Jesus, that reads like quotes from a sitcom from the 70s.
Jesus, that reads like quotes from a sitcom from the 70s.
YESSSSS. Tom trolled that beautifully.
http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/to...cut-1681225270
Joe Biden weighs in on deflategate: Having been a receiver, I prefer a softer ball
WHAT THE FUCK... how is this conversation even happening?!?!?!?!
True. I'm about to leave my home and go to a local cafe and eat a sandwich. If I can do this without hearing people talk about this bullshit, I promise, I will stop complaining about it.
EDIT: before I go and get my sandwich, I want to complain about something else. Have any of you guys/gals collected an unfortunate friend over the years when you might have been smoking too much pot and your filter wasn't properly restricting totally stupid people from being your friend? And then, MANY years later, you are occasionally reminded of this because this person posts really stupid shit on your Facebook wall? Have any of you had this happen frequently, and then, finally this person says something that really offends you? Something so stupid and generically jock/frat/dumbass that you feel like your reputation is at stake if you don't delete contact with this person immediately.... but then you worry that this might be the person's plan all along. That they're just fucking with you, and finally they're egging you on to tell them to go fuck off.
Like, say, you wrote a brief eulogy for a musician that you really appreciated and admired who just recently died... and this bumbling clown fuckhead jumps in and calls you a sissy? I don't "unfriend" people on Facebook. I'm the one who is unfriended.
Maybe it's time.
Last edited by Jinsai; 01-24-2015 at 06:57 PM.
No loss there.
Avocado and guacamole are fucking everywhere and on fucking everything, and everyone gives me incredulous looks when I order food and ask them not to include them. They're disgusting and don't you dare try to convince me that I'm wrong... they are the devil's food and they are trying to kill me. They're only a half step behind horseradish on my (extremely short) list of horrible foods that I wish didn't exist.
House flooded a bit over the weekend. Thankfully my stuff is okay and it's still currently habitable but the floor is fucked so I might have to move again which will be the third time in like 18 months.
YouTube comments sections.
Musician's solo: Nonstop arguments about who's the best drummer/guitarist/bassist in history.
Music video: Dissertations on why this band is the best or worst in the world.
Movie or TV show: Fights about whether or not the movie or show is good, followed by rants about the actor/actress (usually about their looks).
Anything with a female between the ages of 5 and 50: Violently sexual comments and rape jokes.
Political news: Global warming. Is it real or fake? Who's to blame for it?
Satire: Condemning the creator thinking that it's actually real and trying to make fans feel ashamed for opinions that they don't actually have.
Honest racist rants: "This guy is my hero. LONG LIVE HITLER!"
Anything uploaded by or watched by males ages 12-25: Dick measuring contests and Internet-screaming homosexual slurs at each other.
Movie trailers: "This is going to be the best movie ever" followed by 40 pages of "this is going to be the worst movie ever" and "Hollywood raped/ruined my childhood again".
Adorable baby animals: Shockingly racist and uninformed "political" debates on whether it was Bush and Conservative Republicans Obama and Ultra Liberal Democrats who ruined the country, blaming the government for everything in the entire world and paranoid ravings about Big Pharm making us sick to sell placebos and make money from the dying. Also, vaccines make you autistic.
Seems like I should really have in general.
@Swykk I don't think anyone was really lumping you into any groups or shitting on you last night man. I'm not sure why you got as offended as ya did, I didn't see anyone really being that out of hand.
That's only a small portion of me thinking and subsequently posting that. It's directed at many not few.
People who hate avocado and think it is evil food both amuse me and piss me off. More good avocado for the rest of us, monounsaturated goodness. Enjoy your Lipitor.
Gastric Bypass surgery. The weight loss that results isnt from the surgery, it's literally because the patient is eating less. I understand that most of the time if you have to consider that surgery you absolutely have a real eating disorder along with other mental health problems but gastric bypass always gets all the "praise" when in reality the individual is doing literally 100% of the work. Maybe it helps some individuals as a motivation thing or something but goddamn, the surgery doesn't change the individuals eating habits which is why it has a 5% success rate. I wish there was a way to help people get over the hopeless feeling instead of going under then knife, there's ALWAYS a better way through that struggle over surgery.
