Rebdragon

No matter how much I work out my legs (which is quite a bit), they still look like chicken legs. My calves jut out like I injected myself with a shin-pad and my thighs are still skinny, even though I can really feel the muscle in them. My legs are probably a lot bigger than they were 6 months ago, but relative to other guy's legs, they're awfully scrawny :oops: Also, 50 chin ups? I consider myself above-average in upper-body strength and I have trouble doing 10. Try squats, they do wonders for your lower body (and core to a degree), especially your thighs. I started doing squats last year, and I was doing something like 180 lbs to start. Last time I did 'em (at the gym at my university) I was doing 275, and the physical results aren't bad either. And ya, I don't really get the chin up thing. Only as of recent have I been at my best upper-body muscle to total-weight ratio*, and I'm lucky to get near twenty before I even start working out. Either he's thinking of a different exercise (one that seems amazingly slow and inefficient, mind you), really bad at knowing the upper limits of a lie, or terrible at making a joke subtle yet noticeable. *For some reason this [bleep]es for males when they're around fourth-fifth grade. I was a scrawny little kid back then (who am I kiddin', still am), and I was doing fifteen chin ups in a row with literally muscle to speak of, and I was far from the only one doin' that.

Danqazmlp, are you a girl? Honest question; I see women lifting those weights at the gym all the time. It's just, you're not going to see any results with that. And I don't mean in ths short term, I mean ever. You know those times where you want to say simply "No.," or maybe just straight call bulls**t, but then you think for a second and realize that's just creating a false dilemna? This is one of those times. Nice :thumbup: . Keep working on them legs :).

I haven't bothered to look at this thread in a week so I don't know what "died down", but Adrenal, you're a tool.

The entire case feels fake, like someone's putting a show on to make a point. It's almost as if the plaintiff and defendent are in cahootz just to scare piraters. By that I mean, maybe the record companies plan to sue the woman and win, but then later pay her back for losses and then some for working with them. Shock news is shock news, but regardless the vibe eminatin' from this story doesn't sit with me well. There are literally millions, if not billions of piraters throughout the world, most of whom have done worse and are less deserving of sympathy in the courtroom (any of us, for example). It's like the company's sayin', "hey you scum, we're willing to screw over a mother of four for ["]stealing["] from us, but don't worry, we're coming for you next, and we're bringin' the horns." The record labels want publicity and fear from this; the woman's nothing more than a part of the show.

Ha, I just use a filesharing service on my campus, one that requires that all new users upload at least two gigabytes of data, so there's plenty to go around. This one guy who I've downloaded a lot from has nearly a TERABYTE of DVD quality movies that he's shared, it's so awesome (and he's one among thousands). Hell, my roomate used the service to watch Watchmen before it was out in theatres. I don't know how, but he did. When I get back on campus I'm going to dowload so much more, definitely the new Fast and the Furious first :thumbsup: . Now I'll back to watching Ocean's Thirteen (awesome).

As a little side note, I've found that in previous discussions it's a little more politically correct and tolerable to say "the US/[nation of citizenship]" rather than "we." As an adult citizen of the United States, yes, I understand that I am a part of this nation, but "I" am not the one pulling the strings, "I" and not the one going to war, hell, "I" wasn't alive for half the stuff I discuss here. It's honestly clear that there is no narcissistic intention in the usage of the first person, but the ego-vibe still exists regardless. No offense or anything to anyone, just putting it out there. Also, the US owned in Vietnam, check out casuality statistics and the history of the war. Support just wained too much because the president was trying to expand welfare and all that while trying to fund a war at the same time, a big no-no.

