u/TimeAlbatross5375

Hello, treadmill people. I'm neurodivergent, so please don't be rude.

Every list of compact treadmills I see lists treadmills that are not sold in Australia, you would need them shipped from America. When I keep hearing about treadmills coming to people in less than ideal conditions, I'm not sure I want to get one shipped from another country.

Every product I ever see online that is apparently decent according to many review websites is apparently a scam according to some people. If something advertises itself as being durable, there's a post where someone says it was broken when it arrived. People will glaze a product but some will call it a scam for various reasons.

I just want a treadmill that's easy to assemble and not particularly heavy for a treadmill. A treadmill I can transport between places I live - renting one place to another.

I was looking into the True Fitness Z500 treadmill, since people seem to love that one. However I've also seen people saying it had issues when they received it. Also, I guess official technicians for the company don't exist in Australia.

My requirements:

>- It needs to be practically transportable from one home to another, since the housing crisis is a thing, I cannot just buy a home, so I just rent places.

>- It needs to be easy to assemble and yes I understand treadmills are heavy by default of being a treadmill, but I'm not the Hulk. I need something a guy who has been skipping arm-day can move without my arms shattering under the sheer weight of the behemoth machine. I have severe ADHD, so no, I can't set up a treadmill that is complicated. So many manuals are incredibly over complicated for me. I've seen so many instructions and diagrams that don't even match the pieces it's trying to refer to.

>- Preferably a minimum max speed of 14kmph. I like to run sometimes.

>- Not known by a bunch of people to have issues when it arrives and it would be great if it's actually in an Australian store.

>- Uses kmph, not mph since I am used to the metric system. I don't know how to base stuff around the imperial system. I know a lot of treadmills use the imperial system. A setting to change to metric would be good.

I'm literally allergic to the outside for most of the year, so I want a treadmill so I can walk inside. If I step outside in Spring (it's Spring in the Southern Hemisphere), I'll perish. So, I really need a treadmill.

The popular insult, was originally "You're mother". When somebody complains too much and is easily excitable, you would say "You are like a mother", because you are acting like a stereotypical mother. Children are always shortening sentences into smaller and smaller versions of the same statement to make it quicker to say. So it eventually became "You're mother". It's absurd but that only made it funnier to the children who used the term.

Anyway, when the term gained popularity as a meme on the internet, people — whether intentionally or not — used "Your" instead. That made far less sense but people liked it that way and it caught on. People forgot the original statement and it has devolved from being a comparison to motherly rants to an absurdist random response to anything.

People have incorrectly explained the term to be an insult to a person's mother, but without the actual insult like "Do not the cat" to create an absurd response the feels derogatory without specifying what is wrong with the person's mother.

As we all know, insulting each other's mothers has been a rite of passage for adolescents. Obviously a controversial tradition, due to the arguably misogynistic nature. "You're mother" was something more light hearted than the usual mother slander. "Your mother" is often said out of nostalgia, but it's inherently more sexist than the original statement.

In any case, this is part of the history of adolescent culture. If we forget these things, we forget an integral part of the the evolution of childhood slander.

Mater tua est pinguis (Your mother is fat)

It was my high school's motto. It was controversial, but it's not about seeing women as inferior, it's a saying about the healthy conversational conflict between students, preparing them for the real world when they graduate.

Alas, after the parents kept complaining, the principal changed the motto to simply "Vidi, Veni". It's about as good of a replacement as you could have hoped for.

Don't disrespect women and don't disrespect grammar either. If you find yourself in a situation where conflict arises and you have to resort to it..

It's "You're mother".

Thank you for reading. I will end with the full saying by Henry Grafter. It's worded oddly because it was written in 1864.

>Your mother is fat. In fact, she is so fat, that when the children saw her, they all thought she was fat, judging by her visible fatness. She is fat.

• Henry Grafter, A Collection of Schoolyard Quips 1864

Revenge or Revengier is an old French peasant dish from the Revengier region that fell into obscurity after being banned by Louis VI in 1123 - I'll get to why. It is essentially a Pâté sandwich, usually wholewheat and you dunk it in olive oil. Now, royals and nobles obviously had the means to eat almost anything they desired, but it also meant they could choose not to eat what the peasants were eating to feel superior. For that reason, some peasants actually had a wider palette. Even if they only grew a few crops, they would constantly experiment on new dishes. Sheep testicles and beans? Whatever. You use what you have. Royals were not particularly convinced that testicles were nutritious, so the rest of the sheep would be eaten and guards would go around handing out testicles to the locals and people thought it was generous.

