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  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Knowing is half the battle.

    Feral on
    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Fuck you guys, scales are stressful and I hate having my weight as a number. I can't get into numbers for calories or weight or anything it drives me insane.

    Scales are only stressful because you've told dickheaded people the numbers and they've used it to shame you.

    Otherwise

    it's a fucking number

    grow up.

    Pony on
  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    waist to hip ratioooooooooo

    Feral on
    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • ZampanovZampanov You May Not Go Home Until Tonight Has Been MagicalRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Besides I threw my scale into a dumpster a couple of years ago and I'm not buying a new one.

    but watching the number go down (which it is obviously doing) makes it like video games

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Variable wrote: »
    Fuck you guys, scales are stressful and I hate having my weight as a number. I can't get into numbers for calories or weight or anything it drives me insane.

    but you're losing weight. so it wouldn't be stressful, it would be awesome

    plus it's not telling you anything that isn't true, you just have knowledge. and knowledge is power cass, I'm surprised you didn't know that.

    No no no, you can ask me if I believe in a God, you can ask me about my sex life, you can ask me about my bowel movements, but knowing my weight and talking about my weight as anything other than an abstract makes me fucking hysterical.

    just to be clear I'm not trying to ask or nothin

    but I get your point aaaand alrighty then

    I guess keep buying new pants and when they fall off you can feel good

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    A large UK insurance company has outsourced it's "recovery" function (i.e. claiming money from other insurance companies) to India.

    They are basically giving these people a list of figures, with associated phone numbers, and telling them to call the latter and demand payment of the former. If you ask them a question they don't understand (read: any question), they instruct a firm of solicitors (which is in the UK) to pursue the money for them.

    They cannot possibly be saving money by doing this.

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Pony wrote: »
    Fuck you guys, scales are stressful and I hate having my weight as a number. I can't get into numbers for calories or weight or anything it drives me insane.

    Scales are only stressful because you've told dickheaded people the numbers and they've used it to shame you.

    Otherwise

    it's a fucking number

    grow up.

    Don't be rude.

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  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Variable wrote: »
    Fuck you guys, scales are stressful and I hate having my weight as a number. I can't get into numbers for calories or weight or anything it drives me insane.

    but you're losing weight. so it wouldn't be stressful, it would be awesome

    plus it's not telling you anything that isn't true, you just have knowledge. and knowledge is power cass, I'm surprised you didn't know that.

    No no no, you can ask me if I believe in a God, you can ask me about my sex life, you can ask me about my bowel movements, but knowing my weight and talking about my weight as anything other than an abstract makes me fucking hysterical.

    hehehe

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  • ZampanovZampanov You May Not Go Home Until Tonight Has Been MagicalRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Variable wrote: »
    Fuck you guys, scales are stressful and I hate having my weight as a number. I can't get into numbers for calories or weight or anything it drives me insane.

    but you're losing weight. so it wouldn't be stressful, it would be awesome

    plus it's not telling you anything that isn't true, you just have knowledge. and knowledge is power cass, I'm surprised you didn't know that.

    No no no, you can ask me if I believe in a God, you can ask me about my sex life, you can ask me about my bowel movements, but knowing my weight and talking about my weight as anything other than an abstract makes me fucking hysterical.

    you don't have to talk to anyfuckingbody about it

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Feral wrote: »
    waist to hip ratioooooooooo

    still numbers brah

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Zampanov wrote: »
    Besides I threw my scale into a dumpster a couple of years ago and I'm not buying a new one.

    but watching the number go down (which it is obviously doing) makes it like video games

    Eustress.

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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    ok well the lady whose cellphone i forgot at will's is now letting me use her laptop to maek poast

    what a rube 8-)

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Women get anxious as fuck about scale numbers because of societal pressures, in particular BMI which is like if your weight is this arbitrary number, you are a horrid fatty, hate yourself please.

    But it's bullshit. It's being afraid of a number.

    Pony on
  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Man, if I was on some kind of diet or whatever I'd totally have a weight graph. It would be awesome.

    Like my thesis page graph. I love that.

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  • ZampanovZampanov You May Not Go Home Until Tonight Has Been MagicalRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Pony wrote: »
    Fuck you guys, scales are stressful and I hate having my weight as a number. I can't get into numbers for calories or weight or anything it drives me insane.

    Scales are only stressful because you've told dickheaded people the numbers and they've used it to shame you.

    Otherwise

    it's a fucking number

    grow up.

