Interesting comments.

I like the cuddle theory, but I reckon the adrenalin motive cracks it.

I’ve been a runner for many years. I get out there and do a hard belt up a hill or along a beach or whatever every day or so… and yes indeed I do feel good at the end of it. Actually, despite the hard slog, I feel really good while I’m doing it!

Those endorphins are really addictive, man!

And it is a whole lot less risky in terms of injury than playing some stupid team sport! Or other adrenalin-raising pursuit like base-jumping or mountain-climbing or even kite-surfing or cycling!

But…. alas….there are no cuddles in it!!

Oh… hold on…. who needs cuddles?? Those cuddles that you would get in team sports when you win or score an ‘important’ goal…eek…. who needs that sort of stuff? Guys cuddling guys? Crikey, what a turnoff! As if the constant barrage of bruises and very significant risk of injury wasn’t enough!!

Now, if I could join a young womans’ aerobics or pilates session and secure a few cuddles therein, I’d be in like a flash!

But alas, the desirable sort of cuddles are just not achievable from singular athletic pursuits, nor from team sports. ( :>(

<< Mate if you want to get an adrenalin rush I reckon it’s hard to beat the horizontal tango. >>

Ohhh…. If only it was that simple, Producer!

But a regular dose of HT doesn’t come without a whole huge mob of expenses and complications!

All-considered, I’d rather be a single, free, non-HTist, nomadic beachbum who’s right into jogging, bushwalking and other good exercise, than a HTist who is tied-down, married, with dependents, a mortgage, all manner of material possessions, absolutely dependent on a fulltime job, never free to go to the beach by yourself, always having to do what your partner or family wants you to do, blah, blah.

Nah… that old horizontal tango is very easy to beat in terms of adrenalin rush, endorphin-generation, health and wellbeing. ( :>)

Hasbeen: It is a bit hard to impress anyone by being the best supermarket shopper.

Don't you watch TV at all. Woollies, Coles, IGA,& Aldi Ads. A better look is the Info channel for Make-up. Talk about chest bumps. ;-)

Hasbeen: Yep adrenalin is about the only legal way to get a real high.

I guess that's why I went Skydiving when I came home from Vietnam. I saved me.

Producer: recipients of public funds should be required to do something meaningful for a specific amount of time for their community.

I guess that locks out a lot of the touchy feely University Courses.

Snake: I am not really competitive.

I'm with you. All my sports were individual types. The reason they have football etc. is so normal people can feel safe from the thugs on the streets on the weekend.

Sports in my younger days. Skydiving, Orienteering, Shooting, all weapons, from a Shanghai to a 106mm Recoilless. I have my Marksman's badges. They wouldn't let me play with a 105 though. Buggar ;-)

Yes Producer I got your drift, & was in some danger of biting my tongue when I replied.

Granted your horizontal tango has provided me with endorphins, but I have not noticed much adrenalin. Unlike the black widow spider, most human males do survive these encounters.

Perhaps the flood of endorphins overwhelm any fear we should be feeling. The likelihood that this tango will leads to financial suicide in male participants is very real, but somehow suppressed. It can only be this that prevents us seeing the danger, generating the adrenalin & fleeing before the trap is fully sprung.

Yes it is gentle on knees, but there is also a familiarity aspect. I have danced that tango some thousands of times, as have many of us by my age, but I have only come down Conrod straight at 180 MPH 27 times. While I was quite familiar with doing it at the 140/150 MPH range, 27 times was no where enough to become accustomed, let alone familiar with that speed.

The old song, You Gotta be a Football Hero appears to be just as true today as it was back in the 30s, & even happens in school ever since we've had coeducational education.

Perhaps that's the problem, & we should never have let those girls go to school.

You want Adrenalin rush. I'll give you Adrenalin rush.

I was putting some water in the bath tub & got waylaid. Now there water right through the house & some got in the carpet.

The wife is due home in half & hour. :-0 $#!t. Gotta go!

Oh no Jayb!

There are all sorts of frustrations and expenses associated with getting a bit of HT…. but that is ridiculous!! ( :>/

Hope you clean it up and hide the evidence of near-distaster bfor the missus gets ome. Otherwise it looks like there won’t be any HT for you tonite!! (Bathwater all the way through the ouse and into the loungeroom carpet! Wow! Your gunna be in the dogouse for at least a week!)

My, my we are onto page two and I wasn’t expecting a comment!

I have to say that some of the comments have been less than flattering to the female of the species. For the record as a husband to two wives (not at the same time), father of three daughters and grandfather to four granddaughters (to date) the females of the species have given me great joy and I adore them all.

Hasbeen – Your last comment would categorise you as a fundamentalist Muslim that is a rev head. I gather you have no problem with Boko Haram abducting school girls.

Yuyutsu – Nice of you but no thanks!

As you the rest, it would seem enjoyment and challenge of individual physical activity rather than sport that is the big plus, to this I say good on ya. However there is also a bit of mistrust as far as the sheilas go. The general consensus is that there is a cost and risk is greater than the reward. Sorry chaps, I can’t agree with you!
The other thing is there is little support for commercial and organised advertising sold by parasites to the masses as sport. If I read you right I agree and also do not support the concept. Put simply, I believe sport is something you do for enjoyment (and cuddles) after your real job.

Spin it Jayb, say you where washing the floor and shampooing the carpet. Don’t forget to empty the tub first or you will blow it.

It would seem OLO has be infiltrated by a parasite advertiser miao520?