So some people thought this might be a good idea. I like the biweekly pattern, though, so that’s what you’ll get. I like the name, and hope the FCC will stick. I hope I can find some good photos for you all to ruin. I’ll alternate the contest and the winners every week.
Let’s start with a few off my computer.
#1 This is one of the family dogs. This was about a year ago.
#2 DOOM, unhappy there’s a camera taking his picture.
#3 This is a picture I took at some national park between Boulder and Taos.
I’ll pick the top few for each, but this is no dictatorship.
#1: Draw me like one of your French girls.
First in every possible sense.
Yeah, that’s a thread-winner in my mind.
I don’t get it.
https://youtu.be/c3sOuEv0E2I
#3: *not available in Pakistan.
3. That ninja sure has a huge nutsack.
#3 Obama presidential library
OT – I’ll let you kick the football this time, for real
I post a real link, but by now everyone’s so jaded they refuse to try it.
Blocked in Canada on copyright grounds.
Mozart has always been such a bastard about his videos on YouTube.
I’m not sure what this is in reference to, but I do always enjoy the violin concertos.
I previously posted some classical music links with the false implication that hot women were involved.
I no longer remember why I thought why that was funny…oh, yes, the reactions.
Number 2.
*This coming from a guy that still wears knee high tube socks unironically.
YAS
1. Hot eats, cool treats.
2. Libertarian lumbersexual expressing disapproval of the existence of “muh roads.”
3. Propellerman: Prepare your anus, Megaman. Dr. Wily has given me a tremendous doomcock with your name on it.
“lumbersexual”
I lol’d.
Original Lumbersexual
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=89LfQUlcNFk
That dudes problem is that he needs to pull them britches up a little more.
That’s a nice dog skin run ya got there.
#2: Why are there ROADZ in mah Libertopia?!
#1 female libertarian convention
#2 female libertarian convention
2. “Hey, that help wanted ad was a hoax, there aren’t any trees for me to cut down here!”
2. “Clearcutting that whole forest was a lot of work, time for me to press some wildflowers.”
Excellent.
2. “I guess that Lorax dude won’t be bothering us lumberjacks anymore.”
#1 “Quadrapelegic dogs knock over so much less stuff. Just remember to rotate them every time you feed.”
#2 “I told you an electric car was a bad idea out here”
#3 “The signs were about as effective at stopping drone strikes as ‘gun-free zone’ signs were at stopping shootings. Nonetheless, they persisted”
I like #2
German, huh?
Only if the output used to be bratwurst and sauerkraut, which is ALL THE TIME. WHOOO!!!!
#3
Hipster glasses are never okay.
#2, not #3
hey, they were free.
The fact that they had to give them away should have been your first clue.
hello darkness my old friend.
And from the looks of them, you got what you paid for.
every penny.
For people who hate hipsters, there sure are a lot of people round here with hipster tendencies.
Screw you, I’ve owned that Fedora for over a decade!
*gently pats shoulder*
Sure you have buddy.
Actually I have. The real Irony is that I literally started wearing it before the fad broke out. Or, “before it was cool”. I’ll probably still be wearing it after it’s old hat again.
Claiming to like something before it was cool…
*writes name in book of hipsters*
If you’ve owned it for over a decade, it’s pretty old by now.
Yes, yes it is.
Note to self, check prices on new hats.
Florida Man – Who said I liked my hat?
It’s paid for, and the numbers I got from that search says I’m not going to buy another one as long as this one keeps the sun and the rain off my face.
Then buy a panama if you want a functional hat.
I just told you I’m not buying a new hat as long as this one works.
Then buy a
panamahelmet if you want a functional hat.It will prevent further brain injuries and you can get some glasses like Doom’s to match.
That would make you a neckbeard, not a hipster. Try to keep up.
As someone who thinks the way folks dressed in the old days was awesome, it saddens me that hipsters have ruined it.
Making fun of hipsters is definitely a hipster thing to do.
PSA: Wayfarers are NOT “hipster glasses”, as that connotes that they have a finite coolness shelf life. They are as universal and timeless as white t-shirts and Levi’s 501s.
And Dickies
#3: WaPo headline: Cylons file landmark discrimination suit against FAA.
Hey I laughed. It’s a funny caption.
#3
Because we at the FAA haven’t quite figured out how our licensing/extortion scheme for drones is going to be run. Give us time, we will find a way.
2. “That road leads to the river, the river leads to the beach, therefore, it’s the road to surfdom.”
1) SIV: “I’ll pass.”
2) “JOSH?? JAAAAAHHHHHHHHSH!”
#1 “I see the problem – It’s come unplugged”
#2 “You do NOT need to keep laughing at me.”
#3 Aww, what am I supposed to listen to now?
#3 “Our intern was sad to discover ‘None’ wasn’t pronounced ‘Known’.”
#2 Hold my beer..
#1 Another canine suicide by heat register. That’s the third one this week.
If I was more photoshop inclined I’d shop you into a sound of music parody for #2.
Oh shut your von Trapp.
I had a feeling that might happen.
I went for it anyway.
I always thought the movie would be better if the Nazis caught the von Trapps before they crossed the border.
