This looks radical.
Mr. Riven brought this to my attention while we were lifting last night.
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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
…Shut up, TH.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEFuOZlzdPI
https://genius.com/Nine-inch-nails-happiness-in-slavery-lyrics
Someone who wasn’t first slinks away in shame.
Hello Glibs, almost time for
Tall Cans!
Beer makes you fat.
If seen Yusef, I don’t think he’s in risk of that.
Burns it off with the disc golf, I assume?
No, he’s saying that Yusef’s beer drinking is making you fat UCS.
Can’t you say something righteous?
Good thing Agent Sloper hasn’t shown up to second Sean’s emotion.
Sean’s a carb Karen! 😛
A Carben?
What’s his Carben footprint?
Carben Dress Print?
You’ll never know because he hides it so well. He’s a carben carben carben carben carben-chameleon….
(he comes and goes…. he comes and goes…)
👅
Tall Cans in the Air
MultiVersus just doesn’t spark any interest from me — looks to have about the depth of Capcom vs. Street Fighter (or whatever the title was). If I’m going to have DC multiverses interact, I expect at least a fig leaf of a story. Injustice barely tried (too many fights not impacted by the story, too obviously wanting to sell outfits), this looks like pure fluff. Ah well. At first glance at the link I thought it was the next Joker movie and thought “Eh… Hamill hams it up too much as The Trickster which is as Live Action BTAS:Joker as you can get, don’t need to see it on the big screen…”
Can’t have anything to do with shutting down the gyms for at least a year, making it hard for people to go out in the sunlight in general and fostering a “sit on your ass and work” mentality for that time… nope, nosireebob. (To be fair, my fat ass isn’t due to that… I’m just perpetually meaning to start exercising more… but if they wanted to push people into COVID19 risk categories [say… for a big global depopulation or something, not that any of our benevolent elites would have that in mind], they couldn’t have done much more in that vein… oh yeah, *and* make it harder to grocery shop / cook with restrictions and supply chain issues, increasing the junk food / take out rate… can’t forget that….
I’ve been watching a bit more tv lately – Archer and some college football. I notice that there are non-stop fast-food ads. I even found my self looking at a Pizza Hut commercial and thinking “mmm that looks good” – then thought “wtf – I don’t eat that shit!”
If it didn’t work, advertisers would not advertise.
I love that people think they aren’t susceptible.
Honestly, I don’t think I am.
I fell for the Arby’s Prime Rib Cheese sammich. It was good, fast (at 2 PM) and filling. I didn’t get the meal but a big ol’ drank for an extra buck.
Cheapest place I’ve been to for a while. Eat inside, no one else there at that time.
I’ve been getting the 3 footlong cheesesteaks deal from Subway for 20 bucks every few weeks. Order online and I run in to grab it without waiting in line or paying at the register. Good deal to feed the six of us, especially if I can quickly grab lunch for everyone on my way back in from town.
They are probably the worst cheesesteaks but are decent as just steak sandwiches.
90% of the ads I see are for charities and lawyers and Medicaid. *shrug*
I know I have seen an ad and bought something, but it’s very rare.
I am mostly stuck in my ways.
But was there any chance you ever drank water from Camp LeJeuene?!?
I noticed that Biden is directly responsible for both that and Jimmie Walker.
“I did this!”
It’s more akin to Smash Brothers and the like.
So really not anything I’m going to care about then… good to know.
“Living with obesity’. Is that what we are going to call fat people now?
“Calorie Attracted Persons”
“Focused Points of Gravity”
“Amply insulated”
MikeS has the winner.
“slender averse”
Personally I prefer gravitationally challenged.
Sweat lovers.
“Famine Preppers”
The Harkness House offers a full-time, private school option that is accessible to more families thanks to New Hampshire’s new Education Freedom Accounts that enable education funding to follow students. It also provides customizable learning opportunities for homeschooled adolescents who are looking for an affordable schooling alternative, with 2-day and 4-day a week programming options.
Lots of reasons for the usual suspects to REEE!!!! over this.
