Ranger's training thread

General discussion on Training. How to get better on your erg, how to use your erg to get better at another sport, or anything else about improving your abilities.
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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by jliddil » May 5th, 2011, 9:12 am

Citroen wrote:
jliddil wrote: 2 (10 oz.) pkgs. frozen Brussels sprouts
Your recipe fails for me. You MUST use fresh fart berries. Frozen fart berries don't pass muster.
Not always available. And at least in the US the frozen ones are not horrible.
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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by jliddil » May 5th, 2011, 9:20 am

NavigationHazard wrote:What wine with brussels sprouts? Or should it be beer? Newcastle Brown works for me....
Arrogant Bastard Ale
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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by bellboy » May 5th, 2011, 9:56 am

Purple sprouting brocolli is the way to go kids. As healthy as you can get without the inherent air pressure changes that you get with sprouts.

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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by Bob S. » May 5th, 2011, 11:54 am

In the absence of the thread’s founder, it is reassuring to see that the followers are holding to a steady course of keeping to the topic of posterior excretions of one sort or another. B.S. forever, vegetable or other wise!

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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by Byron Drachman » May 5th, 2011, 12:49 pm

bellboy wrote:Purple sprouting brocolli is the way to go kids. As healthy as you can get without the inherent air pressure changes that you get with sprouts.
That is good to know because ordinary brocolli and cauliflower seem to bring unwanted (as you so nicely put) air pressure changes . I happen to own and treasure an edition of the Merck Manual that contains information on flatulence:

Essay on Flatulence (first printed in the 14th Edition of The Merck Manual, 1982)

Flatulence, which can cause great psychosocial distress, is unofficially described according to its salient characteristics: (1) the “slider” (crowded elevator type), which is released slowly and noiselessly, sometimes with devastating effect; (2) the open sphincter, or “pooh” type, which is said to be of higher temperature and more aromatic; (3) the staccato or drumbeat type, pleasantly passed in privacy; and (4) the “bark” type (described in a personal communication) is characterized by a sharp exclamatory eruption that effectively interrupts (and often concludes) conversation. Aromaticity is not a prominent feature. Rarely, this usually distressing symptom has been turned to advantage, as with a Frenchman referred to as “Le Petomane,” who became affluent as an effluent performer who played tunes with the gas from his rectum on the Moulin Rouge stage.

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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by Gus » May 5th, 2011, 12:56 pm

Whether it's ranger or Brussels sprouts, it's the same end result.

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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by Bob S. » May 5th, 2011, 1:07 pm

Gus wrote:Whether it's ranger or Brussels sprouts, it's the same end result.
Yes, the thread is holding the course well, as I said a couple of postings back.

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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by bellboy » May 5th, 2011, 3:47 pm

Could we run a sweep of what his first words will be when/if he is allowed back. Im going with Yea. That seems to be creeping in more and more. Not quite sure where the letter H disappears to though.

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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by bellboy » May 5th, 2011, 3:55 pm

Byron, with regards to Le Petomane we have our own version of him in England. He has been "performing" for over twenty years under the name Micky Methane. His God Save the Queen brings a tear to the eye of the toughest of men. A much maligned figure but as the saying goes "It's a living". Furthermore he isnt as annoying as Von ManBatt but to be brutally honest i dont think he can match our hero's 7.02 at BIRC.

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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by Citroen » May 5th, 2011, 4:56 pm

jliddil wrote:
NavigationHazard wrote:What wine with brussels sprouts? Or should it be beer? Newcastle Brown works for me....
Arrogant Bastard Ale
I beg your pardon. Newcastle Brown Ale is the nectar of the gods. It's also a beer that used to be brewed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (the city of my birth). It's now made in some anonymous factory in Yorkshire.

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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by Bob S. » May 5th, 2011, 5:18 pm

Citroen wrote:
jliddil wrote:
NavigationHazard wrote:What wine with brussels sprouts? Or should it be beer? Newcastle Brown works for me....
Arrogant Bastard Ale
I beg your pardon. Newcastle Brown Ale is the nectar of the gods. It's also a beer that used to be brewed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (the city of my birth). It's now made in some anonymous factory in Yorkshire.
If you took that to be a snide comment, check this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Brewing_Company

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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by Citroen » May 5th, 2011, 7:33 pm

Wow brussels sprouts and strange Canadian beer (by that I mean strange beer not strange Canadians), this thread has taken a much better turn since The Special One started his week long ban.

His blog appears to be a fairly lonely place (only a few snide comments), he may do better talking to his wall.

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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by Bob S. » May 5th, 2011, 8:29 pm

Citroen wrote:

His blog appears to be a fairly lonely place (only a few snide comments), he may do better talking to his wall.
The numbers of views of each post are quite high. Can this be rigged easily by the blogger?

Just wondering.

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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by Bob S. » May 5th, 2011, 8:34 pm

Citroen wrote:
Wow brussels sprouts and strange Canadian beer (by that I mean strange beer not strange Canadians), this thread has taken a much better turn since The Special One started his week long ban.
Canadian? The Stone Brewing Co. is in California and it is sort of expected to have strange things going on here. If you had used the expression "strange Californians" some might consider it to be redundant.

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Re: Ranger's training thread

Post by jliddil » May 5th, 2011, 9:34 pm

Yes Stone brewing is in California. Canadian? Then:
http://www.unibroue.com/en/beers/la_fin_du_monde/

I know a thing or tow about real beer. Newcastle is a shadow of it's former self. Old Nick perhaps or Thomas Hardy's that has aged. Real Ale rules. I even have Michael Jackson's (The Beer Hunter) autograph on a beer t_shirt. I was the AHA Home-brewer of the Year once, but I don't go parading my past accomplishments.

I understand that you can reduce flatulence by reducing or eliminating ranger from your diet, racing your training, rowing at maximum drag, parading your strengths, stroking, erging 20k and biking 20k a and rowing 20k OTW a day and then reciting Robert Frost.
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