High Creatine Levels Did This?

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[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]XanderBuilt wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Some coaches have absolutely no idea what they’re doing. My nephew played football in highschool. He had some shoulder problems, and every time a particular drill caused him pain, the coach told him over and over “work through it”.

Well he did. After the season ended, he went to a doctor. I saw the x-ray and the damned shoulder looked like someone had put a piece of frayed rope in there. Even after surgery he still wasn’t able to use his shoulder normally.
I wanted to confront the coach, but he had retired.[/quote]

Did YOU retire the coach? Should have kicked his ass.

Man that sounds bad for your nephew :frowning: I can imagine he’s quite young too.[/quote]

To be fair, most of the time kids are just making excuses and being bitches, so coaches get used to telling them to ‘just suck it up, you sandy-vaginaed bitch’.

Of course, when someone actually does have a medical issue, it gets pretty fucked up.

Try telling your Gunnery Sergeant you’re allergic to cold, and that’s why you’re running so slow, because you can’t fucking breathe.

Sounds like bullshit, but I AM allergic to cold, and my fucking larynx was swelling, dammit.[/quote]

Hahaha, I can only imagine how well that went over…

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[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:

[quote]kakno wrote:
I’ve seen the term compartment syndrome used pretty freely. As in if someone has really sore calves. Apparently that doesn’t really fit the bill, but we know how journalists can blow up things without checking if it’s true. So maybe this actually just means that their triceps are really fucking sore and that they got dehydrated and nauseated.

Still think it’s teh creatinez though. If you don’t put it in your socks, shit will happen.[/quote]

Let me just say a couple things here. First, this thread is why I’m happy I’m on this site after all these years- because there’s guys on here with more knowledge than what’s being thrown out there in the comments.

However, let me defend my journalist brethren for a second and say that when you’re a reporter, you’re expected to report on all sorts of shit, running the gamut from stuff on nature and science to things like books and literature- regardless of whether you know about them at all or not.

You’re forced to be a “jack of all trades” and know just enough that you can write the bare essentials of the story out and not lose the ADD prone readers’ (your) attention.

So give them a break if they’re not exactly right on what all this shit does- the odds are is they only know what the cops on the scene and the doctors at the hospital told them, and they have neither the time nor the resources to check it out with every weightlifter in the gym or every creatine user.

/end rant

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I disagree. I wrote marketing copy for technical companies for years. I was forced to learn enough about certain products from an array of industries to write about them intelligently not for the general public but for engineers who would be the ones buying that stuff. Guess what? It’s not THAT difficult. I’m no genius.

Today’s journalists have become incredibly lazy. I bet that most of those reporting on this story did not even interview anyone involved. The first reporter did, and then the rest just regurgitated what the first one reported. Why did it not occur to anyone to even inquire about just what these kids were DOING that day? Apparently it involved hundreds upon hundreds of reps for triceps.* OK, I’ll grant that most reporters wouldn’t have enough knowledge to question WHY a coach would have these kids focusing so hard on isolating their triceps, but you would think a reporter would at least be curious enough to ask what kind of training they were doing that day.

Lord help us if there is another Watergate. The days of investigative reporters like Woodward and Bernstein are long gone.

*I’m sure that the coach had a legit reason for hammering the kids’ triceps. Because, as we all know, proper sweep and good separation of all three heads is essential during the back double biceps pose, and that’s basic to winning football games, right? /end sarcasm/

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[quote]BobParr wrote:
I disagree. I wrote marketing copy for technical companies for years. I was forced to learn enough about certain products from an array of industries to write about them intelligently not for the general public but for engineers who would be the ones buying that stuff. Guess what? It’s not THAT difficult. I’m no genius.
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That’s wonderful. At no time were you a journalist. That’s like saying that since you cut hair you could work at a metal shop because both use sheers.

I’m defending the newspaper reporters, not the TV ones, but no, you’re wrong and just generalizing to defend a shitty position.

Even the smallest, shittiest papers will get your ass in serious trouble for not finding your own facts. That is a serious ethical violation.

And if I was doing that interview, I’d ask that stuff, sure. If a 45 year old woman who’s never worked out a day in her life was doing that interview, probably not.

Fucking please. You know why they’re gone? Because fucks like you want the news yesterday (meaning it’s got to be out IMMEDIATELY, sometimes even before real facts can be gathered) and you want it for FREE (because you’re not buying the paper, so we can’t hire more people in order to write the story from different angles).

