What have you learned today?

[kneedownnate]

I learned that after a second attempt at an alternate route, my knees and hips just won't allow me to get all the way to lake anna or billy be damned    At least I caught some brookies in a tiny creek running through the last meadow I made it to.

[BLACKDOG]

I learned that after a second attempt at an alternate route, my knees and hips just won't allow me to get all the way to lake anna or billy be damned    At least I caught some brookies in a tiny creek running through the last meadow I made it to.

Damn nate, you're really scaring me about this whole getting old thing

I know my knees, back, and ankles are going to hate me, being as big as I am, but damn!!

[abnormaltoy]

Maybe you should change you name to nokneesnate. Believe me man, I feel your pain.

[KDXSR5]

I learned that all old people have a wierd kind of pain connection

[NorCalToy]

I learned that all old people have a wierd kind of pain connection

i second that!

[Doof]

i learned that my cutco is way to sharp for its own good... while i was going chef with prep for burritos in my kitchen i decided to take off part of my thumb and nail. the petit chef (knife) sliced through thumb and nail like it was warm butter. didnt even phase it...


moral of the story..... you should all buy cutco from me. i will be taking orders every day at anytime... PM me if you want to share the same experience as i have with CUTCO

[abnormaltoy]

I learned that all old people have a wierd kind of pain connection

i second that!

I may not live to see it...but someday y'all will know whereof we speak!

[NorCalToy]

I may not live to see it...but someday y'all will know whereof we speak!

my wrists are already kinda wack from snowboarding... otherwise some occasional growth pains, but thats bout it for me. and pops, by the time me and todd are that old therell be some crazy awesome thing that does something so it doesnt hurt. dont ask me what, im not a doctor. but itll be there


yes, i know you can already get hips and knees replaced...but im talking even better tahn that.

[BLACKDOG]

and pops, by the time me and todd are that old therell be some crazy awesome thing that does something so it doesnt hurt. dont ask me what, im not a doctor. but itll be there

I sure hope so, 'cause I'll need it for sure. 

One of my ankles pops regularly.  Like when I walk down a hallway barefoot, it'll pop every other step.  Its kind of annoying when I'm trying to be quiet   also, I've done some damage to my knees, so I know they'll be hating me when I'm older, and I'm sure I've already jacked up my back, playing all the contact sports that I did, I just don't know it yet. 

[abnormaltoy]

my wrists are already kinda wack from snowboarding... otherwise some occasional growth pains, but thats bout it for me. and pops, by the time me and todd are that old therell be some crazy awesome thing that does something so it doesnt hurt. dont ask me what, im not a doctor. but itll be there


yes, i know you can already get hips and knees replaced...but im talking even better tahn that.

Sorry junior...by then we're going to have socialist medicine and they're not gonna give y'all anything because some faceless bean-counter    says it won't be cost effective! You old fart.   

[kneedownnate]

Damn nate, you're really scaring me about this whole getting old thing

It's not getting old, they've been jacked since I was 17.  My old, fat bull d**e gym teacher wrecked them when we had to do over 700 jumping jacks one day before class begun.  I didn't help matters when I was riding a 17 mile mountain bike race in red clay mud and had crazy good endurance, kept passing people in the muddy old mining ditches and on the uphills then LOCK!  I was so intent on keeping a good pace that I forgot to pace myself on the uphills 

i know you can already get hips and knees replaced...

From what I've heard, that's only good for a last ditch effort in an attempt to keep some limited mobility.  I do hope they come up with something really good by the time I get old, cause I'd like to be one of those old coots I see on the trails when they're in their 70s!

I sure hope so, 'cause I'll need it for sure. 

One of my ankles pops regularly.  Like when I walk down a hallway barefoot, it'll pop every other step. 

  aint no way I'm sneakin up on somebody!  I sometimes don't realise it's doing it until somebody asks what the hell that popping sound is 

[Doof]

my knees are jacked from 13 seasons of baseball... i was a cather, used the knee savers on my leg guards but they got old and i didnt feel like replacing them so they were basically useless. the knees hurt usually all day and right now they are achy from a day at work being squated all day and all the getting up's and down's. and my back is messed up i dont even know why. ive had a few spasms and one of them took me to the ground at work 8 or 9 months ago at a different job. when i told my mom about that one she flipped out and started looking for a chiropractor and what not ad get me looked at, but i told her to chill and let it go. she said i was so young to be having spasms like that. i just laughed and walked away... my shpeel for now

[BLACKDOG]

my knees are jacked from 13 seasons of baseball... i was a cather, used the knee savers on my leg guards but they got old and i didnt feel like replacing them so they were basically useless. the knees hurt usually all day and right now they are achy from a day at work being squated all day and all the getting up's and down's. and my back is messed up i dont even know why. ive had a few spasms and one of them took me to the ground at work 8 or 9 months ago at a different job. when i told my mom about that one she flipped out and started looking for a chiropractor and what not ad get me looked at, but i told her to chill and let it go. she said i was so young to be having spasms like that. i just laughed and walked away... my shpeel for now

I know I'm not much older than you, but dude, take care of your body.    Chiropractors (good ones) can do wonders for you.  My dad used to have severe back pain, started seeing a chiropractor 2x a week, now he's down to 1x a month, and his back rarely hurts him. 

  aint no way I'm sneakin up on somebody!  I sometimes don't realise it's doing it until somebody asks what the hell that popping sound is 

I don't even notice it anymore. 

