Senate European ultranationalists!

Apples with Hong Kong property prices.

The EU has a common market which goes back and...

Wow, tell me more about this knuckle pop duende!

 

Europe thinks its entitled to everything. Yet it won't work for anything and only the eastern European countries are really trying. Heck more manufacturing is going to the smaller countries then the larger ones. Sure its cheaper taxes and wages but at least the governments are giving everyone a free ride.

 

Every time someone mentions Golden Dawn I think of Kurt Russell's long time partner.

Or that group Hans Gruber read about in Time magazine.

 

well ender, i just basically twist the upper half of each finger from side to side until the pop occurs. now granted, it is a very small, unsatisfying pop, but it is painless and that is a good enough tradeoff for me.

 

I can't do the whole knuckle cracking thing. My hand did make a popping noise once when I was bending a steel bolt. Pretty sure it was one of the joints in my left thumb.

 

might have been the saddle joint, way down by the wrist. i can crack the one on my left hand, but not the right one.

 

I think it probably was. It was an engineering bolt with 123.8kg torque - pretty challenging for me at the time. I was struggling and tried using the metacarpal of my thumb as a fulcrum right before the pop.

Shame about your right hand.

 

i'm holding out hope that it will eventually succumb to my will.

 

Maybe try a menacing stare along with the words 'I command you to pop'

 

i've never done that before! i'll try it out. perhaps over a period of time this approach shall bear fruit.

 

visualise it, believe it, command it... I'm sure you'll come up trumps

Sometimes my shoulder pops when I do dislocates with a dowel

 

What?

What?

I mean, what?

Baldrick, we're having a nice whinge about EU sponge states, the very lazy and joints popping and you're just talking out of your bottom young man. At what point does the above get a much needed caveat "of course, I found mushrooms growing under my bed and I've been popping them like popcorn for the last half hour, so this may just be my hallucinogenic opinion"?

The EU is the largest economy in the WORLD, son. It generates €12-13bn per annum in GDP, which is about US$16.5bn.

The issue is that some states, largely due to a combination of being workshy and electing socialists, who spend more than they earn. But whilst deficit sits at 85% of GDP the prospects aren't bleak in most member states, who at the individual level have stupidly healthy economies.

Just... research once. it'd be so nice.

duende, I can pop my neck by titling my head to the side. Sometimes you get two pops out of it and it's sufficiently loud to cause discomfort to nearby colleagues. Which of course makes it worthwhile.

 

ender i can also pop vertebrae in my neck. i've developed a method that looks ridiculous, but is very effective in clearing bunches in the area. i basically tilt my head back a bit and jerk it from side to side in a specific way, which can yield up to five plus pops (sometimes occuring on top of one another) after rising from a night of restful sleep.

 

I was going to tell Baldrick about how much manufacturing goes on in Germany but decided to tell my goldfish instead.

Neck popping, Ender Sai? I envy you that.

edit:- you too, duende?

I need to cultivate this ability

 

my favorite area to do is my lower back, which gets pretty out of whack after sitting for long periods of time. in a standing position, i place my hands on my hips, lean back slightly with head bent forward while shrugging my shoulders and twist from side to side. all manner of wonderful sounds spring forth. it is also a highly silly-looking move so if you are going to try it out, make sure you are at least in a semi-secluded area.

 

I am seriously jealous at this point. I do ****loads of thoracic spine mobility work and I've only ever got a 'crack' out it it once. I'm definitely going to try this head-forward-shrug-shimmy technique.

 

you know i read somewhere that increased "crackability", especially in the back, corresponds with diminished musculature, because it fails to hold the vertebrae in place like it is supposed to or something like that. maybe it is because you are such a buff hunk of a man that you are not able to pop those puppies.

 

i've heard that with neck cracking, but mostly those people who have to pull their head to the side to crack it. There's so much conjecture around the topic I'm not sure what to believe. Theories about tendons popping out nitrogen bubbles and Europeans expecting everything for nothing confuse the issue.

As for popping lower back, I've found either stretching back over one of those inflatable exercise ball things does it nicely, or even reclining in my chair and extending my left leg get a nice dull pop in the lower vertebrae.

 

aaahhh i love knuckle cracking. tell me more

 

Darth Guy started a thread because he's jealous at our limb popping awesomeness.

Unhinged, is it true that when Bob Crow pops his knuckles he breaks a sweat?

 

you know what the best thing about waking up is? or the only good thing about waking up?

stretching out as far as you can and then pop the knees (ah, the knees), shoulders, ankles, fingers.. every knuckle or joint there is.

 

I broke my knee in a really bad fashion (patella dislocated, causing femur and tibia to connect. Lateral femoral condyle was shorn off, and the back of the kneecap was serrated like the sails of the opera house. Had to have the condyle screwed back in then the tendon across the knee reattached at a new location to keep tension) and if I lock my knee, tighten the muscles and bend forward the pop is glorious. Like the popping of Greek entitlements.

 

that sounds amazing.

even though my knees aren't broken they're still my favourite. i just stretch my legs out and then release them all spasm-y and then pop!

 

I wasn't trying to accuse him personally of holding those views. I was pointing out that if employed immigrants are bad because they are stealing jobs, and unemployed immigrants are bad because they are using social service without contributing to the economy, there's not much of a way for immigrants to be good or acceptable.

 

i have a friend that can somehow crack his sternum. i am kind of in awe of him.