The Whine thread.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

KTR, my husband hates sports. He has been legally blind since early childhood and was teased as a child about not being able to participate much in sports. But for 29 years he as been a volunteer with the Coast Guard Auxiliary to go out in rough seas on Lake Michigan - some seas 15 - 20 feet high and of short waves, and rescue people. The Great Lakes are a graveyard of ships that pound boats and ships to pieces more than the ocean. I'm not letting Jim turn in his man card and neither should you, just because you go against the majority in the things which interest you. Jim lives a more interesting life than those who sit in front of the TV and follow sporting events.

Heh! Good to know. I'm very secure in my masculinity even if I don't like sports. It's just that "society" seems to think that man=sports fan. I don't feel left out or anything. In fact I cannot think of more of a waste of time than sitting by the TV watching sports when I can watch Trek instead. Or read a book. Or a magazine. Or surf the web.

Why is it that sports fans are deemed normal, while we who have other interests (like science fiction) are deemed nerds? Just because there are more of them? How is following the same team any different from following a TV show (or whatever)?

Yeah, I know there are sports fans that are also sci-fi fans, but you all know what I mean...

[JadziaKathryn]

ironically, I'm too lazy to drive to the gym to do pullups

That's hilarious! What you need is a picture of Jolene Blalock set up so you can only see it when you do pullups. That might motivate you, if past drooling smileys are any indication.

Why is the military so obsessed with pullups, anyway? I'm not sure I could do one pullup, and I don't feel that my life is incomplete.

[Emberchyld]

I'm thinking of buying a great...big...exercise thing that has bars and such on it for doin pullups at home and all that biz, cuz, ironically, I'm too lazy to drive to the gym to do pullups and my Marine OSO keeps telling me that I can't build pullup strength by doing any lifting, when it comes right down to it, you just gotta do lots and lots and lots and LOTS of pullups . I'm destiny-bound for Recon, or so I've told myself

Back in high school, I remember some guys who had just installed pull-up bars in a doorway-- maybe you'd be able to do that? Just remember to secure it in studs and duck!

A temporary bar could be propped in a set of u brackets, so that it's not there to whack you in the head every day.

I agree with JadziaKathryn. Pull-ups are overrated. (I even managed to fail the bent arm hang in every gym class my entire life.)

On my whine side... after screwing with my vacation tickets and scheduling some last minute business travel to our French office, my manufacturing team has announced a delay. So, now not only do I get to drag work clothes and a laptop with me from work to vacation, but I have a major chance of getting my luggage (and my skates!) lost with all of the flight changes. All to chance sitting in an office cooling my heels for a week. Plus, while my coworkers were able to get a really nice hotel in a really nice resort town near the office... by the time I went to book, they were full. So I get the Holiday Inn near the office (I can't complain. It's a really nice holiday inn and it's a five minute drive in the morning and it's near a really good chinese buffet where I can get very good takeout even with my dreadful French, but still-- they'll be chilling on the beach while I... well... sit in my hotel room and watch French MTV and munch on french chow mein.)

Don't get me wrong, I love travelling to our French office, but not last minute and not when it screws with my vacation!

And I have a major skating skills test tommorrow and am so nervous that I can't think straight. I've been practicing the skills for this for so long that if I have to go another 30 days practicing them, I'm going to throw myself on my own toepicks.

[TSara]

So my tooth is fine....I think I tend to grind my teeth and it causes them to hurt.

But I did manage somehow to get some sort of bug today.

Which I don't understand because I didn't go anywhere yesterday or today for that matter.

[TPoptarts]

Whine: everyone's gonna get ice cream... and I'm not because I can't afford it

Another whine: like the chicks in my room are like nice and stuff but they're probably gonna complain about me like everyone else obviously for being like weird and anti-social seems like everyone who meets me ends up asking my friend (like when I'm not around of course) "what's wrong with her??" Because like I'm usually in the room working on my computer and they usually go to places I can't afford, and talk to their friends and I really can't impose myself on a conversation between total strangers who've known each other for years not that they're very inviting either. Well and besides I'm just not the kinda person who just lays around reading stupid boring celebrity magazines painting her fingernails and toenails and then having like deep conversations about Brad and Angelina's relationship and why he's like way better with Jen and why we hate Jen because she's so perfect and Lindsay Lohan's hair and ALL THAT FRELLING DREN THAT NOT ONLY BORES THE DREN OUT OF ME BUT IS ALSO INCREDIBLY ANNOYING!!!!!

What's wrong with ME you ask??

[TPoptarts]

Dammit I really really want ice cream now!!

[TPoptarts]

More whining: stupid ass smokers smoking in a frelling no-smoking zone yet again after being told like plenty times there's no smoking allowed on this floor at all!!! And need I say my poor little asthmatic lungs don't like this AT ALL. I hope those inconsiderate idiots get some nasty smoke-related diseases. Soon. Or at least burn their tongues.

[CX]

Why is the military so obsessed with pullups, anyway? I'm not sure I could do one pullup, and I don't feel that my life is incomplete.

Upper body strength. Actually the Air Force doesn't include it in its PFT (unless they've changed it, again), but we still did them in at least one of the three PT sessions we did a week. Mostly we prefer push-ups, but nothing builds the shoulders as well as a few pull-ups can.

[TSara]

Why is the military so obsessed with pullups, anyway? I'm not sure I could do one pullup, and I don't feel that my life is incomplete.

Upper body strength. Actually the Air Force doesn't include it in its PFT (unless they've changed it, again), but we still did them in at least one of the three PT sessions we did a week. Mostly we prefer push-ups, but nothing builds the shoulders as well as a few pull-ups can.

I know one of the Airforce guys I work with does pull ups on a regular basis.

Not sure if he does it because he needs to....or because he wants to.

[CX]

Some guys like 'em. Then again I wouldn't put it below the AF to have different PFT requirements between officers and enlisted.

On another subject, if Rigil thinks he has it bad doing poetry, today I had to read a story about a couple of gay Nazis working and screwing on the Hindenburg for class. I'm not kidding.

[TPoptarts]

[Linda]

LOL, CX. But maybe your teacher is a gay Nazi, so if you have to hand in a review of that story, stick to style analysis and try to avoid talking about the content!

[CX]

Uh... no.

[TSara]

What the Frell.

I need to go to bed....BUT I CAN'T Frelling get to sleep!

AND I HAVE TO WORK TONIGHT.

[CoffeeCat]

Oh poor CX. LOL

And to think I'm about to start college this winter and major in English. I consider myself warned (not as if I've never been exposed though )