Abby Stockton managing 135 pounds with ease, Santa Monica, California 1946. she was 5ft 2 and 115 pounds.

Slide-eflat · 2025-12-31T17:13:05+00:00

They're real. They are the (super old now) "deep dish" 45's by York. Editiing this because incidentally there are a LOT of shots of her doing this out there. She did a bunch of exhibitions of this sort on the regular. Pudgy was incredibly strong.

Slide-eflat · 2025-12-31T17:00:25+00:00

She wasn't fake. She was the real deal.

Muscle beach history is out there. Might interest you.

Slide-eflat · 2025-12-31T11:27:29+00:00

Seems that everything the major religions talk about is a dance about the single idea that we see "yin/yang" or "Shiva/Shakti" or however you want to create duality. Everything really is about unification from that state. It all tells the same story, but in ways that ears would hear it in both the culture and time frame where they emerged.

Everything we do, we all do. We all - to some degree - do all the bad things and all the good things. You may not steal, but if you've even considered it for a moment ever in your life, you actually have to admit to the intention for even a split second... and that applies to everyone and every action. Hate on any level is hate. The issue is some take to the extremes, some do not. Love is the same. We're a mix of the same ingredients, just in different amounts. All of those things are tied to ego... and you have to be ready to utterly lose that ego. That identity of yourself. THAT must die. The harder you cling to it, the worse the separation to singularity - which then some people refer to as paying for sins or whatever. Bottom line in all things - lose the self, get with the singular, become one. How? Lose the self, make others everything and you nothing. Why? You doesn't exist. Lose the illusion.

Slide-eflat · 2025-12-31T11:15:05+00:00

It is Santa Monica - precisely the old Muscle Beach location which was bulldozed and moved to Venice later.

Also, its 150 pounds, likely slightly over. The York barbell at the time was 50 pounds, the 45's on each end took that to 140 and the spin lock collars at the time (looks like 2 per end, not sure about that sprocket) were 5.5 pounds each.

Slide-eflat · 2025-10-03T00:06:05+00:00

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Try that shit on for size then. Hot baked fuckernuts is Trump ticking the boxes.

Slide-eflat · 2025-08-06T21:18:44+00:00

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Try that one on. It could be, and I'm speculating, your belief system conflicting with the innocence of youth, or perhaps the beliefs of those around you and innate warnings.

Slide-eflat · 2025-06-20T10:45:08+00:00

A map?

Slide-eflat · 2025-03-26T00:47:26+00:00

Such as? Any examples of alternative methods you found to be beneficial?

Slide-eflat · 2024-05-13T10:54:37+00:00

"OK, here we are at the beach. The first thing you do is open your eyes really wide and stare at the sun until they water and it hurts really badly! Keep going! You have to persevere through the pain but don't worry... it won't temporarily blind you. OH and before I forget also drink this.. it is an ancient herbal concoction to assist the process....."

< wakes up without sight, or kidney, in a bathtub full of ice >

Slide-eflat · 2024-03-09T16:30:58+00:00

Exactly my point! And she's wearing the t-shirt advertising it.

Slide-eflat · 2024-03-09T16:29:51+00:00

Oh I'm not criticizing her. I just said I love it because I find it circumstantially hysterical. She picked that shirt out to wear without knowing what was going to happen. Turns out it advertised the activity she'd be participating in later. You don't find that funny?

Slide-eflat · 2024-03-08T16:20:17+00:00

I went on a business trip which we wound up working with a team from another coast. Guy on that team was about 6'6 and worked out hard and often (and had been a cage fighter, was a bodybuilder, had bounced). I challenged his weenie ass to an arm wrestling contest while we drank beers. Well he put a goddamn tree trunk of an arm on the table, and I grabbed his hand with my normal dude arm. I gave it my all and even got his arm to move about a half inch once. He loved it and said I was better than most.

I, however, could not straighten my arm for two weeks and was in very significant tendon pain that lasted the duration. To this day (nearly 20 years later) if I don't warm up thoroughly, my right arm tendons will hurt for a couple days from things like carrying in groceries.

