Favorite quote from a movie?

one of my 'big man' heroes, actually. 6'5 and 315 pounds, (I'm 6'6, and currently 240. trying to get my build back up) reminds me that just because you're a big man, you 'can' be liked, not just feared. I appreciate him very much, and it was a sad day when he went. one of the kindest people on the planet, he actually had pet chinchillas, and carried their pictures in his wallet, he'd whip out the pics to show anyone that asked.

If I can be half the man he was, I'd be damn pleased with myself as a decent human being.

 

I never knew that about him. What an amazing man. Glad to hear you train. I have lifted/trained most of my life. Staying in shape has made a few hard falls from horses not as bad as they should have..lol Chinchilla's...WOW.

 

hell, he was a vegetarian for a good portion of his life too.
yeah, I'm getting back into training, since I'm mostly recovered from 2016 trying to kill me. (well, that and the celiac, but that's been trying for.. counts.. wow. nearly 17 years?)

 

^this is way off topic (but what else is new) but how did you figure out you have celiac disease? What were your symptoms?

 

Wow, a vegetarian too. Lot's of supplements to pack on muscle on that kind of diet, well that or juice...lol I do recall several pro bodybuilders that were "lacto-ovo vegetarians Meaning dairy and eggs were ok.

 

@Meliai
well.. you asked, but I'll try to keep it simple and non-gross as possible.

immediate and rapid weight loss (60 pounds over the course of 30 days and another 15 over the course of the following month. went, in the first month, from 325 of pretty solidly packed muscle to 265 pounds in a skin-sack)
lethargy, exhaustion, narcolepsy and anemia caused by blood leakage through my intestinal walls (and ahem.. out)
nausea, vomiting on eating almost anything. hair loss, and malnutrition despite forcing down 6k calories a day.

 

Hmmm ok thanks. Sounds brutal

I'm not that extreme but i havent been well for a while. The only time i've felt 100% in a long time was when I tried keto for a week a few months ago...i was wondering if it was because I incidentally cut out gluten that week as well

Sorry to interrupt the movie thread guys, carry on

 

@Meliai

when I went to the doctor, they asked me when I'd started chemotherapy. (the effects are pretty similar)

they ran a camera down me, found scalloped mucosal folds in my small intestine and said 'yep. we know what that is.' did a blood draw for antibodies just to make sure, confirmed it, and stuck me on IV nutrients for 8 weeks, until I could 'start' absorbing food again. (I was down to less than 10% absorptive capacity, my gut lining was 'so' destroyed.) the doctor actually said I was lucky I was so big, in that my body had plenty to catabolize down while I healed.

evidently it was dormant, but'd been triggered by a pretty gnarly intestinal infection which sent my immune system into overdrive. the only way to keep it from happening is to not eat the offending storage proteins.. there was an experimental treatment that was discussed about putting me on the same kind of immunosuppressants they use for organ transplants (since it's a similar reaction. my immune system thinks my guts, if tainted by those proteins which adhere to the villi, is a foreign body, and has to be destroyed.)

I said no. I'll just learn to eat differently.

 

yes, back to the movie thread!

mel, I'll message you further info.

 

a great book and a decent movie

 

The actor that played Lex Luthor's character fucked that movie up.

 

Ooooooo nice
Some like it hot

 

that line...I LOLed so hard

 

My mother outlived the GDR by three days. I believe it was a good thing she never learned the truth. She died happy. She wanted us to scatter her ashes to the winds. That's prohibited in Germany, both East and West. But we didn't care.

She's up there somewhere now. Maybe looking down at us. Maybe she sees us as tiny specks on the Earth's surface, just like Sigmund Jähn did back then. The country my mother left behind was a country she believed in; a country we kept alive till her last breath; a country that never existed in that form; a country that, in my memory, I will always associate with my mother.

 

Ben Affleck was awesome though.

 

Forrest Gump
The most overrated movie ever
Well that, and Amelie