Randomness thread, part two.

[d0zer]

It must be cos you're all yanks and there are so many fat chicks over there that the media had to adjust itself to not make them feel too bad

This theory suggests that you've never consumed any american media, which I find highly unlikely.

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I am having a Hannah Hart attack.

[jyms]

Chick in the pink pants isn't fat. The jiggle is mostly muscle; that's what muscle does when unflexed. Don't know her name because she only does hardcore, but she defo ain't fat. It's as if most men are afraid of anything that isn't petite...

name?

[wufwugy]

name?

Sorry, I don't know. I looked a little earlier, but couldn't find anything. I've only seen her do one or two sets with Brazzers

[eugmac]

The worst prejudices one can hold are those held against one's own self.

[rong]

Interesting article on sliiping paterns througout history and what might be more natural for us,

BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep

[d0zer]

Interesting article on sliiping paterns througout history and what might be more natural for us,

BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep

Since the typical 8 hour sleep is broken into 3-4 cycles of deep sleep, coming out into REM, back into deep etc, I never understood why those cycles couldn't be arbitrarily broken up throughout the day. When I do sleep like that I don't notice any detriment to my feeling of wakefulness.

When I'm woken out of a deep sleep, I feel all groggy for a while, but if I'm woken out of REM sleep, as is normal -- it's a more seamless transition to consciousness. We know that deep sleep serves important regenerative functions, but we don't know that we have to have all the deep sleep at once. There seems to be a growing movement in the psych/science community towards that line of thought. Interesting stuff.

[rong]

I thought rem sleep was the deep and imprtant bit?

[d0zer]

I thought rem sleep was the deep and imprtant bit?

No, it's considered more 'shallow', and what we experience as we come out of deep sleep. One theory is that it helps with awakening, making the transition more seamless. The function of REM sleep is still somewhat of a mystery, with a variety of theories proposed, but no consensus on its purpose.



Near the end of an 8 hour sleep, the deep cycles are shorter and REM periods longer. If it turns out that the total duration of REM sleep isn't important compared to deep sleep, then "broken sleep" patterns like 4 hrs twice a day would be validated, as we get the most deep sleep in those first two cycles, so more "bang for your buck", and the last two cycles in a night would be more 'wasteful', comprising more REM and less deep sleep.

[jyms]

Interesting stuff. How would all this deep sleep and rem be related to the polyphasic methods? I've read a bit about it and thought about trying it before. There was thread here on FTR about it in the past but don't know if there was much outcome

[d0zer]

Interesting stuff. How would all this deep sleep and rem be related to the polyphasic methods? I've read a bit about it and thought about trying it before. There was thread here on FTR about it in the past but don't know if there was much outcome

Well I kind of covered that in my last paragraph. Basically if someone proves that REM sleep's only value is easing the transition between deep sleep and consciousness, then it's quite possible that polyphasic sleep methods would be validated as being a more efficient way to get rest, as the first sleep cycle of the night is the deepest and longest, so if you just slept 3 separate times throughout the day for 2 hrs at a time, it's possible those 6 hours would provide as much, or maybe even more rest than 8 consecutive hours given the last few cycles in that 8 hrs don't provide as much deep sleep.

The jury's still out though -- I don't think the scientific community fully understands sleep enough to say anything conclusively yet.

[jyms]

But in looking at the graph and knowing that science has not fully learned enough to be conclusive, if REM sleep becomes important there is far more time spent in REM at the latter parts of sleep. So many levels of brain functions and so many levels of sleep, I'd like to know what is responsible for what if I was to drop some phases of my sleep

[d0zer]

But in looking at the graph and knowing that science has not fully learned enough to be conclusive, if REM sleep becomes important there is far more time spent in REM at the latter parts of sleep. So many levels of brain functions and so many levels of sleep, I'd like to know what is responsible for what if I was to drop some phases of my sleep

agreed, which is why polyphasic sleep strategies are still controversial.

some of the studies done on it have at least some results suggesting it might not be so bad, but I'd like to see larger scale studies done on a larger population before I buy into it.

