i_like_sun

Getting BILLS really annoys me....... even if I am well slept! Oh yeah, parking tickets too. Especially when you get one within the time of 1) parking your car 2) walking to the parking office and buying a pass 3) coming back to your car to stick the pass on your windshield! OMG I seriously could have killed something!

I don't mind being the treat!

Actually, the alarm itself when used in the ways I've described doesn't have any relationship to the actual [act] of rape. Its simply the sound of it that is so darn funny. Personally I do agree with the statements that "humor and rape" should absolutely NOT be in the same sentance. There is NOTHING funny about rape whatsoever, and the fact that my buddy's little devise is called a "rape alarm" does strike me as mildly offensive. To simplify it and decharge the situation, the only thing funny about the devise is its sound (which totally is not human sounding) and the reactions it elicits. Seriously, it sounds more like toy gost than anything and people just freak out about it - and thats funny! Sorry if I've offended anyone. This post was intended to share the simple humor in startling innocent people... Not to joke about rape.

PERFECT.

Yeah, but not as much as sun. Those fresh spring mornings when there has been rain on dry ground are amazing! Wait, but its still usually sunny in that scinario.....

Yeah, he's a crazy nut. He seems to get off by totally screwing with people..... Just this morning there were these two 14 year olds playing in the street taking pictures of each other. One of them then pretended to pole dance on a stop sign, and my buddy opens the window and yells at the top of his lungs "YEAH MYSPACE!!!" Then he let the rape alarm work its magic.... The girls, completely horrified, bolted up the street and I seriously almost die laughing..... I_like_laughing!

Has anyone on here every tried to sprout grains themselves? I've been doing it with black wild rice, and supposedly it drasically increases the nutritional value and makes the starches more complex. On top of that, the taste and texture are WAY better! I've just been washing the rice, then letting it soak in water in the fridge for 15 hours. Then it cooks in under 10 minutes at a very low heat. Totally delicious!

I'll get in there this afternoon.

Have you looked at PA schools? I'm contemplating that as well. Its a 2 year masters program, and the job seems to have tons of flexability (meaning you can work almost anywhere, and find the ideal hours you want). The mean US salary for PA's I think is around $81,000 a year - not bad at all! Oh yes, Layton, chiropractic? Congrats on almost being done! I know a couple of Chiros., and they both highly recomend the field. I will certainly be qualified enough to apply to any program....... is it something you too would advise a new grad to go into? Thanks!

Layton, what do you do now? If you don't mind me asking..... PM perhaps?

VW, WELCOME! PM me if you want a nice wee Belly-Ham tour!

I'm just a natural flirt, and, you are pretty damn funny! Seriously, that was one of the funniest posts I've read!

Oh jeeze, I got super shitty sleep LAST night....... I've been annoyed all day long. Mostly at myself though.... when I'm in that bad of a mood all I have to do is look at my groogy ass eyes in the mirror and I feel like breaking some shit! Hopefully tomarrow is normal.

i'll bite. Climber. with a hint (okay more than a hint fuck you all ) of the attention whore one who wears prana tops. i suck at climbing but i am consistent at sucking Muffy Muffy Muffy....... I love it! Your post is SOOOO funny! No worries about being an attention whore, I'm a bit of one myself, plus I think prana tops are hot! If I were a girl, I'd be.............. Mythos, what do YOU think!?

weak. use pirahna. pirahna? dunno... I'm sure I could find some hydrogen cyanide...

I'll second Mythos's statement. Western does have a darn good program! Plus, C'mon, the North Cascades are right there! As for which field to go into, I personally am still at a loss... I am finishing a pre-med degree, but am not sure that I want to go to med school (if I did I go into either cardiology or endocrineology and specialize in high altitude medicine). I am seriously considering a DPT program, but jeeze, you get a doctoral level degree and then get paid the same as someone with a bachelors from the mid 90's. I've also considered becoming an orthopedic PA or nurse anesthetist. These are insanely rad posistions, and they pay great! ALSO, I have considered getting my masters in Kinesiology, then going onto a Phd. and doing research and teaching. I personally think doing research (especially climbing related - thinking VO2 max and lactate threashold at 28,000 feet) would be so fantastic! My Nurd button gets seriously jazzed at that though! I like Layton's comment: basically he said: "lets all just exercise, eat well, get a good night's sleep and call it good!" I keep wondering about the possibility of becoming a full time dirt bag once I'm done with school...

I KNOW THIS GUY! He's the loser who got synthol injections in his arms! Those are not real muscle my freinds, they're chemical sacks! No joke. Just look closely: natural bodybuilders have tons of striations in their muscle bellies. Those are just balloons.

I keep meaning to get into yoga classes. Just haven't found the time yet. Muffy, if you climb you are athletic enough for me! Frankly I don't think it matters how [good] you are at an activity, just that your smile is SUPER MASSIVE! The stess thing is a fantastic point. Yoga sounds like the perfect way to come down from a high horse, not squats and deadlifts!

I dont' stick to percentages. Basically I just eat what I want, when I want. I have a basic "guideline" that I follow, but nothing is cement. I definately prefer to eat alot more protein, and less carbs and fat. However, I just took it to the extreme last summer and got way too lean. Now I just try to listen to my body way better... For gaining muscle, carbs are essential I believe. Simply because insulin is so anabolic. Also, when the brain is deprived of enough glucose (even miniscule amounts such as when starving on the way out from a climb) thinking actually gets rewired. Basically, what I've read says that carbs are important for proper use of the cerebral cortex, and not the limbic system. That could partially explain why anorexia is such a hard disease to beat: the brain simply cannot function enough to tell itself that it is starving! As for ZMA and creatine, my proff at school is actually the researcher who developed ZMA, and creatine simply has 1000's of studies that show it works. I don't get dehydrated very often.... I drink roughly 5 Nalgenes per day.

Actually, I just realized that Spray could prove a useful study tool! I could be banging away in the lab and go "***bing*** oh shit, I bet Archenemy knows the answer to this!"

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Yes, it does. The difference between training and overtraining is the [magnitude] and length of the Cortisol release. When you exercise (in men) Testosterone levels jump to the occasion. Testosterone is anabolic to muscle tissues, and also increases fat burning by speeding up certain metabolic reactions. However, after a while, usually around 40 min. of high intensity exercise, testosterone levels drop, and Cortisol (the stress hormone) takes over. Cortisol releases fatty acids and glucose for energy, but it also breaks down muscle protein. And that is bad. When exercise is done within a range that the body can adapt to, it actually has very potent anti-inflamitory effects. Mild cortisol release is actually an ingeral component to life - without enough of it you would die (its part of the adaptation response). Also, type of exercise have different effects. Endurance tends to elicit longer, lower grade levels of cortisol and not so much muscle building testosterone. Strength training, especially BIG movements like squats and deadlifts, elicit way more testosterone and in the end a greater magnitude of cortisol (but you don't do power lifts as long as you jog for). Basically, you want some cortisol release in response to training. Thats how the body makes changes. Some research says that a 30% rise in post-training exercise is ideal for maximizing the adaptive response. Because of the hormonal response, that is partially why strength training is far superior to endurance training for maximizing body composition and building muscle. Just look at Olympic sprinters. Not factoring in their genetic tendancy to have stacked muscle (myostatin) they do a lot of power lifts in their training. They want as much testoserone as possible to build as much fast twitch muscle as possible. Is that a long enough ramble for you guys? I could go longer.....

Yeah, most fat people are.

Sholt? um, yeah.

G-spotter, thats is funny as hell!