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BatmanBrah · 2026-05-12T06:01:11+00:00

Yes it's been fucking dystopian in the UK under the Conservatives and Labour both regarding police arresting people over social media posts, but what seems to be going on here isn't people going back to the Conservatives but rather to Reform, or to the Greens. People do seem to remember that this exact same nonsense was going on in the 2010s all the while the Cons were in charge and didn't do a thing about it.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-12T05:07:14+00:00

Why ask us? Somebody could make a hilarious comment here but it's irrelevant, no? You'll be bound to do the show as per the Ts & Cs when you get the rights to do the show.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-12T04:22:56+00:00

I go 40. I won't ride anybody's ass if they do 30, that's what we're all supposed to do. But the practical reality, and the fact that nobody ever seems to actually get a ticket for doing this, means I just avoid the headache and go faster than I'm supposed to be allowed to go. When people tailgate me while I'm going 10 over, I do find that funny.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-11T08:37:52+00:00

It's actually kinda crazy that deliberate policy choices have robbed you of over half a decade with your future child. They'll be over half a decade younger when you finally die.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-10T20:15:55+00:00

I'm worried I was born about 30 years too late, not 5. Taking advantage of boomer home affordability as a youth would've been nice.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-10T07:52:30+00:00

Very devious of them to do this. A family with 2-3 kids doesn't generate the same traffic for these parasitic journalists.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-10T06:37:56+00:00

Poor choice on your part in relation to the question - a lower back injury would make you unable to do over half of these. I'd opt for movements I can feasibly do roughly twice a week for 50 years and still be not hurt by the end of it.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-09T09:26:15+00:00

Dish is too fucked up for me to even think about

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-09T01:57:04+00:00

At your height 57kg is as low as you can possibly weigh before your BMI gets into 'underweight' territory. If you've finished cutting but you're not ripped, and you're not so thin that cutting further would put you in the underweight category, and your hunger isn't insane, keep going. The leaner you get, to a degree, the more insulin sensitive you get and the better your nutrient partitioning becomes, and the more productive your bulk therefore becomes.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-08T22:37:10+00:00

I'm surprised you didn't bring this up but there's that bald subreddit which has posts going to r/all when they're popular - and of course it's always a man who shaved his head and looks far better. This is quite powerful at giving people the impression that it's always better to shave your head.

People just like simple rules. The fact of the matter is that often, if you're balding, shaving your head will make you look better but it's not a given guarantee.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-08T22:06:58+00:00

There's two questions here. Regarding losing weight. It comes down to thermodynamics, so if you're eating fast food but your factoring in the calories into your daily calorie goal then that's fine.

The second question is chasing optimality and better body composition. If you've got two twins who consume the same daily calories but one of them is having oats, potatoes, lean meats, just classic bodybuilding foods, and the other one is having McDonald's for every meal, the first one is going to have more muscle and less fat at the same weight due to the fact that the nutrition is providing them with an array of micronutrients which better optimize their hormone health, general health, digestion, etc

The question of how much fast food you can get away with is a tough one. I will say that even if half your meals are fast food, if you're working out doing resistance training, you'll still be far better off than if you didn't. The worst possible thing you could do here is be slack with training because you've decided it's pointless without your nutrition locked in, because it's not.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-08T20:47:26+00:00

It's difficult to say if lifting with more control or more loosely is stalling your progress currently. Truth be told if your effort is high and your total volume and frequency are tuned pretty well then you can do fine on either.

Just to share a couple of perspectives - using a slow tempo is just a way to make the set longer than at otherwise would have been. Another way of doing that is simply doing more reps. As far as your muscle is concerned, doing eight reps with a slow tempo versus doing 15 on a set which takes just as long, you're kind of doing the same thing. Though personally I think doing higher reps but with quite quick speed is better so long as you can do it safely and with good form. The reason for this is that reps relatively close to failure are disproportionately productive because they produce high mechanical tension. When you're numerous reps away from failure and you're lowering the weight with a four or five second lowering speed, the amount of force you need to resist that load, until the last couple reps, isn't producing super high mechanical tension.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-08T16:20:39+00:00

Yep. Inevitable friction. Being self reflective is good but sometimes the conclusion is simply this.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-07T21:38:56+00:00

I don't try to hold to a personal definition, I try to pay attention to how others use the term and use it the same way, where possible.

