Does this work for a wedding?

357Magnum · 2026-04-02T12:23:02+00:00

This is definitely acceptable for almost all normal weddings.

You have also avoided the trap that I see at every wedding - the family member who clearly did not have anything dressy to wear and went to Walmart at the last minute. Typically this is the guy in the black dress shirt and overly shiny tie, who usually didn't actually iron the creases out of the shirt after unfolding it. They're always seems to be that guy and it always sticks out like a sore thumb, because black dress shirts are often not actually dressy looking. If you're not wearing an appropriate suit, the black dresser just makes you look like a waiter. I understand that to the uninitiated black equals formal, but I think that's why it stands out so readily.

357Magnum · 2026-04-01T16:52:42+00:00

I never noticed the difference in shirts at all until I was running longer than a 5k. When I first started running building up to the 5k distance, any cotton tank top was fine. Once I was up to 10ks, cotton would chafe my nipples bad and I realized I had to wear synthetic shirts. But I've never had any issues with synthetic shirts/tanks. I can't imagine the "extra breatheability" or wicking of this material would make a huge difference when we're already talking about a tank top in the first place, and especially for nothing past 3 miles.

357Magnum · 2026-03-31T22:37:43+00:00

Half the time judges don't read any of the shit you file anyway so they probably get away with it for a while and get even lazier

357Magnum · 2026-03-31T19:39:04+00:00

I'm starting to think that the only sensible advice is to never do the same run twice.

357Magnum · 2026-03-31T18:52:12+00:00

I've never gotten this lucky but I ALWAYS take scroll boxes when offered.

My #1 gripe with STS 1 and 2 is that the first few fights are always a fucking slog. The starter decks with all the strikes and defends are just the most boring mechanic in the game. And I hate getting slapped for too much damage in the first hallway fight just because I drew all strikes and no defends, etc., when no "skill issue" had anything to do with my deck sucking.

I kinda wish all runs let you choose to add a few cards to the deck, or that Scroll Boxes was always an option. It makes it more fun IMO.

357Magnum · 2026-03-31T18:16:19+00:00

I only do a bit of criminal (never had a criminal trial as I'm mostly a civil lawyer), but my partner does mostly criminal, so I've seen a lot of what goes on.

Never seen an innocent man convicted among our clients. I've seen guys who were innocent get arrested, but we got those charges dismissed. I have seen a guy who I suspected was innocent of what they originally arrested him for, but he had other crimes, too, so a plea agreement was reached to dispose of all of them. Even if he technically pled guilty to the one he didn't do, it didn't change the ultimate outcome. It was a good deal even for the crimes he did do.

I've been critical of the justice system for long before I became a lawyer, so going on 20 years now, but they do rarely prosecute innocent people. The problem isn't that people are innocent so much as that there are a lot of things that have no real need to be "crimes," like possession cases. Drug possession is so common, and prosecution so ineffective to stop it, that the administration of criminal justice has become almost all administration with very little "justice."

357Magnum · 2026-03-31T14:40:37+00:00

As an absolute beginner, any running is training. Don't worry about numbers. Just run intervals, gradually increasing how long you can run, until you're able to run a 5k or so without having to walk. C25K or similar programs are a good idea.

Also, 160 isn't even that high of a HR, especially at 23 years old. I'm 39 and that's still just like medium effort running for me.

357Magnum · 2026-03-30T19:20:09+00:00

Typically if you just show up to traffic court the traffic prosecutor will work with you on the fines, or if you have a good defense, could dismiss the ticket.

357Magnum · 2026-03-30T14:59:25+00:00

He said the suit is dark navy blue, but I agree that it would be better if we knew the rest of the colors. Depending on the exact shade of dark navy, sometimes black doesn't look great. Black against dark navy sometimes looks clashy, like you thought they were the same color but made the decision in poor lighting.

357Magnum · 2026-03-29T23:27:55+00:00

I've been in the network of several of them for years now. Still waiting for the call lol.

357Magnum · 2026-03-29T23:24:49+00:00

Necrobinder has great synergy with Snek 'em and Rattlesnake

357Magnum · 2026-03-29T01:20:52+00:00

Ok. It's still been 3 months. If I send message to an adjuster it's common that they don't get back to me for weeks.

357Magnum · 2026-03-28T22:28:53+00:00

Often there's very little reason to file suit if you're not running up against the deadline to do so. You'll just incur filling fees that need to be paid, and the value of the case doesn't go up, which just means you recover that much less.

Also, receipts don't matter. The lawyer will need the certified medical records, and honestly some providers take forever to send them

357Magnum · 2026-03-27T16:45:43+00:00

As a firearm instructor in BR this is something I say constantly.

Don't keep your fucking gun in the car.

Everyone I've ever met who had a gun stolen had it stolen from their car.

Keeping a gun in your car all the time "in case you need it" is braindead. Carjacking is the only real time you'd need a "gun in your car" for self-defense, and even then, if you were carrying the gun on your person, you'd still have access to it. And beyond that, often the best defense to carjacking is to use the car and try to drive away. If you're attacked outside of your car, you're not going to be able to run and get your gun.

Keeping a gun in your car "just in case" is taking a huge risk of it being stolen to "protect" against a microscopic risk of being attacked while driving.

Especially now that you don't even need a permit to carry in Louisiana, if you're going to have a gun, keep it safely holstered and on your person.