It’s okay, the border they crossed in the movie was actually the one leading into Germany – Towards der Furher’s country estate. They didn’t get away.
#2. SP made me go all the way out here to eat my pineapple pizza.
It was the only way to be safe from the spiky menace!
And that still wasn’t far enough.
Pretty good
Now this is how one wins a war.
1. Have all that is right and good on one’s side;
2. Marshal minions to do one’s fighting.
M’Lady
#1. My owner thinks pineapple belongs on pizza. I can’t even…
#1 No officer, I’m already dead – I swear!
Or alternately: Shit, the fuzz, better play dead.
#1 “The new camouflage coat worked! Now if only the humans would stop taking pictures…”
#2 “This doesn’t look like an Orphan Mine at all.”
#3 “The Euphemisms had become – succinct.”
#2: National park?!? This should all be private lands!
#3 “The CDC handbook on stopping invasive insects got mixed up with their report on Gun Control.”
#2 “You should have told me tophat and monocle were required to get in before we got there.”
#1 “The leap seemed to go on forever…”
#2 – Many Malaysian laborers were killed after falling into the dye vat for this sheikh LL Bean button down.
#2 Nicer peak: Hair or Mountain?
to be sure, I have nothing on Robby.
Amish beard? Heavens Man, and where’s your Monocle?
#3: So this is totally out of the question, right?
We need to combine that with this…
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/tracking-point-smart-rifle-sniper/
Now you have a true murder drone
#2: STAND UP STRAIGHT!
-mothers everywhere
I do suck at that.
I’ve been trying to improve my posture, but now I’m self conscious about whether I’m slouching or look like I’ve got rigor mortis.
The shirt is really baggy and the wind makes it looks much worse.
My arms are too long to go a size down though.
My coworker was recently happy to comment on my weight (which has been improving) but afraid to comment on my shitty posture lest I be offended.
Shoulders back, dude. It’ll *ahem* straighten you right out.
missed the chance to
*remove neon sunglasses*
*improves posture with yoga*
There, that should offset any straightening effects nicely.
He just wants you a little more beefcake before he invites you over.
Lady coworker. We had an overly extensive conversation about posture and how much her boobs stick out. Totally wasted on me.
PICS?!?
Ask her if she can touch her elbows behind her back.
As much as I’d like to give the office manager that I have a rocky relationship with anyway cause to file a harassment claim, I’m gonna politely decline.
Dude, so much this.
Slouch–“Sit up straight!”
Sits up straight–“Why you gotta flaunt your chest like that?”
God dammit.
I had the adolescent fat kid build early in puberty and felt I was busty whenever standing with decent posture. 20 years later and with a very different build I still walk with a slouch to hide moobs I no longer have. Being a teenager fucks one up.
Lifting weights has improved my posture. It’s easier to sit up straight with a stronger back.
I really should start doing that.
It would also get my weight up, which I could use.
I started StrongLifts 5×5 with my wife two weeks ago. The app makes it pretty simple. Before that I was using machines.
*braces for two minutes hate*
*braces for two minutes hate*
You won’t get it here. Good luck with the 5×5. Barbells are way more fun anyway.
Thanks Tundra. I hope my wife keeps up with it. I think she will see better results than with all the cardio stuff she does.
It’s really important for women, too. Remind her that bone density can’t be fixed with those stupid supplements. You gotta load the skeleton.
There is a woman at the gym in her late 60’s who squats and deadlifts like a beast. She always tells me she wishes she would have started when she was younger.
You bet dat ass she will.
I’m always a bit nervous about lifting after I fucked up my back pretty badly on a roller coaster. I know that done right it’d make a world of difference but without someone keeping an eye on my form while I learn I’m worried I’ll blow a disc or something.
Watch Rippetoe’s videos (a bunch). Start light. You’ll be fine. I’m old as fuck and still lift.
They have videos on the website. Maybe have a trainer watch you for the first few days.
That’s my biggest hangup.
You can always take videos of your lifts and ask (Warty) for advice.
Me: Like this?
Warty: No, squat more
Me: What deeper, more weight?
Warty: SQUAT MORE, what don’t you understand about “MORE”?
Lol, Riven. “But my ass is literally touching the ground!”
Then stand up. Congratulations, you’re squatting right.
I had some neighbors who were PE majors in college (Kinesthetic Wellness or somesuch). They invited me down to a beach bbq one time and while we were hanging out a woman in her lululemon gear was doing walking lunges down the beach. Everyone stopped, assessed her form, and then started shouting “go deeper or you’ll fuck up your knees [pauses] yeah, that’s way better, carry on!”
There was one thing I’ve been wondering – how do you know when to change the amount of weight being used?
When it isn’t heavy anymore.
Like, if you’re doing 5×5, and you could do more than five reps at the weight you’ve got at your heaviest set, add more weight.
Progressive overload can be done literally a million different ways. I’ve found it really helpful to use a program. I started on Rippetoe’s Starting Strength program and went on to use Wendler’s 5/3/1. I need to have it mapped out.
Florida man’s 5×5 is similar. You increase weight weekly until you can’t progress, back up and do it again.
