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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tucker on December 27, 2010, 12:21:33 PM
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-26-10 01:57 PM
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More states let students opt out of P.E. classes
More states let students opt out of P.E. classes
DES MOINES — When the Des Moines school district announced this fall it was going to make it tougher for students to waive their physical education classes by scaling back all but a handful of exemptions, it caught students and parents by surprise.
It also countered a national trend.
Despite growing concerns about obesity among young people, the number of states that allow students to waive or substitute physical education classes has grown from 27 to 32 since 2006, according to Paula Kun, a spokeswoman for the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE).
According to an association report in June, students in those states can skip physical education if they enroll in interscholastic sports, marching band, cheerleading or other activities. The number of states that allow waivers for health issues, disabilities or religious reasons has risen from 18 to 30 since 2006, according to the report.
NASPE opposes waivers or exemptions from physical education classes, Kun says.
"Unfortunately, so many schools are having more and more waivers — particularly at the high school level," Kun says. "The great majority of high school students are required to take physical education only one year out of the four. They get out for religious reasons, for ROTC, for marching band. There's a whole slew of waiver possibilities."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-12-14-physe...
All the 98 pound weaklings check in.
Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-26-10 02:04 PM
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3. PE was sheer misery for me..
I was two grades ahead of my age cohort and the coaches punished the slowest kids every single day, two years is a huge physical jump even at the high school level, it was basically impossible for me not to be punished by extra exercises every day.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if things have gotten worse in the going on fifty years since..
oe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-26-10 11:09 PM
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34. Yes, PE was hell
I was constantly beaten up in PE class, with the coach's blessing. Hated every second of it.
get the red out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-26-10 02:12 PM
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6. P. E. was PRIME Bully-time
PE was Bully Prime-time when I was in school, ultra-living-hell. It was coaches throwing the dodge ball out and less popular kids getting the crap beat out of them.
I can't see a big problem with eliminating PE in school completely. I SERIOUSLY doubt it is often approached in any way that would be helpful in instilling a life-long love of fitness, unless school culture has changed immensely for the better since the 70's (and from what I read in the news that hasn't exactly been the case).
customerserviceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-26-10 02:37 PM
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10. Sad to hear that's still true
I remember PE from 40 years ago, where the jocks would ridicule or even beat up on the nerds and overweight kids. Sometimes the frustrated jock PE instructor would go along with it, or just turn a blind eye.
We have accellerated classes for math, why not for PE? You could put the jocks in them, and let the other kids just have some fun and excercise without being intimidated by people whose only claim to fame is what they can do with their bodies.
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11. I took my son out of P.E. in seventh grade because of physical and psychological
bullying. I got tired of seeing my son injured and helpless to do anything about it. He had snakes thrown on his shoes, was pummeled relentlessly with a basketball by three students at the same time, tripped and tackled in soccer, etc., etc. (He was smaller than the other kids and got his growth spurt all at once in high school, instead of starting in middle school as many did.
And that was only in the first four weeks of school. I was attached to the school during that time and I couldn't get anything done about it. The P.E. classed had about 150 kids in each class with three or four adults who were not good managers monitoring.
Wimps raising wimps.
ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-26-10 08:50 PM
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26. I was excused from PE after I took out a starting lineman
He was doing the bully thing. PE Teacher/coach refused to do anything, telling me to buck up or take it. Got the dufus to chase be so the teacher would clearly see him coming after me, side stepped, spun, and snapped kicked the side of his knee. I was never messed with again at that school.
Sure you did. Only in your dreams.
GreenEyedLefty Donating Member (682 posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-26-10 02:08 PM
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4. Reducing homework loads would help the obesity situation more than requiring PE.
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-26-10 05:07 PM
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19. Sports based PE is the problem
Who is surprised that children who are not good at sports don't like playing uneven games? It makes about as much sense as competition based history or reading classes.
Who is surprised that lots of parents would rather have their children spend their time in academic pursuits?
