General Chat Thread. Long Live The Snark!

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Bladite said:
context bee otch.

for purposes of paleo: no grains, and limited carbs.

once you're on the path, it's amazing how little food you actually NEED.

without all that junk, and carbs, and fillers, protein packs a lot of food value into a small space.

toss a few vegetables into the mix, and you can eat until you really ARE full, without the bloat or junk.

lately, i've been on an egg roll kick; so i have some for breakfast, and the rest of the day is basically just meat.

a Monster, and occasional vitamin just to make sure, and bob's your uncle. lost over 10 lbs since the start of my new gig.

i hope to lose more, but that will require a few adjustments :D including LESS food. i eat so little now, it's frankly bizarre. feel great.

drink LOTS of water too. do not pee orange ;)
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My Paleo results 6 weeks in, both aesthetic and performance, are impressive thus far. I just hope there are no long term adverse effects. Here's hoping!
 
Qeth,
Keep in mind, everything in moderation, including moderation. Hard core paleo pitches almost zero carbs.
They are starting to find that this is almost as bad as too many carbs. Dont carb starve yourself, just be aware of the actual food value of what your eating, and listen to your body.
If your suddenly and fiercely craving carbs, then there is probably a reason, same for protein. Try to keep the carbs on the complex side, like tomatoes and such, and dont forget fiber mitigates carbs.
If your really craving something carb heavy once in a while, indulge, but you can mitigate it with things like apples, raisins, prunes, even things like Triskets that are high in whole grain fiber.
I am learning that your body really does know best, so I am doing a better job of listening to it. Most "Cravings" are mental, the physical ones are more like a need, something your body is telling you that you should be intaking.
Have three days of dreams that your drinking orange juice ? You might should go get some orange juice ..lol
 
Silverthorn said:
Qeth,
Keep in mind, everything in moderation, including moderation. Hard core paleo pitches almost zero carbs.
They are starting to find that this is almost as bad as too many carbs. Dont carb starve yourself, just be aware of the actual food value of what your eating, and listen to your body.
If your suddenly and fiercely craving carbs, then there is probably a reason, same for protein. Try to keep the carbs on the complex side, like tomatoes and such, and dont forget fiber mitigates carbs.
If your really craving something carb heavy once in a while, indulge, but you can mitigate it with things like apples, raisins, prunes, even things like Triskets that are high in whole grain fiber.
I am learning that your body really does know best, so I am doing a better job of listening to it. Most "Cravings" are mental, the physical ones are more like a need, something your body is telling you that you should be intaking.
Have three days of dreams that your drinking orange juice ? You might should go get some orange juice ..lol
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cravings for FOOD should be thought about, and possibly followed, a little at a time...

for carbs? you literally don't need them, certainly not in quantity, unless you have underlying issues, afaik, but i'm not a doctor, nor have been following the research fully.

if you eat REAL vegetables and such, there should be enough carbs there for any cravings. grains? don't need them. starches? esp like pasta, white rice, and all that? don't need them. SOME won't hurt you... but last i checked, there's no such thing as a minimum required daily allowance carb intake. there is for OTHER nutritional things though.
 
The 710 said:
Just go to Oakland and buy a "dirty gun" with no serial numbers... Just saying
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LOL, seems there's in oakland in every town :) but in my sandbox I play by the rules, I like at least a good portion of my firearms to be off the radar so-to-speak :D but I don't want to go to jail over a gun without numbers either...
 
I just got back from a second amendment fund raiser where a local gun store was opening a new 90 acre tactical shooting / survival center. They went to demonstrate what was pretty much a 3-gun run and I had to restrain myself from talking out loud. The "trainer" is crossing his feet during lateral moves and ends up tripping and falling with a hot shotgun in hand, misses and runs out of ammo and tries to do some weird slide duck into a barrel and drops all his shells. The next guy to go was just as bad and had some multi tube loader on the end of his shotgun that wouldn't feed rounds. Then I overheard the owner telling people that they should use bird shot in their home defense gun because it wont penetrate drywall!!!!! WTF over! I guess wearing a black shirt, khakis, and a drop leg holster doesn't make you elite after all.............pathetic.

Daft punk is coming out with a new album? Cool. I thought they were all said and done at this point. Aught to be interesting.
 
Silverthorn said:
Qeth,
Keep in mind, everything in moderation, including moderation. Hard core paleo pitches almost zero carbs.
They are starting to find that this is almost as bad as too many carbs. Dont carb starve yourself, just be aware of the actual food value of what your eating, and listen to your body.
If your suddenly and fiercely craving carbs, then there is probably a reason, same for protein. Try to keep the carbs on the complex side, like tomatoes and such, and dont forget fiber mitigates carbs.
If your really craving something carb heavy once in a while, indulge, but you can mitigate it with things like apples, raisins, prunes, even things like Triskets that are high in whole grain fiber.
I am learning that your body really does know best, so I am doing a better job of listening to it. Most "Cravings" are mental, the physical ones are more like a need, something your body is telling you that you should be intaking.
Have three days of dreams that your drinking orange juice ? You might should go get some orange juice ..lol
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I still have carbs. I eat a truck ton of veggies, and about a pint or so of fruit when I have fruit. I don't count how many grams of carbs I get from those sources, and I think at my activity level and current metabolism, I'm still in the clear. Like I said, very impressed with the performance increase. I pretty much just removed processed carbs: rice (being Asian, this was the hardest), bread, sugars. I stick to the vague criteria of: if I could have foraged or hunted it, I can eat it.