The nice thing about those programs, too is that they focus on full body lifts: squat, deadlift, bench, overhead press. A lot of bang for your buck.
The only lifts you’ll ever need. Everything else just helps with these.
If you’re trying to build muscle, then you should be lifting based on max reps. So say you want your max reps to be 10. Set your weight so that you can only do 10 reps and the 11th is impossible. Keep doing this until you can do more than 10 reps. Congratulations, you’ve built muscle. Now increase your weight til you can only do 10 reps again. Rinse, repeat. Forever.
Assume this fat bastard doesn’t know what ‘5×5’ means in the context of weight work.
Indeed. I can be in and out of the gym in an hour. Some of my friends do these insane bodybuilding splits that take them 2 hours.
Pass. I just want to be strong.
I’m already on progressive overload. I don’t need anymore.
UCS, if you don’t get what 5×5 means (which is totally ok), just look at what Vhyrus said. Basically all of that.
Assume this fat bastard doesn’t know what ‘5×5’ means in the context of weight work.
Sorry. That’s just 5 sets of 5 reps (Rippetoe’s program is 3 sets of 5) – add weight each session. You are usually on a 2 to 4 day rotation. It’s a dead simple and proven progression, particularly for beginners.
Maybe FM will link his program for you to look at. Also, I really consider buying Starting Strength just for the tons of information he provides.
Thanks, all of you.
… Unfortunately this means I now have to go buy heavier objects, as I maxed out the weakling weights I started with.
The way I did it, I was more into high reps. I would just do a certain thing, bench, curls, etc, until I could do 25 reps. Yeah, yeah, I know, this is not the RIGHT technique. And everyone who has their technique knows that it’s THE BEST technique. Anyway, so I would start at 10 reps, and when I could do 25 I would move up 5lbs in weight and start at 10 and try to work my way up. A lot of people don’t do more than 15 reps max and / or, they do sets, like 3 sets of 10, etc. But the principle is , when you want to move up, you increase the weight a little and wait until that’s easy for you, then move up again.
“… Unfortunately this means I now have to go buy heavier objects, as I maxed out the weakling weights I started with.”
They make the bars you can put plates on with different weights. Although if you can afford to just buy racks of different weights, that’s more convenient than changing plates.
Depending on how much weight you’re at, gallon milk jugs with water work fine, and you can keep adding weight for a while.
Hyperion, I just didn’t want to find out I needed to spend money. (and I’m likely to get a bar system next simply because of the modularity).
Holger – a gallon of water is only eight pounds. Rigging up some sort of bundle of them is liable to hurt me more than just shelling out $100 for a bar and some platters.
Well then, ignore my cheap-ass idea 🙂
The worst part will be when you have to clean up the 10 gallons of water on your floor.
I was gonna suggest something more dense than water at first, and then I realized just how much work it would be to clear up a gallon of spilled chicken-fat or ox blood.
Liquid mercury in gallon jugs
Interesting.
*Instructs orphans to buy Starting Strength and start lifting already, lazy bastards*
#1 “Wall, take my advice – don’t eat the mushrooms”
#2 “…And on the right, we have the disaffected internet shitposter in his unnatural habitat.”
#3 “The buzz of quadrotors told of the effectiveness of the magic warding sigil. They were angry, and no one could leave the No Drone Zone.”
#3 – Edward Propellerhands was the sequel you never knew you wanted.
Incidentally, I haven’t seen anyone wearing those sunglasses with the neon side frames in about 25 years. Kudos! It’s about time early ’90s neon made a comeback.
My girlfriend keeps getting free sunglasses from places, and they all have those frames. For some reason, she keeps wearing them.
Heh, I remember that. A lot of the Oakley’s were neon colors like that.
I’ve actually got two pairs of them. I got the first pair at my parents’ house one time, and then the second pair was in Mom’s jewelry chest when my sisters were cleaning that out after Mom died. (Mom was a hoarder, and there was so much junk in there.)
#2 Clayton Kershaw off season chillin’
Why cum all you glibertarians look like yokels? I mean all the facial hair and toxic masculinity is disturbing.
Some of us are clean-shaven, Hyp.
All.
Over.
Tundra was in a horrific Nair accident a few years back, and has not recovered.
…….turtle shell
I once was also, but that was… umm… 30 years ago?
I’m sorry I have a weak chin, so I kind of grew out a ZZ Top beard to compensate.
I can barely stand a day or 2 of stubble. It feels gross. Tried a full beard once, but I never got past the itching.
So that’s not really you in your avatar?
No, some rando left this excellent result at a photo kiosk while we were at my daughter’s Chuck E. Cheese birthday party. Finder’s keepers.
I grow a beard every fall for deer season and winter. The itching is worst for me in the first week or so. Past that the worst thing is losing shit in there….
Well don’t eat shit and it won’t get lost in your beard.
I like the blue merle. But the best photo is the one with mountains and some yokel dude. Just take out yokel dude and photoshop in some thicc winimz for the win. The last one just doesn’t do it for me cuz the graphics is bad.
He’s a great dog. Not the smartest collie we’ve had, but very nice.