If anything we should teach them how to live healthy through a balance of nutrition and exercise. The ubiquity of youth sports injuries and obesity makes it obvious that sports are doing more harm than good to the physical and mental health of the children.
1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Dec-27-10 12:18 PM
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37. As a substitute, if we are playing a competitive game, I make all the kids line up and
then count off 1,2,3,4 until all students are counted. Then, they split off, ones together as a team, twos, together, etc. Some of the kids try to get in line in such a way that they will be on the same team, but they rarely are able to pull it off. In that way, no one team gets all of the good athletes and no one team gets all of the not-so-athletic students. Plus, we don't keep score.
In one middle school where I sub, they have what they call "rec day." Students have to walk or run (or both) around the rec field which is large enough on which to put three football fields. Then they can choose how to complete the P.E. time: soccer, volleyball, basketball, shuffleboard, four square, jump rope, pull ups, kickball, just continue walking around the field, or any combination of these.
The rec day option seems to keep the bullying down and the enjoyment up.
You DUmb bitch. There has to be winners and loser. It's used to gauge progress.
Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-26-10 06:54 PM
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25. I hated it and I was bullied.
I had to get a doctor's excuse to get out of PE so I could take typing when I was a senior.
I was a year ahead in school, and little, and the big six foot tall dumb jock girls would hit me in the head with basketballs and trip me, put me in the outfield in softball where it was ninety five degrees. I would sit down. The captain said she'd take me out for that and I said "GOOD!".
I refused to catch a softball because I was terrified I would break or jam a finger. I was a violinist and pianist in orchestra and didn't dare catch a softball.
They'd play red rover and deliberately trip me and try to kill me by making me fall flat on my face.
And I didn't get along with the teachers who seemed to be dykes. This was before I knew about lesbians. I just thought they were awfully masculine.
:lmao:
It seems like a lot of the primitives lack the physical strength to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, to use their phrase.
I'm reminded of PeeWee Herman.
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What a bunch of pussies. :gay2:
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I loved PE. Especially when we got to play kick ball, dodgeball, or red rover. That dang red rubber ball sure could pack a punch!
I hated that Presidential Award thing we had to do. I don't run just to run. Only for a reason.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-26-10 06:54 PM
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25. I hated it and I was bullied.
I had to get a doctor's excuse to get out of PE so I could take typing when I was a senior.
I was a year ahead in school, and little, and the big six foot tall dumb jock girls would hit me in the head with basketballs and trip me, put me in the outfield in softball where it was ninety five degrees. I would sit down. The captain said she'd take me out for that and I said "GOOD!".
I refused to catch a softball because I was terrified I would break or jam a finger. I was a violinist and pianist in orchestra and didn't dare catch a softball.
They'd play red rover and deliberately trip me and try to kill me by making me fall flat on my face.
And I didn't get along with the teachers who seemed to be dykes. This was before I knew about lesbians. I just thought they were awfully masculine.
LOL! that's some funny stuff right there.
This poster must have moved. Earlier posts said it was in east Texas and there were no bookstores and stuff ..... I'll bet we have more bookstores than lesbians.
Heh.
KC
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I suppose the way most schools do it probably doesn't do much to instil any lifetime learning about fitness, but that sure is some concentrated whining and sniveling there.
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I loved PE. Especially when we got to play kick ball, dodgeball, or red rover. That dang red rubber ball sure could pack a punch!
I hated that Presidential Award thing we had to do. I don't run just to run. Only for a reason.
So did I. Who knew the wimps we were laughing at were DUmmies in training??? BTW I rocked the Pres. award thing....just sayin'
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I loved PE. Especially when we got to play kick ball, dodgeball, or red rover. That dang red rubber ball sure could pack a punch!
I hated that Presidential Award thing we had to do. I don't run just to run. Only for a reason.
I use to throw the dodge ball as hard as I could at the wimpiest kid in the group. We all did.
99% of the kids gave all their effort to win. the 1% deserved to get whoopped like a step child.
