>>62458

If these famous weight lifters all seem to have serious life changing injuries related to their hobby as this site has lead me to believe it hardly seems worth it.

>>62461

Many of the lads I work out with are beasts and look great, but have not spent a single second working on their flexibility. I have no idea how they even shower properly, and you see some lads who can't even stand up straight because they've over-worked either their shoulders or back, and so are sort of permanently curled in on themselves. Knowledge on what to do and how to build muscle seems better than ever now, but some lads are still wandering around with serious issues because they've never bothered to listen or think about what they're doing.

>>62459
Well, I'm no the OP. I actually hate when people post a video without any comment, even on /iq/ it's annoying. People at the extreme end of powerlifting are, I agree, pretty daft. But they've settled on a passion in life and are happy to pursue it with the sort of dedication i struggle to muster so I have some respect for them.

Major injuries are somewhat rare, but the nature of moving around several hundred kilograms of muscle mean they're pretty dramatic when they happen. I think most of us weightlifters view these people at the extreme end of powerlifting like ordinary mountaineering folk view free-climbers. It's a devotion with such a small margin of error that you have to be a few sandwiches short of a picnic to even consider trying what you do. But it's a more exciting world to have them around.

>>62470

>like ordinary mountaineering folk view free-climbers.

Rock climbing and mountaineering are very different beasts I realise from the outside they look like the same cultures, I assure you they are not. Your stereotypical free climber a 20 something bum with lots of spare time to fuck up their hands at the boldering wall, where as your stereotypical mountaineer looks middle aged and has a professional qualification.

High end Mountaineering is all about the will to just carry on going and money, you could climb Everest tomorrow if you have the will to just walk nonstop for over 24 hours, you don't mind the cold and being constantly short of breath and getting up half an hour before you went to bed and the tens of thousands for a permit. It is a lot of the time not 'exciting' just many many hours walking. Your adrenaline junkie rock climber sort would hate it, I mean it is basically rambling. And Rock climbing is just a means to an end with a mountaineer under a large range of other skills.

>>62471

Powerlifting, weightlifting, and bodybuilding are all similarly different.

>>84520
Could you learn how plurals work in English?

I'd vote for Tom Watson.

>>84789
I think I'd vote for Gove given that speech. Fucking hell.

>>84790
Gove is also excellent here. One trip over the numbers but otherwise very good.

>>84790

Pob has got some serious Big Dick Energy today.

Then what?

What a bunch of twats. This is what they're arguing about? Do they have any fucking clue what's happening?

>>62467
Nobody does.

I preferred it when BREXIT was about comparing Theresa May's and Nicola sturgeon's legs.

>>62467
This is from a month ago.

>>27892
>Think about what you can do now

This. It's largely down to your mindset. Instead of seeing only problems you need to start seeing solutions and not give up at first setback.

I just tried emailing an address that was within their latest email but I was told it doesn't exist. I'm confused. I can't go to the local Citizens Advice because Mum's having an affair with the man who works there. I hate this shit.

>>27896
You should probably just move to somewhere less stressful to live, like Scotland or something.

>>27896
Go to the next nearest CAB, maybe?

>>27898
Yeah, I know, I did once but they were too busy. I'm just being a bum.

Theresa May omits Jeremy Corbyn from cross-party Brexit talks

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/16/theresa-may-fails-to-reach-out-to-jeremy-corbyn-to-strike-brexit-compromise

This is going better than Jeremy could have ever imagined.

May's the political equivalent of Tub Girl right now.

>>84782
You mean she has mainstream appeal in Japan?

>>84776

>European opposition leaders have no power in EU negotiations.

In the same sense that Jimmy Saville had no power in the British parliament. He didn't have a vote in the house, but he wielded vast amounts of influence.

Some spicy takes from the floppy haired goblin man about women in power on the Beeb just now. What an odd little fellow.

>>17376

So a fourth seemed appropriate?

>>17379
How do you get four? We have two on /pol/ and this one on /news/. If you add one and two together you get three, not four.

>>17380

Okay.

So a third seemed appropriate?

>>17378
The eyes to the right, two.
The nose to the left, one.

Sounds like we need to get this one to max-fax pretty sharpish.

>>17381
I never said the additional threads were appropriate.

>>62457
fucking hell

>What's the best ~40" TV I can buy with a budget of up to £400?

Are you dolescum or an actual working member of society?

>Are TVs similar to smartphones these days, as in it's much of a muchness between them all?

There's a big difference in picture quality and some difference in ease of use. They all have pretty poor speakers because they're so thin, so I'd strongly recommend budgeting for a soundbar, preferably with a subwoofer.

