Yeah comma as a decimal people have ruined a perfectly easy to understand number system.

When I listen to Lateralus and when I watch the Star Wars Holiday Special, obviously.

Nah, kid. I’m 10,000% gay.

Hey, wait a minute, just cause I like mediocre music for 16 year olds doesn’t mean it’s a bad opinion. That’s just mean.

Wait a minute. I listen to poob Tool but prefer Star Wars, what does that mean?

They are, by and large, Protestant Christians.

Where do you live?

The government is directly controlled by their individual billionaires.

I love it. We’re here to watch people play games after all, there should always be a way to work it out.

Testosterone level AND weight. Wait til they find out what happens when you’re on hormone blockers.

Double edge razor, I haven’t nicked myself yet. I definitely tore some skin with an electric razor though.

I disagree, how can someone’s share of responsibility in a situation that includes the actions and motivations of another person be 100%? That’s incorrect at best.

MLK definitely supported rioting as a legitimate form of protest.

I think at this point I only ever go to fast food places when a friend who loves fast food places is over and we happen to go get food. Happens maybe once every couple of years.

I think I’m at an age that if I want burgers or barbecue or something unhealthy or greasy is rather make it myself and have it be extra dirty and less expensive.

Great descriptions! Lately I’ve been working on the (pardon me, I couldn’t find a use for them) distal interphalangeal knuckles, just hanging from my finger tips. Pretty much all the good climbers at my gym can do that with weight added on a belt so I’ve still got a long way to go. But yeah I used to lift pretty heavy and this was pretty much impossible before I started practicing, just seem like totally different parts of the body although they’re all in the hand.

I looked it up because I couldn’t figure out how the hell to refer to a specific row of knuckles, first? second? do you count from the palm or the tip? figured better to be precise.

Any sort of exercise that removes the thumbs and metacarpophalangeal joints from the equation, if you can close your hand, lock your grip and hang off of your skeleton you’ll only add so much to your grip. There are actual crimping blocks and rolling handles you can attatch to weights to strengthen your grip.

Emil Abrahamsson seems to think that hangboarding is the answer to this problem, he suggests holding a hangboard without lifting your total weight off of the ground on the smallest ledge you can manage, twice a day, every day, to turn your grip into iron. He recently beat a lot of pound for pound grip championship records so I think his training techniques are worth paying attention to.

That being said, climbing itself might be the answer since these elite dudes routinely hang off of the absolute tips of their fingers while lifting their bodies up a wall and even for someone who can deadlift a shitton getting used to lifting your weight on crimps takes months to achieve.

It’s also worth saying that you have very few muscles in your hand and grip strength is more a game of strengthening tendons and ligaments, which takes a lot longer than strengthening muscles, which might be why one of the guys with the most world records in grip strength right now is 70+ years old.

If climbing has taught me anything, it’s that lifting (deadlifting in this case) is no indication of grip strength.

Can you expand on this a bit? Are they disagreeing with the colors? Or with anarcho-feminism?

The radical identity known as Dutch.