When it comes to fitness, I’m increasingly in the philosophical camp of trying what you think may work to see if works for you. While we all have a common biology, it appears there is still enough variation, perhaps subtle, that works for one person may not work for another.
Along those lines, I have noticed fitness experts I respect can come to different conclusions about the same thing. I believe these are good faith disagreements. I think some of these disagreements also get accentuated by other people, particularly whomever is in charge of the experts SEO and video tagging.
Let’s take a straightforward example of the phenomenon. Should you do 100 push ups per day? It’s straightforward, appears to be a testable, and should yield a definitive answer. Let’s see what The Bioneer and AthleanX have to say about it.
If you read just the title of The Bioneer video, you would think the answer is an unequivocal yes. But the video presents a more nuanced answer. The Bioneer answers yes but that’s provided you are training other parts of your body, so you are working your entire body as part of your routine. That’s not much of a qualifier but perhaps needs to be said out loud so the underinformed don’t believe exclusively doing push-ups is sufficient.
There are lots of variations on the push up including doing them very slowly and quite quickly. High reps maintain a high time under tension. Blood pools in the area. That creates metabolites in the affected area which leads to hypertrophy. Your body responds by increasing blood flow to the area. This becomes a “permanent” change if you continue to do high reps for that body part.
Where it really gets interesting is you build that increased blood flow leads to greater vascular capacity, increased capillaries, and increased mitochondria. This allows a greater ability to perform work over lengthier periods of time. In other words, you build endurance and performance. You can go longer and harder (Hi Q!).
If you read just the title of the AthleanX video, you think the answer is an unequivocal no. But the video provides a more nuanced answer. High repetitions of push-ups are great, but you must pay attention to unwanted repercussions like elbow or shoulder pain from high rep count sets.
So, you shouldn’t do all those push-ups, right? Wrong. Break them into sets where you stop about 5 reps short of failure. Also, after each set do a set of Superman Press Outs. These are needed to exercise your back. This prevents an imbalance between your anterior and posterior chain.
Insisting on 100 push ups per day may not match your ability level. If you can’t do that many then you can work up to it but be sure to maintain proper form to avoid injury. If you can do it easily, then while you will increase your volume, that increased volume may not be terribly effective. To make it effective, find a push up variation that challenges you.
This week’s music.
GlibFit.
https://archive.md/kJHEV
NSFW.
I would like to see the workout routines of some of these people.
How old are they
How can they afford the time to work out.
Gawd i feel old.
Three pictures of Carriejune Bowlby? Two of which are the same?
I like looking at her, but someone needs to do a better job putting together these galleries.
DEG how do you manage to find the names of these women?
Memory from spending too much time looking at certain subreddits for some women.
Sometimes I don’t know the woman at all. In those cases, if I’m curious about her, I put Google Image search to work.
Last week you asked about SARMS. I had never heard of them but I looked it up and because Im a compulsive fuck I bought two bottles of one called Ostarine. Started taking it a few days ago and all I can say for now is that it tastes like absolute shit, but I will let you know what I think after a week or two.
For Q
I saw that question.
I’ve done a little reading on them. I suspect they are too good to be true. I have seen both they have side effects like steroids and that they don’t.
*thumbs up*
Does 100 beers a day count?
You must be really active then.
Rest in peace, Wade Boggs
Like… in a row?
No, out of one giant tankard.
Can’t do pushups anymore. I’ve tried. Too much joint/shoulder pain after a short while.
Used to do ’em all the time when I was younger. Changing up the method/execution doesn’t work, either.
Driveway is clear and so is the road in front, with no snow bump to ice over tonight. Neighbor a ways down did four passes with his tractor and blade for the road. Leaf blower is an awesome tool. Until the snow packed down, that thing can move all but the wettest snow pretty darn well. Politicians who want to or are banning them should be hanged from the nearest lamppost. Only had to do some touch up work with the shovel. Beats the days of clearing the whole thing with a scoop.
How much did you get?
In areas not equipped for snow it is usually awful. People here that are able to deal with snow normally don’t get that and think people are idiots.
For example one year here in NJ we had a freak storm and nobody did any preparation for it or plowed until almost the next day. It took me 3 hours to get home and many people had stories being stuck for 8 hours or more. If the folks did what they normally did it would have been an inconvenience at worst.
There’s 10″ on the ground now. I’d say both the government agencies and private citizens are more ready for this stuff nowadays, but there’s a lot of dumb decision making and cries for even more immediate relief. Some guy was driving his Tesla (with studded tires) while I was out clearing. Everyone else was in 4WD pickups or suvs.
