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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 18, 2021 23:15:22 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 4, 2021 14:19:00 GMT -5
Today is National Feed the Birds Day*, so I put out three times the seed I normally do. Squirrels, birds, nobody's budging. Must be a cat lurking about my back yard.
*Okay, technically it was yesterday.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 5, 2021 19:04:40 GMT -5
I have a gut. It's pretty pronounced for the rest of me being fairly long and lanky. Here lately, people have actually remarked on the gut to me. I know it's not attractive, but I also know that it doesn't otherwise cause discomfort. In fact, I feel pretty good these days. If I didn't feel good, I'd probably feel different about this extra paunch. I don't know where I'm going with these ruminations, but welcome any input from fellow ZAQBers on their own gravity/body battles.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Feb 5, 2021 20:56:46 GMT -5
I have a gut. It's pretty pronounced for the rest of me being fairly long and lanky. Here lately, people have actually remarked on the gut to me. I know it's not attractive, but I also know that it doesn't otherwise cause discomfort. In fact, I feel pretty good these days. If I didn't feel good, I'd probably feel different about this extra paunch. I don't know where I'm going with these ruminations, but welcome any input from fellow ZAQBers on their own gravity/body battles. I hear you. I got rather an earful of how overweight I was around 11-12 years old. Of course then I grew nearly 16 inches between the ages of 13 and 16. My waist stayed about the same size, but the teachers in the next boarding school kept recruiting me for sports teams. I wouldn't say I was ever "lithe and athletic", but I kept pretty active and sometimes my teams would win --might have been something to my being there competing after all. My crew 8 nicknamed me and a couple of other guys "the engine room". In my 20's I started to slope again a little and got really self conscious about it. Didn't seem to keep me from getting laid though, which was all I (rather narrow-mindly) thought my body was for. When I started to slope more, I didn't worry so much because I'd survived my first marriage with my sanity (mostly) intact. Now I'm fighting the middle-age spread. Mostly because I don't want to end up like my father's little brother, who had some serious health issues in his late 60's. I vote for continuing to feel good and tracking whatever health factors you think are relevant based on family history, etc. It sucks to have someone shaming you over your body. Worse if you make the mistake of buying in to it. Keep healthy by whatever measure gives you happiness and leave it at that.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 6, 2021 11:05:03 GMT -5
I have a gut. It's pretty pronounced for the rest of me being fairly long and lanky. Here lately, people have actually remarked on the gut to me. I know it's not attractive, but I also know that it doesn't otherwise cause discomfort. In fact, I feel pretty good these days. If I didn't feel good, I'd probably feel different about this extra paunch. I don't know where I'm going with these ruminations, but welcome any input from fellow ZAQBers on their own gravity/body battles. I hear you. I got rather an earful of how overweight I was around 11-12 years old. Of course then I grew nearly 16 inches between the ages of 13 and 16. My waist stayed about the same size, but the teachers in the next boarding school kept recruiting me for sports teams. I wouldn't say I was ever "lithe and athletic", but I kept pretty active and sometimes my teams would win --might have been something to my being there competing after all. My crew 8 nicknamed me and a couple of other guys "the engine room". In my 20's I started to slope again a little and got really self conscious about it. Didn't seem to keep me from getting laid though, which was all I (rather narrow-mindly) thought my body was for. When I started to slope more, I didn't worry so much because I'd survived my first marriage with my sanity (mostly) intact. Now I'm fighting the middle-age spread. Mostly because I don't want to end up like my father's little brother, who had some serious health issues in his late 60's. I vote for continuing to feel good and tracking whatever health factors you think are relevant based on family history, etc. It sucks to have someone shaming you over your body. Worse if you make the mistake of buying in to it. Keep healthy by whatever measure gives you happiness and leave it at that.
Yeah, I think losing some around that middle would help the knees some, but otherwise, I stopped caring about impressing people a while back.
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Post by Mayzshon on Feb 6, 2021 11:37:26 GMT -5
Weight has been an issue for me since puberty. In high school I grew and it stretched out some, but recently has come back with a vengeance, and I'm up to 275. Fortunately it spreads out a bit, so the guy's not quite so prominent. At this point I'm more worried about diabetes than anything, since fat or thin, I could crawl up a chicken's ass and still not get laid.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 6, 2021 14:53:55 GMT -5
I'm certainly fighting gravity much harder than I used to, and with strikingly little result. After cutting everything I was eating in half, I actually lost about 40 lbs, but only 40 funking pounds, even with extra exercise added. My upper arms still look like a mated pair of elephant seals -- I say mated pair because as with elephant seals in the wild, one upper arm is strikingly larger than the other -- and my waist is just not getting a lot smaller. My face is also starting to slide off my skull but that's neither here nor there.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 7, 2021 0:00:59 GMT -5
I'm certainly fighting gravity much harder than I used to, and with strikingly little result. After cutting everything I was eating in half, I actually lost about 40 lbs, but only 40 funking pounds, even with extra exercise added. My upper arms still look like a mated pair of elephant seals -- I say mated pair because as with elephant seals in the wild, one upper arm is strikingly larger than the other -- and my waist is just not getting a lot smaller. My face is also starting to slide off my skull but that's neither here nor there.
