Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

Duke wrote:

Ashyukun wrote: I had started up a rant about the husband of one of SWMBO's friends who took his wife getting pregnant as open season to cheat as much as possible, but trying to type much about it was just getting me too pissed off.

Some people are just natural-born douchebags.

I hope that guy is having an amazing time now because when he gets caught (and he will) the best action he’ll be able to spring for after paying alimony and child support will be a discarded Victoria’s Secret magazine and an out of date bottle of lube from the 99 cent store.

Furious_E wrote: In reply to Flight Service: And yes, a Murano convertible is something we can ALL agree is truly offensive

In reply to Ashyukun:

Let's talk caztration, that should be a safe subect, I'll start...Dad,look it up. Typo for filter. We do hogs.

Wait, we have a filter for that? I need to try typing the cas blank tration word.

Purple crack.

paranoid_android74 wrote:

alfadriver wrote:

KyAllroad wrote:

Beer Baron wrote:

alfadriver wrote: In reply to Beer Baron: I know you know this- it gets worse. I'm closing on 50. I honestly have NO idea why my ankle got swollen. It didn't even hurt. But it looked like someone with a heart/kidney condition in one localized area.

Yeah. I know it's not going to get any easier. Doesn't mean I'm going to stop myself from doing aggressive/extreme hobbies. Just means I need to be a bit more methodical and careful as far as how I do them. I was having this conversation with someone the other day: teens - you are rubbermade 20's - you can do all the stupid things you want and not feel it. 30's - you can do all the stupid things you used to, but you will pay for it the next day. 40's - you can't do all the stupid things. When you do something even halfway stupid, you'll really feel it. 50's - you don't even need to do stupid stuff anymore. You feel all the stupid things you did back when you were younger.

Speaking as someone who did really stupid stuff in his teens and 20's and is now in his 40's. Yup, this is all truth. Just getting out of bed some mornings hurts.

At some point, the penguin walk goes from one or two steps of stiffness to all the time. Ugh. I'm up to half the room after a run. Not going to stop, me, too. I fully admit feeling my best when I was able to "race" a half marathon. But the aches and pains are minor rant worthy, that's for sure.

This does not give me much hope. I used to be a runner, just recently started walking regularly. If I slow down too much around the house now my body makes me pay for it!

Good lord, I need to slow down then. I keep trying to get into running, and I keep hurting myself. I'm still fighting an achilles injury from about a year ago, when I gingerly jogged about a hundred yards and hurt it. The podiatrist told me to stretch it regularly, but that hasn't done much. Every time I look at it, the lump on my heel seems larger.

I don't look forward to my forties.

In reply to Mike:

Best thing I've done in the last few years- flat running shoes. A few days of soreness as my heel dropped to being flat, but since then, bliss.

(slowing down goes a long way, too- train to speed back up... I've only been running since 2009, which means I was older than you are now)

Sorry, but I'm one of those guys that thinks running is as bad as it is good. I know almost no runners who haven't ended up with leg, knee or hip problems. Look for low impact stuff.

Act your age. I boss who is in his 50s thinks he can still play softball. He is out right now after having stents put it. Of course that had nothing to do with softball. BTW he ran up until last year.

spitfirebill wrote: Sorry, but I'm one of those guys that thinks running is as bad as it is good. I know almost no runners who haven't ended up with leg, knee or hip problems. Look for low impact stuff. Act your age. I boss who is in his 50s thinks he can still play softball. He is out right now after having stents put it. Of course that had nothing to do with softball. BTW he ran up until last year.

Can't say that I've not considered that. My dad even pointed it out.

But there are not many low impact exercises that are as efficient as running. Or they have other significant risks (there are more biking deaths than running ones in my area, and we are a bike friendly town).

So given a choice- I can complain about the occasional pain, suffer for a few months due to an injury every once in a while..

Or

Gain back the 50lb I lost. Get Type II Diabetes, and die an early death. It's in my family.

Given those two choices, I'd rather have to deal with a Sports Doctor than a family doctor.

BTW, you can go blow that "act your age" out of your ass. My dad played softball well into his 60s. Fun does not have an age limit the last time I checked.

alfadriver wrote: BTW, you can go blow that "act your age" out of your ass.

