As a bit of follow-up to my previous post, ‘Am I a Dick, OR WHAT???’ it appears from the general wisdom of the list that although not unanimous, a majority of folks think that YES I AM A DICK!!
All well and good, I wear my Dick helmet with a mixed sense of pride and shame. I really don’t want to cover up my stiff side, but I admit that for the protection of others it might be the sensible course of action. I would not want someone to suffer an unwanted malady simply because I was pursuing my own satisfaction. Sometimes I am hard to take, particularly when I am standing at attention for my own selfish indulgences, but really I just want to please others. Possibly I will try to change my ways, but really my disckishness is simply a part of my foolish, playful charm. Mostly this side of me comes out at night, when I am excited, or in the heat of good physical exertion like during my swim work out. Ya the fact that my persona is so enlarge and intimidating might scare some people. But hay who really wants to be friends with a flaccid guy. If you get to know me, maybe hold and caress me, you will see I’m just a pee wee ready to shoot off at any time in any direction just to have some fun. Still some will love me others hate me, but it is good for me that we are becoming a more accepting society of other individual’s preferences. It is hard but pleasurable being me, but that is the curse of a dick.
I have come away from these posts with a few other observations…
There are a shocking number of SlowTwitchers who are either psychologists or psychiatrists who are fore most practitioners of marriage counseling. Who would have thunk it?
Opinions flow like water on this board. Guess that is what a message board is for, but unfortunately many don’t really read the initial post they are opinionating upon. Rather they simply choose to offer any opinion that flows from their noodle.
There seems to be an unusually large number of folks in perfect marriages on this list! Shocking based on the very high rate of divorce at least in this country (can’t speak for divorce rates for our foreign friends).
The nuances, innuendo, subtlety and cadence of the english language seem to evade many triathletes.
GD – we have very few folks who swear out there!? Must not be the f-in tri crowd I’m hanging with, but hell guess I gotta get on board with the majority puritan tri crowd. Shit the fun just left the transition area. Maybe I’d fit in with the NASSCAR folks better?
Seems like a whole lot of people don’t mind being stopped while training to chit chat or gossip. I really gotta meet you guys, you must have hit on some new type of training régime. I seem to have missed that study.
Endless Type-As here, and for the record though I show some Type-A traits, I am really Type-D. But this is no new news. However does everything have to be taken sooo literally on this forum? Does every question have to have a set solution? Lighten up Tri-people.
There tends to be ‘some’ sense of humor amongst this group, but often times it is shocking how quickly it is lost, or more so never identified when reading an initial post. I realize this is not an accurate depiction of everyone, but as one SlowTwitcher keenly observed… “ It seems there are the holier than thou and then some cool folks, very little in between.”… on this list. Granted not everyone shares the same appreciation for humor, but does so much need to be viewed through a moral prism with a PC focus? Please learn to laugh at the foolishness of life guys. And for those who want to suggest that I head my own wisdom, re-read the post. That is part of what I was doing, i.e. – the ‘good’ kid, pool on fire, jabbering yenta, hemorrhoid to asshole line, et al.
But the scariest thing of all is that there are WAY too many people on this forum who are into Dr. Phil!! If the teachings of this loon are the gospel upon which the majority has determined that I am a Dick, well maybe I’m not.
But alas I have digressed too far. I got other folks to go dick with ;}
In an effort to avoid being judged as judgemental, I refrained from posting on your previous thread.
A word of advice, though, even if it is unsolicited: If you don’t want marriage advice, next time you post something like that, maybe you should specify that you will only accept “Yes” or “No” answers.
i dont think youre a dick. if you are, then i am too. if im riding the trainer, the wife knows the let me be. she understands, and has respect for what im doing. whats the big deal? when shes in the middle of some 20,000 yd swim, i dont stop to talk about the color of the fabric we picked out for the sofa we bought last week. everyone interacts with their spouses differently. people think my wife and myself are whack jobs, were always snapping at each other. (all done tongue in cheek) my parents always have a heart attack when theyre around us. they think were supposed to be prim and proper and ''yes, dear, no dear, thankyou dear". sorry but thats not reality. (at least to us)…our snapping at each other is perfectly controlled tension relief. that way we never have any real serious fights. i pity those who cant tell their wives to f** off without fear of serious retribution. mrs bulldog tells me to f** off all the time, yeah, i deserve it most of the time. as long as its done tongue in cheek, its a great stress relief. but thats just my relationship. been married 7 years and she cant get enough of me, but then again, who can blame her.
heres why im a dick too:
few years back i had a big breakthrough year. during the first race of the year i unexpectedly found myself in 6th place halfway through the run. i had never been above 30th in a race before. the run was an out and back. well, the wife was doing the race too. when she sees me coming she stops in the middle of the road, starts jumping up and down, screaming at me. (she screams really freaking loud, its deafening, quite annoying) all i could mutter was ‘shut the f** up’…i was in pain. figure she was ripped at me, huh? no way. when she was done she pretty much tackled me to the ground in excitement. so i apologized for swearing at her. she didnt care, she knew i was suffering.
as far as i can tell mrs bulldog is quite happy with who shes with, mr bulldog the same, what works for us doesnt work for everyone, though it makes for great entertainment at times.
Congratulations on being a dick!! Now, if you want to be a *classier *dick, get a Bishop’s hat. And oh yeah, make sure you keep your hat nicely polished. People who know will appreciate it.
I’ve generally found that being a dick keeps people from bothering you. I don’t mind at all that some of the people at work are afraid to come talk to me.
I do have to criticize the frequent use of profanity and cursing in your fights. Don’t you know that the occasional use is much more effective. When the wife and I exchange a good “Fuck you/fuck you too” it carries some weight and you know you’ve really pissed the other one off. I think I’ve only called her a cunt once in 17 years and it certainly had the desired effect.
I am just glad you don’t swim at my pool, cause I don’t pay $40 a month to have to hear the crap and see the gestures you and yours dish out on the pool deck and “laugh about later”. I am really getting tired of every other word being the F word lately.
I am no prude as I have worked in acute Psych in an ER setting for 15 years, but I think people that have jobs and relationships should be able to have the language skills and manners to not use the F word every time they open their mouth. G
When the wife and I exchange a good “Fuck you/fuck you too” it carries some weight and you know you’ve really pissed the other one off. I think I’ve only called her a cunt once in 17 years and it certainly had the desired effect.