I like it.
Pope Jimbo, where were you last Sunday?
Uptight bastards. I was wearing fucking socks, what more can they want?
Lol this comment from Gizmodo:
BMI is trash </eM
https://elemental.medium.com/the-bizarre-and-racist-history-of-the-bmi-7d8dc2aa33bb
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265215
I'm following that first link now, but damn. BMI is not perfect, but if your BMI is over 40 then yes, you're fucking fat.
Clearly I didn’t know how to format that comment…
Anyway, the first link is exactly what I thought it would be:
Of course
Right, the strangers in the waiting room will never figure out that she is super morbidly obese without checking her BMI.
I don’t know about you, but I’m incapable of figuring out anything unless there’s an expert to show me the Science.
Just decided to run the numbers… so assuming a 5′ 10″ man, to get to a BMI of 47, you would need to be over 325 lbs. I’m under that by over 100, and I’m aware that I’m overweight.
I am grossly overweight, and I come in around 45.
The numbers change depending on your source, but if we go with the NIH overweight is 25-29. That’s where I’d say it is misleading and not telling the entire story. 30 and 31 too. But 32 and over? You need to lose weight.
Unless you are a bodybuilder. My buddy is built like a gorilla and always has to do additional work to not have his company premiums jacked up.
Dexa scans are the way, but insurance companies would rather pay for drugs.
“Quetelet was Belgian, publishing works in Western Europe during the early 19th century — a boom time for racist science.”
You know who wasn’t fat? Ricky Henderson.
“BMI: 47. Super morbidly obese”
Great. I have a boner just in time for bed.
Could’ve been worse. Coulda had one just in time for work.
Double the number of states or the percentage points of fatties in those states?
It’s a Friday, the girlfriend is heading out of town this weekend, so I get to cook spicy food. But between the revelry of the weekend, there are traditions to uphold. So here’s the link for the Zoom/Happy Hour/Beer critique for tonight. It’ll be started at 20:00 Eastern.
Science: Chimps and gorillas can be friends.
::sings – yea, belts out in her best Broadway voice:: “Oh, the chimp and the gorilla should be frieeeeends…” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg5cwSBnyQU
Of course… chimps are the scientists and the gorillas run the military. All for the best until that jerk Taylor shows up and throws a spanner in the works.
Well, I get my Xterra back tonight. Daughter has had it since January. The final score on her aging Denali: 1) factory rebuilt engine; 2) local overhaul of transmission; 3) new starter (because why wouldn’t it fail after fixing the engine and transmission; and 4) miscellaneous minor parts.
We can thank Brandon for strangling the supply of and doubling the price of replacement parts. Let’s Go Brandon!
Missing a parens. That will fuck up the parser/compiler.
Should be good for another 15-20 years. Be ready for winter now.
My car insurance just took a big jump. My agent said repair costs and parts have exploded.
This sucks.
It took nine months to get the repairs done.
Whaaaa?! I hope the repair shop has a large parking lot.
Engine shop had it for 7 months. Rebuilt it twice, then gave up and ordered a factory rebuild. They stuck to the initial estimate and lost a ton of money on the work. So props to them in the end I guess.
Bad cams?
WTF? I’ve had engines rebuilt in a week.
Engine would not hold oil pressure.
They replace a bunch of parts, it worked on the test drive, and then lost pressure when she was taking it home.
The replaced everything else they could think of to replace. It worked on the test drive, and then lost pressure when she was taking it home.
They called GM. Spent hours on the phone. Finally gave up and ordered a new engine.
Six and eight week lead times on getting parts slowed things way way down.
Didn’t prime the pump with vaseline?
What is this? San Fran?
And the markets continued bouncing down another set of stairs today. At least we’re all unified under competent leadership.
Just get an electric car! /prog
I got tagged by one of those effing school bus cameras across four lanes of traffic on a double bus stop at 6:30am.
Dumbass me thought I could fight it. Cost me $250 and six points on my license.
Fuck me. That’s awful!
