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#61
Quote from: onan on May 10, 2013, 01:57:26 PM

Omega-3 fatty acids increase insulin sensitivity, which helps to lower blood sugar levels. In the long term, this reduces insulin resistance, lowering blood sugar levels.

Onan, what's your take on statins?  Are they good or bad?
#63
Quote from: onan on May 10, 2013, 01:17:20 PM
Definately noory... the only one I want to have a "talk" with.

This.  Also, he brings the lulz AND the ladies.  I picture any dinner with Noory eventually turning into a "The Hangover" scenario.

"Hey George, why do you think they call this stuff angel-dust? Could it be made out of angels?"
#64
Haven't really checked since the news broke, but from what little I've seen, I'm more than a little shocked and disappointed by the lack of Sylvia Browne thrashing around here.  Times sure have changed. (I am expecting demands for her head)

If I am misinformed and simply missed the "big bash", I retract my statement and applaud you all.
#65
Rickson by armbar.
#66
Quote from: Marc knight on May 07, 2013, 02:59:21 PM
Over 2,170 years have passed and a disturbed Earth is tightly swaddled in eternal night from an asteroid impact that occurred 400 years ago.  The night bleeds a strange, cold purple and gnarled green as the north winds carry the howls and lightning of desert mountains into the palm of the dead valley below.  The last human survivor on Earth walks within that valley, in what was Pahrump, Nevada.  But she only knows the area as 'more desert', and a little further from nowhere.


In the oily, hazy distance she notices a regularly pulsating beam of light.  She's drawn to it, if for nothing more than curiosity.  Her food pods were flat and empty and the last water flask around her waist has maybe a mouthful of muddy water left in it.  She hadn't seen a sign of human existence for months, now, of all nights... this light.  It was regular all right... the closer she got the brighter it became.  Hopefully this means food or water nearby, she thought to herself.


She almost walked into the side of the obelisk but sensed its immense mass in the darkness as though intuitively aware of its purpose.  Her eyes narrowed on the beacon of light at the top of the structure.  She slowly extended her small hand from her layered cloak.  Something was written on the side of the obelisk...hard to make out with only the dull, regular cast of light from the beacon above.  She traced what appeared to be a letter with her finger... / ... \ ... - ... the first letter, must be an 'A' she surmised.  The obelisk felt warmer to her frail body than the ambient air and she felt a compulsion to continue, tracing out one letter at a time.  Her mind's eye read the words as they were barely visible under the weak light from above.  A-r-t  B-e-l-l.  But, what could this mean?  - she thought to herself - a person, a place... the questions mounted.


Then, a sound and a tremor vibrated through the obelisk from deep below the ground.  She fought back the split-second instinct to run and held the structure tighter as the odd, chaotic vibration increased.  Her frightened imagination was preparing her for nothing and something all within seconds of.....






[if you want more, let me know.  Otherwise this was just a strange diversion to waste some time.]

I'd keep reading
#67
Quote from: abbajc on May 06, 2013, 05:07:53 AM
here proof 

when alexander the great army took over india they brought with them pankration
and many offshoots of it which spread though asia which gave birth to kung fu karate
muay thai among others

I hear that son.





Wasn't Alex after the 3 Kingdoms period?
#68
Quote from: El Kragen on April 25, 2013, 12:11:11 AM
I gotta be up until 5 AM so I'm going to give George and Richard Beltzer a go. This could be a good show but I'm sure Snoory will disappoint.

He's stepping all over Belzer.  I wanna say this would be better with Art, but I think Belzer is too much of a "pinko" for Art.
#69
Random Topics / Re: The Onion Is Not Funny
April 19, 2013, 12:19:49 PM
Quote from: West of the Rockies on April 19, 2013, 12:12:35 PM
Well, I rather wish Prairie Home Companion would be done... I think it's gone stale for years.  I truly wish Keillor would stop singing; his voice is not good, yet he insists on multiple songs every damn show.  Harry Shearer and others have been making fun of his efforts for years now.  I think PHC has sort of become like the old Saturday Evening Post:  you know what you're gonna get, and it will be comfortable but not terribly creative.

Yes, politically Keillor clearly is fairly left-leaning though as I recall he did say something that was perceived as quite homophobic that got him into a bit of trouble a few years ago, and homophobia is not typically associated with the left (though there are democratic-voting homophobes, too!

