Chapter 9 of The Slight Edge is entitled Invest In Yourself. This chapter ranges far and wide. I’m only covering the parts of it applicable to fitness.
Results come last. We all want to judge the effectiveness of our actions based on their results. But how can you make this judgment, while you are doing something, when results come last?
Judging yourself by your actions is better but still not wholly effective. The fundamental flaw in this approach is actions “are not the source of your success or failure.”
“The only reliable, consistent way to control your attitudes – that control your actions, which control your results – is to control your thoughts. And the source of your thoughts is your philosophy.”
“Your success will always be the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Your philosophy comes first; your results come last.”
Of course, the progressive realization of your worthy ideal is going to be tested by reality. We all have to deal with life. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Few, if any, of us get to our goals in a straight line. So, course correct along the way. Employing The Slight Edge principles, you will naturally do this. You may be off course a good part of your journey, but making those small, simple course corrections will lead you to your goal.
Zig zag your way on the upward curve my friends.
After a much too long hiatus, MikeS made his triumphant return this week. Glib celebration music. I even saw Heroic Mulatto briefly pop in this week but I’ll be damned if I know what type of music he likes. What goes with thicc, Asian, ass-eating women? Maybe this?
An HM link.
SFW
Sweet tune. Well done.
That is why it pays to brave HM’s links.
That’s good.
I remember when he first posted that link!
Awesome. Plus, he’s right. If I’m ever really desperate for some “sexy time” with the SU, I’ll just play this song first.
Hi Chafed, Thanks for new edition and greetings from NOCal. Great hiking weather here breezy and clear. Fantastic 10 mile route planned but group showed up late and hung over…WTF. Only did 4 miles. Me no happy hiker…Hiking for me is like fishing in Montana…serves me right to hike with yahoos.
G-fit update: Sleep was very good. Food was very protein less fruit. Hike mileage was down (because today) to 35 miles this week. Wim Hoff/meditative “ancient man” techniques; Did 4 times. Weight up 2# at 175. No Fast. Did some MICT (medium interval continuous training) –didn’t know that was a thing. I read that for most MICT is just as beneficial as HIIT. Probably better for those in 40-50’s since there is risk of injury.
Goals: Meeting goal weight range max (175-170). Still not dead from Covid…still not vaxxed
Relative to “results come last”: I read that after a year, your body replaces 90% of cells, so in 2 year you are practically different. For those not into deterministic genetics, you can positively change health outcomes in 24 months or if you are on PEDs just 7 weeks eating chicken breast, broccoli and brown rice :Rock here’s looking at you:
I also came across an article about muscle recruitment. Based on the article if you are unable to recruit or efficiently use muscle then said muscle is just steak..Ha! I always wondered about those that are wiry strong. I guess the wiry recruit muscle more efficiently. Makes sense; use it or lose it and cross train a lot.
To live better, fat adapt, skip a meal or three!
I’m kind of curious about that article. Do you have a link?
Sorry, I don’t have a link. I was not paying attention on a Zoom call and browsing articles without book-marking. I do that a lot when Zoom-bored. I sux.
GlibFit.
https://archive.is/lBueu
Yes. Yes they are.
Mmmmm inflation! Give me more cheap dollas! PRINT BABY PRINT!
I.. uh…. forgot the part where I put a link in:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inflation-data-disney-earnings-what-to-know-this-week-175321283.html
GAH! All of those type of links give me Elizabeth fucking Warren bitching about poor Gavin getting recalled by racists. I hate that broad!
Me too but I take solace knowing they are burning ad dollars on me. Suckers.
25 miles today. About 5% faster. I’m slowly getting my bike saddle callouses back.
Go, Scruffy.
Eck-chay the orum-fay.
Will do. Thanks
I’m afraid to know where those callouses are.
That would be a taint callous, Chafed. The taint.
There’s chamois butter and cream to help with that.
Glad to see you, sir! May I direct your attention – and that of any other central/western Ohio Glibs – to the Forum topic I started to announce & plan a Greater Dayton area Glib meet-up in honor of your venture down to the superior end of the state in a couple of weeks. ? Please chime in whenever you’re so inclined and feel free to correct me if I’ve misspoken.
After a much too long hiatus, MikeS made his triumphant return this week.
Nice.
The Glibs celebration music: When your grandparents rock harder than you.
I kept up with a few workouts on the road until I got sick. West Indy Barbell Company in Indianapolis; Black Hills Barbell in Hill City, SD; Weight Room in Rapid City; and The Pit in Dickinson, ND were all good places to work out. I was starting to have a few problems with mobility due to all the time sitting driving.
I’m out of commission until I kick the pneumonia and finish my Covid isolation. I don’t know when I’ll be back at the gym.
Pneumonia?! I must have missed some news.
Heard Tom Woods is recovering from it.
I cut my road trip short because I got sick.
‘Rona with bacterial pneumonia.
I’m on antibiotics and a cough suppressant.
Sorry, monsieur. Glad you sound… functional.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Zn2Fv6n6Q
Thanks. I like the look on Jennifer Gray’s face in that clip.
I like that Louie Anderson is one of the delivery men, bobbing his head. Flowers, balloons, and who’s the balloon-faced guy who looks as if he just emerged from an early Tears for Fears vidya?
Sorry DEG. I hope you heal fast.
Thanks.
I’m a little worried I might need a second round of antibiotics. The current round ends tomorrow and I still am coughing.
Get more antis, and a different type this time.
A “standard flu” with secondary bacterial infection scarred 40% of my lung tissue back in my mid-20s, partially because the initial doctor mis-prescribed antis that weren’t really appropriate for the infection. The second doctor gave me stuff that wiped the infection out (and also pole-axed my gut biome).
Yuck.
I expect I’ll be talking to my doc soon.
Heading out to the Skateboarding museum to ride their ramps. Personally, I liked the Steel Panther song better than the soul/pop one that Moj linked back to. If you gotta pay for it, might as well get what you want, amirite?
¿Porque no los dos?
