Ukraine has been invaded by Russia and I’m writing about fitness. Say what you will about the Ukrainian government, the Ukrainian people didn’t do anything to bring on this war. It feels weird to do anything but talk about that war. I would play The Simpsons clip about Russia really being the USSR but that’s too close to Putin’s wet dream.
You ever have one of those weeks where you aren’t injured but some stuff is bothering you enough for it to be concern? Me too. This past week it was a weird stiffness/pain on the outside of one knee and a sharp pain in one shoulder but only in one plane of motion. I don’t know where any of this came from. Nothing odd or bad happened during a workout. Yard work was light. I’m a desk jockey at work. I’m starting to think getting old isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Anyway, the conundrum is what to do in situations like this. My belief is to stay active if at all possible. One idea that has firmly penetrated the rocks in my head is doing something is better than doing nothing. This assumes you don’t have a bona fide injury.
So, this week had some unusual adjustments in order to keep going. Circular motion didn’t bother my shoulder so jumping rope was in. Doing a split step while jumping bothered my knee so traditional jumping it was. Running was okay if I kept it kind of short. Something being better than nothing, that’s what I did.
The gym was a bit of an adventure. I was very tentative starting most exercises tentative. Nearly all leg work went out the window. I was not willing to take a chance with my knee. Upper body meant testing the motion with light weights. If it didn’t bother my shoulder, then I went for my normal weight and paid attention for any twinge. Not a great week, but better than sitting on my ass.
There’s a wide range of activity among Glibfitters. What do you do to stay in the game when you know you have to take it down a notch?
This week’s music.
Steve walks slowly down the street
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain’t no competition but his own feet
Machine guns ready to go
Are you First? Hey, are you Firstin’ for this?
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the First, yeah
Another second bites the dust
Another second bites the dust
Congratulations on your first ever first.
And yes, I am a Firster apologist.
Firstwagoner!
I’m starting to think getting old isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Still beats the alternative.
I mean depends on the alternative i would sau
OK, sure, the undead might be an alternative I wasn’t counting on.
Lol. I’m still grateful to be on the right side of the grass.
Y’know, if you’d just let Pie visit you, that little problem could be cleared right up.
Pie could make all of us immortal. Sure, I enjoy sunlight and regular food as much as the next person, but goth chicks are hot.
So much this.
There seems to be an increasing chance of extreme UV exposure though. This may pose an issue.
Fuck yes. I’m just really happy to be here.
What do you do to stay in the game when you know you have to take it down a notch?
Curls of cups of tea with honey and lemon. I woke up today feeling like a cold is coming on. I’m going to skip the gym for a bit.
Though there was good news. A few days ago I deadlifted 135 lbs for reps with no problems. And of course, there was a hot Latina deadlifting more than that next to me.
cups of tea with honey – gay
*looks at cup*
Huh… didn’t know I was gay.
Better late than never
It’s the lemon that counts.
That just makes you a Brit.
British cars are not that bad
– Lucas Electric
Dammit.
Anyway, the conundrum is what to do in situations like this. – mark rippetoe would say dont be a pussy and do the reps.
My glibfit these days is walking 10+ miles a day and drinking 5 to 7 glasses of red spanish wine.
I spend way above my means of food and drink on vacation. that being said, the black sheep in seville serves sone good food.
I stepped into a bar called a cocktail and brandy bar and they have no spanish brandy for sale. They do have pictures on the walls though
they have no spanish brandy for sale.
Sad.
Another guy came in and told me the newbie bartender did not know where it was. I had already ordered whisky. Now i would like a spanish brandy but i think i am at my limit for today. one more and i may get tipsy. A dilemma… Should i get a brandy
Update got an 18 year old one aged in PX casks. Not bad
No wait that is the 12, this is in oloroso cask
Most men do love the Spanish wine, for that will make their brains more fine
Maybe you should have ordered whiskey instead.
Of a hottie named Brandy?
You just want Ted to post the link.
She’s a fine girl…
Also on the fit front i am still fat as shit but i benched 102 kg for 5 reps for the first tine since 2017 when i fucked up my shoulder. Not impressive at 91 kg body weight but still i am happy
Good.
@KK: What do you make of this?
Aeroflot 214, supposedly from Moscow to Thessaloniki, appears to have landed in Kiev?
Either that or they turned off the transponder on that aircraft and flew it to Kiev, (big gap in actual track data), or someone is spoofing that transponder’s ICAO code?
It might be an artifact of FlightAware’s schedule knowledge conflicting with a known transponder code. The aircraft appears to have gone out for a test flight, entered a hold northeast of Moscow, and then returned to Moscow and landed, and now Flightaware is doing something like projecting a position based on its expected flight path rather than really tracking a transponder.
The AN 225, the largest airplane in the world, with only 1 built, has been destroyed.
Yeah, I saw that.
https://www.chewboom.com/2022/02/25/gatorade-launches-new-gatorade-fit-electrolyte-beverage/
No sugar added Gatorade.
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Ray ID: 6e4434a4fce978ab •
2022-02-27 20:36:29 UTC
Access denied
Just drink water people
Fish fuck in that stuff.
Chick at the dog park has a side hustle as a booze sample girl. She gave me a bottle of 0g sugar, vegan organic Cab.
It’s a lot better than you’d think.
Unless ‘Cab’ is standing for something other than what I’m assuming it means, I’m somewhat confused. “Booze sample girl” leads me to suspect a wine, but then ‘vegan’ would be redundant, as wine is made with grape and fungus, never had any animal product.
Cabernet Sauvignon.
And often (usually?) the wine is clarified with egg derivatives.
I see.
The Times of Israel is reporting an entire tank convoy destroyed and its Chechneyan general killed. Note “not independently confirmed.”
Chafed!
Writing about fitness makes more sense than writing about the fucking war. At least we have some control over our health.
