

      Novak’s principled stance has only served to highlight the fact that millions of Australians have allowed themselves to be abused for the past two years. And no one wants to admit that.

      Yup. It’s gonna get really ugly everywhere, eventually. People do NOT like to be made the fool.

      I was initially pissed only because he seemed to be getting preferential treatment – until the rest of the story came out.

      • juris imprudent

        until the rest of the story came out.

        Proving why controlling the narrative is such an obsession for those in power.

    • juris imprudent

      Aussie govt denied delay.

      No reason was given in the request for a delay. What a bunch of wankers.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Novak’s principled stance has only served to highlight the fact that millions of Australians have allowed themselves to be abused for the past two years. And no one wants to admit that.

    It is far easier to demonise a Serbian millionaire who took a stand than it is to agree that we have been bullied into submission by politicians and health bureaucrats.

    See, also: hatred of the unvaxxed

  25. Yusef drives a Kia

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

    Surely some revelation is at hand;
    Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
    When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
    Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
    Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

    The darkness drops again but now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Joan Didion was quite the poet. ?

  26. The Late P Brooks

    The forty-niners were sandbagging in the first half, it looks like.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      The Niners can beat anybody. Unfortunately they can lose to anybody too.

  27. Tundra

    Chafed!

    So, my posture is – and always has been – shit. I have a stand up desk that I alternate with the chair. This is one of those GlibFit subjects that is so far down the priority line that most people give it the WTF? But it’s really important.

    I took the week off lifting, but I got my miles in.

    I know a bunch of you are Wim Hof fans. Enjoy!

    • IRBE

      That one is a personal favorite. It is sublime, when he says…”if you need to breath before a I give the cue..that’s OK…” . I’d love to see him in concert when he starts touring again.

      All the love..all the power.

  28. juris imprudent

    So, had a chat with my son today, he mentioned that he read the article from The Ethical Skeptic on omicron.

    His conclusion was, the guy seriously erred in his read on the genetic evolution and his conclusion (that omicron derives from an earlier [un-circulated] strain/release) isn’t supported by the data. Since this is a matter of expertise, my son is a PhD in Biochem with primary work in bio-informatics, and I was curious to get his take since I lack the requisite expertise. My own reading of some of the other TES articles is, that only HIS brand of skepticism is real skepticism; as he takes to task a number of other folks notable as skeptics. That leaves me with the conclusion that for the most part, he isn’t as smart or honest as he portrays himself, but he has internet-blowhard down to a tee. If you are relying on him as authoritative, you may be led astray.

    • rhywun

      I steer clear of such articles for exactly this reason. I don’t know enough about this stuff to judge some rando I’ve never heard of. Honestly I don’t who to trust any more – certainly not the MSM.

      • Trigger Hippie

        This. I’m too uneducated, too dumb, and too hazy to trust anyone on the subject anymore. I trust the people here to argue in good faith with the information available and their ability to discern said info. That being said, I just try to ignore this shit altogether. I’ve filtered out the white noise in my day to to day aside from, well, here. If I avoided this website and local news I’d honestly forget this shit is still a thing.

      • juris imprudent

        Well, even our trust around here can be misguided. That’s why I wanted his take – because he could suss out the bullshit that those who viewed TES seemingly uncritically could not.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘Well, even our trust around here can be misguided’

        I can’t argue that. I’m just saying that if given the chance to generalize the Glibs I’d say the vast majority of us try to be honest in our statements of opinion. Sure, we have a few people who delight in causing a ruckus for shits and giggles but aside form that however misguided we can be(my self obviously included) I find us a earnest lot.

        My honest take on the article is I’m too stupid and resentful to give it a fair reading and I’m too jaded to give a fuck about this subject at all. The Malthusians got their trial run… hooray.

    • Gustave Lytton

      See my reply to Jerms above.

      • juris imprudent

        The true purpose of the scientific method is to not fool yourself.

  29. Trigger Hippie

    Deep Thoughts By Jackoff Handy:

    I abandoned the Christian faith about fourteen years ago or so but it will influence my morals, ethics, and way of generally viewing the world for the rest of my life whether I want it to or not. So when I think about the idea of the nonbinary pansexual gender fluid collectivist demons finally getting their moment in the sun after untold eons of obscurity and irrelevance I reflexively giggle.

