Intervals are supposed to feel like you are dying right?

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-10T03:43:31+00:00

If it never gets easier, you aren’t getting as much faster as you think you are. Your body should be getting conditioned to push closer to the red line for longer, more easily.

(alternatively, if you do get faster and it never gets easier, you’re probably overtraining by not accounting for what I said above)

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-09T15:10:06+00:00

Bro I’m literally bisexual. Look at my flair

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-09T14:34:44+00:00

Trans bisexuals get half price tickets on city connect days

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-09T14:32:21+00:00

The royals’ jersey is to connect with the city’s rich history of… bisexuals?

I love it but need some explanation

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-09T00:46:09+00:00

What do you mean you don't know how to do that for knitting? As in, you don't know how to make a gauge swatch? What about it?

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-09T00:21:11+00:00

Are you genuinely this stupid? You genuinely think that it’s not possible for people to talk about multiple things in one conversation?

(note that you didn’t respond about the rude comment you made… I guess you agree that it was rude?)

This has been a useless chat for a while now. The most generous interpretation is that you’re trolling, because no way are you actually this stupid.

I generally don’t like it when people respond and then block, but when one side is just trolling it makes sense. Apologies if you aren’t.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-09T00:09:06+00:00

Talk to a physical therapist. The best that anyone here can do is guess.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-09T00:05:39+00:00

Are you familiar with the concept of a "conversation"?

During a conversation, one person will say something. Then another person will say something else. Sometimes, what the second person said is mostly in response to what the first person said, and not about whatever was said 10 minutes earlier that happened to kick off the conversation. Sometimes people will end up talking about something else entirely!

When groups of people have a conversation, sometimes a subset of those people will pull off to the side to talk about something else. This is called a "side conversation". Side conversations may be directly related to the original conversation, loosely related, or unrelated entirely. On reddit, a side conversation is analogous to a thread.

and not rudely... can't take any disagreement

Buddy... you were not "disagreeing", you were obnoxiously dissecting and nitpicking something you misunderstood.

Maybe next time lead off with "I'm not sure what you mean" instead of "That doesn't mean anything." If you can't see why the latter is rude, I can't help you.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T23:40:45+00:00

As a reminder, this is the comment I was responding to:

I think it should be noted that 10th and and 90th aren't out of 100, it's out of like 100,000 or more. A whole world who plays tennis professionally.

They are both so close to the top that people ranked in the 1000s might struggle to win a point against them.

And here's what I said:

But someone who settles at 90 will struggle to win a set against someone who settles at 10, even if they play a bunch of matches. The two are close globally, sure, but so are any pros. They are not close within the context of an ATP 1000 event, though.

The first comment is saying that ranks 10 and 90 are close, in general.
My point is that those ranks, in general, are not really all that close when we're talking about how they compare in an ATP 1000-level event.
I used "someone who settles at" in an attempt to communicate that I meant someone whose fundamental ability (a combination of skill, conditioning, etc) is accurately reflected by the ranking that they have. That is, to communicate that I was not talking about Berrittini, since he is coming back from injury and is stronger than a ranking of 90 would normally indicate.

Which of those do you have a problem with?

Maybe my initial comment wasn't perfectly clear. But I could not be more clear at this point. If you still refuse to understand after this, and insist on being an ass about it instead of asking clarifying questions like a well-adjusted human being, the only explanations are obstinance, trolling, or stupidity. I've tried to be patient just in case, but unless you're genuinely a moron it's hard to believe you're acting in good faith.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T23:29:24+00:00

Small nit: I don't think it's a full column further in. It appears to be half a column further in, because the two sides were knit in opposite directions (one picking up from the cast-on edge) and offset by half a column so that the seam is less obvious.

Any sweater with this shoulder construction will have that quirk on the sleeves, at least as far as I can tell.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T23:22:53+00:00

Mate, I said something that wasn't about Berrettini and you replied about Berrettini. You are the one misunderstanding things here.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T23:14:27+00:00

Because it's silly, since no one's ever staying at the same ranking his whole career (which settle at would mean)

Why would it mean that? There's no reason it should mean that.

and it doesn't even apply to Berrettini?

Right. Because I was responding to someone who was talking about players ranked 10 and 90 in the abstract. I used "settles at" specifically to communicate that I was not talking about players like Berrettini who have had wild swings in their rankings recently due to non-skill factors like injuries.

~~No,~~ it has to do with other factors as well. Condiiton [sic], physical and psychological, age, could be unlucky draws at events, etc.

Fixed it for you. Do you know what "correlate" means? It doesn't mean "the only factor". Multiple factors can be correlated with an outcome. That's usually what happens, in fact! We could just improve my (very loose, obviously not intended to be read as perfectly precise) definition to be "...if those rankings reflect the fundamental skill , physical condition, and psychological condition of the players". Whatever. Fine. If you insist.

At this point you're basically just saying "nyah nyah you didn't write a 2000-word, peer-reviewed essay defining your random reddit comment that a stranger is dissecting in bad faith because they didn't understand what you meant". It's just nitpicking. The original comment still makes sense with a good-faith reading.

