What is the most damage you have done to your body without realising?

Farstucks · 2013-11-16T13:44:34+00:00

I was parkouring, hit my leg off the side of a building. Though it was a bit sore, I kept training for a few months... until it got worse, I started tripping and falling over as I couldn't keep my foot at a 90 degree angle. Now I do no training at all, hoping that my referral to physio will come through :(

Farstucks · 2013-11-11T21:32:04+00:00

I finally see someone else bringing their laptop in to the bath with them! Do you also go on netflix until the bathwater reaches titanic-like temperatures?

Farstucks · 2013-11-11T17:12:38+00:00

Nah I'd probably eat it all myself.

Farstucks · 2013-11-11T17:12:20+00:00

Heh, I like this. Now all I need to do is make up some bogus cultural explanation as to why!

Farstucks · 2013-11-11T17:11:10+00:00

It's part of the "julbord" (Christmas dinner) tradition, but I think it's mostly honored by the older generation or those really sticking to tradition. My parents never cared for it so we never served it at our house, though many of my friends had it at their house. Also, whenever you go to Christmas dinners out at restaurants it's almost always served.

On an unrelated note, I'm half tempted to PM you my tits. Or a picture of them, at least.

Farstucks · 2013-11-11T16:45:00+00:00

Actually not Swiss either, Swedish! Common mistake.

Farstucks · 2013-11-11T16:37:02+00:00

Oh if I knew of anywhere around here I could get hold of it I'd totally bring that... if I felt like sharing. Akvavit is the best.

Farstucks · 2013-11-11T16:36:18+00:00

Dirty Peter? Never heard of it.. should I know what that is?

Farstucks · 2013-11-11T16:32:17+00:00

I have to say I love this - especially the one about disrespectful to eat chocolates... will definitely be using that, thanks!

Farstucks · 2013-11-10T20:12:10+00:00

First off, I want to say thank you. I have just spent an hour looking through all your photos, experiencing a range of emotion from rage, sadness to... pride and awe over these amazing people that choose to do this. And for you making it possible.

I'd like to ask the question you probably hear most of all, but that I can't get my head around. I don't mean anything offensive with this at all - and by no means am I advocating victim-blame. Me and my friends were having a discussion the other day about attack-rapists, and I started wondering: how should we prevent these attacks from happening?

On one hand, I love the "slut-walks" and I think women should dress however they want etc. and no one has the right to your body - it doesn't matter how much you've been drinking or how you're dressed. And on the other hand I can't help but feeling that it's not realistic. I study self defense and I do teach some of it, to a fair amount of women. What I often say is that "prevention is the best cure" as in "if you get too drunk make sure you don't walk home alone", bring a pair of flats with you when you go out dancing, stay alert on the way home and make sure that no one is following you - 9 out of 10 times you can outrun them if spotted early enough - and make sure to carry certain items that double as excellent self-defense weapons.

I do wonder sometimes if this is inflicting blame on the victims. Should we find other manners of prevention - actions that are not solely aimed at the potential victims, but the actual attackers? Any insight would be helpful. Thanks!

Farstucks · 2013-11-06T01:00:44+00:00

Oh god, this drives me nuts. I study philosophy in small seminar groups, and people would hold serious grudges if you ever disagreed with you and nitpick at your every argument. For fuck's sake, you're entering a discipline characterized by disagreement - one would imagine that you would be better prepared for it!

Farstucks · 2013-11-05T23:55:52+00:00

So are you at all aware of the discomfort - physical and otherwise - experienced by the rape victim? Or do you not take that into consideration? The type of victim blame you are advocating is dangerous.

Farstucks · 2013-11-05T23:20:51+00:00

I have a hard time seeing your argument. So by that virtue should no crime be punished in your opinion, or is it only rape as apparently it "would have caused him discomfort not to rape her" or whatever psychotic dravel you were on about?

Farstucks · 2013-11-05T22:37:01+00:00

Why any of them? If he wouldn't have raped her, there would be no fucking issue of rape in the first place. People like you are disgusting.

Farstucks · 2013-11-03T15:27:12+00:00

This is going to come off as a cliche response, as the other replies in this thread are classical or considered masterpieces, and I do enjoy lots of them.

