[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
haha I feel this conversation would be better in person.
Not at all trying to cop out, but Ill leave it be for now. Ronda told me about a meet in June that yall are doing? Got any more info on that?[/quote]
Yeah probably.
Its June 16-17th in Gatlinburg, so far Ronda, Lil Power, Anthony, and I will be there and several other people are “talking” about coming.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
haha I feel this conversation would be better in person.
Not at all trying to cop out, but Ill leave it be for now. Ronda told me about a meet in June that yall are doing? Got any more info on that?[/quote]
Yeah probably.
Its June 16-17th in Gatlinburg, so far Ronda, Lil Power, Anthony, and I will be there and several other people are “talking” about coming.[/quote]
It can be a big party 
those socks are baller
I will admitt reading all that made my head spin like an economics class
or an NFL thread
[quote]rondastarr wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
haha I feel this conversation would be better in person.
Not at all trying to cop out, but Ill leave it be for now. Ronda told me about a meet in June that yall are doing? Got any more info on that?[/quote]
Yeah probably.
Its June 16-17th in Gatlinburg, so far Ronda, Lil Power, Anthony, and I will be there and several other people are “talking” about coming.[/quote]
It can be a big party :)[/quote]
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
Slytherin:
Traditionalism
Resourcefulness
Cunning
Ambition
Leadership qualities
Self-Preservation
Shrewdness
Determination
Certain Disregard to rules
Intelligence
Seeds of Greatness
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Bah, the best Slytherin ever was a fat, cowardly social climber who never really achieved anything except to bask in the glory of others. It’s down hill from there for the rest of them. [/quote]
Its all your point of view.
Thought I will add Merlin is a Slytherin.
Yup, Slughorn was so cowardly that he went toe to toe with Voldemort in the final battle, what a coward.
And Snape, such a coward that he played double agent to the point that literally everyone wanted him dead, yet he continued to play the role required of him.
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Dude Snape was insane, he was so fixated on Lily that he tried to “buy” her for the price of her dead husband and son, after his willing participation with a genocidal hate group ended up threatening her life. When that failed he ran to Dumbledore who told him he “disgusted him”, thats the same Dumbledore who forgave everybody for everything. Then Snape remained so fixated on a dead man’s wife that he tore apart a picture of their family so he wouldn’t have to see her husband and child when he looked at the picture. To top it off he was needlessly cruel to children who had no connection to him in any way. Thats one effed up guy.
As for Slughorn, he fought Voldemort with Kingsley and McGonnogall with makes him just as brave as any number of 14-17 year old kids and like I said, he was he best Slytherin that we see in the novels.[/quote]
Ill just point out the best named Slytherin. Only a few are named.
You are correct in saying that Snape was not perfect, did I say he was? Harry Potter consistently broke rules that would have had a lesser student thrown out, yet he was rarely punished. Same for all the main griff characters. No one person was perfect. Dumbledore advocated wholesale slavery of muggles at one point. He changed his ways and we love him. Can you not give the same treatment to Snape, who joined a powerful group as a way to share in that power and then when the woman he loved from afar was threatened, he bailed? His love for Lily overcame his hatred of the race that his abusive as shit father came from.
Yeah, he tore the picture up, what of it? He tore out of the picture the man who tormented him from the very moment they met. Even Black, Lupin, and Harry were all forced to admit that James Potter was an absolute dick to Snape, and many others, while Lily was kind. Why on earth would he leave James in the picture?
As for buying her, I assume you are referring to his pleading with Voldemort. Yeah, in a moment of weakness he did something despicable. I again refer you to Dumbledore abandoning his family, advocating wholesale slavery, and cowardly allowing Grindlewald (sp?) to wreak havoc on mainland Europe for a long time because he was scared of what he may say.
Harry forgave Snape, calling him a “Slytherin, and the bravest man he ever knew.”
Look at the traits valued in Slytherin. They are the traits of game changers. There is not much of a middle ground, either you do great things, or you fall to evil. High Ambition is more easily perverted to evil than humility is, but even humility fed incorrectly leads to evil.
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See I didn’t love Dumbledore either. I thought he was far more manipulative than he had to be.
Actually in the books everyone says James and Snape hated each other and did stuff to each other. They also says James was great, in fact we only find one person who says James was actually bad and that’s Snape. James and Snape treated each other the exact same way that boys of that age all treat each other. In fact they note that in the books when Harry sees James and Sirius’s detentions they are among boxes of detentions from that year and Lupin notes that they all went around hexing each other with the popular hexes of the time.
But let’s say that when they were little James picked on Snape because Snape was into the Dark Arts(which is mentioned in the books). Let’s also ignore that this happened with lots of them and was pretty much common among the boys of their year.
But here’s the thing, Snape joined the Nazi’s and NEVER once admitted that it was wrong, or that he had been mistaken like Dumbledore did. He never repudiated the Death Eater cause, Snape only switched because he was a lunatic for Lily, period. He was remorseful because Lily was harmed, not because of all the other evil that the Death Eaters had done or the fact that he had assisted in. Of course he felt bad that Lily got hurt, thats normal. It’s the fact that it’s the ONLY reason he stopped that gets him no cookie.
