This is my final GlibFit post. I have been writing GlibFit for over three years and I’m a little burned out. It has been a pleasure to write this recurring post and I want to bring my tenure to a close while it still feels that way.
To everyone who has ever expressed their appreciation for a post, thank you. It feels great to know someone got something from what I wrote. I’m not a fitness guru and the vast majority of what I wrote came from other peoples’ research, ideas, and/or programs. It’s rewarding to know this has done some good for some of you.
Along the way, I have managed to turn off some of you with some more strident takes on fitness. That was never my intention. I have presented multiple views in the belief that different things work for different people. This includes people who are motivated by extreme performance. My goal has always been to get everyone to find their own workable path to fitness.
If there is a lesson to be taken away from what I have presented, it is that there isn’t one right way to get and/or stay fit. The lot of you has different interests, desires, ailments, time constraints, life constraints, environments, weather, etc. No matter who you are and your circumstances, there is some type of fitness program that can work for you. You just need to find it. It may take some experimentation. So, experiment. If you tried something that didn’t work for you. It isn’t a failure. It was an experimental result. Now, go do another experiment.
Which leads me to one other point. This all starts with you. There is no substitute for you getting up and moving. No one can do this for you. You must do it. For nearly everyone, this means carving out some time on a regular basis to get it done. It may mean giving up something. But you get so much in return. When you consider the short- and long-term benefits, I can’t think of a better return on time and effort.
My final point is whatever you do, and it can be a variety of things, you have to do it regularly. Reading a book on stretching isn’t the same thing as consistently stretching. Finding the right exercises to address your ailments isn’t the same thing as consistently doing those exercises. Find a way, your way, of regularly exercising. That’s how you improve, however you define improve. That’s how you feel good from the endorphins in your system and your personal sense of accomplishment/satisfaction/pride.
It’s New Year’s Day and my final music link in this recurring post. I seriously thought about going out with a Steel Panther (nsfw; count the cameos) link depicting Glibertarian New Year’s Eve. But the right way is with a Chafedroll.
Editor’s Note: Glibs really appreciates Chafed’s work for us over the past three years. GlibFit is a beloved staple of our website and will be missed. Editing this column has been an enjoyable part of my Sunday morning routine. Starting next week this timeslot will be filled by The Hyperbole who will bring us a weekly column on mental fitness. –Tonio
I burn all the calories I need through my fingers. Firsting.
No more Glibfit?! But I was going to do better this year:
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Whelp, I guess that link didn’t work. If interested, it’s the Thor meme in this week’s Powerline week in pictures
Worked for me.
Chafed, I really appreciate all the Glibfit posts. I joke about 2022 not going well, but I actually did do well this past year; just splurged a bunch in the final week or so.
Thanks AN.
Thank you so much for all your work. I may not look like it on the Zooms, but I do follow your posts and try out some of the suggestions.
Thanks RJ. No shaming here. Doing something is a win.
THIS. Thanks for all you have done, Chafed.
👍
I have been writing GlibFit for over three years
Has it been three years? Wow. How time flies.
Chafed, thanks for all of these. This is a feature I like and will miss.
For my fitness goals: I just barely made my weight goal of being under my “just got back from FreedomFest” weight. I blame pigging out on baked goods and drinking a lot of beer in the final weeks for setting me back. Last Thursday, I took a 1RM for deadlift. My goal was to beat my pre-disc-herniation-flare-up 1RM of 315 lbs. I deadlifted 335 lbs. I did not go for 345 lbs, even though I thought I could have based on how 335 went, because a) the trainer I work with had a commitment and had to leave, and b) I rounded my back slightly on that attempt. I did not re-injure myself.
For the next program my trainer is going to put me through, we’ll work on a bench press 1RM. I wanted to see if I could exceed my pre-disc-herniation-flare-up 1RM of 240 lbs before the end of the year, but we put that off because I was having shoulder and biceps pain while benching. That pain has gone away. We will also work on re-introducing squats.
And on the bench press 1RM note – Seen at the gym: A hot fit lass, I’d guess a 20-something college gal, was trying out a bench press 1RM last time I was at the gym. For her attempt at 175 lbs, she bounced the bar off of her chest (I’d say natural breasts in the B-C cup range, so plenty of padding) and her butt might not have stayed on the bench, but she completed the 175 lbs attempt. She tried twice at 185 lbs, but her ass definitely left the bench both times and her spotter had to pull the bar off of her.
Thanks DEG. Maybe next time you can be her spotter.
I think he already spotter her.
Aww, these will be missed, especially as I start to crawl out of the holiday-related fitness hole.
Thanks much, Chafed.
Thanks slumbrew.
