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cjsdowg posted...

I have shown proof that yes how we address these issues do help. Also you care about helping people lose weight?

This is going back 15 years now, but when my son was born, I was 305 pounds. I eventually got all the way down to 215 before ultimately settling in the 220-230 range depending on if its summer or winter (as Im much more active in the summer).

Do I help people lose weight? Not directly. But when people ask how I lost the weight that I did Ill tell them my method.

Someone being overweight is just as much of a physical descriptor as wearing glasses or having red hair. Does it need to be used as an insult? Of course not, but I dont think this is what the conversation is about.

What about bald? Do you go around telling people "You are not bald, you just no longer have the amount of hair you used to".

For better or worse, fat/overweight/husky/etc are descriptors. Should they define who a person is? No. But to flat out tell people they aren't fat when they clearly are doesn't help anyone.

leex0 posted...

Are worms bugs they aint got no legs lieutenant Dan

The worms at the bottles of tequila are actually caterpillars, so yes.

I went with "I already eat bugs" because, while not the norm, I have had crickets, and the worm at the bottom of a shit-tier level bottle of tequila.

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People looking WAY too far into a Meltzer quote from this morning:

While my belief is that McMahon is done in wrestling, given hes 78 years old, from a legal standpoint he does have a one-year non-compete end in late January 2025. He can, at that point, start up a new promotion.

MarthGoomba posted...

I don't care about fallout so sure. I don't know how I got a first date but I won't end it over something so irrelevant

Yup.

It's simplicity is what made it so funny.

emblem-man posted...

Yep. It has to be one of those, "yeah I can buy my basics and luxuries without thinking about it, while maxing out retirement accounts, plus additional savings, but if I'm not buying first class international flight tickets, am I really rich?"

It's basically rich people saying "Well, at least I'm not wealthy. THOSE people are the ones that are out of touch!"

Mets.

Won 7 of 10 after an 0-5 start.

Just good enough to keep me off the ledge.

MICHALECOLE posted...

I just want to see the laserdiscs of Jerry slammin all that ass

I would watch multiple seasons of a spinoff show where Leon just grills Jerry about episodes of Seinfeld.

Jerry and Elaine remained friends after being romantically involved, and you think the apartment layout is the most unrealistic thing about Seinfeld?

Monster Zero Ultra

As a New Yorker, I can't fathom eating any of that fast food pizza unless it's after midnight and they're the only ones open.

Dakimakura posted...

Ambiguous terminology used in topic title. Pretty certain TC means homeless people in the designated car driving areas.

Yes. I believe she means why are they sometimes literally in the middle of the street.

I don't think she's wondering why homeless people are sleeping on the sidewalks or on park benches.

My main email is an AOL account.

Don't email shame.

Definitely a closer choice than the one yesterday of Elastagirl vs Dexter's mom, but I'm still going Elastagirl.

I once hooked up with a girl after betting her that she had to kiss me if I beat her in Tetris.

It ended up becoming the first time I touched a boob, so I would consider that life changing.

boomgetchopped3 posted...

personality maybe. But that dude is good looking

His personality didn't change between them first meeting and them getting together.

He was the same neurotic introverted nerd that he was in episode 1.

That someone that looks like and has the personality of Penny would ever find someone that looks like and has the personality of Leonard attractive.

Probably because most people's hands are out in the open for everyone to see, so they aren't as taboo.

Feet, particularly women's feet tend to be covered up, until warmer weather rolls around. And wearing less material on your feet trends to run parallel with wearing less material on the rest of your body.

So exposed feet usually mean other fetishized areas being exposed or teased.

The only time it really "bothers" me is when I'll hear a song or something from that time, especially one that I haven't heard in a really long time, and it'll instantly transport me to the time when that song first came out and how much simpler my life was back then.

Especially songs from the late 1990's. It was when i was in college and met my eventual wife. I think about how the summers were just spent with her and our circle of friends, just bumming around someone's backyard, listening to music, having a few too many drinks, and just having fun with no real responsibilities other than our "solely for pocket money" part time jobs.

