You know what really grinds my gears?

[countryboy]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Summer colds. Its summer time, colds are for winter time

[Caulfield]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

people who talk about running half-marathon. just so they can use marathon when talking about their running prowess. if you don't run 26 miles and change, you didn't run any type marathon afaic

otherwise that 70 feet I run to the car when it's raining? I'm saying I run partial marathons

[BurghFan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

people who talk about running half-marathon. just so they can use marathon when talking about their running prowess. if you don't run 26 miles and change, you didn't run any type marathon afaic

otherwise that 70 feet I run to the car when it's raining? I'm saying I run partial marathons

A marathon is, what, 26.6 miles? There're 5280 feet in a mile so a marathon is 140,448 feet. So yeah, your 70 feet is about 0.05% of a marathon or about 1/1000th of a half marathonn. So yeah, I think running 1/2 a marathon is a whole lot more impressive than running 1/2000th of a marathon.

[Caulfield]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

A marathon is, what, 26.6 miles? There're 5280 feet in a mile so a marathon is 140,448 feet. So yeah, your 70 feet is about 0.05% of a marathon or about 1/1000th of a half marathonn. So yeah, I think running 1/2 a marathon is a whole lot more impressive than running 1/2000th of a marathon.

lol yeah.
I just wished they'd just call ''half-marathons'' a 21K, or whatever

also, I wonder what the time limit is on completing a marathon, and saying you've run a marathon. is it in a single day?
because if it stretches to two weeks instead of a single day, I probably run a marathon every couple weeks lol

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

lol yeah.

I just wished they'd just call ''half-marathons'' a 21K, or whatever



also, I wonder what the time limit is on completing a marathon, and saying you've run a marathon. is it in a single day?

because if it stretches to two weeks instead of a single day, I probably run a marathon every couple weeks lol

You know what they say. Life is one long marathon...or something like that.

[kehlis]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

lol yeah.

I just wished they'd just call ''half-marathons'' a 21K, or whatever



also, I wonder what the time limit is on completing a marathon, and saying you've run a marathon. is it in a single day?

because if it stretches to two weeks instead of a single day, I probably run a marathon every couple weeks lol

How many people do you know that brag about running a half marathon over a course of several weeks? That would be weird.

If you don’t know any this is a really bizarre flex by you until you can talk about running a half marathon instead of comparing it to running to your car over the course of a a couple of years…

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Remember when Dallas Braden yelled at Alex Rodriguez to get off his mound as he ran across it? Not too long after that he pitched a perfect game, and somebody on OS said that Braden now has more bragging rights because less pitchers have thrown a perfect game than hitters had hit 500 home runs.

They kind of forgot three key things to that though:

1) Longevity. This is why I'm bringing it up, comparing 70 feet to 13.1 miles. Doing something in one game versus 500 times in a career is a drop in the ocean.

2) Team versus individual effort. Unless you're striking out all 27 players, defending each ball or getting all soft contact, you're crediting the other eight players heavily (especially your battery-mate).

3) Rodriguez shortly after hit 600 HR, which is a much smaller list than the perfect game list.

Anyway, I just brought this up because it reminded me of that after hearing this 'debate' of sorts. No, a half-marathon ain't a marathon. It's not in the same league, but it is a part of the same conversation. People don't often run 26.2 consecutive miles when training for a marathon, so it's not like half-marathons aren't a part of their routine as is. I remember doing a 10-mile run back in April, and it was... somewhat calming. But again, nothing like the marathon. What's crazy is seeing people do those 100-mile runs. I believe Eric Byrnes is one of them.

Speaking out of context, I love that one moment in House where he is debating a monetary value with Wilson, and he says: "It's the same principle. 20 dollars, a million... what's the difference?" To which Wilson replies: "Actually, the difference is pretty much a million dollars." What's the difference between 70 feet and 13.1 miles? The difference is pretty much 13.1 miles lol.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Run for fun? What the hell kinda fun is that?

[steelerfan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I see someone upset the double-ten-thousand-meterers in here. [emoji2960]

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[Caulfield]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

How many people do you know that brag about running a half marathon over a course of several weeks? That would be weird.

If you don’t know any this is a really bizarre flex by you until you can talk about running a half marathon instead of comparing it to running to your car over the course of a a couple of years…

lol
I'm not really bent out of shape about but I have seen various interviews with runners not so much ''bragging'' about running half-marathons, just them mentioning that they run half- marathons. still, I'd like the half-marathon phrase replaced with something like 21K or some such.

apologies if I grinded anybody's gears that run 21k's

[Jolly Roger]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The most I run is 10K, I wouldn't want to run for much longer than an hour. Sorry, let me translate for Caulfield, I like to run Quarter-Marathons. I'm what you might call a Quarter-Marathoner, me. We like to call them QMs, or quarter-mares. It's a runner thing.

It's actually slightly less than a quarter marathon, but that's OK.

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The most I run is 10K, I wouldn't want to run for much longer than an hour. Sorry, let me translate for Caulfield, I like to run Quarter-Marathons. I'm what you might call a Quarter-Marathoner, me. We like to call them QMs, or quarter-mares. It's a runner thing.

It's actually slightly less than a quarter marathon, but that's OK.

The French call it a Royale With Wheeze.

[bigbob]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The previous iteration of a sport's game being full price. Get it together, 2k.

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[ggsimmonds]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Forum related, but the agenda posting.

Maybe I'm just extra grouchy cause I'm getting old and didn't take a nap today but it really grinds my gears when people have an opinion, good or bad, about a game and scour the forums of certain games looking for threads that could serve as battlegrounds to push their agenda

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Case in point, person makes thread about the ridiculous number of fumbles they are seeing. Its quickly discovered that they understandably had the fumble slider reversed and had it set to 0. The Madden is trash poster pays this no mind and goes straight into his Madden is trash routine. The Madden is good poster also ignores this and says its realistic and you have to play smart. Bro, if his slider is 0 no amount of being smart is gonna help

[bigbob]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I don't care if people get their vehicles lifted, but this having the tires sticking out beyond the vehicle just looks dumb.

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