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Jujitsu and the Best Compliment I’ve Ever Gotten

Shamelessly lifted from one of Larry’s posts from the Book of Faces. Do y’all want me to keep moving things here? Is there anyone who only sees his stuff here? Sound off in the comments! —Jack


I’m having a lot of fun in jujitsu lately. I woke up thinking about it.

So anyways, a couple weeks back I’m rolling with Bo Smith who is a brown belt (and the guy who got me doing this stuff to begin with after he beat my ass in an ECQC evo). I’ve rolled with Bo a bunch, and if I he hasn’t tapped me in 30 seconds its because he wants me to learn something.

So at one point I’m in side control, but can’t manage to get anything out of him from there, so I go north south and try to get a choke. Bo of course, being really good and not at all worried lets me because he’s curious what I’m going to go for. Doing this puts all my 280 pounds of awesome fluffiness on Bo’s head in a smother. He easily escaped my clumsy high calorie white belt choke attempt, but afterwards told me that for the first time I made it so he had to work, and that he’d never let me get that position on him again. 😀

Now to the people who don’t do jujitsu, this doesn’t sound like much, but to me that was one of the best compliments I’ve ever gotten and has been a huge motivator and boost to my self esteem. Because after a year straight of getting my ass beaten by higher belts, merely not sucking for ten seconds is a huge win!  

However, since then I’ve tried to get to that position on other white belts, and holy moly, that is not the place you want to let a really big dude like me get to. I’ve pulled that off a few times now. Most of the white belts are like 20+ years younger than me and way more athletic, so doing anything other than gassing out and croaking makes me feel like a bad ass. 😀

If any of you guys are on the fence about trying jujitsu, I highly recommend it. I’m down about 30 pounds this year (and it ain’t like I’ve been eating well, because with deadlines comes snacks) and it’s been great. You will however probably get injured, so be sure to swallow your pride and tap early and often. There’s no shame in that. My rotator cuff still aches from when I tore it in January.  But still, totally worth it.
I’ve always had a combative personality and enjoyed fighting. Now that I’m fifty this is about the only way I can have fun with that kind of thing and not die. It is fun to check your ego at the door and get your ass kicked. It’s exhausting and sometimes painful, but I’m having a great time. My plan is to keep this up as long as my body will let me.

INTERNET ZOOLOGIST REPORT, part XIV

-This needed to be preserved (from Larry’s Facebook page) -Jack

Trust me, kids. This is a tale of adventure! If you missed yesterday’s Live One, I’ve got to do an Internet Zoology highlight reel, because this dork’s behavior is such a perfect cliché that I may finally earn tenure!

As a professional Internet Zoologist I love observing the patterns of strange internet creatures and documenting them for you guys. (being serious for a minute, I find learning their strategies and tactics for arguing fascinating)

The original subject, gerrymandering.

FB is awful at linking to itself, but if you go down my page it’s the gerrymandering post that’s got like 400 comments. I’ll zelda below, but you know how that goes, and FB will show you whatever it decides to show you in its mysterious and unknowable ways.

The subject, Had Sheik, blunders into my page, having followed my trail from where we clashed briefly earlier on a mutual friend’s page where Sheik was boldly defending the poor innocent Disney megacorporation from the evils of Gina Carano.

Seeing the hulking, brutish form in the distance, I tried to identify the creature. Upon initial observation I thought the subject was too ponderous to be a Common Internet Shit Gibbon, and from his profile pic appeared to be a subspecies of Mayonnaise Goblin.

The Mayonnaise Goblin loudly approached the herd of innocent Normies gathered around my internet watering hole, and immediately attacked! His two pronged offense consisted of declaring that republicans gerrymander more than democrats (lol), and he posted a link to “prove” it. But wait, there’s more! He then cited a bill that would have banned gerrymandering, but republicans all voted against it.

I was shocked! It is rare for a liberal Mayonnaise Goblin to be able to formulate TWO thoughts simultaneously! Could this possibly be one of the legendary Greater Mayonnaise Goblins? But they supposedly went extinct in November of 2024!

His attack might have worked against lesser Normies, but sadly for the MG, this particular herd is battle hardened. His link got laughed at because it came from a left wing think tank (it’s basically the Democrat Committee To Elect Democrats In Perpetuity Institute of Liberalism, so I can’t imagine why people don’t trust it’s integrity!) and that super nice and good law he cited had a few minor side effects like making DC the 51st state, and basically ensuring that democrats automatically win every single federal election for eternity. I can’t believe republicans would vote against that, those dicks!

