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And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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I thought they did too! Imagine my disappointment!
It helps that I'm like 10kg heavier than you. Anyway, the whole point of the story was that bench isn't that predictive an exercise anyway.
For the most part, market forces are such that if you can have sex with men you will have sex with men. In the same way that if you're neutral between shopping at Target and shopping at Neiman Marcus, you'll probably buy all your clothing at Target.
I think the debate we're really having here is:
What level of activity do you consent to when you consent to meeting someone from a dating app?
This is essentially the same as the debate over whether you need to [consent to every action in a romantic escalation] or whether there are basic menu expectations you have, an overton window of things that you consent to when you start. And then of course the argument over what is in that overton window.
Do I have to ask specifically before trying to put my arm around a girl on a movie date, or is that basically expected and her saying "no" after is sufficient? After a date, if I try to kiss her goodnight, is that allowed? Clearly kissing someone who says they don't want to be kissed is bad, but when you get kissed once when you didn't want to be, that's just a hazard of being in certain situations with someone, you have effectively consented to it by going on a date/going to the movies/going to a dance club etc.
But of course, we're talking about gay men so the question is, do you consent to seeing a naked man by going to meet a man in a men's room stall. I think the answer is probably yes, inasmuch as it is bad and offensive to see a naked man you didn't want to see, that's just a risk you took when you met a guy on Grindr.
But they should probably both be fired for this.
My dog considers it a treat, but she's so stupid that she'll eat pills directly out of my hand. My father is constantly worried he'll drop one of his medications and she'll eat it.
Her ex-husband, who asked not to be named out of concern for the safety of their children, said Macklin Good had just dropped off her 6-year-old son at school Wednesday and was driving home with her current partner when they encountered a group of ICE agents on a snowy street in Minneapolis, where they had moved last year from Kansas City, Missouri.
I'm not sure how much credibility to give this semi-sourced story, but it seems to me like if she was involved in an organized protest the government probably knows what group it was by now, and there's going to be video all over the internet of her at this or other protests. It's not really the kind of thing that would be a mystery.
To say nothing of the footage that ICE definitely has that has not been released for some reason.
I want my glucosamine Beef flavored, but the corporations just won't do that for me! I want a glossy smooth coat just like my hound!
Seriously, her joint problems have disappeared, her coat is softer and glossier, she's regrowing hair on her stomach that's been bald for years, and she's shedding much less. It's WILD.
What is WhiningCoil right about?
My learned friend in Kettlebells Mr. Coil has frequently expressed distress that his ideological enemies want him dead, and would celebrate his and his family's deaths simple because of who he was. Particularly around the Jay Jones controversy.
If this woman turns out not to have been involved in any protest actions, then the broad reaction from the right wing internet is pretty black pilling to me, in that people are celebrating the killing of a white American citizen because she looks like an ideological enemy.
Not particularly. The information has been spotty from the beginning.
And anyway, protestors have a vested interest in it being bad for protestors to get shot, for obvious reasons. Protestors don't think it is better if she was an "innocent bystander" as they think protestors are definitionally innocent.
The only people interested in the distinction would be those, like me, whose opinions would change if she weren't protesting.
Creatine is a hell of a drug.
I stopped taking creatine a while back because it didn't match my goals at the time, but now I'm back to bulking and lifting heavy. And I got back on Creatine and, poof, in a week my muscles have inflated a good ten pounds. My understanding is that is more like water weight than it is like muscle fiber, and it will mostly disappear when I hop off creatine again in the spring, leaving behind whatever real gains I've made in the meantime. But man is it weird how well it works. My mirror selfie has changed completely in a month. I don't have good numbers to track its fitness impacts, I'm in kind of a chaotic place right now.
It's amazing how when something works, it works.
I'm also frustrated that they don't make Cosequin for humans. My dog has completely turned around since I put her on it.
Bench press is weird. There's a lot of delta that depends on training it specifically.
I rolled at BJJ with a random kid the other week, and I was tossing him around pretty good all round, and after he asked me how much I benched. I told him I could do 225 (1.1bw for me) for maybe 3 reps, and I could probably do 235 if I tried, but I hadn't trained bench a lot in a while. He looked at me stunned and told me he just did 225x10 for multiple sets.
Great work! Sounds like you had a good time!
