TAN 74... the day that TAN disapeared :D (Page 43)

Chaderbox - 2009-05-05 9:46 AM

bcart1991 - 2009-05-05 9:38 AM Hey kids. If I had to wait for a sane woman to call or email me, I would die a very lonely man...

That's why you have to figure out what level of crazy you're willing to accept in a woman.
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And for us women, we need to figure out what amount of b.s. we're willing to accept in a guy

No, my mother has actual problems - this is not a question of "she's a chick, therefore she is slightly off". Plus, I don't believe that women are "crazy". Men and women are just different. But my mom - definitely crazy. Like, needs mediction/therapy crazy.

Sucks about the water heater and the race.  Have fun tonight.

You need to enter this into "I've joing "The Club"" thread.  And believe me, it WILL happen again.  GAH RUN TEED!

You poor, sick, twisted man.

I've crashed while not moving a few times now.  Once I got my foot caught in the frame or the chain (no idea how, but I've got skills) causing the back wheel to lock up.  Once on ice while I was still pedaling but my bike wasn't going anywhere, that was a cold puddle/ride home.  And most recently on my new bike the first day I took the new bike out fully rigged for racing at a stoplight inbetween a bunch of cars.  Luckily I have yet to damage a bike doing this.

Hello TAN?

Chaderbox - 2009-05-05 9:15 AM

wurkit_gurl - 2009-05-05 9:51 AM

Chaderbox - 2009-05-05 9:46 AM

bcart1991 - 2009-05-05 9:38 AM Hey kids. If I had to wait for a sane woman to call or email me, I would die a very lonely man...

That's why you have to figure out what level of crazy you're willing to accept in a woman.
O:

And for us women, we need to figure out what amount of b.s. we're willing to accept in a guy

No, my mother has actual problems - this is not a question of "she's a chick, therefore she is slightly off". Plus, I don't believe that women are "crazy". Men and women are just different. But my mom - definitely crazy. Like, needs mediction/therapy crazy.

Yeah, you're good to call a BS level on guys.  We definately can have an overabundance of it.  As well as chest hair.  Neither of which are great in excess.

And I understand the difference between "crazy b/c of being a girl" and "mental instability" crazy.  I hope things get worked out for your mum.  That's got to be a stressful situation.  Therapy can be wonderful with a good therapist, but can be a real bear if they aren't.  For the record, I <3 my therapist, but have since been able to pretty much not need her anymore as I've been able to lose my self loathing by subsitituting training for it.

Calling the BS level is a must.  Unfortunately BS level and craziness are a sliding scale.  What I considered crazy at 18 now seems like boring day to day stuff.  I'm hoping to have set my craziness scale permanently after what I dealt with last summer...anyone who nears that point of craziness again will be immediately disqualified from any type of relationship.

What's up Wave?  I'm back from my "vacation."  As such as I was finally able to post that race report.

Ahh...first post-ban TAN Toppage

Nice! 

Oh, and I finally got to duke it out with the "junk miles" dude... :D

Oh yeah?  How'd it go?

Yeah, apparently she's seeing a psychologist that she actually likes. So hopefully, she will continue with that. I think there are some undiagnosed mental issues on her side of the family in general - I'm guessing various forms of depression/anxiety. I was at home over Christmas and saw a family history book that I think my grandmother had filled out - apparently, some time in the 40's I think (maybe earlier), there was a female relative, mid-40's, who committed suicide. I didn't get to read it carefully to see what the details were, other than that she hung herself. And my mom's older sister had some sort of breakdown back in the day, I guess - she's never gotten married, never finished college, never had a really good job. Their other 2 siblings are/were very successful though (other sister passed away, which is why I say "was").

Ollie...have you still not figured out how to quote properly?  Man...still just the new guy.

Huh? Is that a reference to a Tri Talk thread?

Not too bad actually, it was a pretty random occurence, but when we got to talking, I basically told him that he needs to chill out and not push his training practices on other people and be aware of who he is telling these things to.

I posed the question "what would you rather have? Someone is out to get in shape and be able to finish their local 10K, but maybe their training isn't as effective. Either you let them train the way they want to and they finish, but maybe not as fast as they could have. Or, you go all gung-ho on them and try to explain to them complicated training ideas, such as junk miles, and they end up saying 'eff it' and stay on the couch and watch Sportscenter all night instead."

He got the point, but was still being an a$$ about it. He kept insisting that there was such thing as junk miles. I said "dude, you are missing the POINT."

Left the conversation at that. He has provided fuel for my training fire and I plan on laying him to waste at one of my races this summer.

What can I say?  I have skills.  Luckily the cars weren't really moving yet.

On an completely unrelated subject, have you been to the Durham Museum?  I've got a cousin who is going to be taking a position there as Associate Curator of Exhibits later this month.

Nope, fortunately this whole interaction was NOT related to BT in any way...

This seems to happen a lot.  Happened to me Saturday morning at my race (not on the topic of junk miles).  Hopefully you completely destroy him at your races this summer.

BTW:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=157671&posts=2&start=1

Shameless self promotion.