Random Thoughts

[Ahriman]

Holy crap, it's cold!

You're warm on the inside.

[Angrboda]

Behold the Monty Python workout. It’s silly! It’s walky! It works, according to an important — or, at least, actual — study published today in the annual holiday edition of the BMJ, a British medical journal.

Employing high-tech science and a tittering adolescent’s sensibility, the study’s researchers filmed volunteers perambulating like the ungainly bureaucrats in the Monty Python comedy troupe’s Ministry of Silly Walks sketch, while wearing metabolic monitors.

Their aim was to determine the physiological effects of ambling around a track in the manner of the actor John Cleese, playing the apparently boneless Mr. Teabag, the head of the Ministry of Silly Walks, or Michael Palin’s Mr. Putey, a wannabe silly walker whose screwball stroll needs work.

The scientists soberly wondered whether silly-fying people’s walking form would up the intensity and caloric expenditure of their exercise and make an otherwise simple stroll into a serious workout. The study is part of the BMJ’s annual holiday lineup of legitimate but offbeat research.

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In practical terms, these findings suggest super-silly walking can be strenuous enough to qualify as “vigorous exercise,” Gaesser said. If someone adopts a silly walk for at least 11 minutes a day, he continued, they will meet the standard recommendation of at least 75 minutes of vigorous exercise every week, which should meaningfully improve health and aerobic fitness.

(Washington Post)

[Rev. Rye]

The collaboration between Steve Brule and THE Velvet Underground that literally nobody was asking for:

Jingus, help me find my proper place
Jingus, help me find my proper place
Help me in my wingus
Cause I’m fralling out of grace

Jingus, Jingus

[Fake Messiah]

The pool on the Titanic is still filled with water.

[Rev. Rye]

Hypothesis: Harry Styles took a lot of nutmeg before his press conference for Don’t Worry Darling

[arewethereyet]

In the last couple years I have avoided people like the plague...in the last couple weeks I went out and spent time with people. Now I am sick. Back to isolation for me. UGH!

[arewethereyet]

It would appear that I was able to take down TTA...pretty much all by my lonesome. The fact that Seth made a business decision to do away with the forum doesn't seem to matter. I asked him not to give it over to the people who were trying to get all the data from server...but I was not the only one. Just the only one to admit it. I suppose I should feel good about being much more powerful than I ever thought possible.

There's a reason I hang here and not at the TTA2.0.

[Angrboda]

No offense, but TTA was, and AD is, filled with a bunch of circle-jerking assholes.

[arewethereyet]

Why would I take offense?

AD turned out to be exactly what I expected.

I just didn't want all the back data given over to the people who wanted it.

[Angrboda]

The news says that Ex-pope Benedict is lucid and alert. If only he'd fallen ill sooner the world might be a better place.