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.
Want something a little more advanced? AthleanX has you covered.
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.
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.
I’m surprised Atlas’ book is available at Amazon.
I got Ozy’s books through Amazon.
DEG, MikeS will be at the HH, even if someone has to go to NoDak and get him. Tundra keeps the attendance roster.
🙂
It’s something I’d like to attend. I’ll make sure Tundra has me on the list.
You’re on the List.
If we didn’t have group think, we wouldn’t have any thinking at all.
This is sadly all too true.
Bad GlibFit.
https://archive.md/TnK9C
Good GlibFit.
https://archive.md/krqvs
Second link NSFW.
Great googly moogly. Good GlibFit indeed.
Also works for after listening to those podcasts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq-zaD1poAE
The incredible groupthink of public health officials and academia is frightening.
Completely unsurprising, though.
It is everywhere. I’m on a committee for an ANSI standard and I see groupthink in the meetings all the time.
The incredible groupthink of public health officials and academia is frightening.
Government health, not public health.
Good point. Yes, they are concerned with the health of government, and not the public.
Sad but true.
Just because you label your salsa as hot, it doesn’t make it so.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/HTzvK8KnR_Krka357sC43A.njbLFB-2svhnDUvrlD3DDf
Gimme a minute and I’ll fix that.
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*
As long as your weight doesn’t continue to drop; that’s bad.
I’m still above my lowest keto weight.
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.
That’s pretty impressive. Are you gaining back after feeling better. Did you go back to keto?
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.
Low carb helped your cholesterol? Ive never heard that before, I can use some help in that area.
Yes and in conjunction with exercise it kills triglycerides d-e-d ded.
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
Klopp would say that, wouldn’t he.
Not a fan?
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.
So tedious.
Fuck everybody. Everybody can suck my dick. I think I am understanding Steel Panther now.
Everybody can suck my dick.
Nobody wants to.
Won’t need a number, walk-ins welcome
/Sloper
HA! Good one Ted!
Welcome to the fold WS.
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…
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.
“we have to learn to live with it”
Not me, I’m a really slow learner
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.
Pass.
More like – “racks AK”
We do what we can.
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.
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.
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…
Did you listen to the interview? I think his three hours with Rogan says a lot more than a purity test.
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.
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.
Ya, I saw some of that. I don’t know I probably need to watch it again. I don’t trust anybody these days.
I hear you, but don’t necessarily agree. Needs more evidence. 😉
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.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant
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.
Top-heavy?
/requesting pics
TIWTANFL
^^^
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NSFW.
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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!
I couldn’t live without cheese.
Word
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.
Grain is for Beer, not bread,
Problem solved
/Tall Cans!
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.
“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
Yeah, the human digestive system is basically a garbage disposal. Being able to eat almost anything is a great evolutionary strategy.
Tequila’s made from the blue agave plant so I would see it’s part of a good salad.
Preach it.
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.
Are you testing to see if you are in ketosis?
And yeah I gotta have some cheese too.
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.
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.
Sorry. Does the one pos mean more quarantine theater for the kids?
Yep, all of us in the house for the rest of the week. On the whole, I rather be
in Philadelphiacatching it from WebDom, SP, and OMWC.Tell her to stop taking tests.
?
Oh, pos == positive. I thought you were referring to the ex as a pos.
Heavens to Betsy… I am fanatical about my capitalization.
My bad. Bitchy joke gone awry at the wrong person.
Not wrong though.
Nah, I appreciated it.
Damn. Hope you feel better soon.
I would give my eye-teeth for a few of the Army issued Fentanyl lollypops.
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.
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.
I have mine.
Ok fine, that explains why me and Animal are smarter than all you motherfuckers.
I was only born with the top ones. I am the next step in evolution.
How big is your forehead?
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.
I was born without any. So I have never had wisdom extracted from my body!
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.
I have all three of mine.
That sucks. Hope you get better soon.
Sorry, get well soon!
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.
