A Black Hole of Happiness

[dtb]

Originally posted by John Phoenix
Pure conjecture: You're using different leg muscles for each activity?

Well, sure - but one flight of stairs? That's pathetic!

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by dtb
Well, sure - but one flight of stairs? That's pathetic!

Certainly, good in-home elevator repair shops are hard to find. Perhaps some college kids operating a summer business in this field are available.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by dtb
Why is it that after I run 10 miles, my legs don't hurt as much as they do when I walk up one flight of stairs?

In response to earlier queries: You know what they say, you can never be too rich, or have too many vaginas.

Are you talking about pain you get as a result of these activities (i.e., you are not sore the day after running 10 miles, but you are the day after climbing a flight of stairs), or while you are actually doing the activity. Because if the latter, the answer is easy. When you are climbing the stairs, you are sore from the running.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Are you talking about pain you get as a result of these activities (i.e., you are not sore the day after running 10 miles, but you are the day after climbing a flight of stairs), or while you are actually doing the activity. Because if the latter, the answer is easy. When you are climbing the stairs, you are sore from the running.

maybe the flight of stairs is to her office and she has psychosomatic pain because she is unhappy with the job. dtb. your 10 mile run isn't to work is it?

[Shape Shifter]

Paris, on Larry King, as reported in the Daily News:

• The worst part of her 23 days behind bars was being strip-searched by cops.
  
  "It was the most humiliating experiences of my life, taking my clothes off in front of someone you don't even know," she said.

I don't know how ncs has not been following this. Working too much, maybe?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
maybe the flight of stairs is to her office and she has psychosomatic pain because she is unhappy with the job. dtb. your 10 mile run isn't to work is it?

Good point. That may explain why my weekday morning elevator ride hurts more than my weekend hill training.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm heading into my third straight night at work past midnight (and did I mention I worked a bunch this weekend?). Someone please remind me that my job doesn't suck. That point (along with many others) is a bit fuzzy to me right about now.

Quit your job like me!

[andViolins]

So, earlier this year, Joey Chestnut shattered the hot dog eating contest record set by former champion Takeru Kobayashi. I mean, Joey ate a lot of fuckin' hot dogs. You would think that this year's main event was shaping up to be a titanic struggle between the two top performers of the competitive eating world

Not so fast.

Hot dog champ's in pain, frankly

Takeru Kobayashi, the Nathan's hot-dog-eating king who recently lost his world record to an American upstart, may not fight to reclaim the title on the Fourth of July because of acute jaw pain.

"My jaw refused to fight any more," Kobayashi revealed yesterday on his blog, describing how he cannot open his mouth wider than a fingertip.

An epic matchup had been brewing between the Japanese man nicknamed "Tsunami" and American Joey Chestnut, who this month beat Kobayashi's record by downing 59 1/2 hot dogs in 12 minutes at a regional contest, almost six more than the 53 3/4 wieners Kobayashi ate at Coney Island last year.

The 160-pound Kobayashi, who has won six consecutive July Fourth contests, has defied stereotypes of obese men scarfing down obscene quantities of food. "I was continuing my training and bearing with the pain, but finally I destroyed my jaw," he wrote on the blog.

The International Federation of Competitive Eating, the contest's sponsor, said Kobayashi plans to compete July Fourth, but it will honor his withdrawal if he offers it officially. "Eater safety is our top priority," said Richard Shea, the federation president.

"Even if he has pain, he will eat right through it," predicted Chestnut. "There is no way he will miss the biggest contest of the year."

http://www.newsday.com/features/food...-foodday-print

I think he's scared of the competition.

aV

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by andViolins
So, earlier this year, Joey Chestnut shattered the hot dog eating contest record set by former champion Takeru Kobayashi. I mean, Joey ate a lot of fuckin' hot dogs. You would think that this year's main event was shaping up to be a titanic struggle between the two top performers of the competitive eating world

Not so fast.

Hot dog champ's in pain, frankly

Takeru Kobayashi, the Nathan's hot-dog-eating king who recently lost his world record to an American upstart, may not fight to reclaim the title on the Fourth of July because of acute jaw pain.

"My jaw refused to fight any more," Kobayashi revealed yesterday on his blog, describing how he cannot open his mouth wider than a fingertip.

An epic matchup had been brewing between the Japanese man nicknamed "Tsunami" and American Joey Chestnut, who this month beat Kobayashi's record by downing 59 1/2 hot dogs in 12 minutes at a regional contest, almost six more than the 53 3/4 wieners Kobayashi ate at Coney Island last year.

The 160-pound Kobayashi, who has won six consecutive July Fourth contests, has defied stereotypes of obese men scarfing down obscene quantities of food. "I was continuing my training and bearing with the pain, but finally I destroyed my jaw," he wrote on the blog.

The International Federation of Competitive Eating, the contest's sponsor, said Kobayashi plans to compete July Fourth, but it will honor his withdrawal if he offers it officially. "Eater safety is our top priority," said Richard Shea, the federation president.

"Even if he has pain, he will eat right through it," predicted Chestnut. "There is no way he will miss the biggest contest of the year."

http://www.newsday.com/features/food...-foodday-print

I think he's scared of the competition.

aV

it is so weird that fit people like TaxWonk or Fringey will kill obese people like Thurgreed in these eating contests.

oh my gawd! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...i062159D00.DTL

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by andViolins
"Eater safety is our top priority," said Richard Shea, the federation president.

A finer restaurant ought to use this as a motto.

[Replaced_Texan]

Heh:

He did manage to trap Ms. Hilton with her own words. After she said she read the Bible in her cell every day, he asked her to name her favorite passage. Ms. Hilton hesitated, looked down at her notes as if hoping to find an answer, then conceded that she didn’t have a favorite.

[patentparanyc]

Tried to watch "Flight of the Conchordes" last night on HBO and lost interest....seems...unwatchable and not that funny. God, what are they trying to do, market that and John from Cinci as replacement fodder for the Sopranos? Why don't I cancel our HBO already? Watching the Yanks get spanked and the Mets--far more interesting as painful as that was.

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
A finer restaurant ought to use this as a motto.

Porn and Pancakes?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by dtb
Why is it that after I run 10 miles, my legs don't hurt as much as they do when I walk up one flight of stairs?

In response to earlier queries: You know what they say, you can never be too rich, or have too many vaginas.

Your legs are tired from the run. Happens to me all of the time. I recently did a ride/run brick. The next day my legs were dying after climbing the stairs to the el.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm heading into my third straight night at work past midnight (and did I mention I worked a bunch this weekend?). Someone please remind me that my job doesn't suck. That point (along with many others) is a bit fuzzy to me right about now.

I'm with you. I'm at seventy something hours this week already. L.A. (or at least this conference room) sucks.

TM