Things You Are Not Stoked On

[Mean salto]

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So stop running and find cardio elsewhere?  I could hit a rowing machine or bike or elliptical thing if it'll save me later for sure

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I used to run a lot and I'm fucked and I have older family who are really into running and I think generally the idea is human beings weren't designed to run, at least the way most people do it. Basically you have to make sure youve got good technique and then only really run at at least 75% speed if not faster and when you get tired stop running and start walking while also making sure you've got a decent walking technique (decent as far as good for your body not like power walking or whatever it's called for speed).
Slow running/Jogging does way more bad than good and apparently it's not even that good for cardio anyway

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My understanding was that humans are evolutionarily designed to run and especially long distances. Not saying you’re wrong, just that I heard different.

Nope you're right I should of been clearer. I was trying to say we weren't designed to jog/ run slowly. We should run at a decent pace landing on the forefoot with ball joint, ankle,knee, hip, spine all relaxed and springy kinda leaning forwards. But when we slow down too much people tend to lean back and land on their heels making all their joints locked causing too much wear and tear/injury

[thanksgiving]

My instagram feed is being increasingly flooded with this narcissistic gen-Z simulated porn.  Like tik tok girls pantomiming jacking someone off while (out of) lip syncing to some suggestive audio.  I’m no prude or anything, but this shit is really lame.  (More disturbed by the desperate narcissistic elements than the sexual content tbh).

IG has been really shit forever, and it’s been getting exponentially worse daily for years, but it’s damn near unusable at this point.

im pretty sure if u press the 3 dots in the top right you can say dont show me this type of content

[modern life is war]

Hurt my shoulder arm wrestling some kook at a house party this weekend. All this behaviour is out of character for me but the woman dragged me out this weekend and I had way too much bourbon.  I drove all these drunk fools from some horrible club to this party and brought a 1/2-ounce mix of various types of weed I grew this year as a gift for one of the hosts since it was her birthday. The guy made some smug, condescending comments about how he could tell it was homegrown, essentially insinuating that it looked shitty and kept running his mouth to me all night about this and that. I was drinking too fast to catch up to everyone since I was the designated driver for the first portion of the night. Finally, I had had enough and stood up and backhand slapped him across the small kitchen table after a particularly insulting comment. Instead of obliging me to go outside and fight he wanted to arm wrestle instead. Most likely cause it's his thing and he knew he'd win that and probably would have gotten his ass beat if we stepped out. We were locked in a stalemate with no movement for so long until I was fatigued as he did all these weird wrist tweaks and techniques that people I guess do in arm wrestling. We were cool after for the rest of the night but I still kinda wish we just scrapped it out cause I'd much rather have a shiner and hurt hands than have my bad shoulder acting up.

I'm happy for you that you slapped the guy. The rest sounds shitty but that sounds satisfying

[doublesteveburger]

I work in one of the biggest medical supply chains in the southwest yet they're the cheapest fucking dickheads.


Had Covid last month and had to take an entire week and some change off work. It was complete crickets about whether I would have Covid relief pay from me missing work up until I had no option but to burn every last bit of PTO/ST - then magically they were able cover 4 fucking hours. I know I'm preaching to an audience that may not even receive Covid back-pay, but it's really deflating regardless. Here's to having absolutely no PTO/ST to visit family over the holidays (Holidays that don't get covered by Holiday pay) and the discomfort that follows.


Anyway here's wonderwall,

[skate_bored]

so i have a weird one. im 35 and over the last few months ive noticed something odd about halfway through the afternoon (particularly when im working at the office in a more sterile environment and not at home)....i think my ass stinks? my whole life i have no zero BO issues. gfs have even commented on the lack of BO. i didnt wear deodorant too often for a while but most days i do now - definitely if i go to work. but ive noticed this slightly funky/very faint smell that i can only assume is coming from my ass since i can smell the deodorant or even my shower soap if i try to smell inside my shirt.

i have no damn idea whats going on. i wipe til its clear and shower basically after every shit (pretty routine - coffee, shit, shower). its making me paranoid but what the hell. is this just what happens when you get older? is it pschological? even if i go wipe to check that nothing is going on, its clean. but i swear i am faintly smelling some funk of some sort.