While I’ve got my routine, I have modified it to some extent based on some of your posts as well as some other fitness stuff that ends up in the comments section. Overall, I’ve found it beneficial. Hell, I’m ending this holiday season in better shape than I have for a number of years. Thanks for taking the time to post this weekly feature!
Thanks DrOtto.
Nooooooo!
Thanks, Chafed. I loved these so much. Pretty sure I only missed a couple over the years.
“This all starts with you. There is no substitute for you getting up and moving. No one can do this for you. You must do it.”
Most important words you’ve written. Every diet and fitness experiment is N=1.
I appreciate everything you’ve done for us Chafed.
Happy New Year!
I was just thinking, “I wonder if Tundra would want to take this series over?”…
We’d be happy for someone else (or several someones) to take this over either as a weekly column or intermittent feature. The timeslot has already been given to The Hyperbole, but there are other timeslots.
Lol. I love having someone else enact my labor!
I would consider it if people really want it. Diet is a huge interest of mine as well.
[starts chanting] Tundra, Tundra, TUNDRA!!!
Yeah, if anyone’s going to take Glibfit over, Tundra’s a good choice.
Thirded.
Firsted.
Legit LOL to MikeS
Legit LOL to MikeS
Seconded.
🤭
*clicks upvote*
Thanks Tundra. I’m retiring from GlibFit but I’m still available to advise you on music and gifts for your wife.
Thanks! You suggestions have been stellar!
It’s a trap. You should be taking my advice on music.
What gives you the impression that I don’t?
Because you’re sentient?
*mic drop*
Hateful®.
Thank you, Chafed
You’re welcome KK.
Thanks Chafed – it was a great run.
Thank you JI.
🤘🏻😥🤘🏻
I can’t believe it’s been three years. I’ve enjoyed the music, and learned some fitness things along the way that I might implement one of these days. (Stretching sits on shelf…staring at me…taunting me)
A sheynem dank!
Stretching is a great book, and probably helped me prevent a number of injuries over the years.
*SIGH*
I might have had someone in mind when I wrote that line. 🤘
Thank you MikeS.
Is that this Stretching book? I could use a good one.
Also, thx for the column, Chafed. It was always a worthwhile read.
This one
Thx, Mike.
marks the 40th Anniversary of one of the most infamous, notorious, controversial Heavy Metal Bands in the World
Really? Not that I paid much attention, but what was their notoriety – doing Carpenters covers?
Well shoot — now I’m disappointed Frogleap didn’t cover Rainy Days and Mondays from what I can find.
Well done,Chafed.
Thanks Brooksie.
There is no substitute for you getting up and moving.
This has been a serious issue for me over the past couple of years. I need to shake myself out of this torpor.
Yup… same. I’ve made the resolution more than once, and started to do the morning walks a few times — only to find way too many of my neighbors are out there walking too. I like solitude on my morning rambling… so finding the right time between that and the park sprinklers being on has been trickier than I expected. Still need to do it, I know.
That’s exactly what it takes. Going from zero to one, so to speak, is the biggest victory. From there you can tinker with what you are doing. Just get up out of your seat and do something.
Exactly. The 1st step is often the most difficult.
Some years ago I wasnt working nearly enough, was sliding into depression, and was putting on weight. Id tell myself to get off my ass, even if it was to walk to the end of the driveway and back. Then it became to the corner and back. Next, around the block. And so on.
Yeah, I just came back from a mile walk. (I thought it was 2, but whatever) I’m going a little further each time I go. I’ll get there.
👍
Thanks Chafed — as someone with at best intentions in this space, I’d like to say that whenever I commented on my small efforts and plans / thoughts to improve you were very supportive. Enjoy recharging your mental batteries.
With this and Stoic changing, it will be a bit different at first – though I suspect we’ll adapt. What’s next, though… SF calling it a day? Swiss doing a daily pun links? Dogs and cats! Living together! Mass hysteria!
I’m glad I was of some help to you. Keep going!
*narrows gaze*
Good job Chafed. Can’t believe it has been 3 years of these, lots of great info and motivation. It’s been a solid Sunday series.
Thanks KSuell.
Hey Chafed, Thanks! Best wishes to you and yours’… Sorry I was AWOL for a while…lost my password err..really busy and didn’t have much to say. Anyway, I have been doing what I do..including tanning my scrotum and eating a lot of liver. I feel like a King with a brown sack!
I am planning a 3-day fast as recommended by AB Vigano for Jan 6 Detainees starting 03JAN. I hope everyone can join..at least en spiritu.
Merry New Year! Get lean; stay lean.
+1 scrotum tanning. Lol. I wish you were around more to provide these invaluable tips.
Is that you Dr Saladino?
