Fishin' in the stream of consciousness (all-purpose, no topic chat thread)

same hat! my old team used to do one armed planking, and I can hold that for about 15 shaky seconds before whatever keeps my shoulders together (I think it's juicy fruit) gives up

the last doctor I went to told me to track down shoulder strengthening exercises, I think in hopes that the muscles will pretend to be tendons
any suggestions?

 

The best I can offer is water exercises, since that's what my mom did and what I used to do in her pool. Pushups against the side of the pool and using your arms to lift and move yourself around exclusively did a lot for her ability to use her arms, and I definitely was able to do out-of-pool pushups more often when we had a pool to train in.

In general, I think most of the issues with joint things can be fixed with pool exercise? Since a lot of the problems is the stress that gravity/weight puts on joints, if you remove that issue you end up freeing your muscles to grow and get stronger without putting undue strain on them. THIS IS PRETTY MUCH CONJECTURE THO because I am absolutely mediocre at doing An Exercise. The only other one I'm good at is Grocery Lifting aka How Many Bags Can You Carry At Once. :P

 

yeah I can't go beyond the 1/3 weight, my housemate is 110 and the time I tried to lift her was fail.

 

I guess it does depend on your definition of lift, though. If I'm picking up a person, like hugging them around the butt and lifting them off the ground, I can lift people slightly heavier than me. When it comes to picking up something like a heavy box I can manage maybe 40 pounds. If I'm lifting weights I get up to about 20 and can maybe do like two or three... lift thingies. You can tell how much I exercise.

 

Parks and Rec have ruined the new Rings movie poster for me. Every time I see the "First you watch it/Then You Die" bit, I always think of the shock wire "I call it shock wire because if you touch it, then you DIE" and say it in that cadence. And think of chubby Chris Pratt as Andy trying to explain the horror of Samara. First you watch her tape, then you DIE.

 

thats beautiful. i mostly think of that stupid troll comic where they watched the video then put the tv pointing out a skyscraper window

 

what happens if you play it with the tv facing a mirror?
what about two tvs playing it at the same time facing eachother?
what about a tv in a mirrored box so it's reflected and reflected and reflected and reflected?

 

but forreal tho, i love that creepy crawl out of a tv aesthetic. i wanna be buds with samara.

although i kinda wanna be buds with a lot of monstery types...

 

check out this forum i just found omg

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/forumindex.php

 

today someone in one of the group chats im in said that in their dream last night they accidentally adopted samara by reading harry potter to her

 

The French Tumblr ad* for that movie is the absolute worst. It's a gif that uses bluespace to make two fake posts, one saying "Reblog this or Samara will kill you", and the other being a kitten pic that then turns into Samara crawling out of the boundaries of the post.

*Do you also have it? I assume there would have been lots of talk of it in the mentally ill side of Tumblr if you did, but idk.

 

I can't stop laughing at how accurate this post is - every single one of these is so much my life. The only resource on southern US culture you will ever need.

 

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accurate

 

a couple years ago didn't Atlanta get like one inch of snow and then decided they had to SHUT DOWN FUCKING EVERYTHING

i'm still laughing about that, and I don't even live in a state with particularly heavy snow

 

Sometimes I like to put vibrators on my nose until I sneeze like five times in a row

 

ok

 

aw heck, I am poolless

still, one day I will have access to a pool, and this will be super helpful, so thanks!

 

i don't weigh much and i don't exercise much, but i can lift my backpack or carry it on my back and i have been told many times by my parents that i pack it far too heavily. and yeah, it hurts and maybe i shouldn't do it but i can do it.