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

im fuckign,,,,guys. guys i love my chemical romance so much. i'm an adult. i fucking adore my chemical romance i'm the worst. im listening to fucking emo music and crying guys,,,,gUYS,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

well it's good that you're an adult
because

 

s h r i e k s

 

someone on plurk made mention of being 150 pounds and not being able to lift 50 pounds because it's 1/3 their body weight

and I sat back and realized that depending on distribution, I actually CAN lift 1/3 my body weight even tho I'm 240 lbs

it just has to be in the form of 35lb backpack and 50 lb baggage

 

@Starcrossedsky Depending on how you're defining "lift", I can lift anywhere from 1/3-2/3 of my weight. (Or I used to be able to, before neglecting the gym for most of the past year.)

@Birdy I woke up this morning with Helena stuck in my head.

 

my definition of lift is basically "get it completely off ground and carry it far enough to put it in a Different Place"

 

GOOD

 

I can definitely lift over half my. ody weight-- I can't carry it for a mile, but moving furniture and boxes filled with books has shiwn me that if nothing else, as long as the thing is balanced I can lift it.

Or the thing is a child that can be relied upon to do its own gripping.

 

I can lift a third to half my body weight (and often do - I work catering and five gallons of drinks are heavy) as long as the handles are comfortable or I can keep it properly balanced. I can't lift a third of my weight in the gym, but that has more to do with reps and getting shit above my head than anything else.

Edit: oh and when I hear lift in the context of weight, I automatically think deadlifts, because bf is one of those people that really likes the gym. I could probably do other exercises with 45lbs.

 

210, I pretty frequently need to get 70+ lb packages off the conveyor belt and onto the palettes. My problem is usually based on how dense and how awkwardly balanced they are. Some 50lb are too big to get, some 99lb are easy to have against me.

(We're supposed to get assistance for 100+lb)

 

I am grumbling about the REASON I have to get this test, but look how cool this shit is! I'm radioactive! I love science!

 

Now you're radioactive? That can't be good!

 

Spoiler: :flailing about slime I made:

ok so i made white glue slime bc i had glue and wanted to make some slime

added my kinda fussy clear slime batch to it bc in the past, I’d forgotten to add water, so it was always a wee bit finnicky and not quite as fun as I’d like texture wise.

wound up with a large container of perfect white slime bc i didn’t have glitter or coloring agents or anything

remembered i had lil plastic seed beads, though. added some pink and purple old seed beads and.. IT’S NOT CRUNCH SLIME, BUT IT FEELS LIKE I’M PLAYING WITH SOMETHING FILLED WITH SPRINKLES, AND IT TURNED THIS CUTE SOFT COLOR AND AHHH i love this, it’s like.. there’s enough slime to feel gloopy but there’s lil things to rub against my hands too and they won’t go everywhere, i can’t describe it but it feels absolutely lovely to the touch. :swoons: its like frosting with sprinkles but it's not the bad kind of sticky or slimy

Spoiler: evidence pic of wonderful texture gloop i'm flailing about

 

It's a reference to the Doom comic book haha

 

Birdy gets it.

 

meanwhile over here I can't do twenty fucking pushups

 

Hey, neither can I!

Iirc, there's actually a variety of different exercises that are easy for some people while others are much harder, and these have little to do with the actual muscle involved? F'instance: I can lift things that are pretty heavy because I'm good at levering my body and using my hips to balance things on. I can't reliably do pushups, because my shoulders will pop out of joint.

By that same token, I can do core exercises pretty easily, but exercises that require a lot of stability in my joints are bound to fail. (Exception being my right hand, because apparently all the drawing and shit I do made it SWOLE.)

 

I can lift things and do weight machines but I can't do push-ups because my hips slide around too much. Feel is known.