Basically, yes, my wife is afraid that I'll trade her in for a newer model. I'm not sure why she thinks that. She's not that interested in sex, which is a little disappointing but not a deal-breaker. We work well together in terms of logistics, finances, childcare, hobbies (we tend to have different ones though). Yes, we go to counselling.
Yes, I'm friendly to everyone, men and women. (It's part of the Art of Manliness, to strike up a conversation with a stranger at least three times a day. It's really tough.) BUT you have to remember that I'm married, and I wear my ring all the time -- gym, sleeping, swimming, showering, etc. I've taken it off once in the last 14 years, and that's because it broke and I had to get it repaired. (It also fell off by accident earlier this week.) I think that when a woman is comfortable talking to me, it's because I'm married and thus harmless. I'm not going to misconstrue "friendly" with "interested".
My wife runs, she plays a lot of sports like field hockey and field lacrosse, and goes to the gym at her work often. The Y is next door to my work and I have a free membership, so I'm there most days. Today was yoga.
It's one thing we can't really talk about, the fitness. She's really concerned about her weight and she resents me for weighing less than she does. She doesn't know what I weigh. I mean, I was poisoned by some bad antibiotics a month ago and dropped 5 pounds. I couldn't even tell her I was worried about it. (It hasn't come back yet, either.)
Look, there's only one way to lose the weight, and that's this:
Eat less and exercise more.
I know, it's impossible, right? Well, I started out being unable to bike to the end of the block and weighing a dangerous 250 pounds. I ate crap all the time -- working in a mall I'd often eat NYF poutine, a donair, and an Orange Julius for lunch. I didn't get much exercise. I'd also eat a chocolate bar every single day. The odds were against me and the situation was grim.
I kept on the bike though. I biked to school, eventually got all the way (2km!) without a rest, biked all the way through school, and biked to work once I graduated (B.Eng.). I still bike to work.
In addition to that, I did thousands of pushups on the Wii Fit, pulling a lot of weight from my gut and putting muscle onto my chest. I changed my diet, eating a lot more fruit and veggies and cutting out a lot of the chocolate and fast foods. I still eat treats, and lots of them, but nowhere near what I used to scarf down. I drink mostly water, with some sodas as an rare treat.
Now I weigh 160 pounds, 10% BF, and teach spin classes. The only real problem is that my wife isn't happy with my fitness; she's pretty insecure about it.
Nobody presented it as proof of AWG. It says so in the goddamned summary.
Wait, AWG? I don't think the American Wire Gauge is in dispute here.
It's a pain in the fucking ass. Now we've got AWG and metric cable types. I'm supposed to be able to find a substitute for a discontinued cable, specs in AWG, but replacements in metric, and every. single. fucking. time. I have to work out the characteristics because the sizes aren't exactly the same.
"But Beardo, why not just use the next biggest size and leave the conversion to the philosophers?"
I think the number one psychiatric diagnostic tool to recognize Asperger's sufferers is whether the patient actually thinks that tired old joke is still funny.
Like I'd care. Technically, it's the people I talk to that suffer from my Asperger's.
These people -- whether they have a physical pathway that is known to medical science or not -- have a reaction to electromagnetic waves.
No. These people are having a reaction to something, and are blaming electromagnetic waves.
This is an important distinction. We must separate the effect from the claimed cause.
It's detrimental to their own quest for health because nobody can get past the idea that it must be caused by Wifi.
Oh, I had never thought of it that way. I just assumed they were having purely mental symptoms, so that blocking RF would help them out once they knew they were in a shielded room.
I would not have thought to look for a different cause. Now, if one can block RF and remove that from the list of possible causes of suffering, wouldn't that make it easier to diagnose what the problem could be?
It's no joke man, they've found DiHyMo in 100% of brain tumors. It's used in all sorts of industrial applications including GMO farming and pesticide production. And it's ubiquitous. People will spray it all over their lawns to try and promote growth. It's so bad it's in all the runoff in the streams rivers, and we just dump it right into the ocean.