  30. Tulip

    So HBOMax has dubbed Beforeigners. Can’t decide if it ruins it.

    • rhywun

      Dubbing ruins everything unless there is kung fu.

      • juris imprudent

        I’d rather read subtitles and hear the melody/tone of the language I don’t speak, then get a bad dubbing. Godzilla movies excepted of course.

  31. Mojeaux

    Bob Saget died. He was found in his hotel room. The “circumstances of his death are unclear.”

    Calling it now: Autoerotic asphyxiation.

    • rhywun

      RIP

      I will refrain from offering my opinion of Full House or America’s Funniest Home Videos.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        I will not. Full House was the nadir of American television.

      • rhywun

        Sure, if you don’t count America’s Funniest Home Videos.

    • slumbrew

      Bummed to hear that news.

      Known for a Full House but his stand-up was incredibly filthy.

    • juris imprudent

      Autoerotic asphyxiation.

      I don’t recall that being part of the The Aristocrats.

      • MikeS

        Awesome flick. Saget was great in it.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Wasn’t he the guy who, in his stand-up routine, talked about offering to let his buddies touch his newborn daughter’s privates for $1?

      Very funny, but very disturbing at the same time.

      • slumbrew

        “Very funny, but very disturbing at the same time.”

        That sounds about right.

    • Chafed

      I wouldn’t bet against you.

  32. Certified Public Asshat

    AOC has covid after Florida trip.

    *Chef’s kiss*

    • UnCivilServant

      Probably caught it in New York.

      • MikeS

        And spread it around in Florida.

    • DEG

      AOC would be fine if Ron DeSantis had mandated masks, mandated vaccines, and locked Florida down.

      • rhywun

        I see you’re channeling the press release she will give tomorrow.

      • slumbrew

        Correct – it will 100% be spun as a failure by Florida.

    • juris imprudent

      Asymptomatic but with a positive test?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        No, apparently boosted and feeling sick.

    • Tundra

      Who cares?

      Unless there are tit pics.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        You just want to date her.

      • Tundra

        “Date”.

      • slumbrew

        Enjoy your toothy blow job

      • slumbrew

        I LOL’d. Never saw that before.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      She was there for a Congress Girls Gone Wild shoot.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    AOC has covid after Florida trip.

    She caught it from an unmasked Republican in the Capitol.

    • Fourscore

      A private audience with DeSantis. She didn’t think anyone would find out

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        “private audience” winkwinknudgenudgeknowwhatImean?

      • Gustave Lytton

        ‘Republicans just want to give me covid.’

      • rhywun

        Even I would never allow myself a “private audience” with that woman, for fear of what she might make up about it later.

      • slumbrew

        “I’m so sexy even non-Democrat gay men want me.”

    • commodious spittoon

      I’ve got a tingle in my throat, a little hoarseness, no real cough but maybe it’s coming.

      Yay, it’s only coming on in the last couple hours of the weekend. The last flu/fever I had landed a couple hours before leaving work on a Friday, and wiped out a solid weekend from my memory.

      • slumbrew

        You have a cold. Take a teaspoon of cement and harden the fuck up*

        * paraphrasing Tom Brady to Julian Edelman

      • commodious spittoon

        The worst case scenario for me would be not sick enough to justify taking off work, but too obviously sick to go to the office. I hate working from home.

      • CPRM

        I hate working from home.

        FTFY

      • The Hyperbole

        Get a different job.

      • rhywun

        I hate working from home.

        *falls off chair*

      • CPRM

        Boston Bedroom Talk is so unsexy.

      • slumbrew

        “Brace yourself, Bridget!”

      • Fourscore

        I rarely have a cold but when I do it starts with the symptoms you described. I ignore it but a day later I have the runny nose and more.
        Hope you are not catching a bug.