Welcome back! Missed having you show up to talk about your Wim Wenders breathing exercises. 😉
I hope, as always, to see the usual suspects and n00bs on Zoom. I think I’ll hop on in a couple hours
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Clothing optional?
Kidding- Im going to bed. SOME of us work all night. Let Rufus know.
Don’t encourage OMWC & Sloper, for fuck’s sake
I haven’t put on clothes all day KK. Happy Nude Year!!!!
Clothing optional?
Kidding- Im going to bed.
To rub one out?
I appear to be the only sucker…er, Glib on right now.
First off, Chafed, thank you very much for GlibFit. I read most of them, and got some good info out of ’em. What I’m about to say isn’t a criticism of what you wrote, but rather my constant and sometimes relatively intense disappointment at fitness information available over the ‘Net as a whole.
It’s no secret that many of the Glibbies are, shall we say, men and women of a certain age (ahem!), and I know that, for me at least, as I’ve aged, a whole range of activities are (or at least should be) on the “no longer wholly recommended” list, merely because there are certain aspects to the biomechanics of aging that no amount of positive thinking will overcome.
For example, if you try to go at something hard like you did in your twenties, let’s say weight training (an abiding interest of mine), you’re faced with the inevitable fact that, while your muscles will still respond well to resistance exercises (although probably more slowly than in your youth), your tendons and ligaments will most definitely not. Blow your ACL when you’re sixteen, and your body could probably repair it. Blow it beyond your early 20s, and you’re looking at surgery, because most of our connective tissue that we formed when young loses its vascular system by the early 20s (turning into what’s called “white tissue”), which means there’s no way for the body to transport repair materials to the injured site.
To add insult to injury, as we age, the connective tissues become more brittle; the same sudden movement you did at eighteen to overstress your muscles momentarily and encourage hypertrophy will probably cause connective tissue to snap, and bang! — once again, you’re looking at surgery.
It’d be interesting to see a series on “geriatric” weight training or just generalized fitness that takes into account the aging process. Problem is, it would be a lot of work; my search-fu’s pretty good, but finding specific info on this subject has been rather frustrating for me. I’m not sure anyone else would do significantly better without a big time investment.
Beam, I agree with your sentiment on lack of “mature” fitness advice available. As for strengthening tendons and ligaments, I have been researching plyometric exercises because most of my injuries lately have been tendon related. Seems there are some exercise routines available which can strengthen tendons that may prevent injury. The exercises are trivially simple but should be “eased” into.
I wish I had the time to delve into them and try them out…
Perhaps this new year, I will become unencumbered (work retired) and report back.
become unencumbered
[high fives IRBE with age-appropriate enthusiasm]
I don’t see, based on my own research, how any exercise could make connective tissues stronger that no longer have any vascularity. There would literally be no method for the body to transport “raw materials” to the tissues in question to make them stronger.
Oh..OK nevermind. I guess there might be some stem cell therapies and various other drug stacks familiar to LeBron that could help. I’ll follow-up with him when I get a chance…
I just understood that there were exercises that could increase the strength, thickness and decrease elasticity of tendons. Surprised/counterintuitive that decrease elasticity for tendons is a good thing.
I got an X3 System. Resistance training without hurting yourself. It wasn’t cheap but I think it might be worth it. I have slacked off using it over the holidays and I am noticing/feeling it.
No offense taken. I’m 58 and well aware of how age affects me. What little geriatric info I’ve seen is literally that. It’s aimed at people who have problems ambulating.
My opinion, and it is only an opinion, is to do what you can and gradually increase your exertion over time. Pay attention to what your body is telling you. You should be able to feel the difference between pushing yourself and overdoing it.
I’m guessing Q finally got that gov’t funding he applied for.
Why are men attracted to women’s breasts?
As I’ve been telling Q for some time now.
You’re not into Klein bottle-shaped breasts?
Kinnath gets it
Lol. It must be true.
I don’t know if I can take this article seriously. There isn’t one reference to gender being a spectrum.
Haha. Yup.
Glibfit for New Year’s Day. I started three batches of mead. There’s a certain amount of lifting and moving involved. So, I’m taking credit for it.
Thank you, Chafed.
I will never be a fitness model or even a reasonably athletic person. But I’ve enjoyed your articles, especially the ones on lesser noticed issues like sleep, food, meditation, etc.
Thanks HS.
I spend a lot of time sitting at a computer. My desk chair suxx.
I’m thinking of getting an “X chair” but am wondering what product would be best for me. Do any of you guys have experience, good or bad, with X Chair? Is it just a brand name gimmick, or do they really provide a better sittin-on-ass experience?
My personal opinion – there is no good way to sit at a desk for 8 hours. And liberation from that is why I am excited by the prospect of retirement.