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I was never the most athletic person, but I enjoyed PE. I loved playing actual sports, but could have done without push-ups and running a mile :whistling:
I can see exempting athletes from PE during their season, since they would be getting a good workout after school, but I don't see it being necessary. I don't think it was ever allowed at my school, and yeah, it sucked when you were playing basketball against girls on the varsity basketball team, but oh well, I still had fun.
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Looks like it's another Call For Columbine!!!
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Most schools have pussified PE as to get rid of "violent" games and competitive sports anyway. I can remember playing dodge ball lined up against the brick wall of the school, and that was grade school.
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So did I. Who knew the wimps we were laughing at were DUmmies in training??? BTW I rocked the Pres. award thing....just sayin'
Well, we can't all rock everything, right???
I got bored with that, but loved anything competitive. Didn't always win, but I sure do love kicking butt when I do.
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Most schools have pussified PE as to get rid of "violent" games and competitive sports anyway. I can remember playing dodge ball lined up against the brick wall of the school, and that was grade school.
Times have changed, unfortunately. I recall doing that stuff too. Good times.
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Maybe it was just my school, but PE wasn't the awful horrorshow the DUmmies make it out to be. I mean, I was a fat kid and yeah, I got picked on in gym class-but the gym teacher would make anyone who was caught being anything less than sportsmanlike run laps the ENTIRE period.
And in HS, we did fun stuff...golf, archery, line dancing. Yeah I hated it at the time, but I never tried to get out of it.
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What a bunch of pussies. :gay2:
I was thinking the exact same thing Mr. Wiggum.
Grow a set you jack wagons! :tongue:
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-26-10 06:54 PM
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25. I hated it and I was bullied.
I had to get a doctor's excuse to get out of PE so I could take typing when I was a senior.
I was a year ahead in school, and little, and the big six foot tall dumb jock girls would hit me in the head with basketballs and trip me, put me in the outfield in softball where it was ninety five degrees. I would sit down. The captain said she'd take me out for that and I said "GOOD!".
I refused to catch a softball because I was terrified I would break or jam a finger. I was a violinist and pianist in orchestra and didn't dare catch a softball.
They'd play red rover and deliberately trip me and try to kill me by making me fall flat on my face.
And I didn't get along with the teachers who seemed to be dykes. This was before I knew about lesbians. I just thought they were awfully masculine.
Wow, she seems to be still bitter about this. Pathetic doesn't really touch the description of this post.
Most states are getting waivers for PE because they can't afford to pay for specials (art, music and PE are referred to as "specials").
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I hated PE too. That's why I was on the water polo and swim teams.
Does that thread validate all of your thoughts about the losers at the DUmp or WHAT?!?!?!?
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Most schools have pussified PE as to get rid of "violent" games and competitive sports anyway. I can remember playing dodge ball lined up against the brick wall of the school, and that was grade school.
I don't see that in MA in middle and high school grades. Sports are extremely competitive in my district. I do see it in elementary school age students -- those schools of course still lucky enough to offer PE in those grades.
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So did I. Who knew the wimps we were laughing at were DUmmies in training??? BTW I rocked the Pres. award thing....just sayin'
Heh, so did I! My specialty was sit ups! I wish I still had the abs that I did when I was in the 6th grade!!!
I remember these losers! Most were so self conscious they wouldn't undress and shower with us "men"! They would always be late out to the field for warm ups. We took great pleasure in pullin' their trunks down around their ankles in front of the girls! This was in the day where jock straps were mandatory! hehehehehehe!
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I hated PE too. That's why I was on the water polo and swim teams.
Does that thread validate all of your thoughts about the losers at the DUmp or WHAT?!?!?!?
Water polo is a very hard sport. Ditto swim team.
H5.
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I refused to catch a softball because I was terrified I would break or jam a finger. I was a violinist and pianist in orchestra and didn't dare catch a softball.
Jam a finger?
:ohnoes:
Life is rough, grow the **** up.