These people -- whether they have a physical pathway that is known to medical science or not -- have a reaction to electromagnetic waves. This product blocks out those frequencies that they claim sensitivity to. If they feel better having bought the product, then what's the harm? You're not engaging in fraud, you are selling a product that blocks what they don't want in their house.
I've been playing video games since 1985 when I had program them myself on my CoCo2. I've bought most consoles that have been out since then, often taking paper routes or begging my parents. (I was 8 in 1985, my resume wasn't really filled out.)
You can talk all about frame rates and resolution until your screen breaks, but that doesn't make it a great system. What your response says to me is that you don't actually play games yourself, but your favorite is to talk about your frame rates and scores on some benchmarking website. I don't even know where those are anymore.
And no, I don't play on my PC anymore. I gave up on that shit ten years ago. I play on my consoles in my living room. (Not that PCs can't plug into a TV.)
It's not to stifle process, it's to stop people from live-streaming evidence of police brutality or uploading videos to YouTube before they confiscate and erase / lose / impound your memory card.
You have to remember where this stems from -- someone filmed 5 RCMP officers engaging in premeditated murder against a Polish Immigrant. If not for the pesky video, the police would have been able to stick to their story since it was the word of 5 police vs one dead guy (or perhaps a handful of "confused, non-expert witnesses") Admittedly, they didn't go to jail, but there was an inquiry and odds are they will end up civilly liable for the death.
We can all cite at least one other example where video evidence directly contradicts what the police are saying. Filming the police and making sure the videos can't be destroyed takes away their power. They can't have that.
Actually, I'm one of the laziest people you'll ever meet. It's one of the secrets to my success. I'll find the simplest way to solve a problem, I don't care how complicated it is.
In school, I didn't work all that hard. I got a B average. I knew all the material, and I haven't really had to pull up a ton of stuff from memory since then. Rote memorization isn't an indicator of how much you know. I got scholarships, I had a daughter, I didn't fail a single class, I learned to SCUBA dive, etc.
As you're aware, the person with the highest graduating GPA is called the valedictorian. Did you know that medical school has a special name for the person with the lowest graduating GPA?
I think of those consoles as a dongle that lets you play the games. It's not like you don't know that you've got restrictions.
Besides, I got tired of buying a new video card every year just to keep up with the latest titles. I know for a fact that any console game will run on the console.
As a Canadian, where the government is heavily involved in both providing student loans and subsidizing education, I have to say that you're totally wrong.
I graduated in 2004 with an Electrical Engineering degree. The total I had in student loans was $0. (zero) Co-op paid for most of my expenses. Courses were about $400, six per term, a total of $2400 per semester. (I know, holy shit, right?) Books were the typical ass-rape, but in the non-lubed Canadian version. (A couple of books were $120, lots at $80, I eventually just gave 'em all away.) I was not living with my parents, and rent was about $500 a month.
It's dirty socialism, right? Nope, it's long-term thinking. I pay more in taxes now than I did before I got my degree since I'm earning 2.5x what I got when I started school. I'll be paying 2.5x more taxes (more actually, since we have progressive taxes up here) for the rest of my career.
We don't need no fancy satellites -- I bet they were dreamed up by some liberal thinker at a UNIVERSITY.
Jesus and the Bible tell us everything we need to know about climate changes, and that's that the world is going to burn. Judgment Day is approaching and those who aren't saved are going to burn to death forever.
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I'll reply to both of you.
Basically, yes, my wife is afraid that I'll trade her in for a newer model. I'm not sure why she thinks that. She's not that interested in sex, which is a little disappointing but not a deal-breaker. We work well together in terms of logistics, finances, childcare, hobbies (we tend to have different ones though). Yes, we go to counselling.
