Two guys one horuse

I don't know if this kind of posts is allowed here, but since you guys were always so nice to me, I wanted to celebrate my birthday with you (virtually)...
Btw, I'm 25 yo now, and guess what, I don't feel any difference in my body. 1 year does nothing to me. 1 decade actually improved me (trust me, I look way better now than when I was 15)... Ok, that sounded a bit narcissistic, but you know, that's not my intention...
My sister told me I look 10 years younger than my current age. I don't want to show off, but I just started to think I might have some blessed genetics...
I had read horror stories about some guys who suffered twink death at a younger age than me (they were femboys and stopped being one after suffering twink death), and it really saddened me to see that...
My body is not perfect and flawless, by no means, but I can always improve. Today, I'm not only going to celebrate my birthday, but I also want to remind you guys, that every single one of you is unique and special.
You might be going through a rough time, you might not like the way you look, but you can always improve. Everything has a solution, no matter how hard it is...
How did I turn a birthday post into a reflexive one? I have no idea, but I just wanted to leave a positive message to all my dear femboys who are going through a hard time. Don't give up, it's never too late to improve, everything is gonna be alright, I believe in you...
I know how it feels to be there, because I used to be fat. But thanks to my diet and workout routine, I improved over the years, and now I can say, I have a twink body...
Sorry if I sounded too cringe, but I just wanted to make my birthday post here as something special, not just a generic one talking about myself, but one caring about others.
To be honest, I was doubting about sharing this post, I had to change a lot of things, add other things, and... It doesn't matter, full send this time! No backing off! Thanks for taking your time reading this. Anyway, goodbye... :3

I was just trying to think of all the times Phoebe crushes on older men. The ones I have are:
-Phoebe saying Lee Majors is hot in "The one with the Bubble Bath"
-the guy with the cell phone in "The One With Joey's New Brain"
-Phoebe loving Jacques Cousteau
-Phoebe being into Ross and Monica's dad
Any others that I'm missing?

Hi everyone,
Just sharing an email I've set to Serato due to freezing and crashes on my new M3 Max MacBook Pro, which is a BEAST (but Serato apparently doesn't like it). I've also talked about the problem with waiting 6-8 months for installing the new MacOS each year.. I'll do another post with their responses if this message is upvoted. Let me know.
Have a nice one,
Hans
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coach's stiga titanium showed I was ready for composite. so that's a 4 days old viscaria, then my 4months old xiom tau 2 forehand & 1month old skyline 3-60 35degrees backhand. Set robot interval to 9 to see how my strokes are when speed pressured.
my forehand back then had a huge delay in recovery as I tend to not bring my hand back down immediately after follow through. Recovery's a bit better now but still needs to be faster. It also seems I don't bend forward more on my fh compared to bh. Follow through is more arm and little hip rotation, I'm afraid if I rotate more I can't recover fast enough.

1. For balls on center, How do I impart almost same power when I want my forehand to go to their backhand side without telegraphing too much of your plan like facing your body a bit to their bh. Cause when I try to do that without rotating my body a bit to their bh, I sometimes can do a flatter stronger brush but most of the times it's the weaker brushing to 11o'clock, so it's a top+sidespin cos I'm forcing it to go to my right, their bh. Take note this has less angle of play than when ball is at my backhand and I pivot to do a forehand to their backhand. I can do this shot just fine. In this position, I am not scared to "telegraph" my body facing to their backhand cos I can do down the line to their fh fine too.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YjYjejzKbIpcdZixK3M9vJYvRG8yW39t/view?usp=sharing
backhand stroke is a 1-week old stroke. saw an fb reel of a dude doing fast drills on bh and saw there was no wrist movement, so I tried and copied it. my natural stroke for bh back then was wrist bends inward on backswing, then forward on follow through. I was inconsistent on that one. My wrist got injured a month ago but is a blessing in disguise. Wore wrist brace to stop wrist movements when doing bh as there was pain. I did wrist stretching & strengthening exercise for about 2weeks, did about 150balls for bh flick yesterday and see there's no pain anymore.

1. For balls on center, How do I impart almost same power when I want my backhand to go to their forehand side without telegraphing too much of your plan like facing your body a bit to their fh. Cause when I try to do that without rotating my body a bit to their fh, I can sometimes can do a flatter stronger brush but it's mostly a fluke. Most of the times it's the weaker brushing to 2o'clock, so it's a top+sidespin cos I'm forcing it to go to my left, their fh.