Until the snow packed down, that thing can move all but the wettest snow pretty darn well.
Huh. I never tried that. I like my snowblower, but sometimes I’d rather have a flamethrower.
Politicians who want to or are banning them should be hanged from the nearest lamppost.
Do you have a newsletter?
I was up to 80 or so in a row before my surgery.
I am nervous about how much stamina and strength I will have lost by the time I can start running and working out again.
Giving another meaning to until you can go balls out!
Hope you are feeling better.
My boss sent me a get well package…of nuts.
Not sure if it was a joke or not.
Reminds me of a job I had years ago where most of us were miserable and didn’t tend to stay long. Once, when we were having yet another carry-in lunch for yet another employee who was leaving, I went to the bakery and brought in turnovers.
Shortly thereafter, the word came down from on high that we would no longer be having carry-in lunches for departing employees.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
I’ve always responded with “the morale will continue until the beatings improve.” It tends to shut people up, which is all I go for these days.
Being nonsensical does tend to do that.
That’s funny, I guess they told you doughnut do that anymore.
No wonder they were hemorrhaging workers.
Switched from a small neighborhood gym to a big chain gym last week due to mask rules. New gym is further away but has more equiptment and a sauna that I am loving.
Hadnt had any more than 25 g of carbs a day from Nov 1 until Christmas eve. Was stuck at a plateau for a few weeks so last week I went down to one meal a day and on the advice of Western Sloper added some high intensity stuff to the end of my workout. I didnt do the sprints but opted for the assault bike because its easier on my back, I had a few fusions done a while back.
Monday to Thursday a lifted for an hour, did 30 minutes on stairmaster and then 25 sets of 20 seconds go and 10 seconds rest on the bike.
Lost 3 lbs and felt great by Thursday. Wednesday and Thursday I was even showing low levels of ketosis for the first time since the beginning of November.
One daughter tested positive for covid Xmas eve so cancelled all of our plans which sucked because I had spent over $500 on food for Christmas day when 20 people were supposed to come over. She felt like shit for 2 days and is much better today but it looks like my wife has it now. Shes just feeling very tired and has a slight headache. Other 2 daughters tested negative and Im out of tests so I dont know if I have it but I feel fine.
Hope everyone had a great Christmas and thanks again Chafed for the great write up.
Glad you are here. Are you in Staten Island?
Was reading the NYP about the FDNY LT who died.
Im in Long Island but grew up in Brooklyn. Yeah that Lt, Christmas day—so sad. They had a 32 year old die in probie school a few weeks ago. Sad that nobody will actually look to see if it has anything to do with vaccines.
For some reason I thought SI.
Yeah, I wonder if that Lt was booster related. Could just have been natural causes.
Sorry to hear about Covid striking your family. Hopefully everyone gets well soon.
Thanks man
Good job. You did better than I did. I did not even weigh in last week. Drank my face off and was a holiday sloth. Pathetic. Hope your household get’s well soon. Being sick sucks!
I bet your week was more fun. And thanks.
Sorry about the ‘vid, Jerms.
Really happy to hear about the progress, though!
Hey, sorry to hear about the vid outbreak in casa Jerms. In a similar rut myself; since I am laid up, my wife and son will be leaving without me tomorrow to spend a week down the shore. I’ll join them Friday if I’ve recovered by then. Hope you guys are all OK.
find a push up variation that challenges you.
Holy moly. When a younger version of myself I did many of those but have never seen most. I imagine I could do 100 a day now over 5 spaced out sets. 20 is not that big of a deal. I do like to use the Perfect pushup handles though so not sure if that is cheating or not.
How about some skiing.
I don’t think the handles are cheating. I have a pair myself.
FWIW, I came to realize my hand position was the reason I needed the handles. You may want to experiment with hand placement to see how it affects you.
Good stuff Western. Perfect vid to get me in the mood for ski season. Not that I’m going to be doing anything remotely like those guys are doing.
The music link is the same as last weeks, you were supposed to play AC/DC’s X-mas song that is only an X-mas song because it has the word X-mas in it this week.
I did in yesterday morning’s comments.
I thought I omitted a music link this week but may have accidentally included last week’s.
Weight, despite eating like shit and drinking a lot, is down. Interesting.
The trainer I work with, during his volume programs for me, would have me perform 100 reps of particular exercises as a finisher. They were… difficult.
I tried bench pressing 235 lbs for a double earlier this week. My previous 1RM for the bench press, set in the days before my disc herniation flared up, was 240 lbs. For the double, I failed. The first rep was OK, and then the second rep I stalled halfway up. My spotter had to help me finish it. Maybe this week I’ll succeed.