But thus would begin an EPIC BATTLE that would continue for the entire day!

Undeterred, the Greater Mayonnaise Goblin circled, and produced a new link! This one was a list of the 10 most gerrymandered states! 9 of which were red! TAKE THAT FOUL REPUBLICANS.

Except my state made the list, and if you look at our map, it’s mostly squares, based on county lines. How’d we get on there, while the spaghetti noodle states didn’t? If you walk across dread O’Hare to get from A gate to C gate you’ve crossed like 7 congressional districts.

So the GMG’s second attack was parried, because it turned out his “peer reviewed study” was some bullshit blog, with no actual data or criteria, and its “sources” were editorials from places like Axios and Salon whining about republicans. (remember kids, only republicans “gerrymander”, democrats “tactically redistrict”).

However, in the chaos of facebook battle, this was when the fight broke into multiple subthreads. Now we were fighting about election fraud! And voter ID! Madness! Pandemonium! Autism!

It was then that I learned the Greater Mayonnaise Goblin’s legendary power didn’t come from it’s wit or speed, but from it’s SHEER FUCKING SIZE! GMG’s individual attacks are weak, but they can barf up to THIRTY SIX dumb ass points and links* at a time.

*note, GMG’s are large and gassy, but they are not clever. Their “research” consists of googling, finding the first link they think helps them and confirms to their preconceived notions, and pasting it without reading it first. This is funny when their own link contradicts their dumb ass point, but GMG’s never take any accountability anyway.

The GMG relentlessly charged the herd, over and over again. But being dimwitted, it settled into a predictable pattern. Endlessly roaring that it’s super impossible for women, minorities, poor, and rural people to do something super dooper complicated and ridiculously expensive like get an ID.

Like all liberals, GMGs are deeply and profoundly racist, in that they believe minorities and poor people are basically helpless vegetables who can’t survive without being cared for like pets, so our GMG’s next attack used a “peer reviewed study” from the “non-partisan” League of Women Voters which said that 25% of black Americans don’t have IDs.

Wow… Okay. I want you guys to think about that one. This dude, actually believes that 1 in 4 adult black people in America have no ID. Right now. Today, in the year 2025. Not just voting, he actually thinks a QUARTER of black people can’t drive, have bank accounts, or jobs, or go to the doctor, or buy or rent houses, or buy cigarettes or alcohol, or fly on an airplane, or buy a gun, or do basically ANYTHING. Like… wow. Holy shit. 😀

But no matter how absurd, illogical, and frankly ridiculous that is, this fat, greasy, beast ran with that narrative all day. Except there’s more, because the “non-partisan” League of Women Voters he got this super genius, totally honest stat from, when you look at their webpage what do you see they’re fighting for? Abortion, climate change, DEI, open borders, and pretty much every democrat cause you can imagine.

When challenged, the disgusting beast, Had Shrek, rolled his bloated carcass over, screamed out “They are non-partisan because their by-laws say they can’t support any political party or candidate!” and then sprinkler sprayed shit like a hippo for FIFTY YARDS!

When I asked this dimwitted thing if he thought Antifa meant they were the good guys because it was in the name, he did not respond, because he was too busy licking the worms from his own butthole. (It turns out GMGs are infested with parasites. Gross)

GMGs do not care about truth or even basic observable reality. They stampede through a fantasy world of their own creation. When challenged by my fellow Internet Zoologist, Professor Ian McMurtrie about how poor people in 3rd world countries could get IDs to vote, but these hypothetical Americans couldn’t, the GMG’s said those countries didn’t have republicans trying to stop them!

Sadly, for poor, fat, stupid, Sheik, Dr. McMurtrie lived much of his life in Africa and put up with none of that bullshit. 😀 Because yes kids, American liberals are so dramatically up their own ass that they really think walking 10 hours through blistering heat and biting flies, while dodging machete wielding rebels and literal fucking LIONS is easier than getting somebody to drive you to the nearest DMV in rural Alabama.

On that note, I don’t know where this corpulent sack of crap comes from, but he twice made the mistake of citing states I’d lived in. From the most backwoods places in Alabama, you’re like 45 minutes from a DMV. Hell, the place I stuck Cazador, it’s like an hour drive and that’s isolated enough to have a COMPOUND! With Orcs!

The battle raged on! The herd pounced, repeatedly pummeling the GMG, but encased in a thick hide of impenetrable porcine lard and brain fog, the monster was impervious to shame or self-reflection. All it could do was barf up more “studies”.  

