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  1. Gravel

    Weight Loss Thread

    Honestly, that's where most Americans (westerners?) screw up. Liquid calories are by far the worst. They're not filling and they accumulate fast. Oh, and they're pretty devoid of micronutrients. Soda and beer are essentially just adding calories for the sake of adding them. If anything, the BBQ...
  2. Gravel

    Weight Loss Thread

    Get this figured out first. Ok isn't going to cut it. I also recommend you stay far away from any type of bars. Clif bars are specifically meant to be calorie dense for people who need something small they can take with them for hiking or other strenuous activity. They're not meant to be a meal...
  3. Gravel

    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Without a top 5 defense, Eli has to carry the team. And he's not that good.
  4. Gravel

    Weight Loss Thread

    Fair enough. How long have you been squatting? It shouldn't take all that long to balance out (essentially you should just be countering body weight + a little extra). You should look into bulgarian split squats. They're probably a better choice than single leg press. I do them to finish my...
  5. Gravel

    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    I think he was saying if you throw any QB onto the Niners, they could make a deep playoff run. I don't necessarily agree. Just need a decent game manager who can make a big play every once in a while.
  6. Gravel

    Weight Loss Thread

    Quit doing single side exercises? I guarantee if you back squat with a barbell for 4-6 weeks (2-3 times a week) that you'll even out. Bench press is the area where you can always tell someone who just started lifting. They'llalwayshave a lopsided bench. But in a few weeks it evens out...
  7. Gravel

    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    They don'thaveto cave to his demands. They can just Dilfer him.
  8. Gravel

    Survivor

    You also need an overwhelming majority, if we're talking post-merge. If the person with the idol has any sort of alliance, you'll have to get them to join in. Edit: To clarify, you need enough votes to knock out your "real" choice, but that also includes having 1 more vote than the idol...
  9. Gravel

    2014 Oscars

    I thought it was strange because I never really hear white people do that (outside of Tebow). But I guess being raised in Louisiana might have something to do with that. He's got a really good shot at winning a best actor Emmy for True Detective this year. It's a damn good year for him. Top...
  10. Gravel

    Weight Loss Thread

    I've been losing about 3/4 of a pound a week for most of my cut (started the last week of December). The last two weeks of February I kind of stalled out at 167.5 though. Was kind of disappointing, because I feel like my calories are already crazy low (2100). But then this past week, I dumped 2...
  11. Gravel

    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Could it be that Kaepernick looked at the projected cap numbers and is going to try to leverage that into a big contract, under the auspices that it'll actually be cheap compared to future contracts? If so, he's a genius. The Niners would be absolutely retarded to give him that much, unless he...
  12. Gravel

    Survivor

    Wow, that's disappointing. Even if it's only for after the merge, it's like an auto-finals award. Thinking of how many people in recent seasons have found multiple (since they hide them for shit), that's just obscene. I had always said I wouldn't bother looking for an idol because it just...
  13. Gravel

    Weight Loss Thread

    Umm...no. Rowing is cardio. Weight training is resistance training. The amount of resistance water or a rowing machine can provide is minimal at best, but you can't increase it. Having not lived in ancient times, I have no idea what their muscles looked like.
  14. Gravel

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Booked a flight for August specifically because it arrived in Vancouver at 3pm. Got a notification here in March that they've bumped it back 2.5 hours. What the fuck, airline industry? If I wanted to arrive that late, I would have booked a motherfucking flight that late in the first place...
  15. Gravel

    The Fast Food Thread

    Subway and Applebee's...ugh. I used to know this truck driver, and he would talk about how anytime you go into a gas station with a Subway attached, you're hit with that Subway smell. I started to notice it after that conversation, and now just the smell of Subway makes me sick. The food is...
  16. Gravel

    First high school reunion coming up

    I didn't go to mine. I don't really understand the appeal. I spent 4 years with these people. I've left jobs that I've spent longer than 4 years at, and I could give a shit about any of them.
  17. Gravel

    Weather

    It's raining like crazy right now. Pretty nice.
  18. Gravel

    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    I actually thought about picking AO back up recently. I was in early beta for it and had a blast. But then release went so terribly that I don't think I played until 3 or 4 months in. The implant system was absolutely genius. Forced community interaction in the same way ports/SoW did in EQ by...
  19. Gravel

    Survivor

    Newsflash: Women look ugly without makeup. She actually looks much better than most women without it, which means with it she's hot. And yeah, Kleenex, I agree. It's these idiots who start playing 10 steps ahead of where they should be and end up crippling themselves. David was awful about...
  20. Gravel