I took four years of Latin in high school. Needless to say, after two years of no practice it ain't exactly fresh, but I've still retained enough to get by in reading it. Heh, I actually have a Wheelock's Latin right here in my room, and it's definitely useful for refreshing so I'd say you made a good choice. I wish you luck if you intend to self-teach though; the grammar structure of the language is a living hell. You could change the ending of a verb in over a hundred ways to fit different situations, and the nouns and adjectives aren't exactly nice on the forms either. As for the main problem, I don't speak a lick of German, so I can't really help you there. All I can say is that Latin's a great language to learn and enhance your understanding of the Romance languages, as well as English. I can't tell you how many times the language has helped me figure out the meaning of an out of context English word that I'd never seen before in my life. I'll admit it's not the most beautiful or useful of languages ever formulated by man, but it's quite bloody useful for those who speak one of it's ancestors. On a general point though, if you're bilingually fluent I don't see how learning a new language could be a problem, as long as you use both German and English on a daily basis. Hell, my Latin is shoddy as hell and I'm going to be taking Japanese next sememster at college. If I can do that (big if) without too much worry I think you'll be fine. I'd be much more worried about finding the drive to stick with it than how it's going to affect a language that you're already fluent in anyways.

Rip it to shreds? No, no, that would be too easy. I'm just gunna laugh at it.

... how old are you?

This would be better suited as a poll than a thread. I'd love to see how TIF's split up on this matter, but I couldn't give a hoot about an endless and redundant discussion. Hope we get a poll up, but until then, I'm with Maleficus. I don't understand why that seems depressing though. Eternal life scares me more.

You're wrong in response to the former. Also go back to general based on the latter.

Okay... uh, this is nice if you want to be a little healthier, but if you want to see results you're gunna need some free weights and some real workout time, or youre gunna havta go to the gym. Situps are useless, try crunches. Push ups are okay, but (no offense) unless you're weak there are a lot more efficient workouts (like military presses or hanging dips). I like the optimism but if you stay with this, make sure to step it up in the future. This is a good first step, but that's all it is, a first step.

To be fair I could say that all soccer is is people sprinting around a field that is too large for 90 minutes and that there is no action except when a goal is scored which doesn't happen often because of the nature of the sport. If you want to get simplistic, you can describe any sport in that way. Yes, it doesn't matter how boring one's simplistic image (as that is the goal of the simplification), but how it holds up in comparison to the wholistic reality. Realistically, the level of strategy in a baseball game is seen only in the pitchers match against the batter, and even then it seems more like a game of rock paper scissors than actual strategy. Beyond that strategy and excitement seems to hit a minimum; batters try their best to make contact, and catchers and baseman try and make sure the ball gets to the base before the guy does. Everything's just too linear and slow. With soccer, simplifying the play to "sprinting around", which mind you completely disregards the existence of a ball, and then "goals scored" seems a little bit more off than my former description, and that was just a joke (albeit a bad one). If you simplification is so simple that it's hard to tell if you're talking about hockey, lacrosse, or soccer, you've probably gone too far in the simplifying. Make the simplification hold up with reality more, and than a true comparison may be made. Maybe you're just scared?

Baseball. God it's an awful sport, why did America pick it to represent... I don't even know. Throw ball. Miss ball. Throw ball. Hit ball. Run halfway around square. Thr-GOD CHANGE THE CHANNEL I HAVE TO WATCH SOCCER TO GET RID OF THE HELLISH IMAGES. This, I just find them a bit weird really. << Ed says screw you guys. Speaking of Ed, I need to catch up on the recent episodes of the new anime.

