tmidgett wrote:I spent a couple of years up at two bills, just recently. Then I nudged it up about 15lbs over that.

Tim, should we believe the CDC BMI calculator when it states that we are overweight at what I estimate to be our roughly equivalent heighths and weighths?

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

tmidgett wrote:I spent a couple of years up at two bills, just recently. Then I nudged it up about 15lbs over that.

Tim, should we believe the CDC BMI calculator when it states that we are overweight at what I estimate to be our roughly equivalent heighths and weighths?

My wife saw this bullshit BMI thing hanging on the wall of the doctor's office the other day. How can it be gender-neutral? Complete bullshit. Hey, medical community! You're not seriously telling us that a 6'0" tall dude who weighs 190lbs. is grossly overweight, are you? The moment I stepped on the scale the other day, for the first time in months, my wife came up the stairs, looked at the scale and said "That's not right!" Thanks, honey.

My doc called bull on the BMI.

I have to return to work next week and have been thinking about how I might function on 2-3 hours sleep each night (i.e. barely), cold logic suggests I might try the sofa for a bit until she's sleeping a little better (10 days old is nothing) and friends have said that sleeping in shifts is common and it's preferable to be able to face the working day and help out with childcare in the evening rather than walking around disgruntled and zombified but I still don't really like the idea. I was wondering, if it's not too personal a thing to ask, if you had to face such a compromise and how long it was before you got a semi-decent night's sleep?

I sleep like a fucking log, so it wasn't a problem for me. I would sleep the night during the week, and my wife would sleep in on weekends.

I would have slept elsewhere if I didn't sleep like a fucking log. You have to be non-zombified at work, I imagine. Your wife will probably get used to taking short naps.

This part of it will be over before you know it.

Will you take one for the team?

That video is retarded. You don't take a FASTBALL for the team. I guess you can in Little League or Babe Ruth, but even Craig Biggio wouldn't take a FASTBALL from Carlos Zambrano for the team.

Hate the Cubs, like Zambrano. Caffeine addict--who knew?

And on the cheery subject of "Domestic Violence" mentioned above, it's by the great Frederick Wiseman. You may be ready to move on to his equally penetrating "Welfare" or "Public Housing." The latter was was shot at Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project and is pretty engrossing. And there's also "Domestic Violence 2," which I've not seen.

Right!

Lawrence, not even close.

Oh, I'm supposed to ask a question... Are BP tees available? And maybe one white SKWM tee left, size L?

SKWM tees, a few. When they are gone, they will be gone. BP, no, we are totally out of them. We will have another shirt in a few mos when we start playing out again.

You know the scene in Rushmore in which Max is at the public high school and trying to use the pay phone and the hall monitor hangs the phone up because Max doesn't have a pass to use it? Well, that was a reference to Wiseman's classic film High School, in which a simialr incident occurred. Kinda neat, eh?

That is neat. I am interested.

No problem; you're not being a dick. I was just getting bad stomach problems when drinking, and I hate hangovers. I guess I want to stop drinking permanently, and I thought a month would be a good time period to test it out. Its been like a week, and its been pretty good.

Sure. Good luck!

For some reason, every kid with an ipod and a facial piercing seems to know about SKWM now. When the documentary hits I can only assume there will be even bigger demand for those records.

I buy the latter point.

The former, I am out of touch with most facially pierced kids. I suppose this could be true, but I haven't seen the benefit$ of it if so.

Is there a chance that 12XU would re-issue these albums? Or Touch & Go?

12XU, I don't know what's up with it. TnG, I don't know. They dumped Silkworm when we became an inconvenience, so I kinda doubt it.

There's probably a better chance that I would just put them out to have them around, at some point. If I have to do that. But I've been milking the last couple hundred Libertines for a few years now.

I kind of like that people have to come to us to get some of this stuff. It's fun. It's like the old days, when I had to special-order LPs and wait three weeks for them to get hauled into Montana on some covered wagon mostly full of cookware. But with computers.

i'm trading my EGC bass for a fender precision. it was worth it just for to hear the nay-sayers get all up in arms.

Nothing wrong with a P-bass. The bass player in Bottomless Pit plays a 70s P-bass, and it sounds great.

We tried my Wedge as well, and in our particular band the P-bass fits in much better.

I don't know you but I love you and I'm willing to sell you my 99 S10 for a couple vegan sandwhiches.

One thing I don't need is a pickup truck. If you have something motorized with two wheels that is reliable, I may consider it.