…couldn’t we just photoshop the wiminz in there with me?
Nope.
Come on who would believe that?
Thicc girls can’t resist the flannel, bro, it’s all bout the flannel.
#2 you sure got a pretty mouth.
#3 Stop, Hammertime.
OT: An incredibly shitty and unsurprising followup as Great Ormond Street Hospital and the UK judiciary continue to torture Charlie Gard’s parents:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-40745988
If they stay in the UK after Charlie dies they are fools. No two ways about it.
There was already no reason to stay there. They’ll all be wearing burquas in a decade, even the men, especially the men.
Leaving one’s nation of birth is not something to be taken lightly. It usually takes a serious kick in the ass to get one’s perspective realigned. If they stay after the treatment that they received then they are a lost cause.
Well, it’s not like they can go to Murika, where you can’t even go outside without someone spraying bullets from a machine gun. And there’s no government ran single payer healthcare, I mean like in civilized countries.
In my experience, the perspective alignment comes after leaving.
Charlie’s parents obviously has a much bigger reason to change their perspective, given what they went through, but it’s amazing how blind you can be to injustice when you think it’s “how things are.” People would be flooding out of North Korea if that wasn’t the case.
People would already be flooding out of North Korea if it didn’t have electric fences and guards waiting to shoot anyone dead who tries.
They don’t have that many guards – it’s that if you try to leave, the family you left behind will be tortured or hanged in the village square. People without any ties do escape.
But if you read about people who escaped, a lot of them actually didn’t know what they escaped from, or what they were escaping to, in terms of tyranny. They weren’t seeking freedom, most of them were trying to simply find somewhere they didn’t have to eat rats and bugs to stay alive.
That too.
My migration to the states was initially due to work circumstances, but yes, even someone as nomadic as i was, with as few ties to my old country – the actual (and final) move to the US was not a decision I took lightly, despite the overall naffness of the UK in the early 90’s.
I’m not sure if the fact that my parents moved so often when I was a kid, I lived all over the US by the time I was 15, makes it no big deal for me to just up and go somewhere else without a 2nd thought.
But I’ve never had any problem doing that and have no hesitations about doing it again. Yet I know people from my youth who still live in the same neighborhood as they did when I was 10. I remember one guy who I’ve known for many years when I moved the last time, he was just amazed that I could just pull up stakes like that and move wherever. He still lives in the same small town he was born in.
Sure that’s still the same country you say, but I would move anywhere in the world potentially, as long as I didn’t have a good reason to not to want to live there, like Europe or Canada, that’s not happening. Or Australia. I’d rather live somewhere I can’t speak the language, I can learn.
When I graduated, I went onto a career that had me traveling around a lot, and becoming somewhat-resident for up to a year in all sorts of places, and I literally lived there – no trips back to the UK, every opportunity to ‘go native’, but there’s a psychological connection to your culture, rather than your actual ‘home’, that I think is at play here.
Sure, the Brits have all the trappings of a *compatible* culture to the US, but it isn’t so similar that it’s like “going home” – far from it. Even after all these years, I’m not sure I can adequately analyze the phenomenon, but it’s far more (and much less) than an issue of where that hat stand is on which you hang your fedora.
Number.6:
I had great fun in Ireland learning the cultural differences between there and the US. One of the huge ones was in the beer culture. Ireland is just starting to have craft breweries expanding into the area, and they’ve (for the most part) held off on mirroring the American market. Beers were almost all under 5% ABV (even ones billed as “American IPA’s”), there were very few that were hop forward, and the ones that were used a far gentler hand then any American brewery that I’m aware of. The ciders that my girlfriend were drinking (over ice) were generally a higher ABV then the beer I was drinking.
One day I was talking with a local couple, where the woman had spent some time in the US working (NoVA area). She was explaining to her boyfriend how big things were, and concluded with the line, “They all have separate rooms where they keep their washers and driers.”
Even things like OTC medicine were different. My foot was acting up after several days of walking through the city, so I stopped at a chemist for aspirin. They gave me a package, I paid, and then the girlfriend and I continued on. When I went to take the aspirin, they were wrapped in foil, and needed to be dissolved in water. They had artificial sweetener and artificial lime flavoring. In aspirin!
I’ll say that I was glad for getting glasses of ice water, spicy food, and being able to get an overly hopped beer once I was back in the US.
This is your life on socialized medicine.
That story is horrible. If I was that baby’s father, I would have already killed as many people involved as possible. The judge would be first.
The judge would be first, followed shortly by every single doctor and bloodless NHS drone who ran out the clock to prevent him from getting treatment in the first place.
I’m afraid spring like this would send me to a dark enough place that I would leave them alive and take from them what they took from me. Maybe not, since the disease is still probably a death sentence even with experimental treatments.
One last twist of the knife. Well done, UK!
Of course, without the expectation of the child becoming a fully-fledged tax-sheep, his utility is zero, and maintaining his life is simply a drain on the public treasury.
It’s like you people can’t even economic.
This. In socialism, people are considered biological resources, not individuals.
Holy Fuck that’s evil
Is it me, or is that timeline very clean of anything related to the actual problem in this case?
