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Friday, 28 March 2025

LARS ULRICH'S WIFE

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich is married to a real heavy metal fan, a true head banger. She bangs her head so much she has developed a neck like a tree trunk, and big wide shoulders too.

 Back in the old days Jessica Miller had a different look, but was still very feminine. Not...

 Miller, 41, who was previously in a relationship with SYSTEM OF A DOWN guitarist Daron Malakian, was a professional model, and has appeared on the cover of various editions of Vogue magazine. She has also been a model for Gap, H&M and Chanel, among others. (Fashion magazines all pretty much only feature trannies on the covers, especially Vogue who make this very obvious)

Heavy Metal has always been the music of real men!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384

 

 

Thursday, 27 March 2025

THE SECRET RACE

The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

 Coming from a background of being involved in cycling in the 90's I was well aware of the drug use in pro cycling. I've read most of the popular books about Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the culture of doping. This is my favourite one - Tyler Hamilton really lays it all out, and it's an entertaining read.

On a fateful night in 2009, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle met for dinner in Boulder, Colorado. Over the next eighteen months, Hamilton would tell Coyle his story, and his sport's story, in explosive detail, never sparing himself in the process. In a way, he became as obsessed with telling the truth as he had been with winning the Tour de France just a few years before. The truth would set Tyler free, but would also be the most damning indictment yet of teammates like Lance Armstrong.

The result of this determination is
The Secret Race, a book that pulls back the curtain and takes us into the secret world of professional cycling like never before. A world populated by unbelievably driven – and some flawed – characters. A world where the competition used every means to get an edge, and the options were stark. A world where it often felt like there was no choice.

 

Tuesday, 25 March 2025

NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL DEGENERATION

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (1939)

 
If I had to pick just one nutrition, diet, and health book, it would be this one.
 

 
 


An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods.

For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. 
Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. 
He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. Dr. Price documented this ancestral wisdom including hundreds of photos in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is available to read free online

Thanks to Gutenberg.net.au for sharing it




Monday, 24 March 2025

THE HISTORY OF TEACHING MATHS


1. Teaching Maths In 1960s

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?

2. Teaching Maths In 1970s

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?

3. Teaching Maths In 1980s

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?

4. Teaching Maths In 1990s

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

5. Teaching Maths In 2000s

A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers, and if you feel like crying, it’s ok.)

6. Teaching Maths In 2010’s

Who cares, just steal the lumber from your neighbour’s property. It’s OK anyway because it’s redistributing the wealth.

7. Teaching Maths In 2020’s

Lumber is no longer available. Stay safe, wear a mask, get your jabs.

 
 

Sunday, 23 March 2025

IS BLOGGING A WASTE OF TIME?

 

I've been wasting my time blogging for years now. I started in 1998 and as recently as 2017 it was still an exciting and developing hobby, I was improving my writing, earning money, interacting online, & getting thousands of hits. 

By comparison it sometimes seems a bit lame now, because these days I'm grey-listed online, I have very little audience, the entire internet appears to be mainly AI, and all the blockchain platforms (Steemit, Hive, Flote, Blurt etc), are dead or dying, so realistically I had two choices, continue posting essentially just for myself without caring too much about hits, (because let's face it, I 'm not getting many), or quit altogether.

But I like blogging and I think it helps me to get my ideas in order, improves my writing, and posting online works like having a muse, so it potentially makes me more creative. So I'm continuing to blog but with a new approach. 

I'm using Blogger rather than WordPress because it's quick and simple, I'm posing a mixture of both short new content and updated re-posts of my old content, with very few new long posts. And I'm aiming to have fun and get my thoughts in order rather than to change the world.

To see some content that might change the world I highly recommend the websites of Joachim Bartoll or Jason Christoff