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At 7/16/10 10:28 PM, Malachy wrote: are we talking municipal outside full tilt ones or indoor office-lobby ones?

Outside ones. The indoor office-lobby ones will get whacked by the FDA for having chemicals in them.

Other items to invest in: dirt, rocks, bark, air, and Keith Richards.

At 7/16/10 06:42 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: But that requires money and work!!!!! WHO HAS THAT TIME

Investing in the stock market requires money and work, but you have time for that.

At 7/16/10 09:46 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: I just know I'll go to the parking lot tomorrow and be all "Where the fuck is my car?!"

Newgrounds Sticker on the bumper?

At 7/17/10 01:59 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: Awesomest made for TV movie ever.

Kill it before we're all dead! Or no one will be able to buy my benches!!!

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I was at a sporting goods store this afternoon looking at exercise equipment (I'm intent on investing in an exercise bike here in the near future), and found 75, 80, 85, and 90 pound dumbells in their freeweight section. I didn't even know they made them that heavy.

Well, I of course had to lift one off the shelf. Turns out, I'm a bit stronger than I thought; I had no problem with lifting up the 75 pound dumbell one-handed off the shelf, but there was no chance of curling it. Fuuuuuuuck that.

At 7/17/10 08:02 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 7/16/10 06:42 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: But that requires money and work!!!!! WHO HAS THAT TIME

Investing in the stock market requires money and work, but you have time for that.

At 7/16/10 09:46 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: I just know I'll go to the parking lot tomorrow and be all "Where the fuck is my car?!"

Newgrounds Sticker on the bumper?

At 7/17/10 01:59 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: Awesomest made for TV movie ever.

Kill it before we're all dead! Or no one will be able to buy my benches!!!

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I was at a sporting goods store this afternoon looking at exercise equipment (I'm intent on investing in an exercise bike here in the near future), and found 75, 80, 85, and 90 pound dumbells in their freeweight section. I didn't even know they made them that heavy.

yeah, iIve seen those and frankly, I don't see the point. Adjustable weight dumbells have always served me fine giving that in weight lifting the weight you need is going to adjust. I don't know. They look mainly to be for showing off on a rack. I mean you could argue them for like isloation and such but, not seeing it.

Well, I of course had to lift one off the shelf. Turns out, I'm a bit stronger than I thought; I had no problem with lifting up the 75 pound dumbell one-handed off the shelf, but there was no chance of curling it. Fuuuuuuuck that.

Well start off slow with like a 60 pounder, Thor.

At 7/17/10 10:06 PM, stafffighter wrote: Well start off slow with like a 60 pounder, Thor.

The weird thing is that I don't do any specialized weight training. I don't really have too, I work in the paint department of my store and I lug around 5 gallon buckets of paint quite often.

Maybe I should start doing some weight training, maybe start arm curling 5 gallon buckets of paint. That's about 50 pounds, right?

<pure sex>

And that is why I play the Bari.

</pure sex>

At 7/18/10 08:48 PM, Ravariel wrote: And that is why I play the Bari.

And this is why tenor is the better sax :P

At 7/18/10 08:51 PM, BrianEtrius wrote:

At 7/18/10 08:48 PM, Ravariel wrote: And that is why I play the Bari.

And this is why tenor is the better sax :P

Naw, that's just Coltrane being... well, Coltrane.

At 7/18/10 09:39 PM, Ravariel wrote: Naw, that's just Coltrane being... well, Coltrane.

And that's a bad thing because....?

I've heard that it is actually better to use free weights because machines will only work on certain muscles and the other muscles that work in relation to real-world exorcise need to be worked out too...all those little muscles that help stabilize your arm while you're doing curls with a dumbbell and in your legs that keep you balanced while doing squats...those muscles might be left out of the loop if all you use are specialized machines. I'll have to check the wife's sports physiology textbooks though to be certain.

At 7/18/10 09:55 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

and don't ask stafff for practical weight lifting advice. He bench presses minivans.

He doesn't understand how us weaklings feel.

In all fairness I only did that once and it was because you were looking.

At 7/18/10 09:50 PM, BrianEtrius wrote:

At 7/18/10 09:39 PM, Ravariel wrote: Naw, that's just Coltrane being... well, Coltrane.

And that's a bad thing because....?

It isn't. I'm just sayin' that the awesome comes from the player not the horn in that example. The tenor is the least sonorous of the saxophones, with the Alto and Bari both having a much richer timbre. The soprano in the hands of a Coltrane or Harle is like a clarinet that doesn't screech (read: awesome, but also in the hands of an amateur is worse than a screechy clarinet). The tenor is popular not because of it's sound, but because of its range and key with respect to the blues.

That said, it's still sexier than any other woodwind, brass (barring the Horn and, maybe, Euphonium) or string (barring the Cello). So it's like #5 on the list of sex instruments... which is nothing to scoff at. However, the ones above it are in a whole different league.

that turned out to be far longer and more involved than the jaunty quip I had planned. ce la vie

well I reckon I'm back, again. Life has this strange way of taking a nice, ordinary guy and fucking him over in ways he never thought possible.

About 5 months ago a friend calls me up, begging for help to keep his lights on. I tell him I can't afford to pay his light bill because of the rent I was paying on this place I was at. So he comes up with this idea that would supposedly help us both. I would pay him less than what I was paying and the extra income would keep his lights on. Well I figured it was a good idea. I figure I could trust a lifelong friend.

WRONG.

Few months later he decides he's moving to another place and tells me I gotta find a new place to live... after I paid him half the rent money. It took a while to get my money back from him, but i managed. His grandmother found out what he had done and called me up and said I could stay with her.

