Re: Annoyances
 

I'm fairly certain she was fighting the typo, not the hypo. Ever since she got her bobs reduced, she's been thinking more critically.

Re: Madness
 

But if they don't monitor everybody then it's really only a race for the folks they monitor, right? Because everyone else is going to be suspect. I don't see how corrals solve that problem. The only difference in Boston is that they separate the elites by 100 meters or so, instead of simply putting the top runners at the front of a mass of people (where they got run over by Coltranes of old). Chips just make it feasible to monitor everyone, but they don't change the corrals/staggered start/jostling problem.

Re: Madness
 

I'm not sure which problem we're talking about anymore.

Re: Facebook
 

I think you have to delete your account. And then answer three riddles to confirm. Just make sure you know the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow first.

Re: Annoyances
 

I'm at the point where I've become convinced the best thing for him to do is to cut his dick off, since he clearly hasn't learned to handle it yet, and if he can't handle it by his age, he probably won't ever learn.

Re: Madness
 

Me either, but my question was what chip timing solves. Nothing, really. If elites want a stagger because a corral doesn't prevent jostling, then you run into the PLF concern of time trial versus race. Chips don't change anything about that--all they do is (a) monitor cheating and (b) provide non-elite runners starting back in the pack with a "real" time. But if you use chip time for all runners, then it becomes a time trial and no one knows who's really in the lead.

Re: Annoyances
 

Would you STOP ALREADY with the reasonable, grownup advice?!?


Sheesh.

Re: Annoyances
 

Note that once again, I, with my porn-and-lotion prescription, am by far the more humane.

Re: Annoyances
 

I think he should ask some of her friends at work what they think he should do. Via email.

Re: Annoyances
 

I predict he's a BabydAdder before the close of 2009.

Re: Madness
 

I know a guy (he's the youngest American to run a marathon on all seven -- yes, seven -- continents) who ran a marathon in Buenos Aires wearing some totally ugly getup from the Antarctica marathon. I think it was a denim shirt or something equally un-runner-like. Anyway, at the start of that marathon, he sprinted ahead with the elites, and was actually ahead for about 90 seconds. The Kenyans/Moroccans/other-really-good-runners were all looking at each other quizzically wondering who the F he was.

Hilarity (naturally) ensued.

Good times, good times.

Re: Facebook
 

Shaddup and respond to my friend request, motherfucker.

Re: Madness
 

My fil and his partner have also done this, but they are, admittedly, old farts. Having achieved that goal, they now focus on new-to-them marathons, only repeating their home city's marathon, which they have run every year since it started. This year they ran an unsupported marathon in Mongolia, and a couple of years ago they ran the Great Wall marathon on my fil's 67th birthday. Crazy old farts.

tm

Re: Annoyances
 

See, I don't know about that. I mean, there are pluses and minuses to cutting one's dick off. It's true the problem at hand will become moot. But then you have the whole not having a dick thing. I know that would make me anxious.

And none of this addresses the "How" of the thing. Do you go with a paring knife or serrated edge? Scissors? Cleaver? How much Wild Turkey should one ingest in advance? Or should it be Oxycontin?

Should you have someone else cut it off for you? Maybe. But who? You can't just ask a friend at work. That could lead to some really uncomfortable situations.

So I don't think you can just go around willy-nilly suggesting Adder cut his dick off. There's a lot more to it than that. These things have to be vetted first.

Re: Facebook
 

I had an account until recently. I deleted and haven't regretted it for 1 minute!

Re: Annoyances
 

One of the protagonists in the book I just finished, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (guess which one), used a string to tie off the member so as to cut off blood flow and then used a pen knife to slice through. He threw the discarded body part in the fire. There was, apparently, very little blood, though he did require some time in the infirmary afterwrds.

Re: Annoyances
 

Jesus Christ. I'd heard that was a great book, but... But...

Well, you just don't expect that in the dictionary business.

Re: Annoyances
 

That isn't more humane, it simply prolongs the agony.

Re: Annoyances
 

I like your last suggestion. I bet he could find a vet who would be happy to do it.