Poker is fun, but it's one of those games where I find the advanced strategy kinda lame and boring. If I could find a regular table where I was neither the fish nor the shark, I'd probably want to play more regularly.
Depends on the layout of the street, right?
I'm not trying to get you into trouble. Quite the opposite, this is strong bayesian evidence that you might be right. Initially I assumed that ICE was going after an immigrant, and the escaping immigrant was indifferent to driving at a cop and got shot in the process, and that seemed unfortunate but basically orderly to me. Then it came out that this was a middle aged white woman, but there were the allegations this was a protestor, which seems more like "bad situation all around."
But if it really is the case that this was an American citizen, driving down the street, trying to turn around, and got shot; and the response is as it has been. Then this is a pretty deep black pill for me. I hope it isn't the case.
Yeah everyone seems to have made that assumption from all sides, but her family members have come forward and said she wasn't involved in any protests.
With all the cameras around, I'd think we'd have pretty concrete evidence if she was involved in any organized protest group. So far it's just politician statements.
It's a pretty dark scene here if she wasn't, @WhiningCoil might be right about this country.
Is there any evidence she was at a protest or in the act of protesting? There's some evidence she wasn't.
We can't just go around shooting women if they can't make K-Turns quickly enough.
Sure, if they're meant to be hated rivals on teams that hate each other, then hanging out might seem odd.
Not really, low key most of the big players hang out together, and while we love team rivalries, we love chivalry and sportsmanship between players. "Beat the piss out of him, but when the clock hits zero go get a beer" is pretty much the male ideal.
If anything, the one actual homosexual superstar in US sports history responded by being so out-there party-hardy macho that he ultimately killed a bunch of people to prove how tough he was. Which is a shame, because if he had come out instead of shooting those immigrants outside a night club, we'd probably have the Aaron Hernandez Supportive Teammate Award given out every year in the NFL. And it would have been fine because he played with the one white QB in the NFL who worships the devil instead of Jesus Christ.
It's about gay hockey players, and from what I understand, it is very gay indeed. But it's not simply two hot guys having explicit (as you can get away with on TV) sex that has the girlies all hot and bothered, it's the relationships. I'm trying to avoid the show, because I'm not interested, but simply by osmosis I understand that the fans are invested in the main couple and their trials and tribulations. Will they become a couple, or will it stay at the level of frenemies to lovers? The emotionally distant father of one guy which has hurt him and stunted him emotionally. The commitment issues of the other guy. And so on - it's the relationship as much as the butt-humping that is the appeal.
No, unfortunately Mrs. FiveHour watched it with one of her (horny, sad) friends who loved the books over the holidays, and there unless they were doing the lovey-dovey stuff every time I left the house, it was mostly just butt fucking and occasionally skating. The main characters fucked before they ever said more than five words to each other, and that's mostly all they did in between, saying as little as possible to each other (because they hate each other, they are rivals ya know?) and then meeting up in a hotel room to fuck. The show isn't really built around emotions beyond being gay, it's built around scenes of as much and as explicit of gay sex as can be done without showing an actual erect penis or an actual asshole. Which, honestly, is disappointing: if you're gonna make porn just go whole hog. But it is really focused on ripped abs and men groaning each other's names, the emotions are just kind of assumed to exist afterward.
My criticism of what I saw of the show is that it was clearly written by a woman/gay men, with nobody having any idea how heterosexual men functioned at the relevant times. While I've never played ice hockey, I was a hetero frat boy during most of the years the show is set, and the dynamic just doesn't make any sense, it's like they have the idea that straight men have no friends and no intimacy and don't hang out. The closet cases' strategy for staying closeted is to never, ever be seen together, seen talking to each other, seen being friends. When, frankly, in 2012 the most heterosexual thing you could do was have a best buddy you drank with and joke about being gay together. There's like a half dozen scenes where they have to, secretly, give each other their hotel room numbers and, secretly, sneak into each other's hotel rooms to, secretly, hang out. And it just feels odd, because when me and bunch of other 20 year olds had hotel rooms in the same hotel the most normal thing in the world would be to say to another guy "Hey I'm room 567 grab a case of beer and swing by." Shane is TREMBLING walking to Ilya's hotel room at the thought of anyone catching him, when if he just had a bottle of whiskey his cover is impenetrable. And frankly, if you're in love with a rival hockey star for YEARS, just get your agents on the line and try to get traded to the same team. A-Rod and Jeter it up! The sports media is still dopey enough that they'll publish puff pieces about how it's soooooooo funny that the two stars for Montreal are soooooo close that they have to live right next door to each other.