Sorry to hear about the pain. It’s always tough to know if you are injured or just hurt.
I usually continue my normal routine, dropping weight if necessary. Rest is often ineffective and unnecessary.
I had a shitty Glibfit week this week. For reasons.
So you and I can look forward to a better week next week!
Good luck, everyone!
I had a shitty Glibfit week this week. For reasons.
This is no good.
Meh. All on me.
They can’t all be winners!
I totally get “for reasons.” This is the week I plan to take control of mine.
Hell, yes!
I really want to get on the treadmill in the garage and walk. I’ve been pretty much cooped up inside all winter with a few days of snow blowing but even that’s a max two hours. I need to get ready for spring to do a little work. I got rid of my weights to a good home but have the Weider machine to replicate some of the weight exercises.
My belly got bigger this winter so I get more exercise carrying that around, that should count for something.
Spring is coming, Fourscore! And the machine is great until you are hauling shit around for the garden.
I don’t want to embarrass you, but you remain my hero!
My knees have been giving me trouble since last year (haven’t been able to run without pain), but slowly making progress with some PT and alternate workouts – ellipticals, bike, rowing, etc. Just started an interval run workout this week but then my hip started giving me trouble (and some shoulder mobility issues that impact some stretches but not my current workout). Will try again this week to see if the weekend off made any difference before I reach back to my PT person.
BTW Sensei – Kare Kano…that takes me back now. I recall some eps of that in the anime clue in college – but none of the actual content – haven’t seen that name in years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/clw6ot/was_watching_karekano_recently_and_this_is_too/
Perfect example.
Yeah…not ringing a bell. The name/title sounded really familiar, but can’t match anything else in my head right now.
http://uawire.org/germany-abandoning-russian-gas
Eu blocking Russians from airspace, blocking Russian ships from ports, blocking Russian banks, targeting Russian oligarchs, etc.
The squeeze is on and much quicker than I expected.
This does not seem to be a Short Victorious War for Russia
title comes from a quotation by Vyacheslav von Plehve in reference to the Russo-Japanese War: “What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution.” That quotation is one of the novel’s two epigraphs; the other is a quotation from Robert Wilson Lynd: “The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.”
I posted this because i first did not remember where i got the phrase and googled
I was unaware of this little bit of history until recently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ōtsu_incident
I had my own Otsu Incident. It involved the Otsu Fall Festival and a lot of beer.
So no international incident?
I invoke my Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
We do have this fugitive warrant here for a Lamina, do you know anything about that?
I know nothing. I see nothing. I hear nothing!
For all the talk of Putin’s brilliance, nothing could’ve rekindled the West’s interest in NATO and defense more.
And threatening nuclear escalation? This guy can’t recover from this.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kosovo-asks-us-permanent-military-base-speedier-nato-membership-2022-02-27/
I agree. This increasingly looks like an enormous miscalculation by Putin.
Abandoning Russian energy is huge. People in the West don’t seem to realize that sanctions hurt all parties, not just the one being sanctioned. If you can’t handle the pain, don’t sanction.
If Germany’s willing to take the pain (and it will be painful — last I checked, Dutch TTF Natural Gas was at $43.78/Gj, whereas [ferinstance] Alberta Natural Gas was at $5.04/Gj, making northwestern European NG benchmark prices over 8.5 times as high as Western Canadian ones), then mebbe European sanctions can actually work. Fingers crossed.
As Mearsheimer pointed out in his 2015 talk about the Ukraine, economic sanctions don’t work when strategic interests are involved.
I see, you and Putin are in cahoots to kill our planet with your dirty energy.
No, it’s just me. Last time we talked, Vlad was being such a wuss about it all.
The U.S. is still buying 800,000 barrels of Russian oil a day.
If this is true, then possibly an end is in sight.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/26/fighting-for-kyiv-ongoing-as-russia-vows-all-out-war-live-news
But what about the important part? Is Hunters’s biz deals their safe?
Ha! That’s an excellent question.
Good Glibfit week for me. I rowed the machine at least 45 minutes every day this week except Friday. I haven’t lost much weight, but I went down a belt hole.
Oldest daughter came home from college for the weekend. She carved out some time to have lunch with her old man.
Slow Cooker Crack Chicken (Thanks Sean!) is in the crock pot. The house smells wonderful.
?
Im guessing its the same crack chicken I make. I use a pressure cooker…ready in about 20 minutes.
#LowCarb4Lyfe
/eats one of Jugsy’s potato skins
45 minutes a day is excellent.
You’ll make the million meter club, easy.
Well, we gotta protect the Biden’s shady business dealings in Ukraine, even if we risk nuclear war. Y’all should be volunteering to go over there and fight, Hunter is counting on you.
If my back is barking I will either go real light with the weights or just do a whole hour worth of cardio instead of lifting. Hope your knee gets better soon Chafed.
Went down to North Carolina for a vacation/look at houses trip and ate like a pig the whole time. After a few months of no carbs I gotta say, going back to eating whatever I wanted really wasnt all that I expected it to be. I felt absolutely miserable both physically and mentally. Headaches, no energy, shitty mood. StuffI hadnt experienced for a long time. Feels great to be back on the no carb wagon for the last few days.
Had been experimenting SARMS. Was taking ostarine and then added andarine to it when I didnt see much in the way of results. After a few weeks of taking both I saw a bit of a difference in the mirror. Definitely put on some muscle—but with the good comes the bad. Started experiencing a yellowish green tint to my vision especially at night and it actually made driving at night a little tough. Turns out that was a side effect of the andarine. Read that it usually goes away a few days after the cycle but Im not going to play around when it comes to my eyes. Now Im back to the ostarine only.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/1498036464017448965
lulz
Right.
