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If a bear is running at my lady friend, I'd tell her to stand tall. If the bear is mauling my lady friend, she's probably dead.
It's like that video of the father who was attacked by lions when he got out of his car on safari. There were other men around and they knew they couldn't do shit. No guns - no chance. They just waved and screamed while the lions casually ate the man (in front of his wife and kids, no less)
edit And here you go - NSFW - Video - Wild Lions Eat Man Alive - ToxicJunction.com - NSFL
Just my general point on the whole conversation, if you work out you feel like you're a strong cut of meat, but humans are generally pretty soft compared to similarly sized animals the world over. If it's a fight between man and just any random animal interested in killing the man, I'd bet the animals tend to win out.
Distinctions need to be made. If a cougar attacks my dog, I'm all over him. Cougars are pussies and the only way one kills me if he catches me by surprise. Cougars are pretty afraid of bodily harm, so coming at them in a way they don't expect or fighting back scares them off. They're not tough enough to kill a grown man in a fair fight without a fight, and they won't stick around for the full fight, so I'm saving my dog from a cougar
Any of the actual big cats e.g. tigers, lions, leopards, is an entirely different story. Tigers and lions will kill the pet instantly and you as well. A leopard will torture you first. Brown bears are also a no go. Black bears OTOH are somewhat of a mystery. You can't convince a grizzly to be scared if he's already coming at you, but you can with a black bear. Unless they're hungry or protecting young. I'm not sure what my line is, but because I know I'm not losing a fight to any dog on the planet or a cougar, I'll save my pet from them unless the cougar is protecting young or the dogs are in a pack. But once you get into leopard, hyena, bear territory you're going to lose if they decide to keep fighting
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But would you fight a pitbull for it?
At this one shelter I worked at, we had this vicious pit that had a court case. Beautiful red pit bull. Its name was KB, dogs with drug names or gambling names are always trouble. Well, when you walked up to its run, it would always jump at you and snap at your face, but when no one was around, it would finally lie down. So, I took to catching him lying down, and popping a treat in his cage. Pretty soon, he'd lie down whenever I approached. Lol, the laws of animal learning are inexorable. I still wouldn't go in his run with him though, not without the pole.
I think an adult human could take most any dog, once you got your hands on its neck, but you'd def get mauled in the process.
There's like 20 fatal dog attacks in the US each year, out of about 60 million dog owning households, and half of those are little dogs that get in the crib and treat baby like a chew toy. Dogs are cool. Alot of people treat 'em like babies though, and that's trouble with a strange dog.
what would you do in this spot?
YouTube - ? ? Crazed Mother Deer Attacks Dog and Cat- (WARNING Crazy Video) ? ?
How much of a fucking moron is the cat owner? All mammals will go absolutely crazy to protect their young, a friend's girlfriend was lucky to escape with a few broken ribs recently when she walked her dog in a field of cows and their calves. The cat owner there should insta put down the camera, pick up the cat and lock it indoors the second it approaches the baby deer.
In terms of what I'd do as the dog owner? Assuming that in Canada deers are hunted and therefore shitscared of people, look for an intimidating looking weapon like a broomstick or dustbin lid and run towards the deer making as much noise as possible, angling my approach so that the deer's retreat sends it straight towards the calf. But jeez, people need to be less retarded about their pets.
I sure as hell wouldn't sit there screaming.. I mean wtf does that help?
I guess my first thought would be to look for some sort of weapon. Then attack. I don't think I have to kill the animal, so much as break them up. There's somewhat of a decent chance that if I break the Deer's aggression on the dog up, that he would then either feel threatened by the both of us, me, or feel his job is done that he would scamper off. If not, I probably fuck a deer up.
that's just an assumption though right, you'd be taking a huge risk going into that. Let's say you know you'd be killed 5% of the time, are you still going into the fray?
If it's my dog, that deer gets her shit pushed in
That was harder to watch than the lion attack video.
I was actually in a situation last summer that was somewhat similar.
I have a Golden Retriever and a Chocolate Lab. At the time we had a fenced in backyard so instead of walking the dogs 3-4 times a day, we would just let them run around in the backyard etc. Our neighbors next door had 2 brendle pits (male and female) and a pretty young son ( 6 or so). You're average American family.