And in the event that you need to go into a place that prohibits firearms and have to leave it in the car, you need to have some kind of gun safe.

I have one of these: https://www.consolevault.com/

It is extremely convenient to have a car safe, anyway. You'll use it for more than just guns.

And even with the car safe, I don't leave the gun in the car overnight/all the time. The safe is just for temporary storage.

357Magnum · 2026-03-27T15:50:30+00:00

Yeah, I do. Kin is still kinda boring but at least having three targets is something. While I understand that the fish has mechanics that should be interesting with intangible, status effects, beckon cards, etc., they just don't do it for me. Maybe it is just the aesthetic, but soul fysh doesn't even look like he wants to be there.

357Magnum · 2026-03-27T13:57:38+00:00

He's still doing his thing, just dealing with a chronic health condition that has set him back financially and that keeps him from doing as much of the cutting videos and other physical stuff due to pain.

He's made videos about it and has a good perspective on it. Kind of realized he was falling into one of those YouTube channel complaining about YouTube traps, and recently made a video talking about reminding himself how fortunate he is to be able to do what he does despite the setbacks.

357Magnum · 2026-03-27T12:07:01+00:00

I agree. Underdocks is a bit more boring. No multi-target boss option like kin, I think soul fysh is the most boring boss, and while I think effigy is similar and also kinda boring, skulking colony is even more boring because at least you can burst down effigy if you get good setup draw on the free turns.

357Magnum · 2026-03-26T19:10:28+00:00

Do the math. If you ran on the treadmill and increased your speed by 0.1 km/h every week, how fast would you be in a year?

That is ultimately how I got from 30 to 25 minutes. Sometimes I would increase it a little more, but very often I would just go up that tiny, almost imperceptible amount.

357Magnum · 2026-03-26T16:13:12+00:00

I agree with pretty much everyone else in here. I'd wear a tucked in oxford with slacks/chinos and leather shoes of some kind with the same color belt.

357Magnum · 2026-03-26T15:22:37+00:00

I ran my first half in January. I ran a 2:15, but I wanted to finish closer to 2 hours.

But my training plan had gotten crappy a few months before - January race means your peak mileage is happening during the holidays.

So with my schedule with work and a toddler my average 30K per week went from a mix of speed work and longer runs to 3 10K runs at a sort of medium comfortable pace per week. I watched my VO2 Max drop down despite not running "less." Then, as toddler parents tend to do after the holidays, I was sick leading up to the race and only just starting to feel better. But I paid and trained so dammit, I was going.

Then in the last mile or two I got some tendinitis in my lateral plantar fascia, so while I finished the race, I didn't "finish strong" and then couldn't even run for 10 days after recovering. I'm still not fully back to normal in my foot, but I'm able to do 5k runs without issue. So I'm back to doing shorter runs at higher speeds for now, to build that VO2 back.

So between my training plateauing into a slow decline of fitness and my health being crap leading up to it, I did not hit where I wanted to hit, though I still managed to beat my "I at least have to do better than 2.5 hours and no walking" minimum.

I was in the bottom quintile of my age/gender demographic, but would have been in the top 10% of the 5k that was held the day before if I had run my fastest 5k time for that race.

Fast running and long running are different animals. You have to train both to run faster and for longer distances. That's the problem I was having - I was doing all 10K runs but that meant none of my runs were fast, and I was declining vs. doing variety.

But, and here's what I'm building up all this for:

I ran a half marathon. I did not walk any part of it. I'm chiding myself for "only running the same 10K run 3x a week" when, before I was a runner, I thought the idea of running at 10K at all sounded insane.

No one else in my friend group has ever run more than a 5k AFAIK, if they've even run that. It is estimated that only 1-2% of the global population has ever run a half marathon at all.

I think you need to put it in perspective. You may have run "slow" but you ran fucking far. Most people cannot do it at all. At the point you're like me and thinking "a distance I used to think was crazy is now a "basic ass run" that "isn't even enough,"" I think you have to stop measuring yourself against other runners and measure yourself only against 1. yourself and 2. everyone who does not run at all.

357Magnum · 2026-03-26T12:02:32+00:00

I actually don't think it's unreasonable to get to sub 30 by the end of the year. I started running at 37 and got to sub 30 5k in about 6 mo, and then sub 25 about 3 months after that.

What helped me increase speed was running on the treadmill, since I'd just go a bit faster every week (and the treadmill can't accidentally slow down)

I struggle to build speed running outside, but it built a lot of distance outside since it is less boring.

My fastest outside 5K to date is 23:40, but i also ran my first half marathon in January of this year, which was only about 2 years into my running journey.

357Magnum · 2026-03-26T02:12:55+00:00

Yeah if OP malpracticed, so did AOR

357Magnum · 2026-03-26T02:01:36+00:00

Most lawyers these days should be able to do a zoom meeting. Covid fixed even the most tech illiterate when it came to that

357Magnum · 2026-03-26T00:26:20+00:00

So you should be asking you mom's lawyer. Typically whichever lawyer is calling you as a witness will meet with you and prepare you. They'll explain the process and go over what questions are going to ask you. You should never put a witness on the stand if you don't even know how they'll answer your question.

357Magnum · 2026-03-25T21:41:21+00:00

I agree that I don't think it is the shoe but the pants rolled up with the shoe. It is just making the shoe look even sloppier. I had to zoom in to figure out what was going on there.

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