Damn! I'm a sucker for girls with ink and wondered why I had never heard of her before. After a quick google search, I found out that she's a crossfit trainer and a NASCAR pit crew member...and I'm out. NASCAR is boring as fuck and crossfit is a stupid fad workout routine that can be extremely dangerous. She was hotter when I knew nothing about her.
Yeah? Being a female pit crew member is impressive. Regardless of your disdain for the sport - that's an accomplishment. And please. Tell me more about how dangerous CrossFit is. I can't wait.
I think being a pit crew member is pretty impressive whether you are a man or woman. Those folks do work. Just like being a NASCAR driver is very impressive. Those dudes have huge balls. Despite all this, I still think the sport is roughly as exciting as watching paint dry. And not cool paint, like graffiti. I'm talking regular white paint on drywall.
Today we (Americans, not you Godless Canadians) celebrate a man who discovered a new land he thought was India (though he was about 8000 miles off) and the gifts of disease and white, European superiority to the indigenous people so that one day, they would open some casinos.
It's our Thanksgiving. We take it less serious than you kids. My wife is working and I'm making pot brownies as I type this. My folks are in Italy, hers are in Chicago so no turkey dinner until Christmas.
I ate a small village's worth of turkey yesterday and subsequently slept until 9:30 this morning in my old bed in my parents' house. Today we're taking a family hike to look at the fall colours and then we're having our other family tradition - turkey fried rice, ham spring rolls and stuffing potstickers. Fuck yeah.
And people can say what they want about Colombus and how much of an asshole he was, he sailed across the ocean with criminals when everyone was scared to... Than counts for street cred on your résumé. And what does he get? A city. In Ohio. Golf clap.
Truth. I went to Darlington because I got in for free and they had a set up where people could try and change tires like the pit crew and that shit was hard as fuck. But my god those races are boring. Plus if you're even remotely close to the track rubber from the tires is flying out and hitting you the entire time.
NASCAR is exciting when a car is going 180 mph upside down. It's like heavy metal: it has a huge following, but those who aren't into it can't stand it. And those who are fit the mould of "fanatic".
If I remember my Real Sports with Bryant Gumble, Christmas' foray into NASCAR pit crews was just dreamed up by an Ad man who wanted to get a sexy woman in the middle of a pit crew. From that show and what I have read she can't exactly hack it like the dudes that normally throw the tires on so she's not a full time or official crew member. She's just there to create buzz and page clicks, which has been working pretty well it seems.
Especially in a place where there's tens of thousands of drunk apes to drool over you, fish in a barrel.
Fun, but not as fun as I hoped, the hosts were tired as shit and must have had a fight by the way they were acting. Also most people had to work today so the drinking wasn't as plentiful as I was expecting, so there's that. Chili was pretty damn good though, the host did a pineapple, mango and pulled pork chili which while not at all traditional was pretty fucking good. All in all it still beat the hell out of playing video games all day. Wish I read jDoogie's advice on roasting the peppers ahead of time, that sounds like some good shit. Anyways, off to the liquor store for me, doing some mimosas for the wife's birthday to make up for the absolutely awful "old people sex*" this morning. *still worth saying it.
To be fair to Casey, there are a lot of people that run crossfit gyms doing some stupid fucking shit. It's unfortunate people like you that actually do smart programming get lumped in with them, but that's one of the cons of being part of a brand. And I'm honestly getting tired of the use of the term fad, how does a workout routine/lifestyle's google trend have any implications on its effectiveness? The word fad is used far too often to dismiss something rather than putting in the requisite skull sweat to actually have and informed opinion on the discussion. Not saying Casey is necessarily guilty of it, but many people are.
Is it a fad when it's consistently grown for ten years? Is it a fad when - for normal reasonable not stupid people - it works? I don't know. I know that eventually, saturation has to happen. What the backlash will be - I don't know. But I do know that many gyms are making life better for many people every day. And stupid trainers are stupid. No matter what letters come after their names.
She's off my list too, I'm not a fan of tats, honestly don't even know why, just don't like them. She must be crying from the rejection.
Besides the consistently growing thing, you could say the same thing about the Atkins diet. It had a two (once in the 70's, once recently) sudden surges and drops in popularity, and despite the fact that it had the best results on health of any mainstream diet to date it still gets lumped in with crap like the cookie diet because of its popularity trend, not its merits. My guess is crossfit will be like yoga, it will have surges and slumps in popularity, people will be fired up about it for a while, then crave change and move on to something else, then come back when they're bored of something else.