It wasn’t just about if “doctors can stop providing life-support treatment“, but rather if Charlie’s parents could take custody of their own child and take him abroad for treatment on their own dime.
The way this was done, it makes it appear like they did it to protect their sacred system and not have it look bad and to let everyone else know that their word is law and no one else should try to think they can just do what they want. The other thing is that they did it to spite the USA. Maybe we should just turn back every fucking limey politician or bureaucrat who shows up here to get some private healthcare?
That’s certainly exactly what it looked like.
We damn well should. You’re supporting the NHS? Go back and wait in line.
Maybe we should just turn back every fucking limey politician or bureaucrat who shows up here to get some private healthcare?
Let’s hope Trump does exactly that via ET (Executive Tweet).
Someone put that bug in his ear. I would love that.
Tell everyone that the Mayo Clinic is no longer open to business for foreign politicians. Make every politician deal with their own healthcare system.
Yeah, they’re still going to get preferential treatment, but fuck em for ragging on the horrors of for profit care while taking the first exit they can find.
I wonder what shipping costs are for sending a woodchipper to the UK.
They need an entire fleet of them.
Caption #2: “How do I get back to Williamsburg, Brooklyn from here?”
“My artisanal mayo is going bad from the heat.”
3) The remake with Melissa McCarthy won’t be nearly as good.
#1
After Woofy’s latest relapse into herion addiction and prostitution, Woofy decides that it’s just not worth it anymore.
“DOOM! GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE! MY FUCKING PAW IS STUCK IN THE HEATER AGAIN!”
Alternative headline for #3 “I’m just going to stand here looking cool without actually knowing how to work nunchucks, I can spin them around a lot though. That makes me look scary.”
It’s a caption contest already…
Hey, I’m not the one who banned nunchucks despite them being ridiculously stupid weapons.
Not a caption as such, but a realization.
#3, for example, look at that font. Only in America. European government agencies tend to standardize on their fonts, and they’d never let one of their keystone agencies like the FAA go out on a wing and use something funky like that in ‘official’ signage.
The fact the American federal agencies can indulge in such whimsical exercises as not (to my knowledge) even HAVING a single, mandated, high-visibility font fills me with awe and appreciation. This must be the very freest of lands, for which I am utterly grateful.
I don’t know. It looks similar to the signs I saw in Ireland.
It’s not so much what the font is, it’s the standardization. Look at signage on interstates. It’s different. But you can often see other interstate highway signage that is clearly a different font. That’s not the case in the UK, an certainly not in Germany or France. They pick a sans serif, bland, unoffensive font that even I could read from 300 ft away, and they stick with that. No exceptions. Look at the London Underground – oops “Travel for London”. That art-deco font was designed specifically for them by a dude named Edward Johnston, and when London modernized all of its signage in the early 70’s there was public outcry over plans to scrap it and “modernize” all the signage.
But for resistance to that truly Taliban-worthy plan, we’d be deprived of an exception that genuinely proved the rule.
And now, back to my quiet contemplation of Fraktur Gothic and the seemingly flawed kerning of Times Europa.
Oh, man, don’t me started on kern . . . I mean, you need help, Number.6
It’s a really boring conference call with some attorneys where I’ll have to opine right at the end. Looking at font styling is an almost perfect light distraction in these dull times.
#3 LOOK AT MY FONT! LOOK AT IT!
I lol’d. Maybe too hard
#2
http://imgur.com/a/R4WYW
He’s one tail-lift away from dog-butting us all.
#1 actually
heres #2
http://imgur.com/4bZPpKi
aww.
There’s one!
*takes aim*
UCS
https://stronglifts.com/5×5/
Here is the website. There is an app that goes with it to track your reps and weight progression.
It could just be the design of the website, but those look like they’re designed to cause horrific accidents.
Really the bench press is the only dangerous one to do by yourself. Even then, don’t clamp the plates and you can dump the weight if you get trapped. Also the weight progression is really slow, so you’re not easily going to get in over your head.
When benching, arch your back like this guy. Guaranteed to save your spine.
http://i.imgur.com/JSNE0ra.gif
I only say that because I envision trying to do them with the amount of weight in the images – and promptly snapping like a twig.
I’m sure if I used a realistic level for where I am in my mental image, I’d not have a similar reaction…
Scruffy – I don’t bend that way.
You won’t snap like a twig. Provided you work your way up to it, and learn proper form (which I found (and find) quite a challenge).
It’s coming right for us!
That’s awesome (sorry DOOM).
I knew what I was getting into.
OT: another modern-day crisis. Pressure on “elite” (not sure that British women bobsleigh is elite) athletes leads to self-harm:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/winter-sports/40738768
“having become a full-time professional, she says the demands of the GB squad’s training regime in Bath, and life on the road competing, became too much. She struggled with mental health issues and says athletes were “treated as a piece of data, a statistic” in the pursuit of medals and funding. “Every move you made was analysed,” she said. “If you were not good enough, it was, ‘you need to up it, have a look at this feedback, this analysis’. “That’s a difficult pressure when you’re just trying to do your best. It’s quite cold – not a friendly environment.”