    Survivor

    Well crap, I swore I checked the casting thing recently, but apparently they're already doing casting for the next 2 seasons. Doubt I can get an application together in time.
  21. Gravel

    The Fast Food Thread

    Huh? I've always had quesadillas that were made with cheese between two tortillas. In fact, the only place I've ever seen a "folded" quesadilla is Taco Bell.
  22. Gravel

    Survivor

    She's a ridiculous person. She said "I'm a nuclear engineer, and I have an idea of how to build the shelter," and my immediate reaction was..."What??" If she were a structural or civil engineer I could see her being all cocky about it, but what the hell does a nuclear engineer know about...
  23. Gravel

    Survivor

    That Brains tribe is a mess. They won't win a challenge. They also shouldn't have gotten rid of David at the first vote. Oh, and that Garrett guy on the Brains tribe I said would be a favorite after the first 10 or 15 min. Then he starts bitching about surviving on Survivor and doesn't want...
  24. Gravel

    Life & Times at the American Office (L&TAO)

    I give this an hour before it's shawed.
  25. Gravel

    The Fast Food Thread

    Apparently the AM Crunch Wrap is pretty good? The pictures for the Taco Bell breakfast stuff actually looks really good (it may be my cut making me super hungry), but I just wonder what the actual crap you get in the restaurant looks like.
  26. Gravel

    RIP Harold Ramis (Spengler)

    Fuck man. I'm getting old and now actors keep dying that I actually know.
  27. Gravel

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I can imagine someone not having seen Star Wars. But this would be like saying "I've never heard of Star Wars." I understand that people have different tastes. So maybe she never cared to see Ghostbusters or Groundhog Day, fine, I can buy that. But to be so completely oblivious that you've...
  28. Gravel

    Olympics Thread

    Guess I was wrong about there being a terrorist attack.
  29. Gravel

    Torrents

    Waffles pisses me off as I've never figured out a good way to bump my ratio up.
  30. Gravel

    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    End game in TERA was awful. Lockout timers on dungeons, terrible RNG on enchanting, and only like 2 or 3 dungeons. The other end game thing they had was the portal things or whatever, which suffered from terrible netcode and culling, which made it essentially unplayable. The pre-max level...
  31. Gravel

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Holy shit, I can't tell if this bitch at work is messing with me, or if she's retarded. I had mentioned last week watching Worst Cooks in America, and the girl who got kicked off reminded me of someone. Over the weekend I remembered that it was Cousin Vicki from Vegas Vacation (her voice). So...
  32. Gravel

    Survivor

    Survivor Genre: Reality First Aired: 2000-05-31 Overview: A reality show contest where sixteen or more castaways split between two or more “Tribes” are taken to a remote isolated location and are forced to live off the land with meager supplies for roughly 39 days. Frequent physical...
  33. Gravel

    The Fast Food Thread

    Oh, man...I wish there were some Culver's out here in California. That's some damn good food.
  34. Gravel

    Travelling in California

    That's the only advice that matters. One of my coworker's husbands is an LA Sheriff and that's his recommendation. You'll occasionally get some cross-the-405 crime if you live right next to it, but it's a strange insulator. The perfect example is that Inglewood is right next to Marina Del Ray...
  35. Gravel

    House of Cards

    Finally went through the last few episodes this weekend. Some of you are spoiled. Yes, the show has issues, and Frank probably outsmarts everyone a bit too easily. But c'mon, if this show came on 20 years ago, people would be calling it the greatest show ever. It's just the fact that overall, so...
  36. Gravel

    Weight Loss Thread

    What's your diet look like? Assuming you're not just having a mental block (which is my first guess), I'd say you're doing low carb and may need to up the amount of carbs you're eating on workout days. Cardio wrecks your energy stores, and if you're trying to lift after an hour of that, you...
  37. Gravel

    Weight Loss Thread

    I currently have 4 tubs of pre-workout sitting in my kitchen. White Flood Reborn watermelon, White Flood Reborn pineapple (limited edition flavor, most delicious/refreshing supplement I've ever had by a mile though), Ergopump fruit punch, and Fierce Domination blue raspberry. That said, I'm...
  38. Gravel

    RUSH - Ron Howard's 1970s F1 Movie

    Finally got around to seeing it. Definitely met my expectations. I feel like had I never started watching Top Gear, I would never have gained an appreciation for F1. A few more things of this quality and Senna, and maybe F1 will start to gain some traction in the US?
  39. Gravel

    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    I don't know why this year the Combine seems super early. I looked it up and apparently it's always late February. Why did I think it was normally in March?
  40. Gravel

    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Netflix speeds lag for Verizon users amid dispute Glad Netflix is calling them on their shit. Unfortunately, I don't know that it makes a difference.