Yeah, it’s kinda cool, but it’s competing with Asian Hookers. They make it hurt when you pee.
https://youtu.be/3vmPwZT-9zY?t=79
Blackjack gets me.
Today was a good day for my mental health. This week is the county fair and rodeo. The finale is the Sunday parade. Not a big deal in the Grand Scheme of Things, just a community enjoying friends and family. Everybody in town was either in the parade or watching it. Not a mask in sight, just smiles all around. The kids took in a bigger haul than at Halloween.
Enjoy some small town normalcy.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Vz9PPZr7D7PiFgfD6
The old guy on the Snapper drives that rig all over town. It even has his oxygen bottle
If “TPTB” would schedule my next post, you’ll see how very relevant this comment is to me!
Let me see what I can do. The forces of χάος have launched a mighty assault on the order and structure that is Glibs.
So that’s what happened.
I could read that without Googling…it pays to have been engaged to a Greek!
Wait. No. No, it doesn’t.
It pays to be a language nerd.
Nice! Thanks for sharing.
+1 !
Very nice
That is so charming and wholesome.
“Click on squares with a flag.”
/i’m not a robot
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPmnu50eBihjK3_jueXP9ZvXAFPTSuVbhAi-5JhjUt4DuHMzxfVjLz5jBPZXVz7Gw/photo/AF1QipPnQdjaMZ5US1MyyRjE37WtI9vfkxOmH4Tp-0DR?key=Rkt0ZUNNS2NUVTR3T2pOVjl1UC00OEVFOTh6R1RR
Made me think of this
https://youtu.be/Mmrs9GYkbqg
Yep, telecom and not power. 18′ and no big deal, although the first time you gaff up on a pole 6′ is pretty wild.
I’m still on the intermittent fasting. It’s going really well except for Zoom nights, when I usually run 30-60 mins overtime. I’m not gonna weigh myself – I’m just keeping an eye on how my clothes fit.
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KK, You should try a 24 hr fast. Just forget to eat once.
Pexercises? I require Glibs assistance in arresting the southward migration of my nipples.
Wide bar pull ups
bench press, both flat and inclined
dumbbell flys
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At least Google the right way to do those — dumbbell flys in particular are what screwed up my left rotator cuff. Who knew there were right and wrong ways to do those?
Thanks BEAM ??
Ps so I don’t have to wade through a lot of different videos of contradictory meatheads what is the Glib correct way to do it? Drink in each hand instead of dumbbells?
Well, look up “Athlean-X” on YouTube. Bookmark every video he’s done on “what not to do” (or variations thereof). Study the exercises he talks about that you’re tempted to do. In many cases, there are substitutes which are safer — and occasionally, there are exercises which he says you have no choice but to abandon if’n you want to have a better chance of living an injury-free life.
For instance, I had to stop doing deadlifts forever — a very talented Calgary-based modern-chiro who’s consulted to the Canadian Olympic Teams watched me do the exercise and said “Your form is as good as I’ve ever seen — now I want you to never do it again, because your postural muscles around your lower abdomen simply will. not. take. the. abuse, no matter what you do.” Turns out I have a structural congenital defect which simply won’t handle the exercise. Period.
Sucks to be me, but at least I don’t experience multiple weeks of lower back pain any more.
That is excellent advice. Athleanx will definitely teach you proper form.
And if that doesn’t work,
https://youtu.be/ODV6mxVVRZk
Yikes.
I’m on week 2 of my Steve Reeves inspired all-body workout. This is very old school, using a barbell and dumbbells for the exercises. No special equipment needed. It’s a serious ass-kicker though; variations of squats and deadlifts 3x a week.
linky: https://mikemahler.com/articles-videos/weight-training-for-size-and-strength/the-steve-reeves-workout-for-size-strength-and-health
And hey, it works. Last Friday my arms looked – all pumped up – the biggest than I’ve ever seen. Plus yesterday I got the goo-goo eyes from a gothy looking teenager. ::eye roll::
“Hey, baby, want to go thrift store shopping with me?”
“Who the hell’s Steve Reeves?”
😉 sorry…
Before Ah-Nuld, there were a series of more natural looking, pre-testosterone injection bodybuilders. Steve Reeves played Hercules in the 1950s
https://www.builtreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/steve-reeves-025-e1454603804438.jpg
Sorry, just quoting Rocky Horror audience patter, which I tried twice.
I got it. See below.
Tried twice the audience thing anyway. ?
Maybe you could take in an old Steve Reeve movie with Brad and Frank.
https://youtu.be/bc80tFJpTuo
Anne Francis stars in / Forbidden Planet ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GKhPVHoodrU
I like gladiator movies.
I bet she’d do anal.
How was solitary?
I know you’re not interested but I’ll bet you are flattered.
I’m trying to convince EF that I need this car:
https://www.grautogallery.com/vehicles/10355/1963-ford-galaxie-500
or this:
https://www.grautogallery.com/vehicles/10731/1982-mercedes-benz-280ce
I’ll take Jay Leno’s any day…
I’ll take Jay Leno’s any day…
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/angelos-lament-reinvented-1966-ford-galaxie-7-litre
The car of Theseus.
I’ll be in my bunk.
NewWife will get in ten miles (NBD, not the point, really) walking the golf tournament this weekend. She’s standardbearer (scoreboard toter) for Poulter’s pairing, so just enough out of contention that she’s only got five seconds of airtime. Cap at cute angle? Check. Ponytail proud and silky? Check. Relax lady, for the love of doG: nobody can figure out it’s you anyway.
I’m sitting on the couch drinking beer, of course.
Hey, congrats! Rowr rowr.
Legit cool, that.
Pics?
I have only one (I didn’t go today, just watched on television): she’s well in the background.
She did scrutinize it when she got home.
This was her 19th year volunteering, almost all spent carrying scores. She is no longer a newbie, but 25-30 years’ experience is rather common. She walked with Berger and Crane on their winning rounds, so that’s two out of the last six winners. I generally won’t say who she likes because I won’t tell who is an asshole, but we make one exception: Boo Weekly is the nicest guy you will ever meet.