Keep in mind that most elite athletes in the British Olympic sports are paid out of the proceeds of a national, government-run lottery. If it was too much for Rebecca, maybe she could take up crofting on the Scottish isles to get away from pressure.
Um, yeah, analyzing your technique is pretty standard for all athletics. It is exactly what you signed up for.
and there are thousands of people trying to take your spot.
if you can’t do something correctly, and they can, you will be replaced.
She sounds surprised it’s hard
Competition has failed! We need equal outcomes now!
Shut the eff up and push.
What the fuck is a bobsleigh?
The sport Simon Dunn participated in prior to switching to rugby.
TW: Kristen bait
Please tell me they have to wear bridles and bells for bobsleigh.
Pffft – what pressure is the women’s bobsled team under? For three years and eleven months, no one pays the slightest bit of attention to them.
the trainers are mean when they slack off?
She should sign up for the participation Olympics.
Hey,if they don’t test for their abilities how else will Handicapper General Glampers know which handicaps to apply to them?
House Judiciary Committee is finally launching a probe on Comey and Clinton’s 2016 Campaign. If you can say one thing about Trump, it’s that he’s energized members of the right to finally fight like leftists. Good.
Good for them. Now let’s see what comes from it.
#2 We’re getting getting ready to shoot a paper towel commercial. Where’s me axe and boggin? I gotta ditch these hipster glasses.
Ok, that sucks, I got nothin!
What’s so hipster about freebie sunglasses? Its like when gimme caps (I think if they aren’t free you call them meshbacks or trucker hats) came back into fashion. Like, truckers wear them because they’re free. So do I.
Freebie sunglasses aren’t hipster; sunglasses that ironically look like freebies but cost 80-100 bucks is hipster. So happy that “irony” isn’t trendy anymore.
Who’s giving these things away, and what is their sinister purpose?
Companies often print up several thousand logoed sunglasses and hand them out at music festivals and races for people who will be under the merciless eye fo the Daystar all day long. I believe they call it… advertising.
Lately, Capitol One has been giving away tons of blue and white sunglasses at every event in the Richmond area. I see people wearing them all over the place.
*eyes narrow*
I hate advertising.
Dude, you are an aspiring wealthy author. Better get over it.
I hate
advertisingeverything that isn’t unflavored porridge.-Bland- it’s what’s for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
-Bland- it’s what’s for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
Don’t get UCS too excited now.
“I have gruel on the phone here, Jesse, wondering why it’s not feeling any love”
Real slop has chunks of things in it – this in merely gruel! What are we, animals?
Yeah, but on one wears them to film a paper towel commercial. I don’t think.
I am wearing flannel in that too.
The haircut is a toss up.
I’ll admit I look like a hipster.
I think the flannel has already been mentioned, Doom.
I didn’t know I was going to put the ad up here, I should have bought a top hat.
Wait… you didn’t just admit that you don’t have a top hat?
*checks doom’s privilege, issues 2 orphan penalty*
Probably doesn’t even have any orphan slaves, either.
#2: The fuck you take me?
#2: Modeling the gas station sunglasses
2) So-called libertarian poses in front of road he wouldn’t have if he got his way
I’m not playing this stupid game.
/pulls out Hungry, Hungry Hippo.
#2) We invite you to the world premiere of The Road Less Traveled: The Layne Staley Jr. Story
Obscure but good
Where’s his shotgun?
That’s Kurt Cobain. Layne Staley, to absolutely no one’s surprise, ODed.
Just Say No!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EZjDll7IB4
“having become a full-time professional, she says the demands of the GB squad’s training regime in Bath, and life on the road competing, became too much. She struggled with mental health issues and says athletes were “treated as a piece of data, a statistic” in the pursuit of medals and funding. “Every move you made was analysed,” she said. “If you were not good enough, it was, ‘you need to up it, have a look at this feedback, this analysis’. “That’s a difficult pressure when you’re just trying to do your best. It’s quite cold – not a friendly environment.”
Having known a few Olympic athletes, back in the olden days, I think it’s clear this girl just doesn’t have what it takes. What it takes is a monomaniacal obsession with getting better every single day. Want to stop and smell the roses? Fine. Stop whining and step aside.
She’s got what it takes, it’s just that the patriarchy and their privilege are holding her back. You ain’t even WOKE.
.. and not even be given a participation trophy?
YOU SIR, ARE A MONSTER!
the olympic team should be just like a pick up club! whycome the trainers judge our abilities?
If you just want to “do your best” and enjoy yourself, maybe work on getting better at whatever it is you’re doing without worrying too much about pressure, that’s fine. That’s not what Olympic national teams are about. Go join a club. You’ll have a better time.
Glibs calendar cover girl material?
This is a family friendly site!
Pass
Seriously, we can cure hep c, but not herpes. Get on that Scientists!
Perhaps the time they waste getting on that contributes to the problem, not to the solution.
My theory; secretly most people think those with herpes deserve it, so forget funding research for a cure.
I’m not sure about that – after all the awareness of STDs and “this could be you!!!” – maybe they haven’t known where to look for a cure.
