What are your thoughts on starting with skipping rope before moving on to the full on hop? I can do that much longer at this point, but I don’t want to do that at the expense of something else.

Scientists who study this thing for a living Internet randos with the handle Moose Knuckle say your buddy’s advice is broscience . . .

I did. Wasn’t correcting you so much as adding my take on the original idea, which I think is pretty flawed. Sorry to hear it came off that way.

She lost a lot of credibility with me when she came out with that line of organizing containers after railing against them in her book. It was insincere at best, and a cash grab at worst.

HAHA! Great example. I love the word “verboten,” when someone is unreasonably forbidding something. It seems more strict>draconian. But it’s obviously not useful every time I mean “forbidden.”

Yeah, I’ve only ever heard it used to replace “request,” as in “That’s a pretty big ask.” I’ve never heard it used to replace “question.” That being said, I think I’ve heard it maybe twice in my life that wasn’t on TV, so I’m definitely not the authority haha.

Cool, I’ll tell him to go give his Masters back next time I see him. They just really don’t train Nurse Practitioners the way they used to.

Haha, it’s a weird one since more Americans do it “wrong,” than “right.” I’m with you though, I can’t remember when I learned there was a difference, but it was later than Iwould have liked.

Sure. As Beth said, it is technically true that at a lower heart rate a higher percentage of the calories you burn do come from fat, but you burn so many more calories at a medium to high intensity level that it doesn’t matter. These numbers are totally made up, but the math goes something like this:

I had a body builder friend explain the fat burning zone to me like this:

Canned crab goes pretty well in a carbonara sauce, and it’s a strange day when I don’t have eggs, cheese, and a couple of herbs available to me.

A lot of these are solid, but some of the words people want replaced literally have different meanings than the ones they want them replaced with.

Really!?! Servers are counting on every penny around the holidays? I’ll add their name to the list:

I hate this with products. I’ll be shopping for something online and two or three reviews read. “Great, exactly what I needed, and I really like the company! 4/5 stars”

Thanks for the recommendation. Buying one for my less than tech savy father as we speak.

Haha, yeah. I love languages and find artificial ones to be super interesting, so I downloaded that pack and even if it isn’t intended as a joke, it’s a joke. It was clearly something knocked together so that they could say they had Klingon. 

My Japanese friends do that.

True, the American reputation definitely has a solid kernel of truth to it. The article was in English, so I was sharing my experiences trying to use other languages abroad. For non-english speakers headed this way it would probably be easier to just tell them which bumper stickers and hats to look out for before…

Everyone is a foreigner somewhere, and no one speaks every language. Most people will be friendly and helpful no matter where you are if you are friendly back. Don’t miss out on the chance to see more of the world because you’re worried people might snicker if you confuse the word “duck,” for the word “idiot,” (they…

Best single phrase I think you can learn in a language when you are traveling abroad, outside of things like “Hi,” “please,” and “thank you,” is “how do you say [point to noun].”