That’s probably the morning-after picture from some dood’s bachelor party.
https://novosti–n-org.translate.goog/news/V-Nykolaeve-pojmaly-marodera-zhytely-snyaly-s-nego-shtani-y-prymotaly-k-stolbu-foto–235790?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp#image-2
S!lightly different than the Twitter caption. Still amusing.
That’s an excellent penalty for shoplifting. I approve and hope the account is true.
Imagine that as a penalty for looting in the US.
Well, I have lost 16.5 lbs since the first of the year, even with my reduced ability to digest my preferred low-carb goodies (eggs, meat, cheese, butter—you know. Everything.) I have been miserable.
Tuesday I had surgery to get rid of my ulcers, which should clear up the aversion to eggs, meat, cheese, butter. I’m still in a lot of pain, especially in my shoulder (because of the CO2 they blow you up with). So that is my reason for my slacktation this week.
When I am no longer on broth and Jello, I’m going to get me a big, juicy steak, which I haven’t been able to eat for years without it coming right back up again. Maybe, if I want to get wild and crazy, a steak, eggs, and hollandaise sauce with a little slice of gouda! *drool*
Dang!
Excellent, Mo! Next time I’m in KC I’m buying you a steak!
Thanks!
I should clarify. I could eat limited amounts of meat IF it had lots of sauce and carbs to go with (bread, fries). Still would have a problem keeping it down later.
I hope you are feeling better soon.
Thanks, Count!
When I am no longer on broth and Jello, I’m going to get me a big, juicy steak, which I haven’t been able to eat for years without it coming right back up again.
Good idea.
*tosses back hollandaise shot in celebration*
Congrats on the weight loss and getting the ulcers fixed.
*Kristen and Tulip signal lit*
I’m not a doctor, but if you are doing hollandaise shots, that might explain why you haven’t lost weight.
Totally kosher on a low-carb plan.
Good start for 2022!
I hope you have a speedy recovery.
Excellent Moj!
Glad to hear your ulcers are fixed.
Huzzah!
“What do you do to stay in the game when you know you have to take it down a notch?”
Walking is good.
Swimming is good if you have a warm enough place to swim even with a bona fide injury because the water supports your weight.
“Ukraine has been invaded by Russia and I’m writing about fitness.”
Meanwhile…
“A National Vaccine Pass Has Quietly Rolled Out – And Red States Are Getting On Board
Even as the omicron variant loosens its grip on the world, destinations continue to require travelers to show proof of vaccination. And, increasingly, a paper CDC vaccination card is not cutting it.
While the United States government has not issued a federal digital vaccine pass, a national standard has nevertheless emerged. To date, 21 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico offer accessibility to the SMART Health Card, a verifiable digital proof of vaccination developed through the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), a global coalition of public and private stakeholders including Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, the Mayo Clinic and other health and tech heavyweights….”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/02/24/national-vaccine-quietly-rolled-out/
It’s a digital health record. The so called red states aren’t mandating its usage.
Lampposts.
Two gun match – No. 5 rifle and a Martini-Henry Mk IV.
Some running is involved, so it counts for GlibFit.
they didn’t invite Dan Rather?
Fixed washing machine today. Drain pump was making excessive loud noise. Changed out the door seal at the same time and I think it fixed the vibration issue as well. Looked at a replacement washer but this is quicker.
Much more relaxing that watching the idiots on Fox News. Let’s get noted peace activist and mental health expert Condaleeza Rice to make evaluations of Putin at a distance. ?♂️
“What do you do to stay in the game when you know you have to take it down a notch?”
I’m going to update my previous answer. I’d prefer to recover at a ritzy Austrian wellness spa with Elizabeth Hurley.
https://pagesix.com/2022/02/26/elizabeth-hurley-checks-in-austrian-wellness-spa-to-detox/
“Russian vodka pulled from shelves in US, Canada bars, liquor stores: ‘Every small thing makes a difference’”
https://nypost.com/2022/02/26/russian-vodka-pulled-from-shelves-in-us-canada-bars-liquor-stores/
No, it doesn’t.
Next up, conversions from Russian Orthodox to UGCC (hi eddy!).
I wonder if he’s still alive.
Another very interesting (long) thread on Ukraine/Russia.
Russia military background and tactics (current): https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1497993363076915204
vid clips on twitter of these TB2 drones trashing convoys and Russian groups: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1498061667166564358
Saw this from a Ukrainian comic guy I follow: – new Chad entered the game: https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2022/02/27/97863/ukrainian-arrested-mallorca-for-attempting-sink-russian-yacht.html
https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2022/02/27/97865/ukrainian-unrepentant-for-trying-sink-russian-owned-yacht-mallorca.html
GlibFit.
https://archive.md/MomOP/d67ab532704a32990a04d778a021fe3945141cc5.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.md/Nq1Pw/f0a531724787421629de15561c2aef0539512343.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.md/FPFGj/3141e366c857b917017e6d992097c44ad313b053.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.md/5sZ5F/6544bfc3285bafa6ad1d94ac4e423b9a38355f6e.webp
NSFW.
Ba-zing!
My contribution to the pronunciation of the city of the Ukraine:
Caveats:
Shes one of (((them)), don’t know if that affects the pronunciation, and she GTFO of Ukraine in 1981 — that probably does.
“Keeuv.” Maybe even a triple length vowel at the beginning.
Also: Minutes ago, NPR was claiming that the Snake Island incident was the first, heroic/slaughter version.
Whatever the local pronounciation, there is an English name for the city that has been in use for ages – Kiev (‘Key-Ev’). I don’t speak Ukranian, or Russian, I speak American English.
Off Topic.
I find the “Failure is not an option” mentality because it means management discourages planning for failure. Failure can always happen, and without a contingency or at least a strategy, you end up blindsided and scrambling, all because “Failure is not an option.”