This slut was asking for it!
I was actually attempting a pun – an unsuccessful attempt apparently – health is a Good Thing and I don’t believe in an “bad lifestyle” exception to getting people healthy.
Disease isn’t something which, even in my most vindictive moods, I would wish even on a Democrat.
You see, I thought “getting on that” sounded vaguely dirty…oh, never mind….
Only thing I wish on the democrats at the moment is that they live in the utopia they wish for, for about a week – or even a fortnight (thanks DoomCo, for reminding me of a word I rarely ever use now)
OK, this was worthy of a few chuckles…..some Aussie bint writing for Buzzfeed twatted out this:
with a link to a story she wrote. In said story, she writes this, implying that it’s a lie that this guy was trying to flee the country:
Yet one paragraph earlier, she quotes the FBI saying this:
Cue the sad trombone.
It’s routine for actual reporting to completely contradict headlines and ledes these days
They’re shameless. They just reaffirm the spin that they know their readers want
#2 – Cosmo Roughing It
3. “You mean I’m fired from my phony-baloney job? Whew – it’s not *that* kind of no-drone zone.”
What Happened?
When I heard about about that book, my only thought was that this only serves to prove how disconnected she is from reality. She’s actually going to publish a book that blames everyone else for her failure.
One of my co-workers was all breathless about this new book. Most of the discussion circulated around it being the most important news of the day on CNN. The coworker thought it was ‘unseemly’ to criticize ‘everyone else’ and that obviously Clinton would have felt ‘let down’.
I asked her what her reaction would be if she sat in on a shareholder conference for a firm that consistently fell way behind its projected targets, and the CEO said “All our staff are incompetent, venal, traitorous morons”, and how the analysts would report, and she started to explain, and then excused herself and left me alone to play Minesweeper.
This is the best book title since OJ’s “If I Did It”
What happened?
You lost, hag, now fuck off.
From the comments:
“If Donald Trump goes down in flames in the worst, most disastrous presidency in history, he will still have earned my eternal gratitude for beating Hillary. Nothing, but nothing, could wipe the smile off my face while I watched the election returns, and the hysterical reaction of her supporters and the media (but I repeat myself).”
I could have written that myself.
Please tell me that pic of Hillary in Prison Orange is the cover photo.
And that it comes with a cloth.
What happened – A significant portion of Americans think you are a corrupt crony, a belief only reinforced by your email server fiasco and your buddies hacked emails proving your corruption wrt how you dealt with Bernie
“I happened”
I’m guessing that money from donors and speaking engagements are drying up in Clinton-land. So it makes sense to try and make a buck on the millions of idiots who only get their daily news from CNN and MSNBC, who still think she lost for no good reason.
Hey, Wa Happened?
#2 I have excellent hair, to be sure, but I know how to change a tire.
“And I’m here to explain why you, my parents, should support the American Healthcare Act, while I pour myself a nice warm mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows”
1. “Homeowner arrested for animal cruelty when dog found on the floor”
2. “Transgender man disappears in mountains after rejection at Army recruitment center”
3. “Drone rights activists celebrate when bigoted “no drones allowed” signs torn down across America”
#3 https://www.reddit.com/r/botsrights/
Of course there’s a subreddit for that.
I like the caption thingy here, but do it once a week with a single photo.
Seconded
Noted. My theory was the multiple photos would get more people to submit an idea.
I Ike multiple photos. I had nothing for the dog, but came up with something for 2 & 3.
*flips keyboard in a huff
The basic idea is sound, but dogs are hard to caption.
It’s not like dogs have a rep for being smart. What am I going to tell my dog “Hold my beer and watch this?”
I vote for the multiple options as well.
You have already learned a valuable lesson about providing free stuff to the Glibertarians: they want to dictate what free stuff, how much of it, and when they get it.
They all want cake, they want it now and will brook no excuses.
More puppies! Less DOOMco!
2. “Don’t come round here, I just spotted bigfoot right over there. Or maybe that was STEVE SMITH!”
#3 No disco dancing by killer robots. That means you <a href="https://youtu.be/Bw2y3faZhUk"Maximilian!
Maximilian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw2y3faZhUk&feature=youtu.be
#1 “Last time I read a cop story without a nut guard in place.”
1) (thanks for the idea, Gustave) “It’s laying down right at us!!” BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
1. Whyyyy! whyyyy! whyyyy… I dont know some hard hard black stick, something really really hard… Help me!
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Nancy Kerrigan reference
It was even funnier before I noticed you were offering a caption to one of the pictures.
Well to be honest that could also be used to describe what the last two weeks of my life have been like.
#1. Feels good, man.
#2. Still too many people here.
#3. Put this up next to the No Smoking and No Guns signs…problem solved.
#2. See, SP? You can hassle me all you want about the pineapple on pizza, but I get to live HERE and YOU are stuck in the hell hole that is Chicago. Game over!
The Willis Tower is pretty nice, I suppose.
So is the Merchandise Mart.
Incidentally I like Hawaiian pizza but won’t tell SP or OMWC that until after I’ve left Chicago
That seems like one of the few times you could pull off, “I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me.” and not look insane.