I have no experience with the X Chair, but I’ve heard nothing but raving positive reviews of the Aeron. I almost don’t believe it, because it looks like a medieval torture device to me, but the people who own them are like a religious cult in their devotion.
Self mortification was very religious for a long time.
Supposedly the Herman Miller Aeron Chair is the pinnacle.
I own an Aeron chair, and have since the early Oughts (going on 22 years now!).
Best chair I’ve ever owned. It’s not perfect; the Spousal Unit uses a “ball” chair in combination with a sit/stand desk, which she really likes.
A chair with testicles?
My ass is planted in an Aeron right this minute. If you’re willing to tinker with them a little bit, you really can’t beat it.
Added bonus – I got two of them for free, from a client that was going to throw away about twenty of them. I think that someones’ second wife got hired to redo the office, and either didn’t realize or didn’t care that they were throwing fifteen grand in the skip…
Good God.
She wanted to dump them all? If that’d been me, I would’ve taken all of them off her hands and re-sold ’em on eBay for about ten grand or so.
Whatta moron.
If I’d had a garage or other storage space, I’d have done exactly that.
My ass is planted in an Aeron right this minute. If you’re willing to tinker with them a little bit, you really can’t beat it.
Same here.
Same chair or multiple? For that price I would hope it lasts.
Like I said, my Aeron’s approaching its 23rd “birthday.”
Sorry, re-looking at my original message, I can see why you’re confused.
It’s the same chair all this time. Things are built like tanks.
That’s impressive. I can amortize something like that.
I’m still rocking a chair at my “work” desk that I bought around 2008. It’s… in really bad shape.
The chair at my “fun” desk (where I am now) I bought a couple years ago. It’s much nicer but I seriously doubt it will last 22 years, not at the price I paid. I’m noticing that these chairs have effectively no price ceiling…
Yep.
Based on the price I paid in 2000 or so, the chair’s probably cost me less than $50 CDN/year (turn of the century dollar!), or under a dollar a week. Probably about $1.30 CDN/week in 2022 dollars.
Oooops. Not a ball chair, a pneumatic piston variable-height padded stool (which she stole from my portrait studio, grrrrrr) with a partially-inflated rubber disk on it (for core strength/stability) coupled with the afore-mentioned sit/stand desk.
She does really like this combo, and adjusts the desk up and down numerous times a day.
My Aeron was a door-prize from my dot-bomb job in 2000. Still going strong, although I had to replace the piston a couple years back (about $30).
We’ve been looking at one for my wife – fortunately my SIL works for Herman Miller these days.
Mmm… employee discount. The insurance company I worked for also owned Bulova watches. I remember getting a couple there for cheap. I brought one into a watch store / jewelers to get some small work done on it, and in talking to the jeweler, he even said “I couldn’t have sold it to you at that price”.
I’ve used Aerons at work for years.
I can also give a thumbs up to Steelcase’s competitor the Leap.
https://www.steelcase.com/products/office-chairs/leap/
Friend used to work fo Steelcase and I got one free and it’s every bit competitive. Does some things better and some things worse.
The best way to get either one at a reasonable price is find one of the many, many office furniture liquidators. You can find many gently used chairs at good prices.
absolutely is the pinnacle
shop around: different franchises offer different discounts; or the same shop might need the revenue at the end of a bad month
I put off buying my first one (home) a few years because list spooked me, but I only paid 60% of that
second one (work) is only a year old
sharing a chair might be weird because you want them to fit
NewWife is six foot and solid, so we share the one at home, but we keep it set up for her for hours of remote work
Remember how I found you there
Alone in your electric chair?
I bought an X chair about a year ago. It’s worth every penny. The variable low back support works as advertised. It provides all the claimed support. I’m in my chair all day and it’s very comfortable.
I loved these articles. Thank you for taking the time and mental energy to write them.
Thanks robodruid.
3 Years? Holy cow, I did not realize that. 3 years ago I weighed 20-30 lbs more than I do now. Thanks for the run Chafed you did great! And you made me a Steel Panther fan. Your last song Rocks!
Thanks WS. Making you a Steel Panther fan is reason enough to have done it. 🤘🤘
That’s awesome you have lost 20-30 pounds. Take a bow. Or just enjoy your smaller pants size.
Thanks Chafed!
Thank you Sean.
Look into maca root. FR.
Congrats on the end of an era after 3 years. I’ve only read the series sporadically, particularly since my exercise routine went by the wayside the last couple years while we were dealing with my mom’s health issues. I’m pretty much back to square one, but I want to try to get back into it this year before the last of my youth rots off the vine. It’s depressing how quickly you lose what you gained. I spent 17 years exercising at least 5 days a week, and within a few months of quitting it was like I hadn’t exercised a day in my life. Moral of the story: as long as you’re physically able, stick to a routine that works for you. It’s a lot easier to keep going than to restart.
