RANT: Roll 2d20 to Enter the Dungeon of Hypertrophy

[kvk1]

No wonder your posts have been utterly cynical and misanthropic lately.

[Tyrbolift]

The Washington Nationals are 2-0 at games I go to this season.

True story.

negged.

True story.

[ZoranM]

Heh. Another reader.

[Farley1324]

When I was in elementary school I had to start reading the 'girl books' during reading time because I finished all of the 'boy books' probably halfway through the year.

In middle school I got in trouble for reading too much. Math? Who wants to pay attention to math. I'd rather just read this book that's in my desk.

Way to incentive, public schools.

[therorschach]

When I was in elementary school I had to start reading the 'girl books' during reading time because I finished all of the 'boy books' probably halfway through the year.

In middle school I got in trouble for reading too much. Math? Who wants to pay attention to math. I'd rather just read this book that's in my desk.

Way to incentive, public schools.

Then, in high school, by happenstance, you stumbled upon a dusty, but glowing tome labeled "Atlas Shrugged" in a dark corner of the library. It's aura pervaded your nostrils with the intensity of hemorrhoids. You opened the cover. That's when everything changed, Farley1324. That's when everything changed.

[Farley1324]

High school: **** reading, time to sleep.

[kvk1]

Way to incentive, public schools.

Incentivize.

[Orlando1234977]

Hank is awesome.

lol

ok, got it.

You'd think with all of that creatine money they'd have a system that works.

lol

kvk1, you incompetent zero.

lol

Way to incentive, public schools.

lol

[Farley1324]

Incentivize.

I should learn to double check Chrome by now. That didn't even have enough damn syllables.

[Lencho]

I should learn to double check Chrome by now. That didn't even have enough damn syllables.

It's not like incentive isn't a word.


Also, I don't get it. You wanted the public school to offer you incentives to pay attention in math?

[darinaldi]

It's not like incentive isn't a word.


Also, I don't get it. You wanted the public school to offer you incentives to pay attention in math?

Yes, Lencho. How is he supposed to find time to read up on how to start his own militia and create his own survivalist bomb shelter if he has to pay attention in math class? Ain't nobody got time for that.

[SkydogGinsberg]

Leangains front page, i ain't reading that. Digging deeper into the site

You won't miss much. All you really need to follow is a 16h fast/8h feeding schedule. The principle is appetite suppression through entrainment of leptin and grehlin hormones. All the other stuff -- fasted training on BCAAs, off-day cal level cycling, etc... don't account for much, maybe 5% of effect. "Skip breakfast" = leangains/IF.

[im2manly]

I am very well read.

[Lencho]

You won't miss much. All you really need to follow is a 16h fast/8h feeding schedule. The principle is appetite suppression through entrainment of leptin and grehlin hormones. All the other stuff -- fasted training on BCAAs, off-day cal level cycling, etc... don't account for much, maybe 5% of effect. "Skip breakfast".

That about sums it up, really.

I have been following IF for a while now, mainly because the time crunch I face in the morning makes skipping breakfast easy. In the past, a cutback or layoff in training always lead to an increase in weight. But through IF, I have maintained my weight easily during both hot and cold streaks of training.

[gecko2424]

Preferably something by a better author or thinker than Ayn Rand, I hope.

The little engine that could?
Body For Life?
West's Business Law?
Walden?

[Lencho]

The little engine that could?
Body For Life?
West's Business Law?
Walden?

*c'mon, adamdavies47, I know you wanna post it*


+ kinda lol'd at the addition of Walden

[gecko2424]

You won't miss much. All you really need to follow is a 16h fast/8h feeding schedule. The principle is appetite suppression through entrainment of leptin and grehlin hormones. All the other stuff -- fasted training on BCAAs, off-day cal level cycling, etc... don't account for much, maybe 5% of effect. "Skip breakfast" = leangains/IF.

LOL, earlier I discussed the IF plan with a coworker. He pointed out that he already does that since he skips breakfast. Food for thought there.

[im2manly]

You know whats a good book 48 Laws of Power and How to Win Friends and Influence People. I put these book to use, on the daily, in here.

[mAssholio]

Goosebumps is clearly the best book series of all time.

[kvk1]

You know whats a good book 48 Laws of Power and How to Win Friends and Influence People. I put these book to use, on the daily, in here.

lol

i read those in middle school

completely srs

they're the prototypical douchebag books

[im2manly]

lol

i read those in middle school

completely srs

they're the prototypical douchebag books

Lil harsh but it must be paying dividends now.

[darinaldi]

lol

i read those in middle school

completely srs

they're the prototypical douchebag books

My department manager has a whiteboard outside her office that she puts "inspirational" quotes on from time to time. She's on vacation this week and tasked me with continuing this in her absence.

All week I've been putting up Dr. Seuss quotes.

[kvk1]

Lil harsh but it must be paying dividends now.

Not really.

Most self-help books are the illustrations of people who are 100 steps ahead in life marketed to those who are 100 steps behind.

With no concrete instructions on how to achieve the former's desired results, because no two people or situation is the same.

It's nice to read about Cicero's political conquests in the Roman Empire circa 75 BC and try to relate it some abstract concept of power.

But when you're instructed to apply that, like some sort of recipe, to your early 20s unemployed sap life (example, not you) you just end up looking/sounding like a douchebag.

[Lencho]

I skimmed through How to Win Friends... before.


Cliffs:
- Use common sense when interacting with people
- Don't be a dick


Am I missing something?

[im2manly]

Not really.

Most self-help books are the illustrations of people who are 100 steps ahead in life marketed to those who are 100 steps behind.

With no concrete instructions on how to achieve the former's desired results, because no two people or situation is the same.

It's nice to read about Cicero's political conquests in the Roman Empire circa 75 BC and try to relate it some abstract concept of power.

But when you're instructed to apply that, like some sort of recipe, to your early 20s unemployed sap life (example, not you) you just end up looking/sounding like a douchebag.

Robert Greene is a dick.

[kvk1]

My department manager has a whiteboard outside her office that she puts "inspirational" quotes on from time to time. She's on vacation this week and tasked me with continuing this in her absence.

All week I've been putting up Dr. Seuss quotes.

Good.

Those people are the worst.

You should put up Michael Scott quotes.

[Lencho]

My department manager has a whiteboard outside her office that she puts "inspirational" quotes on from time to time. She's on vacation this week and tasked me with continuing this in her absence.

All week I've been putting up Dr. Seuss quotes.

Suggestion for tomorrow:

"Stop being a bitch and COME ON!" ~ Deebo

[VoxExMachina]

Suggestion for tomorrow:

"Stop being a bitch and COME ON!" ~ Deebo

"If you're reading this, you're not working.

Get back to work or you're fired."

[kvk1]

I skimmed through How to Win Friends... before.


Cliffs:
- Use common sense when interacting with people
- Don't be a dick


Am I missing something?

Doesn't it bother you, even insult your intelligence, that you bought and had to read 300 pages of something to come to that obvious conclusion?

Robert Greene is a dick.

It's a good book to showcase historical examples of the use of "power."

I just think putting the book under the self-help umbrella is a dumb.

[SkydogGinsberg]

I skimmed through How to Win Friends... before.


Cliffs:
- Use common sense when interacting with people
- Don't be a dick


Am I missing something?

"Skip Breakfast"

(especially if you or the interactee are not "morning people")