The trainer and I have been talking about a plan to get me back to squatting. Deadlifting is going well. I deadlifted the massive, earth shaking weight of 105 lbs this week. Getting back to squatting is the next challenge.
The plan is to move off the belt squat to one of the power squat machines to load my spine while the machine provides stability. If I can go through five or six weeks using one of those machines without a problem, I’ll be back to squatting with a bar. We’ll start with front squats. Another client of my trainer has a disc herniation in the same place as me. This client has had great success with front squats. I want to squat, not front squat, but, it’s best that I ease back into that.
I had a brief chat with a woman that works out at my gym at the same time I do. She had been smiling at me and saying hi to me when we cross paths, I decided it was time to find out her name. We were both in the middle of something so we only chatted enough to exchange names and wish each other a Merry Christmas. We’ll see if anything comes of it. There is someone I need to get my mind off of.
And finally, my gym is completely ignoring the reinstated Nashua mask ordinance. None of the required signs are up. Staff are not wearing masks. The number of members wearing masks has not changed.
Congratulations on your continuing improvement and mask freedom.
Thanks!
So how ’bout dem Chiefs.
Bengals managed to trounce the Ravens (who were on a third string QB), so go Chiefs! Keep the Browns playoff hopes alive!
If the chiefs can’t trounce the rather shambolic Steelers, they might not deserve to be in the playoffs.
In other news, I was pleasantly surprised that on the Bears/Seahawks broadcast, they used “Baby it’s Cold Outside” as bumper music before a commercial. Perhaps it’s a sign that the more rabid #metoo warriors have lost some of their clout.
Summarily trounced.
Watching the game with the sound off. What the heck is the Chiefs costumed mascot supposed to be? It looks like a rat.
KC Wolf.
Used to be an Indian in full regalia. Pretty sure they didn’t put too much thought in it since we couldn’t have what we wanted and actually applied.
Yeah, my alma mater used to have Chief Miami, in an authentic costume doing authentic dances he learned from the Miami tribe. Then we got just another damn bird. ?
OU used to have “Little Red,” who, disregarding the name, was always an actual Indian student.
I got to go to to 2 Chiefs games as part of the pregame show when I was stationed there.
They gave us tickets* and a pregame meal both times.
Being on the field for warmups was surreal. Nobody that big should be able to move as fast as those guys move.
*The tickets were around level 16 on the corner of the endzone.
Agreed.
Yanks me out of the scene when some tremendous mythical being or beast with a stride the length of a towncar is always a few steps behind the heroes.
“I should’ve done more cardio.”
-movie monster
Back in my younger days I was a tall skinny guy, I could run for days but beer drinking didn’t build big biceps better. I went off to Officer’s Candidate School where half of the waking hours was spent in the front leaning rest position. At first it was “Drop for ten”. After a couple weeks the ante was raised “Gimme 20, Candidate” Towards the end it was raised , “You owe me 50, Candidate”.
Anyway, my count was something like this, 1-20 fine, then it went from 20 to “26-27-28” skip “35-36-37” skip “48-49-50” I paid my 50 but missed a few payments.
Just before graduation as we were milling around, waiting to march off to class, my TAC approached me.
“I hear you’re going to Airborne”
“Sir, Candidate 1.5 Score, yes sir” Loud booming voice
“You’re gonna look like a stick jumping out of the plane, gimme 50”
As I dropped down the rest of my platoon started laughing
“All of you, gimme 50, for laughing at 1.5 Score for looking like a stick”
That pretty much summed up how it went when we weren’t in class learning how to be badass.
+ Beady-eyed, barrel-chested, silver-winged, sky-warrior
/5-jump chump
*1/547 AITB, Ft. Benning, Ga.. 1988
“Son, only 2 things fall from the sky- fools and bird shit”
So, rain, snow, hail, meteorites, bombs, missiles, arrows, and bullets are imaginary?
They are al foolish.
#metoo
D co. (Delta Rock) 1/504th, 1989 And he never jumped again.
Oh, I never got to Airborne School, at the last minute I was commissioned Signal Corps (out of Infantry School) and was able to go to 2 long Commo Schools but the schedules conflicted. It all worked out in the long run.
Oh, I did avionics (15N or whatever it is now). Airborne was an enlistment option that 17 year-old Tres thought was “cool”.
In hindsight I realize that the Army will give anyone a gun and toss ’em out of a plane.
“Let us know when you land!”