St Jude is terribly important to Memphis. If you get a chance to research Danny Thomas and ALSAC, you’ll never find a more committed and selfless bunch (no conflict of interest here: I’m Scots Irish and my people have been here 300 years; if I say these new neighbor Syrian Catholic types are solid, you can take it to the bank). It’s a thrill to see that free services for patients is still the plan for the foreseeable future. If you give alms, these are worthy husbands of your donations and much thanks (a cousin of mine lost a child to cancer there 20 years ago; the hospital up the bluff from me is quite a bit more than just a name on a map).
* Whispers congratulations in hushed overtones*
https://mobile.twitter.com/OfficialTRHL/status/1424386690580422657
Heh.
My kids are sick of pumpkin pie and apple/cherry hand pies.
Time for some chocodiles?
Raspberry Zingers are your friend
Oh for the love of doG, just give ’em Pop-Tarts and promise to do better in the next life.
I keep promising that and they keep not believing me.
DELIVER ON YOUR PROMISES, CHOSEN BRUTAL.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
These.
Oh.
My.
GAHHHHHD!!!!!
And just for you, Moje! [Disclaimer: NOT GlibFit approved.]
I liked Pop-Tarts when I was a kid but they have about twice as much sugar as I can stand nowadays.
Naughty.
Although not as naughty as these.
(Full disclosure: I would TOTALLY MURDER a plateful of those and then grovel in regret afterwards…).
The thing I hate about poptarts is that they’re so dry. Not enough filling.
I like these.
Agreed on the dry.
And I would totally try those if I see them.
BAAAAAACOOOOOOON! 😀
limey on August 8, 2021 at 2:53 pm
Pexercises? I require Glibs assistance in arresting the southward migration of my nipples.
I feel ya. With age I’ve acquired “furniture disease”.
My chest has fallen into my drawers.
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A companion to “Dunlop’s Syndrome,” as in “mah stomach’s dun lopped over mah belt.”
Or “dickdew”. My gut sticks out further than my dick do .
? @ every one of these
Larry Elder speaking at FreedomFest.
Newspaper publisher doesn’t like private correspondence pushing back against her paper’s biased hackery, publishes portions of the emails along with the letter writer’s name and position to tar them. Defends actions because letter writer is an elected official (county circuit judge). Who wrote it from a private email account, not their official one.
https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2021/08/letter-from-the-editor-writing-to-a-newspaper-is-an-inherently-public-act.html
I don’t know enough about that specific incident but identifying the individual that wrote it is an absolutely shitty breach of ethics. Well, should be anyway.
And it’s all because the cops weren’t feeding her the information she wanted in a timely enough manner – and she lists a bunch of good reasons why they might do that!
JFC.
I skimmed it. Did the judge ask to be anonymous?
Otherwise, I’d agree if you write to a newspaper I’d have no expectation of privacy.
I do think it’s a dick move to attack a reader like that, but OTH he is elected unlike the judiciary here in NJ.
No expectation beyond private correspondence just like to any other party. Unless you’re submitting a Op-Ed piece or a Letter to the Editor for publication, there isn’t or should be an expectation that it will be published. And if there was a question if it was for publication, then the newspaper should have followed up first.
Agree with Sensei here – no expectation of privacy, and a dick move in the part of the newspaper. Then there is this:
“Our fair-trial system of justice means people have the right to a judge who is impartial and – importantly — who gives the appearance of being impartial.”
Spot on. And you might also say that the people have the right to a press that is impartial, and – importantly – gives the appearance of being impartial. Which is kinda what the judge was trying to tell you.
No worries. These rags aren’t long for this Earth. I know ZERO people under the age of 45 with a subscription (either online or physically) to a newspaper. I realize that they’ll probably get bailed out by the FedGov, but what does it matter if no one’s reading them anyway?
Someone linked to one of these this morning and now I’m hearing it’s a parody.
Which makes sense when you think about it.
It’s nearly impossible to distinguish parody from reality nowadays.
I nailed down another 15 holes with my Carapace on, it felt good, a bit hard on follow through but still shot +3, not bad for the Old Man,
Yezhu looks . . . delicious.
Yeah, I went there. Deal.
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I totally flubbed it this week, not a single bike ride and I missed two days on the speed bag, my excuse for the latter is that I determined I needed to beef up my platform as it was very wobbly, so it was down while I rebuilt it, I probably have about 75$ in it now, which is still better than the couple hundred for the ones I saw on amazon and it’s now about as solid as one could want.
So you’ve got that going for you. Which is nice.
Would the front page lady.
Replying to Sean from a long dead thread.
I was asked what the racial breakdown is for the segregated, unvaccinated inmates is. I did the math. It, at least at the one prison, is 84% black 12% white, 4% hispanic, 0% other.
For context: the rest of the prison population is roughly* 50% black, 40% white, 9.9% hispanic, .1% other**
*These numbers are just my estimation. The first set are exact.
** other includes Asians, Native Americans, etc.
Looks pretty racist to me. Where’s BLM?
I appreciate the response.
They’re the wrong Black lives.
It’s funny around here, must be an anomaly, but black folk seem to be the most friendly polite people in general, while wypipo are in general, well, just rude and obnoxious.
In the spirit of mental (or bankbook) fitness I have canceled two yearly subscriptions.
1. ESPN+. Got an email last week that the yearly rate is going from 50 to 70 dollars. Done. I barely watch it lately anyway.
2. A software subscription that I no longer need now that I have decided to ditch my Mac in the wake of their decision to play police now.
I blew about the combined total of these at OmahaSteaks yesterday so it kind of works out, right?
I saw a tweet about the Mac police but was not sure if it was true. Fuck that! Mutherfuckers.
I fully expect the other manufacturers will follow suit but still. #fightback
Hell, I’m surprised there hasn’t been Biden diktat on this already.
Biden’s Paradise.
I’m inventorying all of my (firearm) magazines.
