so much more important than just “lifting bigger weights” if you’re trying to be healthier.

Arguably, older individuals, and women in particular, would greatly benefit from lifting heavy. It helps fight off osteoporosis and keeps you muscle strong enough for everyday movement. Cardio on the other hand does not.

Dutch interviews during international break is always peak football material

Bergen, or is there a Scottish city that has more rain?

In the context of Scotland leaving the euros in “shame”, the upbeat music is just such a contrast to the mood of the Scotland camp that it almost feels like they’re mocking them. If Scotland had put on a better performance, it wouldn’t look that bad.

Meant no disrespect to the band if course.

Looks like something out of a Monty Python sketch

Watching Spain you too?

How the game going?

Sorry Norway, you deserved better.

Nah, we deserve it

Are you sure you’re replying to the right comment? I don’t see how this is relevant to Steve Irwin

I was directly responding to the previous commenter saying that it’s natural to hunt and eat.

I didn’t say about hunting either, as it isn’t relevant to context of Irwin’s quote

What?

I never made a comment about that?

Eating meat is very much a part of nature, if you’re implying he would be a hypocrite for eating meat

Honestly feels ridiculous of VAR to cancel the goal.

When all you can see outside the window is the pitch black forest and the moon over the looming mountains in the valley, and your dad start telling you tales of dangerous troll lurking in the forest, The Hall of Mountain King got a different mood over it. Especially when your father is telling you that as the music is reaching its prestissimo finale the troll in the tale is running towards your house lol.

Especially with pictures like this on the wall

Savatage fucking rules too though, and I just remembered Rainbow also has a song by that title too which also rules!

Any metal band that want to draw inspiration from the nordics outside of norse mythology are bound to stumble upon Grieg and Ibsen so that checks out.

The Water Sprite (Nøkken in Norwegian) by Theodor Kittelsen

He was one of the most popular artists in Norway due to his illustrations of Norwegian fairy tales and legends.

Some of his other works includes:

Pesta (personification of the black death)

And The Forest Troll

I’m speaking about nordic folklore, so Edvard Grieg. I’m not sure the metal music could ever scare the same way Grieg’s symphony did back then.

That brings me back memories of when is was ~5 years old and visiting my father’s cabin in the forest, which had a copy of that painting on the wall. He would put hall of the mountain king on full blast and tell troll stories just to scare me from time to time.

Nøkken was scarier though, kept me from going down to lake alone after dark, which I guess was the original intention of that creature.

Might be the funniest post/image I’ve seen on Lemmy. The kids look traumatised.

England is always favourites in the eyes of British media though…

France is lacking the player they’ve built a team around so I wouldn’t be too harsh on them today, it’s not like they had to win.