The boy, dad, and 2 dogs were in there backyard and the boy apparently walked over to the chain link fence to pet my dogs. Bear (the golden) was licking him or jumping on the fence or whatever excited dogs do when someone shows them attention, and the male pit hurdled the fence and and latched on to Bear's front right leg.
I wasn't outside for this but the neighbor comes pounding on my door, incredibly panicked and half-assed, out of breath, tried to fill me in while rushing me to the back door.
I've seen some ridiculous things over the years (brutal ass whippings, saw a guy get stabbed at a pool hall, 3guys1hammer over the interwebs, etc) and none of that compares to the way i felt seeing my defenseless dog getting mauled.
Anyways, I tell him to get his kid in the fucking house, ran inside and grabbed the little .25 beretta I keep above the fridge. I'll keep the graphics to a minimum but I had to put the first shot into his abdomen area since the neck or higher meant Bear would be collateral damage.
The dog wasn't going to make it so I did what I felt was morally correct after that, plus even if he did survive the first shot, my neighbor would have to put him down. As much as I hated that goddamn dog at the time, it was absolutely without a doubt the toughest thing I have ever done and easily ranks #1 worst day of my life thus far.
On a good note though: After $2500 worth of anesthesia, surgery, stitches, and medicine (paid for by the neighbor obv) Bear is back to normal and still the most awesome golden on the face of the planet.
But after seeing my shaved, stitched up, doped out little buddy (who had to wear one of those Elizabethan collars for 2 weeks after) I can't say I regret what I did and put in that situation again, I would make the same decision.
I'd never be able to assess the situation that accurately with adrenaline flowing. I feel like a the fight or flight mentality would be invoked (where flight is just stand by idly while your little buddy gets his shit stomped in), and I would fight. And this would occur without much consideration to how often I am to be injured.
Obviously the question becomes harder as the risk I am putting myself into arises. I wouldn't sacrifice my life for the life of my dogs. I wouldn't go in knowing I would die, and they would live.
What happens to the pet the 5% of the time I die? Do they also die? Do they live? I assume the 95% of the time I am successful that the pet also lives?
Honestly, I feel that 5% is too low of an imminent danger for me not to help.
People expect that they will die some percentage of the time that they go to war, yet hey still do, and the reasoning is a lot less solid than helping out a loved companion who is in immediate danger. There is risk with skydiving, yet people take that risk for the shear enjoyment. I'd like to think I'd be willing to take that risk to help out a friend.
Would you help out a loved family member or friend who is getting attacked if you knew you would die 10% of the time? 20%? Where do you draw the line for these people you care about?
just remembered a somewhat funny exchange at the dentist's office..
so the assistant is flirting with me/playfully touching me while inquiring about my tooth pain, and the topic of which pain relievers i typically use comes up (ibuprofin, aspirin, etc). i say that i really don't use those very often. then she asks what i would normally take for a headache, and i (truthfully) said that i can't remember the last time that i had one. she gave me this blank sort of...um... ok.... (new subject, more playful touching)
she wasn't that attractive, unfortunately
random aside, how come animated GIFs are super slow and choppy? this is true both for your sig and in other places, like the lolthread
i know chrome slows them down, but them not performing well is probably just a data processing issue
Total epicness itt.
and wuf, you can't take a pitbull. Jim can, bit you can't.
Maybe not, but I can take a rottweiler a.k.a. a big ass dog a.k.a. your mom
Damn, DTB. That's crazy. Did you buy that gun for your wife?
http://www.covertcarrier.com/sitebui...d25beretta.jpg
This is not a dig at the gun or your ownership thereof. I own a sissier pistol.
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Walther P22 3.5"
Yeah, I like to keep a little gut gun around the house that my gf could handle if need be. Page 62 of this thread I (Under the 'OP' account) talk about getting robbed at gunpoint in my house and after that I've kept firearms around.
I also ended up buying a 12G Remington and a .357 S&W. While it's funny as shit to watch her shoot them, no way in hell i trust her to use either in a panicked state.
I have a Remington bolt action .30-06 which is > Remington any gauge.
