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 cincydooley wrote:

 Storm Shadow wrote:
meh, people overreact to everything, honestly, WHO CARES what some bimbo posted on facebook. reading through some of the comments, it's like people took it personal.

So glad to have your insight add to the conversation. Your contributions to dakka in the future are sure to be deep and long lasting.

@Walrus - comically, I found this article linked to one of the child spanking articles (which has nothing to do with this thread by the way):

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/19/sweden-allows-public-masturbation/

So apparently Sweden is a much more enlightened place than the US.

The Nordic Countries as a whole are much more sexually liberated than the Continental United States or even the rest of Europe.

 cincydooley wrote:

 Storm Shadow wrote:
meh, people overreact to everything, honestly, WHO CARES what some bimbo posted on facebook. reading through some of the comments, it's like people took it personal.

So glad to have your insight add to the conversation. Your contributions to dakka in the future are sure to be deep and long lasting.

@Walrus - comically, I found this article linked to one of the child spanking articles (which has nothing to do with this thread by the way):

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/19/sweden-allows-public-masturbation/

So apparently Sweden is a much more enlightened place than the US.

Tu quoque much?

 dogma wrote:

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:

You've misinterpreted/misread several posts, I think.

Yes, and that is my fault. Though I still maintain my position absent that.

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:

Oh, but I do. Weekends are occupied by gym time only and during the weekdays, I don't go to bed until midnight or so. After I get home if I don't have homework I'm calling the girls lol.

So, you're saying that you're a gym rat and expect other people to be gym rats?

As a gym rat, that is obnoxious.

Gym rats spend hours at the gym every day, and most of them juice. You know, those enormous guys who wear big Y-back shirts to show off their enormous back muscles? Those are gym rats. I spend an hour a day there, and 30 mins is just running. I'm far from being a rat and I'm willing to bet you're also not that hardcore. So I ask, do you, in fact, even lift?

 Monster Rain wrote:
Someone who doesn't have a weight problem likely won't have butter all over their pocket change.

I'm sure that's on a medical questionaire somewhere, if not it should be. It certainly would be a key sign.

Totally legit medical questionaire wrote:Do you frequently find your pocket change coated in a layer of butter? Y/N

I'm responding to stuff near the bottom of page 5, so it may lose relevance to the topic. I wore size 28 pants in HS, went up to 32 by the end of college, and up until a few months ago was at a tight 34. I've always had a bit of a belly since HS, although not actually "large", it was enough that I didn't like it. In HS I played soccer all fall and spring, took Tae Kwan Do all year long 3 days a week (except soccer game nights), played basketball during lunch and gym every day (gym every other), and played in my driveway with friends too. You know what? I lost no weight. None. Worked my ass off, ate healthy (my dad didn't believe in TV dinners) and got nothing out of it. Now I'm cutting carbs almost completely (ate plenty back then, as they were considered "healthy") and my 34-35 waistline is down to a 32-33. I could wear 32s, but they'd be tight. I've dropped more than 15 pounds in the last month and a half. And I've done no exercise. Nada. Just regular day to day living and any lifting I've had to do at work. That's it. Where am I going with this? Exercise doesn't always make the difference, it can be all in what you eat. My previous food options included lots of subs (half at lunch, half at dinner), sandwiches, spaghetti and meat sauce, etc. All white grains, all sugar. Now the subs have switched to salads, and the spaghetti has switched to whole wheat pasta: no white pasta (I'm a pasta racist, so sue me). Natural starches, like potatoes, were totally acceptable to the diet I built for myself, and it's been working well. I even got to the point that I allow myself to cheat a bit and have cookies and yellow rice once in a great while. I find that I'm not really missing the bread either. If you hate working out (like I do) and hate running (what's the point if you aren't chasing a ball?), try the limited/healthy carbs thing. It might help others like it helps me. Only if you're unhappy with your body. Also still wish this was a 90s mentality instead of the PC crap we deal with today.

TL: DR-If you want to lose weight and hate exercise, cut out white carbs. It worked for me. Massive weight loss in a short time period. If you're happy with your weight, do what you do. I miss the 90s mentality.


Also, after reading page 6...hooray! I caused conflict. Nah, actually I'm just glad my violent American brothers are siding against European hippies who don't believe in spanking children and believe in...topless...OJ commercials...well played, Walrus, well played....

