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and the funny thing about those fat kids back then is that they were usually pretty damn active playing sports...so their "problem" really was genetic...fit fat kids...one of my best friends was pretty damn tubby but was decent on the soccer field and basketball court and was a pretty good swimmer to boot...i'd say they were healthier then the ones these days are inactive, mashed potato brained nintendo playin' tv-watchin' turds...like their folks... Fat kids were a rarity when I was a kid. There might have been one, MAYBE two per class. They were different. Now they are the norm. I even know a couple of fat climbers - these guys are tubs, but they can haul on the approaches and climb right up the faces. They're better than me (but that's not saying a lot). MOST climbers I know are pretty average or slim, though. After being out on a multi-day trip, one of the first things I think when I show up in the nearest town is "Where did all of these FAT PEOPLE come from?" But I digress...

The fat kid is not pleased. Fatty, fatty, two-by-four....

More vending machines in the schools. Now.

Yup. The greatest of all of the polite fictions that we nod and smile at when around people with children that they've never taught to behave properly. I'd wager that about 5% of hyperactive kids actually behave the way they do for purely biological reasons, and the rest comes down to parenting. Just not worth alienating the folks with the kids that they don't know how to raise, though. I take some comfort in the fact that they will ultimately suffer the most as a consequence of their child-rearing styles, though.

Fat kids were a rarity when I was a kid. There might have been one, MAYBE two per class. They were different. Now they are the norm.

...and the drug companies will "help" you! God bless them!

Hyper-active kids……dude…..most children are “hyper-active”. Why you got to put the label on? "hyper-active" = $$$

In high school we used to play a game called "drink 'til you vomit".

Get up nice and early, head for Starbucks, sit in a comfy chair and read Raymond Carver in the mornings and go running in the afternoons. Maybe go gear shopping on Saturday. I need more biners and slings - I keep running out. New boots too, but those can wait until spring.

Just give the little trolls Ritalin and video games and tell them to shut up once in a while.

IMO: it seems to be a selfish psychological drive to have kids in the first place. But hey, that's just me. You're saying that reproduction of the species is a selfish psychological drive? I would've thought it's more of an inherent evolutionary drive. I was gonna say hormonal, but maybe you pegged it.

But... but.. but what about their self-esteem?

the stupid one is the fool who can't read through the sarcasm w/o it being spelt out for them. I'm glad to see our (future) lawyers have such a finely tuned ability to read between the lines. maybe some emoticons will help. mmmmmm spelt. He who spelt it dealt it.

This is one of the hardest things to overcome. One of the hardest things for YOU to overcome. For me it was fairly easy, once I caught on to the concequences - for me anyway. For endurance training, one of my rules of thumb is don't work out hard for more than 3 days in a row - 2 is better. 3 is okay if they aren't all hard. I found that 4-5 hard days in a row nearly always results in colds or sinus infections and so on for me, and I finally learned to rest after 2 hard days, or 3 days in general, and always take the day after a long run off. Otherwise I wind up sick every 6 or 8 weeks. It's easy for me to work out to the point that my immune system is compromised. My body's way of telling me to slow down. It's okay to work out hard, just don't do it more than 3 days in a row.

I think everyone just missed her point. She was too sharp for us. She was demonstrating why so many U.S. Americans can't find... Wait, what was the question?

Hey! I seen that in the CC.C gallery!

I really hate when men make blanket statements about women, too. :lmao:

...Then I thought "...But can she cook?"

Yeah well, this was more than a little error in speech - she didn't hold a thought for more than three seconds at a time. It was as though someone had cut and pasted random groups of three- and four-word phrases from a newspaper and pasted them in a row, punctuation be damned, or like listening to someone tuning a radio dial up and down between stations at random. Add the goofy smile before and after and for me it was just plain embarassing.

Okay. With that answer, she got third runner-up. What I want to know is, how pathetic did the others have to be? Or did they even listen to the answers? Did they just watch their 'presentation'?

I'll show you... Here were some of the more hard core moments from the climb:

I think SHE was loaded.

I found one jar of ground black pepper at Ingalls Pass and one very large Teva on my way down from there last weekend. Sorry, no Mythos though...

I got out most of the last 8 weekends. Last weekend I did a 1/2 day climb in 3 days (Ingalls), instead of doing a 3-day climb in 1/2 day, like the chest-beaters on this site like to brag about. I'm here to tell you - you're doing it all wrong! Day 1: Hike in, camp, sit around, eat, read, sleep. Day 2: Get up, climb, back at camp early afternoon, nap time, eat, read, take pictures, nap again, bedtime. Day 3: Hike out, breakfast in Cle Elum. Now that was a laid back trip.

"Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?" Because they're stupid.