    Don't be rude.

    pretend he said it in an encouraging manner

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Organichu wrote: »
    ok well the lady whose cellphone i forgot at will's is now letting me use her laptop to maek poast

    what a rube 8-)

    are you still in boston

    you are crazy

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  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Variable wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    waist to hip ratioooooooooo

    still numbers brah

    I know but it's still waaayyyy better than weight.

    Feral on
    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Man, if I was on some kind of diet or whatever I'd totally have a weight graph. It would be awesome.

    Like my thesis page graph. I love that.

    I totally need to do this to encourage myself to study.

    increasing numbers

    filling bars

    japan on
  • LawndartLawndart Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    There are almost certainly better ways to track your overall fitness than by weight alone.

    Especially since, and I speak from personal experience, seeing that you've lost less weight than you presumed you would have due to your increase in energy or ability to exercise can be quite a demotivator.

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    You know what sucks? Sweaty boobs. Men have it easy.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Feral wrote: »
    Variable wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    waist to hip ratioooooooooo

    still numbers brah

    I know but it's still waaayyyy better than weight.

    I'm sure but I still think if you're working to lose weight and shit weighing yourself makes pretty good sense.

    not ideal though I guess

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  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    You know what sucks? Sweaty boobs. Men have it easy.

    Unless you're...






    nope not gonna go there. too easy

    Feral on
    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    You know what sucks? Sweaty boobs. Men have it easy.

    because sweaty hairy boobs are easier?

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    You know what sucks? Sweaty boobs. Men have it easy.

    I see your sweaty boobs* and raise you sweaty balls.

    *(through your window, from the bushes outside)

    japan on
  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Variable wrote: »
    I'm sure but I still think if you're working to lose weight and shit weighing yourself makes pretty good sense.

    You shouldn't be working to lose weight, you should be working to lose WHR.


    paradigm shift!

    Feral on
    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    You know what sucks? Sweaty boobs. Men have it easy.

    No.

    Instead of sweaty boobs we have to deal with ball sweat which is just as unpleasant.

    Pony on
  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    You know what sucks? Sweaty boobs. Men have it easy.

    Blue balls.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Lawndart wrote: »
    There are almost certainly better ways to track your overall fitness than by weight alone.

    Especially since, and I speak from personal experience, seeing that you've lost less weight than you presumed you would have due to your increase in energy or ability to exercise can be quite a demotivator.

    it's not the best, but it's super easy

    no one is saying only ever use a scale

    and, not progressing as far as you feel like you did can happen with any measurement. but if you feel good that should trump what any number tells you... unless it's because like you just ate a box of doughnuts and you're on a sugar high

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    japan wrote: »
    You know what sucks? Sweaty boobs. Men have it easy.

    I see your sweaty boobs* and raise you sweaty balls.

    *(through your window, from the bushes outside)

    I know it's only March but I think we can go ahead and declare this post of the year.

    It has some creepy, some funny, and some education.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Lawndart wrote: »
    There are almost certainly better ways to track your overall fitness than by weight alone.

    Especially since, and I speak from personal experience, seeing that you've lost less weight than you presumed you would have due to your increase in energy or ability to exercise can be quite a demotivator.

    Amateur racing cyclists tend to become total stat obsessives, because there are so many things you can track numerically without a lot of equipment.

    japan on
  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Variable wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    ok well the lady whose cellphone i forgot at will's is now letting me use her laptop to maek poast

    what a rube 8-)

    are you still in boston

    you are crazy

    naw

    see, will fed us a few cocktails yesterday afternoon so my train-time kind of snuck up on us, full of whiskey and rum as we were

    halfway to our farewell dinner i realized (too late) i'd forgotten the borrowed cell phone, its charger, and my laptop charger at will's place

    so he is mailing them to me

    but i got home and went ":X sorry kind of lost track of time and rushed out, left your phone on accident, it'll be here in a few days"

    but my laptop is dead without the charger so now i'm using her laptop

    gonna lose this somewhere in the house 8-)

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  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    japan wrote: »
    You know what sucks? Sweaty boobs. Men have it easy.

    I see your sweaty boobs* and raise you sweaty balls.

    *(through your window, from the bushes outside)

    I know it's only March but I think we can go ahead and declare this post of the year.

    It has some creepy, some funny, and some education.

    We have a button for that.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Feral wrote: »
    Variable wrote: »
    I'm sure but I still think if you're working to lose weight and shit weighing yourself makes pretty good sense.

    You shouldn't be working to lose weight, you should be working to lose WHR.


    paradigm shift!

    honestly, what's the difference?

    drop some knowledge on me

    I have fat on my body that I want to make go away. when that happens my weight drops.