What I find intriguing is that this forum demonstrates so clearly how we all perceive the news news and entertainment through our various filters.  You, Sardondi, clearly have little use for John Stewart.  I think he is whip-smart (but, yeah, rather full of himself).  Others here think that Michael Savage or Rush are just the funniest buggers out there who speak only truth.  It seems like with such perspectives, never the twain shall meet!  And yet we do have some common-ground.  (Good books, good beer, good parenting....)

Here's a question though:  was anyone secretly scared that the Boston bombers just might possibly turn out to be from your particular political camp?  For instance, as a left-leaning neo-hippie academic elitist  ;) , I was hoping these guys would not turn out to be from some environmental group.  (I did not seriously think this was a possibility.  I could be wrong, but it seems to me that American-made leftwing terrorism has sort of been on the wane for a long time.  People bring up The Weathermen and tree-spikers -- for whom I hold NO sympathy -- but such players have sort of been off the mainstage for some time now it seems to me.) 

I bet -- if we're being honest -- that some people on the right were worried that the bombers just might possibly have been from some right-wing group (maybe TP activists gone really bad). 

It's a good lesson for everyone to avoid jumping to conclusions, yes?


From the way things were being described on the day of the bombing (low level placement of the bombs, limb amputations and wounding), I was hoping it was a disgruntled marathoner/runner or someone bound to a wheelchair who was the culprit.
#70
Random Topics / Re: The Onion Is Not Funny
April 19, 2013, 12:15:35 PM
Quote from: Pragmier on April 19, 2013, 12:09:02 PM
Bill Burr & Louis CK are my current favs.

I'm in the minority in that I don't LOVE Louis CK, but he is generally recognized as the king.  To me, Burr is the king right now.  Eddie Izzard is also quite funny when he hit his stride well, if one can stand his delivery style.
#71
Random Topics / Re: The Onion Is Not Funny
April 19, 2013, 12:05:12 PM
Quote from: MV on April 19, 2013, 12:03:41 PM

i'm not a fan of gallagher, but his brother is just great.

HAHAHA. Was his brother the "actually funny" one?  I can't remember who is who anymore.  Was the "real" on the fake one, or was the "fake" one the real one?
#72
Random Topics / Re: The Onion Is Not Funny
April 19, 2013, 12:03:49 PM
Quote from: Eddie Coyle on April 18, 2013, 02:10:28 PM
      Stand up comedians are like guitarists for me, my favorites are either dead or peaked 30 years ago. I'd have a tough time thinking of many "active" ones I still find funny.

        As I've labored to explain to my kid/younger siblings..."Believe it or not, Eddie Murphy was funny once upon a time"...but once he became a movie star it was all downhill.

Ahh jeez, really?  I know where you are coming from, but not even Bill Burr?  Norm MacDonald?  Russel Peters?  I still think there are a few out there that are worthy of our time.
#73
Random Topics / Re: The Onion Is Not Funny
April 19, 2013, 12:00:27 PM
Quote from: Eddie Coyle on April 18, 2013, 09:29:49 PM

              I'll give stand up comedians this credit, even the bad ones...it takes guts to go on stage and try to perform as they do. And a lot of comedians who you see on TV are much funnier in person. I found this true of Bobcat Goldthwait, Richard Belzer(on with Noory next week ??? ) and a couple others I saw at comedy clubs between 1988-1994. Those 5 minute spots on talk shows or in the olden days of MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour or Comic Strip Live often were sanitized or dumbed down.
         The rise of Carrot Top is when I checked out...

Come on man - We needed a jury-rigged dyke patch for the waning presence of Gallagher at the time. CT stepped up in a time of need. 
#74
Random Topics / Re: Explosions at Boston Marathon
April 19, 2013, 11:54:43 AM
Quote from: Eddie Coyle on April 19, 2013, 10:20:54 AM
        Somehow Tsarnev Sr forgot to mention the Jews doing it.


         A Russian-American joint drone effort above his home, please.

Don't be using this side-show as an excuse to drift away from your sit-up regimen!  If anything in Boston needed blasting it's your abs!

#75
Random Topics / Re: Explosions at Boston Marathon
April 19, 2013, 12:45:28 AM
Quote from: Eddie Coyle on April 19, 2013, 12:19:55 AM
         Nobody's sleeping on my street right now. It's madness. I've seen nothing like it in my life, this shit right now is on the Metro-west part of the city, and there's literally hundreds of cops heading there.