One thing I know is that I sometimes forget to put elbow forward. Two, I need to make it a point to always recover in neutral after every bh shots as it's causing a delay when shots then go to my forehand and at times, I revert back to the more backhand oriented grip instead of neutral grip, so when shots are to my forehand I forget to switch back to neutral, causing my forehand loops to go up as angle is still upwards or if I'm late like the ball is already on my side, I resort to chop cos the upward angle is convenient for an emergency chop.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M1I29TihfYyhxUZrNFGD0gR_7cS1bot2/view?usp=sharing

It sucks that I have to wait 2 days just to get rid of everything I got from a SINGLE 10 minute event with my stash filled to the brim. There was a weekend when the scrip limit was doubled and that was great, I could get rid of all the things that I didn't want easily.
As for the events, there are many good ones such as Eviction Notice, Moonshine Jamboree (obviously), Beasts of Burden, Safe and Sound, Test Your Metal, Encryptid, Radiation Rumble and Spin The Wheel but there are also many not so good ones like Tea Time, Uranium Fever, Distinguished Guests, Lode Bearing (worst one imo) which have very little attendance and can be tweaked a bit to make them more fun and rewarding. (Also, what happened to this? It popped up twice back when I was new to the game but never again).
Since only 2 of around 24 (ignoring player triggered public events) increase reputation with the factions, I think there should be more events (new or existing ones reworked) that can help with the grind. I think having more large horde-type events would be pretty sick.
What do you guys think?

Silver & GME
There is a strange connection between the two.I remember in 2021 it felt like they tried to push us with the Sliver squeeze but now again in 2024 silver is going crazy with GME going crazy.
So what if the shorts are taking from one and shorting the other but when one runs they both run. Silver might be shorts pile of money to short with.
So if we know both players are in silver and GME maybe the biggest bad player is credit Swiss? Need more brains on this just woke up and thought about the connection.

Hello
I took the lift from the basement parking, the lift goes up to ground floor, here comes Karen, fat, short, holding a laptop and food on top of the laptop. Tries to press her floor with the laptop I smile and try to help her press the floor. She then looks at me at says yes I'm obese and I'm eating, I smile, confused and she says yes do you have a problem with that? I was so confused and told I'm smiling because you were trying to press the floor with the laptop. Then she goes like all you guys here are like this, I told yeah whatever I was fine to this point. Then the door opens to her floor and before she leaves she says you're from third world country (or because you're from third world country) and leaves... The door closed before I could insult her which I'm glad and not glad it happend... What can I do about this as I might see her again in the lift and she starts her craziness again. Do I let it go and be the big one here? or do i escalate?
Ps. She doesn't even know where I'm from. She was Russian or eastern european from her accent

English:
The Rotax Max Senior engine in my go-kart won't rev above seven thousand RPM. I have already replaced the float needle in the carburetor and tried the jet needle in positions one, two, and three, but there were no improvements. I have also replaced the membrane of the exhaust valve. In the partial load range, fuel sprays towards the air filter. The entire carburetor has been cleaned, and all jets have been checked. I appreciate any help.
Deutsch:
Der Rotax Max Senior Motor von meinem Gokart dreht nicht mehr über siebentausend Umdrehungen. Ich habe bereits die Schwimmernadel am Vergaser ausgetauscht und die Düsennadel in Stufe eins, zwei und drei ausprobiert, dabei gab es keine Verbesserungen. Die Membrane vom Auslassschieber habe ich auch schon ausgetauscht. Im Teillastbereich spritzt Benzin Richtung Luftfilter. Der ganze Vergaser wurde gereinigt und alle Düsen wurden überprüft. Ich freue mich auf jegliche Hilfe.

I even had to break up with my boyfriend because I still caught feelings for other guys that talked to me while we were dating and I did not want to lead him on any longer. The feelings don't last that long, maybe a few weeks, maximum up to like two months maybe. But even if we stop talking and the feelings go away, they come right back if we start talking again. How can I stop this? I feel like I'm ruining my life.

So my mom has a fair number of friends that she does things with, but over COVID she has gotten progressively more agoraphobic. My wife and I live about an hour away and my brother and his family live about an hour and a half away. She would complain about being lonely and we told her to socialize with her friends or meet some new ones at the senior center doing activities or something. Obviously this was a passive aggressive jab saying you guys don't visit me enough.
Then recently my brother and I had a sort of intervention and she told us how that she is consciously and actively pushing people away that a genuinely kind people looking to socialize and help her out. We were both floored.
She finally came out and said that she wants FAMILY around, not just people. Still dumbfounded we (for some reason) had to slowly explain that family are just people too. People are people. Quite simple. She had this shocked look like "how can you say that?!".
She has always had this fairy tale like idyllic attitude of what her later years would be like and reality isn't matching it and shes having a difficult time with that I think.
I think that she is figuring it out, but it's so frustrating. For YEARS I would get sucked into the passive aggressive guit tripping BS and I finally found the courage to stand up to it 43 years later.
The wild thing is that my mom is probably one of the smartest people I know, but still warps and twists things to fit a vision that doesn't really exist.
I guess to close on a but of an unrelated note, during our little intervention she claimed that she "should be able to do the things she wants". My brother made no hesitation to call out the astounding selfishness of that statement.
It's all so exhausting...
Thank you for enduring my little rant.