But the only people who are eligible for gastric bypass are people who are morbidly obese who have failed all other attempts at losing weight and whose health is at stake; the surgery is risky, post-surgery is very risky, and I've seen people gain ALL THE WEIGHT BACK, so I've never seen anybody say the surgery, itself, is the reason "why" they lose the weight; OF COURSE the reason why they lose weight is because the patient, literally, cannot eat anything more than the size of a GOLF BALL or they will puke. (My cousin had the surgery and spent a lot of time puking until she figured it out, but my friend's husband stretched his stomach out so much he gained over 200 pounds back.) I agree that all those surgeries should come with counseling, lots of it. Because food, for those people, is an addiction. And the surgery doesn't take that addiction away.
This 10000%
You don't get to 400+ pounds on accident, you get there because of addiction and surgery isn't going to fix that part. GB is to eating disorders as methadone is to heroin addiction IMO
One doesn't exactly fix the other. I've had friends that went to methadone clinics every morning and still struggled with drug abuse.
I hope to at least have the Lap Band within the next few years.
In the past, I did all of the testing, did the medically supervised diet, etc, etc, etc.
If you're fat enough to have a weight loss surgery, you have a food addiction. Period. So what happens with a lot of people is that they are no longer able to binge like they used to, so they turn to other things for that relief. Usually alcohol. Now, I've never had an issue with alcohol. But this is the thing about the surgery that terrifies me the most. I think it would just be asking for my drug problem to come roaring back. Then it becomes an internal battle... which is worse? A food addiction or a drug addiction? During my drug years, I was still mostly "functional". I held a job except for about 7 months towards the end. I really, really go back and forth on all of this.
That's the thing though sarah, if you have a food addiction it's still going to be there after lapband. Like I said it has a 5% success rate, you have to fix the underlying cause of the addiction...people see that surgery as a magic fix and it is anything but. I just feel like there's a better way, I have more faith in humanity than that.
That's a valid concern; AA meetings are usually filled with people smoking 400 cigarettes. People who quit drinking alcohol seem to drink a LOT of coffee. You push one thing down and it pops up somewhere else. But I've read a lot of articles about meditation and holistic medicine doing a lot to "reprogram" the reptilian brain (which is the thing that's causing all the trouble). It's certainly worth a shot. (I have this same problem, so I can relate, it's totally hereditary.)
And I fucking HATE all of the "Anonymous" groups - NA, AA, OA, SA... been to all of them! Both for my personal issues, and for classes. God. I get angry just thinking about them.
I know I keep going on and on around here about Mindfulness but eating is so full of MindLESSNESS that Mindfulness seems such a natural cure. (my mindlessness is boredom or eating while I'm reading the paper or watching TV or while on the computer.)
see this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emily-...b_3446088.html
I really enjoyed this book: http://www.amazon.com/Savor-Mindful-.../dp/0061697702
This reviewer of the above book really summed it up for me, perfectly, like DUH omg:
"Have you ever been guilty of eating while talking on the phone, driving, walking, reading, working, e-mailing or watching TV? If so, you have probably noticed that the sandwich, protein bar--or whatever you were eating--vanished before you even realized you had begun eating it. And this makes you want to eat more so you can relish the taste (since you didn't enjoy the first one). This mindless eating is no doubt part of the cause of our obesity epidemic. Eating should be a sacred act, not part of our multi-tasking."
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I don't bother to mess around with physical CD's much these days but when I do, I make sure I put them away (so I thought)
I was doing a quick cleanup of my car before I went to pick up my kids and to my horror I found Disc 2 of the Fragile on the rear floor. Scratched, scuffed and cracked in half..
[Single tear runs down cheek]
Pour a little of your 40oz out tonight in remembrance..
I just need to start smoking weed again. SOMEONE SELL ME SOME WEED.
That just makes me eat an entire bag of Doritos and I don't even remember eating the bag of Doritos. "Hey, where did those Doritos go?"
Now, I have these Special K Sea Salt chips and I get out EIGHT of them and I treat each one as if I'm eating some magic truffle from France and I chew it about 20 times, LOL.
Hahaha. Weirdly, the time I had the most success losing weight was when I was a HUGE pothead. Like, smoking all day at work and shit. AND I worked in a kitchen... But I was also in the gym 2+ hours every night, and had no social life at ALL. No thanks.
But if you're high all the time, everything tastes better. So it makes boring food more interesting.