Yes, I'm friendly to everyone, men and women. (It's part of the Art of Manliness, to strike up a conversation with a stranger at least three times a day. It's really tough.) BUT you have to remember that I'm married, and I wear my ring all the time -- gym, sleeping, swimming, showering, etc. I've taken it off once in the last 14 years, and that's because it broke and I had to get it repaired. (It also fell off by accident earlier this week.) I think that when a woman is comfortable talking to me, it's because I'm married and thus harmless. I'm not going to misconstrue "friendly" with "interested".
My wife runs, she plays a lot of sports like field hockey and field lacrosse, and goes to the gym at her work often. The Y is next door to my work and I have a free membership, so I'm there most days. Today was yoga.
It's one thing we can't really talk about, the fitness. She's really concerned about her weight and she resents me for weighing less than she does. She doesn't know what I weigh. I mean, I was poisoned by some bad antibiotics a month ago and dropped 5 pounds. I couldn't even tell her I was worried about it. (It hasn't come back yet, either.)
You are correct.
Look, there's only one way to lose the weight, and that's this:
Eat less and exercise more.
I know, it's impossible, right? Well, I started out being unable to bike to the end of the block and weighing a dangerous 250 pounds. I ate crap all the time -- working in a mall I'd often eat NYF poutine, a donair, and an Orange Julius for lunch. I didn't get much exercise. I'd also eat a chocolate bar every single day. The odds were against me and the situation was grim.
I kept on the bike though. I biked to school, eventually got all the way (2km!) without a rest, biked all the way through school, and biked to work once I graduated (B.Eng.). I still bike to work.
In addition to that, I did thousands of pushups on the Wii Fit, pulling a lot of weight from my gut and putting muscle onto my chest. I changed my diet, eating a lot more fruit and veggies and cutting out a lot of the chocolate and fast foods. I still eat treats, and lots of them, but nowhere near what I used to scarf down. I drink mostly water, with some sodas as an rare treat.
Now I weigh 160 pounds, 10% BF, and teach spin classes. The only real problem is that my wife isn't happy with my fitness; she's pretty insecure about it.
You wait until lunch? I have a banana break at 10:30 each morning.
I like the lines "causes tissue damage in its solid form" and "causes 3rd-degree burns in its gaseous forms".
FFS, it's a joke. I dare you to come up with something about how AWG (cables) can be controversial.
Wait, I thought RuPaul, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul were the same guy.
Oh man, I thought for a while the republicans were going to run a drag queen for the presidential candidate.
Nobody presented it as proof of AWG. It says so in the goddamned summary.
Wait, AWG? I don't think the American Wire Gauge is in dispute here.
It's a pain in the fucking ass. Now we've got AWG and metric cable types. I'm supposed to be able to find a substitute for a discontinued cable, specs in AWG, but replacements in metric, and every. single. fucking. time. I have to work out the characteristics because the sizes aren't exactly the same.
"But Beardo, why not just use the next biggest size and leave the conversion to the philosophers?"
Because weight is a critical factor, that's why.
I think the number one psychiatric diagnostic tool to recognize Asperger's sufferers is whether the patient actually thinks that tired old joke is still funny.
Like I'd care. Technically, it's the people I talk to that suffer from my Asperger's.
These people -- whether they have a physical pathway that is known to medical science or not -- have a reaction to electromagnetic waves.
No. These people are having a reaction to something, and are blaming electromagnetic waves.
This is an important distinction. We must separate the effect from the claimed cause.
It's detrimental to their own quest for health because nobody can get past the idea that it must be caused by Wifi.
Oh, I had never thought of it that way. I just assumed they were having purely mental symptoms, so that blocking RF would help them out once they knew they were in a shielded room.
I would not have thought to look for a different cause. Now, if one can block RF and remove that from the list of possible causes of suffering, wouldn't that make it easier to diagnose what the problem could be?
It's no joke man, they've found DiHyMo in 100% of brain tumors. It's used in all sorts of industrial applications including GMO farming and pesticide production. And it's ubiquitous. People will spray it all over their lawns to try and promote growth. It's so bad it's in all the runoff in the streams rivers, and we just dump it right into the ocean.