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Well, we can't all rock everything, right???
I got bored with that, but loved anything competitive. Didn't always win, but I sure do love kicking butt when I do.
I really never won at anything so the low bar for that was my cup of tea :wink: I loved the games and competition regardless.
The primitives (btw I think that is too funny that you guys call them that) are just the opposite. Notice how half of them brag about being soooo smart while the cry about PE?
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I was never the most athletic person, but I enjoyed PE. I loved playing actual sports, but could have done without push-ups and running a mile :whistling:
I can see exempting athletes from PE during their season, since they would be getting a good workout after school, but I don't see it being necessary. I don't think it was ever allowed at my school, and yeah, it sucked when you were playing basketball against girls on the varsity basketball team, but oh well, I still had fun.
Those of us on the football team always went over our playbook during PE, while the rest got to play softball, dodgeball, kickball, etc! The only time it pissed me off is when they went bowling!!!!
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Does that thread validate all of your thoughts about the losers at the DUmp or WHAT?!?!?!?
Kinda did, now that ya mention it.
:-)
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I was one of the smaller kids in my Catholic school, so for PE, we had to adapt to whatever activity we were doing. One of the wildly popular ones was a variation of dodgeball called "pin bombardment." Regular dodgeball, but there were two pins (not bowling pins, but similar) set up on the basketball court, right in the blocks of the lane. If the pins got knocked over, your side lost. While defending, if you hit the ball with your head, you weren't out. I became a kick-ass pin guard. Never lost a game in three years. As a result, when sides were taken for pin bombardment, I was usually taken in the second or third round (one had to get their "snipers" first).
I had a friend who fell into the "sniper" category, that would use the PE teacher as a screen to hide behind. One of the other side's "snipers" would get a tad careless . . . and he was gone, drilled by Danny B.
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Wonder if Manifestor of Light got called out for being less than complimentary toward her gay female comrades?
MOL is also featured in the thread about hanging stupid signs on her fence. I can just picture her now. Mouse brown, limp hair cut short, black square glasses, sunken chest, dowdy clothes, ugly sensible shoes. Her post was funnier than hell, though.
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And these ** cough-cough**people think that in the case of civil unrest that they can defend themselves. Not only that, but go on an offensive and win. :lmao:
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Wonder if Manifestor of Light got called out for being less than complimentary toward her gay female comrades?
MOL is also featured in the thread about hanging stupid signs on her fence. I can just picture her now. Mouse brown, limp hair cut short, black square glasses, sunken chest, dowdy clothes, ugly sensible shoes. Her post was funnier than hell, though.
I've never noticed Manifestor's posts before, but they remind me of Bouncy Ball's posts.
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Wonder if Manifestor of Light got called out for being less than complimentary toward her gay female comrades?
MOL is also featured in the thread about hanging stupid signs on her fence. I can just picture her now. Mouse brown, limp hair cut short, black square glasses, sunken chest, dowdy clothes, ugly sensible shoes. Her post was funnier than hell, though.
When asked to post a pic of the signs, she couldn't produce. Ergo, a bouncy.
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And these ** cough-cough**people think that in the case of civil unrest that they can defend themselves. Not only that, but go on an offensive and win. :lmao:
They'll be offensive, alright . . .
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I never minded gym class, really enjoyed some of it, but I don't believe it benefits physical fitness or has any other value in education. The kids who enjoy it and really get useful exercise are the active ones who are getting lots of excercise outside the school day, so the extra PE isn't needed. The kids who hate it and slack off through it are the drones, and the expense of supporting PE programs is wasted on them.
There's tremendous value in the voluntary sports programs supported by school systems. The kids who participate get invaluable experience in fitness, competition, patience, discipline, and other qualities that will benefit them in later life. I believe mandatory PE is a waste of time and money, useful only to the teachers' unions for the extra jobs it generates. At best, it's just a recess period for the older kids.
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Wonder if Manifestor of Light got called out for being less than complimentary toward her gay female comrades?
