I totally agree. The very idea that a degree is absolutely necessary is a wholly American idea. I’ve spoken with actual college professors that freely admit that the whole notion is a bit of a scam to begin with. Many graduates end up in work that is completely unrelated to their degree. Meanwhile, Google are hiring…

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So you just rewrote NASA’s Mission Statement without telling anyone? Huh?

And then add 80 milliseconds...

That's how old everything we experience is, on average. Our consciousness lags 80 milliseconds behind actual events. This was demonstrated with visual illusions by David Eagleman of the Baylor College of Medicine.

Barefoot is nothing when compared to the diabolical pain of kneeling on a single brick. After you realize (very quickly) what's happened, you then have to peel it off. Now that's pain.

That's nonsense. Human ideas of anything play little part, if any, with respect to the attractiveness of females. I can find countless scientific papers that outline the same basics. A woman's apparent ability to bear children is a huge factor, and to that effect, having a wide pelvis is an attractive attribute, as is…

I was referring to the "50lbs overweight" part of your comment. I merely wanted to point out that basing a supposed ideal weight on height alone is poppycock.

Well I was going to phrase in the form of an accusation. I had a hunch that there was something afoot, but I chickened out and went with pure facts instead.

Ah, I guess I'm mostly thinking of those starting out with those huge tubs of expensive proteins. So even bodybuilding can be done cheaply with a well thought out plan? I'm happy just to have some tone to my muscles. Six pack is coming... I can feel it.

The word "calorie" is misused. In a popular use of the term calorie, dietitians loosely use it to mean the kilocalorie, sometimes called the kilogram calorie, or large Calorie (equal to 1,000 calories), in measuring the calorific, heating, or metabolizing value of foods. Thus, the "calories" counted for dietary…

The BMI is total nonsense. I am supposedly in the lower risk category, yet I can walk and run without getting fatigued for several hours. There is the idea of FOTI (fat on the inside). Some people are walking around like ticking time bombs, their hearts on the edge of explosion. Yet they look healthy and trim. All of…

Bodybuilding is a different way of doing things. But it does cost a certain amount of money in the products you use. No, I'm not dissing it; I'm just saying that it's not for me. I'm more interested in cardiovascular health and losing that tire around my midriff.

I completely agree. It's definitely a two-way street. Equally odious is the up-selling of countless "diet" plans that people (chiefly women, for terrible societal reasons) half-heartedly go in for. They say, "I'm on this diet," or, "that diet," and then fall off the wagon when the promised instantaneous results don't…

I walked over 1,000 miles last year. Not typical walking, but power walking. That amounted to about 2 to 4 extra miles every day (except Fridays) and maybe about 8 - 20 miles over a weekend. I spent $50 on a pair of running shoes and wore everyday shorts and t-shirts. By the end of the second month I'd lost 90% of the…

I played all the videos simultaneously at full volume, and then spent the next 15 minutes being chased around the house by my wife. How many calories did I burn?

Not to mention the whackadoodle alliance Voyager forged with the Borg in order to fight off species 8472... who then became their friends after Janeway realized that the Borg had started the whole thing. "No... really?"

Absolutely. He was utterly fucking evil. Look what he did to the Doctor. That was pretty hard to watch actually.

To be fair, it all started with Hugh "Geordi is my friend" Borg...

You get a special star for the Banks mention. May his soul rest easy in an "artificial heaven" somewhere.

You mean... like... the desert planet Tatooine? Yeah, I couldn't agree more. Star Wars sucks in certain departments, and only scrapes by in others.