Polyphasic sleep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[wufwugy]

REM is extremely important; it's just different than NREM. The niftiest way of looking at it I've seen is that NREM is for body function rejuvenation, and REM is for mind rejuvenation like memory.

FWIW, I've gotten back on melatonin, and I must say, going off it was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. I have enormous sleep issues like insomnia that cause me other problems in life, but with melatonin, I go for a solid 7ish hours, then wake then can get an extra ~half hour of morning REM, and I feel much better overall.

On melatonin, I stay in bed for about 8 hours, but without, I'm usually in bed for 12 hours

[bikes]

champagne's for celebrating. I'll have a martini.

Mayday Parade Champagne's For Celebrating W/ Lyrics - YouTube

SAVE A SAD SONG FOR THE SINGALONG

[wufwugy]

name?

You're in luck, came across this in /gif/

Jynx Maze & Briella Bounce
Texas Butts Drive Us Nutts

Not sure if linking porn is kosher, but you can find it on xvideos or any other site. She's slightly heavier than I thought, but I never watched any of her stuff. Has a bit more of leg/hip mass than you see in most porn though

[d0zer]

REM is extremely important; it's just different than NREM. The niftiest way of looking at it I've seen is that NREM is for body function rejuvenation, and REM is for mind rejuvenation like memory

I feel like the evidence towards the value of NREM sleep is higher than REM's

[wufwugy]

I feel like the evidence towards the value of NREM sleep is higher than REM's

I believe it is, for the most part. I forget the source, but I did read a piece recently which acknowledged that fact, but also declared some developing understanding of REM

Confirmed data aside, it wouldn't make sense if REM wasn't important. This isn't proof of anything, but it does make a default position. A whole lot goes on in the body in REM, and it's probably for a reason. I'm not sure of the sources, but I think that dreaming has been linked to securing memories. Also, if REM wasn't important, I suspect that we wouldn't have much of it because we would have died out by being outperformed by humans who could operate on less and less sleep

[eugmac]

I dreamt of boobies last night, so my conclusion is that REM sleep is super duper important.

[rong]

You're in luck, came across this in /gif/

Jynx Maze & Briella Bounce
Texas Butts Drive Us Nutts

Not sure if linking porn is kosher, but you can find it on xvideos or any other site. She's slightly heavier than I thought, but I never watched any of her stuff. Has a bit more of leg/hip mass than you see in most porn though

Jynx is hot but that Briella is a fatty and I would not fuck that sober.

[wufwugy]

Jynx is hot but that Briella is a fatty and I would not fuck that sober.

lol

she would be optimized by losing a few pounds, but oh well....

[Galapogos]

No, it's considered more 'shallow', and what we experience as we come out of deep sleep. One theory is that it helps with awakening, making the transition more seamless. The function of REM sleep is still somewhat of a mystery, with a variety of theories proposed, but no consensus on its purpose.



Near the end of an 8 hour sleep, the deep cycles are shorter and REM periods longer. If it turns out that the total duration of REM sleep isn't important compared to deep sleep, then "broken sleep" patterns like 4 hrs twice a day would be validated, as we get the most deep sleep in those first two cycles, so more "bang for your buck", and the last two cycles in a night would be more 'wasteful', comprising more REM and less deep sleep.

Can't believe the mods tried to ban this guy. Dude knows his shit!

[d0zer]

ban d0zer!

[donkbee]

this thread makes me happy. thanks for the bouncy bums!

[supa]

I am a glorious beacon of light.

[Chelle]

i had two drinks, both sex on the beach. god they were good.

[Luco]

ban d0zer!

This never gets old lol

[wufwugy]

Still haven't tried this, yet really really want to

[bikes]

purely fucking orgasmic.

that's what that shit is.

[boost]

I thought more of you wuf.

As for bikes, par for the course.