MOL is also featured in the thread about hanging stupid signs on her fence. I can just picture her now. Mouse brown, limp hair cut short, black square glasses, sunken chest, dowdy clothes, ugly sensible shoes. Her post was funnier than hell, though.
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,53119.msg594601.html#msg594601
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Exactly, Max! :lmao:
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I was never into playing sports and didn't do well or enjoy PE, but I did it, and this is the thing, there are things you have to do whether you like it or not, what do you do when you become an adult and don't want to do something? you can't get mommy to write you a note when you're in your 20's 30's etc.
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P.E. was required when I went to school. No if's an's about it. You had to be at least half dead to get out of it. My daddy went to the schoolhouse and told them to let me out early, I got enough exercise on the farm.
They let me out early to do farm chores....y'all should have known my Daddy.
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I used to love it. In the winter we had a coach who would make us go out in jym shorts. That sure made most of us want to work out but the whiners got that stoped.
Dodgeball Ha that was fun even though I could never get good speed on it like some of the bigger guys. It wasn't hard to dodge it though. Never understood why the crybabies would just try to block it insted of dodging it? Hell thats the name of the game. If you just stood there you became the target!
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What a bunch of mewling pussies. I liked PE. I was good at dodgeball and kickball. I ****in' loved kickball. I wish I could still play today.
But that's what happens when you grow up. You find an adult game. I'm going to start playing rugby in a few weeks. Come join me DUmmy pussies. Oh that's right, if kickball scared you, this is going to make you shit your pants.
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What a bunch of mewling pussies. I liked PE. I was good at dodgeball and kickball. I ****in' loved kickball. I wish I could still play today.
But that's what happens when you grow up. You find an adult game. I'm going to start playing rugby in a few weeks. Come join me DUmmy pussies. Oh that's right, if kickball scared you, this is going to make you shit your pants.
I miss dodgeball too :-( I haven't played since 6th grade.
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I miss dodgeball too :-( I haven't played since 6th grade.
A while back I heard of a kickball/dodgeball league for grownups. Haven't heard anything recently about it.
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PE was my favorite "class"... it was the easiest A you could attain. :)
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A while back I heard of a kickball/dodgeball league for grownups. Haven't heard anything recently about it.
I think I saw it on this channel:
(http://distinctkickingmotion.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/espn-8-the-ocho.jpg?w=425&h=333)
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I hated PE, I loathed PE but I would do it again if I could. I learned some very important things in that class. (And I was able to get an A)
Unless someone has a good reason they should be in a PE class, this nation is moving into an obesity epidemic and people want to take their children out of PE? Ridiculous.
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I never had a PR class in high school. I played varsity field hockey and was in the marching band, lettered in both. But I got out of taking the class because I was into competitive horseback riding. Of course my mother had a hard time convincing the teacher that anything other than football was a sport.
But riding 5-6 days a week and all the care that those horses required kept me in better shape than most of the football players and unlike them I managed to win consistently.
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I think I saw it on this channel:
(http://distinctkickingmotion.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/espn-8-the-ocho.jpg?w=425&h=333)
Yep I'll confirm it, I saw it there too. :lmao:
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Jam a finger?
:ohnoes:
Life is rough, grow the **** up.
Yeah, really.
If I had a dime for every time I jammed a finger playing softball, football, volleyball, etc., I could retire today.
Hell, I even had a fingernail torn off playing goalie during a soccer game. If you don't bleed, you ain't playing hard enough!
I used to race motocross all summer as a teen. One year, I went out for JV football. I was the only one that wasn't puking after the windsprints.
Pussies and losers, every damned one of them.
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I miss dodgeball too :-( I haven't played since 6th grade.
Me too!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQqkQKde_kU[/youtube]
:lmao:
KC
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THIS is what scared the DUmmies;
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iXP9yoc4VY&NR=1[/youtube]
:lmao:
God I love that movie.
