You guys are PU$$IE$

[shotfghter]

You close the thread then open it, and threaten me for posting on a forum???

Then you grab what I tell you in a pm, where I try to have a civil discussion with you and you put it here?

Lmao I could care less anymore. Close the thread if you like, call me a pussy all you like. I have no issues with anyone so I'm not going to get into a street fight with anyone.

You don't like my jokes about cancer, tough shit.

[TaeBo_Master]

shotfighter, up until about a year ago I would have been with you. In the sense that, intellectually, some cancers have better prognoses than others. However, that doesn't make them "better" in any way. No matter the outcome, everyone with cancer legitimately fears for their life, and they suffer. The survivors don't have it easy.

Around a year ago, my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and immediately pushed into action. Thankfully, his cancer was caught early, and he had access to good doctors who treated him quickly and well. At this point, his prognosis is looking very good. But with cancer, you never know, and even if it disappears now, he will have to live the rest of his life with the fear that it will return to try to take his life. As the loved one of someone with cancer, I can tell you personally that it doesn't matter what type of cancer he had, or how good his prognosis is. He suffered greatly both physically and emotionally, and so did myself and everyone of his loved ones. Not only will the threat of this haunt him for the rest of his life, but (to an admittedly lesser extent), it will haunt me too.

Leash is off Omega. He's all yours.

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derp newsflash - everybody dies. cancer is bad but at least its not getting torn apart by wild dogs.

[TaeBo_Master]

You're right. Cancer takes years. Loved ones get to watch you suffer. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to treat. The pain and suffering persists. You have time to comprehend what's ahead of you.

Cancer is sure a walk in the park isn't it?
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[Travis17]

It just dawned on me how big a pussies some of you fucking whiners are. I just got off the floor teaching kickboxing to 65 year old woman who used to smoke for 20 years, survived a bout with cancer, was an incest survivor, and didn't start working out until she was 60. She works out 6 days a week.

I do privates with a guy who had hip replacement 4 months ago and worked through deteriorated hip before that. He's 67 and he's in here almost every single day.

My mom, who is 67 years old, also a cancer survivor and hasn't exercised in decades, decided to join my muay thai class two months ago.

So quit your fucking whining and start training.

Momma's boy

[ProfessorChaos]

Ok, I have laughed at some offensive shit. But, I have never heard a funny cancer joke. Ever.

[Rzero]

Drama queens.

[W. Rabbit]

One of my favorite training partners at my gym died on the operating table during emergency open heart surgery last year. He was dead for 22 minutes. He is 60+ and still trains his ass off 4+ days a week.

That's one healthy, well oxygenated brain.

You are NO ONE, maybe on this forum you get respect but I don't have to tell you anything. I don't even have to respond to you.

Really? Telling someone they're a "no one". Really?

Lastly we are in YMAB, a place where we are supposed to joke, on top of being on a forum.

Seriously? You're getting angry? Well I couldn't care less.

Yeah....you couldn't care less, post after post after...you're the joke right now, douchebag.

As Garfield would say: a big, fat, hairy joke.

[JingMerchant!]

I do privates with a guy who had hip replacement 4 months ago and worked through deteriorated hip before that. He's 67 and he's in here almost every single day.

So quit your fucking whining and start training.

One of the guys at my Judo club has an arthritic hip. He may or may not be getting a hip replacement...

How does your guys artificial hip affect his training? Can he still roll for example...?

[gregaquaman]

Kurt fearnly says.





Harden up princess

[All Dice]

Same shit with my grandma breast cancer twice, open heart surgery, arthritis in both of her hands, and she still out works me

[cufaol]

Somehow this thread has devolved into a "My pain is greater than yours"-contest. Since this is YMAS, it was to be expected. However, I fail to see the connection between having survived though shit on the one hand and looking down on people who haven't. Where does this outlandish idea come from that, somehow, pain is quantifiable?

[Eddie Hardon]

My nephew (21 years old) started Chemo on New Years Eve...thankfully he has been told that the cancer is dead and the Chemo will finish next month. He will likely live in its Shadow.

Tonight, I shall attend a surprise dinner for a very senior Trad JJ instructor. He is Terminal with 3 months to 18 months to live. It will be a Black Tie dinner and we shall laugh but inside, it will be a little different. (2 years ago, my sensei and I visited him in the Royal Free Hospital, London, following surgery on his Pancreas - yes, cancer...so now it's come back).

Elsewhere I posted about my training colleague, 60+years who came back from a Stroke and Heart Attack.

[ADM]

I was going to come on here and talk about my training this weekend, how hard I trained, how sore I am ... then I read this and felt the need to do more push-ups and go for a sprint.

[bobyclumsyninja]

Somehow this thread has devolved into a "My pain is greater than yours"-contest. Since this is YMAS, it was to be expected. However, I fail to see the connection between having survived though shit on the one hand and looking down on people who haven't. Where does this outlandish idea come from that, somehow, pain is quantifiable?

I think the point was more, look what these people got through, and still train..don't bitch about it's hard to train.
I don't think the thread devolved...in fact, I think it's recovered nicely from the insensitivity derail. I'm glad this shit got unlocked.

I doubt it's so much about looking down on people who haven't suffered enough. More likely not wanting to hear the entitlement of the relatively comfortable. I can relate.

Within my profession, I don't like to hear bitching about 'my fingers hurt' or whining about carrying gear, or sleep logistics. I learned on a warped 18 fret acoustic, lived in a rehearsal building, duct taped guitars, used belts as guitar straps, and have been through relative hell to play music as much as I do, and make the shows happen. I don't resent artists who haven't suffered, or faced some adversity, but I resent hearing about their petty grievances, as though they're heavy. Get over it, and persevere...or STFU and quit.

ex: (then I'll stop). Yes guitar amps are heavy random entitled gig-fodder, but I took a 150 lb PA setup on the commuter rail to R.I. carried half a mile from Providence station to the venue, played a 3.5 hour show, dragged it back to the station, sat guarding it until the trains started up again, and took it via train/subway home to Boston. Round trip - 12 hours. Pay - $80 minus expeses, so you will do whatever it takes to make your show-up-and-improv $50+.

I know three blind street musicians, and even a guy with no legs who gets out to the sub to play. I don't want to hear it from some no0b over aching fingertips...or wrist fatigue (insert joke).
Sorry for the sorta-music-derail, but I imagine the OP was feeling the martial version of what I experience in my field of non-suck (all clumsy, no ninja).