My face is starting to do the droopies, too! I wonder if there's a (non-surgical) way to stave that off a little longer. Wasn't there an old saying about being stuck with whatever face you've earned by forty? Or fifty? I forget.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 7, 2021 0:12:42 GMT -5
Weight has been an issue for me since puberty. In high school I grew and it stretched out some, but recently has come back with a vengeance, and I'm up to 275. Fortunately it spreads out a bit, so the guy's not quite so prominent. At this point I'm more worried about diabetes than anything, since fat or thin, I could crawl up a chicken's ass and still not get laid. Yeah, diabetes is pretty scary. Several of my family have it. That's a big concern. I also recall reading that the tire look (like I have) can be a signature for cancer, so if for no other reason, I should try to lose the gut. I dunno. Cancer is so effing random. I've known superfit people who ate all the right things and still developed the big C. I figure my heart will go first, anyway.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 11, 2021 11:35:06 GMT -5
I'm certainly fighting gravity much harder than I used to, and with strikingly little result. After cutting everything I was eating in half, I actually lost about 40 lbs, but only 40 funking pounds, even with extra exercise added. My upper arms still look like a mated pair of elephant seals -- I say mated pair because as with elephant seals in the wild, one upper arm is strikingly larger than the other -- and my waist is just not getting a lot smaller. My face is also starting to slide off my skull but that's neither here nor there.
My face is starting to do the droopies, too! I wonder if there's a (non-surgical) way to stave that off a little longer. Wasn't there an old saying about being stuck with whatever face you've earned by forty? Or fifty? I forget. Stay out of the sun. Lots of Vitamin C in your diet to keep building collagen. DON'T move your face. EVER. Get plenty of sleep. Sleep hanging upside down, like a bat, to reverse the effects of gravity. St. Ives Timeless Skin Renewing Moisturizer With Collagen & Elastin. I attribute the fact that I've been thought to be in my 20s well into my 30s, and my 40s now well into my 50s, to this moisturizer. Any of your retinol-spiked skin treatments are good and supposedly helpful. I just started on them myself.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 16, 2021 8:52:25 GMT -5
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/ll26wd/i_dont_know_why_but_we_have_this_statue_in/
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 16, 2021 9:03:14 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 17, 2021 14:55:14 GMT -5
Saw the oddest thing for sale at Costco. A big sack of ready-made silver-dollar pancakes -- think McGriddle size -- separated into 2-packs for maximum generation of plastic landfill waste.
Is there really even a market for these?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 18, 2021 15:22:46 GMT -5
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I was just at a Family Team Meeting in which one of the attendees introduced himself as a "POS supervisor."
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I just watched myself type in my password wrong. definitely wrong. Sat back and waited for the error screen so I could clear the little box and re-enter it...but the computer accepted it.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 3, 2021 21:38:32 GMT -5
Today 3 of us said forget it and got lunch at the Chinese. This is the very first time I have ever seen tax-themed fortune cookies. Mine said on one side that SOMETIMES THE OBVIOUS IS NOT SO OBVIOUS, which to me is the right sort of fortune, but on the back it said "New Yorkers pay extra taxes for sliced bagels." Althea's said BODYBUILDERS CAN DEDUCT THEIR BODY OIL.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 4, 2021 0:01:19 GMT -5
Today 3 of us said forget it and got lunch at the Chinese. This is the very first time I have ever seen tax-themed fortune cookies. Mine said on one side that SOMETIMES THE OBVIOUS IS NOT SO OBVIOUS, which to me is the right sort of fortune, but on the back it said "New Yorkers pay extra taxes for sliced bagels." Althea's said BODYBUILDERS CAN DEDUCT THEIR BODY OIL. That's a weird fortune cookie fortune.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Mar 4, 2021 5:44:55 GMT -5
Yeah, that's not so much a fortune cookie as a trivia cookie.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Mar 4, 2021 14:23:14 GMT -5
Today 3 of us said forget it and got lunch at the Chinese. This is the very first time I have ever seen tax-themed fortune cookies. Mine said on one side that SOMETIMES THE OBVIOUS IS NOT SO OBVIOUS, which to me is the right sort of fortune, but on the back it said "New Yorkers pay extra taxes for sliced bagels." Althea's said BODYBUILDERS CAN DEDUCT THEIR BODY OIL. That's a weird fortune cookie fortune. Huh. Maybe I should start drilling bodybuilders.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 5, 2021 7:59:43 GMT -5
That's a weird fortune cookie fortune. Huh. Maybe I should start drilling bodybuilders. And the cost of the drill may be tax-deductible! Call your tax preparer today!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 7, 2021 1:11:38 GMT -5
I actually read the name of this band as "Radlands" at first glance.
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