Some of the best days of my life. Days I sometime long for. My life is pretty good right now, but it's a different kind of good. I just know it'll never be that care-free again.

It's one of the things I stress to my kids and my two nephews, who's ages range from 15-20 right now. Don't take those days for granted, because they may end up being some of the best days of your life.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

Same job. Only job I ever truly loved. Why? Because I was damn good at it. Gave me pride. There are people alive today because I did my job.

I only quit because between the overtime and my captain being a piece of shit the stress lead to drinking which led to alcoholism which then was starting to affect me at work.

I don't think you're understanding what I'm asking. Basically look at your hobbies. Something that makes you happy. Is it gaming? Then get a job as a game tester/reviewer. Is it comics? Latch on with a company that runs conventions and just help them with set-up.

If you have complete F-U money, get the kind of job that is basically a hobby that still pays you. Something you wouldn't dread going to.

nekrodev posted...

Yeah, "boneless" wings will almost always be breaded. I don't know if I've ever seen them any other way, because that's how you get the crunchiness.

Bone in wings, on the other hand, are rarely breaded, at least in my experience. I wouldn't be surprised if there are certain countries or regions that do it, tho.

The only place I've every been to that "bread" their wing is Hooters, and their wings are god awful.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

My job was 12.25 hours a day and usually 6 days a week. Love it or not the burnout was real. The job was serious so it was stressful at times. Fucking up bad enough at that job could lead to being arrested for criminal negligence

Yeah. With F-U money, quitting a job like that would be the first thing I'd do.

You'd just have to ask yourself "If I didn't have to worry about money, but I still had to work 20 hours a week, what would I want my job to be?"

Sufferedphoenix posted...

See I wouldn't have motivation. I'd be calling in a lot cause I just wasn't feeling it that day. I'd need to be able to convince my job to only let me work like 2 days a week and that's not flying in this career as short staffed as it is.

That's why I said I'd transition to one of those "if you're doing something you love, you never work a day in your life" kind of jobs. Zero chance I'd continine with the number-crunching accounting job I currently have.

As a sports fan and memorabilia collector, meeting an interacting with celebrities and famous athletes 3-4 times a week for a few hours at at time and watching them/helping them sign memorabilia, isn't something I think I'd ever get tired of.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

I get depressed when not working and I actually like my career yet money is my only motivation to work. Weird mindset I know but it is what it is.

Kinda off topic, but even if I had $50 biillion, I would still "work", just at a complete "fuck you" job.

For me, as a sports enthusiast, I'd latch on with some memorabilia company, and just be the guy that sits next to the athletes at a signing and tells them the proper marker to use when signing an item.

It'll still give me the motivation to get out of bed every day, but I'd also be doing something that would fulfill a childhood fantasy of meeting a ton of famous athletes.

I always pepper my ketchup, but the fries and the ketchup is salty enough that I usually don't add more

I switched to Hulu+ Live about 3 years ago, and one thing that I did notice after a few months is that I no longer turn on my TV unless is to specifically watch something.

Like, I no longer flip on the TV to "see what's on", it's usually more "Let me turn on the TV and catch up on my dvr'd shows"

bluezero posted...

This will be repeated ad-infinitum in this topic. It won't matter, because restaurants have adopted the term "boneless wings", but internet bros will rage about this forever.
(I'm not saying you're raging, btw)

And it SHOULD be repeated, becasue regardless of what you call them, only one of them are actually the wing of the chicken.

You can ask how you like your chicken breast, bone-in or boneless, becasue both are actually still chicken breasts.

Antbregante posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eY2olyF9T4

I literally JUST told my son about the original version of that song.

He's 15 and had no idea that it existed.

His mind was completely blown.

TheGoldenEel posted...