You crazy Virginians and you're crazy deer rifles
dropthebanana i think it's your, not you're in that sentence.
I can't do any at my weight, but I have had 2 shoulder surgeries in the last 10 years too.
Injuries are such a bitch. I went so heavy on deadlifts and squats with such frequency that I got to the point that I couldn't even sit on the pot without hip pain.
Were you doing a lot of stretching at the time?
I was also doing a lot of heavy squats and deadlifts a few years ago which led to some injuries. I figured I just wasn't stretching often enough back then.
What else can I do to avoid injuries if I decide to start going heavy again?
one time my buddies rot and pit were going at it and i stupidly tried to separate them and the pit bit me in the ass rofl it sucked i was bleeding from my butt cheek.
I can do 3 pull-at-bars. Where I hang there and pull at the bar.
Injuries come from several things, improper warm up, improper form, increasing the amount of weight you lift before the connective tissues have time to adapt and grow or from overuse/lack of recuperation. I can tell you that you should never stretch cold muscles before exercise because you strain the connective tissue too much when cold muscles are inelastic. The best warm up for weight training as well as all sports is doing sport specific training. What that means is do lighter work that is exactly like the work your going to do. Lighter reps with good range of motion, or skating and shooting if your going to play hockey, Swing a bat and do some sprints for baseball and throw the ball around.
Stretch between exercises, periods, quarters or even after as a warm down to get more flexible.
re: baseball, that is such a good point. I wish I would have spent more time during my career swinging the bat/going to the cages and throwing the ball around, especially long toss. Not that the weight-work was bad or anything because that clearly helps but I certainly could have benefited from more baseball-specific stuff.
I guess I'm lucky in the sense that I've never really been that strong in the legs, and it hasn't been due to lack of effort. For example, I can't below-parallel squat as much as I can bench and never have been able to. I'll be honest in that I haven't put quite as much effort into lower body as I have upper, but I've tried much much harder than the average gym-goer. I was always an extremely fast runner though.
You probably have long legs and a long back then.
Legs and back are the sexiest muscles on a man. Both homo and no homo. For a while, I tapered down upper pressing work solely because I wanted to focus on those two areas. For both function and aesthetics, they're very underrated. Strong legs and hips up function way more than any other areas, and a big back is the main thing that makes men look buff or imposing or whatever. You can see somebody with abs or arms or a chest or whatever and they can still be pussies, but if you see a big back, you know he doesn't fuck around
I could be a little biased though because the most enviable physiques I've ever seen were olympic lifters by far, and nobody works the back the way they do
I actually remember mentioning the bench > squat thing on Lyle's forum once. He said something to the effect of picking up golfing instead. THen I said every damn shot always goes off to the right, what do I do? He actually gave a thoughtful response after that. This is before he went off the deep end and started yelling at everyone for swearing.
it must be funny seeing a guy struggle with ~200 lb for 8ish reps in the squat rack (in fairness I went deep and had excellent reps) then see him bang out 10 +45 weighted chins the next day.
yeah, he's a grumpy old man now.
this is the new site, not monkey island
Oh yeah I figured it was the other site.
Lyle was never somebody you could talk sense to unless it was straight out of a book, so he made a bunch of business decisions that reflected his personality. My read is that the chick he fell in love with finally convinced him to do things like separate the meanies from the product
yeah, I mean I don't have any problem with how he runs his site. There's more free info there than I'll ever need. It's just funny to see him blow up in threads or make a new post every 2 months about how pissed off everyone is making him and how everyone should stfu with the swearing/complaining or stop posting.
When I was doing grease the groove stuff I could do 9-10 dead hang chins at ~165 and a triple at bw+35
As soon as I stop doing a bunch this goes down significantly, did 5 tough ones the other day. Always had a weak back.
