Merry Christmas !! to the Meathead crew and your families !
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Merry Christmas Bulldog and family.
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I confess that, after years of being envious of guys that HAVE to eat a ton to gain weight, I definitely no longer feel that way. Got hit with a stomach bug, lost some weight, need to eat to put it back on and food is the last thing on my mind. I’m used to having an insatiable appetite, and this is just miserable. I’d rather feel hungry than this.
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Here’s Henry Rollins in his edgelord glory spewing degenerate lyrics about his resentment of the family unit and the narrative of the husband/dad-as-square/chump.
Over two decades ago I thought this was oh-so rebellious and cool! Now that I look back on it, I recognize how pernicious it is.
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Lol I was just listening to a Taiwanese song about being really nice to your grandmother when I read this.
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Was it the vomitting and pissing out your ass at the same time type of bug? I just caught it last week too lol. I still can’t eat much solid food. I started drinking a mass gainer - the kind that’s mostly maltodextrin and whey - both to keep hydrated and maintain weight. It’s the only thing that doesn’t make my stomach feel horrible.
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I believe the medical term for that is called barfarrhea.
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The very same. I got some leftover massgainer that I may indulge in soon.
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Yeah, being a parent changes a lot of things. Age is the best teacher. My mom always told me that age and experience would always overcome youth and enthusiasm.
There is no substitute for wisdom. Yogi Bhajan, the Kundalini yoga guy, says knowledge means nothing, but combine it with experience and it becomes wisdom.
Not sure how Henry Rollins triggered that rant, but hey, there it is.
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I decided to drink a bud light on Christmas Eve (I’m allergic to beer). At about 2:30am, I had to decide which was more urgent: kneeling or sitting.
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Literal empathy lol
There are several reasons why the Asian Americans I’ve lived amongst are generally upwardly mobile, one of them being a great emphasis on the family and community. Some healthy pressures are thrown into the mix too (oh my, how tyrannical).
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I assume the rant was triggered by Rollins’ hateful and repulsive lyrics about rape, corrupting children, and ridicule for men who tend to their homes and religious practices.
Grown adults see through this and realize such words are likely driven by resentment and jealousy, judging from Henry’s background.
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Actually, you gotta look at it this way. Most Asian Americans are the ones who, or whose forefathers, had the balls to leave their countries because of the lack of opportunities. Then you have the ones from Asia who have the resources to study abroad in the the US and eventually settle down there. They are usually the offspring of financially successful parents. It’s an auto filtration system. You got the ones with mindsets that make them most likely to succeed over there and they’re passing this on to the next generation.
It’s similar to how all the Westerners who live in my part of the world are at least upper middle class and their kids are all in private schools. You rarely find one who isn’t over here. The cost of living here is comparable, even higher in some areas, than the US.
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Btw, I was talking about this song. This dude has been the most popular Chinese artiste in Asia for the last 15 years. Girls aged up to 80yrs old immediately hyperventilate and drop their panties in unison while in his presence.
The dude was raised by his grandmother because his abusive dad ran off or something and I don’t know what happened to his mother. In the song, he is mostly just ranting about not winning some music award because he disappointed his grandmother lol.
But he also wrote a song which had a chorus repeating the line, “Please stop hitting my mother.”, which was about a shitty dad. Shitty dads are actually pretty common in Asia too.
There is a verse which says “Mom always said be good, listen to your dad”. This is the result of tradition. The woman still had to listen to her husband and tell the kid to respect him despite the abuse. Divorce was considered taboo and she would bring shame to her own parents as well. It’s something like in The Godfather when Vito Corleone told Connie to go home to her husband even after she was smacked around.
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If I keep seeing more people advising people to ‘recomp’ as a viable strategy for any goal I will officially give up on the BSL forum, not including this thread though.
Honestly it depends on allot of factors…
Is it rude on forums to ask someone their resume ( training related) if they have just joined and are spewing out advice and are acting like authorities?
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It might be as peculiar as every other person not going on a fat loss diet for fear of losing muscle, as if their body is just that fine tuned that any significant decrease in calories will result in muscle loss.
This is similar to those on TRT who instead of just making life simple by injecting once per week choose to take two to SEVEN injections per week because they are such a special cyborg that any insignificant change of T In the normal range effects them so greatly. “Bro, I injected once per week and tested on day seven and my level was in the 400s. I was operating at such a high level on Sunday and by Friday I could barely bench 135 and my thingamajig didn’t work.”
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The recomp thing is just the next latest and greatest “get fit quick” scheme out there.
People don’t want to accept the fact that, if you spend 20 years jacking your body up with poor choices, it’s going to take more than 8 weeks to unf**k it.
“How oh how do I cure the dreaded skinny-fat condition?! Do I bulk, or do I cut?!”
Dude, you should go work out first. Spend a few years just learning how to be a functioning human again, and THEN you can worry about bulking or cutting.
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