Y'all may want to lay them chicks there where they lay two weeks ago, but lying ain't going to make them lay, and they ain't lying there now.
Y'all may want to lay them chicks there where they lay two weeks ago, but lying ain't going to make them lay, and they ain't lying there now.
kibitzer wrote:
In recent years I've seen too much drama-queen stuff at the finish of xc races. To me, flopping like that just shows that you're not really in shape.
The same thing happened in the men's under 20 race, but they moved the camera around and didn't keep the focus on them.
Thus a lot of the men were "not in shape" either, including Charles Hicks who won the race and stayed prone on the ground for several minutes.
Bring back finishing chutes and nobody will risk losing their result by taking a nap
This Dublin course was apparently more tiring (muddy) than many runners expected and the finishing stretch goes uphill (a Spanish girl loses two places on the last few meters) but there is a clearly disproportional number of u20 women on the ground after the finish compared to the other races although they had the shortest race...
Drama and selfishness. Take three more steps and get out of the way.! And certainly move after a minute rest.
Real answer:
Women experience more violent blood pressure drops, particularly during/after intense exercise.
Likewise, they also routinely lose control of their bowels. Ask any girl runner if she has peed herself during or after a race. Answer is likely yes.
lay across my big brass bed
BR wrote:
Bower Man wrote:
Irregardless is not a word. Regardless is without regard. I doubt you meant with regard. And if you could care less now, it means that you care more now than before. You probably meant that could not care less now.
You got me. Make sure you tell your coworkers at McD's how you corrected someone's grammar on the Internets. Is supersize one word or two?
I’m pretty sure there’s only one internet.
Ms. Fidditch wrote:
BR wrote:
Are you the teacher who thought I was being a smart aleck and made me fill out a table on how to use lay/lie in front of the class to trip me up? But then didn't even say whether I did it right because you didn't know yourself?
No, dear. I was that teacher.
I was fortunate to have had Mrs. Hill as my teacher in fourth grade. We all learned the principal parts of "to lie" (lie, lay, lain) and "to lay" (lay, laid, laid) that year. We also learned what the "principal parts" of a verb were, and the difference between an intransitive verb like "to lie" (meaning to recline) and a transitive verb like "to lay."
Teachers nowadays don't know the principal parts because, on average, education majors have the lowest high school GPAs and the lowest SAT/ACT scores among the students in most universities. The days when intelligent women were mostly funneled into teaching (and nursing) are long gone. It's good that bright, motivated women have many more career opportunities now; it's bad that children are being "educated" by--in many cases--the unintelligent and ignorant.
Incompetwnt and lazy teachers are the worst most are in the elementary schools--"teaching" young children. This is a problem. Kids have to hope they get lucky and have a few good teachers because there's probably more bad ones at the elementary school level. There's a litany of bad teachers in the high school system too, unfortunately. Makes you really appreciate the good ones though.
My gosh! It was a real, international XC race - the European Championships. The finish looks like the Our Town High School freshman "all out for the 800," race. The girls at EastBay this year looked a lot more professional...
Grassrunner wrote:
Ms. Fidditch wrote:
No, dear. I was that teacher.
I was fortunate to have had Mrs. Hill as my teacher in fourth grade. We all learned the principal parts of "to lie" (lie, lay, lain) and "to lay" (lay, laid, laid) that year. We also learned what the "principal parts" of a verb were, and the difference between an intransitive verb like "to lie" (meaning to recline) and a transitive verb like "to lay."
Teachers nowadays don't know the principal parts because, on average, education majors have the lowest high school GPAs and the lowest SAT/ACT scores among the students in most universities. The days when intelligent women were mostly funneled into teaching (and nursing) are long gone. It's good that bright, motivated women have many more career opportunities now; it's bad that children are being "educated" by--in many cases--the unintelligent and ignorant.
A generation got confused by the song, "Lay Down Sally".
A different generation got confused by that hack Bob Dylan with his song, "Lay, Lady, Lay".
uu.uuu wrote:
Real answer:
Women experience more violent blood pressure drops, particularly during/after intense exercise.
Likewise, they also routinely lose control of their bowels. Ask any girl runner if she has peed herself during or after a race. Answer is likely yes.
Sorry no one I raced with in HS or college peed or pooped in their pants during or after XC races. That’s strange to make it sound like it’s a given. Some HS boys threw up after. And we didn’t drop to the ground like sissies. There were shoots and refs pushing you along. You had no choice but to keep moving. Now they think it somehow means they’re some kind of hero’s and we should all be in awe of their performance. Hilarious.
BR wrote:
https://youtu.be/MFpBQ_o3znQ?t=1155
Looks a lot better than some creepy old man saying "keep jogging" and patting them on the butt.
That's what we usually have in America.
WiTuLo wrote:
Grassrunner wrote:
A generation got confused by the song, "Lay Down Sally".
A different generation got confused by that hack Bob Dylan with his song, "Lay, Lady, Lay".
Except nobody is confused at all. Millions of people happily use lay instead of lie, and everyone knows what they mean. The "rules" of language describe how people speak. When we observe behaviors in particle colliders that violate our understanding of physics, we don't say the universe is wrong, we update our models. Human language is at least 150,000 years old. Written language is maybe 6k years old at best. It seems to have survived quite well, for many many millennia, without any dictionaries, style guides, or "10 Words You're Using Wrong" clickbait listicles.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Bring back finishing chutes
Yeah! And tongue depressors with little numbers on them. Then have each runner approach the clerk of the course, in order, to give the correct spelling of her name. Then wait at least an hour and a half for the organizers to determine the winners and prizes in each division. Then, in the announcements (which no one can understand, because the sound system is so cheap), butcher every name that is not "Smith" or "Jones." Just like the good old days!
BTW, at 19:53 the stewards are trying to get the girls to stand up. (Question for Let's Run: why are stewards always old, fat, white guys?) At 19:55 you can see that the finish line is basically blocked by prostrate bodies and two runners have to veer off to the right side in order to cross the finish line. At 20:03 there is a team huddle going on basically right at the finish line. At 20:14 most of the girls start to move out of the finish area. At 20:55 the police have entered the scene to remove at least one runner. By 21:05 the area is basically clear. Question is: what is 25 meters beyond the finish line (where the camera is located) to prevent the runners from adding just a few meters to their run before they flop?
Those are some astonishing sets of chompers on those brit chicks. Don't they go to dentists in that 3rd world sh-thole?
Spainflyer wrote:
Bad Wigins wrote:
Bring back finishing chutes
Yeah! And tongue depressors with little numbers on them. Then have each runner approach the clerk of the course, in order, to give the correct spelling of her name. Then wait at least an hour and a half for the organizers to determine the winners and prizes in each division. Then, in the announcements (which no one can understand, because the sound system is so cheap), butcher every name that is not "Smith" or "Jones." Just like the good old days!
Your life sounds awful! My sympathies. Try to find things you enjoy.
IMO if you can't flop until you're out of the chute, your run doesn't count.
They should make it a 30 second penalty to lay down within 20 ft of the finish line.
I’m more concerned with the frienemy hugs. Why do girls hug competitors they hate?