Compete Level

sutterfamily wrote: ↑Mon Feb 23, 2026 9:16 am And, you know, I guess I could go to blue sky but I feel that it's less the platform than the medium? Just the absolute worst way to communicate. My oldest came upstairs just before this while I posting about the olympics (she's home sick from school) and asked what I was doing and I told her I was posting on a message board and that it was an archaic way that people used to talk to one another on back when the internet was mostly good and full of promise.

(response I got was pokemon related, haha)

I’m active on Bluesky and it’s helpful for keeping up with things. The main thing I’ve learned about social media is to use it on my terms — I don’t interact with big news accounts or anything like that, it’s critical to avoid both mouthbreathers (which are noticeably less frequent on BS) and Blue No Matter Who centrists. Whether it’s message boards or SM, I’m only looking to find other people who are into my niche interests and are Reasonable Human Beings.

I bailed on Twitter maybe a year or two ago and it felt way overdue then. I do not miss it at all.

I'm halfway through my colonoscopy prep liquid and let me tell you

I AM the Number One Buttz Shooter

How’d that work out for you? I heard so many horror stories about it that by the time mine came up I was a bit underwhelmed by the ordeal.

I was stressed out by the actual procedure but that ended up being nothing, you conk out and then wake up groggy. The prep was not particularly fun, just blasting poop water out of my ass for a few hours. I thought I would be hungrier given that I didn’t eat for a day and a half. The prep liquid tasted horrible, but I would just down each cup in one shot.

Yeah the prep liquid was nasty but I think I chased it with Gatorade and it was fine.

That’s a good idea but drinking that much liquid in that short of a time was hard enough, I don’t think I could’ve added to the total

Grand Moff Larkin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 08, 2026 4:50 pm I was stressed out by the actual procedure but that ended up being nothing, you conk out and then wake up groggy. The prep was not particularly fun, just blasting poop water out of my ass for a few hours. I thought I would be hungrier given that I didn’t eat for a day and a half. The prep liquid tasted horrible, but I would just down each cup in one shot.

Hope everything is ok! I had a sigmoidoscopy (kinda like a half colonoscopy) a few years ago and I think I would have preferred a prep liquid to the way they asked ME to do it.

Just call me the Gent-L-Tip Gent-L-Man

I was stressed out by the actual procedure but that ended up being nothing, you conk out and then wake up groggy.

Heh. I had mine like a month or two after our second kid was born so I was honestly just kinda "sweet, I get to be unconscious for a bit? Nice! Is it like sleep?" and no it's not, you just black out for what feels like a second. That part was kind of disappointing haha.

In the end the doctor was like "I didn't see anything, your diagnosis is "proctalgia fugax" which is basically latin for Fleeting Ass Pain

I had five polyps removed, including at least one adenoma, which are not cancerous or necessarily precancerous, but could be precancerous, so I have to get a colonoscopy every three years instead of five or ten. Could be worse, I guess.

i saw Fleeting Ass Pain at Hellfest back in '03

it was a short set but they were brutal

i should probably get a colonoscopy

Same.

Thee Aging of Thee Board

No colonoscopy this time, but in addition to the Larkin trade request and a resurgence of my knee pain (patellar tendinitis?), we've been dealing with water damage from a leaking supply line to our fridge / broken valve at the back of the fridge. We noticed it because the cork flooring on the lower level was curling up in a spot, and initially I thought "Maybe the kids spilled a bunch of water here during a sleepover," but then it spread so I called a restoration company. They cut out a bunch of drywall, took out soaked insulation from the wall underneath the fridge, took out bar cabinets downstairs because they couldn't get them to dry out, and took up a section of hardwood in the kitchen. The problem is that our insurance company, Liberty Mutual, immediately denied the claim, and even after we corrected some initial statements that were guesses / not ultimately accurate, and had the restoration company (who think it should be covered) talk to LM, they denied us again. So instead of taking a vacation this summer it looks like we'll be spending our money on this shit.

I think I have that patellar tendon thing. Sometimes I go down to the local court to shoot hoops in my runners instead of my proper ball shoes and one lunch hour I got roped into a game against a younger fella while wearing the former. And yeah I feel like my summer of sports is ruined at the very least

My youtube homepage is full of ripped guys with a face like x and they're pointing at their knee and the impact font says the one exercise to cure your sore knee