OT: The Avalounge but every time someone posts the quality declines

[Murzu]

Dude Floor is like a man, she's huge and not very lady-like for me. She's really buff. I don't think she's a better singer than Tarja either. Deeper and more powerful voice for sure, but songs like Nemo, She Is My Sin, Bless the Child, and Beauty and the Beast are perfect examples of what I mean about Tarja. Just fit those songs perfectly.

Yeah, I was talking about their singing only

They're both awesome. But when I started to listen more of Floors live material I was sold.

This is incredible:

 

[Foppberg]

Since I've started working out more and more and trying to take care of my body I've realized I have horrible posture. I always thought it was fine but a guy at the gym noticed it and pointed out to try to work on my form as it could lead to injuries down the road. So I went home and youtubed a few posture exercises.. and I cannot even come close to doing most of them lol, so that's something I'll have to incorporate.

 

[21]

Posted some classical Entombed songs here earlier but now time for another one of the Swedish big four in this genre, Dismember. I don't like video but they have some sections in the song I love, the bass intro, the melodic solo, the catchy riff on the first part, the harsh rhythm guitar giving it a dark vibe. Negative: I do have some difficulties with the song...
It's flowing nice between more soft melodic metal and dark metal. You could definitely build a nice song alone of the good bass intro or the melodic solo.

Dismember "Dreaming in red"

 

[UncleRisto]

Since I've started working out more and more and trying to take care of my body I've realized I have horrible posture. I always thought it was fine but a guy at the gym noticed it and pointed out to try to work on my form as it could lead to injuries down the road. So I went home and youtubed a few posture exercises.. and I cannot even come close to doing most of them lol, so that's something I'll have to incorporate.

Oh. I've had problems with that (tight hips). What are the exercises?

 

[Foppberg]

Oh. I've had problems with that (tight hips). What are the exercises?

Shoulder slides, should dislocations, and chins.

Should slides being where you keep your feet, butt, lower + upper back, head, arms and elbows pressed up against the wall and you raise your arms up above your head as if you're doing a barbell press without any of those areas coming off from the wall. And my lower back just absolutely can't even get close to staying pressed up against the wall, so I have to take a stance a bit away from the wall for my lower back to touch but it works.

The other is shoulder dislocations, where you take a resistance band or something long like a broomstick and and raise it over your head and behind your back. I can get it about 3/4 all the way but that's it.

Chins being where you just tuck your chin into your chest, those are pretty straight forward, don't have too much problem doing them.

What's annoying is that I went to a chiropractor over the summer for my externally rotated legs, duck foot essentially (caused mostly by tight hips too). He gave me some workouts for that which I do pretty much every day and it has helped a lot, but while there he couldn't have said 'by the way you have horrible posture?'

 

[Thepoolmaster]

@Murzu @S E P H

Finished full metal alchemist. Thought it was fantastic from start to finish but thought the last few episodes were especially good

 

[Murzu]

@Murzu @S E P H

Finished full metal alchemist. Thought it was fantastic from start to finish but thought the last few episodes were especially good

Glad to hear you enjoyed it. It's an awesome series, one of the best there is. And like you said, it really is great from start to finish.

I'm currently around episode ~20 of my third time watching it. I thought about watching the original Fullmetal Alchemist but Brotherhood is much more appreciated so I decided to watch it yet again. No regrets at all, enjoying every second!

 

[S E P H]

@Murzu @S E P H

Finished full metal alchemist. Thought it was fantastic from start to finish but thought the last few episodes were especially good

Yeah, as I mentioned I thought the ending could've gone either way, but in the end it went sort of the predictable route. Not that it was bad, but I've noticed that animes tend to have average endings for shows that are otherwise amazing.

 

[McMetal]

Dude Floor is like a man, she's huge and not very lady-like for me. She's really buff. I don't think she's a better singer than Tarja either. Deeper and more powerful voice for sure, but songs like Nemo, She Is My Sin, Bless the Child, and Beauty and the Beast are perfect examples of what I mean about Tarja. Just fit those songs perfectly.

Kamelot is/was a fantastic band, Roy Kahn was an amazing singer and brought that creepy sort of Gothic element. The new singer is great, but the songs have been really lackluster on the past two to three albums.

I would take Floor over Tarja. Tarja had a beautiful voice but very little emotive range. I love that Floor can do the awesome technical singing and still sound passionate. I already have my tickets to that show at the Paramount, they're awesome live and I think they plan to play more old stuff this time around, which should be awesome.

As for Kamelot, Tommy has a great voice but he's no Roy Khan. Khan is one of my ATF singers period. Silverthorn was terrible, but I thought Haven was actually really solid, I hope the new one follows more along those lines.

 

[Tweaky]

Except that one time where a dictator decided to switch the driving position on the roads?

Did you know: Myanmar switched to driving on the right-hand side of the road 46 years ago this week | Coconuts Yangon

Been busy with a tournament, so slow getting back. I never said anything about a dictator. I said they were not communist. And they are not, and have never been. At the time, they were a military government with supposed socialist leanings.
As for how it is now...seemed not too bad to me, but all I saw was Mandalay, Pyin Oo Lwin, a float down the Irrawaddy to Bagan, and Yenangyaung. No idea what is like elsewhere. Though I do know that not all is well...still a long way to go as far as human rights, etc.
Our former helper in Thailand had her son-in-law send a car for us in Mandalay and take us up to Pyin Oo Lwin for lunch and the Botanical Gardens. He runs a rice wholesale business he started himself after university, and her husband (estranged) is in real estate. The place we stayed in Yenangyaung is a guest housethat supports a school for the local orphans and poor kids, run by a former engineer that worked internationally as well as in Myanmar until he could afford to return home and build the school and hotel. Not quite the experience that Angkor Wat was, but not far behind.

