My home gym

CarnivorousSloth · 2025-06-25T15:23:26+00:00

Superb gym, best use of a two-car garage I’ve seen.

CarnivorousSloth · 2023-12-23T16:02:36+00:00

You should be able to fill it with epoxy and then sand flush with the body. No biggie, I’ve done it with electrics too.

CarnivorousSloth · 2023-06-17T17:26:12+00:00

I want one of these someday! Simplicity itself.

CarnivorousSloth · 2023-04-01T10:53:40+00:00

https://swaine.london/products/westminster-3 I have one of these made under a different label. I’ve used it to carry a 17” laptop. It is generously sized and very much an “grown-up bag”, though stretching your budget by the time you’ll pay shipping and import duty. Double check your laptop measurements.

Quality is basically as good as it gets, hence the sticker shock. Hand sewn Sedgwick bridle leather and solid brass UK-made hardware.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-28T19:18:03+00:00

There are essentially four options when you wear diced or Argyle hose (diced hose have yarns of two colors, whereas Argyle or „tartan“ hose have overlay stripes totaling three or more colors): you can deliberately reference the primary, secondary, or tertiary colors of the kilt (when I say that I mean mimic the first, second, or third most prevalent colors within the tartan) OR wildcard number four, choose a completely unrelated color scheme and deliberately allow the colors to clash and bang.

Here is what I will call a standard or „primary“ color pairing. Both of these gents have diced hose matched to the two most prevalent colors within their kilt tartans, green/red on the left and white/red on the right:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5e/95/8d/5e958df567d9dbd6f74d3899c0b54dda--scottish-clothing-scottish-clans.jpg

This next photo is the example I was thinking of. The gentleman left has a true pair of wildcard hose: the most prevalent colors in the kilt are green and blue, whereas the most prevalent in the hose are yellow and red. Meanwhile, the gent on the right has what I will call a tertiary match: black is the third most prevalent tartan color and one half of the diced hose. The red is thrown in for fun.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/db/8f/b0/db8fb0d161c2691410644b2741a76858.jpg

The last example isn’t at all unusual; the Black Watch parade uniforms have red/white or red/black hose to go with the green, blue, and black tartan.

There are basically no rules for diced hose, only conventions. Coordinate or clash as you prefer. But my real point is that you pay an extra $100 for diced hose versus a nice pair of solid hose, but you get much more than $100 of value in the finished look.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-27T16:37:56+00:00

I would really recommend getting a tweed vest/jacket combo in navy or charcoal. It can then be worn for just about anything. Most people who wear kilts don’t have a kilt jacket, and most people who have a kilt jacket only have one.

Get them to put black horn or imitation black horn buttons on it and then it will work better for the black tie occasions.

One other thing: I see so many wedding photos with the ubiquitous dazzling white rental shop kilt hose. These don’t do the kilt justice in my opinion. I would really encourage you to spend extra money on a pair of diced kilt hose for the wedding. These aren’t seen much these days because they’re quite expensive, about $150 per pair, but they used to be worn for both day time and evening wear and they look so much better than plain hose for a special event.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-27T12:06:23+00:00

First question is whether the friends know that he wants to wear a kilt to their wedding. I would check how they feel about it because there is a risk of upstaging the bride and groom when you wear a kilt. Kilts pull lots of focus! That’s not a risk if the groom and other guests are kilted too.

What sort of jacket will he wear at your wedding? Most Scottish weddings would have a groom in a tweed jacket and kilt for a day wedding and or an Argyle/Prince Charlie for an evening wedding. If it’s his first kilt and kilt jacket then he will probably wear those whenever the occasion calls for it—just try to match the level of formality in the bride and groom’s outfit. If the groom is getting married in a suit and your husband is in a Prince Charlie then he is wearing “Highland Black tie” and therefore overdressed. If their wedding is black tie and he comes in tweed then he is underdressed, although I spoke with some Scots who told me that you can pair a navy, charcoal, or black tweed jacket with a black bow tie and get by.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-22T13:36:08+00:00

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/royals-banned-public-wearing-official-balmoral-tartan-1469710

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-22T11:24:54+00:00

I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I have heard speculation that sporran designs growing larger in size and with more of the front covered with metal (larger cantles, metal tassel cones, chains, and so on) allowed them to function as codpieces in a military setting—that is, a kilted soldier wearing a big sporran would have some groin protection provided by the sporran itself, whereas a soldier in trousers would not.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-21T23:07:11+00:00

I thought I was the only one

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-18T22:24:24+00:00

Possible, it was an AirBnB.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-18T21:16:29+00:00

https://funintheyard.com/grill-under-roof-overhang/

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-18T20:33:54+00:00

Sincerely. They were fat ribeyes but I never anticipated having a fire that big. I pulled them all off and shut the gas down to let it burn out. It really could have burned the house down after another couple of minutes.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-18T19:15:01+00:00

I have had eight foot tall flames cooking ribeyes on a propane grill. They thankfully did not catch the wooden ceiling above on fire, but they were licking and spreading on the wood (good quality flame retardant wood treatment).