My boyfriend and I have been dating for over a year, and have been living together for six months. Our relationship has been very committed, serious, and happy, but we do have differences in personality and sometimes they clash. Last night, we got into a fight. It was nothing major and no words that couldn't be taken back were exchanged, but I got frustrated enough that I yelled at my boyfriend. I very rarely yell for any reason, and could feel myself boiling over into frustration. My boyfriend as well seemed upset and began to ignore my attempts to talk it out which made me even angrier, so in order to get some space from him I messaged a friend (m23), N, to ask if he would drive me down the street for a bit in exchange for some late night munchies.
I have known N for almost three years and he is one of few friends I've been able to make as an adult. He is also dating my best friend of almost five years (m22), H. I originally messaged H with this same request, but H was feeling very sick. N is a chronic night owl and lives less than three minutes away, so he said he was up for it and arrived within ten minutes of me asking.
I was gone for no longer than twenty five minutes, and almost 80% of that time I spent talking to my boyfriend over text. Sometimes when we argue, we get to the issue better over writing, because we aren't trying to talk over each other and we can think out our words better. The only thing N and I did was drive down the street (about three blocks), get fast food from the drive through (I got my boyfriend a burger for lunch tomorrow), N got gas at the nextdoor gas station, and then I was driven back.
I asked my boyfriend if he had anything else he felt like he needed to talk to me about since we had both calmed down, and he said no, and that he had already gotten over it. We hugged and kissed and spent the next two hours eating dinner and laughing over youtube.
When it came time for bed, I had just thrown up (I have Crohns, it happens a lot), and was very exhausted. I was just dozing off when my boyfriend asked, "So, what did you tell N to get him to rush over here so quickly?"
I told N that my boyfriend and I had gotten into an argument, but that we would be fine, and we just needed to air out the apartment of bad vibes. I tried to tell this to my boyfriend, but he immediately cut me off angrily and said "Oh, I see" right after I finished "argument."
I tried to continue explaining that I didn't say anything bad about him to N, only for my boyfriend to ask why I had to run away with a male friend after an argument, and then asked if I had "sucked his dick too" while I was gone.
I am gay, but my boyfriend is pan, and has friends of all genders. I was shocked at him saying this, and asked why he would accuse me of cheating on him. He avoided this question and kept asking why I made such a huge deal of our fight earlier that I needed to run away. I tried to explain that I wanted to clear my head so I could approach the issue productively, but by this point I was in tears over him accusing me of cheating. He then asked why it made me so upset if I didn't do anything, and I said it was because I felt incredibly shocked and disrespected.
I ended up crying so much that my boyfriend got angry with me again, and we got into another verbal altercation. He tried to claim that he was just joking with the dick sucking comment, but when I asked if me going with a female friend would have been different, he said yes. I pointed out that he hangs out with both male and female friends all the time alone for long stretches of time, but I had never felt like he was cheating on me with any of them. I also said he could read all the messages between me and N if he still didn't trust me. This seemed to finally get to him, and he hugged me and ushered me back to bed. I cried, and told him I would never cheat on him, and he said he knew that, and we went to sleep.
It has been hours since then and I have barely gotten a wink of sleep. It feels like my heart has broken. This man is truly the love of my life as corny as it sounds. Our lives are interlinked, and we have already talked about marriage and how we want to spend the rest of our lives together.
I think part of why it hurts so bad is because his closest friend is his ex girlfriend, who is also his ex fiance. They dated for five years and I support their friendship because she was a major part of his life. He frequently brings her food and lets her borrow his playstation, but I have never once thought that he would cheat on me with her. Now that he's accused me of this, though, I don't know what to think.
I would like to know what my next step should be in approaching this situation, that helps both myself and my boyfriend move past this.
TL:DR; After a fight, I took a short drive with a male friend to clear my head. My boyfriend accused me of cheating on him with this friend, and now it feels like my heart has broken, and I don't know what the next step to take is.

The place I typically bring my 2018 Honda Civic for regular maintenance does a “comprehensive assessment” prior to every service. The location has recently had a turn over with their management and the last two oil changes I had done have come with a list of items that should be addressed “urgently” with an estimate of 7k to complete all the work. One of the highest ticket items they keep deeming “urgent” is having the shocks and struts replaced. Are these parts that would typically need replacing due to visual inspection (the first time they recommended it they said it was from visual inspection the second time they sited manufacturer recommendation) My car feels like it is driving normal and is comfortable and so the shocks and struts suggestion feels like a way for them to do unnecessary work on my car, but I know very little about how those parts wear or fail so I’m uncomfortable dismissing the recommendation outright and I’m wondering if this is a recommendation I should be taking seriously.
Until recently I was putting extremely high miles on my car and was extremely diligent of maintenance (my car has 236000 miles and other than having the transmission replaced and ac repaired it’s had no issues) but about six months ago I left my job and went from driving about 6000 miles per month (all highway driving ) to less than 1000 per month.

