Post Race!

[dday9]

When'd it change?

[homer13j]

Not sure. I think it was 10-15 years ago when I was living in Chicago.

[dday9]

TG says that open primaries lead to more "revenge voting"

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, I hear they post naked photos of the candidates.

[FunkyDexter]

Eeeewwwwww!

[dday9]

Did y'all see where Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, that's pretty much why it's revenge: There are no survivors.

[szlamany]

I know someone who moved to Ohio - usually votes democrat - and when I asked if they revenge voted they told me they voted Rep.

Kasich got in on garbage like that.

Not fair to be setup for a contested convention by rogue democrats!

[Shaggy Hiker]

So, I wanted to program a robot to make pasta, but I just kept ending up with spaghetti code.

[Gruff]

Eeeewww indeed.

... Day three of typing one handed. The surgery went well and I have more feeling in my left hand. Less mobility for now though.

It may just be the oxicodine or the 48 hours of rest, but I am feeling in better spirits than I have for some time. Now if the car still turns over and my hair grows back I'll be 100% of 60%.

Jelly bread skulduggery equinox barsoom...

[Gruff]

rogue democrats vs pack of wild nuns smackdown..

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Did y'all see where Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

I know his beer was warm which is a terrible thing, but 15 year is a bit harsh!

[Gruff]

dribble dribble drool.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Now if the car still turns over

Mine's still on its wheels....is that a bad thing?

[FunkyDexter]

Day three of typing one handed

Oh... I see... that's what you use the internet for is it? You could go blind you know.

The surgery went well

Surgery? Did I miss something?

[Gruff]

More coherent now. (I think.)

I broke my wrist in June last year. They put a metal plate in there at that time.

Since then I lost most sensation in that hand. Last Monday they went back in to fix the problem. Seems to have worked so far.

I am tring to remain in a good mood. You folks go a long way to help in that regard.

[FunkyDexter]

Nasty. Does the feeling appear to be back now?

A mate of mine shattered his ankle when he high sided his bike at a race and they had to reset it 3 or 4 times before it finally took. Mind you, he didn't help by stubbornly carrying on doing sports before it'd healed properly. Watching someone rock climbing with a dirty great boot on is kinda funny though.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I've managed to get x-rayed more this year, and visit more doctors this year, than in any previous year of my life. Since it's only mid-March, that's what you could call, "a bad trend."

Didn't amount to anything, though. The foot and the knee turned out to be nothing too bad. I did manage to partially tear my left bicep in a falling accident (can't really call it climbing, can I?) a couple weeks back, and that one has reduced my strength, but the doctor told me to hit the gym to keep the range of motion as it heels, which it will...over the course of the next several weeks. I thought I'd be going under the knife for that one. For the first two days I couldn't lift 5 lbs with my left arm. Now it feels fine most of the time, but I'm only up to about 30 lb curls with that arm.

[dday9]

Shaggy, do you do rock climbing or strictly hiking?

[szlamany]

Shaggy, do you do rock climbing or strictly hiking?

He started with leniently hiking...

[Shaggy Hiker]

The rock climbing is only bouldering for exercise on a climbing wall. The falling works about the same, though, except that there is padding.

I wouldn't say I'm so strict or lenient at hiking. How about lackadaisical? And don't forget the biking, the caving, the sailing, the rafting, and whatever activity comes along. One thing I have noted is I prefer duration over intensity. Biking for a few hours is exercise, and I may or may not do that. Biking for a thousand miles....well, that was fun. I'd do something like that again, but I'm kind of booked with some hikes for the next few years.

[Gruff]

For the first two days I couldn't lift 5 lbs with my left arm.

If that were me I'd have to hold it for a couple of days.

[FunkyDexter]

For the first two days I couldn't lift 5 lbs with my left arm

Well there goes your love life

I prefer duration over intensity

Too easy. Just too easy.

The rock climbing is only bouldering for exercise on a climbing wall

Bouldering's generally much harder work than roped climbing though. Far more intense and exhausting. Personally I prefer roped because there's a greater sense of achievement when you get to the top but a few interesting bouldering problems at the end of the night are great for burning that last ounce of energy.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

strictly hiking?

I suddenly had this vision of a (completely new and not in anyway copied from another) TV program where they pair up vague celebrities with professional hikers .... maybe Shaggy could be a judge !!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Ultimately, even movies about hiking end up not being about hiking. It's not much of a spectator sport.

[Shaggy Hiker]

So, I was walking home from the store this morning with a pack full of groceries, and some woman asked if I needed money. Apparently, I'm a bit scruffy, but I didn't think I looked that bad.

[Gruff]

Hmmm. Game show about hiking... "The Trudge"?

[Peter Porter]

Ever had a large work table, weighing about 500 to 600 pounds, hit ya in the head while falling off a forklift? Don't you hate that?

Anyway, I had some X-rays done. My skull and spine is ok... numbness in my face has passed... and I don't see double! Woo-hoo!

[Shaggy Hiker]

I had a rock about the size of a football hit me in the head while I was climbing down a waterfall one time. It made a positive impression on me.

[homer13j]

Gotta love the British sense of humor (humour)...

UK asks public to name $300M boat; "Boaty McBoatface" leads vote

[szlamany]

To be sailed by Capt. wrong-way peach fuzz??

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Gotta love the British sense of humor (humour)...

UK asks public to name $300M boat; "Boaty McBoatface" leads vote

Never ask the British Public to name something in an online poll unless your actually looking for daft answer!!

[FunkyDexter]

I particularly liked the Boatimus Prime suggestion.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I thought they were all pretty good. Every good ship needs a nickname as well as a name. That one may have one, by now.

[Gruff]

I spent too much time bouncing around the North Atlantic in the early seventies to romanticize sailing. The USS Vigorous out of New London CT. and the USS Morgenthau out of New York NY.

I had nicknames for them too. None of them repeatable.

[dday9]

God save the queen!

[Shaggy Hiker]

I guess you made the cutter, then.

[Gruff]

You could say I coasted through my enlistment.

[Gruff]

Get off my lawn you dang kids! (DadGumIt!)

[Shaggy Hiker]

You could say I coasted through my enlistment.

That would be a guarded comment.