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[WealthyRadish]

Real blood, anyway.

[Yoink]

@wierd: I read that as "magical robes/gowns" for a second there.   

[ChairmanPoo]

Btw fun fact: there's a non-lethal form of bull fighting which is traditional in the Basque Country, northern Spain and Southern France which is nonlethal to the bulls. Bull"fighters" in this spectacle don't actually fight the bulls but instead are supposed to dodge and leap over them. The fact that this variant is not popular among the ever-diminishing pool of bullfight fans kind of shows how much of a lie their "art" is; the really are in for the blood and little else.

You know I think my biggest problem is not even about killing a bull or not, but about making a public spectacle of slowly torturing one to death. There is something atavistic and almost animal-like  on enjoying this whole practice. It demeans the watchers.

[KittyTac]

Real blood, anyway.

Fake bloodsports are a viable substitute for real ones. I once started playing DF adventure mode as a cat with legendary skills and a mission to obliterate non-feline life.

[LordBaal]

According to their site, DHL still does delivery to Venezuela.   There's an absurd list of things I *CANNOT* send via their service(1)... but it says nothing about packaged nonperishables.

(1)

Spoiler: wtf? marbles? (click to show/hide)

    Airline tickets, blank stock (NI)
    Antiques (breakable and/or fragile)
    Asbestos
    Credit card blanks (NI)
    Furs
    Hazardous or combustible materials (as defined in IATA Regulations)
    Ivory
    Pornography
    Gas Masks
    Bullet Proof & Personal Protection Vests
    Police / Personal Shields
    Police Type Batons
    Air, Paint, BB Guns & Related Ammunitions
    Sling Shots of Any Type
    Crossbows
    Arrows
    Telescopic Sights
    Walkie-Talkies / 2 Way Radios
    Fishing Sinkers
    Drones
    Pepper Spray
    Mace
    First Aid Kits
    Eye Drops
    Surgical Robes / Gowns
    Medical / Surgical Gauze
    Antacids
    Tasers / Electroshock Weapon
    Roller Balls & Ball Bearings (Metallic/Rubber)
    Marbles (of any Type and Material)
    Items Containing Compressed Gas / Air
    Knives of Any Type / Class (includes Machetes & Axes)
    Protective Sporting Goods
    Camouflage Items
    Helmets of Any Type
    Chest Protectors / Breastplates
    Protective Gloves (Latex. Rubber, Surgical)
    Protective Goggles
    Disposable / Surgical Masks
    Ski Masks
    Golf Balls
    Baseballs
    Baseball Bats
    Face Masks / Protectors
    Elbow & Knee Protectors
    Megaphones
    Balloons of Any Type

DHL will be more difficult to use, as I will have to drive to Wichita to use their distribution/delivery center, but I can still make it happen if that's what it takes.

Marbles, ball bearings and such can be used as bullets on makeshift weapons, also if you pay attention lots of things on the list are escape (plane tickets, credit cards)  or defense/offense (tasers, bulletproof vests). Don't know if that's standard for all countries but if not then there's a reason the gummit don't want us to have any of that.

[Kagus]

Real blood, anyway.

Fake bloodsports are a viable substitute for real ones. I once started playing DF adventure mode as a cat with legendary skills and a mission to obliterate non-feline life.

I once climbed up a mountain peak and down the other side of the range with my backpack full of bloody vomit and vomitous blood.

[scriver]

Looking up cats on Wikipedia and...

"In medieval France, cats would be burnt alive as a form of entertainment. According to Norman Davies, the assembled people "shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain, were singed, roasted, and finally carbonized"."

Read Darnton's Great Cat Massacre.

Some apprentices got sick of their employers, so when told to kill the cats they did. Viciously. And including their Master's wife's cat. They made a big joke of it.

When people are bored, they tend to get entertainment from wherever they can. And wherever they can tends to be fucking awful as it largely consists of public executions and bloodsport. You can still find shades of the latter in many "traditional customs", like bull fighting, fox hunting, and similar.
I kind of hope they are on the way out though. We're likely admist the most moral generations ever thanks to our broad spectrum of bloodless entertainmemt

The devil will find work for idle hands to do

[LordBaal]

Looking up cats on Wikipedia and...

"In medieval France, cats would be burnt alive as a form of entertainment. According to Norman Davies, the assembled people "shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain, were singed, roasted, and finally carbonized"."

Read Darnton's Great Cat Massacre.

Some apprentices got sick of their employers, so when told to kill the cats they did. Viciously. And including their Master's wife's cat. They made a big joke of it.

When people are bored, they tend to get entertainment from wherever they can. And wherever they can tends to be fucking awful as it largely consists of public executions and bloodsport. You can still find shades of the latter in many "traditional customs", like bull fighting, fox hunting, and similar.
I kind of hope they are on the way out though. We're likely admist the most moral generations ever thanks to our broad spectrum of bloodless entertainmemt

The devil will find work for idle hands to do

Heresy grows from idleness!!!!

[JoshuaFH]

I'm thinking I'll quit my YMCA gym membership. I realized I'm throwing away something like 600 dollars a year just to barely use it, get frustrated with myself, make no progress, and then get depressed over it. 

[wierd]

I'm thinking I'll quit my YMCA gym membership. I realized I'm throwing away something like 600 dollars a year just to barely use it, get frustrated with myself, make no progress, and then get depressed over it.

Check the fine print.  For real.  Quitting a gym membership can be... painful.

[Reelya]

I suspect the typical gym's business model is in fact based on people who sign up then barely use the gym. It would certainly be much more profitable than a gym where 100% of the clients utilized the optimal amount of gym time.

Say, the typical gym member utilizes 15% of the possible time they are allowed to use the gym. That means they can sign up 6 times as many people as as a fully-utilized gym. So the gym seems good at the start, but has few incentives to keep you turning up like clockwork. Because that is what makes economic sense as the optimal gym from a business perspective.

However, and here's a bit of a conundrum: if someone made a really cool gym, where clients used a lot more time than the normal shitty gym experience, then they could have less clients per piece of equipment, therefore they would have to charge higher membership fees.

The smart thing here, is that if you're not a gym junkie, don't pay for a membership, because you're basically paying for someone else to get cheaper gym time.

[Criptfeind]

It's more that they have a financial incentive to make quitting a bad experience, making the gym itself good is still important to attract new people and make it not worth going though the quitting process. But once someones trying to quit making it as hard as possible seems to be the way to do it.

[Il Palazzo]

Hmm. Now that I think of it, it was indeed rather odd when the gym needed me to sign the papers in my own blood while the clerk muttered some verses in Latin.

[dragdeler]

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[JoshuaFH]

I'm thinking I'll quit my YMCA gym membership. I realized I'm throwing away something like 600 dollars a year just to barely use it, get frustrated with myself, make no progress, and then get depressed over it.

Check the fine print.  For real.  Quitting a gym membership can be... painful.

I'm just torn over the idea of quitting. Quitting anything I guess. I don't want to feel like I'm giving up, and that was really probably the only place I'd go to get out of my apartment, outside of work. I'm in a psychological trap of my own creation it feels like.