        Tomorrow you’ll know

      • CPRM

        I had an uncle that once he passed 80 he got a runny nose every time he ate. Didn’t matter what he was eating.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        I have this too. Can’t get food past the esophagus followed by congestion followed by sneezing fit followed by snotmageddon. Every single meal. Good thing I can’t take the wife out for dinner or go out for lunch with treasured colleagues currently.

      • commodious spittoon

        Hope so. The last fever was awful, and I don’t think it was all that bad. But I remember waking up at one point feeling immensely grateful that I’d slept through the night and was some way toward recovering, only to discover it was still evening and I hadn’t slept more than a few hours.

        Come to think of it, that was in January or February 2020…

      • CPRM

        The last time I was actually SICK (fever, aches and couldn’t sleep or leave the house if I wanted) I stayed up and watched a marathon of the first season of a TV show that had just finished it’s first season, The Walking Dead.

      • rhywun

        Whatever I had a couple weeks ago (I dunno if it was zOMGicron or not), it was nowhere near as bad as my worst, which kept me in bed for four days straight. That was 16 or 17 years ago. I didn’t see a doc for that one, either. My mom would have killed me – if I arrived home for Thanksgiving with the sniffles it was off to see Dr. Mike.

      • rhywun

        PS. Whatever I had a couple weeks ago, I suspect it was not a simple cold if only because it was the first time I had been sick since this madness started.

      • Mojeaux

        It’s a cold. My husband and I are just getting over it.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Best comment: “Wow, you guys sure are quick to release body cam footage”

      • slumbrew

        They’re not wrong.

        Still, kudos all around.

    • Chafed

      I wonder what Playa Manhattan doesn’t visit anymore?

      • Gustave Lytton

        He’s able to get Cal scores himself and doesn’t need us.

      • Chafed

        Makes sense.

  34. kinnath

    I am surprised that AOC hasn’t dumped her boyfriend yet and married into money.

    • slumbrew

      Give it time.

      • kinnath

        Time is working against her.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        John Kerry divorces wife, gets half of Heinz fortune. AOC marries John Kerry.

      • slumbrew

        Hah – I was literally thinking of that scenario.

      • slumbrew

        TBF, I’m really imagining Lurch killing Theresa for the money first.

      • Chafed

        +1 Claus Von Bulow

      • Chafed

        This right here. The Kennedys aren’t known for their good judgment.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        My god. If she married a Kennedy. Imagine the teeth on their children. *shudder*

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I think her bf is rich?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Nevermind, I am thinking about her date to that tax the rich stunt. Her bf sounds like a cuck.

  35. Yusef drives a Kia

    I spent every last dime I had working on my furnace, and i still jerry rig it for heat, I need a longer flame sensor, it sucks because I have to wake up and run the furnace so my Water lines don’t freeze. At least I’m a tech that can rig it to work…

  36. slumbrew

    Raiders fans everywhere breath a sigh of relief.

    • slumbrew

      Correction: Steelers fans

  37. Hyperion

    LOL. I may have just watched the most insane football game in NFL history. The Chargers fucked up! The Raiders were going to let the clock run out and the Chargers called a time out, RFLMAO! Fucking hilarious!

    • dbleagle

      What the hell were they thinking? They could have been in and Pitt sitting at home. But the Chargers have to Charger.

      • Hyperion

        I have no idea.

        Raiders coach: I’m just going to let the clock run out and then we both get in, my players are exhausted.

        Chargers coach: Here, hold my beer.

      • Hyperion

        Also. That kick probably would have been good from 65 yards. It went through right at the top of the uprights at 47 yards, so if my calculations are good, yeah, 65 yards, no problem.

      • hayeksplosives

        Immensely entertaining to us Nevadan Bears fans

        Poor ol’ Rothlesberger is ordering some more Icy Hot for next week../

    • Gustave Lytton

      Damn. That was a tackdriver.

    • Chafed

      That was funny.

  38. hayeksplosives

    I saw this as a meme on Facebook. No attribution. If one of you guys knows who said it, please share.

    First we overlook evil.
    Then we permit evil.
    Then we legalize evil
    Then we promote evil.
    Then we celebrate evil
    Then we persecute those who still call it evil.

    • rhywun

      Tape on their license plates?!