This is turning into quite a task. Magazines hide where you least expect them (especially when your interest in housekeeping is as minimal as mine…)
So far, between 2011s, CZ Shadows, Glocks, and M&Ps, I have 97 pistol magazines on hand. And I’m sure there are a few around that I haven’t found.
I’m kinda dreading rifle magazines.
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No one needs 97 kinds of pistol magazines. How many are for the revolvers? The rest are for the automatic assault weapons of war, I presume.
Revolvers take speed loaders and moon clips. Silly goose.
Wheelguns just use bullets. No external devices needed. And they’ll fire what ever fits properly in them. In today’s world where ammo is scarce, they have advantages. They also promote better efforts to hit. You don’t really spray and pray with just 6 on board.
Lol.
I’ve got some killer aluminum billet speed loaders.
I don’t own any revolvers at present.
I’m not doing that.
I’m putting on some mileage on the treadmill, closed out the week with a 1.15 miles @ 2.2 MPH. There are some that might say this is pretty weak sauce and in the ‘old days’ I would agree. My excuse is that I had to relearn to walk with 2 two legs and one ain’t so hot yet. I am walking a bit without a walker. Every day seems to be a little better, appetite is recovering and almost back to my long time fighting weight.
Every small problem is a big problem for me. Had a flat tire on my lawn mower, a 1/2 hour fixit job, right? Took me an hour and a half, had to find and fix the leak without taking the tire off the tractor because my knees don’t bend quite so well any more. OTOH, I’m grateful that I can even do some things. About 10 days I relearned that I could do some bodily functions standing up. I thought of a little boy running to his mother , excited, that he could do it just like daddy now. It doesn’t take much to amuse me these days. That’s why the Glibs are important in my life.
You’re doing great, 4×20!
You’re my hero, Fourscore. I aspire to be 3/4s as good.
I thought of a little boy running to his mother , excited, that he could do it just like daddy now.
I’m glad your prostate is working again!
I like that you are making progress.
I want to be you when I’m an Ancient.
Diet last week was very good. Protein and vegetables mostly. Except Wednesday when I ate a cheeseburger and fries.
Didn’t run during the week; Ellensburg was hot even in the mornings. Hotel room had a/c. A/c won.
I’m in Seattle (mostly) for this week. I gotta run alot, but I’m gonna have to wake up at 5:00am and hit the road by 5:30. I’ll just have to do the thing. Must stay strong.
My wife is constantly arguing on Quora, lately. She like to ask me random questions, I guess because her google is broken or slower or something. I google it and answer.
Try googling, ” what percentage of the American population has died form covid-19?” It flatly refuses to answer. It answers all of the questions it wishes you had asked, like how many people have died and how many cases are there, etc. You have to take their number (which is highly inflated) and divide it into the total pop number and you get .18%. I assume it’s too big by half, so it’s probably really .9%.
In L.A. county, the bullshit number gives .62%. Fucking scary, huh? I only have a 99.4% chance of being just fine with no vaccine. Remember, most of this (effectively all of it) was from last year, when there was no vaccine. It’s like people are just not thinking straight.
I think you mean “.09%.” Otherwise, I get your drift.
I was going to point that out, but…
I was told by armchair ‘experts’ in early 2020 that it was equal to The Spanish Flu in terms of infections and deaths. Oops…
Yeah, sorry. I run into problems when I have to cut my fingers into pieces. As soon as I hit submit on this, my phone rang. It was a local number, so I answered it. She said, ” Hi, my name is xxxxx and I’m with the county dept. of public health. I’m just calling to see if I can help you schedule an appointment for a covid vaccination. Can I help you schedule that right now?”
I said nope and hung up. Seems a bit weird that they connected my number with not being vaxxed.
Christ, really? Alberta hasn’t been perfect, but so far, nothing quite that Orwellian.
Seems like they pretty clearly have a list. My work may have reported me, or my last test may have recorded it. Either way, I ain’t interested in the shot. Just ignoring the ‘vid is at least as effective.
Dude.
I don’t answer any call that isn’t in my contacts.
NYC is also not that Orwellian yet. I get emails from my health-care provider but that’s about it.
The lady from the vaccination center here called me on the day before I had my scheduled appointment. I recognized the number so picked up. I said, I’m heading down there in a little while. She said ‘great’, and that was it. But a cold call? The only possible reply will be ‘Go fuck yourself’.
If I don’t recognize a number, I don’t pick up, especially if it’s a local number. Those are the biggest number of scams by far.
Yep. My area code is 646 which is Manhattan. I don’t live in Manhattan or know anybody who does but wow I sure get a lot of phone calls from there.
My phone reads, “scam likely” when it’s an iffy number. Apparently, this one doesn’t trigger such a warning, despite it being true.
I think that only happens after a number has been reporting as a scam by enough people. But when it happens, they switch the number, different number, same scam.
Hyperion:
The scam likely numbers are generally based on spoofed outbound ANI’s being sent from the outbound call center. There was recently an FCC rule that went into place trying to limit those, but there’s already ways around those rules. The outbound spoofing generally just take the area code and exchange from the number they’re calling and randomize the last four digits, that way it looks like it’s a local call.
Right, thanks for the tech info. I don’t know how it actually works, but I did realize they are not actually local numbers. Some of them, I believe, some from call centers in India.
Hyperion:
Doesn’t really matter where the physical call center is (most are places with a cheap labor pool), as you can send the calls out via SIP which can work anywhere you’ve got an internet connection. While there are laws about what and where you can call, if you’re already running scams, you’re not that concerned about the laws.
How many people’s cell phones actually have local numbers? The area code, sure, but not the exchange. When I got my cell phone, I didn’t recognize the exchange, which is officially somewhere on the other side of the Hudson River.
Exhanges are meaningless in the NYC area as far as I know. They were meaningful in Buffalo and Rochester back in the land-line days but that’s ancient history.
They created whole new “cell-only” NXXes where I live. Mine’s “699.”
I put in some walking last 2 days. Saturday I walked around the grocery store, around 1 mile total. Today I walked in the grocery store and then to the liquor store, bout .4 miles total.