What’s your dosage?
About 30 mg. Tastes awful.
Mind telling me where you got it?
I got two of the $75 dollar eye dropper bottles here.
https://science.bio/
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Sugar is de debbil.
Glad you’re putting it away. I was afraid it was going to start ruling your life.
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.
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.
A bunch of supremely fit millionaire athletes wearing knit caps reading “EQUITY” is peak this era. ?
I think it means they want ownership of the teams.
You have the Bills game on too.
I made a similar comment to Jugsy.
GO BILLS! They seem to need some help. At least their kicker does… yikes.
JFC how many punts in a row can this guy completely fuck up.
And I thought the Aeron chairs were spendy. No office liquidators nearby.
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.
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.
Look for promo codes. They sponsor the London Calling podcast, for one.
https://store.hermanmiller.com/office-chairs-aeron/aeron-chair/2195348.html?lang=en_US&creative=561076669104&device=c&matchtype=e&network=g&gclid=CjwKCAiArOqOBhBmEiwAsgeLmW1D5DSr38UMd75oT5SQEs8de3KjtMRXzH4mPKO3RQ0Y05LKO861axoCvX0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
They discount. Go to your dealer and get it quoted.
I think I paid around $1200 for $1500MSRP.
Completely worth it. RCD’s got one.
My SIL now works for Herman Miller. We will be taking advantage of her (sizable) employee discount.
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.
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.
And so it begins…hot pepper seeds planted in the little hot house.
Grow, my pretties, grow.
Too early for me, I’ll start plants inside about mid April.
That seems early. I don’t start mine until March
Trying something new this year.
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.
Bacon wrapped filets for dinner. It’s cold and sucky outside, gonna have to do them in the cast iron.
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.
Mmmm….pork loin…
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).
Seared pork chops with rosemary, minced garlic, and sea salt.
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…
He will not be happy.
Absolute bulllshit personal foul call in the Patriots/Dolphins game. Apparently all you have to do is be near someone’s helmet now.
OT:
“Bad Milk Blood Robot” was the name of my last album.
Oddly accurate.
Yeah, that’s a good synopsis.
I am pleased that the cat gets a shout-out.
As it should in this instance — it was the smartest animal aboard the Nostromo.
Alien?
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?
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.
Everyone wants to cherry pick what reinforces their own preexisting assumptions. No one wants to challenge their own thinking.
Hating On Novak Has Become A National Sport In Australia
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.
until the rest of the story came out.
Proving why controlling the narrative is such an obsession for those in power.
Aussie govt denied delay.
No reason was given in the request for a delay. What a bunch of wankers.
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
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?
Joan Didion was quite the poet. ?
The forty-niners were sandbagging in the first half, it looks like.
The Niners can beat anybody. Unfortunately they can lose to anybody too.
Premature Glibs After Dark. It happens to everyone from time to time.
https://archive.md/t29OC
https://archive.md/4XKBM
NSFW.
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NSFW.
They’re safe for work – given they aren’t working.
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!
Oh, and this may be appropriate.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
See my reply to Jerms above.
The true purpose of the scientific method is to not fool yourself.
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.
So HBOMax has dubbed Beforeigners. Can’t decide if it ruins it.
Dubbing ruins everything unless there is kung fu.
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.
Yeah, Netflix (or someone) did the same thing for this series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordertown_(Finnish_TV_series)
I watched but it was more difficult than with subtitles.
Bob Saget died. He was found in his hotel room. The “circumstances of his death are unclear.”
Calling it now: Autoerotic asphyxiation.
RIP
I will refrain from offering my opinion of Full House or America’s Funniest Home Videos.
I will not. Full House was the nadir of American television.
Sure, if you don’t count America’s Funniest Home Videos.
Bummed to hear that news.
Known for a Full House but his stand-up was incredibly filthy.
Autoerotic asphyxiation.
I don’t recall that being part of the The Aristocrats.
Awesome flick. Saget was great in it.
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.
