Possessed

But DOES John Tesh suck?

Just stop bullying warbler by your existence, that's all we ask.  :)

St. John's wart is I believe known to have a calming effect.

I smoke a handful of marijane before leaving the house every day.  :)

^LOL

darth_ender said:

  I don't want any harm to come to you. :)

 Can't spell harm without arm, and I've still got both of those so I'd say everything's going to be fine.

And EyeShotFirst, that story sounds almost similar to mine (I had left a few details out).  I didn't have the experience with any individuals, but I too began having really bad panic attacks when I was too skinny and starving myself (I think it has something to do with your heart racing when you are starving yourself and when you notice it it creeps you out).  I fought it with medications at first, then swore them off, then the attacks got bad again and I gained the weight back.  Then I found some herbal supplements that didn't seem to have any side effects (still don't seem to) that, while not being as strong as prescription antidepressants, give me enough of a boost to be able to fight it myself.  Plus, unlike prescription medicine, I can still drink on them.  :P

TV's Frink said:

Not really, no.

 'Tis embarassing, but uh...

darth_ender said:

Possessed said:

darth_ender said:

Much of your weight loss is likely in water, but it is also certainly real weight.  The question is which is which.  You should always weigh yourself at the same time each day for an accurate picture.  Typically 2-3 lbs/week is okay, and more is generally not good.  

 I weigh myself the same time daily.  And I don't know if I was quite clear enough about this, but I'm not starting out on losing weight, which is why I was skeptical about it being water weight.  I lost about 15-20 pounds at about 3 to 4 pounds a week.  The concern is for the last week or so it's been 1-2 pounds a DAY.  I do drink a ton of water.  Here's my typical day, beverage wise, and I mean a work day not a crazy fun day:

3-4 bottles of water

5-6 beers

2-3 glasses red wine

1-2 shots of brandy

1 glass of cranberry-grape juice with 2 shots of gin mixed in (it's WAY better than it sounds... it's amazing actually)

Actually with all that alcohol it's amazing I'm able to lose weight at all now that I think about it, maybe it's affecting my appetite and I'm not realizing it.  I actually feel pretty great these days, it's just the 1-2 pounds a day thing that worries me.

 Alcohol is a diuretic and makes you pee. Thus you still are likely losing more water than you take in.

 Alcohol also slows down your metabolism by distracting it from processing your food because it processes the alcohol first (very loose explanation, but it will do because I'm sure you know what I'm talking about anyway).  As I said, I had already lost 10-15 pounds at a normal rate BEFORE the rapid loss started, I always understood that "water weight loss" happened first before fat.  And I do look thinner, I've received several compliments (as well as concerned comments, as like I said I didn't *really* need to lose any weight I'm just being superficial, and some people are concerned I might be once again going down the same anorexic path of my youth)

Stinky-Dinkins said:

I'm a full grown man btw.

Stinky-Dinkinssaid:

Neglifysaid:

What concert?

 Sheryl Crow.

Does not compute

RicOlie_2 said:

the PT's visuals aren't as bad as I remember them being.

 I always thought they were quite nice, at least in ROTS.  (The exception being the opening sequence of ships flying that looks like it was taken out of a video game.  Which I don't even understand because the rest of the ships in the movie didn't look like that.  Oh well)

darth_ender said:

Much of your weight loss is likely in water, but it is also certainly real weight.  The question is which is which.  You should always weigh yourself at the same time each day for an accurate picture.  Typically 2-3 lbs/week is okay, and more is generally not good.  

 I weigh myself the same time daily.  And I don't know if I was quite clear enough about this, but I'm not starting out on losing weight, which is why I was skeptical about it being water weight.  I lost about 15-20 pounds at about 3 to 4 pounds a week.  The concern is for the last week or so it's been 1-2 pounds a DAY.  I do drink a ton of water.  Here's my typical day, beverage wise, and I mean a work day not a crazy fun day:

3-4 bottles of water

5-6 beers

2-3 glasses red wine

1-2 shots of brandy

1 glass of cranberry-grape juice with 2 shots of gin mixed in (it's WAY better than it sounds... it's amazing actually)

Actually with all that alcohol it's amazing I'm able to lose weight at all now that I think about it, maybe it's affecting my appetite and I'm not realizing it.  I actually feel pretty great these days, it's just the 1-2 pounds a day thing that worries me.

Even my neighbors newborn baby.

If it makes you feel better Bingo I thought the original post made sense.  :)

I'm also off my ass.  Life lesson, drink 9 beers and smoke a joint and bingowings starts making sense!

Leonardo said:

 Believe me, I am, I'm built like a cartoon character.

 Granted I guess the shot only showed your face, but i didn't think so.