Lyle may be a fuckwad at times, but if you only ever follow his advice you really will never go wrong. He knows his shit, that's for sure.
there's no denying that
he just goes off the deep end a lot
wufwugy and jyms, any thoughts on this?: overhead press? dangerous? - BodyRecomposition Support Forums
cliffs notes: author argues that side lateral raises are far superior to overhead press for developing the side deltoids both in terms of development and safety. he does make some allowances for sports/powerlifting but not for fitness types.
from a personal standpoint, overhead press is something that I was going to cut out anyway. I do try to keep the heavy compounds in my routine as much as possible, and it isn't an issue of safety (I think) for me because it seems like I have decently flexible shoulders, it's just that I don't seem to get much benefit from it. Or I'm not really sure where it's actually hitting. And there may be a very small degree of awkwardness, if that makes any sense. (Usually standing barbell press but occasionally others)
I think there is enough evidence that overhead press can cause problems while not providing any real benefits that couldn't be had elsewhere. So if you want to avoid them, have at it
Anatomical safety is one of the few aspects of lifting that I don't have a very strong understanding of. My rule is if it hurts don't do it. But some things are simply stupid despite any pain. Things like spinal twisting under load. The shoulder impingement thing may actually be a big deal, yet because some people don't get it or the effects are delayed, it's not treated like a big deal. I've never actually looked for the info on OHP and impingement, so I can't say for sure. Shouldn't be too hard to find though. Personally, I could have developed at least two different shoulder problems because of this, but I don't know.
This is one of those exercises that most people do poorly, either because they don't understand the form or their shoulders don't rotate properly to get the side delts isolated enough in the movement (impingement). If you use them on a slight decline with the back supported by a vertical bench, then isolating the Anterior delt is great.
As I mentioned, I have had a ton of shoulder problems and surgeries, so I isolate my medial delt first any time I do shoulders so if I want to do presses, they have been pre-exhausted. But i rarely ever do pressses
Just so it's said here, never do presses or pull downs behind the neck. I know that's not what we are talking about, but they are some of the exercises you see people copy from who knows where and they are inexplicably bad.
Press is my favorite lift, coming in just ahead of the deadlift
to clarify, standing press, not the seated version
I'm pretty close to 135x5, should get there on my next 5-3-1 cycle at ~165bw. L33T YO.
We'll take this break in discussing weightlifting for our great science.
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Im going to make rainbow chip cupcakes!
am a little drunk right naow.
I've never been able to do overhead presses properly or going too heavy, because I would instantly feel some very awkward shoulder movement and some pain. Only way I can do them with minimal discomfort is while "cheating", i.e. the power clean & push press.
I only ever do Arnold Presses, and I can go significantly heavy on these. Dumbells allow for a more natural ROM, and therefore are ultra comfy/don't hurt at all.
Random monopoly question:
Playing monopoly on playstation 2 with a friend the other day, here's the situation:
Hero has: Hotels on Mediterranean and Baltic, 3 railroads (including short line), both utilities, and 1 each of light blue and light purple, 2 oranges including new york, 2 reds including illinois, 2 yellows including marvin gardens, 2 greens including pennsylvania, and boardwalk. Effectively unlimited money
Friend has the rest of the properties and a decent amount of cash, say $1000
There are also 2 computers in the game with no properties (thanks guys) but a lot of money (say $2000 and $3000)
The $ amounts don't particularly matter that much but I figure that I'd mention them anyway.
Almost forgot: all relevant rules are as per standard rules (i.e. free parking is a neutral square) with 1 exception: landing on go either through direct roll or through a card pays $400 instead of $200. passing go without landing on it pays standard $200.
Assuming my friend doesn't want to trade, what is the status of this game? Specifically, do I have enough to wipe out the computers and then my friend?
My intuition at first was that I had enough to wipe out all players on a consistent basis, even if it would take some time. Being automated makes this go much quicker. Results: we played for maybe 20 more minutes and got bored and quit. Computer monies stayed about even, friend's went up slightly, but the sample was far too small to make any meaningful conclusions. However, I figure my friend at least draws a large portion of the time here, i.e. his expectation for going around the board is positive. That's still mostly just a guess.
YouTube - The Black Legend - Epic Dessert Time
these guys are great, probably my favorite one
idk what u guys were talking about when u were talking about your pets and shit attacking you/them but my friend shot a pit bull that attacked him in his hood and put pictures of it on fb
should be some epic back and forth going when the sun rises
obv don't click the pics if you don't want to see a pitbull that got shot in the head
NSFW
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owners plz secure your dog(z)
jeezus
go to bed leg
gruesome pics
it's painful to look at as a dog lover but if you're carrying a gun and get attacked by a pit, you have every right legally and ethically to kill it.
i'd expect there to be more back and forth (i.e. arguing) about the rights and logistics of carrying a handgun than the above. not going there.