“Very funny, but very disturbing at the same time.”
That sounds about right.
I wouldn’t bet against you.
AOC has covid after Florida trip.
*Chef’s kiss*
Probably caught it in New York.
And spread it around in Florida.
AOC would be fine if Ron DeSantis had mandated masks, mandated vaccines, and locked Florida down.
I see you’re channeling the press release she will give tomorrow.
Correct – it will 100% be spun as a failure by Florida.
Asymptomatic but with a positive test?
No, apparently boosted and feeling sick.
Who cares?
Unless there are tit pics.
You just want to date her.
“Date”.
Enjoy your toothy blow job
Witha teetha.
How about a few slow chomps
I LOL’d. Never saw that before.
She was there for a Congress Girls Gone Wild shoot.
AOC has covid after Florida trip.
She caught it from an unmasked Republican in the Capitol.
A private audience with DeSantis. She didn’t think anyone would find out
“private audience” winkwinknudgenudgeknowwhatImean?
‘Republicans just want to give me covid.’
Even I would never allow myself a “private audience” with that woman, for fear of what she might make up about it later.
“I’m so sexy even non-Democrat gay men want me.”
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.
You have a cold. Take a teaspoon of cement and harden the fuck up*
* paraphrasing Tom Brady to Julian Edelman
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.
I hate working
from home.FTFY
Get a different job.
*falls off chair*
Boston Bedroom Talk is so unsexy.
“Brace yourself, Bridget!”
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
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
It’s a cold. My husband and I are just getting over it.
Talk about your close calls
https://twitter.com/PlayaShadowban/status/1480372393520422914?t=V1tqkArEGqdq72lTRuC_Bw&s=19
Best comment: “Wow, you guys sure are quick to release body cam footage”
They’re not wrong.
Still, kudos all around.
I wonder what Playa Manhattan doesn’t visit anymore?
He’s able to get Cal scores himself and doesn’t need us.
Makes sense.
I am surprised that AOC hasn’t dumped her boyfriend yet and married into money.
Give it time.
Time is working against her.
John Kerry divorces wife, gets half of Heinz fortune. AOC marries John Kerry.
Hah – I was literally thinking of that scenario.
TBF, I’m really imagining Lurch killing Theresa for the money first.
+1 Claus Von Bulow
This right here. The Kennedys aren’t known for their good judgment.
My god. If she married a Kennedy. Imagine the teeth on their children. *shudder*
I think her bf is rich?
Nevermind, I am thinking about her date to that tax the rich stunt. Her bf sounds like a cuck.
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…
Raiders fans everywhere breath a sigh of relief.
Correction: Steelers fans
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!
What the hell were they thinking? They could have been in and Pitt sitting at home. But the Chargers have to Charger.
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.
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.
Immensely entertaining to us Nevadan Bears fans
Poor ol’ Rothlesberger is ordering some more Icy Hot for next week../
So this was amusing. Moj will be disappointed. Sorry.
https://twitter.com/thesarahyork/status/1480371733823635456
Damn. That was a tackdriver.
That was funny.
SLD, grate and culvert videos fascinate me
https://youtu.be/-TLP3uBB55o
https://youtu.be/vnXmGyb_hKQ
I saw this as a meme on Facebook. No attribution. If one of you guys knows who said it, please share.
Y’all already covered Sagat and the plane/train, which leaves me with dead kids. ?
https://www.wfmz.com/news/bronx-apartment-fire-kills-19-including-9-children/article_4e00319e-ad3e-5237-8eab-4a1958e6a8e9.html
Spot the Fed:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/exclusive-evidence-yesterdays-event-chicago-included-tradecraft-indicating-federal-government-involved/
Tape on their license plates?!
LOL they don’t even hide it, do they?
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.
Plus the khakis. Feds.
Brrrrrrrrr!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/you-know-global-elites-are-triggered-when-propaganda-institutions-collaborate-refute-mass
OK, how about mass hysteria then because it’s really the same shit.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10385521/Virginia-father-34-dead-four-days-leaving-snowbound-car-blizzard.html
Darwin award candidate?