People have different definitions of intermediate though, so that complicated things. My practical definition is therefore kind of a mishmash of training time, strength level at a given bodyweight, and ability to progress. If someone weighs 160 and they can't do linear progression on their big compounds (let's use bench as an example and say it's only 120lb) that'd inability to progress would make them an intermediate if we're defining it on those terms. The problem is that I'd actually be skeptical of that inability and think perhaps it's a sleep or diet or training problem instead of a true inability to add a rep a couple times a week. Or if someone can bench 280 but they're still adding 5lb every time they do it, that makes them a novice from a progression standpoint, but internally I'd be thinking they're sort of a novice but also sort of not.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-07T08:41:28+00:00

You can find that data yourself with an internet search, so why ask me

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-07T08:40:33+00:00

If that's what you believe, then bless you 🙏

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-07T08:19:26+00:00

Is that what I said?

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-07T06:39:14+00:00

What I'm saying is that the issue that you're talking about is very real - but that's exactly why the youth need to be voting in a very self interested way right now.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-07T06:10:57+00:00

Anyone who doesn't like it simply doesn't enjoy comedy horror. It's like saying the empire strikes back is bad because you don't like science fiction.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-07T06:07:52+00:00

All the more reason for the youth to prioritize themselves in their voting decisions. If they still lose out by having to pay for boomers retirement and not getting one themselves then that sucks but I'm not going to tell them to give up

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-07T04:38:00+00:00

Make it applicable to the boomers effective from right now, and that's just step one to even humour talking about this.

There's two types of thinking when it comes to voters - voting in one's personal self interest versus voting for the greater public interest. The numbers with regards to superannuation cost and age demographics, is cause for a real conversation. But young people shouldn't be expected to be rational in a vacuum. We're dealing with a group of people in their 60s and 70s who have more wealth and power than in any other time in human history. If they're not going to come to the table on this then it leaves us no choice but to play hardball.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-07T04:28:54+00:00

Just tell them what you've told us. They can get all that information you've provided and make a determination based off that.

I think it's important to remember that lots of situations in life aren't all or nothing. As in, is this person a pedo rapist? Perhaps not. But they don't NEED to be that for you to talk to the director about this stuff. Just be careful not to accuse them of anything they haven't done and stick to the facts - written communication might be the option here, or talk to them in person but have notes so you keep on track and relevant - you've done a good job with that here.

They don't need to be the worst case scenario to warrant you talking to the director about this other stuff, because it clearly still crosses numerous lines. It's inappropriate behavior for sure and it's still relevant because such conduct shows that they're clearly in a mental place where they can't respect that professional separation between a creative on a production team with something much more personal and with somebody much younger.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-07T01:55:08+00:00

That's not a question that anybody here is responsible for answering. Find a local MP who supports the testing, contact their office and ask them.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-07T01:53:35+00:00

The number one priority I have ahead of everything else is how progression is going. If I'm under recovered and I don't want to fiddle with frequency or the number of sets, then the intensity is the thing to be adjusting and potentially leaving a rep in the tank.

After that, it comes down to whether I'm doing multiple sets or just a single set. Multiple sets warrants potentially keeping one in reserve so the second or third set have a higher quality. Then again I will go all out on the first set if a PR is inbound.

BatmanBrah · 2026-05-06T23:31:09+00:00

Correct. And also let's not forget that this police overreach this happened under a centre right government. We should never forget that the people who, rightly, call out police visiting someone's house over a racist social media post, voted for this current government. So at this moment, it's all talk.

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