    I also lift weights a lot so I don't expect it to fall as fast and I look to other things to measure improvement, whr sounding like it's a great way to do this

    but like, doesn't losing weight attribute to it?

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Pony wrote: »
    Women get anxious as fuck about scale numbers because of societal pressures, in particular BMI which is like if your weight is this arbitrary number, you are a horrid fatty, hate yourself please.

    But it's bullshit. It's being afraid of a number.

    I don't know man. Did you hear about seven? Dude is loco.

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  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I find it funny when girls are all "don't touch my boobs, they're all sweaty!"

    They're still boobs, it doesn't matter to us if they're sweaty.

    That's like saying "don't eat that blueberry pie, the waiter's shoes and belt didn't match!"

    Feral on
    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I see, chu

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  • YamiNoSenshiYamiNoSenshi A point called Z In the complex planeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    japan wrote: »
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Man, if I was on some kind of diet or whatever I'd totally have a weight graph. It would be awesome.

    Like my thesis page graph. I love that.

    I totally need to do this to encourage myself to study.

    increasing numbers

    filling bars

    This is the number one reason I can save money. I use Mint to track goals. And there's a bar associated with that. A lifetime of growing up on video games has given me this compulsion to FILL THAT MOTHERFUCKER UP. And when I do, I get a house.

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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot OMG WRIGGLY T O X O P L A S M O S I SRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Seriously ball sweat can't be that bad.

    There is lady parts sweat too.

    So whatever, dwi (deal with it)

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  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited March 2011
    Irond Will wrote: »
    well be less of a picky eater!

    you should fix that anyways

    Okay how do you go about that. Okay here is what I eat for meat:

    -> boneless, skinless chicken breasts -> skinless, boneless salmon filets -> ground beef -> sausage patties on breakfast sandwiches -> bacon

    and then I eat enough fruits and vegetables that I don't get scurvy but i'm not gorging myself on them either

    I eat a shitton of carbs. bread, pasta, potatoes, oh God.

    Like how do you fix this problem? I guess I could make an HA thread but the carb police would lose their shit.

    yeah those dudes can be pretty absolutist about this stuff. doing the ketogenic diet works, but it's not the only or necessarily even the best way to lose weight.

    here's the thing: protein is the most filling thing you can eat for the least calories. your body also needs it for basic operation.

    fat is second. it's calorie-dense and some kinds of it are bad for you in other ways, but it's pretty filling and often delicious.

    carbs - especially simple carbs and sugars - are the worst. they often taste great and are the foundation for the diets that most of us grew up with, but if you're trying to lose weight they are not your friend. they have a ton of calories and in many cases actually make you hungrier because of the sharp insulin response.

    your choice of meats looks basically fine. chicken breasts are really low-fat. salmon has some fat but it's generally omega-3 fat, which is apparently really healthy for you. whitefish and tuna are really good if you can make yourself eat it. lean hamburger (like 95% if you can stomach it) is high-protein and low-fat. bacon and sausage usually have a lot of fat, which is a consideration, but you just have to budget in the calories.

    eggs are a good thing to eat. if you're trying to cut out fat you can just eat the whites, but i find that kind of gross, personally. the yolks won't kill you; just take note of the calories.

    try to eat dark green veggies. spinach, kale, rapini, broccoli. they're all really healthy for you and taste great. cabbage-related veggies like cauliflower and brussell sprouts and broccoli are good for you. any kind of green is good for you.

    a lot of root vegetables are really high in starch and you should probably limit them if you're trying to lose weight. potatoes are especially bad, but carrots are kind of starchy and so are, like, beets. celeriac is low in starch and a decent alternative to potatoes if you can find it. you can also use cauliflower to kind of scratch that potato itch.

    basically, you want to get as much protein as you can, since it will fill you up and sate your hunger without loading up on calories. you want to limit carbs, starches and sugars as much as you can - especially refined, simple carbs - since they have tons of calories and will tend to make you hungrier faster. i'd try to keep your fat consumption under control, since it's easy to get too many fat calories, but it's probably better to eat 100 fat calories than 100 sugar calories.

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  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Feral wrote: »
    I find it funny when girls are all "don't touch my boobs, they're all sweaty!"

    They're still boobs, it doesn't matter to us if they're sweaty.

    That's like saying "don't eat that blueberry pie, the waiter's shoes and belt didn't match!"

    I have never had anybody say that to me. Girls understand that their boobs are getting touched when boobs and my hands are in the same neighbourhood.

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