[Painted Baby]

so i have a weird one. im 35 and over the last few months ive noticed something odd about halfway through the afternoon (particularly when im working at the office in a more sterile environment and not at home)....i think my ass stinks? my whole life i have no zero BO issues. gfs have even commented on the lack of BO. i didnt wear deodorant too often for a while but most days i do now - definitely if i go to work. but ive noticed this slightly funky/very faint smell that i can only assume is coming from my ass since i can smell the deodorant or even my shower soap if i try to smell inside my shirt.

i have no damn idea whats going on. i wipe til its clear and shower basically after every shit (pretty routine - coffee, shit, shower). its making me paranoid but what the hell. is this just what happens when you get older? is it pschological? even if i go wipe to check that nothing is going on, its clean. but i swear i am faintly smelling some funk of some sort.

How's your oral hygiene?

[Banned from the room]

I went and picked up my storage at my brother's house.

I should not have bothered.

He robbed me of everything that I cared about. All my old skate mags got trashed.

Everything my father gave me is gone. I have nothing of my dad left except his ashes.

If I fight back I'm only hurting my nephews.

More and more it seems I only have my board my guitar and slap.

It fucking hurts. If it was possible I'd upload my soul to slap like Jobe the Lawnmower Man.

The most important thing is a video tape. It's this shitty band I was in with my best friend Brett rip. The first 3 concerts we did. He died 3 days before the 4th.

When he pass away I got nearly nothing of his. I was blamed for the situation tho I wasn't with him when he passed.


I've had to steal the tape back several times before.

My brother believes to this fucking day I stole his best friend.

I want payback so badly.

I'm boxing up everything not of value and taking the shit to the dump.

It's time to fully start over.

I'm sorry to be crying on slap. I don't got anything or anywhere else to let this shit go.

I'm the most alone person on this earth away from here.

I texted him he didn't answer. I know what he'd say.
His mind is full of things I did to him from our childhood. Most of it is lies.

You broke my toy blah blah blah or you stole my best friend when we was 10.

I need to move away from everything here maybe. I need to become a new person far away

[Banned from the room]

My brother has cost me thousands and thousands of dollars.

I'm going to call him out face to face in front of the entire family and put it to bed forever.

It's time to start over

[beandemon]

Just a little petty, bitchy, rant, but fuck Christmas. Shit is so phony and starts so early I’m sick of it already. Just a whole lot of cultural noise telling you to CONSUME!!!

[Easy Slider]

I had a small wound on the shin and thought it would be a good idea to wear one of these football (as in soccer) shin protectors. The wound got infected over night and swole like an egg. I just had to get surgery to open the thing and now I am out for a few weeks.

 Takeaway: Wash/desinfect protectors before putting them over unhealed scabs. Probably better put a bandaid over the scab first as well…

[Sativa Lung]

On day 3 of a horrible chest cold. It's not covid (tested for that) but there's a really good chance it is RSV since we had a couple patients last week. I thought I was maybe rallying when I woke up this morning but I've been sitting here blowing my nose and coughing up all manner of things beige and green for the last few hours.

I have some errands that I really need to run but I don't have any energy and I feel like it would be irresponsible to get in an Uber when I know I'm sick, even if I wear a mask.

[wax poetic]

Constant headaches and pain. Doctor says is it's probably chronical stress:
- deadlines, one after the other
- I need that job because it pays well and I need the cash to fix our roof
- I can't sleep much, if it's 5-6 hours, it's alot
- Check-ups from my gf's cancer are coming up again
- Wasn't intimate with my gf in 5 years > cancer is gynaecolgical so ... yeah.
- Can't have childredn anymore due to the cancer so we're in a trajectory with a surrogate mother. financially another major bummer and mentally it's exhausting ...
- I think my dad is slowly dying. He has a severe longtissue issue due to a flame he inhaled in an acciden. it's so bad he has to get a new set of lungs. He's constantly on an airtank. Can't do anything anymore and he lost about 40 pounds...
- skateboarding hurts. MY knee is screwed, my friends all live 2 hours away from me and I can't get motivated to go skate alone ...

Life sucks right now, and I'm only "going".

 I"m pretty sure that the moment I'll "stop" I'll crash.

You want to talk with someone, reach out man.  I may or may not be able to help but I can promise it won't hurt.

[beandemon]

On day 3 of a horrible chest cold. It's not covid (tested for that) but there's a really good chance it is RSV since we had a couple patients last week. I thought I was maybe rallying when I woke up this morning but I've been sitting here blowing my nose and coughing up all manner of things beige and green for the last few hours.

I have some errands that I really need to run but I don't have any energy and I feel like it would be irresponsible to get in an Uber when I know I'm sick, even if I wear a mask.

Shit suuuuuuuucks. Girlfriend brought home the RSV from a work trip. Was pretty much bedridden for a week, a pile of goo for a week and have a lingering cough.