Ah, but if you put those resources that you wasted planning for failure into executing my master plan(tm), we wouldn’t have failed.
Therefore it’s all your fault and you should take the blame.
One of the few things I remember from the several years I supported automotive engineers was their creation of Design Failure Mode Effects Analyses (DFMEAs) and Production Failure Mode Effects Analyses (PFMEAs.) This was more than twenty years ago, but as I recall, a DMFEA tried to anticipate what could go wrong if there was a flaw in the component’s actual design. A PFMEA tried to anticipate what could go wrong in the event of some failure in the process of manufacturing the component (something’s out of spec, etc.) I’m sure someone here could correct or clarify that fuzzy recollection. Considering these folks were designing automotive airbags, I think we all thank them for going to the time and trouble of trying to prevent problems.
exactly
I’ve heard “process” more than “production” since total quality types have stolen the discipline from the military. The thing about a FMEA is it weighs different things:
Severity
Occurrence (likelihood)
Detection
The complement of those factors (RPN) is the score you respond to, biggest scores first of course. So you don’t spend a billion dollars solving every problem; rather, if any one of the elements is remote, the RPN tends to be light. However, at some Severity ratings (especially where health and legality issues arise), an improbable event must still be dealt with.
Not gunning for anyone, but I’ve got to say that failure is not an option is the kind of unthinking language that ends my attention to the speaker entirely….it’s just not serious. The context was geo-political/military, so I wasn’t really paying attention anyway, all that blather being just politics or worse: military/football babel that seldom is serious about costs or probabilities. To overgeneralize, it starts in sports with screaming coaches as if yelling or mantras will make you perform better….lots of yelling even though it produces hardly any result. Then graduate (literally) to boot camp where you learn to yell and break things and someone else pays for everything. But talk like this is useful: it warns you when you’re dealing with an idiot and to weigh all their other pronouncements accordingly.
Now the wife has CNN on. They’re ranting about Putin’s Nazi lies.
It wrong when Putin does it, but ok with they do it.
There’s no way I could sit through that crap.
I suppose if you want to know what the CIA wants you to know…
She went back to Fox News. Guest was on there talking about importance of right to bear arms and how Ukraine is demonstrating it by issuing “semi automatic” weapons. Dollars to donuts it’s not just semi auto they being issued and that the guest would be horrified if any non-incarnated American could acquire fully auto, crew served, or any other military weaponry without a permission slip.
Fox isn’t much better.
The rhetoric around this situation scares the shit out of me. There really appears to be no public or media conception of the dangers involved. Even the CCP is telling people to calm down.
“There really appears to be no public or media conception of the dangers involved”
That happens when you live in decadence and completely disconnected from reality for decades as our chattering class does.
Four miles through the snowy woods with a pack of dogs.
Bowl of beef vegetable barley soup.
Free wine.
Life is good.
Throw in a blow job and you’ve pretty much got the perfect evening.
Not 69? Meh. To each his own.
He’s getting a blow job from Lily? Eeewww.
+1 jar of peanut butter
What do you do to stay in the game when you know you have to take it down a notch?
I live at down a notch. Short rowing session this am, followed by a sage brush bike ride in 16F sunshine followed by troubleshooting the Nissan POS.
I have become determined to get into a daily routine. Between working in the office, working from home, and weekends, I’ve been getting up at a different time practically every day. At it’s worst, a swing of about 4-5 hours from earliest to latest rising time. My goal is to get back to getting up on all working days the same time; 5:30. Target for Sat & Sun is 7:00.
Once I get my routine set, I’m hoping some other things, like exercise, will start falling into place.
I think you are on to something. You establish your keystone habits. From there, other good things tend to fall into place.
Speaking of weight loss: my insurance *finally* approved surgery for my prognathic jaw that I’ve had since I was 18 caused by high HGH. Downside #1 – Starting in two weeks, I have to wear braces for 6-9 months leading up to it and then another 6-9 months afterward. Downside #2 – the surgery is going to be heap-big painful with a long recovery. Upside #1 – People typically lose 20-25 pounds in the aftermath. I’ve only got about 10 pounds of dad weight to lose but I’ll take the extra. Upside #2 – My bite will no longer be fucked up and my teeth will actually start wearing properly.
Doesn’t sound like much fun but a couple weeks after the surgery the pain will probably dissipate somewhat. The final outcome will be worth the discomfort upfront. Good luck Q.
About a year and a half ago I had maxillofacial surgery that adjusted mu upper and lower jaw to help me stop snoring. Worked great but the recovery sucked. My top teeth are still completely numb because they really mess with the nerves in your face when they cut through your jaw. I have little plates and screws holding my face together now. The x-ray of it it pretty cool looking.
Good luck!
+1
I think one of my BILs may have had similar surgery a few years back. He’d been born with a harelip (adopted, and birth mother may have been an alcoholic) which was repaired in infancy, but as I understood it, the two sides of his whole skull may have been out of alignment all that time. Difficult surgery and recovery, but apparently worth it. Hope it goes as smoothly as possible and you recover as quickly and painlessly as possible!
Oy. Sorry you need the surgery Q. I hope it all goes well including your recovery.
This Russian vodka is making me feel like a shitlord and conquerer of worlds. How do the Ukranian women look? I might want to invade too.
Mila Kunis and Leeloo Multipass.
I’ll take the lively Uzbekistani Milana Vayntrub.
(AT&T girl)
Did I say “take”? I meant “recommend”.
I’ll take her, even with the RBF.
RBF is always preferable to ACTIVE bitch face.
So there is not going be a lesbian sex tape?
I don’t think she’s actual an ethnic Uzbek. They tend to look somewhat Asian.
Drink Tito’s!! Made in Texas.
absolutely (no pun intended): Tito at least is a Texan
as opposed to Torchy’s, a couple of college boys from NoVa
Texas readily accepts converts.