My EM days I was a 26L, Microwave Equipment Repair. Fixed station for the most part
I graduated Jump School Jun 5,1981 and some Normandy Pathfinders pinned on our wings. Pretty kewl.
I ended up with about 125 jumps and host of physical issues. They don’t often, if ever, discuss what happens to your body after multiple years on jump status during the course for good reason.
Sport skydiving looks fun. Military parachuting is just a method to get to work.
No idea how I’m managing this, but since moving to NY, I’ve tightened my belt three notches. I can promise that it isn’t from pushups.
Toxic bulemia. Exposure to new york is causing vomitting.
Working a kitchen is physical.
Or maybe you’ve become part of the rural meth problem…
Good for you, OM. I’ve regained my appetite and not doing any physical activity I’m about the heaviest I’ve ever been, about 10 lbs over my fighting weight. Eating is easy, exercise is hard. I tell myself that when spring comes I’ll be outside and lose some weight. I lie a lot (to myself).
Eating is easy, exercise is hard.
Story of my life.
Watching The Serpent and the Rainbow haven’t seen it since I was 17 and I rented it. My mom let me on the condition she would watch it with me. After that she never bothered me about what I watched and she damn sure didn’t watch anything I rented again.
Not sure if it’s good or not, but 17 year old me thought it was awesome.
HAPL, EDIT FAIRY!
Wasn’t that the “realistic” zombie flick?
It’s about a Haitian powder that makes it look like you’re dead, but you’re not.
So far it’s creepy and interesting, I don’t remember too much from when I first saw it.
You gotta get the dosage just right or the victim ends up actually dead.
With some popular actress who you got to see naked.
Haven’t seen it since the 1980s on HBO.
I remember watching it, and if teenage me watched it, it was probably for the nekkidness.
So far it’s actually pretty good.
It has a couple jump scares, that are kind of dumb.
There are parts that are genuinely unsettling and an interrogation scene with a blowtorch followed by a nail in the scrotum.
Definite pass
They don’t show anything graphic and the blowtorch is used very effectively for psychological torture.
Yes, separating the Zombies from the TonTon Macoute is never easy.
I have a copy of the book, but I don’t think I have seen the movie.
I recommend it, if you want a mostly realistic horror film.
The ending went off the rails a little bit, but it’s still an entertaining and creepy movie.
The Wade Davis book is actually a really good and interesting read about how he went down to Haiti to search for the actual zombie powder.
I’ll check that out.
Thanks
Cheers Ron, hope you enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eP945alikw
I want a slicer like those guys have.
Yikes, that thing is scary.
Yeah, it’s kinda got “horror movie prop” written all over it.
Off for an afternoon sail. I’ll rejoin in a several hours. Have yourselves a good evening.
Took a short bike ride. It was… snotty.
My ears are still chilled.
Chafed!
I’ve pretty much stopped doing pushups. Between bench, pullups and presses, I’ve been able to find a sweet spot that doesn’t fuck up my old shoulders. Not so much with pushups. Those hurt me in almost any position.
Pretty good week this week, although I pussied out on two bench reps on Friday. Got my miles in, had a wonderful Christmas day hike with the kids and am looking forward to the 2022 version of GlibFit: “Good health is your most valuable weapon!”
Hopefully off to the tropics in a few hours. We still haven’t received travel authorization from the government of our destination. I asked my wife a little while ago: “Remember when traveling was fun and getting ready was all about anticipation and not trepidation?” Good times.
Oh well, hopefully, I’ll be able to check in from the beach. Working on a submission that may be a good substitute for when you take a week off, Chafed.
As we stagger into 2022, I’d like to thank you once again for doing these. Every week I learn something and I think it’s incredibly motivating to have to confess my fitness/diet shortcomings to my friends.
Have a great week Glibfitters!
Right on Tundra, sounds awesome (except for the waiting for authorization part). I’m sure you and the wife will have a fantastic time. Luckily you’ve kept in Glibfit shape so you’ll look great in the high cut speedo.
I was told it’s more of a thong.
The hockey shirt covers most of the view from curious fellow beachgoers.
Which is why I leave it in the room!
Al fresco, baby!
As we stagger into 2022, I’d like to thank you once again for doing these. Every week I learn something and I think it’s incredibly motivating to have to confess my fitness/diet shortcomings to my friends.
Seconded.
You are both welcome.
Whoever hired Aqib Talib as a game commentator should be fired immediately.
He is painful to listen to and his comments add no value or insight.
That’s why Jesus invented the mute button.
So that’s the meaning of Christmas!
Weight report: easily still thirty pounds over ideal, and given my height, it’s not insignificant. Starting to consider amphetamines, but nothing drastic like exercise.
