Why are runners so socially awkward?

Why do you like talking about shirtless men so much?

maybe we like bein weird, deal with it nancyboy.

You've got the causation arrow pointing the wrong way. Running is the sport for guys like that.

try this? wrote:

You've got the causation arrow pointing the wrong way. Running is the sport for guys like us.

FTFY

H. E. Pennypacker wrote:

Skinny boys running around shirtless, the goofy grins, the farting humor, lonerism, antisocial behavior, the dumb, repetitive jokes, the short shorts and tights...

Why are runners so freaking weird?

I love short shorts and tights... being skinny and just flat out weird.

Guess I'm right at home...

Cause I'm different.

H. E. Pennypacker wrote:

Skinny boys running around shirtless, the goofy grins, the farting humor, lonerism, antisocial behavior, the dumb, repetitive jokes, the short shorts and tights...

Why are runners so freaking weird?

You are posing this with a name like Pennypacker?

fixer of posts wrote:

try this? wrote:

You've got the causation arrow pointing the wrong way. Running is the sport for guys like us.

FTFY

Speak for yourself.

Because a lot of us find it easier to fit in with people like us. Plus (faster) runners are a lot alike with the same types of personality. Across my team's varsity, there are like 3 types of personality for 7 guys

we enjoy self-improvement, the satisfaction from self-discipline, and being a lone wolf even if it means we are nerdy virgins.

H. E. Pennypacker wrote:

Skinny boys running around shirtless, the goofy grins, the farting humor, lonerism, antisocial behavior, the dumb, repetitive jokes, the short shorts and tights...

Why are runners so freaking weird?

You could just as easily opine:

Muscular and/or fat boys running around in helmets, the snarling faces, the farting humor, tribalism, antisocial behavior, the dumb, repetitive jokes, the pads and tights...

Why are (American) football players so freaking weird?

H. E. Pennypacker wrote:

Skinny boys running around shirtless, the goofy grins, the farting humor, lonerism, antisocial behavior, the dumb, repetitive jokes, the short shorts and tights...

Why are runners so freaking weird?

Not that there’s anything wrong with that!

Is this actually what runners are like in the US? Total losers?

In my european country most runners are ordinary guys.

Idk most runners I know are normies. Maybe you're just a super normie so runners seem weird to you.

You also don't see this much trolling on a basketball forum or boxing forum.

Anonymous teenage runners in high school seem to have the highest rate of trolling out of all the sports on the internet.

Compare to football players. No necked jocks who knowingly risk life long impairment due to a TBI or blown knee, shoulder, back, etc. just to get to wear a silly looking jacket during school. So terribly insecure in their jockdom that they must constantly be putting down any fellow student that likes to play clarinet or run cross country and is not large enough (or dumb enough) to be able to make the football team. And such a giant bag of unrestrained testosterone that whenever they get around a poor insecure freshman or sophomore girl who gets all excited about some attention from a football player, they get a little bit rapey when the girl won't submit like a slave concubine.

So, I will take a socially awkward runner any day of the week.

If you had a normal social life you wouldn't feel the compulsion to monotonously log miles year after year for a sport most of your peers don't care about that much. Running attracts weirdos like flies to trash.