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31 Dec 2014, 1:30 am

I was a very aggravating volleyball player. I really wasn't at all good at it, but I still tried my hardest. Usually.

One afternoon, I made one regular player so mad that he never played again with me on the same side. We were in the back row with him next to me on the right. He told me that anything served to me or to my left was for me, but he would pick up anything to my right.

The next serve was between us and we both went for it but ran into each other and knocked the ball out of bounds. Once again, he told me that anything to my right was his.

The server on the other team saw him aggravated and served the ball directly at me after a couple more serves. So I did the only thing natural to do -- I stepped to my left and called out "yours".

I never saw anyone get so mad about a friendly volleyball match.



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31 Dec 2014, 1:44 am

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Oh! Still don't sorta get it. :roll: Why were his hands cold because of loud music? I can understand the tourniquet for the ears but I still don't understand what the hands have to do with it. I'm not trying to be intentionally obtuse. I just simply don't understand.

the music and his cold hands were two separate clauses [concert. AND reference to cold hands by way of mentioning need for gloves], separated by the punctuation provided by a period. does this make it more sensible? :)


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31 Dec 2014, 1:45 am

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I kept hurting myself playing volleyball so I took some adult classes for a couple of years hoping that it would make me far less clumsy. It worked very well. I never again suffered an injury or incident playing volleyball or other sports that were the result of my own clumsiness.

you sound far more athletic than I ever had any dreams of being. maybe ballet woulda helped me when I was young and not all crippled up.



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31 Dec 2014, 1:47 am

eric76 wrote:
I never saw anyone get so mad about a friendly volleyball match.

sports should be friendlier. maybe in another more civilized world somewhere...



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31 Dec 2014, 2:24 am

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I kept hurting myself playing volleyball so I took some adult classes for a couple of years hoping that it would make me far less clumsy. It worked very well. I never again suffered an injury or incident playing volleyball or other sports that were the result of my own clumsiness.

you sound far more athletic than I ever had any dreams of being. maybe ballet woulda helped me when I was young and not all crippled up.


I didn't take it until I was in my 40s.

I wasn't that big in sports -- I was always too clumsy. Also, I was born with a heart defect that wasn't discovered until I was 20. At that time they estimated that without surgery to repair the defect, I would be dead within 5 years. As it turned out, it wasn't too late for the surgery and it went well.

I was considerably more athletic after the surgery than before, but that was because I started from such a low starting point. I had no stamina as a kid -- running as little as a few hundred feet left me seriously panting for breath. For some reason, nobody ever wondered why whenever we had to run in PE, I was always left far behind everyone else. Oddly enough, I could keep up with just about anyone in non-aerobic exercises like pushups and situps.

While after the surgery did not make me as fit as could be (one of my lungs is significantly smaller than the other), I could do much better than before. I eventually went from being unable to ride a bicycle for more than a couple of miles even slowly to being able to maintain 3,000 to 5,000 miles per year on a bicycle for a while.



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31 Dec 2014, 2:33 am

^^^^
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31 Dec 2014, 3:03 am

Ballet is actually good exercise for older adults for the stretching and low impact exercise (leave the leaps to the kids). I knew one woman from ballet classes who was in her late 70s or early 80s.

I really love this t-shirt design:

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20 years ago, several of us thought that someone should make a t-shirt that said "Real men lift women". Now they have something close.



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31 Dec 2014, 3:23 am

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20 years ago, several of us thought that someone should make a t-shirt that said "Real men lift women". Now they have something close.

even in the army I was never powerful enough to life anybody up off the ground overhead.



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31 Dec 2014, 3:43 am

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20 years ago, several of us thought that someone should make a t-shirt that said "Real men lift women". Now they have something close.

even in the army I was never powerful enough to life anybody up off the ground overhead.


I only did it once and that was in high school. (In adult ballet classes one might take for exercise, I doubt that there is much chance of lifting women.)

The one time I lifted someone off of the ground was in high school, there was a clique of four classmates who were picking on me. The four were pretty much the smallest kids in the class and loved to band together to pick on others. One day during a biology class, they were doing something, but I don't remember what. Probably shooting me with spitwads or rubber bands. I got caught retaliating and was told to say after class. The teacher said for anyone else involved to stay, too. Of course, as soon as the bell rang, they headed for the door. I met them at the door and grabbed the worst of the bunch by the neck and lifted. The teacher got mad and told me to put him back down. I'm not positive that I had him completely off the ground, but if not, it was close.