[KDXSR5]

wow... lots of from my comment!

I have a screwed up knee from a pretty bad dirtbike crash when younger, pre-knee protection (can you say landing on the front tire off of a jump and slamming your knee into the handlebars upon landing? My knee hit the bars hard enough to pop them out of my hands and I did some nice ass over teakettle action) I now wear knee/shin guards everytime, no excuses.

I also have a screwed up shoulder from getting bucked off of a horse. I have limited rearward mobility... IE- I cannot place the palm of my hand flat on the back of my neck. Doing that is no problem with my other arm.

The only other lasting injury I have is a permanently detached rib. If I arch my back and bring my arms back (which hurts above mentioned shoulder fyi), the rib pops and moves around... its kind of gross. I am pretty sure thats from getting bucked off a horse as well.

Other than that I have lower back pains come and go, but I have never been too concerned with it. I figured it was just normal pains from the wear and tear I put on my body.

[Doof]

I know I'm not much older than you, but dude, take care of your body.    Chiropractors (good ones) can do wonders for you.  My dad used to have severe back pain, started seeing a chiropractor 2x a week, now he's down to 1x a month, and his back rarely hurts him. 

yea im trying to take more care of my body now then i used to. lift properly and what not at work or where ever i go. my hands get beat of often from this new job, but im trying to do things different instead of beating my hands



the crappy thing about my back, if i sit in my runner seat for to long or done move while sitting the lower back cramps beyond belief and i can feel knots the size of golf balls form and there is nothing i can do to make the pain go away except buck but and not think about it. i hope that the back problems and start of bum knees dont hurt chances of being a FF down the road. and i know the job wont help much more then add to it, but its worth it in my opinion.... i should go and get a chiropractor while im still under the parents insurance

[Rocksurfer]

I just learned that I'm physically better off than you yungin's. Only problem I have is my left ankle from skiing, once I gave it up the pain went away. The problem is still there but I used to wake with sheering pain in the middle of the night, it seems that the relaxed state I was in during sleep would cause a tendon to contract the muscles in my ankle.

[MiniSimp]

I learned that when you crap your pants, don't flush your underware down the toilet, it'll clog.
(yes, someone at my work actually did this)

[Wermz84]

I learned that when you crap your pants, don't flush your underware down the toilet, it'll clog.
(yes, someone at my work actually did this)

I learned that Mini works with some real Einsteins     Where to even start with that story, there is soo much wrong with it.

[MiniSimp]

I learned that Mini works with some real Einsteins     

You have no idea

[Toymin8r]

I learned today that when the alternator on a Chevy Duramax craps out and the batteries drain below a certain voltage the whole truck wigs out.   The Allison transmission won't shift either due to the lack of voltage for the auto shift solenoids.

[Stocker]

I learned that when the USFS is intent on 'backburning', nothing will deter them from their mission.


Not even perfectly good working telecommunications facilities that are just a few feet from a paved road where they are
starting their fires.   

[Wermz84]

Not to use RTV silicone on Paper gaskets.       

[Rocksurfer]

[unclejpl4x4]

i learn the new guy thinks he funny but hes not

[JanMarie13]

i learn the new guy thinks he funny but hes not

You da new guy?  Or is there a newer guy than you? 

[Wermz84]

Thank you!   

[KDXSR5]

sleeping 14 plus hours the previous day/night leads to one hell of a sleepless following day/night. I don't think I am going to sleep a wink all night tonight.

[kneedownnate]

I learned that when the USFS is intent on 'backburning', nothing will deter them from their mission.


Not even perfectly good working telecommunications facilities that are just a few feet from a paved road where they are
starting their fires.   

Ignorant assholes 

i learn the new guy thinks he funny but hes not

I'll trade you for our new guy!  He randomly quotes movie or tv lines that nobody knows, doesn't wait for anybody else to laugh before he does, then if there's awkward silence he laughs again.  Sometimes he'll enter a room and just laugh for no reason...  My boss told his wife that he's gonna do that some day and I'm gonna finally snap and say  "that's not funny!"

[Cheesemaker]

That if you wave at a cute woman in the window, her significant other might not like that!

I've been told that I'm number 1, alot!! 

[Duffil]

I have learned that no matter how good I am at my job, and how much I can do, the morons I work with will get more respect than I will, because I don't speak spanish.