      LOL they don’t even hide it, do they?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Considering the political climate that’s almost as good an idea as not going to the march in the first place. Maybe feds maybe not but this isn’t really a tell.

      • rhywun

        Plus the khakis. Feds.

  39. Sean

    Brrrrrrrrr!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      OK, how about mass hysteria then because it’s really the same shit.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘I’m so angry with this county,’ his mother Shannon Whaley told The New York Times. ‘All they had to do was go out and holler for him.’

      ‘Louisa County let him freeze to death,’ Angela agreed

      Yeah, your dumbfuck kid leaves his car in snowy, sub freezing temps and wandered through the woods at night with a nearly dead cellphone. Sorry, lady. I know you’re greaving and angry but that was entirely his fault.

  40. UnCivilServant

    Morning, glibs.

    *sigh*

    It’s back to work for me.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, U, TH, & Sean!

      U, I know it sucks to go back to work after a vacation, but I bet you have NEXT Monday off, AND another week of vacation – and smith school – in a couple of weeks! ?

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh, but tomorrow and on the 22nd we are rolling out to production a change in the single sign-on system in two of our big applications. So I’ll be working five days next week anyway.

        Plus I’m pretty sure there’s a bunch of meetings crammed into this week. *glances at calendar* yep.

      • UnCivilServant

        🙁 And they just decided to double the length of the MFA PIN. I’m not going to be able to remember it.

      • Gender Traitor

        I’ve been known to use the “=TODAY()” function in Excel to calculate – and count down each day – the number of days until my next vacation.

        I may or may not have also used the “=NOW()” function to do likewise counting down the hours until I get to knock off work for the day.

        I love Excel.

      • UnCivilServant

        Literal thousands of emails to sift through. 🙁

        And since I didn’t get to the grocery store yesterday I’m not sure I’ve got any breakfast.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Good morning. Up since 1AM. This insomnia/anxiety shit is getting old.

      • Gender Traitor

        Sorry, TH. ? Hope just being able to talk to some Glibs helps a tiny bit.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Vicious cycle, innit? I find the insomnia part easier to address.

        GT, sorry about dragging you into the poitrines (.)(.) debate: I wasn’t thinking.

      • Gender Traitor

        No apology necessary. I was happy to contribute what I could. ?

      • Trigger Hippie

        I honestly think I need to take a brake from the site for awhile. I’m inclined towards being a hothead as is and after checking the links I always seem to just get myself worked up and upset over things I can’t control. Even the silly stuff I generally mock isn’t very funny anymore…I’m a terrible stoic.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Don’t check the links? Do what ya gotta, anyway.

      • Sean

        Well, whatever you do just make sure you’re double masked.

        ?

    • Not Adahn

      Fake a positive cooftest. Ten days off, special leave to pay for it!

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m pretty sure I’d just get told to work from home.

  41. Not Adahn

    AFHV was a warning of what social media would be. AFHV was insanely popular.

    • Gender Traitor

      Never watched it regularly. What percentage of the videos featured cats?

      • Not Adahn

        Quite a few, considering the difficulty of getting a cat video with the equipment of the day.

    • rhywun

      And we didn’t listen. We should be ashamed of ourselves. ?

  42. Not Adahn

    Surprisingly few branches down after the freezing rain yesterday.

  43. Festus

    Glibfit is being built like a spider monkey. I asked the building manager to lay off of the de-icer but he basically said no. I wrote him back that he’d better not expect loaves and fishes. It probably doesn’t matter much anyway at this point.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Fes! Laying by your own personal stash to get yourself to & from your car? Gotta look out for #1!

    • Festus

      “Dead Man Walking!”

  44. Gender Traitor

    Where is Tres to tell me whether or not I’ll have to scrape frost off my windshield? ?/spoiled

    • UnCivilServant

      You could look out the window…

      • Gender Traitor

        I tried. It’s still too dark here. You guys back east are hogging all the daylight.

    • Festus

      If there isn’t snow, zip-lock bag full of hot water. The circular motion, rub it!

      • Gender Traitor

        That won’t crack the glass??