On a good note, it’s the first time I’ve ever been in that liquor store. It’s in Balmer City, but you can walk across the road from Balmer County to get there. Alcohol sales are strictly forbidden on Sunday in Balmer County.
Anyway to cut to the chase, there were around 10 people in there, including the lady at the register, no one had on a mask. I did when I walked in, but then took it off. Grabbed 2x 4 packs of 16oz Sapporo and went home.
We had that until a few years ago. It was amusing watching the liquor stores fight it, lose, and then every single one of them is open on Sunday now.
I suspect they may be open on Sunday in Balmer County by the year 3900 or so. In Balmer City, they leave it up to the owner. As of now, I know one that is open on Sunday and there will be people in there all day from the time they open until closing. The only day they are closed is (((Saturday))).
“strictly forbidden on Sunday”
It’s not the religious right pushing it. It’s the ‘OH MUH GAWDS THERE’S A SCHOOL WITHIN 30 MILES OF HERE AND THE CHILLINS WILL SEE THE DEVIL’S DISHWATER!’ crowd.
I haven’t been on much, so how’s DeAssholio’s mandate going?
At first we were only allowed six days a week but then it changed to seven and they’re all doing seven days now, and because the law bans chain stores, mom and/or pop are running every liquor store with no days off. I do feel bad for them to the extent that they are trapped within a framework that they supported until it turned against them, but I don’t feel that bad for them.
Not much to report on the Blas diktat. Guessing nobody will rise to the challenge and fight it. I mean, it’s not like we’re France.
. . . it’s not like we’re France.
I’m sure no-one here ever thought they’d utter that phrase admiringly, eh?
I’ve been expecting that the blowback to the attempted destruction of Western civilization would start in Europe. But I’ve mostly been thinking Eastern Europe.
But I do expect the USA to be the last area in the world to rise up. We’ll probably all be speaking Mandarin by then. The ones of us who do not escape to an empty Central American country.
Ni hao, comrade.
I am not surprised that the likes of France are fighting this and we aren’t. I do believe that the US is so used to comfort and relative peace that we’re just caught unawares by what’s going on.
Given what I know of my rellies in Normandy, I’m not surprised the French genpop’s getting pissed about all the restrictions. Good on ’em!
It doesn’t help that most Americans are just incredibly uneducated about how the world really works.
That’s why the Dems get as many votes as they do.
My theory on why they get so many votes involves ballot harvesting and universal mail in ballots.
Oh, that’s going on as well. That’s how they actually win in a lot of cases, I suspect. I was referring to actual people voting for someone with a D next to their name. You have to be clueless as to how the world actually works, to vote for the policies the Ds are pushing.
Braising a 3lb pork shoulder in white wine, chicken broth, mirepoix. Tomato paste and two bay leafs. I’ll strain out the carrot and celery, add crushed tomatoes. Chopped fresh oregano and rosemary.
Served over a polenta cake, lightly fried in olive oil. Fres grated parmesan.
Baby spinach dressed with evoo, lemon juice, salt pepper, artichoke hearts, and olives.
Vodka, carrot juice, Perrier flowing.
Should be a good dinner.
I’ll be right over.
Right? That sounds exhausting.
I managed a German sausage and cheese plate. The bread was stale so I tossed it. *sigh*
Su-perb!
Beer drankers and helllll rai…. um, errr, Beer Drankers and Shit Posterssss!!!
Nation’s foremost imbecilic rambling quack
“There’s a tenet that everybody knows in virology: a virus will not mutate unless you allow it to replicate,” Fauci told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.” “Fortunately for us, the vaccines do quite well against delta, particularly in protecting you from severe disease, but if you give the virus the chance to continue to change, you’re leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant, and then that will impact not only the unvaccinated, that will impact the vaccinated because that variant could evade the protection of the vaccine.”
Gotcha.
There’s another tenet in virology:
“Respiratory viruses respond to selection pressure, and always become more transmissible and less dangerous.”
But we wouldn’t want the genpop to learn that, now would we?
How about, vaccines are fake immunity and nowhere near as effective as actual, natural immunity from having had the virus and recovered. If you keep giving so many people fake immunity, you are preventing the people from developing actual lasting immunity and the vaccine will wear off causing them to get infected for a longer period of time and allowing the virus more opportunities to mutate. Maybe that is what’s happening here? We are merely stretching the time period of large amounts of people carrying covid and screwing over the people who might actually be harmed by it by increasing the time period in which they are exposed to it. All to assuage Fauci’s guilt for having invented the fucking thing. It’s a theory anyway, at least as good as the stupid assed shit this clown keeps positing.
When we see a ‘variant’ of the virus that is both more virulent AND more deadly, we can probably be assured it was manipulated in a lab.
“a virus will not mutate unless you allow it to replicate”
Too bad the vaccines don’t appear to stop it from replicating.
I despise that little shit. He’s openly admitting the vaccines don’t stop the spread but you’ll have to take them for public health even though the only valid public health interest is stopping the spread.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/fauci-expects-flood-of-covid-vaccine-mandates-after-fda-approval_3938900.html
He feels guilty because he invented the damn thing.
I don’t think that sociopath feels guilt about anything. He’s a scumbag looking to capitalize on the tragedy he helped create.
His intellect is sufficiently weak that he is incapable of feeling empathy towards other humans, and dogs apparently, or remorse. One needs morals and principles to feel those things and he is devoid of both.
I seriously doubt that chipmunk face has the intellect to invent anything outside of another lie. He backed the funding of it and when it happened, got released and spread around the world, he capitalized on it. I’m a capitalist, but there are some things, like killing millions of people, that should not be capitalized on. And the person who did it, and is still doing it, should be tried for crimes against humanity.
Look at the framing. It’s no longer “imperative” to take the shot to stop the pandemic. It’s “vaccinate because FYTW”.
Well, look at what a great job China has done. If only we could be more like them…
Weld every government employee into their houses for the next 18 months?