Ja’Marr Chase really wanted to live near Joe Burrow. The wide receiver and quarterback are best friends, college teammates, and are now set to play in Super Bowl 2022 together with the Bengals. So after Cincinnati drafted Chase last spring, it was only logical for the LSU product to do everything he could to live on the same street as Burrow. So he started knocking on doors and offering to buy houses. “He went down to the street that Joe Burrow lives on and went door to door, knocking on every door offering to buy their house,” The Athletic’s Bengals writer, Paul Dehner Jr. said on “Hear that Podcast Growlin’” this week.
“And guess what? He bought one. Somebody sold him their house, so he lives next to Joe Burrow now on their little street and they’re like one happy family. “He basically went around and was like, ‘Hi, I’m Ja’Marr Chase. I have lots of money and I want to buy the house.’ Eventually he found somebody that he bought it from and now they’re neighbors.” It’s certainly an extravagant approach, but we won’t knock Chase for wanting to live near his best friend.
On the field, the arrangement has worked quite well. Chase had 1,455 receiving yards in the regular season, winning AP and PFWA Offensive Rookie of the Year honors. Despite spending a year apart, it didn’t seem like he and Burrow missed a beat from their days at LSU, when they romped to a national title behind a historically explosive offense. Whether their chemistry has anything to do with the living situation, who’s to say. Obviously, though, it hasn’t hurt.
There's a second gay romance plot (apparently hockey is nothing but closet cases in this universe) where the captain for the Rangers falls in love with a guy who works at a smoothie shop, but their love must remain SECRET, and he can never be seen at his apartment! And once again I'm like, if you're a star player, having a weird smoothie twink living in your house as part of your entourage wouldn't even be all that odd.
A lot of twitter hockey fans complained that the climactic scene of that plot didn't make any sense, when the captain brings the smoothie twink onto the ice for a kiss after winning the stanley cup at MSG and the crowd applauds. I can only assume the complaints came from fans who have never seen their team win a championship. Jalen Hurts could have shown up to the parade in a fur suit last year after smoking Mahomes and the Philly fans would have applauded. Hell, for the most part, if right after the win a player started kissing a man on the field, I wouldn't even process that it was gay, I would just think he was really excited and got his wires crossed.
To add to what @Amadan said:
Anecdotal, but people I know at state level agencies are seeing an influx of applications from federal level employees for essentially the first time in history.
Historically, state level work is minor league and federal level is The Show. AUSAs are overqualified to be local ADAs, are better paid, went to better schools, have better exit opportunities into private practice. An ADA aspires to work for the US Attorney, rarely the reverse.
Now, local DAs are reporting a good number of well qualified AUSA's applying for jobs at the county DA. That is water flowing uphill. Ditto state environmental departments, attorneys general, parks departments, etc.
Barroom speculation and rumor is that these AUSAs are concerned about job security, worried about being forced to participate in political prosecutions for reasons both cynical (I might face consequences when the worm turns) or ideological (I'm not going to sign my name to false indictments), and are frustrated with incompetent appointees in charge.
But assistant prosecutors in particular are generally pretty right wing and very law and order, so it's particularly notable that they're trying to get out.
This kind of talent shift is both a notable sign of something going on in the bureaucracy, and a long term power shift between state and federal agencies.
Modeling is a whole nother kettle of fish on this one. I'd need to tag in Mrs. FiveHour to dissect it properly, but fashion models have shifted from hot to "interesting" a long time ago.
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A huge portion, that's sort of what median means.
But Swift isn't a Sydney Sweeney or a Margot Robbie or a Marilyn Monroe, or a Britney Spears or a Madonna in music, a gorgeous and unattainable figure of perfection who men want and women want to be. I don't think her schtick would work if she were that hot.
Swift is above average, but at her most made up, she's still built like an ironing board with no sexual charisma.
Odd that they consider her so attractive. De gustibus non est disputandum I guess? But I'm going to anyway: a big part of Swift's success is that she isn't that hot. She's good looking, but she's the exact level and type of woman where most women within one standard deviation of the median can relate to her. She's built like a romance novel protagonist, like a hollywood version of an everywoman.
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