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Flawless victory.
I'm not sure what to think of this. Driving one would be a gas. Having a neighbor driving one off the end of your dock would be a pain in the ass.
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'Rillas post in the holiday thread reminded me I haven't seen "Fear and Loathing in LV" in a while, so I watched it tonite.
I've seen that movie roughly 20 times and it just gets better everytime I watch it. It's the only movie I know that's like that. So many little subtleties that are overlooked if you're not 100% focused throughout the whole thing.
Guys, what's the consensus on Piers Morgan in the states?
Everyone in the UK thinks he's a smug cunt.
YouTube - Room 101(Paul Merton Last Ever) Ian Hislop - Piers Morgan (the premise being that people come on the show and nominate things to go into Room 101)
Just my luck, day of the big job interview and I've got a terrible chest/throat cold and can't talk without a reeking cough drop in my mouth.
I'm hoping that they take this as a "He will keep going despite being sick" rather than an "OMG he's going to get us sick!"
piers morgan is a douche because his name is piers morgan
Mine went well. I'm hoping to hear some good news within a week or so.
Hopefully yours just went awful from your perspective. I've was offered a job once after the worst interview of my life. Either I didn't do as bad as I thought, or everyone else did worse. Not sure which it was.
My laptop has an overheating problem. It has progressively gotten worse. The part of the plastic case, where the graphics card exhaust is, is melted. I have to prop up the back of the laptop and run one of those window mount fans behind it. It used to only need the fan when playing games or watching videos, but now with just normal use it will go nutso and lock up on me.
fuck.
This is kinda scary:
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What sucks is that it quickly impresses but is also wildly inaccurate. A person a searched for, it found 3 of them, but they were all the same person, just at diff addresses that were associated with them at diff times. Also each one of them was a diff age, one was early 20's one late 20's and one early 30's.. but it was for sure the same person, not just same name.
So, I'm sure some of you remember me heckling the commune to vote for my friend in the North Coast Music Festival contest: http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...lp-181837.html
Anyways, he got a lot of buzz from winning that and getting to perform at the festival and hes has been doing really well because of it. It was just confirmed hes gonna go on a brief midwest tour with Twista (multi platinum chicago hip hop artist for those living under a rock). Four dates, March 9th in Ann Arbor, March 10th in Kent MI, March 24 in Bloomington IL, March 26 in Madison WI. All of these are college towns, and it should be fucking crazy. I'm gonna try to make it up to the one in Madison.
^ wow, that's awesome man, glad he's doing well
boost & other cooks:
As a student I've got a lot of time on my hands so I'm trying to teach myself to cook well. Do you guys know of any good sources for cooking theory? I find recipes fun but I don't really feel like I know why I'm doing what I'm doing..
i'm going to google' tits'now
On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee is pretty fucking awesome. It goes into crazy depth about whats happening.
Amazon.com: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (9780684800011): Harold McGee: Books
If you are robusto and have half a grand burning a whole in your pocket, you can pre order Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Mahyrvold. But if you have that sorta money laying around, be a good pal and buy me a copy too.
Amazon.com: Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking (9780982761007): Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young, Maxime Bilet: Books
Other tomes of interest may be the Culinary Institute of America's text book. However I've never flipped through it myself (we used a passable but overall mediocre and uninspired text book where I went to school) so I can't fully endorse it.
Perhaps you would rather buy one of these
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If I have to compare them, and I understand that I must now, the stupid ACN ppl are more tolerable than the stupid Monavie ppl because at least the stupid ACN ppl provide a shitty product that works, albeit shittily, as advertised shittily. The stupid Monavie ppl, in addition to being stupid and annoying, are fucking scammers. It's stupid shitty juice.
So do ACN people graduate to the Monavie juice or do the Monavie people become ACN reps, because in all seriousness, there is no way enough stupid people to only chase the dream once and give up and still have this many people on each side.
what is going on here?
remember when this thread used to be good?
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