Wait… for the ones who can still afford wood, we’ll have to use nails.
Also, if you think WV is not Cosmotarian enough for you, I’ll take that bet. In 5 years, Martinsburg will be the hip and happening envy of the entire nation. Cali proglodytes will pay millions for 800 sq ft cabin in Berkeley county.
You laugh, but I live in California.
They’re government employees; they’re not humans.
Uhh, whatareyudoinere, Blackjack? Just get on the 5 and keep going until you’re out of here!
Hell no! then I’d be in Oregon. I ain’t going there any time soon.
If I get fired for not getting the shot, I’m moving to Florida, taking the 50% pay cut and hoping the cost of living evens it out. And suing.
Some good live music going on right now. Funky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW5oeOHoHKA
I am curious what I could make in a dirt-cheap town like Buffalo or Cleveland. Better yet if I could transfer my existing salary (which isn’t all that great by NYC standards) there.
rhywun:
With more IT jobs going full work from home, there’s been some booms in the local job market. I’ve gotten e-mails for entry level helpdesk jobs starting at $25-28/hr. The housing market has been heating up in most of the suburbs as well, especially as it’s looking like you’ll only be paying taxes on the city you live in instead of both the city you live in and work in. The cities with office buildings and the like are unhappy about that, but it’s going to hurt the big cities.
“If I get fired for not getting the shot, I’m moving to Florida, taking the 50% pay cut and hoping the cost of living evens it out. And suing.”
Factor in the cost of AC first. You’d probably be better off in WV, eastern TN, or SC.
The big cities are fucked.
Great tunes, Pud.
We use a/c all summer and heat all winter. My wife ain’t never heard of moderation. I could probably make decent money working on bikes down there, but I’d have to hustle a lot more and there wouldn’t be the crazy good bennies I get here.
“The big cities are fucked.”
Absolutely. And the left are more easily predictable than the sun coming up in the east.
Here’s what will happen. The exodus from blue shitholes will accelerate to the point where there is no longer enough revenue to pay for their big tax and spend aspirations. The infrastructure of Balmer is 3rd world level, with the highest taxes in the state coming in.
Their solution will be to try to squeeze more out of the already overburdened tax payers. Which will result in an even more accelerated exodus.
Before they even come close to learning from experience the city will be a literal 21st century ghost town. They won’t be able to pay people to live here.
And there is zero chance they will cede political control to another party.
They’ll ride it right down into the gutter.
Detroit nods knowingly.
“If only we could be more like them…”
No worries, democrats are working tirelessly on that for us.
Exactly
That little authoritarian drives me nuts. I hope whoever defeats Biden in 2024 fires him as their first official act.
I hope whoever defeats Biden in 2024 fires him as their first official act.
Preferably out of a cannon.
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+1 Barum & Bailey.
I’ve returned back home after seeing my first concert in over 18 months. There’s a show coming up this Saturday locally that I’ll probably be heading to, because I don’t want to risk missing any more time that I can spend at shows seeing live music. Weight has been annoyingly stable over the past couple of weeks, so I’m going to shake up the plans and get more rides in during the week and worry less about counting calories.
They started scheduling them around here, but now they seem to be cancelling a bunch. I got three refunds last year for cancelled shows. Nobody can count on the local governments allowing them anymore out here.
Viva from last year got pushed, and they offered to roll the tickets over to the event this year, a refund, or exchange them for a future year (as it does have a fairly large overseas draw, and the rules for international travel keep changing). I’ve already got tickets for the Slackers with Mustard Plug opening for them (in the before times the Slackers would routinely sell out in this area).
A month ago I was going into the office and mostly ditching the feed-bag except occasionally for appearance’s sake.
I stopped going to the office because I can, and now I’m hearing it’s going to soon be back to full-on mandates in New Jersey and I expect lockdowns will follow in the next few weeks.
IOW exactly what I called eight months ago.
I just hope I can go back and fetch my monitors so I can set up my “home office” in the spare bedroom again – it was really nice last winter but I’m stuck in my LR this summer because I don’t have AC in the home office.
“When you look at the level of virus in the nasopharynx of people who are vaccinated who get breakthrough infections, it’s really quite high and equivalent to the level of virus in the nasopharynx of unvaccinated people who get infected,” Fauci said during a CBS News segment.
So- not much.
They want us to believe there is a nearly impenetrable soup of virus everywhere we go.
What a steaming pile of horse shit.
And if it is equivalent, the only benefit to the vaccine is a reduction in symptoms.
Why don’t they tell people to lose weight instead? Get healthy? Things that have benefits beyond COVID?
Throughout the entirety of this shitshow, never once has the bureaucracy brought up that low vitamin D levels are correlated with bad outcomes. Never once have they said “Hey, lose some weight. Stop smoking. Get some exercise.”
Nope, it’s “You’re going to get the jab, one way or another”
It’s also not fucking true. The British REACT study is documenting much lower viral levels in vaccinated persons (at 1/3) who do get infected.
So much this. The CDC has been revealed as a clown show. The media covering them is incurious and scientifically inept. It’s damn difficult to get decent information.
So what’s his point then? Is he just stupid? Is he saying it to push masks? Lockdowns?
I don’t fucking get it.
Yes.
I don’t know where the truth lies with Faucci. Could be the decision making process is fucked up (institutional corrosion at NIH & CDC, garbage data like bear festival study, and general poor analysis, etc) or he’s lying for reasons (anything from the increasing numbers are making him look bad to whoever he reports to or fears about future trends, real or imagined).
The problem with credibility is once you’ve lost it, it just doesn’t return because you handwave it away. Just one more reason Fauci should have been fired last year.
Chafed!
MikeS being back is glorious!
Me being on the back side of chaos is also glorious.
I need to get my shit together. The last few months have been a bear, but the end is in sight. I’m going to visit a gym tomorrow and see if it’s the place.
I am also shopping home stuff in case the commie here does something stupid.
Yesterday was a fantastic hiking day. I’ve only been here a week, but I’m feeling pretty good.
