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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,287 Member
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    No kidding. This one came up in the middle of a biscuit recipe.

    Ewwwwwwww.

  • John772016
    John772016 Posts: 360 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48749009#Comment_48749009

    Keep seeing this one! I'm not sure if I'm more annoyed that they expect I'll believe my chair exercises will make me look like Grandpa Hercules, or the fact they weren't concerned enough to actually draw the entire fake chair for the stupid Ad?
    Or maybe the actual 'printable' part is supposed to be the chair?
    I mean, these 3D printers can be pretty amazing?

  • p8m6bwghh9
    p8m6bwghh9 Posts: 1,110 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48750331#Comment_48750331

    I used to see *results may vary as a sort of CYA, now I figure I am obviously not doing chair yoga properly😂

  • ythannah
    ythannah Posts: 4,394 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48687968#Comment_48687968

    Just chiming in to say I've been seeing the weighted vests too. I've had one for decades because it makes me more conscious about proper posture while out walking.

  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 968 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48749187#Comment_48749187

    This is so bad it's good. Thanks for sharing! And who knew biscuits were such a digestive minefield???

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,287 Member

    Depends on how you cut the dough?

    My SIL laughed at me for grating the butter the other night, but they didn’t have a pasty cutter. (What millennial does, these days?)


    And then he scarfed down as many as he could, saying “best biscuits ever”, while his daughter slapped his hand and said ,”no daddy! Those are mine!”


    I had cannily rolled small peices of dough into her initial S, and put them on top of some, knowing she’d want some for breakfast the next day. Grandma’ing 101. 🏆


    but I have made biscuits that could qualify as a….errrr….hard pass.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,287 Member

    wow…….my first venture onto Instagram.

    In the first twenty minutes I got promised a miracle pink salt and lemon recipe that promised to melt 37 pounds off in ten days. She was so convincing. 👍🏻 It must’ve been the running banner that kept changing colors like a karaoke machine. The terrible dictation was particularly endearing. Awwwww 😻


    Immediately followed by a promised recipe for scrambled eggs and avocado that could have similar effects.

    I believe I could lose weight simply sitting on my butt and watching these things. Ya think?


    Then I watched a “reel” (?) for a zen practice that involves a bunch of people lying on pool floaties, wrapped in blankets, with eyeshades, randomly floating around.

    I’m old. In my day, that would’ve been a waterbed.

    What really cheesed me off, I just joined to follow my local yoga studio and got all this random weight loss and super sexy yoga pose stuff directed at me.

    Trust me, I do not look like that when I’m yoga’ing, nor does anyone I know. 😱

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,287 Member

    I’m sorry. Just want to add…. With alllll the porn options available out there, I have to wonder about the subculture that enjoys the Instagram yoga soft porn. Which is what it is, imho.

    Ick. Double ick.

  • John772016
    John772016 Posts: 360 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48755545#Comment_48755545

    so, first thing I did on Instagram when I started using it years ago….make sure it was not linked to anything else, no other social media accounts.
    It's algorithm only now sends me things I look at on Instagram.
    I use my Instagram with my exercise friends…. I constantly post runs & workouts, & I get notified of every race across the country (occasionally not my country) & lots of PT's that want to help me;
    I'm okay with that.
    It doesn't bring up anything that's related to a Facebook post or a random internet search as I told it not too.
    It's still a bit annoying, but less so, lol.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,566 Member

    There's a reason why MFP is my only social media. (I never got around to deleting my Facebook account, so that's still out there in the ether, but I never peruse it, haven't for over a decade.)

  • SafariGalNYC
    SafariGalNYC Posts: 2,432 Member

    speaking of IG…. I was looking for a recipe and saw this…

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    “Flat tummy in 2 weeks. “

    Says this along with the smoothie diet gives 12-16 lbs lost in 3 weeks…


    makes me wonder what’s in those smoothies…

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,566 Member

    At least this "super tonic" has ingredients which should go well together, unlike some others which look like the only way they'll induce fat loss is via vomiting from the foul taste…

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,099 Community Helper
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48760074#Comment_48760074

    What, you don't aspire to look like a pubescent girl, as the whole freakin' internet seems to think we should? Imagine that!

    😆🤣😂

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,566 Member

    If "teenagers" in movies can be portrayed by 30-something actors, why this sudden resistance to the reverse, with "senior citizens" being portrayed by 30-something models?

    It's a good time to be 30-something, it seems.

  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 968 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48756305#Comment_48756305

    Yep. I had IG for a few months this spring, enjoyed some humorous gym reels, and then started getting ones that were "sexy." No thanks.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,287 Member
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    this one is a riot on many levels. Look at the scale!

  • John772016
    John772016 Posts: 360 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48769419#Comment_48769419

    Is it because she likes green hair?

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,566 Member

    Did the pink salt turn her hair green?

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,287 Member

    spotted on a big LED screen in the window of an aesthetician in a major international city:


    an outdoor clothes line with a pair of giant, billowing mama drawers hanging next to a teensy tiny thong, advertising quick, effective, life changing weight loss.

    Stopped me in my tracks to laugh. Very effective. Couldn’t snap a pic because the thing was on a rotation. Waited five minutes hoping it’d come around again, and people were starting to stare. So I skulked outta there.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,099 Community Helper
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48779603#Comment_48779603

    So comfort vs. a torture device associated with silly societal pressure on women to be cuter? No, thanks.

    Not ashamed to say it: I'm team granny panties all the way, now and forever.

  • SafariGalNYC
    SafariGalNYC Posts: 2,432 Member
    edited September 28

    vintage ad I came across - how many people reached for a cigarette after reading this? 🤮


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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,287 Member
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    Spotted in an in-flight magazine.

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 2,014 Member

    This claiming the wonder of bananas, hahaha

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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,566 Member

    Aren't most marketing images before/after, in that order? If so, doesn't this imply that eating bananas will take you from the young, smooth face to … the other?

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 2,014 Member

    Traditional English Western order yes.

    Some cultures languages are reverse, so… ESL missed that nuance?

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