Fleishman’s (made in Minnesoda) is perfectly acceptable corn vodka
Don’t forget about Phillips! Mmmmm…barf!
Triple distilled and charcoal filtered!
I actually prefer the cheaper vodka brans over some of the more expensive brands….hell that’s usually my take on most things.
Is it? I thought that was like basement level vodka.
Isn’t corn vodka moonshine? Corn likker?
Titos is very good. You know who told me about it? An older Russian guy I met at the liquor store. Seriosly. And he was right, it is the best vodka you can buy for the price. Is it as good as this Beluga? Is LOL, no.
I forgot to say that there will be defliling of the women, but it will be peaceful defliling.
I just finished watching the first episode of the new Vikings sequel on Netflix, and there was one character that stood out a bit.
Bummer. My dna profile is about 20% scandinavian but 0% sub-saharan africa. Could have used some so I could pose as black. Hey, posing got privileges for Fauxcahontas.
Yeah, when they had Jarl Haakon Sigurdsson (an actual historical figure) being a black woman, I GTFO. Holy shit, imagine a series like roots with a white girl playing Kunta Kinte. Because it’s just as ridiculous and offensive.
That Haakan was dead by the time of the show. This is a fictional character, made for diverse inclusion.
Plenty of characters are outside of their actual times in the show. It doesn’t excuse the absurdity of having a black woman as a Viking chief. Imagine the outcry if MLK was played by a white woman.
I’m not excusing anything. I was just pointing out that this is a fictional character created simply for Diverse Inclusion on a show ostensibly about history.
Vikings got around a lot. Blue eyed blonde hair Spanish kids/girls. They had to get off the ship once in a while.
I think some of the movies are make believe, though
See a lot of stuff about them getting down to the Barbary states/Mediterranean (Black Sea/Rus/etc) and doing stuff down there – but the likelihood of anyone surviving coming back from there – is pretty low – much less so for the type of characters you’re talking about).
Black Sea/Rus/etc
Vikings definitely settled in those areas over a millennia ago; I have no opinion about whether they sailed back to Friesland, say, from there.
I’ll say this about Vikings: I’ve been all over Ireland, and far and away the most interesting thing there was the keeps (tower house? I don’t know what they’re called) standing guard 100 feet tall, perfectly square and erect on some tricky soils on the edge of a river 1,000 years after they were built.
Last thing about Vikings: I adore NewWife, but I will also add that on a day when a six foot chick goes quiet and doesn’t want to talk about it, let it go and give her space…at least until she’s had a time to go to the gym and take it out on the punching bag.
I was also curious at the Asian and black slaves they had back in Kattegat…but I guess….it could have happened. I mean, an Arab did defeat the Eaters of the Dead.
Today in Science!™:
Since I work at home, I wonder when some functionary is going to come over demand to see my papers.
Why would he be an employee of the state? Isn’t the team privately owned?
My assumption would be because the stadium is city owned.
You misunderstand. One of DeBlasio’s parting gifts was a mandate for all workers employed in NYC to be jabbed.
I had seen zero evidence of this being enforced and in fact zero reference to it in the media until recently when I guess this basketball player said “that’s a no from me, dawg”.
I have a feeling this is “selective enforcement” on steroids.
Hey rhywun, you were asking about batteries for your HP 32S. I have a 32SII, and it takes three, 1.5 V, 357 batteries.
Other compatibles are here. Walmart sells them (when they are in stock).
5 bucks for the necessary pack of 3 at Amazon. Might save for later. Thanks
LR44 x3 in my 32S. Similar battery as 357.
Some reminisces of HP’s Calculator Division
https://hhuc.us/2007/Remembering.pdf
Yes, LR44, SR44 are other similar ones.
They’re not all the same — the battery chemistry matters a LOT for the longevity and voltage stability of the battery inside the calculator (they draw a small current even when off). Try to get silver-oxide 1.55V batteries in the 357 form factor (SR44 is the best), rather than alkaline 1.50V, such as the more-common LR44.
The first hit I found seems to fit the bill. ?
After a disaster at the car wash, where I played Change machine for a few hours, I was able to get home and get rid of Angela and her shit once and for all,
now to find a new kittah!
Not a bad days work
Cheers!
Good luck with the pussy hunt, Yusef!
What’d I miss? Who is Angela and what is her shit?
Not sure. I missed it, too. I saw an opportunity to type pussy and took it. Sometimes it’s the simple things in life.
I was just going to say that I have a feeling I missed some drama. But that’s OK – I prefer comedy.
Angela was a sort of friend who I kept shit for, including her cat, and she turned psycho, so take your shit and leave!
and she did.
Ah. So the kitteh in your recent pics was hers?
Custodial parent but not to worry, Yusef, one day Angela will be back with a promise and maybe a different cat.
Most cats are born psycho.
Angela is a “single mom” which means she’s an irresponsible cunte who spread for some loser and got pregnant. Now she wears the “Single Mom” badge as a sign of her virtue / victimhood and takes advantage of good hearted gentleman like our Yusef.
Then she revealed her true insane colors and demanded her kitteh back from Yusef, who’d just been watching him for the past several weeks.
Poor kitteh.
Hey HE, sent you note in email and forum DM.
Gotcha. I responded to the email. ?
Got it, thanks.
You look in the Oort cloud, bro? Err, I mean in the Yupperland?
Taking tomorrow off because I can.
Sorry to miss my six regularly scheduled meetings plus the four more that were requested of me on Friday. ?
Good for you. I did that on Friday.
I prefer Mondays for some reason. Almost always take my one-offs on a Monday.
Maybe because most people kind of half-ass Friday anyway and why would want to miss that.
Last week I just needed it to end early. However, I’m on the same page as you; Monday is generally the better day to take.