Vyvanse.
“ Can cause rapid or irregular heartbeat, delirium, panic, psychosis, and heart failure.”
I’ll pass.
That’s not omnicron symptoms?
I get those symptoms every time I listen to The Hair That Walks Like A Man™.
Terrifying.
Well, that’s just amphetamines in general.
Breakfast of champions.
Does SugarFree take requests? If so, I nominate this Chevy commercial for an SF non-Subaru Horror theater treatment.
https://youtu.be/c4-oyBnknHk
Ooooooh, tasty. There’s lots of meat to work with in that one.
Oral, it’s pretty obvious. “It’s what she would have wanted.”
I still think old Taster’s Choice commercials are good SF fodder.
Like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VXpQxnkf2l0
I remember! And yes!
It’s creepy as is.
Creepy, indeed.
Also, the actors look familiar but I can’t place them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Head
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Maughan
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Blend_couple
Thank you!
The tune sounds like the theme from the old Bill Bixby Hulk series.
Meanwhile try to get parts for a 2007 Chevy.
You basically couldn’t restore that generation’s Mom’s car.
From a mostly mechanical car to one with lots of no longer made electronic modules.
His wife’s body is in the trunk.
Huh, CBS has decided I’m interested in Vegas or Denver now. They are wrong.
That conversion by the Bears just now might be the only play I’ve seen this year that was worth watching. And I wasn’t even watching the game.
I’ve never seen any network in any sport cut from a scheduled game that isn’t over to another one.
Pretty rude if you ask me.
And to switch over to a completed game on top of that.
Neither game was completed when mine switched over.
Is “Heidi” playing?
Yeah. They did the same thing here. I had it on in the other room, and was wondering if the Chiefs game was over. Now the Browns need to win out in the next two weeks, and hope the Chiefs and the Rams win their games next week.
Well, that was exciting!
How did it end?? CBS isn’t telling. ?
Heh. It hasn’t yet. 6 mins to go. KC 36, Stillers 3
Table-sitter losers think they should hover order over my shoulder shouting at the bartender because the waitress went awol.
Back hand them.
Old, but funny. https://the-toast.net/2014/09/04/eighteen-kinds-people-comment-recipe-blog/
lol accurate
OT randomness…
Is there some reason every charity’s television pitch asks for exactly $19 a month?!
I can’t figure it out.
That’s less than the cost of cup of coffee a day!
Same as 99 cent pricing theory?
It got me wondering if it’s all just one pot of money at the other end, controlled by some shady cabal that can’t come up with a different number for each of their front groups.
It’s either psychology or regulation.
I saw one @ 11 and Salvation Army rounds up to 25
Finished Don’t Look Up. Apparently it was supposed to be about climate change, but it could be any doomsday claim and the creators did too good of a job to the point of satirizing everyone involved to where you can read pretty much any angle or political side into it. In that regard, it reminds me of The Wire. Surprised me since I have a no recent movies policies, but I liked it.
Thanks. I was hesitant.
Dontcha just hate it when artistic merit gets in the way of perfectly good propaganda?
Yesterday’s Zoom link is still up if anyone wants to do a short Sunday Zoom chat.
Is there some reason every charity’s television pitch asks for exactly $19 a month?!
I have noticed that, too. I assume they’re all subsidiaries of the same umbrella ScamCorp.
Tunnel to Abused Pets Hospital?
When you’re talking about how black neighborhoods are unfairly devalued, you should probably find some houses with paint on them to show.
I had so much fun chatting with everyone yesterday. Merry Christmas everyone. Happy New Year too.
Could you ask Neph if he wants me to shut down the chat?
Oh, and Happy Holidays to you and all of Glibdom.
The Team Which Shall Not Be Named is not impressing me.
They’ve had struggles all season, but having to change intended starters on a daily basis due to arbitrary Covid Tess (regardless of symptoms or lack thereof) have not made it any better.
Still, any given Sunday…
But apparently not this Sunday.
It’s an asterisk season. None of this counts.
Don’t care about tonight’s match-up enough to tolerate all the woke commercials.
The altercation on the Skins bench was at least interesting. Not shoving or shoulder poking; Dude threw a punch right to his teammate’s jaw.
A special bonus GlibFit edition of Glibs After Dark.
https://archive.md/SUJU9
NSFW.
Blegh
I don’t want any fatties, but some realistic girls would be nice. Somewhere in the 130-140lb range.
https://archive.md/C3Lnm/238e3372663cefa9b72966fef8c99afea656a415.jpg
NSFW.
