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Friday Fun Thread for October 25, 2024

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I finally got Concerta (36 mg) but will write about it in next week's Wednesday thread.

Was listening to a bit of music recently, I used to listen to electronic music mostly, so slightly off mainstream but still sorta girly type stuff instead of techno, so electro house, liquid drum and bass, melodic hardstyle, glitch hop. I listen to a bunch of pop and pop punk now. As a teenager, I did not wanna conform so would badmouth other forms of music, that was naive.

No polo this week but I did go out drinking twice. The first was with a friend this tuesday who was in my high school and went to Budpest for uni. He was in Australia for a year and then went to Budapest, we both had a beer each in his car whilst listening to trashy Indian music lol.

Will watch once upon a time in hollywood and fight club to study Brad Pitts body language. My posture is terrible and my mannerisms are erractic, anxious, very much not what I want to be like. This and working out will do more for my attractiveness than anything else.

Also fights this weekend. I think Topuria may win, not sure. I am sure that Ankalaev will win, somewhat sure that Khamazat will win too, though robert is the best defensive wrestler since aldo and max imo. I listen to Heavy hands and mma vivisection. I also saw bivol and beterbiev, I think bivol edged it but boxing is super corrupt. I need to stop watching and caring so much about combat sports. Topuria is the ideal wrestle boxer, more boxer than anything else. He has great pocket work, is defensively sound, most importantly he is a top tier athlete. Topuria has the makings of an all time great, he has great defence whilst striking and grappling, is really good in the pocket and can flatline you with one shot. You have biological cielings in sports. There is only one giorgio petrosyan but if you are that smart you probably would not fight professionally. Ilia has great fundamentals, he gameplans well. He is defensively sound even when he is throwing, he is a good pressure fighter and max is ageing so yeah, good fight.

I ran into Rob Whittakers ex wrestling coach in chiang mai btw, he runs mat masters in Melbourne or something, mma gym. Dude is afghan and immediately asked me where in India I was from, when I told him north, Rajasthan, he immediately started speaking hindi without an accent. Afghans speak like 5 languages or something so they are really good at picking up languages. My uni is a really good public engineering one, so we would have some afghans over to study, they all picked up langauges super fast. I like afghans but the mass migration shit in europe by them is fucked up.

Regardless, he was a super nice dude. I bumped into him twice, he followed me on Instagram, introduced me to his family and told me about mma stories. So how he started in both greco and freestyle, how rob did not train at all for his ddp fight and how even though bo nickal is legitimatley a better wrestler than khamzat, he is not as well-rounded.

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