 Kain wrote:

The crime rate of the nordic countries crime rate by native nordic people is very low.

They're obviously doing something right. Which is why I'm raising my kids on Scandinavian guidelines.

Why make the distinction between native Scandanavians and those of immigrant backgrounds who are making up an increasingly larger percentage of the region all the time? Could it be because Swedish females now have a 1 in 4 chance of being raped in their lifetime primarily because of immigration from incompatible cultures from the third world while having first made the local Swedish population docile?

http://hlaoo1980.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/muslims-will-rape-one-in-every-4.html
http://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/muslims-earn-sweden-the-title-of-rape-capital-of-the-world/
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/dear-government-of-sweden
http://survivinglifeinsweden.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/how-rape-is-really-dealt-with-in-sweden.html
http://www.aina.org/news/20130822123544.htm

 Storm Shadow wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:

 Storm Shadow wrote:
meh, people overreact to everything, honestly, WHO CARES what some bimbo posted on facebook. reading through some of the comments, it's like people took it personal.

So glad to have your insight add to the conversation. Your contributions to dakka in the future are sure to be deep and long lasting.

And again, so much great content. Yellow triangle for the win. Either contribute or don't post.

 cincydooley wrote:

No, it isn't. She's fit, but she isn't overly toned. Her arms are "normal". She doesn't have a 6 pack.

It is very difficult for women to get, let alone maintain, a 6-pack; doubly so for women that have been pregnant. Her abs are about as defined as the average woman could expect their's to be if they spent ~20 hours per week in the gym, ate well, and had never been pregnant.

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:

Gym rats spend hours at the gym every day, and most of them juice. You know, those enormous guys who wear big Y-back shirts to show off their enormous back muscles? Those are gym rats. I spend an hour a day there, and 30 mins is just running. I'm far from being a rat and I'm willing to bet you're also not that hardcore. So I ask, do you, in fact, even lift?

I spend 1.5-3 hours in the gym (also read "working out") every day, including stretching. Excluding athletic seasons, I have done this for 13 years; with my workouts being modified according to purpose.

 dogma wrote:
including stretching

Wuss.

According to Cracked stretching makes things worse.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19954_5-ways-to-trick-your-body-into-being-more-awesome.html

 Cheesecat wrote:
According to Cracked stretching makes things worse.

According to Cracked, by way of NYT and UNLV, static stretching before an intense period of exertion will make that exertion more difficult; which is correct. Active stretching (also known as a warm-up) prior to a period of intense exertion is fine, and recommended.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
I think it's the political correctness that is offending everyone. Bring it back to the 90s people, this would have been a motivational poster, not something she should apologize over. We've become too touchy. Remember, we're in the years for apologizing over this, blaming the teachers for kids getting bad grades, and parents having the cops called for delivering an appropriate spanking to misbehaving brats.

'Murica. Home of the free, indeed. Be ashamed. Be very ashamed.

Quite right. Only certain groups should allowed to have ideas and express them. People who disagree should shut up.

 dogma wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:
According to Cracked stretching makes things worse.

According to Cracked, by way of NYT and UNLV, static stretching before an intense period of exertion will make that exertion more difficult; which is correct. Active stretching (also known as a warm-up) prior to a period of intense exertion is fine, and recommended.

OK fair enough, I wasn't sure what types of stretching you were doing nor am I that familiar with different types of stretches.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Quite right. Only certain groups should allowed to have ideas and express them. People who disagree should shut up.

If wishing made it so.

I have a hard time finding sympathy. Being fat is one of the few "diseases" where the cure is to simply not be fat, barring extremely rare conditions that nobody in this conversation has.

Some people being fat doesn't authorise thin people to shout out about it without getting any reaction.

What I mean is, another interpretation of the Kang picture is that she is an arrogant boastful gak head, rather than a beautiful woman spreading an important message. It's only a promotion for her fitness business, not a professional health consultation.

Being a dick is one of the few social diseases where the cure is simply not to be a dick.

True, but it doesn't cost our society as much as that decision to go for the eighth helping of pancakes.