[wufwugy]

WELL YOU THOUGHT WRONG

Lather some protein or something fibrous with grease and spices and I'm there. Actually, I'm not there because if I was there I could easily get up to like 280

[wufwugy]

Speaking of which, I'm at the leanest I've been in years. Down from 240 to about 204, starting to edge into a barely visible sixpack territory. Energy levels are better and several injuries affected by weight and inflammation are much better. Goal is to get to like 170. If I could do that while working out a lot it would be amazing. Leanest I've ever been while lifting was probably at 190, but I was trying to gain weight then

[boost]

I am not a health nut. I love a good cheeseburger, I like fried foods, etc. But if I'm going to eat something unhealthy, it's going to actually taste good. It's not going to taste like cardboard, yet have qualities that trigger primal stimuli to trick us into liking it. For example, I just ate a bratwurst and truffle fries with pesto aioli from this sort of boutique sausage joint. Was it healthy? Nah, not really, but it actually was amazing; it wasn't some overly-processed engineered trickery.

[bigred]

So after some time (dunno how long) of seeing one of my gf's "friends" facebook status messages show up in my newsfeed and constantly shaking my head, I brought it up to my gf. I say something along the lines of "wtf is wrong with your friend. Posting "dirty whores keep dem hands off my man!"

GF then confirms she has no idea who this person is and I'm not even facebook friends with the person I thought it was. I realize after actually clicking on the person's page that I have no idea who it is either. She has a lot of mutual friends from my home town but I have no fucking idea who it is. Immediately defriend.

Now, I'm concerned that I have attributed undeserved craziness in my brain to my GF's friend who is undeserving of it and I worry about cleaning the slate. Anyone done this before?

[Hawk]

no

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must remember i'm at home again and liberal views not looked on so nicely -.-

[Chelle]

i want a dog.

someone help me talk spoon into getting me a pet dog.

a mini-dog, like Pomeranian or yorkie

[bikes]

corgi pom mix imo

[JKDS]

This is Teddy, a Welsh Corgi. Pretty clearly the most adorable thing ever. Click the link for more reasons to get a Corgi. Teddy the Welsh Corgi | Puppies | Daily Puppy.

(Caution, i didnt actaully read the article. For all i know, its about something horrible. but the pictures are all "daaaawwwwwwwwww")

[wufwugy]

I think I found boost's soulmate

[bigred]

This is Teddy, a Welsh Corgi. Pretty clearly the most adorable thing ever. Click the link for more reasons to get a Corgi. Teddy the Welsh Corgi | Puppies | Daily Puppy.

(Caution, i didnt actaully read the article. For all i know, its about something horrible. but the pictures are all "daaaawwwwwwwwww")

I've never wanted anything more in my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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[bikes]

First thing that came to my head was this line from the movie The Replacements.

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH INSURANCE COSTS ON A FERRARI MOTHER FUCKER?

[boost]

this is pretty fucking cool, euthanasia roller coaster

Projects - euthanasia-coaster - Julijonas Urbonas

[BooG690]

Pulp Shakespeare Hollywood Fringe - YouTube

This is one of the best Pulp Fiction spinoffs I've ever seen. Pulp Fiction in iambic Pentameter and set in the 1500s. Awesome.

[Jack Sawyer]

HAhahahahahahahahahahahaha

Andrew Schiff was sitting in a traffic jam in California this month after giving a speech at an investment conference about gold. He turned off the satellite radio, got out of the car and screamed a profanity.
“I’m not Zen at all, and when I’m freaking out about the situation, where I’m stuck like a rat in a trap on a highway with no way to get out, it’s very hard,” Schiff, director of marketing for broker-dealer Euro Pacific Capital Inc., said in an interview.

Schiff, 46, is facing another kind of jam this year: Paid a lower bonus, he said the $350,000 he earns, enough to put him in the country’s top 1 percent by income, doesn’t cover his family’s private-school tuition, a Kent, Connecticut, summer rental and the upgrade they would like from their 1,200-square- foot Brooklyn duplex.

“I feel stuck,” Schiff said. “The New York that I wanted to have is still just beyond my reach.”

The smaller bonus checks that hit accounts across the financial-services industry this month are making it difficult to maintain the lifestyles that Wall Street workers expect, according to interviews with bankers and their accountants, therapists, advisers and headhunters.

“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress,” said Alan Dlugash, a partner at accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York who specializes in financial planning for the wealthy. “Could you imagine what it’s like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?”