 

[Tweaky]

If I'm staying at a BnB, it's gonna be on solid ground, not up in the air.

Chiang Mai Treehouse

 

[Tweaky]

*sigh*


I hit the 70 lbs loss mark not too long ago, but for the last week-ish (maybe slightly less than a week), I've been sort of stuck in the 263/264 range.

I feel ya. Last time I lost weight, I hit a wall right at 70lbs as well. For me it was 269 to 199, and stuck there for weeks. Sad thing is after a few weeks, I gave myself a splurge week. Did not gain at all. So I figured I was safe to find a happy medium and call it good, even though I was still a bit above my goal. Ate how I wanted for a couple months, barely a pound or two. Stopped paying such close attention and gained it all back in a year. And then moved to Asia and put on even more (currently somewhere around your starting weight, afraid to step on the scale as the glass part was made for the skinny little buggers here).

Point is, stick with it. It may take a while to reach the other end of that plateau. But do not get discouraged, else it could end up being worse than ever.

 

[RockLobster]

I feel ya. Last time I lost weight, I hit a wall right at 70lbs as well. For me it was 269 to 199, and stuck there for weeks. Sad thing is after a few weeks, I gave myself a splurge week. Did not gain at all. So I figured I was safe to find a happy medium and call it good, even though I was still a bit above my goal. Ate how I wanted for a couple months, barely a pound or two. Stopped paying such close attention and gained it all back in a year. And then moved to Asia and put on even more (currently somewhere around your starting weight, afraid to step on the scale as the glass part was made for the skinny little buggers here).

Point is, stick with it. It may take a while to reach the other end of that plateau. But do not get discouraged, else it could end up being worse than ever.

Oh, I'm not stopping. This weekend didn't go as I planned, meal-wise (had a planned family dinner at Old Chicago on Friday, and then eating out at a local brewery just sort of happened on Saturday, Sunday started good, but the day ended up including a Wichita Thunder hockey game--and you know there's no healthy eating options at sporting events). BUT...in each of those cases, except for this morning, I had a good, strenuous, workout the next day.

I'm happy to say I'm now down to 260, so I think I may have gotten over this hurdle here, and hopefully will be moving in to the 250's, and then right out of them in short order! (of course the alternative is that I'm not necessarily "past the plateau", so much as I'm now in a mode of just losing it at a slower pace...I also need to start looking into fiber supplements to help my metabolism)

 

[Tweaky]

Good to hear. I am just now starting back on my quest to be healthier. Have to find foods that work for that (and that I can tolerate) here, but been hitting the mini-gym here at my condo, and taking my kid as well. He is nine and shaped like me. I just put him on the treadmill for most of the time, and let him do the bench and lat machines with no weight, and some body weight exercises...which are easier for him than for me for now. Would not mind him working legs a bit, but his are too short yet. No free weights around, so that is something I will have to look for when we move summer 2019 (for me, he is a couple years from from real strength training aside from body weight stuff). Kid is now requesting salads instead of McDonalds....so progress!

 

[hockeyfish]

I'm almost to the point where I'm going to just go live in a box.

 

[Bubba Thudd]

I'm almost to the point where I'm going to just go live in a box.

 

[ASmileyFace]

That box is definitely bigger than the place I live right now. Which is basically a shoebox with a full kitchen.

 

[UncleRisto]

That box is definitely bigger than the place I live right now. Which is basically a shoebox with a full kitchen.

Mine is 260 sq ft. Can you go lower?

 

[ASmileyFace]

IIRC I measured it all out once and got 365 sq ft. But i also have a loft like thing for storage which helps a lot.

Just came home from work early because I feel like I'm coming down with the flu again... I think since Christmas I've had at most 10 straight days where I feel healthy. Always some cough or congestion or full blown flu kicking my ass this year.

I just want to feel healthy damn it.

 

[Bubba Thudd]

IIRC I measured it all out once and got 365 sq ft. But i also have a loft like thing for storage which helps a lot.

Just came home from work early because I feel like I'm coming down with the flu again... I think since Christmas I've had at most 10 straight days where I feel healthy. Always some cough or congestion or full blown flu kicking my ass this year.

I just want to feel healthy damn it.

The 24-hour flu, or stomach flu, isn't really the flu. What most people get -- and call the flu -- is really gastroenteritis.

 

[Foppberg]

Tell that to my mother when I tell her there's no such thing as a 24 hour flu. Science is thrown out the window when Cathy from down the road had 24 hour 'flu' and Cathy is a Therapist so clearly she knows more about biological processes.

 

[ASmileyFace]

The 24-hour flu, or stomach flu, isn't really the flu. What most people get -- and call the flu -- is really gastroenteritis.

Don't worry. I'm well aware that the "24 hour flu" doesn't exist. I've had a couple different colds that kept me congested for ages and had the flu for real in January. Kept me bed ridden for nearly 36 hours straight and decimated me physically for a week. Luckily I only missed one day of work for that one.

This feels like flu round two. Achy and completely drained right now, despite starting the day feeling good. Guess we'll see how the rest of the day goes.

 

[S E P H]

The 24-hour flu, or stomach flu, isn't really the flu. What most people get -- and call the flu -- is really gastroenteritis.

Talk about life in the ER, that is the majority of the cases they see when I was in my rotation there.

 

[Bonzai12]

Mine is 260 sq ft. Can you go lower?

 

[Freudian]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a very good movie.

Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell are amazing in it and more than deserved their Academy Awards.