*SP preps the guest bed of nails for Jesse*
Hawaiian Pizza is like Celine Dion or Justin Bieber – Canada’s gentle reminder that we can play the MAD game if needed.
#2 Where’s the creemee stand?
Alternate #2: I was told there would be creemees
+1 vt slang
#2: Where do I plug in my nature sounds generator?
One more try…
2. Brawnto
DC sack of shit Sen. Graham threatens to end Trump’s Presidency if he fires Mueller:
“If Jeff Sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to play,” Graham declared. “Any effort to go after Mueller will be the beginning of the end for the Trump presidency unless Mueller did something wrong.”
He added, “Right now I have no reason to believe that Mueller is compromised. If you’ve got reason to believe he shouldn’t be serving as special counsel, let me know.”
Howsabout violating the federal law, namely 45 CFR 45.2, which provides:
Mueller is friends with Comey, who is definitely “substantially involved in the conduct that is the subject of the investigation”, as the obstruction of justice that is supposedly being investigated includes firing Comey. His refusal to investigate Comey’s blatantly illegal leak of FBI documents in order to get a Mueller appointed is proof that his judgment is compromised by a personal conflict of interest.
Mueller’s appointment includes “any matters arising from” his investigation of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign. That includes investigating the hacking and leaks of DNC info as well as “federal crimes committed in the course of, and with intent to interfere with, the Special Counsel’s investigation, such as perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses”. The DNC badly needs to be investigated on these counts, given that they are known to have destroyed evidence, refused to provide evidence, etc. Any such investigation would thus make misc. Democrats a subject of the investigation, which leads us to his second violation of the law.
Mueller also hired a bunch of people who have given substantially to the Democrats and to Hillary, which sure sounds to me like a “political relationship” with a person or organization substantially involved, etc. The lack of any investigation of the the actual hacking and leaks over the objections of Democrats is proof that the judgment of his staff is compromised by a political conflict of interest.
Fire him now, for illegal conflicts of interest.
Little Lindsey is just trying to make up for a very small penis. You can safely ignore him.
He’s just distraught that big brother McCain has cancer.
Probably why McCain came back so fast. Lindsey was probably sitting in his pajama boy PJs and calling McCain’s family all night long ‘Please, please, make him come back, I’ll be a good little toadie, best toadie ever for master!’.
It’s a very crowded and competitive field, but Lindsey Graham is the very worst of the Senate.
Hey Eddie, wanna know why I doubt in a just and loving god? Graham, Mccain, and Pelosi are still alive and in office.
It’s simply proof to the believers that God permits voters sufficient free will to commit the most atrocious sins.
Yup – God gave up the capacity to fuck everything up ourselves.
Lewis Black said it best: It’s not that God allows bad things to happen to good people, and it’s certainly not that he allows bad things to happen to me; It’s that he allows good things to happen to bad people.
My VR headset just arrived, minus the 2nd box with the other sensor and the controllers.
Vive?
Just noticed the tophat. Excellent.
I’m the original top hat wearing avatar here. I set a trend.
Naturally as a libertarian, I like to
conformbe in on the joke.It doesn’t show up well, but also tried to add a monocle and handle bar mustache.
Oculus. $399 for the headset, 2 touch controllers, 2 room sensors, and a bonus free wireless Xbox controller.
Vive is still $799, I think it’s the best headset, but I wasn’t even going to dive into VR until 2nd gen. I only did it because of the sale.
I’ll probably buy 2 more room sensors for a better standing experience.
I think Oculus only supports 3 sensors max, so if you already have two only buy one more.
Also, since you have touch controllers, make a bee-line for “Robo Recall” on the store (I think it’s one of the free titles). One of the most fun touch control VR games there is.
I might be confused, I thought I heard people saying they use 4 on the forums. Anyway, then I’ll buy one more sensor.
Thanks for the game tip!
Well, a quick Google search on my part confirms that you are right. They recently updated (only just this month) the software to handle four sensors. My information was out of date.
Actually, that was wrong, too. Apparently the software has been able to handle 4 sensors for a year, but the reason I had 3 in my mind is because that’s the number that is officially recommended by the company for room scale.
That’s a good price. It almost convinces me to give money to Zuckerberg.
I’m hanging on until they go wireless. Also, should have bought a bigger house with space for a VR room.
It’s like this. There is no way Zucky is making money on that. If he want’s to spend his own money to let me experience VR, so be it. I couldn’t pass it up.
Fair point. Link?
It’s right on the main page:
Oculus
I may be too late, but #2 is obviously a dog PSA about chewing on electrical cords.
“Don’t be this dog.”
I, uh… yeah. Wrong number.
just blame the keyboard.
My submission for #3
#1 somewhere Cruvella Deville’s neck is catching cold
#2 this months cover of Rustic Mormon
#3 I’ll take Nodro Nezone’ for 1000. And your mothers a whore Trebeck
1 My belly is hot and my nose is cold. #MenopauseSucks
2 Fuck off I can piss wherever I want. #Patriarchy
3 I bet Anwar al-Awlaki wishes he had one of these. #SummaryExecution #BarackObama