*promote the shin-healing power of the end of June...

>> ^grinter:

>> ^EvilDeathBee:
>> ^grinter:
Shopping carts with swiveling rear wheels are F@$^king stupid!

They're much easier to control in the store, but harder to control in the parking lot, and vice versa for ones that swivel just at the front. I miss the all 4 swivelling trolleys they have in Australia.

I'm seriously not trying to get into an argument about shopping cart design. And I respect your attachment to Aussie swivelcarts. Still, I have to disagree on the point that they are easier to control in the store. When you have a cart with four swivel casters filled with a heavy load, and you get it up to speed, those wheels provide no assistance when you try to redirect the cart's momentum around a corner. It's a danger to shins and container goods.
It's like you are hurtling out of control in the ship from the game Asteroids rather than swooping around in an X-Wing.


You just need practice. After a while, you'll be jumping on the back wheels and drifting sideways down the aisles like a pro

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

>> ^grinter:
Shopping carts with swiveling rear wheels are F@$^king stupid!

They're much easier to control in the store, but harder to control in the parking lot, and vice versa for ones that swivel just at the front. I miss the all 4 swivelling trolleys they have in Australia.


I'm seriously not trying to get into an argument about shopping cart design. And I respect your attachment to Aussie swivelcarts. Still, I have to disagree on the point that they are easier to control in the store. When you have a cart with four swivel casters filled with a heavy load, and you get it up to speed, those wheels provide no assistance when you try to redirect the cart's momentum around a corner. It's a danger to shins and container goods.
It's like you are hurtling out of control in the ship from the game Asteroids rather than swooping around in an X-Wing.

>> ^TheFreak:

I'm a 4th degree black belt and an instructor. My best technique in this situation is "abandon your ego". Apologize, bargain, beg or buy your way out of the situation. If that fails, run. Final option, fight.
If those options offend you then you're watching too many action movies or you're young and stupid.


This is just brilliant. It's funny to think of all the people who can break a bat on their shin, or take a KO punch and stay standing, who will never have the ability to "abandon the ego" for even one second. But what's really funny is that this is what smart people do instinctively when confronted with a situation like this, even if they always thought they would do something completely different.

I used to do this with my friend in high school. Just kicked the shit out of each other's shin. And you wake up the next day and find your shin bruised bloody red lol

>> ^PlayhousePals:

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^PlayhousePals:
You might not get injured, but there's no guarantee you won't step in some deep dookie from time to time =o)

Pretty much. I've been into "barefoot" running for awhile now. In that I've bought Vibram Five Fingers and other minimalist shoes. I don't actually run barefoot though. Just like every craze you get idiots that come with it and spout bullshit like this all day. This is my experience with minimalist running.
I used to have shin splints constantly, I don't anymore. I used to have knee problems and swelling, I don't anymore. I run much further than I used to, and I have less and less problems with minimalist shoes. Even wearing a pair of Nikes for a day makes my knee feel sore easily. So that's why I use them...if they work they work, no need for all this preachy bullshit.

I ran sprints years ago ... long before this form came to light. I imagine it would have taken me awhile to get past the creepy feeling of having my toes individually encased [shiver]. I'm intrigued by the concept though. It's good to read that it is working out well for you.


That's the thing...you don't have to wear those silly looking foot shoes. I do but that's cause I'm a dork. I also wear New Balance Zeros, which look like regular shoes but have a zero drop. There's also Merrells barefoot line which I like as well.

I ref soccer to make money, some games I end up running up to 5 miles. That's not a lot for the time I'm out there, but it's back and forth across a hard turf field. For a long time it would hurt my knees something awful, then my shins got into it and I could barely run. Started using zero drop shoes with a barefoot ride and ALL of my problems went away. My knees feel great now.

You don't have to look silly, this may not even work for you. It worked for me because I learned first how to run lightly, than got the shoes to help me remember to run lightly.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^PlayhousePals:
You might not get injured, but there's no guarantee you won't step in some deep dookie from time to time =o)

Pretty much. I've been into "barefoot" running for awhile now. In that I've bought Vibram Five Fingers and other minimalist shoes. I don't actually run barefoot though. Just like every craze you get idiots that come with it and spout bullshit like this all day. This is my experience with minimalist running.
I used to have shin splints constantly, I don't anymore. I used to have knee problems and swelling, I don't anymore. I run much further than I used to, and I have less and less problems with minimalist shoes. Even wearing a pair of Nikes for a day makes my knee feel sore easily. So that's why I use them...if they work they work, no need for all this preachy bullshit.


I ran sprints years ago ... long before this form came to light. I imagine it would have taken me awhile to get past the creepy feeling of having my toes individually encased [shiver]. I'm intrigued by the concept though. It's good to read that it is working out well for you.

>> ^PlayhousePals:

You might not get injured, but there's no guarantee you won't step in some deep dookie from time to time =o)


Pretty much. I've been into "barefoot" running for awhile now. In that I've bought Vibram Five Fingers and other minimalist shoes. I don't actually run barefoot though. Just like every craze you get idiots that come with it and spout bullshit like this all day. This is my experience with minimalist running.

I used to have shin splints constantly, I don't anymore. I used to have knee problems and swelling, I don't anymore. I run much further than I used to, and I have less and less problems with minimalist shoes. Even wearing a pair of Nikes for a day makes my knee feel sore easily. So that's why I use them...if they work they work, no need for all this preachy bullshit.