         Sleeper cell...could very well be. Certainly rag tag...but causing maximum chaos.


          What blows my mind: Obama was HERE today. Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGIY5Vyj4YM

It's the perfect time.
#76
Quote from: Sardondi on April 17, 2013, 05:38:14 PM
Heh, Warren Oates, one of the Hollywood Outsiders from the 70's. I liked him, but I always wanted to give him a good scrubbing with a wire brush. Same with Harry Dean Stanton.

What about Bruce Dern?
#77
Politics / Re: Politics
April 17, 2013, 09:28:23 PM
Quote from: FightTheFuture on April 15, 2013, 02:06:06 AM

The "slippery slope" analogy is a fair one to make in this case. In most cases, under normal circumstances, I would be fully onboard with it. However, I think it`s critical to understand the context of the PA. The world changed in a very dramatic way on 9/11 and we were compelled to change with it. That, in no way, means we must abandon our hard fought freedoms. But, there must be a reasonable and balanced approach that produces robust measures of security while taking care not to infringe upon a citizen`s expectation of privacy. 


Generally speaking, security and liberty make up opposite ends of a sliding scale, with one end amounting to a total police State. The other end representing unrestrained anarchy. Neither end is particularly appealing to the common man, therefore we tend to slide somewhere in the middle. With that said, I`m not opposed to open debate of the PA and possibly tweeking some (2 or 3, possibly) of it`s more controversial provisions     




Finally, with regard to the self-defense clause pertaining to our invasion of Iraq, I`ll make it brief, but there is a great deal of material that can be brought to bear in support of the coalition`s legal authority to take the action they took.



I mentioned Iraq`s repeated breaches of Resolution 678. That`s not an opinion; that is a fact. You will recall that Resolution 678  authorized member states "to use all necessary means to uphold and implement resolution 660 (1990) and all subsequent relevant resolutions and to restore international peace and security in the area."  We exercised our right to use necessary force in order to bring Iraq into compliance.





The world didn't change one bit on 9/11, at least not for anyone who didn't have their heads up their ass.  But it did change A LOT post PA.  The PA freedom for "security" was a terrible fucking tradeoff.  And don't use the word "robust" if you want to be taken seriously, unless you are talking about vacuum packed coffee.
#78
Politics / Re: Politics
April 11, 2013, 10:35:22 AM
Quote from: Yorkshire pud on April 11, 2013, 08:47:37 AM


...And anther f***ing avoidable tragedy.. I wonder what Alex Jones would say about this one? Protecting the 2nd amendment for responsible gun owners? What is tragic is that someone this stupid was allowed to have children. How can you tell though? (That was rhetorical)

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57578783/6-year-old-boy-dies-after-n.j-accidental-shooting/

Is it really a tragedy though? Why? It might be a situation that is quite unpleasant for some, but it's far from being a real tragedy.  Maybe I'm wrong.  Maybe that 6 year-old was gonna be the savior of mankind, or the inventor of a new gun.

Evolution happens on it's own terms.  And it's not pretty.
#80
Random Topics / Re: Beast washes up in UK
March 03, 2013, 04:37:08 AM
Tazzy Tiger.

Life took a turn for the worse after all the fame The Hunter brought it.  Showbiz pressure is a cruel and terrible thing.
#82
     Fuck remakes in general. A 1 in 20 payoff rate isn't enough justification for this trend to continue, especially seeing as they are remaking films from eras where no remake is necessary (The Roomate - "based" on a book which was was a direct ripoff of SWF - yeah, like we needed that remake, or even the original).  Special effects abilities may have advanced in 20-30 years but, generally speaking, storytelling and acting have regressed.

     They aren't going to make an artistically superior remake of Highlander.  They can't.  They couldn't recreate the 80's cheese essence (which MADE that fucking movie) to save their lives.  They are just gonna take the general story and turn it into a "more realistic ::) " bloodbath of a film.  Ryan Reynolds?  Ryan fucking Reynolds?  What's next?  The are gonna do a remake of Top Gun?  They need to get stuffed with that bullshit.

     Leave well enough alone for the love of Pete.  Go out and hire some decent talent to come up with fresh ideas instead of brutalizing the classics.

#84
Shinjuku Incident

Hondo

Super Fuzz
#85
Random Topics / Re: Celebrity Deaths
February 28, 2013, 03:39:42 PM
Quote from: Caruthers612 on February 28, 2013, 03:26:23 PM

        What killed him? Too many blows to the head?

