*** HAPPY BIRTHDAY USA #1 JULY LC THREAD***

[RosieTheGreat]

So my 56 year old dad is getting into crossfit.

whatever... it makes him happy.

[Soulman]

Originally Posted by Evoken

So Soulman, you're foresaking your native Scanditardia and expating to USA#1 after discovering how awesome our country is, right? Down with metric.

Yeah. I found an awesome tai chi group in a park close to a vegan café, gonna apply for a job there.

[Jeffawesome]

Originally Posted by kidcolin

brunete is objectively much cuter, and in fact blondie has a bit of a flawed facial structure, but I legit have a crush on her.

jeff,

yeah. that works. Or maybe something as simple as drop to squatting 2x a week and deadlifting 1x a week and maybe using a greyskull type progression on the squat and DL. also that's super uncommon, fwiw. It's usually the other way around.

I'm dumb. I think the reason I have more to go on upper body is because I stalled a ton at first on bench/ohp and then sort of put that stuff on the back burner for squat/deads.

[JohnnyFondue]

Originally Posted by Soulman

I did? lol, can't remember buying that.

Yeah it's one of the big bottles. I thought all the stuff you brought was from mammoth lakes but there's a Lagunitas IPA and that lolz


KC, you make me lolz intentionally and unintentionally


Also- SM asked me to try and stump him on the pronunciation of a USA #1 word and I did get a bit tricky with:

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Though my USA#1 friends had a hard time as well

[Soulman]

Ah right, re: big one. This super chill broham at a liquor store in Mammoth recommended that one, didn't try it myself.

Pretty sure Jay wanted to stump me. And I was pretty drunk by then :/

[JohnnyFondue]

Jay had a harder time than you did

Lol

I'm really hoping Im not entering a manic cycle now, I'll be able to tell by how long I can sleep. Come on 11 hours !!!!!

#prettyplease

[Soulman]

Anyony know of any gyms in SF with a squat rack that take walk-ins? Location not important (though near nob hill is preferable), though there needs to be parking if outside of my area.

[Ostensibly Thremp]

Originally Posted by Jeffawesome

I posted about this in my log: I feel like I'm reaching or have reached the end of my squat/deadlift progression from SS. But, I feel like I have some more gains with Bench/ohp. Can I do a mix of 5/3/1 and ss?

Texas Method is closer to what you want. You can linear progress some exercises and not others. (Like just alternate linear progression with BP/OHP, and go Vol/Light/Intensity with sqat) Its pretty hard to **** up. Just try something.

Originally Posted by Soulman

<Sayin things>

Mikkeller is probably the most notable Nordic brewery. Try it. I will try to help you atleast understand beer from our little corner of the world before we take you out to the rest of the world and have you sample their tasty beverages.

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/13307/?view=beers

The England/Belgium thing was the best part. The stout thing was solid as well.

[skeletor121]

Originally Posted by RosieTheGreat

So my 56 year old dad is getting into crossfit.

whatever... it makes him happy.

That is where I started, so there is hope for him.

[downtown]

Soulman, it may be too late but if you're looking for good beer places use beermenus.com.

Personally I've only tasted 3-4 of the great stouts, but it's impossible to say that USA#1 doesn't dominate this category. How you would get your hands on the best though is beyond me, they are in insanely high demand here... even I only find something great a few times a year (e.g. local places tapping Founder's KBS, waiting in line for a bottle of Three Floyds Dark Lord, bartender at a local bar that had just found a barrel of a few year old Goose Island Bourbon County Stout... <3 <3 <3 ). As a tourist you would NEVER have access to that stuff unless you knew a beer nerd or were some sort of twitter beer stalker. It's impossible that there's anything better in Norway.

Cha, I'd love to try Surly Darkness, but I've never seen it. I know of at least one bar here that had some at one point though, so I'm hoping to catch it next time around. (Fall, I think?)

[The Yugoslavian]

Yeah, that video was pretty boring...I kept waiting for it to get good. They need JF to do the writing/directing for it imo.

Cobra - have you FS the blonde yet? It could be part of "**** guys at the gym say" or w/e.

[The Yugoslavian]

Surly Darkness is v hard to come by. Even Cha with his magical talents only has like what, a handful a year?

[The Yugoslavian]

Oh, I was just thinking, I bet Gizmo and Beata could do a good "**** women say when trying to lose weight" or something - they both seem to have a good sense of humor. Plus the 2p2 insider jokes should be spot-on.

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[downtown]

Originally Posted by The Yugoslavian

Surly Darkness is v hard to come by. Even Cha with his magical talents only has like what, a handful a year?

If I hadn't seen that a local bar had a barrel, I would have thought that such a thing didn't exist because of my experience here in Chicago.

That local comparison (Three Floyds Dark Lord) is probably slightly more popular. It has online ticketing just to have the right to buy a bottle. The tickets sell out in 60 seconds... they have pages of rules just for buying the beer. It's kind of overboard if you ask me. The beer is awesome, but the hype is unreal.

[The Yugoslavian]

Beer is serious business, lol.

Fwiw I barely drink beer. But when I do I tend to like Oatmeal stout type things or Guiness or darker ones I guess. I like Surly Furious quite a bit I think. I dno, I go so long between drinking beer it's kind of hard to compare.