Random Rant

[҉]

I had to do PE/Health up through middle school, but only one year of it was required in high school. All the rest was gloriously exercise-free. I did, however, compete on the Academic Quiz Team, which is unquestionably a sport.

[cats]

I had to do PE/Health up through middle school, but only one year of it was required in high school. All the rest was gloriously exercise-free. I did, however, compete on the Academic Quiz Team, which is unquestionably a sport.

Same everything. I was a fat kid until after freshman year, which was the year everyone was required to partake in the glory of high school physical education. So based on that, PE causes obesity. I got hit in the face with a condom once.

[҉]

Same everything. I was a fat kid until after freshman year, which was the year everyone was required to partake in the glory of high school physical education. So based on that, PE causes obesity. I got hit in the face with a condom once.

I dodged that bullet, at least. My father gave me all sorts of genetic issues, mostly stemming from weak connective tissue (causing flat feet, scoliosis, pectus excavatum (the condition in which your chest caves inwards), the ability to snap my pinkie fingers, etc) but also including fewer teeth than humans are supposed to have and some other stuff, but the upside of all of it is a tendency to be tall and skinny even though I eat garbage and don't move.

[Professor Fenway]

I don't have a health class anymore, but I've somehow remained healthy and thin (despite EXTREME inactivity)

Also Jedi, that sounds hard to live with.

[Archduke Daynel, PhD]

I don't care what I eat, I barely move, and somehow I'm still underweight. Don't really have any muscular mass to speak of, so that's probably it.

We had quite a lot of PE in middle school and lower secondary, but I only got one class per week now, woo.
But I do agree that PE shouldn't really be part of higher education, and not only because everyone who does the sport education line thingy are assholes.

[҉]

Also Jedi, that sounds hard to live with.

Not too bad. The scoliosis is bad enough that I'm probably going to need some surgery to correct it in a year or so, and I'll need to get more teeth implanted too--right now I have some that are just attached to my others with a wire. Neither of those are likely to be fun. But everything else is OK, and the spinal straightening is likely to make me as much as an inch and a half taller, which is pretty cool.

[Error]

Talk about getting the short end of the (genetic) stick, Jedi.

I feel I'm lucky in that regard; not exactly STRONK or anything, but in shape (despite, again, inactivity) and afflicted only by fairly normal vision issues (myopia, get fucked). 2 semesters of PE mainly gave me some extra dodgeball-related skills.

@Dayn best guess is you metabolize quickly; just about all the stuff you eat is converted rapidly to energy instead of being stored as fat. I have that, too; 184 cm tall and only 64 kg, but hey - better than overweight, at least in my opinion.

[cats]

Most of my issues through middle school were marked up as fatkid syndrome. Then I grew a foot and lost 20lbs and most of them are still there.

[Saravanth]

kek I read that as "tissues", wondered for a minute what you were talking about, there..

[ACH0225]

None of you even lift, and this bothers me. You should all go lift.

[Vinyl]

Who needs to lift when you have a perfectly good PC and a plentiful library of games?

[ACH0225]

Everyone. Everyone needs to lift. If you're not lifting, that means that you're not lifting. I mean, if you didn't have arms I suppose you could only really do squats, and that'd be pretty alright, but short of a very serious condition I can't see any reason for anyone to not lift or do other forms of physical activity.

[Archduke Daynel, PhD]

*raises hand*
Mister ACH, I lift my fingers from my keyboard all day, and I lift my ass out of bed most mornings or afternoons. Does that count?

[Error]

I lift enough snow every day to cover a decent-sized house. Get rekt, I lift all the time.

[ACH0225]

*raises hand*
Mister ACH, I lift my fingers from my keyboard all day, and I lift my ass out of bed most mornings or afternoons. Does that count?

You don't even lift, broseph.

I lift enough snow every day to cover a decent-sized house. Get rekt, I lift all the time.

Not even lifting hard enough. Lift enough to outweigh a large house. Also, tfw no leg lifts.