Pat, I have only empathy for what you have been through. Yeah, it blows to take a giant step backwards. But tomorrow is coming regardless of what you do. Go do something with it.
‘I spent 17 years exercising at least 5 days a week, and within a few months of quitting it was like I hadn’t exercised a day in my life.’
I see you have the same body type as me.
Thank you Chafed. I’ll miss Sundays with you. Could set my clock, er calendar, by it.
Thanks GL.
Speaking of chairs… if I had the overpowering urge to splurge, I’d probably get one of these.
This Vikings game is difficult to watch.
10 guys on the field.
14 guys on the field.
No it’s not.
Watching Aaron Rodgers do anything other than sulk or bleed is a disappoint.
It’s always nice to see dome teams go into the cold and get their asses kicked.
Almost as nice as seeing Tosu lose.
C’mon, 39 point rally – they can do it! Oh wait, this isn’t the Colts.
Thanks for all the articles. I’m often at the gym Sunday afternoon and read many of your articles while working out. The advice and encouragement has been appreciated.
Thanks Drake.
Thanks, Chafed, for your efforts these past 3 years.
I really can’t do a lot of exercise while the snow/ice is on the ground but I had been driving a wheelbarrow heaped with heavy wood nearly every day and then carry it into the house. Come spring time I’ll be back on the treadmill and exercise machine. Walking is tough for me but on the treadmill I have the handles to hold and can get a few miles racked up. In the before days I’d be out with a chain saw when there was no snow but now I have to burn the stuff out of the shed.
I appreciate all the work that you and the others have put in to make Glibamania an interesting and informative place to be. You can still do articles.
Thanks Fourscore.
I can’t believe it’s been three years! I’ll miss these posts.
GlibFit.
https://www.redgifs.com/watch/dimwittedgloriousamericanavocet
NSFW.
https://www.redgifs.com/watch/growlingrealgnat
NSFW.
https://www.redgifs.com/watch/creativeopulentjunebug
NSFW.
https://www.redgifs.com/watch/coldglisteningbuzzard
NSFW.
I think things were about to get very good
Pretty sure she’ll kill you in your sleep.
Worth it.
managed to turn off some of you with some more strident takes
not me, not on this post or any other comment: you’ve never offered positively wrong advice; for me, even an opinion that I don’t like is not necessarily a mark on its holder so long as it is moral and fits into a consistent philosophy
I’d go so far as to say that your consistency is a top ten reason to read Glibs
Wow! Thanks Don.
Chafed, many thanks for this body of work. I have found it always interesting and sometimes helpful. You da man.
Thanks RC Dean.
Thank you, Chafed. I may not have taken your advice, but I did read.
🤣👍
Thanks Mojo.
I like how NBC decided to highlight Baltimore’s scenic downtown Applebees on primetime TV. Don’t think the Bee’s even had to pay for that one.
I saw a video today on how the Inner Harbor has a zombie mall. Maybe that’s all NBC could find.
We are advertising HIV pills on primetime football.
Why do I feel like that is less about advertising to a mass audience and some form of social signaling/about sending a message?
To be fair, HIV pills are heavily advertised on every other program too.
I don’t watch much TV at all, but that is just extremely odd to me.
There is a very specific audience you would want to be hitting with those ads, and a relatively meaningless Steelers-Ravens game/football in general wouldn’t be it. I haven’t noticed any other pharmaceutical ads in this game.
Ravens fans are acid dropping rave attending faggety cock suckers so it kind of makes sense.
Guessing they’re very profitable.
Maybe it has something to do with all those sweaty guys in a pile.
I “watch” football with the sound muted. If I glance up from what I am doing and it is a commercial then I stop watching. I sometimes glean some meaning (“Camp Lejune!!”) but most of the time I ignore it. Saves my sanity.
You shouldn’t ignore the “Camp Lejune” ads. As I understand it, if you ever drove by Camp Lejune, or even heard of it, you may be entitled to huge compensation from the Federal government, even after a scum-sucking lawyer takes his 40%.
We haven’t had TV for many years now so I never had the “pleasure” of seeing these Camp Lejune ads many of you mention. Until a few weeks ago in a waiting room when I caught about 10 minutes of TV. I chuckled when I saw a Camp Lejune ad twice in that short time.
I’ve only heard of the Ads secondhand.
Is this the one with a plus-sized woman getting head from a pinhead?
That commercial creeps me out.
*uncomfortable LOL*
I think that’s a dude. Or at least that was my conclusion after seeing that fucking commercial dozens of times.
uhh…what now?
