As did I just a few minutes ago. I feel so special!

I have no idea but the eyes and the smile definitely give a different vibe than most mascots.

I love that they have a belt. Like, you gotta put your belt on even with cut-offs.

It’s truer than most realize.

Decided to start lifting at age 47 because I was depressed with work, expecting to be laid off, and needed something positive in my life. A few months in I realize my back no longer hurts while sleeping. I’m not waking up in the morning aching. Here I thought I was hurting just because I was getting old when the reality was I was hurting because I was weak. I was dealing with back pain for several years unnecessarily.

I can do nothing and suffer, or I can suffer a little under the bar and feel great. Either way I suffer but the latter suffering is so much better.

I was just a kid… why would you think I’d know better?

Interesting. So would wearing underwear be fine then?

Exactly. This guy working to 65 because he’s been tricked, not because he needs to.

Dude, most of us would stop working if we could, and those that would keep working would only be doing it because they enjoy it. Nobody’s getting tricked into working longer.

My dad was born in Eastern Kentucky in 1916 so grew up in the same era and region. He knew a guy that married a 12 year old and the guy confided in him that the first day he came home from work after getting married he found his wife playing with a doll. He felt bad, and of course he should have.

Even that marriage was considered bad back then, and this 9 year old of course is about as horrible as can be imagined.

Yeah. The size of this cubicle and not being open plan tells you this picture is from at least a decade ago. It’s so much worse than this now.

Probably got the bread soggy with their damned pickle juice too!

It can be actually. People upstream of water sources - often wealthy people with land but sometimes a collective of local farmers - build dams or retaining ponds to save the water for themselves and on a significant scale can limit the amount of water that goes downstream.

Give him the slow blinks… I’m sure it will work.

Better to just die if you lose your fortune???

I don’t know man… not sure exactly what you’re saying. Always wise to be cautious about taking any kind of drug or supplement, especially regularly. It doesn’t seem like melatonin is one to be worried about but if you’re saying you experienced problems with it after regular use, sure seems reasonable to lay off.

There is lots of variation in how individuals respond to specific substances so maybe it affects some people, including yourself, differently.

It might seem like that but I’ve seen it recommended by doctors more than once. Caffeine stays in our system longer than most expect.

According to the FDA, the half-life of caffeine — the time it takes for the starting amount of the substance to reduce by half — is between four and six hours. This means that up to six hours after drinking a caffeinated beverage, half of the caffeine you consumed is still present in your body — keeping you alert. And, if it’s bedtime, potentially keeping you from falling or staying asleep.

Where do you think they get their ideas??

Got a source for that. The majority of studies suggest that melatonin supplementation does not suppress endogenous production even with long-term use.

You shouldn’t have caffeine within 10 hours of sleep actually.

Why go home and immediately take a shower? I go to places that wash my hair after my cut so I don’t have to go home and shower.

You think can there be anything much worse than being in a motorcycle crash? Yeah, being seriously injured in a motorcycle crash, stuck laying on the asphalt in Phoenix in the Summer. Like cooking in a frying pan.