If you really love someone you don’t join groups dedicated to the genocidal removal of those like them. He no more loved Lily than he did anyone else, but yes he was fixated on her.
Even J.K. Rowling specifically said Snape was a horrible person. “Snape is fun to write, because he is a deeply horrible person,”
Lots of Slytherins are of no note whatsover. Ambition doesn’t absolutely carry with it the talents needed to make that ambition possible.
When Ambition and Self-Preservation are your most important characteristics it doesn’t mean you are absolutely evil but it does mean when it’s crunch time you are theype of person to leave people behind and that you will sell out others to get what you want.
By the way, thanks for making this day go by faster.[/quote]
Damn work, want more time for this discussion instead of research.
Enough of these shananigans!.. until next time 
Feel free yo use my log for all your Harry Potter debating goodness
Bench Press 1x10x45, 1x10x65, 1x3x100, 1x3x115, 1x6x130, 1x3x140, 1x2x155, 1x1x165, 1x0x175 
, 1x0x170 
, 2x10x95, 2x10x105
Face Pulls 3x10x35
HS Iso Row 1x10x45, 2x10x70, 1x10x80
DB Rows 3x10x40
Lumberjack Press 3x10x10
I am sort of disappointed that I was not able to get 175 and then also not get 170. I felt like I was have a really strong day and the 175 came down slow and I could even get it off my chest. the 170 got about 6 inches off and stalled
[quote]rondastarr wrote:
Bench Press 1x10x45, 1x10x65, 1x3x100, 1x3x115, 1x6x130, 1x3x140, 1x2x155, 1x0x175 , 1x10x170 , 2x10x95, 2x10x105
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Well looks like you got 170x10?
1st a 20# jump especially on your Max is too big a jump n my opinion.
How about this
Bar x 10, 65 x 5, 95 x 3. Warmups
135 x 3
145 x 2
155 x 1
165 x 1
175 x 1
[quote]lil power wrote:
[quote]rondastarr wrote:
Bench Press 1x10x45, 1x10x65, 1x3x100, 1x3x115, 1x6x130, 1x3x140, 1x2x155, 1x1x165, 1x0x175 , 1x10x170 , 2x10x95, 2x10x105
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Well looks like you got 170x10?
1st a 20# jump especially on your Max is too big a jump n my opinion.
How about this
Bar x 10, 65 x 5, 95 x 3. Warmups
135 x 3
145 x 2
155 x 1
165 x 1
175 x 1[/quote]
I can try that though that jump from 95 to 135 might be a bit tough. I will give it a try
i totally missed a rep, a did 1 rep of 165… I need to write this stuff down as I do it 
that is still some very solid pressing
Awesome pressing lady.
I heard back from my MRI. I have a case of tendonitis and a slightly torn patellar tendon, but not enough to need surgery. My doctor asked how long of a rest I could take from lifting… I asked him how long I would need to take to take a rest from lifting… neither one of us could come to a compromise. So, I have an appointment for phyisical therapy next week and I will also learn how to tape my knee to hopefully let it hurt less…we will see how it goes
thanks K and H
Well that sounds pretty positive!
Also, amazing benching woman. Seriously.
Squat 1x10xBW, 1x10x45, 1x10x65, 1x10x95, 1x8x115, 2x5x135, 1x8x115
SLDL 1x10x45, 1x10x95, 1x10x115, 2x10x135
Goodmornings 1x10x45, 1x10x65, 1x10x95, 2x8x115
GG 1x10x130, 1x10x145, 1x10x160, 1x10x175
BG 1x10x130, 1x10x145, 2x10x160
So I guess I am off 5,3,1 for my squats and DL for the next month or so until my knee heals a bit. The doc said I can squat and DL if I keep the weight light. Though I am not going to DL as the position hurts all on it’s own. I will rack pull instead, for now
I’m glad to hear the knee isn’t too serious.
Your bench is still looking awesome. Regarding the jump from 95 to 135, you could throw in a rep at 115. However, the few warm up sets you do, the better. I’ve spent time working on my warm ups to eliminate sets and take bigger jumps. My bench is still mediocre but it works well fro squat and DL.
Do be careful with that knee. I don’t know if it’s similar to shoulders, but I suspect I had a partial tear in my shoulder for quite some time and then just did it in with pushing, pushing. So take it easy. Easier to say than do, I know.
Thanks for the Gatlinburg invite. Do you know I had the crazy idea of flying out with my daughter to watch you guys and meet up? Can you PM me any information as it comes available?
logo for your singlet for the meet^
If snapper makes it to the meet, I am definitely going to be there.
ok, only if you wear this hat
[quote]rondastarr wrote:
ok, only if you wear this hat :p[/quote]
Ill wear it while deadlifting
Rack Pulls 1x8x135, 1x8x155, 1x5x185, 1x5x205, 1x3x225, 1x2x245, 1x1x265
CGB 1x10x45, 1x10x65, 1x6x95, 3x5x115
GM 1x10x45, 1x10x65, 3x8x95
Face Pulls 3x10x30
Tricep Pulls downs 1x10x35, 2x8x42
I am doing rack pulls instead of deadlift because there is no knee bending, as DL is also the thing that most irritates my knee. I am a little disappointed that I was not able to get more reps and go heavier with rack pulls. It just seems like it should have been easier then DLing…