Anyway, when you're living in olive growing communities, there's plenty of olive oil to go around and you start dunking your food in it because you get curious. Some hate it, some love it, whatever. You slap some Pate on some bread and dunk it in oil and you get Revenge. I suppose the invention is not that interesting. But it does get interesting at some point because in 1122 there's an olive famine.

According to legend, Louis VI, The Fat (yes, he was called that, look it up) loved sandwiches so much that he would ask his cook for a new kind of sandwich on a daily basis. He would threaten to increase tariffs again if the cook was unable to come up with something new. It is not clear how tariffs would have affected the cook in particular. Scholars have compared his threats to that of America's current president. He also tried to rid France of the English and Italians by publicly insulting them, which was apparently ineffective. Anyway, he was also a fan of olive oil and had his own olive orchard. He liked having his food fried and ignored his doctor's suggestion to curb his enthusiasm for the substance. When the famine started, he banned entry to his olive orchard.

It is believed that this is where the stereotypical teasing chant "Na-na-na na-na-na" came from. Specifically,

"Get fucked, peasant! This is my orchard and thou shalt not have any of my olives! Na na na na na na, fuck you! Look at my ass, you serfs! I'm naked! See, watch me! Ohh yeah! Oh yeah! These olives are tastieu mmf geiu frnk mmfr! Mmmm! Mmmm! Ohh! Uggh!"

There's more, but that's the gist of his monologue, as written by his scribes. The rest seems to be mostly moaning from what I read anyway. He was hospitalised later that day. The point is, he thought the famine would not effect him because his orchard was guarded from the diseased low socioeconomic citizens.

The famine persisted in 1123 and Louis was almost getting sick of sandwiches. Somewhere in a bakery some Italians were fixing leaking pipes, while plotting a way to assassinate the king because the king was aggressively conservative. Knowing his love for sandwiches, they planned to send him a poisoned sandwich using diseased olives. The idea was to request permission to use his own olives but upon gaining permission, instead, use the diseased olives.

However, the king sensed some Mama Mia in these bakers and told them to fuck off back to where they came from. Besides, the king did not trust anyone with his olives... besides his cook... even then, he would stare at the poor guy while he nervously picked them.

It is said that at the end of the 3rd financial quarter of 1123, the king asked for one more sandwich and he would never have another. It needed to be something special.

Lately, the cook was going around begging for new sandwich ideas. So these Italians were like "Allow us to introduce ourselves" and showed the cook how to make a revenge sandwich. They pressed that in order to make the sandwich properly, they needed the king's olives since, you know, the olive famine. All they had to do was perform a switcheroo to poison the king.

The Italians knew they sounded too much like plumbers, so they hired a couple English men to continue the rest of the mission.

They snuck into the kitchen and when the cook asked why they were there, they said they were women. The cook told them that's misogynistic and it's 1123. They also sounded suspiciously English but he could do with some help. The cook said he was making a revenge sandwich. When the cook's back was turned, the ladies took turns drizzling bottles of olive oil over the sandwich. The cook caught them and said he was already planning to poison the king - with cyanide.

When the king took his first bite, he started convulsing. However, he had chugged so much olive oil a few minutes prior that it actually protected him. He declared it was the most disgusting thing he had ever eaten and banned citizens of France from making the sandwich. He proceeded to live until 1137 at the age of 55.

It is unknown what became of the misfits that gave the king food poisoning. Perhaps they were sent back to where they came from after their visas expired. Some say the co-founder of Subway, Fred DeLuca is a descendant of one of the Italians. Revenge sandwiches are no longer banned in France. It is a dish best served cold.

If the story is true, the King's revenge was...

warm.

Not the most satisfying revenge story, but it is the incident that changed the word's definition to what it is now. So, it's of historical significance.

