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[martinuzz]

My two cats wake me up a few times a night because they want to cuddle up under the blankets. They know how to sneak out from underneath them but wake me for assistance for getting back in. Luckily I am very skilled at falling back asleep within seconds.

I do need to teach one of them that there are more subtle ways of waking me up besides stepping on my throat artery.

[Loud Whispers]

youtube seems keen to flood my algorithm with cave spelunkers and cave divers squeezing into claustrophobic spaces or videos of people mocking cavers dying after squeezing themselves into 3cm wide slivers with names like the devil's sphincter so I decided to remind myself caves are beautiful and capable of being responsibly explored

[Great Order]

Doing knife defences yesterday and the specific attacks we were countering required hard blocks.

Maybe there's something funky in my brain, but there's something strangely satisfying about waking up the next day with achey, bruised arms. I'm not enjoying the pain but it's as if I enjoy knowing I gave enough to get them.

[martinuzz]

Best knife defense is running away

[Eric Blank]

Second best is getting good at defending yourself

[Great Order]

Well yeah, but in that case I might as well join a running club. Which I won't because running causes nothing but misery for me. I don't get any sort of "high" from exercise no matter how much I do, which endlessly confuses those who do get one.

Martial arts are more of a thing you do when the situation involves being unable to escape for some reason or other. They're faster, you're cornered, you're defending someone unable to escape, that sort of thing.

[pisskop]

I cramped up after my run the other day, and I was proud of myself in a way thats hard to pinpoint.

You pushed yourself and learned something.  Its alright to be satisfied.  The aches and pains remind you to keep going

[MaxTheFox]

Bye bye old PFPs

[Eric Blank]

They were adorable while they lasted

[Loud Whispers]

out with the old in with the new

[None]

used to be when my anxiety spiked, i'd throw on shoes and sprint until my lungs burned- give my nerves something to compete with.

i can't really run yet since i fractured my hip four months ago. perhaps there's some aesop to be derived about how you cannot outrun your problems, or that you need to make sure you can always hit the bricks if things turn pear-shaped. it's a.... desperate sort of place to be incapable of either.

guess i never realized how much i love the capability of running.

[Naturegirl1999]

Off topic but what did pears do? Why is pear shaped a bad shape? I hope your hip gets better.

[pisskop]

If something is pear shaped, it is no longer balanced and capable of going any other direction.  It seems almost inevitable that the wider, thicker, heavier bottom end of the pear will cause the pear to move awkwardly but never upright.

Roll a ball (or an apple) down a hill and it can mostly go in any direction and land on any side.  Not so with pears, it wont even make it down the hill.

[Frumple]

Basically. The shape's fine for pears, but it's not great for lots of other things.

Quick search notes one the earliest citations was from RAF slang from back in the 80s, with a possible start earlier, because one of the screw-up states for some piloting maneuver or another looked like a pear instead of what it was supposed to. It popularized(ish, it's not a super common phrase, still) from there.

[Loud Whispers]

Pear shaped flasks also have niches for distillation