NFL is the only television I really watch and there have been a whole lot of HIV med ads this year. Don’t know if that extends to other tv shows but I also found it odd.
Today’s dueling Columbo marathons would be more enjoyable if both channels weren’t tag-teaming the same episodes all day. 😠
It may be time to flip over to Baywatch.
The love affair with Mike Tomlin reminds me a bit of the Obama shit. Guy spent almost a decade pumping his top resources into his defense with nothing impressive to show for it. Had one year where he got the unit to play as a top unit where they limped to a .500 record when the starting QB was out and no one really went into games thinking we need to make plays. He usurped play calling from one of the best defensive coordinators in NFL history sometime around 2011 and it’s been down hill since. Made his last defensive coordinator the scapegoat once again when the guy was a glorified LB’s coach and promoted his buddy who has a terrible track record wherever he’s been.
Even this year, with the offense a complete shit show he spent more money in FA on fixing his piss poor defense. They crowed all through training camp about how they should be top 5 in every statistical category. Fast forward to the end of the season, and they can’t stop the run when it counts and he has to resort to a six man front to desperately try to compensate despite having the highest paid front 7 in football.
The motherfucker squandered the years when the Steelers had elite offensive talent with conservative bullshit gameplans. They were always a lower seed than they should have been because his teams pissed away winnable games against bottom feeders whose hands he played into.
In summary, Fuck Mike Tomlin. Definition of mediocrity. I’ll just be glad I’ll never have to hear about Never Having a Losing Season again after tonight.
Mike Tomlin: I’ll take your 6-10 team and make them 8-8, but I’ll also take your 12-4 team (fuck 17 game seasons, too) team and make’em 10-6.
More job security than the fucking pope.
Technically, popes don’t fuck.
You keep believing that.
They may not fuck, but unlike you, they most certainly first.
Neither can Catholic priests. Obviously, that rule has never been broken.
Jimbo has three kids.
Lol
Looks like you need to wait a little longer.
As a Steelers fan, I have to hope the Browns knock them off next week to kill NHALS…
Or just say fuck it, hope they make the playoffs and they blown out by KC or Buf again.
Explains SO much.
It is but one factor of my greatness.
My Firstness, you could say.
Once the roster chaw spit put together aged out all he has done is keep the boat from sinking.
Chafed, these have been awesome. Have helped me keep on the straight and narrow as far as my excersise needs go. Kept us all motivated during the lockdowns, amazing.
Thank you.
Thanks Zwak.
My love for you is like big truck,
Berserker,
Would you like make big fuck,
Berserker.
No thanks.
Did he just say “making fuck”?
I don’t remember which one he sayd but I giggle when I hear that song.
“Sayd”? Oy.
I have an ebook formatting client who is writing a hit piece on some scammer. Okay, whatever, I don’t care. Pay me.
I get to the last page and she’s copied and pasted my company’s logo under the words, “published by.” I told her I wasn’t her publisher. She said, “But you are A publisher.” “Yes, but not YOUR publisher.” “Mm hm, okay.”
Twenty bucks says she intends to put my company as her publisher anyway, at which point, we’re going to have a very stern come-to-Jesus meeting.
Come to Jesus or go to Hell?
Come to Jesus or I’ll see you in court.
It’s not like I haven’t sued a former client before.
Your business frightens and confuses me.
I hope for no drama. 🙂
Here’s what my business does:
1. Publishes my own books.
2. Publishes other people’s books under a separate imprint name.
3. Formats other authors’ and/or publishers’ books for digital and print.
4. Runs the publishing arm of a medical professional association.
5. “Shepherds” other people’s books from writing to editing to publication.
6. Occasionally edits and/or proofreads books.
7. Quite often uses not-so-mad Pshop skillz.
Then, as a side hustle, I edit medical dictation.
Neither ebook formatting nor medical editing makes enough money. They did, once upon a time, so I’ve resisted changing because I hate change, but I can’t afford to anymore. So that is why I am moving on to medical coding. Once I get a job, I will drop medical editing. Ebook formatting will become my side hustle.
You can probably take solace that no one will read it, if they try it. I guess it may be a principle thing. I’m sure you could take legal steps against them, but it would almost certainly end up costing you more than you’d get. The threat may be the best you can do. But I know nothing here, really.
I would, in fact, sue her to keep her from claiming I’m her publisher. I’m not gonna put up with that shit. It’s not that I WOULDN’T publish someone other than myself. It’s that *I* decide whom that’s going to be.
But this is the worst part: She paid me to format. If she claims I’m her publisher, but she paid me to do so, that makes ME look like a scam. That is the last thing I want.
Question – I’m assuming she is looking to put this shit on Amazon and such. Would you have any resource against her where she looks to upload the ebook?