[Tommy G]

One of my best friends has been borrowing money from me for the past 2 years, I told him I was going to cut him off since he hasn't paid any of it back. But then his wife comes in and asks me to help them with some money for their oldest son's birthday. I told them I couldn't and he still tries to call me about it. I honestly don't want to talk to him for a while since that's what they hit me up for 90% of the time now. I'm laying low for a while.

[Steely Daniel]

Woman is pregnant and we already have 2 kids we can barely afford. She's been drinking a lot lately too so even if we wanted to keep it would be irresponsible to do so. She's supposed to be on birth control but wasn't taking them consistently and now here we are with a difficult situation. Sigh

[skate_bored]

Woman is pregnant and we already have 2 kids we can barely afford. She's been drinking a lot lately too so even if we wanted to keep it would be irresponsible to do so. She's supposed to be on birth control but wasn't taking them consistently and now here we are with a difficult situation. Sigh

man...i dont know if a message board is the place for me to try offering advice/thoughts here. i have typed multiple things and none of it feels right. i know you guys will make it work, whichever way you decide to go. it must be very challenging. sending you my best. life is fucking tough man.

[AR abstain]

Woman is pregnant and we already have 2 kids we can barely afford. She's been drinking a lot lately too so even if we wanted to keep it would be irresponsible to do so. She's supposed to be on birth control but wasn't taking them consistently and now here we are with a difficult situation. Sigh

kids? that's a blessing from God, man!
wish you the best. sorry she's a drinker, lead the way by being a teetotaller. that means just drink tea. like totally.

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stepped in dogpoop, then on my deck..

[L33Tg33k]

Barred from buying a gun for 5 years.

[AR abstain]

Barred from buying a gun for 5 years.

trump's red flag laws bite you in the ass? sorry to hear. they use legal weed cards to stop people from getting their gun cards too.

[Noble Experiment]

Was on vacation for the week and not having a solid sleep schedule to follow during my vacation has royally fucked up my sleep schedule. I was going to bed and waking up at the most random hours.

I would get gnarly bouts of insomnia five years back where I would get stuck in cycles of not being able to sleep well; it was usually triggered by a couple nights of bad sleep in a row, my mind would get anxious and I would start worrying “damn what if tonight I can’t sleep well again and tomorrow I’m tired again?” Which would in turn cause me to not sleep well cuz I would be too anxious and worried that I wasn’t going to sleep well again; so essentially I wasn’t sleeping well cuz I was worrying too much that I wasn’t going to sleep well; it was a vicious cycle pretty much. It would last for days or weeks at a time before it would get better and slowly go away, but it would still happen here n there quite often if I were to get a couple shitty nights of sleep in a row. This pretty much stopped happening when I got my current job though five years ago; it was my first full time job and I no longer had as much freedom with my sleep schedule; I had to wake up and sleep at the same time every day, but I think this was what helped my sleep out, I think having too much freedom to go to bed and wake up when I wanted contributed a lot to these bouts of insomnia, having a grounded schedule pretty much forced me to have to sleep and wake at a set time every day which helped my sleep hygiene tremendously and this pretty much stopped my bouts of insomnia from happening (except for like one or two short bouts in the last five years that came about when I had to switch my work schedule and had to adapt to a temporary earlier schedule, but those bouts fixed themselves pretty quickly).

Fast forward to now, I’m on a week long vacation, the first time I’ve been off for this long since I started working at my job five years ago, and the insomnia comes back after a couple nights of shitty sleep cuz I was going to bed at the most random times and waking up at random times. Haven’t been sleeping well and been tired for days now, and I’m honestly thinking it’s just due to not having to follow a schedule and having too much freedom to go to bed and wake up when I want. I’m hoping me having to go back to work in a couple days and having to go back to a routine of going to bed and waking at the same time every day will get things back on track again.

[Candied cigarettes]

At a company holiday party and man this is so dogshit. Just boring small talk and pretending like i enjoy talking about my job. I slammed a modelo tall boy about 10 minutes before tho and while it doesn’t make this less awkward it does make me care less

Might leave again and grab another soon

Edit: I’m tanked of company wine this isn’t the worst thing

[modern life is war]

Was on vacation for the week and not having a solid sleep schedule to follow during my vacation has royally fucked up my sleep schedule. I was going to bed and waking up at the most random hours.