I am member of the Kappa Nu Chapter (Cornell University) of Phi Gamma Delta, commonly known as FIJI. If there's anything I can tell you that I'd hope you remember, it's that you should definitely rush. Rushing isn't a commitment- it's just a way to get to know some of the fraternities on campus on a more personal level in a way that parties don't allow and to have a [bleep]ing aweome week before the spring semester starts. If you don't find a fraternity with the right kind of people in it, then you don't have to join, simple as that. Rush week was a blast for me; we went to a casino the first night, got an Afroman concert right in the house the second (on which night I also smoked for the first time), and on the third night (invite only) there were strippers (interesting, but a little too dirty for anyone to really get into it). Other houses were fun too; Kappa Sig had a Beer Olympics, and two of my rush buds drank "Das Boot", 3 1/4 beers in a boot shaped glass, in about twenty seconds, and I owned at fat suit sumo wrestling. Overall it was a blast, and I would highly reccomend that you come to school a week early for it. As for pledging, I'm not gunna lie, it's tough and quite the time-eater (especially at an Ivy League where the work don't stop). But at the same time, I must agree with the label of pledging nationwide- "the most fun I never want to have again." If you do pledge, just remember, the brothers don't hate you nor are they sadistic (spare a few), they went through it too and they're there to make sure you get through it as much as they're there to make it tough. They also want to make you tight with your pledge bro's, and lemme say, it definitely succeeds in doing that. I had one brother going into pledging, and twenty three coming out. Oh, and have fun with Hell Week :D . (Oh, and SAE's pretty cool on Cornell's campus. I'd say they're in the A-range of fraternities (based on A-C grading).

Holy mother of JESUS CHRIST talk about a strawman. I don't even know where that came from. I don't want to get in another 'murica discussion, but for the love of St. Pete, don't do that.

It's good that you want a six pack, but don't get too goal oriented about it. Go to the gym and workout for more than just "getting a six pack" or "getting ripped", go for the daily rewards, like stress relief, improved mood, and overall just feeling physically better. Trust me, you'll actually stick with it that way, and thus become one of the few men among Lord knows how many who want a six pack, and actually get it. Oh, and workout everything. Nothing looks more awkward than a guy with ripped abs who can barely bench 80 lbs.

I don't really get it, and my sister's one of them. You know, people who obsess over celebrities. She reads People and all that.

Tim, kudos to you. I must say that it's quite disturbing that you figured out the exact same thing I did in high school, paragraphs of thought verbatim. If there's anything I've learned, it's that you shouldn't try and change who you are- it just doesn't work, and it's unhealthy. All you can really do is improve your skills and confidence.

I just weighed myself at home for the first time in a long while, and I'm closing in on 170. I'm 5'8", have narrow shoulders, and have about 7-8% body fat. How the hell do I weigh 170.

I stare at myself in the mirror shirtless and the sadness goes away.

Thought of using that . They are really fun once you've done it. : Post completely in orange again. I dare you.

Something tells me you aren't well read on statistics and surveys. No, reading a wikipedia article about mistakes statisticians made in the 40's doesn't make you well read. When statistics are professionally collected errors such as those noted rarely exceed negligibility. You'd have to check his sources (which I believe he posted) to give your post any validity. Otherwise it's just misleading.

()If North Korea didn't exist. ()If the people of third world countries would stop living the way they did before antibiotics and sanitation was brought to them, basing their survival on how many children they have to take care of them. Nearly all worldwide population growth occurs in such backwards countries. ()If the aging generation would let go of their religious dogmas for one moment and listen to the next generation's point of view on society. I'm looking at you California. ()If people would stop pretending to be 'green' for their own egos, and instead were truly 'green' for the next generation. Corporations feed on the mental gymnastics people go through to believe they are helping the earth, it's sickening and unhelpful. ()If Scientology didn't exist. ()If the Middle East were to one day be "fixed." Another Persian Gulf or Vietnam's just going to result in another 9/11. Finish the job, however long it takes. ()If people would grasp the basic concept of "eat healthy and exercise," instead of creating a worthless market of ineffective pills and diet methods. ()If term limits in Congress existed. ()If Obama would chill on the spending. Money don't grow on trees. ()... I tried to be as realistic as possible, as I've never been a fan of romanticism. And the pessimism on this thread just scares me. What's with the "all humans should die" thing? Am I missing a joke?

Does he have any sports history? Every kid in middle school played like five sports when I was that age (albiet not well, just to try 'em out). Hard to find someone who doesn't have some experience with at least one sport. Find one he's played and get 'im out.