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SgtScruffy posted:For curiosity, I thought for weight lifting, you wanted to have your shoes to be as flat as possible - what does the raised heel stuff do? Little extra bit of leverage on stuff like squats and Olympic lifts. Some people deadlift in them, some don't. I'll probably try it and see how I like it. The heel's only raised 3/4" so I think that's actually still competition legal in most powerlifting federations, although the only lift it's likely to matter for in powerlifting is the squat (the other two being deadlift and bench press). Anyway supposedly wearing those (Adidas Adipowers) is like being glued to the floor. The stability is really the important part, the raised heel is just a bonus.
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Picked mine up for black friday. Glued to the floor is an accurate description. I still deadlift barefoot but I don't know how I've overhead squat and snatched without them for so long.
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Dec 27, 2014 19:42
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Cast iron for life
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Erudite Sybarite posted:i love gift cards Solid choices all around. (I assume wok is carbon steel and mandoline is Benriner. )
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Thanks, and yes they are. The round griddle is more for my arepas, roti, and chapati. Gonna make so much unleavened bread this year.
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Dec 27, 2014 23:15
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Accessories for some shirts and shoes I got for Christmas:   Pocket squares from Spero Accessories, tie and laces from The Tie Bar
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Erudite Sybarite posted:i love gift cards I have this same thing. I love it
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Picked up Sleeping Dogs for (quite literally) the price of a Starbucks coffee. Due to it's control system, and my kid spending his Christmas money on the early access Gang Beasts, (with it's new, non-improved un-mappable control scheme) I've had to drop 30 Kiwibucks on this;  All reviews seem to indicate it's okay for casual gaming, and should hold me over until I spring for an XBox controller down the line. (Or buy the PC version of GTA V and wear the Logitech out through overuse...)
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  Already read The Strange Library, and I'm waiting for Sabriel in the mail. I liked The Strange Library a lot, just wish I hadn't paid eighteen bucks for a short story disguised as a novella. The artwork was nice at least.
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Distorted Kiwi posted:Picked up Sleeping Dogs for (quite literally) the price of a Starbucks coffee.
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Dec 28, 2014 12:13
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Spoon? Check, Fork? Check, Chopsticks? Check. Long handle to get to the bottom of your billy? Check. Under 120 grams for all of this. Aww yeah.  
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Dec 28, 2014 12:26
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IslamoNazi posted:Spoon? Check, Fork? Check, Chopsticks? Check. Long handle to get to the bottom of your billy? Check. Under 120 grams for all of this. Aww yeah. Where's the noife?
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IslamoNazi posted:Spoon? Check, Fork? Check, Chopsticks? Check. Long handle to get to the bottom of your billy? Check. Under 120 grams for all of this. Aww yeah. Where did you find these?
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jadeddrifter posted:Where did you find these? Did a reverse google image search and came up with this. http://www.gsioutdoors.com/products/pdp/titanium_kung_foon/
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Dec 28, 2014 15:57
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Tracula posted:Did a reverse google image search and came up with this. http://www.gsioutdoors.com/products/pdp/titanium_kung_foon/ Thanks. Wow Under $20 was not expecting that.
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I just moved into a new place and since I had to scale down to a single room in the previous, I get to buy a apartment full of new stuff! local.amazon.com had a great deal on 20x30 custom gallery-wrap canvas prints for $50, so I'm putting frogs on my wall above my computer:  I always wondered what happened to all that poo poo you send back to amazon, well there's a thing called 'amazon warehouse' where they repackage and sell the used/damage stuff. So I picked up a small cookware set:  for $80 instead of $180 with a few minor perfections. I also got a bunch of other small random kitchen items that I didn't already have, mostly from the GWS recommendation thread. OXO is pretty prominent. Still shopping for rugs, a couch/loveseat or couch/char combo, and I'm also looking at a transformable coffee table: I'm leading towards if I can just get past the price. I may get a similar wooden one that doesn't have the fold-out leaves for half the price instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezzQ3y3nDU
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Dec 28, 2014 16:56
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Awesome. I never head of the amazon warehouse. I am checking it out now.
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jadeddrifter posted:Awesome. I never head of the amazon warehouse. I am checking it out now. It's great. The problems are usually nothing at all.
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A lot of returns are simply people didn't like the product. nothing wrong with it at all.
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jadeddrifter posted:Awesome. I never head of the amazon warehouse. I am checking it out now. I bought a Moto G over it - USB port was broken. That was my only "negative" experience (they of course refunded the money inside of a few days). Bought printers, a PS Vita and several other smaller things through it, never had any issues. Stuff basically looked like new. The 30 day return makes it risk free. Bought a Tylt Vu, because my old (10 $) QI-charger had only one coil which makes positioning of my Nexus 6 a bit annoying :  Amazing charger - for the price it better be. Love how it doesn't shine a laser into your eyes when it's charging. Very well built, very well thought out.