Re: Madness
 

This post for some reason reminded me of a particularly offensive Yes On 8 ad that is running right now where a family in Massachusetts complains that because gay marriage is legal now their daughter is being taught in school that a prince can marry another prince and "she's in the second grade!"* -- like it is brainwashing kids to tell them that homosexuality exists at all if they are that young or something. Sometimes I wish that every homophobic bigot was forced to live with a gay family member who is in a committed relationship for some period of time so that they could finally get it that it isn't that big of a thing to tell to 8 year olds.

Anyway, your father-in-law and his partner must have some great stories to tell from their globe trotting (ha!).


*Oh, the odious way that the mother says that phrase. Egad.

Re: Annoyances
 

The protagonist wrote a book about his circumcision?

Re: Annoyances
 

I started reading that book and couldn't get into it. I don't think I'll be revisiting it any time soon now.

Re: Annoyances
 

Gelding is the term, no?

It's a harsh alternative considering all he probably needs is a lobotomy (I overthink a lot myself, and am now learning at this late age the sad truth of the axiom, "The stupid shall inherit the wealth") to make himself simple enough to soldier through this issue.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

In a development that will surprise no one who is familiar with America, the Chronicle is reporting that Nike will give Arien O'Connell a trophy and "recognize her as a winner."

I shit you not. "A winner."

ETA: Oh, and they're doing away with elite starts.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

And they'll hire the woman from Seinfeld to yell "You're all winners!"

Re: Annoyances
 

It's slow, but the chapter where the guy starves his penis of blood and then slices it from his pelvis is riveting.

I just picked up the ebook on RT's suggestion and it's already given me so many ideas on how to cut Chorizo for this new paella recipe I have...

Re: Annoyances
 

stfu. wonk is hen-pecked, sure, but gelding is too strong.

Re: Madness
 

All of this is true. No argument here.

Re: Madness
 

This guy is my new hero.

Re: Madness
 

I am really glad not to be living in CA this year, for just this reason. As it is, I hear plenty from all my CA friends. At least there is cool No on 8 swag to be gotten. And I like the No vs Yes ads.

And yes, they do have fun stories to tell. And we get lots of cool presents from wherever they go. Someday when I have fewer ankle-biters I'll go cool places too.

tm

Re: Facebook
 

I didn't know many of these "friends" in HS. Why the fuck would I want to know them now?

Re: Madness
 

I worked for a GP who wanted to climb the highest mountain on every continent. (he turned back 200 feet from the Everest summit on the climb when all those guys died). His Antartica story is insane. a week snowmobile to the mountain, a week climb a week snowmobile back.

But that actually sounds more doable than a marathon there. Do they prepare some cleared route?

Re: Annoyances
 

A gelding has had his testicles removed, not his cock. They don't remove the testicles entirely, they leave the scrotum, but after removing the sperm-producing bits, the scrotum shrivels up after a while.


ETA: Does this post qualify as one of those "an avocado isn't a vegetable" post?

Re: Madness
 

homophobic. but that Mass. school does bother me. it's classism. why can't a prince marry a regular guy?

Re: Annoyances
 

Wouldn't freak her out.

I don't think it would have any of those effects, and I am not concerned about her saying anything at work.

Re: Annoyances
 

I don't think that.

I don't think so.

You are right.

Re: Annoyances
 

Why do you want to break up with a woman who enjoys casual sex, threesomes, and is discreet? I hope this friend from out of town is worth it.

Re: Annoyances
 

Hmmmmm, this could help with the sack/inner thigh chafing during a run in cold weather. Will a mohel do this for me?

Re: Annoyances
 

I don't think she would actually have the threesome, but it wouldn't freak her out. But you raise excellent points.

Re: Facebook
 

A few years back I was skiing at Tahoe with family for a period of days. My nieces were in ski school. Every day when I dropped them off I saw the some of the same parents whose dropping off their kiddies or youthful charges, as the case was. Anyhoos, saw one particular mom over the course of a few days and then ran into her in line for a lift. We shared the chair and got to talking. turns out we went to the same highschool in Maine. she was a year older, and while I was a student counsel/athlete BMOC, she was a math club geek (think Eva Silversteen except really hot, a lot hotter). We ended up naked together in the hottub before the trip was over. So, you never know, know what I mean?