OT: General OT Thread [NO POLITICS OR RELIGION]

BUCKnation · Post #401 » by **BUCKnation** » Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:44 am

trwi7 wrote:
Mags FTW wrote:Space is scary AF, but I'd still like to make it up there once before I die. Hopefully commercial flights are reasonable in 20 years.

Okay, Jacoby Brissett.

Was listening to his PMT interview, had no idea he was such a weird dude.

vegaspacker · Post #402 » by **vegaspacker** » Sun Jul 21, 2019 1:56 pm

dbrodz7 wrote:
AussieBuck wrote:Fractured my ankle playing basketball, wife wants me to retire. Got to say injuries certainly don't heal the same when you're 38 as they do when your 18 or 28.

I'm only 30 and I've had plantar fasciitis for four years. Sprained my patella tendon in my knee falling on a hill on a fishing trip in Canada a few years ago and it still bothers me. Can't throw a football anymore because something is wrong with my shoulder that flares up when doing chest lifts at the gym. Also have issues with the piriformis muscles in both hips. I'm already retired from full court basketball, but I hope to be able to play again at some point in the future.

I have dealt with shoulder for quite a while, and the hip for a few years as well.

The shoulder started 20 some years ago while doing flys with 90# dumbbells. I couldn't sleep on my right side for a few years as I would wake with a screaming right shoulder. Focused supraspinatus exercises helped that.

My issue was diagnosed as nerve impingement.

I feel my piriformis sydrome has been improved with the stretches too. I try not to sit very long also.

Recently the Achilles have been really quite tight, I pump out the miles at my medical gig. I try to make a point of stretching when I awaken, and am considering getting back into Taekwondo or maybe down ramping to Tai Chi.

It stinks getting older, talk to me in 11 years. I hope you find something that works for you. I know NSAIDs are helpful, Naproxen was always a pretty good way to go. I rarely hit them, once or twice a year. Back in my playing days I would drop about 6 800mg motrin on geam deh. Oh, the stomach hates that....

I would suggest that everyone be mindful of posture, that's kind of the gateway to misalignment.

StickeeFingaz · Post #403 » by **StickeeFingaz** » Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:47 pm

Nothing like some Big3 basketball on a Sunday afternoon.

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Mags FTW · Post #404 » by **Mags FTW** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:53 am

Roomba is making it's inaugural voyage around the house. Now I know what it must've been like to watch the moon landing live.

Jez2983 · Post #405 » by **Jez2983** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 3:27 am

Mack Horton refusing to stand on the podium with Sun Yang after the latter won the 400m freestyle.

China takes this personally for some reason.

Gianstoppable · Post #406 » by **Gianstoppable** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 10:28 pm

Anyone here have a safe solution to Japanese Beetles on my apple trees? Never have had them this bad before, probably 50+ on both trees. Trying to avoid anything that can be harmful to humans since I have 2 little girls who I have to yell at already not to pick the apples. Lol

Gianstoppable · Post #407 » by **Gianstoppable** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 10:28 pm

StickeeFingaz wrote:Nothing like some Big3 basketball on a Sunday afternoon.

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I mowed the lawn

Finn · Post #408 » by **Finn** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:10 pm

Gianstoppable wrote:Anyone here have a safe solution to Japanese Beetles on my apple trees? Never have had them this bad before, probably 50+ on both trees. Trying to avoid anything that can be harmful to humans since I have 2 little girls who I have to yell at already not to pick the apples. Lol

Just hang it out of their reach.

Japanese Beetle Trap

jute2003 · Post #409 » by **jute2003** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:47 pm

Finn wrote:
Gianstoppable wrote:Anyone here have a safe solution to Japanese Beetles on my apple trees? Never have had them this bad before, probably 50+ on both trees. Trying to avoid anything that can be harmful to humans since I have 2 little girls who I have to yell at already not to pick the apples. Lol

Just hang it out of their reach.

Japanese Beetle Trap

A lot of the traps have pretty significant potential to draw in a lot more than they catch.

I dont know the answer on food crops. These damn things are evil. There probably is a reasonable solution out there though. They've been around for quite a while now.

jmart762 · Post #410 » by **jmart762** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:51 pm

Gianstoppable wrote:Anyone here have a safe solution to Japanese Beetles on my apple trees? Never have had them this bad before, probably 50+ on both trees. Trying to avoid anything that can be harmful to humans since I have 2 little girls who I have to yell at already not to pick the apples. Lol

Eat em! Seriously though, I know someone that would eat them (not the weirdest guy I know), but chickens or ducks would clean them up pretty well.