I see you missed the whole tongue in cheek thing.

spitfirebill wrote:

alfadriver wrote: BTW, you can go blow that "act your age" out of your ass.

I see you missed the whole tongue in cheek thing.

With no tongue or cheek around, it's easy to miss.

Usually the minor rant thread has a more sympethetic tone. I got nothing to complain about other than I worked 15 hours yesterday then stayed up until i had to head to the airport at 2:45am, so I'm a bit tired. Still a one hr flight and a 45 min drive. Then I'll be home so I can get back to work.

alfadriver said: Best thing I've done in the last few years- flat running shoes. A few days of soreness as my heel dropped to being flat, but since then, bliss.

By flat, do you mean zero heal-toe offset, aka zero-drop like Altra? I am also becoming an advocate after buying my first pair of Altras last summer. They have helped me transition to a more forefoot strike and I think it has taken strain off of my knees. I still rotate between zero and "low" offset shoes of 4mm (Saucony Kinvara).

In regard to running being healthy or no: Running has led to me losing almost 100 pounds. It may literally be saving my life. I am also trying to incorporate cycling but it is so much easier to simply lace up my running shoes and popping out my front door for a run. Plus the obvious dangers of road cycling are a significant concern...

To make this post legit: My rant is drivers who blow throw stops onto crosswalks without stopping or looking...

In reply to WilD:

Yes- I started with Skora, and really liked them. I also have a pair of 4mm drop Nike Free and New Balance (which I got for the tread- trail runners are nice in the snow).

The first pair of Skora are still great- the second pair- the sole isn't all the right material- so it's wearing out fast.

I'll probably try a pair o Altras this year, too. I like having a few different sets to work through.

I'm training for a 5k now.

I hate running, and my knees don't like it either. I've probably got terrible form. As soon as this 5k is over, I'm switching to swimming. (And sticking with my weekly hockey, really wish I could play more than once a week).

Buyer of my house basically wants a new roof

Moving is stressful

Work is clunky due to doing work for another department that I never should have done

SWMBO is ticked off, and has been for a while

Trying like crazy to throw Tunatruck's engine back together so it can go back into the truck for the move

Trying to figure out why I decided on a weekday closing date, and finding people willing to help move on a weekday

Massive car-sickness yesterday trying to work on the phone while Tunawife drove, leading to a four-hour long headache and nausea

I'm ready to take a vacation. By myself.

RX Reven' wrote:

Duke wrote:

Ashyukun wrote: I had started up a rant about the husband of one of SWMBO's friends who took his wife getting pregnant as open season to cheat as much as possible, but trying to type much about it was just getting me too pissed off.

Some people are just natural-born douchebags.

I hope that guy is having an amazing time now because when he gets caught (and he will) the best action he’ll be able to spring for after paying alimony and child support will be a discarded Victoria’s Secret magazine and an out of date bottle of lube from the 99 cent store.

Oh, he got caught and SWMBO's friend is in the process of divorcing him and hopefully will make sure he gets no more than what he came into the marriage with (very little, she has always had a far better job than him) and she will have almost if not completely sole custody of their son. Unfortunately he's done quite a lot of emotional damage to her and doubtless the same to some of the other women (he apparently got one of them pregnant and pushed her into aborting it) and is doing his best to live it up on their still-jointly-held money while he still can.

I'd feel at least some sympathy for him at likely losing most if not all contact with his son- but after the whole abortion thing and that he got caught calling in to work with the excuse of his son being sick and needing to look after him and then going out to hook up with other women, I'm all out of berkeleys to give about what happens to him.

Some people are natural-born shiny happy people. Others, like this guy, apparently hone the skill to an Olympic-level art.

Ashyukun wrote:

RX Reven' wrote:

Duke wrote:

Ashyukun wrote: I had started up a rant about the husband of one of SWMBO's friends who took his wife getting pregnant as open season to cheat as much as possible, but trying to type much about it was just getting me too pissed off.

Some people are just natural-born douchebags.

I hope that guy is having an amazing time now because when he gets caught (and he will) the best action he’ll be able to spring for after paying alimony and child support will be a discarded Victoria’s Secret magazine and an out of date bottle of lube from the 99 cent store.