Bonus Caps

Facing a slump in revenue from investment banking and trading, Wall Street firms have trimmed 2011 discretionary pay. At Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Barclays Capital, the cuts were at least 25 percent. Morgan Stanley (MS) capped cash bonuses at $125,000, and Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) increased the percentage of deferred pay.

“It’s a disaster,” said Ilana Weinstein, chief executive officer of New York-based search firm IDW Group LLC. “The entire construct of compensation has changed.”

Most people can only dream of Wall Street’s shrinking paychecks. Median household income in 2010 was $49,445, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, lower than the previous year and less than 1 percent of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s $7 million restricted-stock bonus for 2011. The percentage of Americans living in poverty climbed to 15.1 percent, the highest in almost two decades.

House of Mirth

Comfortable New Yorkers assessing their discomforts is at least as old as Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel “The House of Mirth,” whose heroine Lily Bart said “the only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”

Wall Street headhunter Daniel Arbeeny said his “income has gone down tremendously.” On a recent Sunday, he drove to Fairway Market in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn to buy discounted salmon for $5.99 a pound.

“They have a circular that they leave in front of the buildings in our neighborhood,” said Arbeeny, 49, who lives in nearby Cobble Hill, namesake for a line of pebbled-leather Kate Spade handbags. “We sit there, and I look through all of them to find out where it’s worth going.”

Executive-search veterans who work with hedge funds and banks make about $500,000 in good years, said Arbeeny, managing principal at New York-based CMF Partners LLC, declining to discuss specifics about his own income. He said he no longer goes on annual ski trips to Whistler (WB), Tahoe or Aspen.

He reads other supermarket circulars to find good prices for his favorite cereal, Wheat Chex.

“Wow, did I waste a lot of money,” Arbeeny said.

$17,000 on Dogs

Richard Scheiner, 58, a real-estate investor and hedge-fund manager, said most people on Wall Street don’t save.

“When their means are cut, they’re stuck,” said Scheiner, whose New York-based hedge fund, Lane Gate Partners LLC, was down about 15 percent last year. “Not so much an issue for me and my wife because we’ve always saved.”

Scheiner said he spends about $500 a month to park one of his two Audis in a garage and at least $7,500 a year each for memberships at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester and a gun club in upstate New York. A labradoodle named Zelda and a rescued bichon frise, Duke, cost $17,000 a year, including food, health care, boarding and a daily dog-walker who charges $17 each per outing, he said.

Still, he sold two motorcycles he didn’t use and called his Porsche 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet “the Volkswagen of supercars.” He and his wife have given more than $100,000 to a nonprofit she founded that promotes employment for people with Asperger syndrome, he said.

‘Crushing Setback’

Scheiner pays $30,000 a year to be part of a New York-based peer-learning group for investors called Tiger 21. Founder Michael Sonnenfeldt said members, most with a net worth of at least $10 million, have been forced to “reexamine lots of assumptions about how grand their life would be.”

While they aren’t asking for sympathy, “at their level, in a different way but in the same way, the rug got pulled out,” said Sonnenfeldt, 56. “For many people of wealth, they’ve had a crushing setback as well.”

He described a feeling of “malaise” and a “paralysis that does not allow one to believe that generally things are going to get better,” listing geopolitical hot spots such as Iran and low interest rates that have been “artificially manipulated” by the Federal Reserve.

Poly Prep

The malaise is shared by Schiff, the New York-based marketing director for Euro Pacific Capital, where his brother is CEO. His family rents the lower duplex of a brownstone in Cobble Hill, where his two children share a room. His 10-year- old daughter is a student at $32,000-a-year Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn. His son, 7, will apply in a few years.

“I can’t imagine what I’m going to do,” Schiff said. “I’m crammed into 1,200 square feet. I don’t have a dishwasher. We do all our dishes by hand.”

[Also see: The Warren Buffett Haters Club]

He wants 1,800 square feet — “a room for each kid, three bedrooms, maybe four,” he said. “Imagine four bedrooms. You have the luxury of a guest room, how crazy is that?”

