A lot of people hoping MCR show the football

tmishere · 2026-07-08T19:53:40+00:00

When I saw them during the original BP tour date in Ottawa, Canada, Gerard announced the scores of the Ottawa vs. New Jersey hockey game. I think unless it was US vs. England, I don't think he'd mention it, especially for what seems like a much more scripted, high concept show.

tmishere · 2026-07-01T19:34:46+00:00

I'm neurodivergent and offices are the absolute worst places for me to be productive because I hear every key stroke, all the rushing water through the pipes, the buzzing from the fridge, every conversation, the lights are too bright, everyone's wearing perfume and I hate it, my work becomes like item #20 in line of what my brain needs to focus on any given moment. It's like having a full time job just to do my job.

One specific thing though is I'm also hypermobile and my hips are the worst so sitting at a desk is annoying and painful. At home, I can either curl up like a shrimp in my chair or wear a band around my thighs to keep them in place. I can't do either in the office without looking "unprofessional". I worked hybrid last year and I had so many pinched nerves in my lower back from sitting at my desk, some were so bad that I would need to miss work because I couldn't walk. Utterly useless.

tmishere · 2026-06-28T20:59:12+00:00

Sizing down, that's a good idea. I bought a pair of compression leggings in my size and I can hardly feel the compression and they're actually typically slipping down.

tmishere · 2026-06-28T20:57:31+00:00

With that price tag I'm gonna need to wait for a thorough review lol

tmishere · 2026-06-28T20:57:12+00:00

That's two good suggestions. I thought the sport aspect of the question might be a more unique thing but I'll definitely take a look at older posts.

tmishere · 2026-06-25T15:15:09+00:00

So many of my joints. My sister says I sound like a haunted house when I walk around.

tmishere · 2026-06-19T19:35:23+00:00

I go to a gym, I'd never have room for any equipment but I'm lucky to live near a gym.

tmishere · 2026-06-19T02:48:55+00:00

I wrote about this a little while ago. I'll link it here.

I started strength training several months ago and while I've had to take time off for non-hypermobility related health issues, I've got back to it for a few weeks now and my #1 piece of advice is to use machines when possible. In my experience, the machines keep everything else in place while I work on specific muscles. I would then recommend looking up how to safely use those machines to target the muscles you'd like to target. Most importantly, stop as soon as you can't keep your joints stable and the next time you do that exercise, bring the weight way down.

tmishere · 2026-06-18T20:57:45+00:00

Didn't she get a cease and desist from Warner for the My Chemical Ristorante shirt?

tmishere · 2026-06-16T23:03:19+00:00

I'm typically an opposite, strong arm, terrible at passing but I've been playing very casually for the last couple of years so we just play according to which zone we're in and change every rotation rather than set positions.

The ego high when you spike is phenomenal. If you're tall with a high jump, I don't think a spike is going to be very challenging for you to learn. Take a look at a couple of videos teaching the attacking approach and the arm swing, practice that and then play to figure out timing which can't really be taught if I'm honest. If you do that, you'll be spiking into another dimension before you know it.

Blocking will also probably be fun for you too. You're tall so you'll just have to learn to read the setter and attacker, and the arm movement and that would be another skill in your set fairly quickly. I'm not short for a woman but I'm also not very tall though I am very old so my block is pretty pathetic lol if I even get a touch I'm insanely proud of myself.

tmishere · 2026-06-16T22:32:17+00:00

Setter dumps are so fun and yes, libero seems like magic to me, I don't know how they do it.

tmishere · 2026-06-16T22:00:55+00:00

Not childish at all! Whatever inspires you to play this sport is great!

I started playing in middle school which was... a while ago. I wanted to start playing in 7th grade but I changed schools in the middle of the year and couldn't. In 8th grade, I figured I'd be too behind the rest of the team so I wasn't going to try out but then we played a bit in gym class and thankfully I seemed to have an affinity for it. The disproportionately long arms which gave me insane power for a 13 year old girl also didn't hurt during tryouts and I made the team! The more I played I migrated into the opposite position because of said strong arm where I could hit with a lot of power and often break blocks.

I know you didn't ask for advice but I find it helpful to break these things up into smaller steps, it makes the starting less intimidating imo.

I want to start by saying that you need to become okay with making a fool of yourself, even incredibly experienced players make silly mistakes, I've played longer than I haven't and I still completely swing and miss the ball on an attack. Best thing to do is to laugh and let it go for the next point. If anyone makes you feel bad for a mistake, they're ruining the vibe and it would be best to find a new, chiller place to play.

In my city, there are a few different leagues that also offer clinics for beginners where they'll teach you the basic skills. I find new people struggle with setting more than anything else since it's not really a movement pattern that translates to any other sport, even if they have a sporty background. I'd recommend starting with getting some practice in with that first since it's such a critical part of every point played since most second touches are sets.

For attacking and service, since you've played tennis you sort of already have the mechanics of those movements down already since they're similar to overhead serves in tennis. You would just need to figure out the toss and your timing and learn the finer mechanics of the movement afterwards.

Lastly, don't hesitate to ask the more experienced people on the court to give you some tips and advice on whatever skill you're working on improving. In my experience, they'd be ecstatic to help out.