Have a great week, Glibfitters!
Go Tundra Go.
https://youtu.be/gQPdADsFS7M
Fuck yes.
Thanks, Chafed. That’s perfect!
You’re welcome. And tell MikeS there is AC/DC waiting for him.
Where are you now, Denver metro?
I will be a FtC Metro resident as of next weekend.
Actually from a tax perspective, I have been a CO resident for 2 weeks.
I am going to write an article this week covering my last 9 weeks. There are some amusing stories.
I’m really glad the last couple of months are over.
Where did you end up, Tundra? And tell Mike S I said he’s an asshole if he doesn’t show up here regularly.
I’m in NW Arvada. It’s a really nice area, especially as a staging area to explore and see if we want to stay.
This means war
If I was DeSantis, I’d build a land bridge from FL to Cuba and offer every single person there refugee status in FL. Then when they arrive, I’d fly them all over the country, free of charge. At least all of the Cuba hotties would be awesome medicine for the Covid blues.
Adventures in logic
Me: Getting the vaccine after recovering from COVID is all risk and no benefit. There is absolutely no valid reason to require it in that scenario.
LP Dipshit on Facebook: I don’t think a doctor is going to tell someone to go catch COVID instead of getting a vaccine.
I took a philosophy dept symbolic logic class at an engineering school. I was stunned by the number of fellow students who struggled.
I can only imagine how hard it is for the real world.
After you took the class, did you bury it somewhere where it couldn’t be inflicted on people again?
What? It was a fun class.
From a philosophy department?
Must have been an Adjunct with a real job.
It was a philosophy class.
Logic, how does it work?
I took symbolic logic from the math department. It was the prerequisite for Discrete math.
You to LP Dipshit on Facebook: “Have you actually got enough functioning neurons to breathe autonomically?”
I resisted the temptation.
I cited the Israeli results on vaccination versus recovery and reinfection as well as a separate study on antibodies at one year after infection.
LP Dipshit: Is that peer reviewed?
These morons will believe any claim from authority that confirms their bias, but anything that conflicts has to be a quadruple blind randomly sampled study with 100,000 participants conducted over ten years.
Every person on Earth would benefit from reading a basic book on forms of persuasion; my favourite go-to is Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini. Even he’s updated it since its introduction, but it does a great non-technical job of demonstrating that influence is everywhere and is constantly being used against us and our best interests (and Cialdini’s basically a marketer!).
In order to conduct that test, you need a control group.
To be effective, they have to not be vaxed, and the people being used as experimental subjects can’t know who is in the control group.
Between medical appts, extended work hours and 2 weeks of AT in San Diego this past month, my workout schedule has really slipped (and another week of eves and another week in San Diego later this month…..). Not great.
Walked around the track a few times today – no issues. Tried jogging a lap – and my knee is not doing so well. I was hoping I could do an elliptical for alternate cardio for our fitness test in Nov – looks like that option was discontinued a few years ago…I’ll have to start slow and work back up to a mile and a half on the run. Just irritating being in this situation.
In the long run, ellipticals are not good for knees. Have you tried cortisone yet?
No, the x-rays don’t look that bad for the knees. I need to work on my stretches more. In *general* they both feel a lot better than they did a couple weeks ago, but I hadn’t tried running on them probably since May. Thought ellipticals were better for low impact exercise.
When I can get back into the gym I’ll try and get back into walking on treadmill at a high angle (10-12 deg) at 4+ mph.
Grind a disc course, flat, some up and down, it’s good for us old guys, and it’s fun,
Wouldn’t mind a round of golf, but I hate summer weather so much….
When it cools down a little more, I won’t mind walking outside as much either.
Baking a batch of Cannabutter Chocolate chip cookies, let’s see how it plays out,
Yay! they turned out alright, a bit buttery, Kerrygold, do they work? we’ll see,
Ah damn, he got the Velcro!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0N4PBvyDhk5TvqUEC7WqUN
Whoa! getting high and RAIN!
oops made them too good, these are some stony cookies, oh yeah!
A little something to enhance your Zen:
https://youtu.be/GV0MnMBRyRo
From a time when Americans were made of sterner stuff….love this channel.
Ooops…rewind a couple minutes.
Oh oh oh, Here I go! G’dbye!
I might hate myself tomorrow but i’m on my way Tonight,
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E4pXPwuuyA4OW
Kebu,
See ya Glibs
Nighty-night Yusef.
Take care of your sweet self!
If accept sweaty boob money from the hottie on the front page.
So we are 8 months into the “vaccine” and already they are talking about booster shots. That doesn’t sound like much of a miracle cure to me.
It’s the new subscription plan. Get with the program! Do you want people to die?!?
(Remy people will die)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko
Uhm, yes?
Maybe there is a reason mRNA vaccines hadn’t been used before.
It has been pushed since May…probably earlier that you need a booster.
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2021/05/20/booster-shot
The very notion that Acosta is still on the air is disgusting, but that Americans are okay with a ‘news anchor’ attributing and not reporting, shows the deeper cut in our culture.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/08/08/jim-acosta-sets-a-new-low-with-latest-ron-desantis-attack-n423290
I just listened to Ziggy Stardust, and at the end of the album, he says, You’re not alone!
I was playing Dying Light and ran into a character named Yusuf. That is all. Nothing else
it’s quite common, it’s Joseph in Arabic, Call me Joe,
Obama’s bash is actually a God send. My confused teen is struggling with the real world and that which is being shoved down his throat. Dont believe in online bullying? Great..why was Chrissy Teigen at Obama’s party? Masks all the time? See…they dont care. On and on
It was a godsend for those who are paying attention. They don’t believe a damn thing they’re selling and that ridiculous bash makes it so obvious even the blind can see it.
Teigen was there?
LOL
I have 2 new bnack braces, a light one, and the Turtle, a plated brace. Sorry the heavy plated brace kicks ass! i feel Bionic, better, stronger, faster, well maybe not all that, but way better than before, and it’s the exoskeleton, all outside braces supporting my back, it works well,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zc8hbSM1zVo
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https://www.metv.com/stories/ted-levine-thought-playing-the-voice-of-reason-to-monk-was-just-as-complex-as-portraying-buffalo-bill
Wait, that’s the same guy? I did not know that.