I don't think I could be losing water weight now.  205 is different for me than it is for you because I'm over 6 feet tall.  Maybe 6 2 but I'm not sure anymore I can't remember.  Maybe the first 20 pounds I've lose could be considered water weight but I don't think so anymore.  Maybe so though.  I think you posted a video of yourself once though and I didn't think you looked overweight.

I'm not sure where to post this, as it's not exactly bitchy so it doesn't go in that thread, and it isn't exactly emotional support so it doesn't go in that thread, and it doesn't warrant it's own topic, so I guess this thread's the winner.

So I've been trying to lose a bit of weight lately.  Just a little,  I'm still considered a healthy weight and you wouldn't think of me as overweight by seeing me, I guess just call it nostalgia and wanting to look like I did in high school even though the way I look now is still fine.

(off-story that's kind of important to this.  My 3rd and 4th years of high school I developed a little anorexia problem.  I'm over 6 feet tall and I ended up weighing 125 lbs, and I'm built kinda stocky with broad shoulders so it was very visually too skinny and I looked like a ghost with no skin color whatsoever.  Anyway, when I finally got over that I bulked up to about 220 pounds, which is kindof alot but I'm quite tall and largely built so it still wasn't really that bad, then for a while I'm down to around 200  and that was okay.  I'd like to get to 170, that seems like a good middle ground for me.  For the way I'm built 200 is honestly probably good, and it may be my anorexic tendencies insisting I need to lose 30 more.  Maybe not though.  My most healthy weight in high school was 160, so 10 pounds over that seems good enough.  Anyway I thought that might factor into the story a bit.)

Anyway, like I said I'm trying to lose just a bit of weight.  I'm succeeding.  I mean I'm really succeeding. At first it started healthy.  I'd lose a couple pounds a week and I felt great and it was good.  I still feel pretty good actually, but now the weight feels like it's coming off too fast.  I've been literally losing 1 to 2 pounds a DAY.  Every day I weigh myself and I weigh a pound or 2 less than the day before.  I weight 8 pounds less than I did just a week ago.  Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled to be approaching my goal so fast, but I'm nervous because this just seems to be too fast.  I mean I live an active life and I push myself, but I'm worried that something  might be wrong to be causing me to lose pounds every day.  But maybe I'm just being paranoid.  Anyone have any experience with this and would like to chime in?  Ender perhaps?  (due to medical training not because I think you're fat :P)

I'm saddened to hear of BB's passing.  But as others have said, he lived a life to be proud of.  Very few "superstar" musicians live to be 89, often by their own hands, and that alone is something to be proud of.  Another legend goes on.

I hope Buddy Guy keeps kicking for a while yet.  If you've never heard or seen Buddy Guy, check him out.  Dude is a mother***ker.  He's part of the same time as BB, Albert King, Otis Rush and the like, but he's different.  He had a little more "electricity" about him (and that's not an insult to the others, I'm just saying his style was a little more "Rocky"), he was definitely a big influence on the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Kenney Wayne Shephard.  Him and SRV were quite good friends.

Goodbye BB King, the world will always remember you.  When I was a kid I got in trouble for making the alarm go off on your statue in Memphis because I didn't know you weren't supposed to touch it.  :)

NO.   Fuck that dog, and fuck bones.

This might be the first recorded instance of an actual knick-knack paddy wack.

Yeah that and I kept setting stuff on fire so they just said the hell with it and got rid of me.

I beat bowser in world 8, that's all I'm interested in doing.  I hardly ever play games to 100%, in fact the only game I ever have is Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy.  Don't get me wrong, I loved super mario bros 3mix, but I didn't love it *that* much.  Just blame it on my attention span, I'm ready to move on to something else.

I think you completely miss the point.  I could live with it being SMW's engine, because other than the method of flying the two engines are quite similar in feel.  I just think it would be fun to play it with higher quality graphics and sound, and not have the game slow down every time there's too many enemies on the screen.  

TV's Frink said:

Possessed said:

I'm not disappointed, I'm appalled.  For fuck's sake, they look more like painted ski balls than boobs.

 Said the rodent wearing a hat. ;-)

 Sir, I'll have you know that I have not ONCE seen a squirrel that I thought looked like a painted ski ball.

I was merely having fun with warbler's typo, and now my life is ruined.  Thanks guys, thanks!

I just finished "Super Mario Bros. 3mix" based on Danfun's recommendation.  I liked it, it was quite fantastic.  Now I just wish somebody could port it to SNES (I LOVE the snes version of SMB3.  It misses the mark on 1, 2 I could care less about, but 3 is a masterpiece.)  I think it could be doable, using Super Mario World as a base (widely and extensively hacked if you weren't aware) and the graphics of SMB3 from all stars (I used to have a hack that was just a graphics hack that did that very thing... wish I remember what it was called) and used Lunar to make the levels.  The difficult areas would probably be the physics hacks (gravity), the new enemies, and the new music.  Not sure if SMW can be hacked extensively enough to allow these.