That'll keep the hog under control...

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I got nothing.

Kind of hard riding around with it sticking through that hole.

1. I literally look at fat people in disgust. When I see them shoveling shit in their mouth, I envision myself walking over and slapping the food out of their hands.
2. When I pee in the middle of the night I don't flush the toilette and rarely wash my hands.
3. I pee in the shower
4. I like porn
5. I get a manicure and pedicure before every race. Even if I had one the week prior.
6. I watch ALL the Real Housewives of…. reality shows.
7. I insisted on buying a $500 trainer, I used it 4 times. I HATED it. I sold it on Craigslist.
8. I want to be a man for one week and have lots of sex with men and women.
9. I size up other cyclists and not in a good way.
10. In my late 20's I desperately wanted an eating disorder so I could stay skinny w/o having to work at it. I failed.
11. I am a total neat freak.
12. I'm OCD.
13. I don't believe in God. There is no proof. I'm a factual person. I'll know the truth when I die.
14. I like the smell of a skunk
15. I can't do a flip-turn. I'm afraid I'll hit my head go unconscious and sink to the bottom of the pool and no one will notice.
16. I love sex, LOVE it. I don't think this is normal for a woman.
17. I'm TERRIFIED of marriage. I don't think this is normal for a woman.
18. I lust over nice bikes, I don't think this is normal for a woman. I should be lusting over Christian Louboutins
19. I eat cookies in bed
20. The first time I had sex (17), I got pregnant. My mom told me there was no way she was going to let a child ruin my life and marched me to the "clinic".
21. I often have a sense of entitlement.
22. I look down on people who don't have a proper education
23. I'm submissive, which goes against my Type A, control freak personality.
24. Sometimes I feel I'm an oxymoron.

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I used to have that problem as a kid doing flip turns, did give myself a black eye once on the outside corner of our backyard pool while practicing. Never knocked myself out though.

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It is absolutely normal for women to like sex. It surprises me that there are still people who still believe the myth that women aren't sexual!

Best new post in this thread for a really long time. Well played!

As a staffer at a high-end, erudite university --- I graduated from a state school with middling grades---- I go out of my way to pick on people who foist this attitude, mostly because it signals a lot of insecurity. It's part of my schtick, I tend to over-retaliate when I feel slighted [ I'm a youngest child].

In this environment you're never more than arm's length from someone really, really, really fucking smart and if somebody starts copping an attitude with the lowly staffers, you should know they've been turned into a neurotic, insecure mess by pressure. At that point, I can't resist pointing out how surprised I am that they have prints rather than original art in their offices, how excited everyone is about another prof's latest papers, or how surprising it is that they're holding their own at this level of academics.

It's the one time I get to counterattack faculty as human beings, not as uppity ups who can get me canned with a single phone call. Rule is: they have to start the conversation with some nonsense comment about how they won't deign to discuss the things that need to be fixed and I wouldn't understand anyway. After that, I take a good sip of coffee and go to work exposing some foibles. My formal education might be shit, but you don't survive being the youngest of seven without being able to cause an eating disorder now and then.

It's like chopping down a tree with an ax --- it takes a while, but it gets done, and the haughty looks and condescending bullshit stops.

Now please was your hands after your late night trip to the can.

You can fit it through the hole?

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Out of that entire post - that's what you focused on?? ;)

twomarks

I hope 16 happens before 19, which happens before 2

Do 4 and 16 happen at the same time? Just gotta ask

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"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Can't help it:

Why boasteth thyself, O evil men
Playing smart, and not being clever
I say you're working iniquity
To achieve vanity
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If you are the big tree
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down
Ready to cut you down

-- Bob Marley, "Small Axe" 1973

This is the "dirty secrets" thread. Don't kill it with the wet blanket of judgement.

Wouldn't dream of it --- her dirty secret confession was looking down on people with sub-par educations -- my confessions are: enjoying exposing the weak spots of people whom I unilaterally decide are bullies; and not being up front about it.

You misspelled judgment, by the way.

"You misspelled judgment, by the way."

That depends on which dictionary you're consulting.

I'm just messing with you, spell it anyway you want, it just fit with my confessed need to be an under-the-counter jackass to people who irk me in some small way. You didn't, but I couldn't resist.

Honestly, though, I wouldn't want to quell this thread. I don't think we have to be proud of our dirty secrets --- I can't judge someone harshly who admits she judges on education in the same context in which she confesses other things, such as that she likes the smell of skunk. She's got predilections. Ain't a sin.

True story, my wife is convinced my dog farts incessantly -- someday she'll put it together that he doesn't while I'm not around.

"True story, my wife is convinced my dog farts incessantly -- someday she'll put it together that he doesn't while I'm not around."

Well played.

1) I am scared of death – sometimes I cry at night because of it, and have to bite my pillow.
2) I feel sorry for most of people. Sometimes I look at a stranger on the street, and my heart just hurts; however, I dislike most people.
3) I bail out of most of social events (and watch TV instead)
4) I picture that if I see anyone hurting my son, I will slit their throat with kitchen knife
5) I LOVE passing other cyclists and runners.
6) When I watch my son compete in swim meets I cry every time.
7) I also cry at cartoons (Father Arthur – I wept out loud when we though that grandpa died)

So you're calling me a bully? If your confession is exposing the weak spots of people, then create your own post but don't judge me for being honest.

Did you go through a pick apart anyone else's post....probably not. Sounds like you're the bully.

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Would you clam it already? Your arguing is making me lose my wood from her original post.

Yes, I'm confessing to being a bully --- I just try to justify it by choosing when and how I bully someone.

Your admission about education struck a nerve for me because it neighbors on an issue I face at least once a week.

I think you were pretty brave to admit that, really, because I'm guessing you're not any more proud of doing that sort of judging than you are of avoiding flip turns. You didn't apologize for it [you don't need to] --- I think you just threw it out there in the spirit of the forum.

My confession is that I know it's coming from someone on the verge of freaking out about the pressure they feel in an environment where kids bitch about how easy Harvard is. When I'm being a dick to these people, it's when I'm pretty sure they've got no one else to pick on but the janitors, and I -could- just choose to ignore them and get my work done.

It doesn't require an advanced degree to figure out that I'm most defensive when I'm feeling judged, and I find a passive aggressive way to retaliate that makes me feel superior.

Seriously, though, wash your hands.

+1 haha

I always ride with a $15.00 walmart helmet. I do own an aero helmet but only use it on long races. It is not a secret as it sits atop my big ass head!

She mustn't be too well-educated, eh?

Far from it---She's he brains: advanced degree, Fulbright scholar, deputy director of a think tank on education.

She just grew up without brothers. And this is her first dog, too.

Blaming the dog is a heinous crime!