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Dec 29, 2014 07:14
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 This was my favorite pad on the SNES back in the day for Street Fighter 2 and other fighting games. On a lark, after reading the latest conversations in the Fighting Game thread, I checked eBay and found they're pretty cheap, so I grabbed a used one for 15 bucks.
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Dec 29, 2014 08:17
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Got a new watch. It's the classiest thing I own now.
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Dec 29, 2014 08:44
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Such a good book. You're going to want the other three.
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Decius posted:I bought a Moto G over it - USB port was broken. That was my only "negative" experience (they of course refunded the money inside of a few days). Bought printers, a PS Vita and several other smaller things through it, never had any issues. Stuff basically looked like new. The 30 day return makes it risk free. How well does this work when you have a case on. Even the Google bumper on my Nexus 4 is enough to mess with a lot of QI chargers.
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IslamoNazi posted:How well does this work when you have a case on. Even the Google bumper on my Nexus 4 is enough to mess with a lot of QI chargers. I don't use a case, so I can't talk from my own experience, but people in the Android Phone thread say that it works even with the thicker cases.
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FAT SLAMPIG posted:
I'm trying to think how to hold that in a way that wouldn't be hella uncomfortable and I'm coming up blank. Eit: Oh, for Street Fighter, so I'm guess you do that thing where you lay your palm flat and hit the D-Pad with your index and middle fingers?
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Dec 29, 2014 15:15
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   I just found the local TJ Maxx. My wallet is okay with this.
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Dec 29, 2014 15:24
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A Christmas gift from the wife. And a treat for myself from Hard To Find Whiskey in Birmingham, a shop of wall to wall whiskey heaven. 
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DrBouvenstein posted:I'm trying to think how to hold that in a way that wouldn't be hella uncomfortable and I'm coming up blank. You have it backwards. You hold the left side in your left palm, use your thumb for the d-pad, and your right hand fingers (not thumb) for the attack buttons.
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Fozaldo posted:A Christmas gift from the wife. 
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Fozaldo posted:A Christmas gift from the wife. I don't really like whisky, but I want to try that.
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Cage posted:You are obviously a whiskey man. I recently got my dad some Bulleit bourbon whiskey for christmas. I wasnt sure what to buy, I was just looking at all the top shelf stuff. Was that a decent brand? I tried a sip of his eggnog cocktail, he obviously had too much in there but it didn't taste great to me. He usually just goes for seagrams and uses it to make highballs if you feel like making a suggestion for next year. I'm a whiskey guy too, and yes, Bulleit is good bourbon. I wouldn't waste it in eggnog, but that's because I hate eggnog and would prefer it either neat or in a cocktail where you can actually taste the bourbon. If he just wants something to mix, I would suggest something cheaper, but if he likes the taste that's really what matters. kannonfodder posted:I don't really like whisky, but I want to try that. Me too. I keep hearing how good Japanese single malts are but I never get the chance to try one.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:If he just wants something to mix, I would suggest something cheaper, but if he likes the taste that's really what matters. How dare you not tell people to enjoy their alcohol?  That's the job of any alcohol aficionado.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I'm a whiskey guy too, and yes, Bulleit is good bourbon. I wouldn't waste it in eggnog, but that's because I hate eggnog and would prefer it either neat or in a cocktail where you can actually taste the bourbon.
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Bulleit is good but I'd hardly call it a sin to mix a sub-$30 750 ml bottle bourbon with anything. Unless liquor prices are through the roof where you are... Geoj has a new favorite as of 21:44 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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Dec 29, 2014 21:42
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Ooh Bulliet chat! I've been on the Bulliet train for about a year now and a friend got me this for Christmas. Signed by Holli Bulliet the Bulliet heiress. 
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Bertrand Hustle posted:
Japan now produce some exceptional whiskeys and as you can imagine their attention to detail and quality control is very top end. Trouble is it's fairly expensive here in the UK due to the importation costs so a young whiskey like that 10 year old is about £50 a bottle. Is it worth it? Yes I would say so, with a small splash of water that Yoichi opens up into very nice and complex whiskey that far outdoes a look of other well known brands at the same price (looking at you Johnnie Walker). Start getting into 15 year and older Japanese single malts and you will be blown away at how good they are.
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Speaking of whiskey, my wife got me a bottle of 9-year Dickel for Christmas. Her brother and I ended up drinking about half of it that night, but it was some of the best whiskey I've ever had. The only one that really topped it was a 12-year Yamazaki I had a few years ago, back when you could get a bottle of that for just $45 near me. It's shot up to $90 now, which is too far outside of my price range when there are similarly excellent aged American whiskeys for half that.
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