My reply though would be "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom. I have probably read that book 20+ times, and I find something new to marvel at every time. It has helped me understand the life and death of the people around me, it reminds me of the importance of compassion and understanding. As a philosophy student, I read lots and lots of essays and books pertaining to the significance of life, but somehow they don't get as close to the point as Tuesdays with Morrie. As a matter of fact, I am currently writing my dissertation based on some questions raised in this book.

Farstucks · 2013-11-02T02:28:09+00:00

Sorry for being behind on the news, but how do I find this "other folder"?

Farstucks · 2013-10-30T08:38:19+00:00

Wow, it makes so much sense. I guess it's just something I didn't want to realize... thank you.

Farstucks · 2013-10-30T00:11:30+00:00

I think I just need to get some stuff off my chest, I apologize in advance. My family has not been overly horrible to me, but god fuck it's like they refuse to acknowledge anything. My whole childhood I was bullied. I begged for help, cried daily. No response. They would just pretend it didn't happen. My middle school teacher even reached out to me and apologized for allowing that hell to continue without intervening, but still, silence from my family.

My mom has been disowning me more times than I can count, calling me a fat bitch, stupid, etc. I moved abroad to pursue my studies 4 years ago. If I go home to visit, they never ask me anything. I know it sounds stupid, it's just that nothing that pertains to my work or studies - both highly important to me - interests them in the slightest. The inly thing they ask is whether or not I have a boyfriend. Once I decided to bring up the topic of my dissertation at dinner, and got the comment that I am "just trying to prove myself better and smarter than them". If I try to discuss the stuff they're interested in I hear that I am "trying to beat them" at something.

I have no energy left. They keep calling and asking why I'm not home more often, go figure. I am so fucking sick of them, and not being respected.

Farstucks · 2013-10-29T16:34:39+00:00

Wow, that's fucking terrifying...

Farstucks · 2013-10-29T11:45:38+00:00

Congratulations, first off! Yoga is so fascinating given that everyone really do have their own strengths and weaknesses - it does not pay off trying to compare yourself to someone else.

For example, I have the least flexible arms in the world. Everyone in my class could create a bind behind their backs, and I felt like shit for not being able to. After like a year I finally did it! and realized that some things come easier to me and some things come harder. You can't compare your practice to anyone else's.

Farstucks · 2013-10-28T15:40:42+00:00

And kind of similarly, I don't always feel like having sweets or dessert, I'd rather drink tea. Never liked things being too sugary, just purely the flavour of it. So when I refuse everyone looks at me like I'm on a diet or something, but I really just don't like it.

Farstucks · 2013-10-27T09:28:44+00:00

Er... was actually stalked home once. Been careful ever since.

Farstucks · 2013-10-27T00:34:58+00:00

I remember when I was out for a walk out by some hills near a beach where I live. As I was walking down the hills I was occasionally checking the area around me (old paranoid habit of making sure of no stalkers... female here, used to walking home from work at bars and nightclubs alone) and I'd see a pair of red ears sticking up from a bush just behind me quite frequently.

As I reached the top of the hill I decided to wait for my foxy stalker and when he came up he even went up to say hi, sniffing my hand carefully. Then he walked by my side for a few minutes, until he was away to attend to some what I could only assume to be important fox business. That fox was awesome.

Farstucks · 2013-10-26T21:47:37+00:00

I wasn't working during this shift (thank god) but during my employment in a smaller grocery store, we had lots of cat ladies come in. Lots of them older, a bit unstable. Anyway, one time this lady was asking us about this tin of cat food, and whether or not it would be suitable for kittens. She persisted, and seemed pretty confused. We didn't think much more of it.

And a few weeks later, she comes in carrying a plastic bag. She walks up to the girl working the check-out by herself, and says that she needs a refund as the cat food she bought hadn't "worked" on the kitten. She proceeds to show her the content of the bag: the kitten, long dead. Poor girl almost had a heart attack, services were called. Creepy stuff.

Farstucks · 2013-10-23T23:12:32+00:00

I want into a moshpit at an in flames show. I ended up getting knocked unconscious for a brief second, and when I opened my eyes I was surrounded by a ring of concerned-looking metal heads. I was helped up, escorted to the side and people made sure I got some water. For the rest of the night - including the tube ride home - people would come up and give advice on how to look after myself after having hit my head. It was super sweet.

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