The myriad popular rock songs about wanting to have sex with teenage girls

https://youtu.be/d6E9rRIINcY?si=Hmk6ymdUnKOffDDM

She's just 16 years old
Leave her alone, they said
Separated by fools
Who don't know what love is yet
But I want you to know
If I could fly
I'd pick you up
I'd take you into the night
And show you a love
Like you've never seen, ever seen

MC_BatCommander posted...

Jessie what the fuck are you talking about

Just the general idea of people being fake mad about shit they know nothing about.

Remember when everyone was mad at that white guy for "stealing" that Tracey Chapman, only for her to be completely OK with it, perform the song with him a the Grammys and then win TWO CMAs for it.

Good times.

C_Pain posted...

The planet's champion?

The Earth's Champion, Leo Sparrow

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f6239b2d.jpg

Yes. But they were a pro wrestler and that was their gimmick.

$50 Billion is and unthinkable about of money.

Even most of the super rich people aren't $50 billion liquid.

With that much money I could hire a chef, nutritionist, and personal trainer and get myself into somewhat "perfect" shape.

And learning all the skills of fighting isn't really something I'm interested in at 46 years old.

Plumeofdusk posted...

will insurance usually cover it?

Usually not, because they consider it cosmetic.

But on rare occasions, they will. Personal anecdote, but I had a friend who had diverticulitis, and it caused her to lose close to 100 pounds in a VERY short amount of time. I'm talking 3-4 months.

After her recovery, part of her surgery was removing the excess skin from her stomach area, and it was partially covered by insurance becasue her doctor convinced the insurance company that it was a mandatory medical procedure.

Well, I guess it depends on what you consider "expensive", but the costs are in the tens of thousands if it isn't covered by insurance.

hereforemnant posted...

It's the entire culture of gaming & movies/social media that has moved us to quick consumerism & consumption of products that has pulled physical media into a more niche area.

Definitely one of the big reasons that there aren't really any "Modern Classics" when it comes to movies.

So many people will watch a movie once at the theatre, or once on streaming, and then never watch it again.

Unlike in the past, where you would see it in the theatre, then the anticipation would build for the DVD release, and then there would be another build towards it being on HBO or Cinemax.

Movies would get watched DOZENS of times, and that really doesn't happen much with movies that have come out in the last decade or so.

CrimsonGear80 posted...

the insomniac leaks showed that most Sony games still sell more physically

Not according to this article:

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2023/11/physical-games-represented-just-4percent-of-sales-for-playstation-last-quarter

Zooming in on PlayStation's physical/digital sales split (which looks at units sold rather than cash), just over two thirds (67 per cent) of software sales were digital in Q2 2023. This is a slight increase year-on-year, but down compared to Q1 2023.

So that was from around this time last year.

Alucard188 posted...

That is an improper conclusion to draw from that when it says 'all spending'. That would include all spectrums of video games, their DLC content, and microtransactions.

True, but the article I posted a few post later did say that (at least for Playstation) there is a 2-1 split between Digital and Physical.

So while it's not as extreme as the headline may have you believe, it's fairly obvious that physical gaming is a dying media.

1337toothbrush posted...

A million dollars won't be worth shit by then. This is also assuming that the S&P 500 will have the same average returns forever and ever, which feels like the ultimate rugpull of all time.

Assuming you don't touch it until then, and you have absolutely NO other savings, million dollars at 65 allows you to live about a $65k a year lifestyle.

And, now I understand that "everyone is poor and no one owns a house", but at 65, a good majority of people that actually ARE homeowners will have their mortgage paid off (I know mine will be paid off by the time I'm 52) which accounts for A LOT of their expenditures.

Like, why don't they just send it to them now?

WingsOfGood posted...

so you can watched the match on WWE network or whatever?

Yes. Plus pretty much every other Benoit match.

Elastagirl all day every day

She got the boomin system up top and in the back.

I feel like were at a point where the improvements from generation to generation isn't going to be how much better the games are graphically, it'll be how much faster and smoother they run.

Like, I look at a game like Spiderman 2 or Alan Wake 2, and can't imagine a game getting graphically better than that.