tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217271428057557189.post3149477991129914960..comments2024-03-24T16:08:20.300-07:00Comments on Training on Empty: Recap of ComplaintsLize Brittinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00851523224709625399noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217271428057557189.post-50013099505257274542017-12-23T06:35:04.751-08:002017-12-23T06:35:04.751-08:00You could probably come up with a list of runners ...You could probably come up with a list of runners or coaches who think they know it all. #4 would probably be the guy in Colorado Springs we both know. Lize Brittinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00851523224709625399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5217271428057557189.post-79558486227718820522017-12-22T12:33:12.511-08:002017-12-22T12:33:12.511-08:00I'm trying to see all of these through the len...I'm trying to see all of these through the lens of drinking or substance abuse, which makes it easier more me to appreciate exactly the ways in which they send counterproductive messages. <br /><br />1) is sort of the guy who has his act together after some drastic event wrecked his life (like a drunk driver who goes to prison for vehicular manslaughter) and goes from one high-school gym to the next imploring people not to drink and drive. This might resonate with a few kids, but unfortunately, this kind of proscriptive badgering rarely works.<br /><br />2. is the guy who is seemingly always drunk or hung over but hasn't lost his job or otherwise incurred palpable consequences, and can always point at worse drunks than himself. With virtually no exceptions, these people crash and burn before too long.<br /><br />3. The person who announces that she's going on the wagon, only to post party pics within a few months, weeks, or days. Few people bother to comment on the sober/not-sober revolving door because such people typically, and obviously, have mental problems that both fuel and transcend their drinking.<br /><br />4. The guy who goes to A.A. for a couple of months and then wants to chair all of the meetings and get the whole world sober. These are the kinds of people who easily make enemies wherever they go because they have no off button and almost never have either the brains or the experience to back up their brazen horseshit. Roughly 80 percent of them are from Massachusetts.<br /><br />5. People who try the "controlled-drinking" thing or manage to pretend that their swapping bottles full of benzos or barbuiturates isn't just as bad as drinking. <br /><br />6. Antisocial fuck-ups saddled with psychological problems, like out mutual friend from Worcester, slot neatly into this category while spidering into others just to round out their obnoxious portfolio of personality deficits. If nothing else, these types are usually such failures in life that they garner no meaningful levels of attention.<br /><br />The average person simply has no idea who fucking ignorant he or she is, and has no grasp of the fact that the only proper response to having an idea is trying to squash it or at the very least shut the hell up about it. The default condition, and all children should be taught this, is that if you believe something about the world, you're almost certainly wrong about it and should not tell a soul about it, ever. The only downside is that child-molesters would get away with a lot more than they do. That's a big downside, but it would be nice to live in a society with no Rush Limbaugh, no yammering Instagram skeletons, no halfwit "nutritionist" or "body workers," and basically no blogs. Most people, say 95 percent, should be somehow convinced that the First Amendment doesn't apply to them without actually violating their constitutional rights.<br />kemibehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14843360441074102811noreply@blogger.com