‘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.
Morning, glibs.
*sigh*
It’s back to work for me.
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! ?
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.
🙁 And they just decided to double the length of the MFA PIN. I’m not going to be able to remember it.
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.
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.
Good morning. Up since 1AM. This insomnia/anxiety shit is getting old.
Sorry, TH. ? Hope just being able to talk to some Glibs helps a tiny bit.
Vicious cycle, innit? I find the insomnia part easier to address.
GT, sorry about dragging you into the poitrines (.)(.) debate: I wasn’t thinking.
No apology necessary. I was happy to contribute what I could. ?
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.
Don’t check the links? Do what ya gotta, anyway.
Well, whatever you do just make sure you’re double masked.
?
Fake a positive cooftest. Ten days off, special leave to pay for it!
I’m pretty sure I’d just get told to work from home.
AFHV was a warning of what social media would be. AFHV was insanely popular.
Never watched it regularly. What percentage of the videos featured cats?
Quite a few, considering the difficulty of getting a cat video with the equipment of the day.
And we didn’t listen. We should be ashamed of ourselves. ?
Surprisingly few branches down after the freezing rain yesterday.
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.
Good morning, Fes! Laying by your own personal stash to get yourself to & from your car? Gotta look out for #1!
“Dead Man Walking!”
Where is Tres to tell me whether or not I’ll have to scrape frost off my windshield? ?/spoiled
You could look out the window…
I tried. It’s still too dark here. You guys back east are hogging all the daylight.
If there isn’t snow, zip-lock bag full of hot water. The circular motion, rub it!
Vigorously?
That won’t crack the glass??
Garage. On a really cold morning, say a -20, the garage will be about +20. That’s a big difference and no snow.
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.
Is that you, Nanook?
It really works on iced over windows.
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.
Morning.
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.
Good morning, good sir.
The young fellers got the snow off the roof just in time. It’s above freezing and rain in the forecast.
Ice dams avoided.
Not to mention roof collapse. Rain on too of snow = too much weight.
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.
It’s always one damn thing after another, isn’t it?
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.
Good morning, 4(20)!
You are a master of understatement and a hardy soul! ?
-21? Yikes!
Mornin’ everyone. Glbfit tune got my blood moving, gonna kick some ass today. Indoors, too damn cold to go out.
Good morning, ‘patzie! Go get ’em! ?
Morning Patzer, I too will stay in, except to feed the critters, they need me and the free lunch. Welfare, how does it work?
Welfare, how does it work?
Here’s hoping you don’t find out.
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?
WHY WON’T YOU PANIC AND COMPLY?
Good Morning everyone.
Think i will plant some carrots for indoors.
Morning. Speaking of carrots, ads for an interesting drug have been making the rounds.
http://www.bentcarrot.com
Seems like some women would like that.
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?
I’d look long and hard at that drug
Er… phrasing?
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?
None of us work.
‘patzie beat me to the punch. Other than that, I’m not saying a word.
Maybe ask TO’G? ?
No opinion or experience, only that the breadstick in Clueless comes to mind.
“Kazakhstan Denies US-Funded ‘Military Biological Lab’ Seized By Rioters After Russia Claims Potential Pathogen Leak”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kazakhstan-denies-us-funded-military-biological-lab-seized-rioters-after-russia-claims
First of all wonderful, just wonderful. Second, what business do we have maintaining a military biolab in Kazakhstan?
It was on sale.
Everything has a price.
Were we not supposed to do that? Because i clearly saw a budget item about this….
Mondays suck.
One dude injured himself at work already, and three call outs.
Its like the bio-warfare department finally got something partially right.
Dude tripped over a chair. *sigh*
Rainy days and Mondays
Light headed due to “covid”?
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.
I fell on my ass last night and I was middling sober. This has been happening more often than I would like.