=Beyond inane?? A'mean c'mon!?(and we like some silly-ass edits). 10 HR Nyan cat rates way above this lame shit-Along with "Juggernaut Bitch" and EVERY LAME G.I. Joe PSA!
Plain Lame sliced however the thickness. Hope the person (guy) that made this video offering gets kicked in both shins today.

>> ^MilkmanDan:

Farm story:
When I was growing up, we always kept 30-50 chickens for eggs. You can buy sets of chicks that are supposed to be all pullets/hens (females) but usually a few roosters (males) get mixed in by mistake. One time we bought a set of bantam chickens, which is a small/miniature variety, and happened to get 4-5 roosters mixed in with the hens.
Bantams "make up" for their small size in increased aggressiveness. I (about 6 years old or so at the time) was initially scared of them because they would act a lot like this goose -- charge, jump, and try to show you who's boss. They don't have any real means to actually hurt you; no spurs, beaks aren't sharp, etc. but their behavior can be scary for kids at first.
Then my dad taught me how to handle them: stand your ground, angle out a leg and foot so they charge down your foot/shin first, and let them start to ineffectually attack/spur your foot and leg. When they have a leg on either side of your foot, you just kick/launch them away, or even better aim them into the nearest solid object -- like the wall of the barn. I'd go in to collect eggs, let them attack, and boot the little bastards into the wall.
Chickens aren't exactly known for being very intelligent, but bantams seem to have miniature brains in their miniature bodies as well. Getting booted into a wall never really hurt them, but it would make them dizzy or dazed for a few minutes and give you time to collect the eggs. But the next day, or even just after a few minutes if you stuck around, they'd come back around for round two of chicken football.
One disclaimer: if you're a PETA type, consider that being repeatedly kicked into a wall (yet suffering no long-term ill effects) is perhaps better treatment than the likely alternative of being caged into a 2 foot square, force fed, and ending up on a plate at KFC. Maybe.


Chicken Kicker!

Farm story:

When I was growing up, we always kept 30-50 chickens for eggs. You can buy sets of chicks that are supposed to be all pullets/hens (females) but usually a few roosters (males) get mixed in by mistake. One time we bought a set of bantam chickens, which is a small/miniature variety, and happened to get 4-5 roosters mixed in with the hens.

Bantams "make up" for their small size in increased aggressiveness. I (about 6 years old or so at the time) was initially scared of them because they would act a lot like this goose -- charge, jump, and try to show you who's boss. They don't have any real means to actually hurt you; no spurs, beaks aren't sharp, etc. but their behavior can be scary for kids at first.

Then my dad taught me how to handle them: stand your ground, angle out a leg and foot so they charge down your foot/shin first, and let them start to ineffectually attack/spur your foot and leg. When they have a leg on either side of your foot, you just kick/launch them away, or even better aim them into the nearest solid object -- like the wall of the barn. I'd go in to collect eggs, let them attack, and boot the little bastards into the wall.

Chickens aren't exactly known for being very intelligent, but bantams seem to have miniature brains in their miniature bodies as well. Getting booted into a wall never really hurt them, but it would make them dizzy or dazed for a few minutes and give you time to collect the eggs. But the next day, or even just after a few minutes if you stuck around, they'd come back around for round two of chicken football.

One disclaimer: if you're a PETA type, consider that being repeatedly kicked into a wall (yet suffering no long-term ill effects) is perhaps better treatment than the likely alternative of being caged into a 2 foot square, force fed, and ending up on a plate at KFC. Maybe.

Man, this guy should get sponsorship from a shin guard company. His is the only set that seem to work in professional football.

What integrity!

>> ^transporter:

Wow, this movie looks powerful as hell. I was going to comment with some skepticism about how they were able to capture this on camera, but then I read the Q&A. Apparently they asked the school's permission to film there all year round and they just moved around as flies on the wall. They filmed a lot of different events/kids so that they didn't seem to be focusing just on the main character. Although they were surprised that the bullying continued in their presence, they weren't that surprised because the kids had been getting away with it forever. Also, they were filming with cameras that looked like still-shot cameras so the kids might not have thought they were being taped. The producers also say that they think the worst acts happened off camera.
Here's a link to their notes (good stuff):
http://www.thebullyproject.com/assets/pdf/BULLY_Production_Notes.pdf
I honestly don't know what I would do if my kids had to go through this. I feel like I'd go into rage mode and start just kicking kids asses, but that's easy to say and certainly doesn't solve anything. I don't know why - I certainly was never violent to anyone else - but whenever I watch videos of bullying or meet a kid with no friends, this huge sense of guilt passes over me. I guess I just wish I would've taken chances back in school to stand up for people or even more importantly hang out with someone who was always on their own.
TL;DR: gonna watch this movie


You're adorable I know exactly what you mean, it's so irrational, but whenever I hear a kid has been really mean to one of mine, I want to go ahead and kick that brat hard in the shin or something. I cannot abide bullying, I was always an inbetweener at school and I could dip into both sides of the crowd. I remember even at the age of about 7 or so, making a point of playing with the louse ridden, rotting toothed girl, because all she ever got was rejection. It made me sick to my stomach. I tell my children now, go and talk to those kids that everyone hates, even if you hate them too (so easy for them to fall into that trap of disliking others for no good reason), because often, they turn out to be really cool and not only that, you're in the simplest of ways making that child's life a bit easier.

<edit> No clue how I made it bold...

>> ^Ghostly:

All judgements about his sanity aside, is no one else impressed that he managed to regain some control over his flight and had the presence of mind to still pull his shoot after his pelvis just exploded!


The craziest thing about it is that it was actually the landing that broke both of his legs. Hitting the rock in freefall only skinned his shins.