Them: “We tried to destroy your life, brainwash your children, made you the target of mobs, attacked your finances, embraced foolish wars in the past. But, let bygones be bygones and follow us in our strategy to take down Putin.”
Me: “No.”
Now do Biden
This guy is reporting from Kiev. He has an interesting take on the invasion that will not get in Western media anywhere.
https://youtu.be/1vdiEABLFoo
He’s an asshole about guns.
There’s fault to be found in his opinions, I’m more interested in his description of the operations and the current political situation in the Ukraine.
He also seems to think that Ukrainians should just let the Russians take over – ehhh, what’s it gonna matter to you anyway.
He also is incorrect about US targeting. Having sat on some of those targeting boards I know from experience that we try to hit repairable nodes that will take down a system- sometimes for a short period and sometimes for a long period- that are discrete and repairable. For Afghanistan there was no appreciable infrastructure to impact. For Iraq our failure was to consider that the Iraqi people would disassemble their own electrical grid seeking copper wire to sell. Once that happened it was very hard to put the system back. Combine that with the exponential demands on the system, insurgents attacking the electrical grid, and that the US and Iraqi govs deciding to include the greater Baghdad area in the rolling blackouts (unlike Saddam). The system was a mess.
That is not to say the US was perfect in repairing the Iraqi systems, we weren’t for a variety of reasons. But to argue that the US was overly callous in the use of air and indirect fire is grossly incorrect.
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One of my colleagues and I wrote a paper about the importance of a functional power grid in any war or invasion. It was rejected for publication and we had to endure a few interviews afterwards. Guess we were inadvertently close to the truth.
You hit on a something that I cannot reconcile.
Vast numbers of people are completely turned off by the government’s lies surrounding COVID and other events. They don’t believe anything the government says and frankly, have some wild conspiracy theories to boot.
But a large percentage of those same people are lapping up the Ukraine propaganda like starving dogs at a trough.
reactionaries: hot to be left alone but hot to attack someone else?
I guess we need an other to hate. Tribalism kicks in.
But a large percentage of those same people are lapping up the Ukraine propaganda like starving dogs at a trough.
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect is a thing.
Preach on!
If a private group want to form a “biden Brigade” to go fight for the Ukrainians- rock on. But since biden refuses to work with other nations to put in place the three sanctions in place that would actually hurt Putin (close SWIFT access, ban Russian energy purchases (and open the US energy sector), and immediately throw every Russian citizen out and back to Russia without access to their money) then his handlers are all about show and not actually choking the Russian economy.
If all those oligarchs lose access to their money, even temporarily, and their kids are thrown out of Columbia, Oxford, U of Berlin etc. then Russians may revert to form with leaders who fail. You can bet they don’t want nuclear saber rattling fucking up their investments and pissing off their wives because their kids are back home.
I wish the Ukraine people well and hope they kill many Russians and break lots of their stuff. But it would be better for Europe if a Euro country leads any attempts at peacemaking. Trusting the US is generally a bad bargain.
Trusting the US is generally a bad bargain
Trust the US to lie, to not honor its promises, to do what is politically expedient for the people in charge at the moment.
So just like every other country?
OK, this is my second lesbian-ish post tonight.
Look at Salma Hayek at the Screen Actors Guild awards tonight.
There are several different views and poses.
Damn.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10558393/SAG-Awards-2022-White-Lotus-star-Alexandra-Daddario-leads-best-dressed-stars-red-carpet.html
Not bad curvy milfishness. I’m giving her a 4… ah, never mind.
aging with grace is an art
GOAT: Sophia Loren
Not fair, you’re getting into territory that today’s women cannot compete with. Sophia Loren, Ann Margaret…
We grumpy old farts today have to settle for less, sorry.
Sela Ward is doing well, but FWIW she’s my type (and a native Mississippian)
Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t changed but was never my type
Elizabeth Hurley seems to have the inside lane
Monica Bellucci.
I mean any Brazilian milf off the streets of any city in the county. There’s a reason I’m happy I speak the language… err, I mean my wife.
Salma Hayek knows how to make a dress look good.
I know I wouldn’t look good near as good in that dress.
I gotta change gears and OT.
Was just sharing this with some of my music friends.
This is the best Black Sabbath cover I have ever heard. Those guys are tight as hell, and that SG, sweet!
Faeries Wear Boots
Thumbs up on that.
Sadly, the accent here makes it a little tough, but she’s got an awesome voice.
Back in Black / AC/DC (cover)
Her accent is not a problem, I like it, thanks!
If you want to hear her singing native – https://youtu.be/oiFuj1GYChI
Native language is always preferable.
To be fair, I listen to all my fav Brazilian music in Portuguese, just sayin…
I listen to a lot of synth/electronic music where Germany kind of dominates and I much prefer the native language tracks. Some bands throw a few German songs in, some sing entirely in German. Most sing mostly or entirely in English.
Hot damn! Looks like no mask required at my Japanese school.
New York City says it will end the school mask mandate and indoor vaccination requirements.
But supposedly the mandate on all people who work in NYC is still in place, even though nobody is enforcing it unless you’re an uppity basketball player who refuses to be experimented on.
Correct:
It’s absolutely ridiculous. Like I mentioned above, I don’t think this is enforced at all unless you’re a high-profile target you can make an example of.
My company requires it to come to the office in NYC, but hasn’t required its workers to come back yet.
I’ll be really curious to see what happens. We’ve been “asked” to come back next month which means they are also “asking” you to be vaccinated given the city requirement.
I’ve been told our vaccination rate is above 90% companywide.
And maybe it even is.
Doesn’t mean it means anything. I hate when they pull that shit.
My office is in New Jersey, sadly. Otherwise I would love to tell them where they can stick any fucking jab requirement.
I think we’re on the same page here.
