I was way too much of a goodie goodie to ever do that, but I definitely should have.

For lunch, my family qualified for free lunch. The way they distributed this was once a quarter we would get a collection of tickets to last that whole period. I’d tear one off every morning to take in to school. One year, there was a quarter where I didn’t get get my tickets. So, I had to go to the school office once a week that week and get another set of tickets and the office ladies always assumed I was full of shit, but they gave me the tickets.

When the snow melted, we found a bunch of mail in a snow bank. Guessing a plow or something knocked them out of our mailbox and buried them all in one go. My parents had me do the honest thing and take the tickets to the office to surrender them, but the ladies were so impressed I was actually telling the truth the whole time, they just laughed and let me have them. I sold those to other kids, mostly other football players that wanted seconds, and lived like a king during that period (was able to buy a few Magic: The Gathering boosters).

Not to out just how old I am, but I kind of did this in high school. I was one of the only people in my grade that could type well (about 60 wpm, nothing crazy), so I would type everyone’s handwritten essays for quick cash. It did not net me six figures, but maybe that’s because I went to high school with a bunch of farmers and paper mill workers’ children and not wherever Cuban sends his kids.

Not only did they get rid of it, the guy that was the biggest target of it: JD Vance, was basically treated like an old pal by Tim Walz at the VP debate. Instead of taking Vance’s obvious repulsiveness and highlighting it, Walz went into the debate and was basically like “look, he’s not Trump so we can be reasonable about things,” and that was about the time the party also stopped using “weird” in general. Probably related, but can’t say for sure.

Typical Democrats playing 4D chess. Running ads against her made her look cooler Trump supporters 100% caused this. For sure. Their plan all along!

Kind of amazing Kamala is losing ground daily to these guys.

Say what you will about Apple, I gave them a couple hundred bucks almost fourteen years ago and I can just use their video editing suite as much as I want and they give me every updates on the reg.

The closest Culver’s to me is over 250 miles away and it makes me so sad. Luckily, I get to the midwest once a year or so and get to partake.

Basically. He’s your typical swing voter. Went for Trump in 2016. Was keenly watching the 2024 primaries from the Republican side (Vivek and Hayley booster), but once Trump had it stitched up, seemed to support Biden. If you go back to the 2020 Democratic primary he actually supported Bernie when it was down to Bernie and Joe. Just all over the map.

I really enjoyed the game circa 2014 or so. The game. The player base has individuals that are as toxic as reputation gives. But the matches were actually fairly slow paced and movement creep hadn’t gotten incredible yet. Something very strategic about how the phases of the game went. The heroes were deep enough that you could become good with them on a level that impressed, but not so much so that you couldn’t rotate between good “counters” to opponent’s choices. I actually enjoyed how long the matches were. I usually only played when 2+ friends were also playing to mitigate the toxicity, but I had a blast doing it.

For sure. We have him try a few bites of everything we make around the house and usually have him try at least a bit of something he’s never had before at a restaurant when we eat at one. And definitely praise him for being adventurous when he does it. But he’s still an all American burger and fries kid haha

Like you say, I’m hoping it’s something he’ll eventually grow out of. It was easier when he was a toddler and would just eat whatever we put in front of him. I still have a great video of him just shoveling some sauerkraut into his mouth like it’s breakfast cereal.

Aside from the caffeine, which my child is too young for, this is basically my child’s diet. Realizing that he somehow has the pallet of a midwesterner despite never living there and trying to process this.

Yeah, Walz is far from a lefty candidate, but given the track record of the dems, I thought when it came down to him and Shapiro, they would make the same bad choice they’ve made basically my entire life. Not a victory by any stretch, but at least not the worst option for a change.

I’m being taken out of a context! Mods!

God that rules.

Yeah, it’s easy to see how these 17 year olds that love going to see the latest blockbuster with their buddies and then think that’s what strong looks like and try to be Chris Hemsworth or something and when a half year or lifting doesn’t give it to them, they start juicing or something.

Jackman is especially interesting because when he had that body in The Wolverine, I remember reading articles about how he was happy he got into the 1,000 lbs Club while training for that film. It’s powerlifting term for when your one rep max on your bench, squat and deadlift all add up to over 1,000 lbs. I remember that being my lifting goal when I read about that and when I hit it, I looked a lot more like X-Men Wolverine for sure haha It is surprisingly easy to hit the 1,000 lbs club and still look like a pretty normal guy.

Just goes to show how practical strength and Marvel looks don’t always have a lot of overlap. Those lats, traps and low body fat do most of the work for The Wolverine Jackman, rather than the quads, posterior chain and chest that do most of the work on powerlifting moves.

We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese!

It’s not even just plastic, the type of gear a lot of guys get on to get bodies like The Rock is coming home to roost in terms of the damage it does to the body. There’s this older sci-fi film called Yor Hunter from the Future released in '83, right at the tail end of what you’re talking about. B-movie. Not worth watching unless you like so bad it’s good stuff. But you can see in the promotional photos what was “big” and muscular looked like during that time:

Not to brag, but I have comparable measurements from about a decade of program lifting. I still have people regularly surprised I’ve been lifting as long as I have because I don’t look like a professional wrestler. I look like Yor. Because I’m natty and mostly lifting for fun and health. And now I see teenagers getting on chemicals while their bodies are still developing because they want to look like what they see in Marvel films and it’s really sad.

From what I’ve read funds raised for the Biden-Harris campaign that don’t involve at least one of them on the ticket could feasibly be hard to legally transfer to a different ticket. So, unless that’s mistaken, I think Kamala is involved somehow anyway.

Already down to 56%. We’re in a volatile situation.