KC
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In our gym class, they called it "War Ball", probably not PC enough for today. The cool part was when one side was down to just a few players, and the other side would have hoarded up all the balls. The teacher would change the dividing line from center court to the foul line. It would be a massacre, in one huge volley. You didn't have a chance, even if you could dodge a wrench.
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Did some one say, Dodgeball?? :-)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drjoRwYJDvg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
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I've taken those red balls to the face a few times... and yeah, they don't feel too good. But, dodge ball is still fun. Just suck it up.
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I've taken those red balls to the face a few times... and yeah, they don't feel too good. But, dodge ball is still fun. Just suck it up.
Yeah, what you said!
:cheersmate:
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I've taken those red balls to the face a few times... and yeah, they don't feel too good. But, dodge ball is still fun. Just suck it up.
Yeah, what you said!
:cheersmate:
Are y'all serious?! You are killing me here!! I don't want to have to take this to the adult forums so just stop now.
:lmao:
Lord have mercy.
KC
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Are y'all serious?! You are killing me here!! I don't want to have to take this to the adult forums so just stop now.
:lmao:
Lord have mercy.
KC
:rotf:
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Are y'all serious?! You are killing me here!! I don't want to have to take this to the adult forums so just stop now.
:lmao:
Lord have mercy.
KC
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
OH MY.
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Are y'all serious?! You are killing me here!! I don't want to have to take this to the adult forums so just stop now.
:lmao:
Lord have mercy.
KC
We used to play a version with no teams. Just a total free for all. :naughty:
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We used to play a version with no teams. Just a total free for all. :naughty:
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Heh. Oh dear Jesus. You aren't helping!
for shame. Y'all are leading me astray.
:naughty:
Just keep ahold of my hand!
KC
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Heh. Oh dear Jesus. You aren't helping!
for shame. Y'all are leading me astray.
:naughty:
Just keep ahold of my hand!
KC
You prolly never won at dodgeball.......... :whistling:
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I swam on the swim team from the age of 6 - and the coach was mean to us little kids, too! I got no sympathy whatsoever from my dad - he was the high school football coach. If we didn't swim fast enough, the coach was there with his long pool cleaner net whopping us over the head. Think he'd get away with that today? No way. It made me swim faster, though.
I played basketball, too, and loved it. Except for that time in junior high when my bra came unsnapped in the middle of a game. :hyper: Oh, and that time I made a basket for the other team. :whistling:
I loved PE, except for those stupid one piece gym thingies we had to wear.
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I had a coach in middle school that carried a golf club. If he felt like you weren't putting in enough effort, you usually got a jab with the club head and some verbal 'encouragement'.
When we weren't doing team sports, I remember PE being fifteen minutes of calisthenics and 45 minutes of bullshit. Not really my favorite subject.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-26-10 06:54 PM
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25. I hated it and I was bullied.
I had to get a doctor's excuse to get out of PE so I could take typing when I was a senior.
I was a year ahead in school, and little, and the big six foot tall dumb jock girls would hit me in the head with basketballs and trip me, put me in the outfield in softball where it was ninety five degrees. I would sit down. The captain said she'd take me out for that and I said "GOOD!".
I refused to catch a softball because I was terrified I would break or jam a finger. I was a violinist and pianist in orchestra and didn't dare catch a softball.
Oh BS! That large leather thing on your hand was a glove, and breaking a finger shagging a ball just doesn't happen that often.
Also, where do they get the sterotypes about jocks? Movies? The valedictorian of my graduating class was a four sport "jock" that maintained a 4.0 in Advanced classes. He was also the sort you couldn't help but like, always a kind word for everybody. Then maybe he would have seen the DUmmies for what they were, I don't know.
BTW, I was the kid that the jocks took one look at and didn't think he measured up when I came out for sports. Then they noticed that I never let anything stop me and found a way to succeed no matter what my task. It ain't the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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In our gym class, they called it "War Ball", probably not PC enough for today. The cool part was when one side was down to just a few players, and the other side would have hoarded up all the balls. The teacher would change the dividing line from center court to the foul line. It would be a massacre, in one huge volley. You didn't have a chance, even if you could dodge a wrench.