A guy who’s less pervy looking without a mustache ? Will wonders never cease?
“Kissing a man without a mustache is like eating an egg without salt.” – some t-shirt somewhere
Good morning, Stinky!
I’ll take your word for it. I’m not into that sort of thing.
Ugh, I said the opposite of what I meant to say. I’m going back to bed.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/07/neighbors-call-cops-on-black-realtor-showing-home-to-black-dad-son/
Wyoming, Michigan. Wut?
The Post loves these stories.
Look like this Karen thought he saw the same robber who hit the place a couple weeks earlier. But let’s not let that stop us from making an international incident out of it.
Take story with a grain of salt and revisit (or don’t) in 48 hours.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/democrat-arizona-state-senator-charged-multiple-counts-sexual-conduct-child-age-14-released-bond/
Pedo released on bond, capital protesters still being being beaten by guards in prison. Sounds legit.
I’m sure he pinky sweared not to do it again before they let him out.
Markie Post died?
Yeah, sorry, buddy! ?
We still have Ellen Foley. And good morning to you – and Sean – anyway.
Morning.
I had to get to the office.
They rebooted by desktop over the weekend too 🙁
I hate it when they do that.
Good morning, U! How long does it take for you to get your desktop back to the way you want it after they reboot?
I hate when mine reboots, too. It takes that much longer for me to get into the timekeeping site to clock in.
The big problem is that I forget what I had open, since those were the things I was actively working on.
And losing my place in a 1300 page PDF is a real pain.
Ugh! ::quickly makes “Bang head here” sticky note for U::
I don’t use Google (chrome, apps) on any of my personal devices, but on the job the ones who will never be evil are mandatory. The one plus is that Chrome will re-open all 20 tabs if shut down, so I don’t have those sorts of issues. And I don’t care about privacy on the job (hint: there isn’t any).
EveryoneHated the proof of concept for using their stuff, due to loss of basic functionality and workflow disruption costing us more than it would save. And it wouldn’t have helped my putty sessions or the open documents since we never got pushed onto the evildocs platform for those.
Yeah, their stuff sucks, but 90% of my work is in either PyCharm (python) or DataGrip (SQL) both of which keep track of the current state and restore after being shut down. Thankfully, I don’t do much document work, the functionality of the Google suite leaves much to be desired.
Yeah, I’m in that role where I’m both management and senior tech, so I’ve got a little bit of both spheres running around my work.
I don’t want to know what trying to read 1300 page rfp responses in googledocs would feel like. *twiches in reflexive annoyance at the thought*
The actual singer on “Bat Out Of Hell”!
Mornin’
Only have to work a little over half the day today – taking the afternoon off to go have a late lunch with an old college friend who’s in town to visit her sister and BIL (the latter of which is a mutual college buddy.) My friend always wants to meet at Chuy’s. I think she’s addicted to the nachos and salsa they bring out for free.
She’s a teacher. I must avoid all discussion of politics like unto the manner of avoiding the plague.
She sounds like the perfect person to try out a prepared diatribe against children being forced to wear masks on and don’t forget to get some digs in on the teacher’s unions while you’re at it.
Only if I have more than one margarita, which I almost certainly won’t – this place is all the way across town from home, and I’m a lightweight.
Uber is your friend. Doooo eeeeet!
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
Good morning, homey! Please be sure to check out my Forum post about a Dayton area Glibs meet-up when
NephMr. Ilium heads down this direction on the 21st. Maybe Jugsy will be around and/or you can adjust your sleep schedule to join us, esp. if we meet late afternoon?(NOT at Chez GT/TT this time – one of the cats has had a couple of “accidents” recently (scare quotes because I think it was on purpose,) and I think we may have to replace our futon sofa’s mattress. ?)
Noted. Just shipped her off for another week.
Mornin’ all. Another lovely day in paradise, off to the sand and surf! And (mostly) no masks. South Jersey > North Jersey.
Say Hi if you run into Snooki.
“Jersey Shore” is set in Belmar, which is kind of North Jersey, actually. Anyhow, I believe Snooki’s already been run into more than once, I’ll pass.
Obey, comrades!
Boy, do they have a lot to learn.
It’s frustrating and confounding that so many Americans who have the luxury of being able to simply walk into a pharmacy or other health site and get the vital shot in the arm just won’t do it. They foolishly put their own lives and the lives of those they come into contact with in danger while at the same time hinder the global effort to beat the virus.
12 years of indoctrination, and they still think for themselves? What are we doing wrong?
Cry harder, bullies.
I’m too fat. I’m going to try to be less fat.
#KetoLife
Did wonders for me, though weight loss wasnt my goal. I wanted to lower my sugar & cholesterol.
Eating >50g carb/day lowered that shit wi’ a mad quicknezz.
Math is hard. 😉
Mornin’ all! So very friggen tired… These weekends are killing me.
Mornin’! Weekends can be exhausting, nothing like a few days of work to straighten you out ?
Gotta sober up sometime.
Thats my philosophy. I need to spend at least 8 waking hours out the day w/o a beer in my hand.
You and I are kindred spirits, Baby-Head.
https://twitter.com/GMWatch/status/1423675629279621121
That’s encouraging. I wonder if it has the same effect on groundhogs…
They probably force-fed those poor rodents like a foie gras goose just to get the results they wanted. Cynical? Moi?
See also: saccharine studies in the 80s
You know, this could all be avoided if vegans embraced their diet and didn’t try to imitate meat.
Amateur Gang Wars
Paintball? Pepper Spray? Weak. Check out any random video from New York or Chicago to learn how to do proper gang wars.
Chicago? New York? Pfft. Pikers, look at Mogadishu.
Get a fleet of Hiluxes, put anti-aircraft guns on them and fire into the deepest concentration of the other dudes.