I’m suggesting that earlier, before there was any set time to bring us back, we already had a 90% vaccination rate. So I don’t think my company felt a need to mandate a thing. Unfortunately, de Blasio made that impossible for them.
At least for the moment, my company isn’t firing the unvaccinated or forcing people into the office. In financial services that makes them an outlier.
We’re on the same page.
I’m just irritated when people throw those statistics out because to me it rings as “just get the jab already”.
My company is a little weird because the execs may be in Manhattan, but the vast majority of employees are in Ohio.
And FWIW the execs are pretty (((hard-core))) which I feel is contributing to their laissez-faire stance.
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OK, gotta ask: What’s the potato emoji?
If you mean this: ? it’s a first place medal.
If you mean this: ?? It’s two hands clapping.
Shit’s got real now…
A Russian conductor has been dropped by a management company over his ties to Putin
TW: NPR
Well, shit, that is even more important than taking Russian vodka off the shelves. *puts in order for another 5 cases of Beluga*
I am looking forward to seeing the vodka ad campaigns that must be emerging as all the non-Russian vodka producers try to avoid the “Sideways” effect.
Maui produces a vodka from pineapple that many say is good. (Pau brand)
I just finally figured out what it is with Ukrania. It’s about diversity isn’t it? We’ve got to save them peoples of color in Ukania that the bad wypipo in Russia are trying to oppress. That is it, isn’t it?
Something like that.
NYT ‘journalist’.
OK, got it.
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Thanks for participating.
JFC that person is something else.
Be afraid. Looks like Covid is winding down, you need to be afraid! What, you want an alien invasion?
They dropped the mask mandate indoors in Balmer today. Yay, freedom! Fuck Maryland, Putin would do America a favor if he nukes it. Can I get a 24 hour notice, Vlad?
Matt Taibbi’s latest is an excellent reminder of the unholy power of propaganda:
War Propaganda About Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless
Cheney the war pig? No way she’d be in on any of this. Hunter needs a new crack pipe.
TL;DR for now but it says Glenn Greenwald.
Ooooops. Sorry, been reading a lot recently and they’re all starting to flow together . . . 8^>
How did we come to the point where Glenn is the most reasonable voice in the room?
Inorite?
Urite, Imad.
GG has been wonderful on many issues for last few years.
“As I examined in the first part of that video discussion, war propaganda stimulates the most powerful aspects of our psyche, our subconscious, our instinctive drives.“
The vaccine to this is to never, ever trust the govt when it drags the country into a war on the other side of the globe. Eventually you may have to fight, but at least you won’t be fooled by the almost certainly false propaganda given.
The answer to all our problems is to turn off TMITE, forever.
I’m trying to completely ignore all the reporting on this. I don’t trust any of it.
Good for you. I keep trying to get my wife to do the same.
That’s my philosophy – find some alternative exercise that doesn’t involve the injured part of the body. Even if my back is aching from something and I can’t do very effective exercises, I’ll do something so that I keep my routine going. When i’ve been sick or injured and can’t work out, I found it hard to get back to it. That little voice in the back of my mind keeps whispering, “Just take one more week off… You’ve been sick; you don’t want to overdo it! Just rest a little bit more!“
Four years…
Ex-Carlos Ghosn aide Greg Kelly confident of winning acquittal
He’s essentially under house arrest and hasn’t been able to leave Japan.
Funny how these rich people often get “house arrest.” Bet I wouldn’t get that option.
In the US he wouldn’t have been jailed while waiting trial. Depending on the country he may have even been able to go home before trial too.
In this case this is guy who made too much money by Japanese standards and didn’t play by the rules or cop a plea. He could well be screwed. OTH, it’s shown the rest of the world Japan’s judicial and criminal justice system is far different than the west.
this is guy who made too
money by Japanese standardsenemies by threatening the status quo for Nissan and Mitsubishi.More than 600 geographic sites across the US will be renamed, replacing a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for decades
Has the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People commented?
Well, you have to have your priorities when you are a worthless piece of dung. All of those indigenous would have executed these assholes, like any sane people would.
They can change the maps, but the locals will determine the name used.
The native football team?
I’ll bet there are thousands of geographic sites with the unacceptable name “Indian” in them. Time to invest in a sign making company?
Indigenous my ass.
My nipples have been tingling for days. The last time this happened, I produced a First for the ages. Something big is coming.
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Can you feel it, MikeS? Can you feel your nipples?
Run, Mike, before Broccolitard assaults your penis.
If you would stop craving dick that would stop.
I was going to say earlier that if they wanted to get you and Straf on board with the defense of Ukraine, alls they had to do was offer you guys some uncircumcised Slavic dick. The bigger, the more motivated you two super troopers would be.
Meh, shut up you penis monger.
How many Slavic men does it take to make Hyperion airtight?
How many Slavic men does it take to fill Hyperion up?
How many Slavic cocks will satiate the desires of Hyperion? Trick question – for Hyperion’s thirst for cock is unquenchable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sqcmAv8-D4
I’m watching a racially-charged episode of Kojak from 1976 and it’s reamarkable – the politics have not changed one bit in 46 years, except the Puerto Ricans would probably be blacks today.
Heh, that reminds me of when I was an early teen. My cousins in Cincy (before we moved there) had a friend who was Jamacain. His name was John, but they called him Porto. He’d get really mad and say ‘I’m not Puerto Rican!’. Which would of course instigate them to do it that much more.
Ha, been there. Junior High, amirite.
Right, your best defense was to ignore them, but they’d make that as hard as possible.
Good Lord. The brass balls on this guy must hang down to his knees. Don’t try this at home kids.
https://twitter.com/NewVoiceUkraine/status/1497944521635680259
in other news…. https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1498052626633609225?cxt=HHwWksCylam7k8opAAAA
War in the social media age is weird.