Wonderful.
She’s like Rachel Riley, but, you know, actually a whole woman.
Keep up the good work Q
🙁
❓
Very down.
Sorry dude. I’d give you the “buck up little camper” spiel but I don’t buy into that shit myself. Best I got is ‘listen to some music you dig”, that sometimes works for me.
What’s driving the doldrums? For me, what works to cure it depends on what’s causing it.
I’m in a state of whatever I set out to work on I get this despairing feeling that I’m wasting time better spent on one of the many other things I’ve got to do, which doesn’t change when I switch to one of those.
So I’m going in circles getting nothing done and just wanting to leave.
Can you compartmentalize in your brain so that you just focus on one thing and put the other things to the side?
Not that I’ve ever managed before.
That’s tough. I’ve definitely had that problem. The very unsatisfying way I’ve gotten through is by making a list of all the things, assigning priorities and refusing to change it. Then powering through. It sounds reductively simple, but is actually very very hard to do. Sometimes I set a timer for 15minutes and tell myself I will work on X until the timer goes off because it’s only 15 minutes and then I’ll reevaluate. It’s definitely hard, good luck and I hope you feel better.
I will chime in. Kinda like Tulip’s suggestion.
Make a list of everything you think you need to do.
Then go through that list and cross everything off that doesn’t really need done, but that it would be nice to have done some day. Ask yourself, “Is this really necessary?” Cross off all that is not.
Then go through what’s left and figure out what you can pay to have done.
After that, prioritize what’s left and power through, which, as Tulip noted, is not easy at all.
I didn’t emphasize it, but the timer really is key. Telling yourself you’ll only focus on X until the timer goes off, makes it easier to focus. Sometimes I’ve had to only do 5 minutes because I couldn’t do anything longer.
The holidays can be depressing with no family. Friends are nice but nothing beats family. My wife and I was mostly alone and isolated (and old) so we’re kind of accustomed to not seeing many people but the internet helps.
Thunderstorm the day after Christmas. Strange.
Surely a sign of the new king of Scotland
On the way home, I’ll stay at South of the Border based on Glib recommendations. I’ll report back.
Is that the giant place in SC?
Stopped there a few times for food and to walk around a little on long trips, but never stayed overnight.
If you had baked the cookies, you could have met The Bro. The First Of All Firsters. You have squandered a once in a lifetime opportunity.
You live at a truck stop?
Don’t forget; while it is chili today, it will be hot tamale.
Don’t get fireworks there, they are significantly cheaper at nearby outlets.
There is a brand of face masks that has been advertised on Babylon Bee lately. I think it’s called UnMask or something similar but i cant find them online.
Does anyone know??
Their claim to fame is that they pass close scrutiny for air travel or federal offices, but they are super breathable and won’t fog glasses.
I figure it’s this. https://www.getunmask.com/
I enacted that labor for you.
Ah yes! That’s the one.
Thank you for that labor 🙂
I will supply a review of the masks after I’ve worn them with safety glasses a few times.
Can confirm breathability.
Suggest dark colors for best hiding of their mesh like construction
https://www.minimallycompliantmasks.com
Also good.
Wore one on recent plane trip: excellent
Amazon:Patriot
What’s the deal
I need to know, it weighs on an inheritance
cryptic but intriguing.
I lied about the inheritance, that wasn’t up for grabs.
It is very confusing, and I feel like I’m being hoodwinked.
The show?
It’s hilarious, wrong, dark, and hilarious.
Hilarious like Wilfred, and how that wasn’t really hilarious, though?
Going to be honest, those two actors making out, not really hilarious to me. Not really realistic to me.
I don’t know what it’s like to make out like that, and I’m okay with that.
Right, I get it now. I don’t get any of this. That’s the point.
I adore Patriot. I blame Amazon for not marketing it well and dropping it after just two seasons.
I will never regard rim-riding Jim joists the same way
Say your Firsts, little one, don’t forget, my son
To include everyone
I tuck you in, warm within, keep you free from seconds
‘Til the Sandman, he comes
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We’re off to seconder-seconder land
Dreams of thirds, dreams of losers, dreams of dragons’ Firsts
And of things that will bite, yeah
This was for Commodius.
That could have been for anyone, be honest.
A Firster never lies. I dedicated a level 3 First to you.
Is a Firster’s job ever complete?
After The First That Will Change Everything, I will be given a day of rest. A day. A Firster is on the clock 24/7, rain or shine. Holiday or no holiday. It is the highest of callings. The Christian God rested on the seventh day. The Great Firster never rests. It goes against everything that Firsting stands for.
