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Parliament

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  1. Ngl was expecting the hook to pull out of the ceiling. Team tow rope
  2. Army helicopter pilots are badasses. My dad told me that from his Vietnam days. Absolutely fearless, with the skill set to back it up.
  3. And Bill Clinton signed the 1997 Balanced Budget Act. I think it worked for awhile?
  4. (The rice and the bowl, not the cat.)
  5. You get a text at 5:17 pm on the day of delivery: “Your package has been delivered. Next morning: package is delivered. ^^^I live in the hinterland. Ymmv
  6. I like his Bud Light commercials. NGL
  7. They should remake Black Cauldron.
  8. Henry Ford did some very good things early in is career. Then something changed in a very bad way. Musk is the same.
  9. Counterpoint: that Ewok movie
  10. So after a 23&Me (twice to make sure), some FB stalking and a trip to Europe, I finally figured it out. My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess.
  11. *little people
  12. I guess the musical adaptation is a poplar HS production.
  13. Note to self: don’t smoke Ketamine.
  14. …so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!
  15. He’s Hugo Drax, Max Zorin and Elliot Carver all in one. Yep, Elon Musk is a combination of the 3 worst Bond villains.
  16. Sorry for the late notice. I land in ATL in 2 hours. Delta. What’s for breakfast?
  17. Used Expedia to book a night in an Omaha Holiday Inn Express. Check in lady needed my cc for incidentals and a “service fee” of $11.73. I was free to not pay it, but she’d hafta kick me out. I paid her the money and vowed to never stay at a Holiday Inn Express ever again. #enshittening
  18. Q: "How much did that hurt?" A: "Not enough."
  19. Is that a reverse "leopard eating faces?"
  20. When you're young, the goal is to be stronger than a man 10 pounds bigger, and faster than a man 10 pounds lighter. Now you add, stronger and faster than a man 10 years younger. And that's easier than it looks. Americans are lazy. BMI completely ignores muscularity. An NFL strong safety is "fat" according the BMI.
  21. Not really, but there are things that might help. I am speaking from personal, recent experience: 1) Get enough protein, up to 1g/# of body weight. That's real hard. Might be impossible w/o an unrealistic lifestyle change. No problem if so. Just track your intake with an app (I like MyFitnessPal but there are plenty of options) and get as close as practical. 2) Five days a week in the gym for a beginner is a lot. Might be too much. Try subbing 1-2 days onto easy cardio instead. The rucking idea above is a good one. But as a beginner losing weight successfully, pretty much anything works. Just do the work. 3) Play with your movements, weights and reps in the gym. Most say low weight, high reps is the way for Olds. In my experience the opposite is true. But you gotta figure it out yourself.. If you aren't a fat sloppy sow, 7 lbs/month is too much. Even if you ARE a fat sloppy sow (no judgement) you're gonna get down to level, quick, where 7 lbs is gonna be too much. That's a real cool place to be, and you need to pivot to sustainability. Otherwise you're gonna really test willpower and risk lapsing. That sustainability pivot can be a combo of several things. 1) If your diet is super spartan, walk it back a bit. Occasional dessert is fine. A cheeseburger, lasagna, in moderation is fine. Maybe even Coors Light. I highly recommend against soda, but you do you. 2) Less cardio. If your heart and blood work numbers are good, you're in the diminishing marginal return range. You can walk it back and have more time for other things. 3) Less cardio, more weights. Maybe get back to 4-5 days/week and get all swole and shit. You're on a great track, and are better off than 95% of Americans. Just don't lapse. Figure out now how to stay with it forever until you die. At some point you're gonna be the hottest man in the cul de sac. Neighbor ladies, young divorce's and sugar babies will take note. (I have a theory, that I'll likely never prove, that sugar babies charge lower rates for fit men. Maybe you'll go test that for us.) Keep it up, Man. This thread is on of the few threads on Surly that isn't evil and degenerate.
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