Nope. Amazon and Smashwords/Draft2Digital (ebook distributors) don’t care and are not affiliated with me. The rest of the ebook purveyors have even less investment in a petty squabble involving a third-party vendor.
Hopefully the threat is enough to get the point across. I would think if she is remotely rational it would be. She has no basis for what she’s doing and I’d guess just wants to make her own work look more credible by having a publisher she can list.
What would a lawsuit cost you here?
Don’t know. I’m not sure I can do a small claims just to get her to take my name off her work. I’d probably just hire a lawyer friend to write a cease and desist letter.
A Swiss associate? Or you could go with NW, Rockabilly Gal and Ass.
Does NW still go on the Zooms? I haven’t seen him on the site in a very long time.
He isn’t a big fan of Firsters.
Was just reading fact checks on the claim that blood clots have been tied to Pfizer’s shots. The article really, really went out of its way to avoid using correlation or actually providing any of the actual data from the FDA’s study. Not a single statistic was used, but they made numerous references to the study only finding a “statistical signal.”
Then you go to the banned Epoch Times story on the matter and it actually links tot he study and posts the charts with the actual data. But they’re the ones considered lying liars and propagandists by social media giants.
Also read the fact check on the claim of embalmers. It involved a bunch of nonsense that had nothing to do with the claim. One quote from an embalmer saying it’s just from freezing bodies and too many dead people to deal with creating clotting. Some claims that embalmers don’t typically take blood samples (as if they couldn’t save some really weird fucking blood/a giant fibrous clot they found). And one claim that you would have to cut someone open to remove something the size of the clots being found…which if you watch Q’s documentary, that’s exactly what the embalmers claim they had to do in many cases. Cut arteries that prevented them from doing their jobs because they were so large.
The funniest part of fact checking/misinformation nonsense is how it all came about from the bogus Russian collusion/interference nonsense. It was adopted by governments the world over because it makes for a good talking point to really dumb people. It’s a threat to democracy and such because the voters are obviously too dumb to sift through evidence and make their own conclusions. We have to protect them from themselves.
Not only is it really convenient for petty tyrants the world over to rely on the label of misinformation to censor speech (most dangerous anti-free speech trend of my lifetime), but it also created a really great way for the traditional media sources to set themselves up as paid gatekeepers of information as they were slowly dying with the rise of social media and the splintering of news sources.
With the clots – they were big on emphasizing that correlation doesn’t equal causation and arguing that because no causal mechanism had been found. Which is technically true, only you could probably find a few hundred fact checks done by the same outlet where they are just fine taking studies that show only correlations and skipping over the whole causation thing entirely. Pretty much all the social sciences struggle to prove any sort of causal effect. They insert their own justifications to explain the data (which itself is often suspect). And then they quote experts to repeat the agreed upon talking point that the shot hasn’t been shown to cause clots. They never say yet, and only begrudgingly admit twice at the halfway point and near the end that the FDA study called for more research on the subject.
I want to say it’s all ok because these cunts are rather ineffectual to explain things away, but when you have all the major institutions regurgitating the same talking points, no matter how stupid what they are saying actually is, it has a power all of its own. It’s enough to convince people already inclined to agree.
I’m to the point where when someone says the word expert, I want to reach for my completely metaphorical gun…
As far as I’m aware a causal link hasn’t been found in many things that have banned as carcinogens either
It’s a ridiculous level of proof to ask for. The FDA study from December had flaws. That much is true. More studies should be needed to convince people. But yea…it wouldn’t be too difficult to find articles from the same asshole who wrote that one taking correlation as proof positive of something. Or overlooking far more flawed studies that reinforce the preferred narratives.
I’d still love to live in a parallel universe where those shots were launched on Trump’s watch. I know a shit ton of the MAGA crowd who wouldn’t have gotten the shots no matter what Trump said, but I know precious few progressives who wouldn’t have rushed to condemn them had they come out a month earlier…or had Trump won reelection.
This. The second Biden was “elected”, every prog turned on a dime from “I’m not taking the Trump vaccine” to “you will take this shot or else.”
Amazing how that’s been swept under the rug.
I never predicted how frighteningly successful all manner of propaganda would become in this country.
Honestly, the propaganda in this country was probably pretty overwhelming through much of the twentieth century and only slightly more difficult to detect because there were far more limited sources of information. With the consolidation of media and the increased credentialism in ‘journalism” with a few select schools pumping out the mouthpieces of the state. It was less controversial because the rabblerousers were far fewer and quieter. Internet was a game changer for media and took us back to a time when there were a lot more voices saying a far more diverse array of things.