I’m on to you, I’m on to all of you. You all think you’re awfully clever, I expect. I rather doubt it.
Yep, too clever for my own good.
I haven’t, for myself, adumbrated all of our clever little morality play. I haven’t painted it all over the clever mesh. But I’ll get there, we’ll get there.
My new hobby of geometry-inspired doodling
It started when I bought a pencil compass to sketch out wood carving designs. Then I found that it’s actually really fun to just draw a circle, make it into a hexagon, pentagon, or some other -gon, draw a bunch of lines and circles through it, and see what shapes jump out at you. I haven’t decided yet if I want to carve them into wood or paint them onto some kind of decorative plaques.
Cool.
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I was expecting spirograph. That’s definitely different.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
My sister had one and I wound up using more than she ever did.
There is also a string art that is similar.
You can’t First with a spirograph. What would I do with such a thing?
You could make a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl.
Or you could just cram it up your ass.
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Très jolie!
I know the game is blowout. I know the NFL and NBC want Chris Collins to talk about the black, woman coach. But Jesus Christ Chris, no there isn’t going to lots of girls leagues or female school teams. Want to know why? Because for the most part, women don’t like deliberately colliding with each other at high speed. They generally don’t like running over each other. WNBA blows chunks and only continues to exist because it is subsidized by the NBA. There isn’t going to be a WNFL because everyone knows it will suck down money faster than the biggest gold digger you know. Stop pushing this bullshit. The only people buying what you’re selling are not watching the game.
Al > Chris. Chris seems to have embraced all sorts of nonsense.
You are so right Al is better than Chris. Al just won’t spout the nonsense or chokes it out in a way you know there is a gun to his head. I don’t get the sense Chris is a true believer. I do get the sense he gets his marching orders and follows them with little thinking.
Al is my favorite sports broadcaster ever. Used to be a guest on Howard Stern.
Collinsworth is that guy who desperately wants people to think he’s smart. A complete corporate tool.
I remember Al explaining to Peter Jennings that a caller who claimed he saw OJ go into his house at the end of the infamous chase was pranking him. Al recognized the babba booie reference. I swear Al was trying to hold back a laugh.
Nowadays I would rather listen to Collinsworth than Stern. What little I have heard from Stern strongly suggests he has become what he used to mercilessly mock.
However bad you think Stern has gotten, multiply it by ten.
He’s sucking up to Hillary Fucking Clinton, FFS. And not just to be hip with the Hamptons set – he is 100% behind her “program”.
There’s a long article out there somewhere that digs into the ugly details on how hard he sucks now.
Oof. Glad I switched to TCM.
Smart move. FYI, Farscape starts on Comet in January.
Cool. I can’t get Comet on the Smart TV store… I hope I don’t have to re-attach my Apple TV to get it.
As I drove past my Car wash today I noticed a line of cars waiting, this should not be, so I rolled in to see wtf. When it gets below 30, we close the self serve doors, today we were better served with the doors opened for the drive through thing. When the doors opened people cheered me, who knew?
I’ve seen self-serve car washes that close the doors during cold weather and will open them you you pay/enter the code. Nice because I use a car wash more often during the winter to get salt off.
https://www.nj.com/news/2021/12/car-crashes-into-atlantic-city-expressway-toll-plaza-bursts-into-flames.html
Oof. Sad.
Ban tollbooths!
They got rid of the toll booths in a lot of places but kept the tolls.
https://6abc.com/covid-booster-shot-vaccine-vaccines/11389711/
Yeah, that’s it…boosters have a messaging problem.
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https://www.wfmz.com/_homepage_top_stories/despite-supply-issues-and-omicron-holiday-sales-rise-8-5/article_0bed5afb-8ab6-5176-a754-8151f20174bc.html
Is that adjusted for inflation? Cuz that sounds spot on for the inflation average…
Good Morning All:
I will probably re-ask this sometime later, when i get my thoughts more coherent…
The past 3 years have shown that our “leaders” don’t know what they fuck they were doing.
Question 1: Was this always the case?
Sub-question 1: Is this the same everywhere?
Answer the First – Not so blatantly. Answer the Second – Yes.
Both questions presuppose incompetence which I’m not sure I buy. If enriching themselves and their cronies while introducing authoritarianism is the ultimate goal they’re doing a fine job.
There did use to be some semblance of a responsibility to the job. That appears to be gone. When the GOP killed the Tea Party, I think it was the final nail in the coffin.