Hey all.
I'm looking for some motivation. I am not new to the gym and fairly educated on fitness but I find myself at 54, physically busted and just demoralized and unmotivated. I am losing weight (thanks ozempic) but am still a big guy. I do combat sports like kyokushin but I'm completely inflexible. Think 4x4 lumber kind of stiff. The other worthwhile note is the my shoulders are completely jacked. I ripped one off in a motorcycle accident so that's been replaced a couple times now and the other one recently had an overhaul that had left it a painful mess. So anything that involves overhead motion is a struggle at best.
I've seen some of the popular videos (knees over toes and such) but does anyone know of a stretching routine that isn't a half hour long that I could do a couple times a day or whenever there is a break in the action? I do fighting stretches but I'm guessing there are more effective routines out there that I could spend 10 minutes doing. I would love to do the splits but that's like a side quest, only practical in the dojo.
Looking forward to what you all have.

Detached double garage (5.5x5.5m). Two doors. Carving out about one quarter of the garage with garage door (up and over) for use as garage/storage. The rest, an l shaped space that takes up just over three quarters and has a side door entrance I’m insulating, putting up plasterboard etc and turning it into a gym/tv room/mancave.
I’m about half way through with the stud wall. 2x4s with a DPM on the side facing the brick. There is a space on the side with brick as well. Maybe a centimetre or two. I’ve got rockwool in the stud wall. Electrician coming to rewire for plugs and for lights.
After that I plan on putting plasterboard on there and dealing with floor (thinking underlay then laminate).
Anything I’m missing? Was considering speaker wires but wondering if that is overkill as not the biggest space. Should this be enough for sound and heat insulation?
Any advice appreciated before I cross the point of no return (plasterboard). Cheers

Hi guys! Former "electrician" here. I use the "" because I was classed as a journeyman pay scale with the company I worked for. I was never certified but I did take apprenticeship courses at one point. I have about 4y experience but it's been 20y since I worked in the field. Im now in the medical field and enjoy my nice indoor work 😅
The pump I have is a 120v 1.5HP Aquapro 2speed. It comes with an attached ~4ft cord w/ three prong male end and all the instructions say is "min 16awg for 40 meters, min 14awg for 65 meters install according to local laws." Pump specs attached in the pic but it's 3.5A 1725/min at low speed and 8.5A 3450/min at high speed.
My plan is just to run 2x (1 lighting circuit and 1 pool pump circuit) 12awg Romex from my main indoor panel through the attic into a PVC box w/ Romex connector. From the PVC box I'll nipple a 3/4 PVC pipe through the soffit to another box outside mounted just under the soffit. I'll pipe the pump circuit down to receptacle height where I'll have my receptacle and bubble cover. I'll bring the lighting circuit out of the side of the high mounted box for floodlights or some kind of lighting mounted to the wall of the house. The run is well under 200ft so I don't think voltage drop will be an issue.
My main question is GFCI protection and proper grounding.
Should I use GFCI breakers for both circuits? If so I'm assuming I don't need a GFCI plug for the pump? I haven't priced breakers in forever so would a regular breaker and GFCI plug have me covered as well? Can I just use a regular receptacle with "GFCI protected" sticker if I go with a GFCI breaker? I was probably just going to stick with 15 amp breakers for both circuits.
The motor manual also says "connect a no. 8awg solid copper wire to the pressure wire connector provided on the motor housing and to all metal parts of the swimming pool..."
Looking at the motor I can see the ground terminal and a tag that says to use an 8ft grounding rod. Seems pretty straightforward. I'd just use some solid 8awg and the ground rod equipment. I've done this before but it's been years so if anyone has any specifics to be aware of id appreciate it.
Here is a link to the pool. Best I can tell it has some coated steel components but mostly everything is resin.
I'm curious what everyone thinks if this plan and if anyone has any further insight or recommendations? I'm working on putting together the pool base today so any replies will probably be in the evening. Thanks!

Just wanna ask ano yung overrated gaming phones na laging mukhang bibig ng iba (especially in TikTok comments and videos) pero kabaliktaran or not it's what you expected naman if ginagamit na.
I'm just surveying kasi I'm planning to buy a gaming phone lalo na yung goods for Genshin kahit hindi naka high ang graphics. Maybe you guys can recommend one na swak na for my budget (15k below). Thank you in advance😉