Gianstoppable · Post #411 » by **Gianstoppable** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 12:47 am

jmart762 wrote:
Gianstoppable wrote:Anyone here have a safe solution to Japanese Beetles on my apple trees? Never have had them this bad before, probably 50+ on both trees. Trying to avoid anything that can be harmful to humans since I have 2 little girls who I have to yell at already not to pick the apples. Lol

Eat em! Seriously though, I know someone that would eat them (not the weirdest guy I know), but chickens or ducks would clean them up pretty well.

I'd love to have chickens but last I checked the Village of Eagle doesnt allow them unless You have a zoned acre of agricultural which is so silly because you can have chickens by my parents in the middle of the city of Racine.

trwi7 · Post #412 » by **trwi7** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:24 am

Probably won't be hearing his commercials on WSSP anymore.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2019/07/22/lawyer-robert-menard-facing-14-felonies-charges-he-stole-700-000/1797832001/

BuckHole · Post #413 » by **BuckHole** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 3:38 am

jmart762 wrote:
Gianstoppable wrote:Anyone here have a safe solution to Japanese Beetles on my apple trees? Never have had them this bad before, probably 50+ on both trees. Trying to avoid anything that can be harmful to humans since I have 2 little girls who I have to yell at already not to pick the apples. Lol

Eat em! Seriously though, I know someone that would eat them (not the weirdest guy I know), but chickens or ducks would clean them up pretty well.

Diatomaceous earth may work.
https://richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp

bizarro · Post #414 » by **bizarro** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:19 pm

bizarro wrote:
humanrefutation wrote:Oof, Maxim Dadashev had to have emergency brain surgery after his loss last night. He had to basically be carried to the back and starting vomiting before being loaded onto a stretcher and passing out in the ambulance.

He's now in a medically-induced coma.

I watched the entire fight. It was a scary scene. Matias legit brought heavy heavy volume from the opening round. The thing is, McGurt was pleading to throw in the towel before the start of the 12th but prior to some shots at the end of the 11th everything looked normal. Kellerman was entirely spot on with the commentary. Just hope he recovers to have a normal life outside of boxing.

Dadashev died today. Man. So tragic.

Post #415 » by **humanrefutation** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:26 pm

bizarro wrote:
bizarro wrote:
humanrefutation wrote:Oof, Maxim Dadashev had to have emergency brain surgery after his loss last night. He had to basically be carried to the back and starting vomiting before being loaded onto a stretcher and passing out in the ambulance.

He's now in a medically-induced coma.

I watched the entire fight. It was a scary scene. Matias legit brought heavy heavy volume from the opening round. The thing is, McGurt was pleading to throw in the towel before the start of the 12th but prior to some shots at the end of the 11th everything looked normal. Kellerman was entirely spot on with the commentary. Just hope he recovers to have a normal life outside of boxing.

Dadashev died today. Man. So tragic.

****, I just saw that on ESPN. How terrible for him and his family.

HaroldinGMinor · Post #416 » by **HaroldinGMinor** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:29 pm

Boxing's a horrible sport.

Post #417 » by **ReasonablySober** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:31 pm

****.

jute2003 · Post #418 » by **jute2003** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:09 pm

HaroldinGMinor wrote:Boxing's a horrible sport.

Agreed, though I dont have much use for any fighting sports.

midranger · Post #419 » by **midranger** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:37 pm

I mean it seems like this is the ultimate outcome of why people watch boxing. No one wants to watch a highly technical fight where no punches are landed. You watch to see one guy beat the hell (in this case life) out of another guy. If they die now or die later after years of decline a dementia, I’m not sure it makes you any less morally culpable.

Post #420 » by **humanrefutation** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:32 pm

midranger wrote:I mean it seems like this is the ultimate outcome of why people watch boxing. No one wants to watch a highly technical fight where no punches are landed. You watch to see one guy beat the hell (in this case life) out of another guy. If they die now or die later after years of decline a dementia, I’m not sure it makes you any less morally culpable.

It's funny the things people are comfortable of accusing others of having moral culpability for, when in reality, there is a 100% chance that there is something that they are doing in their own life - the things they buy, the entertainment they engage in, the way they vote, or the ways in which they interact with others - that knowingly contributes to the suffering and deaths of other people. And in many of those cases, the victims are not highly paid entertainers.

You want to question whether a sport should be legal or not? Sure, debate away. But don't throw the "moral culpability" stones if you live in a glass house.