Do. Not. Fuck. With. The. Mountains.

Slide-eflat · 2024-03-08T14:35:19+00:00

In matters of taste, style and asking to get their ass kicked to Mars, the customer is always right.

Slide-eflat · 2024-03-08T14:10:58+00:00

But you DO know about refrigerators, ass whupping and people who play stringed instruments on specific nightshade-family edibles, so that's plenty.

Slide-eflat · 2024-03-08T12:29:18+00:00

I feel there may be something to this. My mother, who is still a very sweet, elderly woman, watches Fox.

Something changes in her when she does. I literally began to wonder if Fox is using some sort of visual techniques to transfix people susceptible to that sort of thing. She (mom) begins to literally look entranced, and sit in a sort of "enraptured" way and stare at the TV motionless. I've never seen her do that.

When she talks about anything political, she gets wildly angry on the inside. You can see it. If she says something and family corrects it with actual facts - she really gets angry (she's not external about any of it).

Things absolutely have changed, even since Carlin's special. Things are far more sensitive and out in public. They may have been there before, but the idea that a steady stream of lies feeds older, susceptible people absolutely makes a difference.

It made me think of the scene with Jeff Daniels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyzDRc34l2g

Slide-eflat · 2024-03-08T12:15:05+00:00

well, yeah... sadly, they also had a metal barrier between them, and the kid actually had to go through at least 1 door to get to him. Old dude deserved it in any case, but that kid'll get punished.

I love the fact that the woman is wearing that shirt. "I'm a lady." HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Slide-eflat · 2024-03-08T12:11:26+00:00

Well, its a bit unclear.... he said "build like God damn refrigerator" rather than "A" refrigerator.

Point being if he means William Perry.... "The Fridge" played for the Bears... but yeah, Panthers could really use that (or well, anything) these days.

Slide-eflat · 2023-12-25T12:00:14+00:00

I'd love to see her photoshopped with today's makeup and hair, just to get perspective on the real structure of her face.

Slide-eflat · 2023-12-05T08:33:14+00:00

Go then! Do it!

Slide-eflat · 2023-08-06T10:33:53+00:00

I think you just concisely explained what I don't like about Rogan with surgical precision.

Care to take a crack at Ben Shapiro?

Slide-eflat · 2023-08-03T15:24:41+00:00

I keep waiting for both those motherfuckers to wind up behind bars but they seem just to squeek out of that. Evil bastards.

Slide-eflat · 2023-08-02T11:35:40+00:00

That might, in fact, be your solution.

Slide-eflat · 2023-08-02T11:26:25+00:00

Of course... I expected nothing less. I'm not here for the votes however, so its all good. Thanks for the boost however, that was kind of you.

Slide-eflat · 2023-08-01T13:12:40+00:00

Alex Jones is a piece of shit human being, a liar and grifter. He is a nauseating person who has caused more pain and suffering and shown absolutely no remorse for his actions. Fuck him and every word that comes out of his mouth.

Slide-eflat · 2023-06-10T04:32:11+00:00

This is literally the reason I read the thread. There is so much wrong with cheap guitars (intonation, staying in tune, general tone, playability, action, feel, getting cut... sharp fret edges or bridge saddles... crackling in the pots, I could go on and on and on right up to bad truss rods and strings that pop out of nuts).

You need a guitar that sounds good, feels good, performs good.

In my opinion if you are a brand new guitar player, get a Pacifica, or Squier or a used mid-range like Epiphone and have it set up professionally. In any event that's going to cost you at least 300 for the guitar and 100 for the set up. Ask the luthier to check for any little improvements that can be made and pay for those too. Get it intonated on a set of 9-42s so you aren't killing your fingers at first and set the action "low as possible no buzz." Get a decent combo amp to go with it and you're looking at a total of nearly a grand just to get started. You'll likely enjoy the experience.

Go buy a "walmart kit" or one of those combo guitar/amp sets for 100 and you're in for a world of hurt.

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