It’s a total scam. If you just pay it, you don’t get the points. I knew that, but didn’t realize it was SIX.
How does that make any sense?
The program is administered by a company that just presents it to the county as a money making scheme. I don’t even think the county pays for the cameras. And the company lobbies for heavier points for the violation at the state level.
Fuck.
That’s what I said too. Multiple times… loudly
That is fucking bullshit.
Seems like when there are kids involved (even an empty bus) the price goes up.
Yikes!!
You want to pay my electric bill? Everything sucks now.
Homeowners insurance has gone way up too.
Did your Envoy have the garbage 4L60E transmission? My POS truck does, and while I shant bitch too much (almost 200K) it has this annoying habit of slamming into 1-2 after driving about 15 miles. If I shift it by hand, its not as harsh since Im able to modulate it better. But when its on its own, sounds like its trying to tear the ass-end out. Also, on the highway, the active fuel management is annoying as it “surges” as the cylinders go on/off.
Still worth it for a $2K 4WD I bought 3 years ago.
The nice thing about the 4L60E is that you can get heavily modified rebuilds that are bulletproof.
Also, the ground wire on the third gear solenoid is undersized on that transmission. Just fixing that improves the performance and reliability dramatically.
Researching my local Youtube garage, people have more reasons for that hard shift than Carter has little pills. Anything from solenoids, to the TCM, bad speed sensors, and even a bad TPS. Since Ive replaced the TPS 2X (both with Dorman junk) and know how computer heavy that thing is, I could believe that.
Also, after its been parked for about 10 minutes, the problem goes away for a bit.
I’ve burnt up three of them. All of them were third gear failures after long trips at high speed under load.
The undersized wire causes more voltage drop and the solenoid never fully engages the band as a result. It heats up and starts to slip over time until it fails.
My new replacement is custom built for towing and shifts harder but there is no slip whatsoever.
Beats me. I’ve never driven it. Daughter loves it. She tows a camper around all the time or a trailer for her kayaks.
Thing about this market is, I don’t feel guilty for letting my cars nickel-and-dime me, because everyone else has to do the same thing.
Slightly tense situation as a hooded person was coming up to my front door in the rain with his right hand on his right back side groping around under his jacket.
Fortunately it was a neighbor that I hadn’t seen in a while asking about a tree stand in the ravine. For a moment, I thought I was to have to bolt for my weapon.
Since this is pop-culture Friday, any horror movie recommendations?
Prince of Darkness
Horror with a quantum physics bent.
Saw that long ago and remember it being scary.
That had one of the Simons in it.
Good flick.
Phantasm. A classic.
+1 Tall Man
This time of year I find myself wanting to watch Stephen King movies from the late 80’s/early 90’s (Silver Bullet, Sleepwalkers, etc) They aren’t even good movies but seem to make me happy; I seem to be getting nostalgic
I’ve got a special place in my heart for Cat’s Eye.
+1 Quitters, Inc.
A few more:
The Hunger, Return of the Living Dead, Henry, any of the Evil Dead movies
Event Horizon
Fallen
In the Mouth of Madness
Trick ‘r Treat
Poltergeist (either original or reboot)
American Psycho
Teeth
Final Girl
Freaky
Malignant
I’ve got more…
“American Psycho”
Should I watch that one first?
It’s a solid mind fuck of a movie. From that list, my highest recommendations would be for Trick ‘r Treat (just getting it’s first theatrical release this month), Event Horizon (sci-fi horror is rarely done well), and Freaky (body swap movie, with a teenager and a serial killer).
Event Horizon is fantastic; it scratched that same Lovecraftian itch as In The Mouth Of Madness. I’m not much of a horror fan, but I love the film Freaked – https://youtu.be/Q-gk8cHCo4Y
Watch American Psycho 2 – it’s got William Shatner and Mila Kunis, so you know it’s good.
You’re a cruel man DrOtto…
The original Dead of Night.
What style? I’ll throw in Let The Right One In (2008) in the foreign language category.
For a good old-fashioned ghost story, either The Others or The Innocents.