I would get gnarly bouts of insomnia five years back where I would get stuck in cycles of not being able to sleep well; it was usually triggered by a couple nights of bad sleep in a row, my mind would get anxious and I would start worrying “damn what if tonight I can’t sleep well again and tomorrow I’m tired again?” Which would in turn cause me to not sleep well cuz I would be too anxious and worried that I wasn’t going to sleep well again; so essentially I wasn’t sleeping well cuz I was worrying too much that I wasn’t going to sleep well; it was a vicious cycle pretty much. It would last for days or weeks at a time before it would get better and slowly go away, but it would still happen here n there quite often if I were to get a couple shitty nights of sleep in a row. This pretty much stopped happening when I got my current job though five years ago; it was my first full time job and I no longer had as much freedom with my sleep schedule; I had to wake up and sleep at the same time every day, but I think this was what helped my sleep out, I think having too much freedom to go to bed and wake up when I wanted contributed a lot to these bouts of insomnia, having a grounded schedule pretty much forced me to have to sleep and wake at a set time every day which helped my sleep hygiene tremendously and this pretty much stopped my bouts of insomnia from happening (except for like one or two short bouts in the last five years that came about when I had to switch my work schedule and had to adapt to a temporary earlier schedule, but those bouts fixed themselves pretty quickly).

Fast forward to now, I’m on a week long vacation, the first time I’ve been off for this long since I started working at my job five years ago, and the insomnia comes back after a couple nights of shitty sleep cuz I was going to bed at the most random times and waking up at random times. Haven’t been sleeping well and been tired for days now, and I’m honestly thinking it’s just due to not having to follow a schedule and having too much freedom to go to bed and wake up when I want. I’m hoping me having to go back to work in a couple days and having to go back to a routine of going to bed and waking at the same time every day will get things back on track again.

I've had the same problem before. Do you take any supplements to help you sleep? I've got a bit of a regimen and it has worked wonders for me - Vitamin D in the morning, magnesium and vitamin C at night before bed. Everyone is different but something similar might work for you if you've never tried it

[Noble Experiment]

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Was on vacation for the week and not having a solid sleep schedule to follow during my vacation has royally fucked up my sleep schedule. I was going to bed and waking up at the most random hours.

I would get gnarly bouts of insomnia five years back where I would get stuck in cycles of not being able to sleep well; it was usually triggered by a couple nights of bad sleep in a row, my mind would get anxious and I would start worrying “damn what if tonight I can’t sleep well again and tomorrow I’m tired again?” Which would in turn cause me to not sleep well cuz I would be too anxious and worried that I wasn’t going to sleep well again; so essentially I wasn’t sleeping well cuz I was worrying too much that I wasn’t going to sleep well; it was a vicious cycle pretty much. It would last for days or weeks at a time before it would get better and slowly go away, but it would still happen here n there quite often if I were to get a couple shitty nights of sleep in a row. This pretty much stopped happening when I got my current job though five years ago; it was my first full time job and I no longer had as much freedom with my sleep schedule; I had to wake up and sleep at the same time every day, but I think this was what helped my sleep out, I think having too much freedom to go to bed and wake up when I wanted contributed a lot to these bouts of insomnia, having a grounded schedule pretty much forced me to have to sleep and wake at a set time every day which helped my sleep hygiene tremendously and this pretty much stopped my bouts of insomnia from happening (except for like one or two short bouts in the last five years that came about when I had to switch my work schedule and had to adapt to a temporary earlier schedule, but those bouts fixed themselves pretty quickly).

Fast forward to now, I’m on a week long vacation, the first time I’ve been off for this long since I started working at my job five years ago, and the insomnia comes back after a couple nights of shitty sleep cuz I was going to bed at the most random times and waking up at random times. Haven’t been sleeping well and been tired for days now, and I’m honestly thinking it’s just due to not having to follow a schedule and having too much freedom to go to bed and wake up when I want. I’m hoping me having to go back to work in a couple days and having to go back to a routine of going to bed and waking at the same time every day will get things back on track again.

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I've had the same problem before. Do you take any supplements to help you sleep? I've got a bit of a regimen and it has worked wonders for me - Vitamin D in the morning, magnesium and vitamin C at night before bed. Everyone is different but something similar might work for you if you've never tried it