That's not true.
These people -- whether they have a physical pathway that is known to medical science or not -- have a reaction to electromagnetic waves. This product blocks out those frequencies that they claim sensitivity to. If they feel better having bought the product, then what's the harm? You're not engaging in fraud, you are selling a product that blocks what they don't want in their house.
I've been playing video games since 1985 when I had program them myself on my CoCo2. I've bought most consoles that have been out since then, often taking paper routes or begging my parents. (I was 8 in 1985, my resume wasn't really filled out.)
You can talk all about frame rates and resolution until your screen breaks, but that doesn't make it a great system. What your response says to me is that you don't actually play games yourself, but your favorite is to talk about your frame rates and scores on some benchmarking website. I don't even know where those are anymore.
And no, I don't play on my PC anymore. I gave up on that shit ten years ago. I play on my consoles in my living room. (Not that PCs can't plug into a TV.)
Any time you want, man. Just rent a bulldozer and you're good to go.
It's not to stifle process, it's to stop people from live-streaming evidence of police brutality or uploading videos to YouTube before they confiscate and erase / lose / impound your memory card.
You have to remember where this stems from -- someone filmed 5 RCMP officers engaging in premeditated murder against a Polish Immigrant. If not for the pesky video, the police would have been able to stick to their story since it was the word of 5 police vs one dead guy (or perhaps a handful of "confused, non-expert witnesses") Admittedly, they didn't go to jail, but there was an inquiry and odds are they will end up civilly liable for the death.
We can all cite at least one other example where video evidence directly contradicts what the police are saying. Filming the police and making sure the videos can't be destroyed takes away their power. They can't have that.
Actually, I'm one of the laziest people you'll ever meet. It's one of the secrets to my success. I'll find the simplest way to solve a problem, I don't care how complicated it is.
In school, I didn't work all that hard. I got a B average. I knew all the material, and I haven't really had to pull up a ton of stuff from memory since then. Rote memorization isn't an indicator of how much you know. I got scholarships, I had a daughter, I didn't fail a single class, I learned to SCUBA dive, etc.
As you're aware, the person with the highest graduating GPA is called the valedictorian. Did you know that medical school has a special name for the person with the lowest graduating GPA?
"Doctor."
I think of those consoles as a dongle that lets you play the games. It's not like you don't know that you've got restrictions.
Besides, I got tired of buying a new video card every year just to keep up with the latest titles. I know for a fact that any console game will run on the console.
Right, everyone should forget their dreams and get degrees in Engineering. Or forget college, everyone should be a welder.
Take one correspondence class and don't pay. Then you owe Harvard money.
Some of mine used the transcipts to get grant funding.
As a Canadian, where the government is heavily involved in both providing student loans and subsidizing education, I have to say that you're totally wrong.
I graduated in 2004 with an Electrical Engineering degree. The total I had in student loans was $0. (zero) Co-op paid for most of my expenses. Courses were about $400, six per term, a total of $2400 per semester. (I know, holy shit, right?) Books were the typical ass-rape, but in the non-lubed Canadian version. (A couple of books were $120, lots at $80, I eventually just gave 'em all away.) I was not living with my parents, and rent was about $500 a month.
It's dirty socialism, right? Nope, it's long-term thinking. I pay more in taxes now than I did before I got my degree since I'm earning 2.5x what I got when I started school. I'll be paying 2.5x more taxes (more actually, since we have progressive taxes up here) for the rest of my career.
Or as I call it, Thursday!
It is important that you don't flinch.
I'll bookmark your comment for later.
"Hello, have you tried turning the weather off, then back on again?"
We don't need no fancy satellites -- I bet they were dreamed up by some liberal thinker at a UNIVERSITY.
Jesus and the Bible tell us everything we need to know about climate changes, and that's that the world is going to burn. Judgment Day is approaching and those who aren't saved are going to burn to death forever.
USA! USA! USA!
Murder is okay because some other people jaywalk?