Stop blaming the reporters. Blame the editors, blame the conglomerates, fine, but to say that it’s a failure of reporting when the staffs at EVERY newspaper are overstretched and underpaid is simply bullshit.

Learn what the fuck you’re talking about before you go crying about a job you’ve never done.

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And by the way- TV reporters should have gone more in depth into this, yes, because they’ve got the funding and they’ve got the range to be able to do so.

But if you watch the TV news, it’s your own fault for getting what you got.

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Oh god teh roidz, blame dem. I remember in the late 90’s I was taking Celltech(I know but it was the 90’s), and I wound up getting an allergic reaction to something in the stuff. My body winds up going into shock I’m dehydrated and have a rash almost to my throat.

Anyway as I’m getting fluids being yelled at my saintly mother the doctor comes in asks if I’m on anabolics, I say no, and he starts doing a Columbo on me giving me the third degree basically saying he doesn’t believe me. He finally says we can find out I say go ahead, long story short he comes in later that day with his tail between his legs saying they found nothing illegal in my system and gives me cortiosteroids for the rash. It doesn’t matter anymore if you have a build of any sort you’re a juice monkey

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[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
Oh god teh roidz, blame dem. I remember in the late 90’s I was taking Celltech(I know but it was the 90’s), and I wound up getting an allergic reaction to something in the stuff. My body winds up going into shock I’m dehydrated and have a rash almost to my throat. Anyway as I’m getting fluids being yelled at my saintly mother the doctor comes in asks if I’m on anabolics, I say no, and he starts doing a Columbo on me giving me the third degree basically saying he doesn’t believe me. He finally says we can find out I say go ahead, long story short he comes in later that day with his tail between his legs saying they found nothing illegal in my system and gives me cortiosteroids for the rash. It doesn’t matter anymore if you have a build of any sort you’re a juice monkey [/quote]

If you are big and get a freaking cold now, people will blame steroids. These guys are football players. That aspect alone will bring out every jock-hating nerd on the planet with a keyboard.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
If you are big and get a freaking cold now, people will blame steroids. These guys are football players. That aspect alone will bring out every jock-hating nerd on the planet with a keyboard.[/quote]

True.

But it seems that stereotypes are everywhere.

In my own neighborhood, I am quite certain that due to the facts that I don’t drive to a job everyday, am often seen in shorts and t-shirts, have long hair, and have an Obabma/Biden sticker on my truck’s bumper, that my neighbors view me as an unemployed, pot-smoking hippie.

lol

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
If you are big and get a freaking cold now, people will blame steroids. These guys are football players. That aspect alone will bring out every jock-hating nerd on the planet with a keyboard.[/quote]

True.

But it seems that stereotypes are everywhere.

In my own neighborhood, I am quite certain that due to the facts that I don’t drive to a job everyday, am often seen in shorts and t-shirts, have long hair, and have an Obabma/Biden sticker on my truck’s bumper, that my neighbors view me as an unemployed, pot-smoking hippie.

lol
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I hate most stereotypes…because now more than ever they simply do not match up with appearance.

If I were in a movie, I would likely get cast as either a super villain or some idiot thug in the background…but I guess it is also my responsibility to act if someone passes out in front of me in a restaurant.

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You wouldn’t be a super villain you’d be T’Challa, Isiah Bradley, or if you actually had that 'fro from your avatar Luke Cage circa '78. Yeah I hate the sterotype also I hate the fact that if you have somewhat of a build people feel the fucking need to touch you, if I had a dollar for every time someone touched my arms I’d be rich.

I get it at work a lot, I had a guy come in and say “how was the workout?” I hadn’t gone to the gym that day, or I had an older woman just after I said hi “wow you’re jacked”. Two things I’m fat(I’m working on it) and far from being “Jacked” I have bigger arms,and shoulders but I am by no means the ultimate male. I almost feel bad for people because if I am considered in great shape I weep for the rest of the humans.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

If I were in a movie, I would likely get cast as either a super villain or some idiot thug in the background…but I guess it is also my responsibility to act if someone passes out in front of me in a restaurant.[/quote]

For some reason this is the first thing I thought about with this comment.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
If I were in a movie, I would likely get cast as either a super villain or some idiot thug in the background…but I guess it is also my responsibility to act if someone passes out in front of me in a restaurant.[/quote]

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
If I were in a movie, I would likely get cast as either a super villain or some idiot thug in the background…but I guess it is also my responsibility to act if someone passes out in front of me in a restaurant.[/quote]
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Hold up…where the hell was I sitting at in the first place?