1 week later (no bullshit, literally 7 days later) I was mowing the grass at work and SOMEHOW managed to slip and my left foot slid right under the push mower I was using. LUCKILY the blade hasn't been sharpened in years and the blade was about as dull as it gets. all it did was break my 2nd toe, put a hairline fracture in my big toe, and left a bone deep gash in the side of my 2nd toe. The accident left my laid up all last week.

Wednesday my friend's grandmother faints while trying to can figs. After she gets back from the hospital, she tells me I gotta find a new place to stay ASAP, which made no sense to me since I was the only person in the house who could drive a car and get what she needed from town. but, whatever.

I call up my boss and ask him for help. He did. Now I'm living in the warehouse of his furniture store.... for now. on the bright side I have internet again and I sleep on a memory foam mattress (until they fix up a little pad for me to live in, and don't even plan to charge me rent until i've made a few pay checks, and even then, they're only gonna charge me for utilities and such.

Given that I've called worse places home, I'm fairly happy with my situation, given the circumstances. At least I don't have to hunker down in an abandoned house somewhere and do battle with rats and spiders for a place to sleep.

I nominate korriken as second most hardcore person I've met in the lounge next to Funk

It is my 21st birthday, my family is going out to eat for all of our birthdays, all through I get the feeling a lot of alcohol is going to be shoved my way.

At 7/20/10 12:10 PM, Malachy wrote: I nominate korriken as second most hardcore person I've met in the lounge next to Funk

I prefer the term humble myself. you can survive anything if you don't lose your sense of humor. Look for the bright side to anything you run into and you'll find SOME good that comes out of it.Today I got moved into the... err... storage room, which is ONE HUGE room with not much in it so i got a lot of room to move around in. This room is bigger than any apartment.

usually when I see or hear the word Hardcore I can't help but imaging muscle bound guys beating the shit out each others with various objects and screaming "I DON'T FEEL A THING!!"

At 7/20/10 01:27 PM, LordJaric wrote: It is my 21st birthday, my family is going out to eat for all of our birthdays, all through I get the feeling a lot of alcohol is going to be shoved my way.

once your nose starts to go numb, you've had enough...... or not, depending on how much you like being face first on the white throne.

I got a quite a few mixed drinks, didn't really like any of them, the last one (forgot what it was, my sister called it a girly drink) I started to like but then I started to dislike must of been getting mostly the fruity stuff at first and got into the alchol, I guess I just don't have the taste for alcohol, either that or I haven't found a drink I liked.

At 7/20/10 10:22 PM, LordJaric wrote: I got a quite a few mixed drinks, didn't really like any of them, the last one (forgot what it was, my sister called it a girly drink) I started to like but then I started to dislike must of been getting mostly the fruity stuff at first and got into the alchol, I guess I just don't have the taste for alcohol, either that or I haven't found a drink I liked.

imagine how much money you'll have in college if you aren't throwing it all away on booze. and all the new friends you'll have for being a DD.

I like shots but I hate beer. I like anything fruity and girly too..Beer seriously makes me nauseous sometimes. I don't mind smirnoff ice or mikes hard lemonade style drinks (malternatives??).

my drink of choice is vodka and sour mix. lemonade or sour mix does a good job of almost totally counteracting vodka, and it's usually mixed with a little soda water so it's not a thick syrupy tasting gunk. YOu may also like rum and cokes, if you order nice enough rum it will go with the cola taste well.

I'm sure some beer snobs and alcoholics here have better ideas for getting your drunk on while at church or during the birth of your first child

At 7/20/10 10:38 PM, Malachy wrote: imagine how much money you'll have in college if you aren't throwing it all away on booze.

So that's why I have so much money these past 2 years.

and all the new friends you'll have for being a DD.

That's basiclly what I've been for my family.

My cousin joked this weekend that he would buy me a pop (he's younger then me), bastard cut out on me, I'm a sodaholic :p

At 7/21/10 06:31 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: Greatest Timelord ever.

There are many confusing feelings going on in my pants....

At 7/21/10 07:52 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

At 7/21/10 07:18 PM, Malachy wrote:

At 7/21/10 06:31 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: Greatest Timelord ever.

There are many confusing feelings going on in my pants....

...and that's different from any other time???

*tilts head head inquisitivly* Is that what irony looks like?

It occurred to me today that with my newish computer, I have a high enough amount of physical memory to run the KGB Archiver program without my computer crapping out on me. I downloaded the contents of classtabs.org and put them through the ringer as a test run... 20 megabytes uncompressed, 3 megabytes in zip file, 1.5 megabytes in a kgb archive. :-D

I've got some stuff sitting on my external hard drive that I'm going to compress like a mofo for long term storage, and to free up some space. Should be interesting.

so im sitting here, dying from boredom, i decided i would check my email. i get an email from blizzard stating that my world of warcraft account has been closed due to the use of a hack. as I sit here, pondering to myself, "when WAS the last time i played wow again?" I can't remember.

that game's been shit for a long time and only gets worse. closing an account that has been frozen for months is no loss to me.

there hasn't been a real good pvp mmo in years, kinda depressing really.

At 7/21/10 11:50 PM, Korriken wrote: there hasn't been a real good pvp mmo in years, kinda depressing really.

That's one thing I'm itching to do is get into PVP on City of Heroes/Villains. The main reason I haven't done it is because it's a whole different ballgame from what I'm used to doing.... and I never made a character to farm for cash with.

Yeah. I've been playing for 2 years now and it wasn't until about three weeks ago that I built a character to farm with.

<---- Dumbass.