Gray on 13/10/2019 at 18:19
That'd be the pouch thingy then. The loose weight, you have to pick up from a circular box, a kind of black tobacco mush, between your thumb and index finger, roll into a small ball, and stuff into your upper lip, where it will slowly dissolve with your saliva, causing drooling, spitting, general foul stench and polluting the whole world around you. Glad it's not that one, then. You are correct in saying that the pouches can cleanly be hidden away inside your mouth and none would be the wiser you're having one. Same contents, but a much cleaner, neater way of doing it. You just have to use more of them, the loose weight is stronger and easier to pick a suitable amount.
I would clearly recommend neither, but pouches over loose weight by far.
Renzatic on 13/10/2019 at 18:26
Yeah, there's no way in hell I'd do the loose stuff. I've seen people chew, and it's about disgusting. No way I'd put myself through that, even to quit smoking.
Tocky on 13/10/2019 at 22:47
Keep on grinning till the weekend comes
Just a pinch between the cheek and gums
Joe Walsh
Anyway, I notice you didn't respond to My challenge, Gray. What do you say? There really isn't anything good made local but I could get an Ocoee muscadine wine or Portland Niagara white or Stonehaus Davenport red or something. Those are near enough to not be too much trouble and they are great. Maybe a Makers Mark whiskey. That I could get local. Personally I don't like it. It's like Gentleman Jack. All the flavor has been strained out somehow. Guess maybe I'm no gentleman. Where would you be comfortable starting push up wise? We don't have to start at the same point and it isn't a race. But the goal is 100. That seems impossible but it's not. Impossible for me by Christmas absolutely but in a year not so much. What do you say?
Gray on 13/10/2019 at 23:46
Oh, I missed that line. It seems I've been challenged in a way I did not expect. I just tried to see how many push-ups I can do in one go, and I just barely made 32, so I'm not nearly as fit as I wish I was. And yet this is the most fit I've been in years.
So what exactly is the challenge? Whoever gets to 100 push-ups first in one go has the other one buy him a locally sourced bottle of poison? I can probably live with that, and I fully expect to lose that challenge. As I stated in my previous post, I have the biceps of a chess player, but the legs of a wrestler. If we'd be doing leg press-ups I can do twice my own weight. But yeah, I'm quite happy to lose at push-ups, if you want to make a thing of it. I'm game.
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34 now. This could take quite some time to get to 100. Now I just have to....*gasp*... sit down... and breathe... for about... a week...
Tocky on 14/10/2019 at 00:28
Don't do it twice in a row. Give yourself time to heal then do more the next day. It isn't a race. I was thinking more of a congrats on reaching 100. Damn it now I have to do 34. After I finish my toddy.
Oh and what is it you would like as a reward?
Gray on 14/10/2019 at 00:37
That will probably be a moot point, as I expect to lose, but I'm gonna try my damned hardest not to. In the unlikely event I get to 100 first, I'd like something local that's a fairly decent example of the place you live in. It doesn't have to be good, just something I can't buy at the supermarket down the road. I wouldn't mind a bourbon. And I bounce back the question to you: what would you like me to send you when yo- um, I mean, IF you win? A nice unusual single malt whisky?
Tocky on 14/10/2019 at 01:13
Something smoky. I've not won yet. I've not done 34 yet even. How about we both win when we hit 100? No local bourbons or even good wines. There is a local beer and a local muscadine wine but the former tastes like someone ate an orange, drank a beer, and threw up the results in a bottle and the wine is way too sweet. Tennessee has all the best wines and bourbons. The Jack Daniels distillery isn't far but it's not known as particularly rare. I drank enough to turn a battleship around (regards to Skynard) when I was in service and that was in England. I'm sure you've had it. Gentleman Jack is more rare but lacks the distinctive taste which makes it like any other to me. Think on it. What is something you have heard but not tried.
Tony_Tarantula on 14/10/2019 at 02:54
100 in a row without stopping the motion or without taking your weight off feet/hands?
Tocky on 14/10/2019 at 03:06
That's the only way. Back straight and one after the other. I don't expect the head to touch the floor but like two inches from it. Military style. Jesus I just did thirty five and it near killed me. I forgot how hard this was. I'm going to lose. Well, if it were a race. Time for another toddy.
Gray on 14/10/2019 at 08:20
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That's the only way.
Agreed.
Just thought I'd get it done early today, but I'm just out of bed and not really awake yet, so it was only a pitiful 22. I'll try again later. It woke me up, though.
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Something smoky. I've not won yet.
Well I won't get you the most popular ones, you can probably find them at every corner shop. I myself am quite partial to smoky Islay single malts, like Laphroaig, but I'll try to find something a little bit more obscure.
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How about we both win when we hit 100?
Fair enough. But given how I started this morning, getting to 100 might take me years.
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No local bourbons or even good wines. There is a local beer and a local muscadine wine but the former tastes like someone ate an orange, drank a beer, and threw up the results in a bottle and the wine is way too sweet. Tennessee has all the best wines and bourbons. The Jack Daniels distillery isn't far but it's not known as particularly rare. I drank enough to turn a battleship around (regards to Skynard) when I was in service and that was in England. I'm sure you've had it. Gentleman Jack is more rare but lacks the distinctive taste which makes it like any other to me. Think on it. What is something you have heard but not tried.
When I say "local", that could cover your entire continent, not just the next three blocks over from your house. My point is something I can't get here where I live. Jack Daniels is very popular here, which I find a bit odd given how awesome the local whisky is. Tell you what, you look up something you might think I can't get here and give me its name, and I'll look up something here I think you can't get, and I'll give you its name. If it turns out we're already aware of the other's choice, we go back and look for something more obscure. Deal? I can take pretty much any hard booze except tequila. Not doing that any more, oh the stories I could tell.... but I won't. They usually end in violent expulsion from one end or the other. For a while I couldn't even stand the smell of lemons, but I got over that after only 2-3 years.