Haha, that gave a me proper laugh! Something I’ve wanted to do so many times and yet because it’s kids you just can’t, definitely can’t blame you there for that though.
Cannot comprehend parents who pay zero attention to their obnoxious children - seriously why would you want to raise your child to be like that? I would be deeply ashamed and worse I wouldn’t actually be able to tolerate my own child. People are weird/suck.
My worst experience was when we were travelling through Asia.
My son has blonde hair and hardly anyone has blonde hair in the countries we went through. My son also has curly hair and hardly anyone has curly hair. And I can say I saw nobody with both blonde and curly hair.
This made us as close to celebrities as you can get without being celebrities. We would get stopped every other block to take a photo or by someone wanting to touch his hair. Even men, I had to tell many men to bugger off as it was creepy as fuck.
But the worst was anywhere there were kids playing. Parents were clocked off and kids were making a beeline for the curly haired, blonde white kid. My son had just turned 18 months a few months earlier so I was always within arm’s reach. However, what I thought were friendly kids coming up to play were nasty fucks coming to push him over and over and over, to wrestle him off of equipment, to hit him, one even fetched a stick and hit him in the face. No matter how distressed my son got, nobody would step in with their kid.
In the end, I got sick of letting these fucks close and then having to pick up my crying son so I did some stuff I am not proud of to a lot of little people lol
Thanks for editing turned 18 to turned 18months, took me a few reads of the paragraph initially to get what was going on ha.
I was picturing an 18 year old being surrounded and hit with sticks by asian kids in a play area.
And thus, the script for the next Karate Kid film was born.
My kids are perfect. But not perfectly behaved. I always keep an eye on them incase they need a little bit or behaviour modification.
I had a friend who went to China. Shes a pretty woman, blond hair very fair skin and “big up top” if you know what I mean.
Her husband said the same thing. Odd pervy men wanted photos with her and tried to touch her hair and stroke her arm.
I confess the more I hear about parenting, the less I want to be one
Also, I confess that the only reason I’m somewhat concerned about falling birth rates in high income nations is because economists say I should care. 
I have a lot of friends like this. My advice is: ignore people’s advice on this. It’s your decision.
The woman that introduced me to my wife had this happen while studying abroad in Italy. She’s blonde with blue eyes and had to fend dudes off all the time. One dude came up and just licked her face. After that they always had an escort from their gigantic friend from the study abroad program.
Apparently they were told to expect stuff like that in their “orientation” and were told they’d get in trouble for fighting back if it happened.
How is this acceptable?!
I confess that, I didn’t want to start a thread to discuss the topic of this post. Figure it’ll get enough traffic here.
Anyone else get supremely light headed during warmup of deadlifts and overhead presses, but feel relatively fine during your working sets?
I try to practice a hard brace during my warmups, and during overhead presses I’ll get so zoned out that I lose all feeling in my arms and legs. The weight goes up easy enough but I cant actually sense my arms moving, I feel like a floating torso with a suspended weight over my head. Same thing but to a lesser extent on deadlifts.
The odd thing is once the weight gets somewhat challenging, think like 70-75% or so, that goes away and I just get the normal lightheadedness that comes from bracing, not so much the other worldly experience.
I thought I was the only one (pre-covid of course)
I’m not totally sure but it was sad they weren’t allowed to fight back. My wife and her friend could have ripped the nads off of 90% of the dudes I saw when I visited them.
Presses are the worst, I always have to let out my breath and return to reality after unracking before I pass out. But yes, with deadlifts it is worse for warmups than work sets. Probably because your bracing comes 100% from you since there’s not enough weight to brace against.
Atlas stones do that to me.
It is likely from low blood pressure (Relatively) after you release the initial Valsalva. As the set progresses your overall blood pressure goes up and evens out but it will jump on the initial Clean or taxing pull and then drop when you release the tension.
…more like the pole bearer if you ask me.
(Sorry, I succumbed to the peer pressure. @Cyrrex )
At least you’re not the one who started it
@flappinit I promise it was a mistake and am sorry
In my defence, I’ve been very clear from the start that my biggest contribution to these forums will be dick jokes.
Never saw this - I broil salmon a lot but when I want it like this, I’ll fry it in olive oil, in a stainless steel pan, at medium heat until the sides have lost their raw look and then flip it upside down and fry the top of it for about a minute.
I figured I’d ask out of curiosity: do you like/ever eat raw salmon?