I can second the recommendation of HiSense. The A6200 has remarkable picture quality for the price and the menu system isn't a pain in the arse.

https://www.avforums.com/review/hisense-h50a6200uk-review.15431

https://www.richersounds.com/tv-projectors/4k-ultra-hd-tvs/hise-h43a6200uk.html

>>423576

> They all have pretty poor speakers because they're so thin, so I'd strongly recommend budgeting for a soundbar, preferably with a subwoofer.

This is almost never a bad idea, even with TVs from the big and trusted brand names. But to get the most out of your TV, especially in the livingroom, your best bet still is probably connecting it to your home hi-fi system. It will save you the expense of a sound bar in any case. Then again, if you live in a block of flats or even a terrace, watching an action film via a set of full size hi-fi speakers late at night could annoy your neighbours.

You could indeed get better sound out of even the most basic CRT television sets back in the day, usually because the TV's whole case was your resonance chamber. This meant that even a set of very budget 4'' drivers could deliver full and rich sound.

>>423579

Proper hi-fi speakers are a better choice in terms of fidelity, but they're more expensive unless you go second-hand and they're a bit messy and fiddly compared to a soundbar. They can also be a bit phlegmatic to fit in smaller rooms, especially if you're planning on wall-mounting the TV. I have an ageing set of PMC speakers and a Yamaha receiver that I'm very happy with, but most people aren't willing to have a load of boxes and wires cluttering up their lounge.

>>423589

>Proper hi-fi speakers are a better choice in terms of fidelity, but they're more expensive unless you go second-hand and they're a bit messy and fiddly compared to a soundbar.

You can get very decent quality these days from a set of used hi-fi speakers for quite little money. On the mechanical side of speaker design, the technological advances the last 10 to 15 years really weren't that fundamental anymore, and a decent pair from the mid-2000s will not sound considerably worse than what you can buy today.

A lot depends nowadays on good DSP inside your amplifier. But even a noteworthy brand name ampflifier from 10-15 years ago, with DSP, can be had for a song today. If you can do without wi-fi access on your amp, a mid-2000s Yamaha, Harman Kardon or even an Onkyo amp will be cheap as chips.

Personally I'd always go that route. Sound bars are convenient and all, but they simply won't give you the richness of an all out hi-fi sound system.

This whole tangent has been hilarious to keep up on. Thlads.

>>28311
This is actual fucking science. Good work lad.

I've never been tempted to go near these wash and blow dry toilets, the idea is monstrous. I have just about realised I am posh and old enough to be able to have and use wet and dry toilet paper at home. A bunch of technology? Eight grand and a good chance of a terrible splashback experience for a slightly cleaner ringpiece? Fuck right off.

>>28318
If anything that suggests someone needs to invent Danone for your anus.

>>28319

I don't know how I've come to so vehemently defend a toilet technology I've only used about four times in my life. This place does things to you.

>>28321

I don't know about you, but my toilet already has a yogurt nozzle.

>>5941
What features does a 'hybrid smartwatch' have?

Their website isn't very helpful.

>>5944

Hmm, strangely resistible. I really ought to be the target market for smart watches, but I think I'll stick to clockwork and ignoring emails.

>>5943
Got home to order it and they are already all gone. Fucks sake.

>>5947
If it makes you feel any better, I just learned from today's episode of Couples Come Dine With Me that skagen is just the Swedish words for shrimps. A pretty awful name for a watch brand frankly.

Makes me even happier I picked the Bering, you never know when you're going to bump into a Swede who's longing for an excuse to sneer at lesser beings for their gauche fashion sense.

>>423532

And he'll either straight up tell the flatmate it was OP wot dobbed him in, or he'll figure it out anyway, and resume his midnight hoovering to spite him.

>>423533
It'll be a 50/50 chance, so if he isn't told he can assume it's one of the other two.

Also, it's worth checking the exact wording of the tenancy agreement for this. Mine prohibits running a business, which would not prevent me forming a company to work as a contactor, but would prevent me from selling cheese on the internet, through a company or not.

>>423534
> but would prevent me from selling cheese on the internet
I bet you could get away with it, if you did it caerphilly!

>>423531

>>/101/13744

Just chiming in to say, your flatmate is a cunt. Have you considered cutting your losses and moving into a studio flat? Otherwise, maybe you could do an intervention with the other flatmates and explain to this manchild, why his idiosyncratic bad habits are not wanted. You'd think he'd change his ways, but I wouldn't hold your breath. What do your other flatmates think about him? Or are they just used to it by now?

>>423535
Get your coat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykZkGvx5BDo

>>11507
Whoops.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvqU2cmK8I

The older I get the more I can appreciate country music for what it is. How come we don't have a country music scene in Britain?