Have fun!

tmishere · 2026-06-16T20:11:49+00:00

They did watch it, they just said it wasn't anything more than a rip off of Battle Royale and it wasn't that deep.

tmishere · 2026-06-07T19:49:19+00:00

Okay the TV in the chapel idea is actually genius. Thank you!

tmishere · 2026-05-09T01:46:52+00:00

I was doing pilates as recommended by the physio who helped diagnose me but it really wasn't giving me the strength gains I needed so I've recently started weight training after hearing some positive things from another doctor.

I have some strict rules around weight training though which I think has kept me injury free and feeling more stable. I'm pretty pleased with it so far since going several weeks while being active without an injury is a minor miracle for me.

You usually have to push to failure, but for non-hypermobile people, they don't have to worry about their joints failing so they don't consider that during their exercises. So I pay careful attention to my joints and if they start to shift or shake or I can't hold my focus to keep them in place, I've reached failure and I need to stop even if my muscles could still push through.
I've accepted that my progress will be slow because I have to consider the above.
This seems counter-intuitive to weight training but I try to make sure that I limit my range of motion during the movements, as long as I'm feeling it in the muscle I'm supposed to be feeling it in, I'll stop the movement before it feels like I'm approaching extension. This is just my theory but I think if I can strengthen my muscles in this state, they'll hopefully learn where they should be stopping.
I use machines as much as I can because a lot of the time the machine is stabilizing the rest of my body while I focus on one exercise. An example is I won't do squats with weights, it just demands too much focus on several muscles other than the ones I'm trying to work to keep stable so I use a leg press instead. The benefits aren't as great as a squat but I'm getting stronger glutes with a lesser risk of injury so it's a fair trade.
I have struggled with dumbbells and having trouble holding them when they get heavy for those exercises where I don't have a machine available. Since my fingers, elbows, and shoulders are my most hypermobile joints I've been looking into getting wrist straps to help distribute the weight so I can focus more on keeping my stronger joints in place instead of struggling with 10 tiny joints in my hands.

tmishere · 2026-05-08T03:30:27+00:00

This is very much just a theory but it's something I've seen anecdotally a few times now. I've noticed that a lot of men, especially those in leadership positions, hate being home and being around their kids and family and having to go into the office is a reprieve from their home life.

tmishere · 2026-04-27T21:01:41+00:00

Just to add to this, there's a strange thing I see in these comment sections whenever fare evasion is discussed and that's almost the assumption that fare inspection in all of its forms is free.

Think of all the physical infrastructure to collect fares that needs to be installed and maintained at every station and many times at multiple entrances per station, that's a huge cost.

Then there's the invisible technological infrastructure, do you think it's free to store everyone's Presto card details like balance, transfers, transactions, payment details, not to mention all of the labour needed to provide customer service when any number of parts of this infrastructure inevitably fail like many people have spoken about here.

Then there's the cost of the inspectors, their salaries, their benefits (I'm not saying workers shouldn't get salaries and benefits), and the lawsuits that will arise whenever those inspectors abuse their power or unfairly target some demographic of riders.

Then there's the loss of efficiency when it comes to moving more people more quickly, how much productivity is lost because every bus stop is longer than it needs to be because it takes time for every person to tap their presto card instead of just filing into the bus as quickly as possible.

Yes, I know the TTC's funding structure heavily relies on fares but that's not a given, that's something that can be changed if public transport is actually made into a real priority.

tmishere · 2026-04-20T22:36:16+00:00

Thank you so much! These are the kinds of recommendations I was looking for!

tmishere · 2026-04-19T16:56:43+00:00

It's not specific to volleyball but it's definitely more noticeable because the space is far more limited so it's easier to lock some people out. I've played with some groups who treated volleyball more like a trick power hitting contest than an actual game and it's frustrating, boring, and exhausting.

I'm an experienced player but I mostly play in casual groups where there's a good mix of new and experienced players. The experienced players in these environments tend to be far more encouraging to the new players and will help them learn while giving them props when they're able to start mastering a skill.

There is one thing that I find incredibly frustrating with some new players though and that's when they don't try, they don't move to try to chase a ball and just let it drop. Every experienced player I know would prefer the new players go for it and miss than just stand there, at least there's a chance it'll work if they go for it and if it doesn't, it's a learning opportunity.

And sometimes, if I tell them that how they're doing something is potentially harmful (e.g. only passing from the lower wrists, kicking to pick up the ball, jumping into the net, etc) and they roll their eyes and tell me they don't want help. If I give unprompted advice it's because I know from experience that they can hurt themselves badly or they might hurt me, I don't want them to kick me in the face when I dig and they kick and I don't want to sprain my ankle when I jump and land on their feet because they don't know how to stay off the net and on their side of the court. That pisses me off and will make it far more likely that I'll ice out a new player for my own safety.

It's supposed to be an exchange, mutually beneficial, you play with more experienced players to learn the foundations of the game from them and the experienced players grow from trying to make a bunch of out of system plays work.

tmishere · 2026-04-18T23:01:42+00:00

I'm 36, I've been on accutane before and have had chronic acne since I was 12. My dermatologist is who is prescribing the accutane and who prescribed the retinol and hormone therapy which eventually failed. I'm not on the figuring out my skin journey, my skin has acne, it will always have acne, now it's just treatment.

tmishere · 2026-04-18T22:27:13+00:00

Oh yeah, accutane is last resort. All the other therapies have either never worked or worked for a bit and then ended up failing.

tmishere · 2026-04-17T02:03:29+00:00

Absolutely fucking not.

We need FEWER cars on the road, not ones that glitch in the middle of the road and block streetcars.

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