We played a lot of football where I grew up. When there wasn't enough to have a proper game, we started playing "smear the queer" which would probably make the DUmmies sit a few inches higher. When that got to tame, we came up with a game called "ragbone", all the rules of smear the queer, except you weren't down until you were stripped of the football. Good times.
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I hated PE too but I learned to live through it and I still came out better then anyposter at the DUmp by far. Like the man says
"Maybe we should chug on over to namby pamby land where maybe we can find some self confidence for you ya Jackwagon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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I had a coach in middle school that carried a golf club. If he felt like you weren't putting in enough effort, you usually got a jab with the club head and some verbal 'encouragement'.
We had a PE coach that was a former(?) Marine MP, always carried a ping pong paddle around with him. I'm not talking about the cheap ones that come in a set for about $5. I'm talking one of those "big as your ass 1/2 inch thick" pro models.
His favorite sport was sneaking up behind people and "lighting them up" with the paddle.
Years later, when my son was in high school, Coach and I were working the gate at the field for a soccer tournament, and we talked about those times, laughing and joking about it the whole day. He said he did it to "make sure we were alert. The world needs more Lerts."
Coach Smith (that is really his name!) is 80 years old and STILL helps out at the gate every year during football season, selling programs or 50/50 raffle tickets, his voice echoing all thru the stadium whenever he talks. He knows everybody, and everybody loves him.
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I hated PE too but I learned to live through it and I still came out better then anyposter at the DUmp by far. Like the man says
"Maybe we should chug on over to namby pamby land where maybe we can find some self confidence for you ya Jackwagon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I love that commercial. It has to drive the girly men over on the island nutz.
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I hated PE too but I learned to live through it and I still came out better then anyposter at the DUmp by far. Like the man says
"Maybe we should chug on over to namby pamby land where maybe we can find some self confidence for you ya Jackwagon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
One of the funniest ads ever!
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One of the funniest ads ever!
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Yeah, I find that I have incorporated Jackwagon into my daily vocabulary. And, BTW, that tagline?
OMG!!!!
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I've taken those red balls to the face a few times... and yeah, they don't feel too good. But, dodge ball is still fun. Just suck it up.
Click the link, see definition number one.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dodgeball
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I played basketball, too, and loved it. Except for that time in junior high when my bra came unsnapped in the middle of a game.
You didn't end up with black eyes, did you?
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You didn't end up with black eyes, did you?
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Almost................
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Click the link, see definition number one.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dodgeball
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That's hilarious!
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I hated PE in high school...Loved it in grade school
but in HS if ya wasn't on a "team"(i wasn't good enough) the PE teachers treated ya like shit.
But I did shock the shit outta the football coach...we was playin around on the weight machine durin lunch period one day...I was on the leg weight one where ya sit in the seat and puch yourself backwards...One of the football jocks thought he'd be an ass and "get" me...he put the weight at 500(I couldn't see what he put it at) and I lifted it.nI didn't think it weighed that much so I said make it higher..he put it up to 750...lifted it...the coach came in while we were playin and saw....they put it up to 1000 and said "No way she'll lift that"...I did....Coach made me do it twice....he still couldn't believe I could do it...(i used to have very strong legs)
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That's hilarious!
Author dammit janet has quite the collection of Urban Dictionary definitions.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=dammit%20janet
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Author dammit janet has quite the collection of Urban Dictionary definitions.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=dammit%20janet
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7. Soccer mom 51 up, 43 down
buy soccer mom mugs, tshirts and magnetsOvergrown little girls who let emotion run their lives and are the sole justification for repealing the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.
Thanks to soccer moms, we got eight years of bill ****ing clinton and probably another 10 years of constant threats to our country.
by dammit janet Jul 3, 2003
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Almost................
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Gotta admit, you got a great sense of humor......
