thoughts wrote:
Analyze: does the sport of running attract assholes?
geeky, backwardly social men and obsessive compulsive women (runaway bride type)- that's what it attracts.
thoughts wrote:
Analyze: does the sport of running attract assholes?
geeky, backwardly social men and obsessive compulsive women (runaway bride type)- that's what it attracts.
I don't know about that but my thread about listening to Rush Limbaugh during lunch got deleted.That sucks!
Say what you want, but I find the people on this board smart, funny as well a great sense of humour. Even the ones being harsh that seem like assholes I see the sarcasm and humour in them as well. It is easy to take things out of text when you can't hear the voice that is speaking the words. I guess I just see the glass half full!
Yea, I agree with you.I would be happy to run or sit down and pound a couple of cold one's with any of you.Then again I would be happy to pound a couple of cold one's with anyone.
anonymous posting and posting to people you don't know attracts abnoxious posting, that's all, runners tend to be nice compared to other sports if you ask me.
for example a typical letsrun response to my post "it's obnoxious, not abnoxious. why don't you go back to middle school for a few years, learn how to not be a moron, then maybe you can THINK about posting, idiot"
Corn cobb wrote:
Yea, I agree with you.I would be happy to run or sit down and pound a couple of cold one's with any of you.Then again I would be happy to pound a couple of cold one's with anyone.
Yeah I love talking about running, training, physiology, goals, etc., while drinking a few beers with other runners. It's fun.
thoughts wrote:
Analyze: does the sport of running attract assholes?
Running attracts assholes, of course. It also attracts geeks, nerds, babes, dips, goofs, pricks, bums, brains, jokesters, rebels, conformists, poets, stars, phonies, wimps, studs, saints, sinners and a host of other things.
What you have to learn to do is to tell one from the other.
Ignoring the misspelling of this website in the thread title (a certain irony there) ... what I find particularly and regularly discouraging on this site are those who use the NIMBY (not in my backyard) argument as their defense so often. Running, as in life, is NOT a loaf of Holsum white bread.
What is wrong with Holsum white bread ?
scotth wrote:
Ignoring the misspelling of this website in the thread title (a certain irony there) ... what I find particularly and regularly discouraging on this site are those who use the NIMBY (not in my backyard) argument as their defense so often. Running, as in life, is NOT a loaf of Holsum white bread.
thoughts wrote:
http://www.myfooddiary.comhas a message board. My girlfriend uses it
Your girlfriend sounds like an anorexic bitch.
milesoftrials wrote:
for example a typical letsrun response to my post "it's obnoxious, not abnoxious. why don't you go back to middle school for a few years, learn how to not be a moron, then maybe you can THINK about posting, idiot"
Damn you. I read your previous post and was ready to kick your ignorant ass. Then I continued to the above post and saw where you kicked your own ass. Now I have nothing to post about your ignorance. What a retard.
brettman10k wrote:
For defense, I think if you started a message board about anything, people in general like to verbally and behind a hidden name attack each other.
I completely agree. I spent a lot of time on a neurosurgery residency message board in recent months, and found that the comments contained therein where some of the most rank, puerile loads of shite you could imagine. Assholes abounded, in a place where you would think people would be respectful and intelligent...All in all I think Internet message boards are like a little regression room for all the boys and girls who tire of being nice all day long and just want to tear somebody a new one.
The tone of this website is "elite". Elite for a sport that is basically drievn by neurosis.
To be elite in this sport requires one to be neurotic. Every decision you make has to be about running. In order to remain motivated to live this life, any *suggestion* of a balanced life runs counter to the reality you have constructed, and must therefore be attacked. If it is not attacked, then the focused runner has to ask him/herself, "why am I running around in circles?"
Peter Snell said that he believes the life he led when he was an athlete was not healthy. Life should be about balancing many goals, not just one. He is not the best exercise physiologist in the world, nor will he ever be. He said that if he had it to do again, he probably wouldn't have been the best 8/15 runner in the world either.
It is extremely rare to read, "I enjoy running for its own sake" on this board. Because most people who read and post here are determined to run as fast as they can, not because they enjoy it, but because they are driven to be the best (whatever that means).
So to answer your question - highly competitive runners are like investment bankers, doctors and Wall Street lawyers - driven, self absorbed and pursuing an unachievable goal of perfection.
Former Runner - now a jogger wrote:
So to answer your question - highly competitive runners are like investment bankers, doctors and Wall Street lawyers - driven, self absorbed and pursuing an unachievable goal of perfection.
dead on.
dunes runner wrote:
thoughts wrote:one possible solution: anyone can start a thread on a select forum, but only selected athletes and coaches can respond.
1) Registration required to post messages;
2) Originator of each thread is allowed to block any post, or poster, from that particilar thread (only);
3) Spamming, porn, profanity etc to be blocked by moderators, but not content.
Good thoughts.....and I would have no problem with having to actually put YOUR REAL NAME....and must have an e-mail address that somebody can e-mail you posted also....
I go by Maddog, but if you want to know who I am, and my e-mail address...just ask...