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Overweight and marching
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:40 pm
by Ace
It seems to me that a lot of guys in this band are really too heavy to be marching in this parade on a hot day. Or, any day. Whew!
https://youtu.be/DiJKB5jbF2c?t=385" target="_blank
Ace
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 7:23 am
by hup_d_dup
Here are the Belgian Defense Cadets. They are not overweight.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments ... y_for_ww3/" target="_blank
Hup
(two three four)
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 6:02 pm
by Three Valves
No, they just look as if they have a load in their pants!!
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 7:23 pm
by Birdo
*shrugs*
Most people, with varying degrees of tact, told me I was too heavy to attempt a full marathon. Finished it anyway.
They CAN march so why not?
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:38 pm
by Radar
Well most of these guys aren't much heavier than I am, I march with a Sousaphone in a Fire Department Band all summer long, followed by playing for an hour standing up in the beer tent. Never had a problem finishing a parade or playing after the parade.
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 9:31 pm
by roweenie
I'm sorry to hear about your brother-in-law, bloke - seventy is too young.
As to the answer (and you know the question), I've got one word: SUGAR, in all its nasty, hidden forms.
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 10:45 pm
by roweenie
bloke wrote:roweenie wrote:I'm sorry to hear about your brother-in-law, bloke - seventy is too young.
As to the answer (and you know the question), I've got one word: SUGAR, in all its nasty, hidden forms.
no question...It (along with THC, which reportedly increases sugar cravings) seems to have taken the place of tobacco, in the USA...
...so - instead of just emphysema, lung cancer, and heart disease, people are now dying of emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease, broken hips, diabetes, (oh) and (via the THC) epic stupidity.
Yes.
THC is somewhat addictive, but not nearly as much as is sugar, which has been shown to affect the same receptors in the body as does cocaine:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/" target="_blank
Here, in PRNY (the People's Republic of New York), posession of marijuana (in small amounts) has just been decriminalized.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... ijuana-use" target="_blank
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 6:27 am
by Big Toot
roweenie wrote:
THC is somewhat addictive, but not nearly as much as is sugar, which has been shown to affect the same receptors in the body as does cocaine:
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I do miss my cocaine.
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 10:57 am
by Big Toot
bloke wrote:Big Toot wrote:roweenie wrote:
THC is somewhat addictive, but not nearly as much as is sugar, which has been shown to affect the same receptors in the body as does cocaine:
target="_blank
I do miss my cocaine.
We didn't have a clue.
Well, but only in solutions of 7%
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:30 am
by iiipopes
bloke wrote:My brother-in-law (a defensive lineman in college who - at one time...probably twenty years ago - weighed over 500 lbs.) died yesterday morning at age 70 of a heart attack.
Most all of his health problems (which began in his 50's, and snowballed over the last decade) were directly related to morbid obesity.
Recently, I've dropped about 55 lbs. (and counting). My bp (no meds) is down to around 100/60, and my heart rate (at rest) is about 55 bpm. (I've not run the first ten feet, nor done the first push-up, nor done the first sit-up.) On hot days - when outdoors working - I'm no longer sweating out my clothing in the first few minutes of working, and I'm able to walk into any store and (simply) buy a pair of slacks or jeans - somewhere towards the middle of the available size ranges, and with "regular" (not "relaxed") cut.
Carrying around less weight - for the vast majority of people - is a decision, promotes better health, and (surely) less effort ends up being involved in most any physical endeavor - including playing an instrument, and marching while playing an instrument. Most any physical activity ends up being accomplished with more grace when it is not a struggle to carry out that activity.
This. ^
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 5:46 pm
by Three Valves
Big Toot wrote:
Well, but only in solutions of 7%
What this country needs is a good 7% ABV beer!!
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 12:19 pm
by Big Toot
Three Valves wrote:Big Toot wrote:
Well, but only in solutions of 7%
What this country needs is a good 7% ABV beer!!
Doesn't it, though?! You can get some pretty high ABV with like Impy stouts and Wee Heavy's, but a regular drinking beer - can you imagine a 10% ABV lager? I would go insane!
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 5:36 pm
by Donn
IPAs on the shelf here are routinely 7%. Certainly not all, but it's there for those who want it. Tripels and scotch ales at 8 or 9%. I've seen 10%, but it wasn't lager - suspect that isn't possible. In the Pacific NW, we apparently decided, it wasn't the water, after all.
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 5:56 pm
by Three Valves
Snake Dog is my go-to 7% but I want something that drinks like a session IPA and hits like full strength!!
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 6:25 am
by Big Toot
I am not a fan of IPAs, frankly. My favourite beers are simple - pilsners, lagers, dunkels. Beers that follow the Reinheitsgebot are even better, IMO.
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:46 pm
by Three Valves
Hopped up lagers and Pilsners are great, I like the Fresh Cut from Peak.
But it doesn’t even top 5%
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 10:29 pm
by Donn
Lagunitas Pils is 6%. Maybe west coast only, but it's distributed outside California for sure. Had some this evening, not bad for a Pilsener, but I'm not a good judge of that kind of thing.
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 1:34 pm
by iiipopes
Three Valves wrote:Big Toot wrote:
Well, but only in solutions of 7%
What this country needs is a good 7% ABV beer!!
Available for many years now: Boulevard Tank 7. Actually, a little higher @ 8.3 ABV, but with moderate hoppiness and a "93" rating from Beer Advocate. I enjoy it on occasion myself.
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:43 pm
by jperry1466
The belly is obviously part of the uniform. Looks like some of them forgot that part, the way some of my students used to forget to bring the correct color socks to marching contest.
Re: Overweight and marching
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 6:45 pm
by Three Valves
That would be like chargeing sick people more for health insurance!!