Okay, so a bit of background. Altman Sam's mother was for a time an employee of Microsoft. She was very much the alternative type, a punk skater from Michigan - rough around the edges, lived for metal music and taco Tuesdays - but Microsoft saw a lot of untapped potential energy in her. During this time, Microsoft wanted to increase the functionality of their keyboards and it was Mrs Sam who suggested another key. She was not the first person to make that suggestion but unlike others, she actually brought a prototype with her and gave a demonstration.

When using the new key, she explained that this key is not like most keys. Other keys generally had 1 or 2 straightforward purposes but this key was versatile and useful for niche activities. It was an alternative key, so alternative was the obvious name for it. But it was too big. That's what she said. It needed to be shorter to fit the small key. So, after removing a couple letters, the Alt key was born.

Unfortunately, Mrs Sam has never been credited for the creation of the Alt key. She would later be credited for giving live birth to a boy. She called him Altman. Alt after the Alt key and man after the Isle he was born in.

Since Sam is an unusual surname, Altman has gone by the reverse of his name because it is easier for people to remember. He has also admitted in an interview with CNN that he hates being called Alt man Sam.

Posting this encase this happened for other people. I just noticed my phone flashing and I looked over at it on my desk to read it. It didn't vibrate either. The volume wasn't muted or at zero. It wasn't on aeroplane mode or any kind of do not disturb thing - it just decided to silently display the message on my phone and then disappear by itself.

I saw them sing the song on YouTube, maybe a week ago but I think I found the group on Spotify.

I found a music group a while ago and liked their music. From my brief exposure to them, they seemed like some kind of eccentric theatrical group like Rasputina for example.

Anyway, this song was them probably trying to annoy the audience. I saw a video where they were singing it live. The song is about describing itself as boring.

"Very very boring" was repeated countless times.

They said things like "Shock and tedium" "Delirium" "Rigor mortis"

There was also a joke where one of the singers was silent for the majority of the song. They would also sing in an outro-like way to make the audience think they were done before repeating the chorus.

I don't know if this was in the same song but they joked about how one of them has a very high pitched voice but if they wanted to, they could talk in a low pitch.

While they were mucking around, it was still very talented with the comedic timing, harmonising and the fact they remembered the lyrics. Sure, it was mostly the same sentences but they shoved in a lot of different jokes and remarks, while maintaining their tune.

The closest I can think of to the lyrics

Lead singer:

Very very boring Very very boring Very very boring song

Another singer:

Boring, boring, boring, boring

Lead singer:

Very very boring Very very boring Very very boring song

Sometimes all of them said the same lines and sometimes it was one of them saying one line while the others said different lines. I think there was 3 or 4 singers.

I could not find this. Even when including "Delirium", "rigor mortis", "shock and tedium" or "Ad nauseum" I got irrelevant results. I also searched YouTube, Spotify and other browsers. Considering the group's talent, that's

Update: After listening to more of their songs, they are usually not much like Rasputina. They are usually vulgar (not that I'm against that). If you like Fascinating Aida, I recommend Richie Kavanagh (although his music is modern folk country stuff) and The Tiger Lillies.

He is still mentioned every now and then but this subreddit's titular person has been more or less silent these days. Does anyone know what he is working on currently? I'm just curious.

The last thing I heard about him was he was looking into the American government's cover up of the recent cancer treatments that were being developed somewhere in Bullshido, Japan. I did catch an article about it before the news was seemingly censored. I cannot find the original article. Big Pharma likes to meddle with anything that might decrease profits.

Also, forgive me but what exactly is his profession? Because it seems like he does a hell of a lot. In any case, I respect him since he is the crux of this subreddit. Or maybe the cock and balls... Sorry, my Reddit English is not perfect.

Where I come from, to say someone or something is cock and balls is to say they are respectable and forthcoming about their virtuosity.

Anyway, if anyone has any updates, let me know. I'm horny for more information regarding the pursuits of this fine person.

Every time I search for this, all the results are meditation music. I also tried using the word hypnotic but I still got irrelevant results.

I saw it on YouTube. The video had a creepy vibe. This guy was driving slowly and rambling about people he sees while he played loud meditation music. If I recall correctly, he committed a crime, maybe murder, before the video.

The AI in Google and other search engines makes it harder to find things too.

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