You're from Montana, so what's the most racist thing you've ever heard anyone say and where was it?
I grew up in white trash east Baltimore (where non-whites are "quarantined") so I'm curious.

In high school, my friend Ben Koostra and I were bunking with this family on an orchestra trip, to Helena. First night there, we were eating dinner, and the 'rents launched into this bizarre riff on black people, during which they lavished some degree of praise on sickle cell anemia.

That was probably the most racist thing I ever heard anyone say in Montana.

Their daughter developed a serious crush on a male flautist of our acquaintance, who was flamingly gay if not necessarily out. So that was funny.

In my experience, MT is not overly racist, given the homogeneity of the population. Some level of ignorance is bred (as it always is) by lack of exposure to minorities, but by and large racism isn't overly prevalent there. My brother is black, has lived in MT his entire life but for college, and I can think of maybe two times in his life that he has been reminded of his skin color. That I know of.

Then again, you can kinda like whatever in Missoula, and no one cares. So maybe I'm biased.

Tim, should we believe the CDC BMI calculator when it states that we are overweight at what I estimate to be our roughly equivalent heighths and weighths?

My doctor said that chart is for pussies and chicks only.

Don't go all ice-tea and salad over it.

Dr. Venkman wrote:

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

tmidgett wrote:I spent a couple of years up at two bills, just recently. Then I nudged it up about 15lbs over that.

Tim, should we believe the CDC BMI calculator when it states that we are overweight at what I estimate to be our roughly equivalent heighths and weighths?

My wife saw this bullshit BMI thing hanging on the wall of the doctor's office the other day. How can it be gender-neutral? Complete bullshit. Hey, medical community! You're not seriously telling us that a 6'0" tall dude who weighs 190lbs. is grossly overweight, are you? The moment I stepped on the scale the other day, for the first time in months, my wife came up the stairs, looked at the scale and said "That's not right!" Thanks, honey.

Actually, I think that 190 at 6'0" tall is on the low end of the overweight spectrum and not obese.

Those things are bullshit anyhow, as they don't take into account your bone frame or how much muscle mass you have compared to your fat mass. I weigh the same now as I did when I was in significantly better shape and with much more muscle, which of course weighs more than fat does.

Mandroid2.0 wrote:Those [Body Mass Indexes] are bullshit anyhow, as they don't take into account your bone frame or how much muscle mass you have compared to your fat mass. I weigh the same now as I did when I was in significantly better shape and with much more muscle, which of course weighs more than fat does.

agreed. at 5'4 and 150, being built like a brick shithouse, my BMI is pretty high.

funny thing is, i used to be a bigger brick shithouse at 165, i forgot what my number was, but according to the BMI, i definitely needed to lose weight. when you're working out like a fucking monster everyday, it's kinda hard to lose any weight at all. i had to stop exercising to lose weight.

that damned fly wrote:

Mandroid2.0 wrote:Those [Body Mass Indexes] are bullshit anyhow, as they don't take into account your bone frame or how much muscle mass you have compared to your fat mass. I weigh the same now as I did when I was in significantly better shape and with much more muscle, which of course weighs more than fat does.

agreed. at 5'4 and 150, being built like a brick shithouse, my BMI is pretty high.

funny thing is, i used to be a bigger brick shithouse at 165, i forgot what my number was, but according to the BMI, i definitely needed to lose weight. when you're working out like a fucking monster everyday, it's kinda hard to lose any weight at all. i had to stop exercising to lose weight.

Yes. I was 130 when I was a skater at almost the same height (I grew nearly 2 inches when I quit), but I had a resting pulse of 42 bpm, amazingly low blood pressure, did yoga, lifted weights, did ballet, skated 30 hours a week, and spent 5 months a year on swim team. I could have snapped a man's neck with my legs.

I'm now 135 but spend a lot of time sitting on the sofa reading the PRF and various other sites of internet vice. My muscle tone is non-existent and my exercise consists of walking a mile to the store and back for more food every so often. My body looks drastically different than when I was ice skating in high school, but the BMI chart says I'm pretty much just as healthy.

Mandroid2.0 wrote:...I could have snapped a man's neck with my legs.

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My body looks drastically different than when I was ice skating in high school...

i don't believe you. i'm gonna need to see pictures of you.



in the shower.

that damned fly wrote:

Mandroid2.0 wrote:...I could have snapped a man's neck with my legs.

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My body looks drastically different than when I was ice skating in high school...

i don't believe you. i'm gonna need to see pictures of you.



in the shower.

That's probably not what you had in mind, though.

awesome.