>>11510


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1JIgtX5pCk

Be careful what you wish for or you'll end up with something akin to Irish country.

>>11510
Currently, America doesn't even want a country scene. Half the artists are cosying up to washed up rappers and talking about Kanye, and the other half are making horrendous slow-ballad pop shite like that Bebe Rexha monstrosity.

The last good mainstream country song in my books is:

Yes, it's stupid, but at least it knows it and has a sense of humour about it.

>>11497

It's funny how 90s rappers look like trainee 50-somethings. They can be 18 and look like someone's dad already. I don't think there's a millennial in the world looks like that.

>>11498

>look like someone's dad already

Which maybe they are.

>Fresh out of school cause I was a high school grad
>Gots to get a job 'cause I was a high school dad


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Dotd_ewZI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJuRyuLocUk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C5Ss6KsZg0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SLcFfOJq7Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osnCVm0lCdE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL4fG3TIMdc

>"Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans" were inspired by the Harry Potter book series and featured intentionally gruesome flavors such as "Vomit", "Earwax", "Skunk Spray", and "Rotten Egg". A similar product dubbed "BeanBoozled" pairs lookalike "normal" flavors with weird flavors, such as "Peach" and "Barf".[26][27]

Apparently inspired by Harry Potter, today I learned, interesting. It's one of those sweets though where you feel generally grim after consumption of a whole pack because you can never have five.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Belly#Jelly_beans

There were always shit favoured jelly beans. The worst type of sweet, by far, was those red hot cinnamon ones. I've no idea why they were ever a thing.

>>12948
It's probably because someone invented cinammon, then someone else lied to him for a laugh and pretend to like the taste, so of course he assumed a bean-based version of the same flavour would be welcomed.

>>12948

Yanks fucking love cinnamon. No idea why.

>>12950

Cinnamon?

Agreed
If you could replace it with this one mods >>24099, that would be much better.

>>40723
Yes quite agreed. Also lets' ban the brown sugar thread too. Fuck people who look different. right? Or is for some reason hating on ginger people more allowed and less "racist" (not that the word means anything nowadays) than hating on blacks?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Well?

>>40726

Well, you should only permit yourself to be sexually excited by women with saggy tits, because otherwise its racist innit.

I also agree with deleting the image.

>>40723
I don't see why they should, it's one of the few honest 'guilty-woulds' in this thread.

>>62446
Every company, no matter how small, is required by law to prominently display such a statement on its website.

>>62449

Only businesses with an annual turnover of more than £36m are required to comply with Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act.

>>62449

I'm a different poster but...

>>62449
3.1 Any organisation in any part of a group structure will be required to comply with the provision and
produce a statement if they:
• are a body corporate or a partnership (described as an “organisation” in this document), wherever
incorporated;
• carry on a business, or part of a business, in the UK;
• supply goods or services; and
• have an annual turnover of £36m or more.

>>62452
that last bit's important

Low reps are for wimps. High reps are what the real tough guys do.

A 5 rep set is all over in a few seconds. A 30 rep squat or 20 rep deadlift is a whole other kind of beast. Your muscles will be set on fire and you'll be breathing like a horse at the end of the set. It's the difference between a little scuffle in the street and going a whole round in the ring taking pounding after pounding.

>>4745

I changed my routine to try this following your post - I felt more knackered than I usually do and I reckon you're probably onto something, mate.

What sources are you looking at to suggest the higher repetitions are preferable to less repetitions at a higher weight? I'm curious about the studies you're talking about.

This is what happens to you after training heavy for years.

>>4748

Well, that and taking more gear than the entire East German Olympic team.

>>24172
Happy New Year, mate.

>>24172

Don't believe me? It's all in the numbers.

>>24172
Happy Q year you mad bastard

>>24174
Do you have a single fact to back that up?

>>24174
Also fuck you with a plasma rifle, I now want to re-play DX.

Bet it was just a bit fat wood pigeon, all fluffed up because of the cold.

>>17307
You ain't fooling us with that old chestnut. It'll be the front page of the Mail for you tomorrow 'PUSHIN' HIS LUCK: CANAL ENTHUSIAST BLOCKING ASYLUM SEEKER DEPORTATIONS'.

Whack some lasers on it! I can't believe the Drone Troll hasn't thought of this yet. The real world effectiveness would likely be quite limited, but ire would be immense.

>>17349
That would just allow people to see exactly where the drone was in the sky.

>>17350
Now you tell me.

yeah that's been popping up in my youtube recommendations too. thanks for doing their advertising for them.

>>27013
>@53:34 the narrator fails to bleep out the n-word.

That was your take-away from this video?

>>27015
I think that's one of those 'trigger warning' things. You know, in case we're black Americans.