I don't really find her that hot but then again I'm into big tits (yes, I know it's shallow but it is what I like) so I guess it's no surprise that I'm not fond of her at least appearance wise, she's like a 6 or 7 for me.

That woman has created a serious problem of unfitness by annoying fat and thin people to the extent they have spent hours typing complaints on computers instead of getting out for a breath of fresh air.

Dakka is a global health hazard!

 cincydooley wrote:

 Storm Shadow wrote:
meh, people overreact to everything, honestly, WHO CARES what some bimbo posted on facebook. reading through some of the comments, it's like people took it personal.

So glad to have your insight add to the conversation. Your contributions to dakka in the future are sure to be deep and long lasting.

@Walrus - comically, I found this article linked to one of the child spanking articles (which has nothing to do with this thread by the way):

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/19/sweden-allows-public-masturbation/

So apparently Sweden is a much more enlightened place than the US.

If you're going to go for a pathetic mud-slinging attack, at least make sure you know what you're talking about, otherwise you might make yourself look rather silly.

EDIT: What is it about this subject that makes people go straight for the throat? Prior to this post, where (in this thread) did I directly attack someone over something that doesn't have anything to do with the discussion at hand? If you can't be civil about it I suggest you just don't respond at all. Your first reply to me was perfect; you argued your point and you backed it up, even if it was a source I'd never be able to check myself. Why then start going for silly arguments that has nothing to do with the subject we're discussing?

 Seaward wrote:
True, but it doesn't cost our society as much as that decision to go for the eighth helping of pancakes.

You're right. It's so much more difficult for obnoxiously self-righteous people to shut up than it is for people to avoid eating eight helpings of pancakes.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Seaward wrote:
True, but it doesn't cost our society as much as that decision to go for the eighth helping of pancakes.

You're right. It's so much more difficult for obnoxiously self-righteous people to shut up than it is for people to avoid eating eight helpings of pancakes.

....

 djones520 wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Seaward wrote:
True, but it doesn't cost our society as much as that decision to go for the eighth helping of pancakes.

You're right. It's so much more difficult for obnoxiously self-righteous people to shut up than it is for people to avoid eating eight helpings of pancakes.

....

I should have worded that a bit differently, but it wasn't meant to be a dig at Seaward. It was in reply to the whole "Being a dick is one of the few social diseases where the cure is simply not to be a dick" line of conversation Seaward and Kilkrazy had.

 dogma wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:
According to Cracked stretching makes things worse.

According to Cracked, by way of NYT and UNLV, static stretching before an intense period of exertion will make that exertion more difficult; which is correct. Active stretching (also known as a warm-up) prior to a period of intense exertion is fine, and recommended.

There's also, depending on your sport/activity, "dynamic stretching" exercises that one can do as part of a warm-up that work quite well.

 d-usa wrote:
Dakka is a global health hazard!

It's no more than the world deserves. #blame the victim

We should see if we can get #blame the victim to start trending.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:

 Storm Shadow wrote:
meh, people overreact to everything, honestly, WHO CARES what some bimbo posted on facebook. reading through some of the comments, it's like people took it personal.

So glad to have your insight add to the conversation. Your contributions to dakka in the future are sure to be deep and long lasting.

@Walrus - comically, I found this article linked to one of the child spanking articles (which has nothing to do with this thread by the way):

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/19/sweden-allows-public-masturbation/

So apparently Sweden is a much more enlightened place than the US.

If you're going to go for a pathetic mud-slinging attack, at least make sure you know what you're talking about, otherwise you might make yourself look rather silly.

EDIT: What is it about this subject that makes people go straight for the throat? Prior to this post, where (in this thread) did I directly attack someone over something that doesn't have anything to do with the discussion at hand? If you can't be civil about it I suggest you just don't respond at all. Your first reply to me was perfect; you argued your point and you backed it up, even if it was a source I'd never be able to check myself. Why then start going for silly arguments that has nothing to do with the subject we're discussing?

That stupid thing about public masturbation again? I thought that had been explained long ago and put to rest.

Shes not that hot.

 Ratius wrote:
Shes not that hot.

Agreed, talk about hyperbole in the thread title.

I knew eventually the old "2/10, would not bang" would show up.

Hey, hey, hey, we said "not hot", not "would not bang".
Reel it in MR :p