And OH…sure, the white guy moving the landmine is brave, but the transgendered BIPOC who uses their bathroom of their choice is the real hero.
Which is more dangerous, the landmine or the unfiltered cigarette?
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?
You always want to be the Don Quixote. Never the Sancho Panza.
It looks like an AT (anti-tank) mine, so he probably doesn’t have the weight/pressure to set it off – that said…if something did happen, wouldn’t be much left.
I like how he holds it extended out in front as if those extra few inches might matter.
-20º tilt rod
Yeah, that’s why I think it’s probably a fake. Fucking everything the Russians use has some kind of anti-handling device.
I kinda wish it were true though, and it’s good propaganda anyhow…
Imma stand here with my cell phone while my buddy carries this bomb….
Not likely
I was supposed to take tommorow off work, but they fucked it up. I mean, they. Well, you know who ‘they’ are, right? I mean they are ‘them’. The ones who want to ruin your shit.
So, tomorrow was supposed to be the release of a new PB game. The first one since 2016. Who is PB, you say? Well, you ignorant dumbfuck non gamers, I’m talking about Piranha Bytes, the original makers of Gothic.
Well, if you still do not know what I am talking about, you ignorant fuckstick, let me continue.
My project manager somehow decided we should release a patch tomorrow night. WTF? We never release Mondy night patches.
But even worse, the dumb whore German’s at PB have fucked it up and the game is not going to be released on EST until Tuesday at 1pm.
WTF? How can people fuck shit up this bad? How are we supposed to live like this?
Looks like the world’s largest airplane got destroyed in the fighting:
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/russian-forces-destroy-worlds-largest-aircraft-ukraine
What a bummer, that was a neat machine.
That’s a whole An-225 load of drugs that just fell out your pant leg. I hope you are wearing some big pants. Or no pants.
Adult diaper so I’m good.
*two thumbs up*
Fortune favors the prepared.
Good morning, Stinky & limey! (I assume Hyper has long since passed out.) That IS a shame about the huge plane. It might not be easy to do so (or presumably there’d be more of them,) but at least it can be recreated.
Morning, GT.
In the office already. (Forced myself to go in as the pressure in my ear has dropped some)
Good morning, U! I hope that means you’re feeling better in general. Has your doctor prescribed anything to clear up that probable ear infection?
The doctor prescribed “Wait and see”.
OK, but please don’t hesitate to follow up if it doesn’t continue to improve.
Mornin, UCS. Hope that gets better soon. What’s an office?
It’s a building where state employees congregate to gripe.
So, a tavern, minus the booze, food, and good company.
Or Decor
Morning all, we have a brand new week to accomplish all those things that we neglected to do last week. Fortunately my memory is so bad I don’t remember any thing that was left undone.
Good morning, 4(20)! I, for one, am glad to see February end. It’s had its OK moments, but the weather around here has been bad for the last couple of weeks, so I’m ready for March to bring in Spring.
Morning GT. Feb was cold, way below average and March is looking to be a repeat, for the 10 day forecast. I’m with you, time or Spring
March also brings another clock change for the DST inanity.
Mornin’, all. I have solid evidence that spring is on the way – the warm weather boidies are singing their fool heads off in their annual mating ritual. Cardinals, Carolina Wrens. It’s coming!
Good Morning All:
We are happy to say that our first sheep gave birth yesterday evening. Twins. (boy and girl), so far they are ok.
Never know how things are going to go, but so far so good?
Want to give a shout out to some excellent discussions lately.
And a request to all those shooters, where and how do you buy your ammo?
I have to scour various retail outlets because of bad Law in New York.
Good morning, ‘bodru, and a Frabjous Day in honor of the blessed event! I hope we get an early spring so your lambies can gambol to their woolly little hearts’ content! (Post pics somewhere when you get a chance, maybe?)
They’re just so darn CUTE!!! ?
they are very cute
we missed the birth by two hours. walked into the barn and bam, there they were.
At least there were no complications.
Yea… She has given birth before, so she knew what was what.
Have to check when wife gets up.
Awwwwww!
I handload almost all of my pistol ammo. When I need to buy ammo, I buy it by the case mail-order. I usually look at SGAmmo.com, LuckyGunner.com, and TargetSportsUSA.com in that order.
thank you ES.
Midwayusa will give you a good discount on a single order for the two weeks around your birthday, but otherwise ES gave you the top ones. Though I put Target ahead of Lucky.
I need to make one more debit card purchase today to earn a higher interest rate on my checking account. What should it be – buy an e-book from B&N, or drive through Timmie’s on the way to work for a latte and/or croissant? (If the e-book, what title? I just bought the e-book of Democracy in America to go with the dead tree copy I’d bought from the soon-to-close bricks & mortar B&N near my office – the darn book is mass market paperback size but 1 1/2″ thick and set in a too-small font.)
Why not both, GT? I read the same book about 2-3 years ago but the hardback so maybe the print was bigger.
Mornin’, GT. Tough choice there. I’d go for the coffee and croissant meself.
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I’m guessing that the ammo companies are going to doing government contracts again. That was the excuse a few years ago that contributed to the scarcity.
I don’t shoot much anymore, I’ve been reloading for the past 40 years but now reloading supplies are scarce too.
I just got some 7.62 commie delivered the other day and the price, while objectively shitty, was much better than a year ago. Looks like the other calibers I own are similarly “cheap”. You can get brass reload 9mm for under 30 cents per round. It was up around 50 cents last year.
I did notice that the reloading equipment was spotty at the local sporting goods store last time I was in, though.
It wasn’t true, though. Gov’t contract ammo gets built on totally different production lines, and the two markets only intersect when the government declares a batch surplus.
The ammo scarcity is all about skyrocketing demand and the pathetic state of the dollar.
Reloading supplies are still scarce and expensive, probably because of the unending demand for loaded ammo…