2011 Off topic thread(basketball,movies,etc whatever)

[sbjj]

LOL! That is a big eye for a shark.

We will be told this has something to do with Global Warming or Cooling or climate change. Whatever the F they are calling it now.

[zY|]

old

[Vandelay]

Looks like paul daley has to cut 40 pounds in a day. He fights friday night against luigi fiorvanti.

[poopoo333]

Looks like paul daley has to cut 40 pounds in a day. He fights friday night against luigi fiorvanti.

[MMA_scientist]

[MMA_scientist]

Looks like paul daley has to cut 40 pounds in a day. He fights friday night against luigi fiorvanti.

not possible.

EDIT: possible, inb4daleydiescuttingweight

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/01/18/how-to-cut-weight/

[Ludo]

I'm fairly certain that motherfucker is bullshitting with his "I lost 33lbs in 20 hours and competed. I don't care what kind of science and hydration methods your using losing almost 20% of your entire body weight in less than a day will kill you. It is usually not recommended to even attempt to lose more than 10% over the course of a couple days because of the effect it can have on the organs.

[poopoo333]

http://www.elitefts.com/documents/cutting_weight.htm

[edman5555]

yeah daley is full of shit. Maybe thats how he loses weight...unloading all that crap into a toilet.

[SPX]

Those Tim Ferris blogs are always interesting. . .

I've always been interested in this one on gaining weight rather than losing it:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/29/from-geek-to-freak-how-i-gained-34-lbs-of-muscle-in-4-weeks/

[MMA_scientist]

^^ i read that one... I think the thing is full of pseudo science. It simply is not possible to put on 20 pounds of muscle in a month or whatever he claims. It just isn't.

[SPX]

I've heard stories of bodybuilders back in the day (like around the 40s, 50s, 60s) putting on even up to 40 pounds in a month. Maybe not all muscle, but a good enough muscle/fat ratio that it appears all lean.

I also have hard times believing this dude's claims, but I also tend to give people the benefit of the doubt unless I have some hard evidence to know that they're lying.

[MMA_scientist]

^^ I am generally the opposite, I don't believe grandiose claims until you convince me. If someone makes what appears to be miracle claims, the burden of proof lies with them as far as I am concerned. Now if he just made a standard claim, like I dropped 10 pounds in 24 hours, I would have no reason to think that was untrue.

[SPX]

I guess for me it depends on the claim. Also, I guess I don't automatically believe, but rather settle into a state of agnosticism. I neither believe nor disbelieve. But in this case I've read up a decent bit on the Colorado experiment in other places and by all accounts it's some real shit, which means that he is not the only one that has had such results. Also, down in the comments, he said he was eating 7000 calories a day of super-lean foods, so if that's true then it's a lot easier to believe.

[sbjj]

Did you guys read about the guy who bet 250 on the Cardinals making the world series(he won 125K) and he also bet 250 on them winning the world series(will pay 250K)

So what do you do in his situation? Let it ride, or hedge it with a bet on the Rangers?