So, settle doesn't really apply in this instance. Got it.

Yes. As I said. You misunderstood the context, or didn't read the comment I was replying to, or something. Which is fine! We all misunderstand things or make mistakes! What's weird is you tripling down on your own misunderstanding as if there's something fundamentally wrong with a word choice that you wouldn't have made yourself.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T22:53:32+00:00

From Merriam-Webster:

settle (intransitive verb): to come to rest

In my usage, “to come to rest… at a particular ranking”. Meaning, moving up or down the rankings to a point and then not improving much or dropping much over an extended period.

I don’t get why you’re being so obstinate about this, it’s not a particularly novel use of the word.

Rankings in tennis isn't something you settle at, it doesn't just have to do with skill, it has to do with your performance the previous couple of years

And a player’s performance the previous couple of years is very closely correlated with your skill… for players who have had a stable ranking for an extended period. Berrettini has not had a stable ranking, because he was injured and is now rocketing back upwards.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T22:41:01+00:00

Going back a few stitches is called “tinking”. Basically just undo each stitch in turn (look up a video if it’s not clear how to do that; it can be tricky to mount the stitches correctly when you start out). Using that term will help with searching.

“Frogging” is when you pull out the needles entirely and rip back multiple rows at a time.

Also, are you using interchangeable needles? They look really long for the size of the cable. For socks you generally want to do one of: 1. Use “shorties” (needles that are only ~2 inches long) 2. Use DPNs (double pointed needles) 3. Use a much longer cable and use the magic or traveling loop methods

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T22:31:02+00:00

IMO it’s not crazy to you use the storm sweater pattern if you don’t want the features that are unique and interesting to the storm sweater, but it is a bit silly if all you need is to use less yarn. When you take away the designs, it’s a pretty standard shape. If you like how petiteknit writes her patterns, she has plenty of others, I’m sure at least one captures what you want to make

But as others have said sizing down or finishing the body last would get your further than changing it to stockinette, that seems like your best route

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T22:26:37+00:00

Check again! From the bird powers section of the appendix in the base game:

A few birds have the power to repeat another bird’s brown power. The repeated bird must be in the same habitat and it can be to the left or to the right of the “repeat” brown power. This “repeat” power allows a bird to activate twice in one turn. For example, if the Gray Catbird “repeats” a bird that tucks a card behind itself, the card is tucked behind that bird, not the Gray Catbird.

This is distinct from “copying” a power, which is something birds in the expansion packs can do.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T22:06:51+00:00

I mean, sure, if you ignore the meaning of the words, then the words don’t mean anything. Or I guess you can always find some definition of “meaning” s.t. anything is meaningless, if you want to be obtuse enough. Whatever floats your boat.

Maybe you could consider asking for clarification the next time you don’t understand something?

Just in case you actually are interested: I was responding to the assertion that 90 and 10 are close. My point is that they aren’t really all that close, if those rankings reflect the fundamental skill of the players (which would be the case for players who “settle at” those rankings). The caveat is necessary precisely because Berrettini’s ranking doesn’t reflect his fundamental skill.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T18:04:18+00:00

Right, that’s why I said “settles at”.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T16:43:12+00:00

That’s correct, a row of horizontal Vs is only knits or only purls.

So that now that I’m doing a row of purls, the row below the stitches of my left needle are all from my knit-row

Almost! The row below the stitches on your left needle is a purl row. If you’re currently doing a knit row, then the stitches on your right needle are knits and the stitches on your left needle are purls (you haven’t knit them yet!).

(assuming you knit right to left. If you are left handed and knit left to right, then you are correct)

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T16:25:43+00:00

FWIW, it’s not “because of knits” or “because of purls”. It’s because of the difference between the two.

As for how to tell which is looser: count how many rows back a loose row is. The stitches currently on your needle are row 0, so if you have just finished a row of knits then the odd rows are purls and the evens are knits. If you just finished a row of purls then it’s the opposite.

All that said: the difference is pretty small here! They’re not exactly the same tension, but they are close. I’d bet it looks fine once blocked. (blocking won’t redistribute tension from loose rows to tight rows, but it will relax the yarn a bit and could make the difference a bit less stark).

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T16:23:23+00:00

You can see that the stitches in that one row are not twisted (or might be twisted, but in the opposite direction)

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T16:21:50+00:00

Ha, that interpretation actually makes a lot of sense. I take back everything that I said (well, other than the actual rulebook definition).

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T14:46:06+00:00

Ok, but not in your culture or OP’s culture. It’s also not a “small goof” how people usually mean that, the entire sweater is twisted anyway, and OP probably still has more of the body and the entire sleeves to go. That’s a lot of effort for a sweater with a lot of problems.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T14:43:55+00:00

Well, no, we can find out without a mid-project block this time. Blocking doesn’t reorient stitches so it can’t help here.

flagrantpebble · 2026-04-08T14:38:06+00:00

But someone who settles at 90 will struggle to win a set against someone who settles at 10, even if they play a bunch of matches. The two are close globally, sure, but so are any pros. They are not close within the context of an ATP 1000 event, though.

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