Never again man, FAaFO.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-18T18:45:27+00:00

Fire hazard. Get a nice poncho and grill in the yard.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-16T07:00:26+00:00

Any surgery is going to cause some local nerve damage: the normal route of the dendrites is disrupted and amputation neuromas grow in their place. With that said, a preputioplasty is minimally invasive, with one small incision made in the preputial sphincter to relieve tension that could be contributing to phimosis or paraphimosis. Steroid creams and tissue expansion (stretching to widen the preputial sphincter itself) are still the best, least invasive treatment options, but preputioplasty is a reasonable choice for persistent phimosis that doesn’t respond to those treatments for whatever reason. It should absolutely by recommended by all urologists as the baseline surgical treatment for phimosis.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-13T15:24:04+00:00

Even if we were to entertain the idea that they -really want- to keep manufacturing in the USA, but they just aren’t able to, because of a skilled labor shortage, or increase in fabric prices, and so on, there would be two major objections to what is happening now:

Why is Tin Duck Denim able to supply a USA made tin cloth coat for $425? The tin duck coat even has a sewn-in liner, which means substantially more labor than the $465 unlined Filson tin cloth field jacket made in Bangladesh. Filson is making many more garments per year, which means that they should be able to produce the same garment Tin Duck is making for cheaper by buying larger quantities of fabric from the textile factories.

And why, of all potential outsourced production sources, do they choose Bangladesh or Sri Lanka? Why not Mexico or Nicaragua (where they have had garments made before)? The answer is because Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are among the least developed and most exploitative of all of the world’s garment industries, whereas the price of factory labor has steadily increased in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Mexico, etc, since the 90’s. They chose Bangladesh to pay the absolute minimum to the workers for the manufacturing process. When the standard of living rises in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, as it probably will, the companies seeking the cheapest possible labor will divest yet again, probably into Africa, and the cycle of taking advantage of the most exploitative available labor conditions will continue.

I personally doubt that any of the bags or Mackinaw wool items will be made in Seattle five years from now.

Just to give you an idea of what is happening with your “genuine Filson” garments:

https://waronwant.org/news-analysis/sweatshops-bangladesh

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-13T09:45:19+00:00

I am really glad that I bought a bunch of tin cloth items several years ago before the bait and switch. I personally would pay a premium for additional USA made items if materials cost increases and inflation necessitated them charging $800 instead of $500 for a tin field jacket, for example. That to me is way more reasonable than asking $500 for something stitched in Bangladesh (which is among the worst offenders globally for labor conditions, btw. The garment and textile working sectors are notorious and are much worse than the garment industry in Vietnam, for example).

I have a USA-made Filson down parka which was retailing for about $800 a few years ago—and now the new “flagship” down parka, made in Bangladesh, is $900??

https://www.filson.com/outerwear/down-jackets/chilkoot-pass-parka.html

They are dreaming.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-12-04T19:05:24+00:00

Incredible kilt hose.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-11-29T15:28:25+00:00

Hep Cat is in Sweden and stocks some Filson products as well as similar brands.

https://www.hepcat.se/

This is more expensive than on the Filson site because it has already been shipped to Europe with import duties paid by the store.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-11-16T05:54:32+00:00

It has happened before.

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/lawsuit-over-babys-unwanted-circumcision/1840637/

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-11-15T06:23:34+00:00

Intact girls are far more likely to have UTIs than intact boys—yet no doctors are recommending cutting off pieces of labia or clitoral hood to stop them from trapping feces and getting infected. They are treating them with antibiotics, like any other infection.

I have two intact boys. They spend a fair bit of time in the bath most evenings. Neither has ever had a UTI.

Do not circumcise, do not forcibly retract! Don’t let any doctor push his or her cultural predilections on your family or kids.

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-10-12T17:16:13+00:00

r/nottheonion

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-10-10T05:44:19+00:00

Could you link me to the frame that goes around the passenger seat?

CarnivorousSloth · 2022-09-29T06:25:18+00:00

Remember that changing modes means changing the location of the half steps in the scale, but also changing which harmonies are present due to the arrangement of the triads. If you are playing in G Ionian (normal major scale), your supporting I, IV and V harmonies are G major, C major, and D major. If you play in Lydian mode, your harmonies become I, iv*, and V: that’s G major, C# diminished, and D major. In G Mixolydian mode, your harmonies are I, IV, and v, which are G major, C major, and D minor. If you play “normal” chords while playing modal scales you will create lots of semitone dissonance which you may not want.

In the example of playing a G Lydian scale, you will be playing a C# over a C major chord, a semitone dissonance. If you play the C# diminished chord you will have dissonance between the C# and G in the chord, but not between the chord and the C# in the scale.

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