I'm thinking stroke.  The results aren't in, but he claimed to have been feeling lightheaded while riding his bike.  If it's stroke, people will say blows to the head; if it's heart attack, people will say steroids.  My guess? A retired pro athlete who was still in shape dying at 43 - genetics. Sure, other things may have exacerbated the situation.
#86
Random Topics / Re: Celebrity Deaths
February 28, 2013, 03:23:57 PM
Ramon "The Diamond" Dekkers, Dutch muay Thai/Kickboxing champ, dead @ age 43.


#87
Quote from: General Johnson Jameson on February 28, 2013, 06:13:39 AM
This shit right here


is the shit.
92 mg of caffeine per 16 oz tallboy. Just pounded me down a fruit punch and cracking the top on an orange one along with a few morning bong rips next.
This is good shit and not a lot of sugar.

#88
Quote from: Falkie2013 on February 28, 2013, 06:17:10 AM
I once saw a blonde on my college campus who was so damned beautiful I literally walked into an aluminum light pole because I was so busy staring at her.

The post literally rang as my head hit it. She and a campus cop came over to see if I was all right ( I wasn't. I gave myself a concussion and was out of it ).

I have this weakness for blondes but have only partook once of the charms of one in bed. Blondes seem to feel different than brunettes do as do redheads.

It's funny. All my gf's have been brunettes, except one who was an incredibly sexy redhead.

It's kind of weird. When I was young and couldn't get any, no girl would talk to me, yet when I was once married and then divorced, it seemed I was running into women who would hop into the sack with me almost immediately.

And periodically women come up to me and ask if I was in San Jose, Mtn. View or some city in the SF Bay Area and I'd have to say no. Seems like I have a double who parties a lot and is having a lot more fun than I am. That's happened 3 or 4 times now.

:P

And speaking of Thailand, a friend of mine on another board, got sick of all the bs  in the US and moved there permanently. He loves it and says he'd never go back.

Could the earlier poster please explain what kind of sandwich he's talking about ?

Not only curious but it got me hungry as well.

When I was in Germany ages ago, they used to sell fresh marinated herring with onion sandwiches and fried herring as well in carts in the malls. Incredible flavor before we started mass polluting the oceans.

I was disturbed to read that now tuna being caught are showing up trace radiation from Fukashima in them. Government said it was " safe " to eat.

Just what I need.

Glow in the dark sandwiches ...

< grump >

Beemster.  It's a type of cheese from a region in Holland.  If Red Leciester, Double Gloucester, Edam, Gouda, and P. Reggiano had an orgy, the resulting offspring would be Beemster.  You can get it in N. America but, like most European "things", they don't send the really good stuff over here.
#89
Quote from: Caruthers612 on February 27, 2013, 01:37:19 PM


         That was awesome, Phan, thanks for that. Yeah, Poland, man, they've got some beauties and some seriously busties. Here's a place which is chock full of insanely beautiful girls and is as safe as it gets: Canada. Yep, our friends to the north, in addition to saying "Eh?" and embodying the word cornball, feature more stunningly gorgeous babes than you can shake a donut at.

Have you ever been through Quebec?  Very scenic.
#90
Random Topics / Re: "SyFy" Channel is awful now
February 27, 2013, 04:50:20 AM
Quote from: Caruthers612 on February 26, 2013, 11:55:20 PM


         Speaking of the scripted reality shows, dig this. The other day when that country singer committed suicide, I heard on the news that she had been on a celebrity rehab program and that she the fifth person from the show to commit suicide. I flat out could not believe that the show was still on the air, that was my first reaction; I mean, considering the FCC fines radio stations hundreds of thousands of dollars for saying doody, wouldn't one think they'd disallow a show like this? I guess the money in television means lots of taxes collected. Anyway, here was my thought. The fact that several people on this show have committed suicide, I'll bet, means there must be office dead pools across the country, with people standing around the water cooler placing bets on who's going to eat it next. In other words, this celebrity rehab show is actually bloodsport in disguise, something that humans love and which has been with us since we were living in caves. Then I thought of movies like The Running Man and Rollerball and wondered how long it would be before we were there. It isn't a big step from people betting on televised suicides to betting on televised homicides. I give it five years, at the outside.

Doug Stanhope's got/in a dead pool and a guy in the pool picked that chick and the method.  They were all tweeting congrats on the big win.

And yeah, we're heading towards Running Man territory.
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