Oh, he got caught and SWMBO's friend is in the process of divorcing him and hopefully will make sure he gets no more than what he came into the marriage with (very little, she has always had a far better job than him) and she will have almost if not completely sole custody of their son. Unfortunately he's done quite a lot of emotional damage to her and doubtless the same to some of the other women (he apparently got one of them pregnant and pushed her into aborting it) and is doing his best to live it up on their still-jointly-held money while he still can. I'd feel at least some sympathy for him at likely losing most if not all contact with his son- but after the whole abortion thing and that he got caught calling in to work with the excuse of his son being sick and needing to look after him and *then* going out to hook up with other women, I'm all out of berkeleys to give about what happens to him. Some people are natural-born shiny happy people. Others, like this guy, apparently hone the skill to an Olympic-level art.

You need to tell her to lock/freeze her credit, lock all of her accounts (move the money into different accounts, keep a clear paper trail), close all debit cards... the whole 9 yards.

In reply to mtn:

She has a very good divorce attorney who I'm sure is giving her far better advice on what to do than I could (he's apparently being represented by a friend of his- who he apparently is trying to keep in the dark about everything he's done, which I'm sure will go over great when her attorney brings it all up...). It just amazes me how little care some people apparently have for the lives and feelings of others. I know it happens all the time and is probably more common than I realize- but it still is just something I can't wrap my head around at all.

In reply to Ashyukun: Oh, she'll get everything. It this godforsaken "commonwealth" it really doesn't matter who did what (just ask my cheating ex). Women get the kids 99.99% of the time and a nice healthy child support check from the paycheck....er, father.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending captain douchnozzle. I'm just ranting about the legal system that has me rooting for zombie-apocalypse or asteroid strike.

Ashyukun wrote: It just amazes me how little care some people apparently have for the lives and feelings of others.

In addition to those natural-born douchebags, some people just utterly fail to grow up. AT ALL.

ripped the crotch in my jeans....I guess I started that diet one week too late.

Nick (LUCAS) Comstock wrote: I'm sorry I clicked on this thread this morning. My rant, my wife's car has been hit while parked twice in three months, hit hard too. berkeley people that don't respect other peoples property.

They don't respect other people, why would they respect other peoples' property?

Beer Baron wrote:

alfadriver wrote: In reply to Beer Baron: I know you know this- it gets worse. I'm closing on 50. I honestly have NO idea why my ankle got swollen. It didn't even hurt. But it looked like someone with a heart/kidney condition in one localized area.

Yeah. I know it's not going to get any easier. Doesn't mean I'm going to stop myself from doing aggressive/extreme hobbies. Just means I need to be a bit more methodical and careful as far as how I do them. I was having this conversation with someone the other day: teens - you are rubbermade 20's - you can do all the stupid things you want and not feel it. 30's - you can do all the stupid things you used to, but you will pay for it the next day. 40's - you can't do all the stupid things. When you do something even halfway stupid, you'll really feel it. 50's - you don't even need to do stupid stuff anymore. You feel all the stupid things you did back when you were younger.

Troof in my case but I never believed the 50 thing. Always seemed to be the youngest in any maintenance gang even when in my 40's. Older guys would say 'yea, wait til ya hit 50'. Pffft I thought, whiny old berkeleys. They were right tho, just small stuff at first but some things took longer to mend and some didn't go away. All-nighters long gone now, need my sleep or I'm the new whiny berkeley.

Biggest issue for me was putting weight on. Feet, ankles and knees took a real beatin'. When I got back down to 205 from 275 it was another world. Imagine carrying a bag of Sakrete on your back all day every day, just ain't good for your joints or heart ftm.

Like to think myself wiser now at 57 so not doing stupid E36 M3 but ya still can't fix the stupid youth things, just deal w/ it.

Flight Service wrote: ripped the crotch in my jeans....I guess I started that diet one week too late.

well, it was a food holiday

Flight Service wrote: ripped the crotch in my jeans....I guess I started that diet one week too late.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm a fairly skinny guy and I still manage to kill 95% of my jeans in this fashion. Usually getting into or out of a low car.