So maybe I should let some beer free in the wild and sneak up on it with a spear...
 
Tankerwolf said:
I just got back from a second amendment fund raiser where a local gun store was opening a new 90 acre tactical shooting / survival center. They went to demonstrate what was pretty much a 3-gun run and I had to restrain myself from talking out loud. The "trainer" is crossing his feet during lateral moves and ends up tripping and falling with a hot shotgun in hand, misses and runs out of ammo and tries to do some weird slide duck into a barrel and drops all his shells. The next guy to go was just as bad and had some multi tube loader on the end of his shotgun that wouldn't feed rounds. Then I overheard the owner telling people that they should use bird shot in their home defense gun because it wont penetrate drywall!!!!! WTF over! I guess wearing a black shirt, khakis, and a drop leg holster doesn't make you elite after all.............pathetic.

Daft punk is coming out with a new album? Cool. I thought they were all said and done at this point. Aught to be interesting.
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sounds like their tactical experts got their training at the same place the folks at the Gander Mountain in Wichita did...
A few of their "experts" are some of the best arguments for retroactive birth control around.
 
Tankerwolf said:
Daft punk is coming out with a new album? Cool. I thought they were all said and done at this point. Aught to be interesting.
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First official release in Australia, 17th of May. Albums will start showing up in stores afterwards. They took some time for this one... Should be good. I definitely hope they'll start touring again. That would guarantee a party for sure.
 
Galeocerdoshark said:
First official release in Australia, 17th of May. Albums will start showing up in stores afterwards. They took some time for this one... Should be good. I definitely hope they'll start touring again. That would guarantee a party for sure.
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As long as they don't follow the example of the Beastie Boys with five boroughs and Metalica after Load we should be alright. That preview song was pretty good.
 
1066vik said:
sounds like their tactical experts got their training at the same place the folks at the Gander Mountain in Wichita did...
A few of their "experts" are some of the best arguments for retroactive birth control around.
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Yeah. It was pretty sad. The people at this place were eating it up as well. An AR-15 and cool gear makes you elite just like eating at Taco Bell makes you Mexican.
 
Galeocerdoshark said:
First official release in Australia, 17th of May. Albums will start showing up in stores afterwards. They took some time for this one... Should be good. I definitely hope they'll start touring again. That would guarantee a party for sure.
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I looked through all my 8 track tapes and I couldn't find any by Daft Punk. I'll look at my record albums next. :D
 
Tankerwolf said:
I just got back from a second amendment fund raiser where a local gun store was opening a new 90 acre tactical shooting / survival center. They went to demonstrate what was pretty much a 3-gun run and I had to restrain myself from talking out loud. The "trainer" is crossing his feet during lateral moves and ends up tripping and falling with a hot shotgun in hand, misses and runs out of ammo and tries to do some weird slide duck into a barrel and drops all his shells. The next guy to go was just as bad and had some multi tube loader on the end of his shotgun that wouldn't feed rounds. Then I overheard the owner telling people that they should use bird shot in their home defense gun because it wont penetrate drywall!!!!! WTF over! I guess wearing a black shirt, khakis, and a drop leg holster doesn't make you elite after all.............pathetic.

Daft punk is coming out with a new album? Cool. I thought they were all said and done at this point. Aught to be interesting.
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One of my biggest hang-ups is a "tactical" firearms instructor that's never been in a shootout. If you've never been through it, you ain't qualified to tell me about it. Theory is bullshit when rounds start impacting.
 
Murphnuge said:
One of my biggest hang-ups is a "tactical" firearms instructor that's never been in a shootout. If you've never been through it, you ain't qualified to tell me about it. Theory is bullshit when rounds start impacting.
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Well said!
 
Galeocerdoshark said:
Hahaha, point taken. The thing is that I have come across situations where people asked: "Don't you know X or Y, or song Z or L" and I can't say I have. When I listen to them, I often tend to recognize them though.

Anyway, just wanted to say I'm psyched that a band I like is releasing another studio album in a few weeks :)
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Hellz yeah!

While a goodly number of people here may not be familiar with Daft Punk, as Bladite said, you have definitely heard their music somewhere. They are actually well loved by many hardcore fans of several genres, which is pretty awesome when you consider the differences between said genres.

Derezzed was an amazing song.

Here's a video of some guy playing it on guitar, and that makes him amazing.

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unce unce unce unce
 
okay probably heard their music as I've seen tron :D

honestly not to impressed with a lick that consists of open string chromatic hammer-ons though :) but I'm digging it nonetheless... and I'm very open to genres but there are some doors I don't go into much...
 
Snark level low. Time to bring it up a notch or two gents. :D
 
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