A free banana to anybody who knows what the hell I’m talking about.
This could be yours. What you do with it is none of my business.
I can’t prove it, but something’s on fire and I’m pretty sure it’s Ronnie’s pants. While I’m not a Ronnie Coleman-type success story (obviously, and mainly, but not entirely, because of genetics; that part is true), I have been around gyms and the bodybuilding milieu longer than Ronnie has, and been part of, and observed, the “steroid scene” since the late 70s.
There’s an insane difference between what people took in the late 70s/early 80s and business-as-usual in the twenty-aughts. I’m pretty sure what Arnold took in an entire twelve-week prep to a Mr O was equal to or less than what Ronnie or any equivalent mass monster of his caliber/era coasted on on a weekly basis during downtime. Hell, late teens and twenty-somethings today with no ambition other than to impress girls and get laid are out-drugging the Champs of the Golden Era (defined as the time before the ascension of Dorian Yates). I also agree with the guy who commented that the best part was Joe feigning ignorance on the subject.
That said, I admire Ronnie Coleman and think he’s a legend of bodybuilding, but don’t be fooled; “Just the basic stuff, some test and d-ball” and quitting cold turkey between shows is BS. And by that I mean BULL. FUCKING. SHIT!
* All checked items are currently in a warehouse in Newtown, CT, USA (10.23.2021). <extremely_sadface>
Now if we only could figure out who the final, authoritative, arbiter of truth is, we should all be good. SMH
The prize was split between journalists Dmitry Muratov of Russia and Maria Ressa of the Philippines. At least the didn’t give it to Greta Thunberg.
I guess somebody at YouTube got triggered.
Today is the worst day of my life since I left Norway in 1996. Tomorrow I can truthfully say the exact same thing. And the next day, and the next, and the…
Next week there is a national election for parliament in Norway, and the only certainty is that, whatever the outcome, shit will degrade. But I can’t vote here, so why do I care?
Russell Brand has matured. Can’t really disagree with him if you have a functioning brain. He also has really nice teeth for a former heroin addict. I said it from day one back in 2001 when I could see the smoke of the Towers from my house in Connecticut; follow the money. Five presidents in a row have fucked it up while five government military contractors have made billions in profit on the back of American taxpayers, leaving tens of thousands American and allied troops and possibly hundreds of thousands of Afghans rotting in their wake. And of all these presidential sinners Trump is the least culpable, yet he’s the one that gets impeached. Twice. Go figure…
EDITED TO ADD: I must have been drunk when I wrote this post, seemingly endorsing Russel Brand’s views unconditionally. While I agree with many of the points he makes, let there be no misunderstanding: The US had every right in the world to go into Afghanistan after 9/11. Not punishing the murder of 3,000 Americans by barbaric cave dwellers with the blessing of the Taliban would have been disgraceful.
https://twitter.com/OGNDY/status/1425747618580283396
Min kommentar:
“Det vil dessverre fortsatt overraske mange at Koranen ikke foreskriver noen straff med menneskelige hender for dem som spotter islam. Isteden maner den gang på gang til å vise tålmodighet.”
Jeg har ikke lest Koranen, men tar deg på ditt ord at du siterer den korrekt. Det er vel ikke selve boka Sian og deres sympatisører har problemer med (jeg kjenner svært lite til Sian og stiller meg for øyeblikket nøytral til deres ideologi). Men vi husker alle hva som skjedde etter publiseringen av Salman Rushdies Sataniske Vers og de danske karikaturene av Muhammad (saw).
Historien er full av folk som tolker både Bibel og Koran til eget forgodtbefinnende, både på godt og vondt, men det skal godt gjøres å fornekte at per 2021 så er Islam og dens hellige bok Koranen den farligste og dødeligste religion/tekst enten de nå tolkes “feil” eller “riktig” (No true Scotsman problemet). Ytterligere eksempler enn de jeg allerede har nevnt skulle være unødvendig.
This just popped into my head as a result of hearing about the spike in suicides correlating with the ravages of Covid-19 in America.
People commit suicide to make the pain stop. Physical pain, emotional pain. Any kind of pain you can think of. When you kill yourself the pain stops, so one might argue that suicide is a rational impulse under certain circumstances (let’s disregard the pain that is inflicted upon those left behind for now, just to make this discussion easier, but I’m not unaware of it).
So the pain stops, mission accomplished, right? Well, no. Because you will no longer be around to enjoy any relief. There is no relief. You have merely returned to the state you were in before you were conceived; that of non-existence, and for millennia the world progressed just fine without you (debatable, I know).
I fully understand that there are conditions one can encounter in life that appear intolerable and that ending your life seems like a perfectly rational decision. Just take a moment to consider those left behind.
If at the end of the day you come out in favor of ending it all, I shall not judge you. Suicide can be an act of cowardice and also a noble act. It may even offer comfort in that your existence in the grand scheme of things plays an infinitesimally insignificant role in the daily business of the Universe. You will be forgotten in the blink of an eye after your last synapse has fired.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255