Old fashioned? The Uninvited (1944)
If you can handle subtitles, along the same vein, I would recommend The Devil’s Backbone and The Orphanage. Guillermo del Toro was involved in both.
The former is not to be confused with The Other, based on a novel by former Hollywood actor Tom Tryon and starring Dr. Pulaski among others. It’s going to be on FXM this coming Monday and again Oct. 9.
Europa Report.
The Prophecy (1995). Has both Christopher Walken and Vigo Mortenson.
I hope the repair shop has a large parking lot.
He’s unquestionably an outlier for various reasons, but if you watch the “Car Wizard’s” youtubes (which I do sometimes, and mostly ask myself why afterward) you see the same cars taking up space inside the shop, on lifts, in the background for months and months at a time.
Kinnath-
As I recall, there was something bizarrely wrong with that motor. Did anybody figure out what the problem was?
They gave up and put in a factory rebuilt engine.
any horror movie recommendations?
Hillary: The Movie.
“Trans Army officer accused of conspiring with Johns Hopkins doctor wife to provide medical information on senior military officers to Russia is released on home detention with NO BOND: Wife also free on $500,000 unsecured bond”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11268031/Army-officer-tried-provide-medical-information-military-officers-Russia-RELEASED.html
How the fuck is that person trans?
Compare to Joe Maga, sitting in jail for wandering around the Capitol Building and taking selfies.
It’s just a fuck you to the plebes.
I see above- the oil pressure thing. Very strange. It sounds like a cracked block or casting flaw at the pump which could allow oil to bleed off as it gets up to temp.
Or a bad/missing galley plug.
“Berkeley is slammed for being anti-Semitic after NINE student groups create ‘Jewish-free zones’ to prevent speakers who support Israel or Zionism from being allowed on campus”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11266921/Law-student-groups-Berkeley-amend-bylaws-develop-Jewish-free-zones.html
Jews support the left who hates Jews.
Juden-Frei? Seriously?
Every member of those student groups should be kicked out.
For people always bitching about Nazis…
For all you Glibs who love stereos… and Gaia!
Ban Dung Institute of Technology? Really?
Stools? Really???
I’m beginning to think the story is full of shit.
Probably founded with a grant from Bandini.
Too local news: local school board just voted to ban “Stamped, Racism, Anti-Racism, and You” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi from all their district classrooms and libraries after parents raised concerns.
Not particularly surprising though. I have trouble imagining a redder area in the US than here.
“Edgerunners’ clever Tarot reference aside, whenever Jaki isn’t sharing dope fan art of the show on Twitter, he’s been dropping more hints about some of the anime’s behind-the-scenes details.”
This was a really fun series, reminds me of Cowboy Beebop mixed with Akira.
When decluttering goes wrong
Her husband lived longer than hoped but it’s a brand new coffin. She had a pretty tight window for death.
Might have been the only thing that was tight.
Another BS story. A true Scot wouldn’t give anything away.
In California a person can’t buy a coffin without a death certificate.
Can a vampire buy one with an undeath certificate?
I don’t think so. When they built a drag racer out of an actual coffin for Grandpa Munster, the funeral home left it out back so the Hollywood car guys could pick it up in the middle of the night.
The last twenty years of the CS world have been run by absolute retards.
The last twenty years
oftheCSworldhavehas been run by absolute retards.Of course I guess this could safely be said at pretty much any point in history.
India, China, Brazil Abstain From UN Vote Condemning Russian Annexation
No surprises there
Maybe they want to buy cheap fossil fuels at bargain prices? Nah, it’s because they hate democracy and America.
Referendum by Taiwan to ioin the US when?
I think we have to invade, occupy, and have soldiers posted at the polling stations first.
Bill Burr in Bloomington in 15.
Meeting w Boss and Boss’ Boss on Monday. I am excited for the former. The latter is scary but has a tiiiiny shot at amazing transcendence.
I await further on both.
Late to the game
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Smack dab on the Tundra line.
A bunch of fucking off-kilter words in that one.