Nah, haven’t tried any supplements. For me I already know it’s all mental; I get in this weird cycle of getting bad sleep and then psyching myself out with thoughts such as “damn, that’s two nights now where you couldn’t sleep; what if tonight you don’t sleep well again and you’re tired again tomorrow?” and then I end up not sleeping well because I’m too anxious and paranoid that I’m not gonna sleep well; it’s pretty much like a vicious cycle lol: I don’t sleep well because I’m paranoid that I’m not gonna sleep well. Pretty much an irrational fear. I just gotta get my mind to not care or to convince my mind that it’s not that big of a deal to not sleep well and that being tired isn’t going to kill me and that I’ve gone through plenty of sleepless nights before and came out fine and that sleep is easy once you just stop thinking so much. Those thoughts come eventually and then I remember not to be so psyched out and then the insomnia will go away, but sometimes it could take a while to rebuild up those thoughts of not psyching myself out too much, especially when you’re tired and paranoid and anxious that you can’t sleep and all you want to do is just sleep. Used to get in these cycles a lot back in the early 2010s; then in the late 2010s to 2021 they started happening a lot more rarely. From like 2017 til like 2020 I actually didn’t have any of these episodes at all actually. Last episode I had was 2021 and it was the first one I had had in a while, triggered by a couple bad nights of sleep in a row, but it only lasted about half a week to a little under a week from what I remember until I built up the thoughts of not psyching myself out and the insomnia went away. This one now is the first one in a while that is lasting a while and psyching me out more than I thought it would. I’ve beat it before a bunch of times so I know I can do it again, I just got to remind my mind not to be so psyched out, it’s just that it’s just so annoying and a mind fuck sometimes to remind myself not to be so psyched out.

Wow, I don’t think I’ve honestly shared this info with anyone before, or if I have it was only to a few people and they just look at me like “bro, this is such an irrational fear” and I’m just like “you think I don’t know this?” lol. After getting those reactions I just stopped telling people the full details cuz i just don’t want them to look at me like I’m some sort of weirdo for having this, but it honestly feels good to just put this out there for the first time in full detail, pretty liberating feeling actually.

[Banned from the room]

I broke my vow to never harm another human being.
I was at infest last night. Got in a fight near the club. This guy was curb stomping a girl so I stopped him with a homie.
We fucked him up a little and put on the breaks.
Fucker came back with a brick and got me once with it because my drunk friend refused to run at first.

I saved two people kinda I guess. I probably could argue that shit down if I was a da tho.

The car got a little tuned up with the brick too. I can't say I blame the kook for that and saw it coming.

My only hope is he's not going to smash his lady's face on the curb in the future.

[L33Tg33k]

I broke my vow to never harm another human being.
I was at infest last night. Got in a fight near the club. This guy was curb stomping a girl so I stopped him with a homie.
We fucked him up a little and put on the breaks.
Fucker came back with a brick and got me once with it because my drunk friend refused to run at first.

I saved two people kinda I guess. I probably could argue that shit down if I was a da tho.

The car got a little tuned up with the brick too. I can't say I blame the kook for that and saw it coming.

My only hope is he's not going to smash his lady's face on the curb in the future.

No good deed goes unpunished. You did the right thing.

[Blind Fisherman]

Winter is officially here in the south. Not looking forward to single digit temps over the next couple of days.

[beandemon]

Winter is officially here in the south. Not looking forward to single digit temps over the next couple of days.

For realz? Hang in there.

Always down to bitch about weather. We’re about to get another blizzard - weather advisory until noon Sat. Sun should finally come out after that. Happy solstice y’all.

[JB]

One of my 11 year olds classmates brought a loaded 9mm to school today. Nothing happened. Some other kids found out and told, and I guess the school had it handled before any kind of threat was made and the kid never pulled it out. Still though, a kid bought a gun to my kids school.

The worst is that it happened at 11am and most parents didn't find out until school was out. They should've shut the whole thing down immediately and sent everyone home. Why make the kids stay there terrified?

I don't even know what to do. He's half way though 6th grade and this happens. I've seen videos of kids fighting at his school and he says that happens every day. I don't know what middle school is like where you all grow up, but the amount of violence these kids are bringing to school is absolutely insane. It's terrifying to be a parent.

[Blueabyssofthisss]

My fence is falling apart and we can’t afford to fix it, there’s huge carpenter nails sticking out that I’ve had to hammer back in. One of them must’ve fell out because my dog somehow perfectly stepped on it so 3/4 of that huge nail was impaled in to his leg. Like an inch and a half was in there. Crazy bastard was barley limping, acting like nothing was wrong before I noticed it. I rushed him to the animal hospital and it was taken out no big deal. But he’s all bandaged up down there until next Tuesday so I have to keep it dry. It just snowed and is cold as fuck out, so I have to wrap bags around his leg and take him out on a leash when we’re in the yard. When the snow melts I’m gonna comb through that entire yard with a toothbrush to make sure there’s no other nails in my yard. $350 bill right before Christmas too