I think a large portion of it is that the government has grown so large and unwieldy that it cannot be run. It runs everyone else. The politicians are just along for the ride and take what they can while the taking is still good. Nobody who is interested in reforming Leviathan will get anywhere.
A Perpetual Motion Machine.
1. Yes. Trumps’ presidency in all its weird and fucked-up-ness was probably how they are would be without deep media fawning and ass covering.
2. Yes. Silvio Berlusconi is the prime example, Macron isn’t far behind.
Unfortunately the next White House occupant will be worse than the present one. It’s the nature of the beast.
Some old Russian guy, Tsar somebody, once said “I thought I was in charge, only to find it was a 1000 bureaucrats”. Something like that anyway.
Mornin, Glibs! Back at ‘er yesterday. My Glib-fit was taking two days off to drink, eat and sleep in no particular order. Weight is up to 185 and my wonderfully warm Pioneer winter coat doesn’t fit right anymore. Too much chest and shoulders so I must be doing something right. Nearly 40 below up here plus wind-chill. Brrrr! Managed to rescue my work extension cord which was nice.
Very glad you survived your work marathon. And relieved you have recovered.
It’s still a work in progress. Canada Post is still five days behind with parcels and three with lettermail. This isn’t going away quite yet. Thanks for the well-wishes!
I’m glad your extension cord was safe. That’s too cold for me.
Gah! I want to play with my new Harman speaker and it’s too dang early.
Good morning, ‘bodru, Fes, & Sean (and any lurkers!)
Working this week, and just as glad I didn’t plan to take the time off. Primary mission this week: make sure our PEO corrects a slight (for some values of “slight”) payroll error for several employees so their W-2s are correct come year-end! It was just sheer dumb luck that I caught the error in time to see that it’s fixed before 1/1/22.
I got the feeling GT that you were proactive and looking for potential problems.
To make a long story short, I was checking to see if certain things were in order for the start of the year, and discovered that a couple of things had happened too soon.
Morning, GT.
Good morning, U! And ::glances upthread:: Stinky and Scruffy and l0!
That Kronos bug hit our company hard. They used Teletime and they are apparently done like dinner. I’m out $4-5 hundred bucks on my last paycheck. Now I have to wait for the stub to ensure that they don’t rip me off. Good tidings to you, Red!
I think we dodged that bullet. We got caught up in some hack back in March, I believe. Had to bypass the PEO and directly pay staff based on their net from the previous pay period, then sort it all out and settle up (or down) with everyone the following payday. Good times.
suh’ fam
I survived my 1st night back post-Coof. G_d Im exhuasted
yo whats goody
I’m sorry.
Good morning, homey! Glad to hear you’re back among the living. Get a good day’s sleep!
What’s goody is that you are feeling better!
Me pressing on both the gas and brake pedals are not goody. I seem to be doing it more often lately. Running at the most dangerous intersection in northern BC on glare ice is not goody. Getting my Judi to come and help me when I get stuck manouvering to my drinking chair is not very “goody” at all. Other than that, everything is goody!
Damn it.
Now I want a drinking chair, too. Other than this one in front of my desktop.
I can’t afford drinks for my chair.
The drinkin’ chair drinks on the house.
Morning All,
I’ve been up for awhile but need to read through to see if I missed anything last night. Not too much.
Festus, I claim that it isn’t my feet, it’s the damned big boots, that make separating the gas/brake but I totally understand. Scary when that happens. My right foot doesn’t work so smoothly as pre-Mar 16th but it is what it is.
Lots of snow and temps going down hill, thanks. Why me, Oh Lord!
It’s been a problem for awhile. Seems to meet up with my balance problems. If it gets worse I’ll just stop driving altogether.
lulz.
Am I the only one to whome the name ‘Babylon’ sounds like a xenonym when lined up against other ancient mesopotamian names?
“Ramses” brand condoms, when I used such things, always made me giggle ’cause I couldnt help but think of The 10 Commandments and Yul Brunner.
Why name a birth control device after a man who had a hundred children?
Right ?
Mine were always “Ramses Large” with the sporting tip. Tuna can and all…
Hence why I call mine “Girth Brooks”.
Now, I suddenly want to read this magazine.
I have to know what in the world a “Hard-boiled Christmas Story” even is.
That descriptor seems as if it would be more appropriate for Easter stories.
Terry LaBan had a great side character in his comic Cud – Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard Boiled Shaman
Ha! I almost caught you as the the last Glib yesterday. You must have signed off right before I tried to sign in! Have a great one Iobot!
Oh boy, ’40s porn, take me home, country roads.
It was actually printed in 2014.
Some store link
Signing off, dear Friends. That was pretty fun!