You can’t hide a fro this magnificent!!!

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
If you are big and get a freaking cold now, people will blame steroids. These guys are football players. That aspect alone will bring out every jock-hating nerd on the planet with a keyboard.[/quote]

True.

But it seems that stereotypes are everywhere.

In my own neighborhood, I am quite certain that due to the facts that I don’t drive to a job everyday, am often seen in shorts and t-shirts, have long hair, and have an Obabma/Biden sticker on my truck’s bumper, that my neighbors view me as an unemployed, pot-smoking hippie.

lol
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That’s two out of three! Your neighbors are doing pretty good.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
If I were in a movie, I would likely get cast as either a super villain or some idiot thug in the background…but I guess it is also my responsibility to act if someone passes out in front of me in a restaurant.[/quote]
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Hold up…where the hell was I sitting at in the first place?

You can’t hide a fro this magnificent!!![/quote]

LOL!

See the small black partial dome barely showing in the booth you then come out of?
Yep. You were trying not to be seen… until needed.
Unlike here on these forums.

lol

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[quote]on edge wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
If you are big and get a freaking cold now, people will blame steroids. These guys are football players. That aspect alone will bring out every jock-hating nerd on the planet with a keyboard.[/quote]

True.

But it seems that stereotypes are everywhere.

In my own neighborhood, I am quite certain that due to the facts that I don’t drive to a job everyday, am often seen in shorts and t-shirts, have long hair, and have an Obama/Biden sticker on my truck’s bumper, that my neighbors view me as an unemployed, pot-smoking hippie.

lol
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That’s two out of three! Your neighbors are doing pretty good.[/quote]

Uh… which two?

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
If I were in a movie, I would likely get cast as either a super villain or some idiot thug in the background…but I guess it is also my responsibility to act if someone passes out in front of me in a restaurant.[/quote]
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Lets be honest here Dwarf. X and that Fro would have been maced 10 times by every old woman in that place. Poor guy on the floor and Big fro standing (anywhere within 20’) He just assualted that poor man. And if he yelled, “I’m a doctor” it would have sounded like “I clocked em”

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[quote]four60 wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
If I were in a movie, I would likely get cast as either a super villain or some idiot thug in the background…but I guess it is also my responsibility to act if someone passes out in front of me in a restaurant.[/quote]
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Lets be honest here Dwarf. X and that Fro would have been maced 10 times by every old woman in that place. Poor guy on the floor and Big fro standing (anywhere within 20’) He just assualted that poor man. And if he yelled, “I’m a doctor” it would have sounded like “I clocked em”[/quote]

LMFAO!! You hit some home runs in the funny arena, Four60!

Wait… was that meant for humor?

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
If I were in a movie, I would likely get cast as either a super villain or some idiot thug in the background…but I guess it is also my responsibility to act if someone passes out in front of me in a restaurant.[/quote]
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Lets be honest here Dwarf. X and that Fro would have been maced 10 times by every old woman in that place. Poor guy on the floor and Big fro standing (anywhere within 20’) He just assualted that poor man. And if he yelled, “I’m a doctor” it would have sounded like “I clocked em”[/quote]

LMFAO!! You hit some home runs in the funny arena, Four60!

Wait… was that meant for humor?
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hahahahahahahahah, Hell even I think Big Fro is the reason he is on the floor.

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

But it seems that stereotypes are everywhere.

In my own neighborhood, I am quite certain that due to the facts that I don’t drive to a job everyday, am often seen in shorts and t-shirts, have long hair, and have an Obabma/Biden sticker on my truck’s bumper, that my neighbors view me as an unemployed, pot-smoking hippie.

lol
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I would view that way too, but it wouldn’t stop me from inviting you over to drag a sled up and down the driveway and have some BBQ afterward.

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[quote]BobParr wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

But it seems that stereotypes are everywhere.

In my own neighborhood, I am quite certain that due to the facts that I don’t drive to a job everyday, am often seen in shorts and t-shirts, have long hair, and have an Obabma/Biden sticker on my truck’s bumper, that my neighbors view me as an unemployed, pot-smoking hippie.

lol
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I would view that way too, but it wouldn’t stop me from inviting you over to drag a sled up and down the driveway and have some BBQ afterward.[/quote]

Thanks Bob. I never turn down sincere gestures of kindness.