One note on that, which is seriously fascinating about how the game is rigged, if you google search any of the terms related to voter ID, ALL THE LINKS are from the same handful of crappy, ultra left wing, activist groups. If you search for something tangentially related which uses any of the keywords (even something innocuous, like what percentage of black Americans have drivers licenses) again, ALL THE LINKS are to the same handful of lefty activist (sorry, “non-partisan” institutes that are all about moderate causes like abortion, climate change, open borders, and single payer healthcare) sites about voter ID. Ain’t that curious.

I can’t summarize 400 posts of mayonnaise fueled bloviating, but you get the idea. Voter fraud never happens. Okay it happens but it doesn’t make any difference. Okay it happens all the time but only republicans do it. Here is a non-partisan study from the Institute of Liberalism Committee to Elect Democrats Eternally that says so.

So on and so forth. FOREVER!!!!!!!!! You’d think something so corpulent would get gassed out, but apparently typing takes very little cardio.  

Seriously, his most “conservative” source ever cited was Princeton… And when I looked democrat faculty outnumbers republicans something like 8 to 1, and that was the MOST conservative thing he barfed up.

At one point the beast let out a piteous wail, about how it could no longer respect me even though it liked my books, and I was like Thank goodness! Because if dorky, lying ass monstrosities like this respected me, I need to repent and examine my life choices.

The battle continued, and most of the herd grew weary and went back to playing Xbox. I took my wife out to dinner (fancy ramen) and the moron continued bleating in my absence. And this morning when I got up, HE WAS STILL THERE! Lying in the watering hole, festering and bloated, covered in moss and feces, turning the water salty from all his tears because only fat dumb liberals can save the rural poor!

(and being rural, the real reason we live out here is to get away from these dorks! And no, none of us listen to NPR either!)

This one was such a perfect encapsulation of what it’s like to argue with libs on the internet that it took my breath away, like a beautiful sunset.

After the curious among you get a chance to take a look, I’ll get out my elephant blocker and do my part to return the GMG to the endangered species list. 😀

Reverse Cooter

Larry updated his zoological findings:

Internet Zoology Time: You have all heard my Three Cooters Theory of Internet Discourse, but I need to add a corollary. THE REVERSE COOTER.

The Three Cooters Theory is that most of the time when the media starts going off about how conservatives/republicans/MAGA is outraged about something which only racists/morons/misogynists would be outraged about, and there’s hundreds of articles about this outrage, when you delve into it the actual outrage can be traced back to three guys named Cooter complaining on twitter. Then the left runs with this, acts like 3 Cooters=3million people they don’t like, and turns into a huge story so they can once again go HA HA LOOK AT THE DUMMIES.

Last time I delved into this we came up with dozens of examples of manufactured outrage.

But over the last few days I’ve seen the REVERSE COOTER demonstrated a lot. This is related to the left’s recent outrage over Sidney Sweeny’s general hotness, with comments like “This is just manufactured outrage for conservatives to clutch their pearls! The left never cared about some jeans ad!” And since half the internet for the last week has been pictures of Sidney Sweeny’s magnificent rack along with funny  stories about lefty outrage, I’ve seen that excuse a lot.

They are claiming a 3 Cooters Defense. Except that doesn’t hold up. Because when you look, there were a lot more than 3 randos wailing on Twitter. There were thousands of them, whole collections of TikTok videos, the topic trending on X, AND that was combined with real media coverage. Not of the outrage, but editorials about the evil notsee coded evils of Sidney Sweeny’s hotness being a dog whistle for eugenics, from major lefty media like the Washington Post, Salon, and Good Morning America.

The reason this one went so hilariously viral was the size/silliness of their outrage, and how the absurdity of this whine in particular sums up Wokeness in general, and the timing was perfect because normies are sick of wokeness. Boom. Viral. Memes galore.

It has been fun watching the smarter CISGs attempt a Reverse Cooter going all “nobody said that” in the same threads simultaneously where a dozen of the dumber CISGs are still screaming about raciss notsee genetics in Trump’s America. 😀

WIP

Quick update from Larry’s SM:

Because people keep asking about dates here’s what’s coming up next, approximate months to the best of my knowledge-

American Paladin KS – September (release in 2026)

Academy of Outcasts – October 2025

Heart of the Mountain audio – November 2025

Monster Hunter Files 2 – March 2026

Monster Hunter #9 – Late 2026

MH Files w/ Les Johnson – 2026

Magic and Bullets (Academy of Outcasts 2) – 2026

Gun Runner KS – later in 2025 (not sure, they’re working on art)