One thing I think people miss with the push to label anything right leaning/conservative/libertarian as misinformation was just how convenient it really was for the traditional media sources. It through them a lifeline when they were dying and as was shown with the talk of David French last week, fact checking can be pretty lucrative for the propagandists. It was the perfect storm – good for business and good for the agenda.
The down shot of the diversification of media sources is that things became more polarized and the battles have become far more intense right in proportion with how stupid they often are.
Most fact checking articles read like they came from the worst member of a high school debate team just defending a position because they are supposed to do so. Speaking of which, are those even still allowed? I remember years ago championship debate teams being posted where diverse youths seemingly spoke in tongues to make their arguments. You can’t really argue anything controversial these days. There has been too much of a narrowing of what right thinking people are allowed to think.
Like, the debates probably things like…
Should we adopt solar and wind power today or literally tomorrow?
How high should the carbon tax be?
How brave are transgendered youths?
How many lives did the Pfizer vaccine save?
Festus was even saying the other day how he was watching an interview or some such with Reagan from 1980 and how all the bullshit was pretty much the same. We’ve been arguing the same things since the 1950’s on, at least, just to differing degrees. The lexicon changes, mostly as a result of the left constantly rebranding their failed talking points….but it’s all pretty much the same.
You just don’t have people like Ted Kennedy’s good friends Cronkite and Barbara Walters to abuse their air of authority to create as much consensus.
I’m just pointing out how causation hasn’t been needed to be proven to vilify anything, ever.
This is a circle jerk not a sword fight, CPRM.
Posting this stuff here is just venting or preaching to the choir on this subject.
Glibfit is the only article I know on here that Dana Snyder read when I paid him to guest star in the Anniversary special last year. So you got that going for you.
LOL. I still want to get a Mike Tyson cameo for my birthday.
Morning, Glibs.
Good morning!
How do you know what kind of god damn morning it is?
Because I was up first.
☕😉
Howdy!
I mean at least the site will become less white supremacist without fotness content…
No thotness content? Is Q leaving too?
I have 4.5 lbs of strip steaks to grill today.
Temps supposed to get into the high 50s. 👍
How many people are you planning to feed on that?
Two. It’s only four steaks.
https://nationaltoday.com/national-science-fiction-day/
Happy national science fiction day.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/12/30/lost-wallet-returned-54-years-Fayetteville-West-Virginia/7911672425890/
Why was it in the duct work?
I tested positive for COVID on Tuesday after a couple of days of coughing and sneezing. After another day or two all symptoms were gone. Never even got a fever; had to do 2 nebulizer treatments, so not bad at all.
So I’m looking at my employer directions for what to do in the event of a positive test result. It just says “isolate per CDC guidelines” with a link to a CDC page. But even that is incredibly vague. I have no idea if I can go in to work or not.
I emailed my boss last week but he was on holiday so I have not heard back.
So here I sit unsure if I need to go get dressed or if I can slum it in my PJs, which would also mean I can get an extra hour of sleep since I wont have to drive.
There’s so much ass-covering verbiage on both the workplace website and CDC website that I am at a loss as to what the actual minimum requirement is.
Happy Monday, y’all!!
If your symptoms are gone and it’s been five days since the onset of symptoms, then you can return to work.
That sounds like the last “official” guidance I heard.
Well of course, since I just said it.
https://pics.me.me/would-you-like-a-jelly-baby-24723016.png
Have you had a negative test since?
No, I’ve not taken another test. The CDC guidelines say the test results might stay positive for a while after contagion is gone so I didn’t want to waste a test kit.
I think I’ll work from home today and get the boss’s verdict.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2023/01/get-ready-nj-these-new-state-laws-go-into-effect-in-2023.html
NJ sucks. News at 11.
OFFS!
Official Active Shooter Plan: “We allow open carry. Bring it on, assholes.”
Because it worked so well at Uvalde.
Having an active shooter plan is worse than useless, if you’re not also training and re-training your people on that plan.
Oh, I’m sure there is some outfit that will be happy to circle around to every “large venue” three times a year to assist. Hell, they probably wrote the law.
Yes there is. Her name is ALICE
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/mega-millions-starts-new-year-with-a-bang-a-785-million-jackpot/
Hmmm…might be time to buy tickets.
https://news.yahoo.com/kaleidoscope-netflix-choose-own-adventure-004449058.html
Sounds ridiculous.
“See, Kaleidoscope is created so that its first seven episodes can be watched in any order. Not only that, but each Netflix subscriber will have their episode order presented to them in a different sequence. There are no episode numbers, with each installment instead paired with a color code: “Yellow,” “Pink,” “Orange,” “Blue,” “Green,” “Violet,” and “Red.” “White,” the series finale, is placed at the bottom of the order for every user”