Now, get me my beer! :-) (Just playing.)
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Gotta admit, you got a great sense of humor......
Now, get me my beer! :-) (Just playing.)
I had to have a sense of humor growing up. My family put the fun in dysfunctional. Seriously, I have two sisters and neither of them were blessed like I was. That's why I've never been a runner.
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Seriously, I have two sisters and neither of them were blessed like I was. That's why I've never been a runner.
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Must resist urge to make off color comment.....
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I had to have a sense of humor growing up. My family put the fun in dysfunctional. Seriously, I have two sisters and neither of them were blessed like I was. That's why I've never been a runner.
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This sounds like a bouncy story.
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wasp69 Must resist urge to make off color comment.....
This sounds like a bouncy story.
Off color comments do not bother me. But don't make fun of my blond hair. God, I'm such a stereotype but not really.
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Off color comments do not bother me. But don't make fun of my blond hair. God, I'm such a stereotype but not really.
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I was looking for the bouncing boobs smiley that I have, but couldn't find it. :(
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Off color comments do not bother me. But don't make fun of my blond hair. God, I'm such a stereotype but not really.
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Q: Why do blondes wear their hair in pony tails?
A: To hide the valve stem.
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Q: Why do blondes wear their hair in pony tails?
A: To hide the valve stem.
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I was looking for the bouncing boobs smiley that I have, but couldn't find it. :(
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I hated PE in high school...Loved it in grade school
but in HS if ya wasn't on a "team"(i wasn't good enough) the PE teachers treated ya like shit.
But I did shock the shit outta the football coach...we was playin around on the weight machine durin lunch period one day...I was on the leg weight one where ya sit in the seat and puch yourself backwards...One of the football jocks thought he'd be an ass and "get" me...he put the weight at 500(I couldn't see what he put it at) and I lifted it.nI didn't think it weighed that much so I said make it higher..he put it up to 750...lifted it...the coach came in while we were playin and saw....they put it up to 1000 and said "No way she'll lift that"...I did....Coach made me do it twice....he still couldn't believe I could do it...(i used to have very strong legs)
One of the girls at our school was the all city cross-country champion. She had massive thighs and they were all muscle. She did the same thing you did and then added a couple of football players on top of the weights. She could just sit there and laugh and hold a conversation while lifting all that with no effort.
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I enjoyed PE, mostly because swimming was an acceptable alternative to the standard issue PE class in my district. I was the A/V Club geek elsewhere in the school, but if you wanted to be a PITA to me on the water, you had to catch me first. And then, once you caught me, you had to figure out pretty damned quick how you were going to do what you intended to do. :naughty:
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Sigh. Boys will be boys.
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Anime exploitation is real my friend .... and it must be stopped.
KC
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Sigh. Boys will be boys.
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What kills me is that the little anime girl's belly button jumps higher than her boobies.
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What kills me is that the little anime girl's belly button jumps higher than her boobies.
Somebody has WAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on his hands. :whistling:
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Somebody has WAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on his hands. :whistling:
And?
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Somebody has WAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on his hands. :whistling:
And evidently not enough boobies or there would be no mention of belly buttons.
KC
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And evidently not enough boobies or there would be no mention of belly buttons.
KC
Exactly! H5!
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Instead of cowering in the corner after all these years how about looking at it as they tried to make a real person out of you and not some whiner that you did become. You should be thanking them for their efforts for trying to take the local geek and making something out of them rather then foisting upon the world another crybaby that couldn't handle dodge ball but has the courage to post online asking for the frogmarching of Bush and his evil empire.
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Somebody has WAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on his hands. :whistling:
I don't think that was 'time' in his hand. Just sayin'... :puke:
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I don't think that was 'time' in his hand. Just sayin'... :puke:
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Good ta see ya D6!
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I don't think that was 'time' in his hand. Just sayin'... :puke:
Hey, we're not just jerkin' off here...
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Hey, we're not just jerkin' off here...
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All hands on deck!
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