As usual, I got into trouble and they got off except for a couple of minor bruises to the neck for the one of them.



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31 Dec 2014, 3:46 am

By the way, here is one of my favorite tv commercials of all time. I'm not sure what country it was done in.



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31 Dec 2014, 3:53 am

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The one time I lifted someone off of the ground was in high school, there was a clique of four classmates who were picking on me. The four were pretty much the smallest kids in the class and loved to band together to pick on others. One day during a biology class, they were doing something, but I don't remember what. Probably shooting me with spitwads or rubber bands. I got caught retaliating and was told to say after class. The teacher said for anyone else involved to stay, too. Of course, as soon as the bell rang, they headed for the door. I met them at the door and grabbed the worst of the bunch by the neck and lifted. The teacher got mad and told me to put him back down. I'm not positive that I had him completely off the ground, but if not, it was close. As usual, I got into trouble and they got off except for a couple of minor bruises to the neck for the one of them.

it would not surprise me if those kids were politically connected [powerful parents]. happens all over. it sucks big wind. and a commercial like that would never fly in puritanical America, unfortunately. :| wish we were more of a broadminded place like Europe.



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31 Dec 2014, 6:45 am

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The one time I lifted someone off of the ground was in high school, there was a clique of four classmates who were picking on me. The four were pretty much the smallest kids in the class and loved to band together to pick on others. One day during a biology class, they were doing something, but I don't remember what. Probably shooting me with spitwads or rubber bands. I got caught retaliating and was told to say after class. The teacher said for anyone else involved to stay, too. Of course, as soon as the bell rang, they headed for the door. I met them at the door and grabbed the worst of the bunch by the neck and lifted. The teacher got mad and told me to put him back down. I'm not positive that I had him completely off the ground, but if not, it was close. As usual, I got into trouble and they got off except for a couple of minor bruises to the neck for the one of them.

it would not surprise me if those kids were politically connected [powerful parents]. happens all over. it sucks big wind. and a commercial like that would never fly in puritanical America, unfortunately. :| wish we were more of a broadminded place like Europe.


One was, the rest weren't. The one that was still lives in town. I see him from time to time.

One of the four was relatively new in town. When not with the other three, he was actually pretty easy to get along with. Even with the other three, he wasn't as "bloodthirsty" as the others.



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31 Dec 2014, 7:11 am

I dunno why but I just bought a leather satchel at 6 AM. I suppose it's because of a deluded childhood dream of mine to be Indiana Jones



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31 Dec 2014, 7:27 am

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I dunno why but I just bought a leather satchel at 6 AM. I suppose it's because of a deluded childhood dream of mine to be Indiana Jones


Wasn't from Saddleback Leather, was it? http://www.saddlebackleather.com/

I've heard some really good things about them, but they are out of my price range.

What I'd really like is a leather shearling lined jacket like this one:

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31 Dec 2014, 7:31 am

eric76 wrote:
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I dunno why but I just bought a leather satchel at 6 AM. I suppose it's because of a deluded childhood dream of mine to be Indiana Jones


Wasn't from Saddleback Leather, was it? http://www.saddlebackleather.com/

I've heard some really good things about them, but they are out of my price range.

What I'd really like is a leather shearling lined jacket like this one:

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Definitely out of my price range too
I bought this, mostly because it's big enough to hold my 17 inch laptop: http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/GenuineProducts/5313563/men_s_laptop_bag_macbook_leather_messenger_bags_17inches_inch_pure_genuine_handmade_soft_vintage_leather_briefcase_shoulder_bags_satchel/handmade/bags_and_purses/messenger_case/leather



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31 Dec 2014, 7:33 am

Feyokien wrote:
eric76 wrote:
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I dunno why but I just bought a leather satchel at 6 AM. I suppose it's because of a deluded childhood dream of mine to be Indiana Jones


Wasn't from Saddleback Leather, was it? http://www.saddlebackleather.com/

I've heard some really good things about them, but they are out of my price range.

What I'd really like is a leather shearling lined jacket like this one:

Image

Definitely out of my price range too
I bought this, mostly because it's big enough to hold my 17 inch laptop: http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/GenuineProducts/5313563/men_s_laptop_bag_macbook_leather_messenger_bags_17inches_inch_pure_genuine_handmade_soft_vintage_leather_briefcase_shoulder_bags_satchel/handmade/bags_and_purses/messenger_case/leather


That one looks great.