      • Fourscore

        Garage. On a really cold morning, say a -20, the garage will be about +20. That’s a big difference and no snow.

      • Gender Traitor

        Our two-car garage is too full of rock & roll gear (and other assorted stuff, including our impressive box collection) to admit even one car.

        Wages of sin.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Is that you, Nanook?

      • Festus

        It really works on iced over windows.

  45. Fourscore

    Morning, UCS, GT and NA,

    Another cool day but then it warms up a bit. I count Jan 15th as the 1/2 way point of winter so almost there. My mother used to say, “When the days begin to lengthen the cold begins to strengthen”. She was right, we’ve had a few cold days/nights. -21 now.

    • Fourscore

      Didn’t mean to ignore Festus and Trigger. A special good morning to y’all. Come on it, coffee’s hot, I’ll go look for a cookie or two.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Good morning, good sir.

    • Festus

      The young fellers got the snow off the roof just in time. It’s above freezing and rain in the forecast.

      • Festus

        Ice dams avoided.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Not to mention roof collapse. Rain on too of snow = too much weight.

      • Fourscore

        I had a steel roof put on last year, with no snow barrier on the back side but one on the front. When it melts in the sun the water drips onto the front patio and freezes, until it gets warm enough to melt that off.

      • Festus

        It’s always one damn thing after another, isn’t it?

      • Fourscore

        Ain’t that the truth. I was using salt on the patio and that destroyed the concrete after a few years. Once a hole starts the salt eats into the softer concrete below. New slab last summer, now I’m using sand sparingly.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, 4(20)!

      Another cool day

      You are a master of understatement and a hardy soul! ?

    • Ghostpatzer

      -21? Yikes!

  46. Ghostpatzer

    Mornin’ everyone. Glbfit tune got my blood moving, gonna kick some ass today. Indoors, too damn cold to go out.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, ‘patzie! Go get ’em! ?

    • Fourscore

      Morning Patzer, I too will stay in, except to feed the critters, they need me and the free lunch. Welfare, how does it work?

      • Ghostpatzer

        Welfare, how does it work?

        Here’s hoping you don’t find out.

  47. Ghostpatzer

    Awful lot of the vid going around. In the last three weeks, me, my sister, her BF, my son, wife’s BFF, wife’s cousin’s entire family … I had it the worst, and by worst I mean fever peaked at 100.5, yet here I am. Mostly a day or two of misery for everyone else. For this, we need to create massive disruptions to day-to-day life?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      WHY WON’T YOU PANIC AND COMPLY?

  48. robodruid

    Good Morning everyone.
    Think i will plant some carrots for indoors.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Morning. Speaking of carrots, ads for an interesting drug have been making the rounds.

      http://www.bentcarrot.com

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Seems like some women would like that.

      • robodruid

        Why would that be a problem? I thought ladies would like that.
        Now if they could influence length? I’d look long and hard at that drug.

        GT can we get a ruling here?

      • Ghostpatzer

        I’d look long and hard at that drug

        Er… phrasing?

      • robodruid

        Are we not doing phrasing?

        I am more concerned about a guy who has a link about carrots ready to roll so quickly.
        How does everyone find these oddball things so dang quickly?

      • Sean

        How does everyone find these oddball things so dang quickly?

        None of us work.

      • Gender Traitor

        ‘patzie beat me to the punch. Other than that, I’m not saying a word.

        Maybe ask TO’G? ?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        No opinion or experience, only that the breadstick in Clueless comes to mind.

    • Sean

      It was on sale.

      • Fourscore

        Everything has a price.

    • robodruid

      Were we not supposed to do that? Because i clearly saw a budget item about this….

  49. Sean

    Mondays suck.

    One dude injured himself at work already, and three call outs.

    • robodruid

      Its like the bio-warfare department finally got something partially right.

      • Sean

        Dude tripped over a chair. *sigh*

      • Fourscore

        Rainy days and Mondays

      • robodruid

        Light headed due to “covid”?

  50. Festus

    So far as my balance issues are concerned it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if it was linked back to bad posture and a lack of flexibility.

    • Festus

      I fell on my ass last night and I was middling sober. This has been happening more often than I would like.