The family rents a three-bedroom summer house in Connecticut and will go there again this year for one month instead of four. Schiff said he brings home less than $200,000 after taxes, health-insurance and 401(k) contributions. The closing costs, renovation and down payment on one of the $1.5 million 17-foot-wide row houses nearby, what he called “the low rung on the brownstone ladder,” would consume “every dime” of the family’s savings, he said.

“I wouldn’t want to whine,” Schiff said. “All I want is the stuff that I always thought, growing up, that successful parents had.”

Vegas, Ibiza

Hans Kullberg, 27, a trader at Wyckoff, New Jersey-based hedge fund Falcon Management Corp. who said he earns about $150,000 a year, is adjusting his sights, too.

After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, he spent a $10,000 signing bonus from Citigroup Inc. (C) on a six-week trip to South America. He worked on an emerging-markets team at the bank that traded and marketed synthetic collateralized debt obligations.

His tastes for travel got “a little bit more lavish,” he said. Kullberg, a triathlete, went to a bachelor party in Las Vegas in January after renting a four-bedroom ski cabin at Bear Mountain in California as a Christmas gift to his parents. He went to Ibiza for another bachelor party in August, spending $3,000 on a three-day trip, including a 15-minute ride from the airport that cost $100. In May he spent 10 days in India.

Wet T-Shirt

Earlier this month, a friend invited him on a trip to Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The friend was going to be a judge in a wet T-shirt contest, Kullberg said. He turned down the offer.

It wouldn’t have been “the most financially prudent thing to do,” he said. “I’m not totally sure about what I’m going to get paid this year, how I’m going to be doing.”

He thinks more about the long term, he said, and plans to buy a foreclosed two-bedroom house in Charlotte, North Carolina, for $50,000 next month.

[Also see: Annoying Things Bosses Ask of Employees]

M. Todd Henderson, a University of Chicago law professor who’s teaching a seminar on executive compensation, said the suffering is relative and real. He wrote two years ago that his family was “just getting by” on more than $250,000 a year, setting off what he called a firestorm of criticism.

“Yes, terminal diseases are worse than getting the flu,” he said. “But you suffer when you get the flu.”

‘Have to Cut’

Dlugash, the accountant, said he’s spending more time talking with Wall Street clients about their expenses.

“You don’t necessarily have to cut that — but if you don’t cut that, then you’ve got to cut this,” he said. “They say, ‘But I can’t.’ And I say, ‘But you must.’”

One banker who owes Dlugash $20,000 gained the accountant’s sympathy despite his six-figure pay.

“If you’re making $50,000 and your salary gets down to $40,000 and you have to cut, it’s very severe to you,” Dlugash said. “But it’s no less severe to these other people with these big numbers.”

A Wall Street executive who made 10 times that amount and now has declining income along with a divorce, private school tuitions and elderly parents also suffers, he said.

“These people never dreamed they’d be making $500,000 a year,” he said, “and dreamed even less that they’d be broke.”

Oh he doesnt have a dishwasher, oh noes

[boost]

This is an Onion article, right?

[supa]

Pulp Shakespeare Hollywood Fringe - YouTube

This is one of the best Pulp Fiction spinoffs I've ever seen. Pulp Fiction in iambic Pentameter and set in the 1500s. Awesome.

L fucking O fucking L.

'We should have broadswords.'

[boost]

CRY WHAT AGAIN! I DARE THEE, SAY WHAT AGAIN, BUT WHAT, I DARE THEE TWICE AND SPIT UPON THY NAME!!

haha, fucking awesome.

[OngBonga]

i want a dog.

someone help me talk spoon into getting me a pet dog.

a mini-dog, like Pomeranian or yorkie

Small dogs are for cat lovers in denial.

I'm going to the dog rescue centre tomorrow, hopefully I'll be coming back with a husky that was found wandering the streets in the middle of the night last week and hasn't been claimed. She stayed with me for the night before she was sent to the kennels. Poor thing, who the fuck doesn't report a missing husky?

So yeah, I'm wandering what to call her. The rescue place called her Bella, shit name imo. Any suggestions?