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Wait!, where's the "leave bench and walk home" step?

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bench = home.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

re: swimming costume...they sell little shorts for girls now that I love. They cover your whole ass and you don't have to worry about waxing or what not. Plus if you wear the shorts with a band t-shirt you look punk rock.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dude, the walk from the Belmont El to Reckless is a bitch! Okay, not really, but: no matter how many times I walk that walk, I'm still surprised that it's quite a bit longer than the "couple blocks" I always imagine it is.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cause, you know, there's that mega-block past Halsted.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is my favourite thread Ever

― alexfack (alexfack), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

nabisco, you're a wimp.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah, I second Diamond. Y'all should try walking from 18th and Halsted to the Archer Orange Line in January sometime.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

ooh hstencil you're so baaaaaadd

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Badder than ol' King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

i was gonna say i'd take gainsbourg's face, but..

http://www.artouest.org/web/gainsnet/imagesite/photos/gainsbar.jpg

i think the photos i've posted here are really flattering compared to what i "really" look like. i photograph pretty well. i don't videotape well. unfortunately, i trust tv.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Get off my jock, bitches: I said "no, not really, it's just longer than I always think." You can call me a walking-wimp next time you two walk from Hyde Park to the Red Line in the snow.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

See, now I'm bad. Plus that's like omigod sort of a "rough neighborhood" ooo-err!

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

eh, I've done that. Try walking from the Belmont Red Line to Cornelia and Damen in the snow at 3 AM, pal.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Belmont Red Line to Cornelia and Damn in the snow at 3 AM? You were lucky! I had to walk from the Howard Red Line to Fullerton and California at high noon during the 1995 heat wave!

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

I see your Howard Red Line to Fullerton and California and raise you one Botanical Gardens in Winnetka to the Loop by bicycle.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

dude now I know you're lying.

(uh, no I don't)

― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

"and we had to eat coal, and work 27 hours a day, and we were glad to be beaten to death when we got home..."

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Whew, I was hoping someone would get the "You were lucky" reference. I would never walk from Howard to California, that'd be idiotic.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anyway, during the 95 heat wave I was in Michigan. I walked from the pinky-knuckle to the ring-fingertip dressed only in an aluminum foil loincloth just so I could get smacked with a sand-filled hose and told to walk back.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

95 isn't very hot. Or do you mean centigrade?

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have a cute sappy romantic story about the worst day of the 95 heatwave which I will not share with you.

"95 heat wave" = 1995, when it was up to 110 degrees I believe.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Possibly a bit more. Several hundred people died. But not me. I was slogging out through West Rogers Park on my way down to Fullerton, licking the sweat off of passing dogs and drinking my own urine.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Damn that was my cute sappy romantic story. Oh well.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was joking.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was at Lollapalooza down in Tinley Park during the 95 heatwave. God that was brutal.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was working at a summer camp and we herded all the campers inside to watch Free Willy and Free Willy 2.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

And now I'm thirsty. Just a moment.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

In 1995 I was (a) drunker than you, (b) more likely to injure myself than you, (c) having more sex than you, and (d) getting in more fights than you.

(Note: none of the above are true.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

I did a lot of tubing that summer, though, up in Michigan. Ahh, the lazy float of the inner tube down whatever small body of water that was ...

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually I'm certain beyond a reasonable doubt that all of those things are true.

Actually I got in some trouble at camp. I was playing tag with several campers when they decided it would be fun to all jump on me at once while I was sitting down on the grass. One overzealous girl leaped right onto my arm. As I heard the crack I yelled, "God DAMN it!" Oops. Luckily there was a hospital around the corner and I got patched up alright.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

ten months pass...

ugh

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 06:35 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

ugh

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

mirrors are not my friend these days; a combination of laziness and lack of time has turned me into the bald guy who never gets a haircut when he needs one

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

Me, yesterday:

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/09/102609.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

also despite walking 4 miles a day, i am still somehow getting lumpier

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

I look like a hobbling pubescent gypsy pirate.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

You always did.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

i feel so bloated

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link

We're a proud and hardworking little people.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link

(But I kid the @d@ml etc.)

My overriding impression of myself has always been 'BLEAH.' But it builds up from there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link

Everything feels less than bleah.

― El Diablo Curmudgeonbotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago) link

RUN 4 miles a day, Jess.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago) link

hahahahahahaha

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago) link

well at least throw some jogging in there, and gradually add more and more.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

i've started gym, but on a basis that's so far too sporadic to be really useful (i overdo it once a week and then feel like crap, basically). these days i'm completely see-sawing from believing that i'm alright-looking enough to make my way in the world (i've completely given up on the idea that i might be attractive qua attractive), to thinking that i'm really UNattractive, gross, bad, ugly etc. right now i'm definitely in the 2nd camp. and it's not just a physical unattractiveness that i fear - it's that feeling that i'm useless and inadequate in the world, that i'm constantly saying the wrong things and making the wrong moves. occasionally i'll do or say or move the RIGHT way and then, in the subsequent hours/days/weeks/months, prize this RIGHTNESS to the degree that i feel i'll never be capable of it again, or at least not intentionally.

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

i lost 25 pounds in france, and have been steadily gaining it back again. i think i'm better at shaving though. i am going to buy a new bicycle, i think, and ride it around i0wa c1ty.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Dude I hope you do! Ride it at least 1/2 hour a day (especially to work, it is magically beneficial) and on days you don't, try to do at least 1/2 hour of pushups and situps.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

the scale has told me that i have lost 10 lbs since joining the gym but i do not see it. i also bought a beard trimmer to wack this thing into shape. i'm one aftershave bottle and an iron away from metrosexuality.

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 1 July 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link

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