Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.

The Northern Lights were visible over much of the UK again this week, the second time this year, when it normally never happens further south than the north of Scotland.

And the least surprising character reveal, seems to have been made in Agatha All Along episode 5.

Apparently there's a new Tomb Raider cartoon out on Netflix, which I wasn't even aware was coming. Anyone seen it already?

On the lookout for spooky podcasts over the Halloween season? I can recommend Hi Nay for an episodic, but longform, and The NoSleep Podcast for a regular anthology series. Any other suggestions, perhaps something new that could do with a push?

Comments

[numeronone]

Sooo the horrid ghoul they put in charge of the NHS has announced that he's going to profile people who are overweight and unemployed and push them to take that jog which causes you to puke your guts up. So that they can "get back to work".

Once again a Normal One on this awful little isle.

[full_metal_ox]

Probably to the tune of some British equivalent of this?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRlgXr2W4o4

(Context: “Go, You Chicken Fat, Go”, performed by Robert Preston of The Music Man fame, was the official theme song of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness, instituted under President Eisenhower to prepare America’s youth for military readiness; that’s one reason that the girls’ program is less demanding. A lot of unathletic boomers have flashbacks to this song.)

[numeronone]

It was also used to great comedic effect in The Marvellous Mrs Maisel! Partly playing during Tony Shalhoub's morning workout...

...and then a haunting children's choral version during his mental breakdown.

[full_metal_ox]

To bring the topic back to comics, Charles Schulz presented a non-derisive version of the workout; I particularly like Linus’ interpretation of the “Halloween Hop.”

https://schulzmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Snoopys-Daily-Dozen-5_11_20.pdf

[numeronone]

*Dammit JAB not jog. Autocorrect farts in my face once again.

[full_metal_ox]

Hence my misconstruction of your statement. Antabuse for fat people, then?

[numeronone]

Uh HUH.

[thezmage]

Which jab would that be?

[full_metal_ox]

My name isn’t numeronone, but I think they’re referring to this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd54zd0ezjo

[numeronone]

Ozempic. It's a treatment for diabetes type 2 that has been remarketed as a "miracle obesity cure". Whether or not people opt in to it voluntarily, I object to the disturbing notion from the Health Secretary of all people that what's keeping people out of work is the (nebulously defined, archaic) concept of "obesity".

Rather reminds me of Hermann Goring claiming "ore has always made an empire strong, butter and lard have made a country fat at the most."

[thezmage]

Okay, I was confused because it doesn't make me vomit at all

[full_metal_ox]

Ozempic. It's a treatment for diabetes type 2 that has been remarketed as a "miracle obesity cure".

And that sudden popular off-brand use (along with insurance, understaffing, and supply-chain hassles) has resulted in shortages of Ozempic and similar drugs for actual diabetics. I’m on the related drug Trulicity, and for three months this year I had first to halve my dose and then to do without altogether.

[numeronone]

I'm sorry to hear that. Capitalism really screws over everyone.