What irritates you?

Ellen's Luau chair is back! Actually the premise of sitting on a rotating object is the same idea as the exercise ball. Sitting on the ball is obviously cheaper and less abusive than THAT contraption...

I looked through this entire list trying to find a fear of nice people and couldn't find it. There are quite a few fun phobias out there though.

http://www.phobialist.com/

I guess I'll just stick with paranoia for now. People are being too nice to me today. I realize it's early, but it's creepy in a way and making me think they know something I don't. :neutral:

Eags - I use the balance ball at my house for my computer - I love it. It's really made my core stronger from sitting on it all the time.

At work, I've ordered a new ergo chair - however it hasn't come in yet. ($700 + dollars and I got to pick the color!) so we will see.

my new - lower to the ground ergo desk is awesome tho.

no one comes in my space, cause it's so low to the ground (I'm short - so the surface is 25" from the floor) it's like romper room to most peeps. hahaha it's perfect for me tho!

Something for your cube

Are the balance balls available pretty much anywhere? Or is there a particular place or balance ball that would be better than others?

Thanks to everyone who replied, too!

we have a red pokey one.

I find that it gets in the way and takes up space...but the kids seem to like it.

I use a trackball mouse at my workstation - perfect computer idiot repellant.

The little red ball might as well be kryptonite for as much as it scares people away from using it.

oh geesh, I thought you guys were talking about those exercise balls. I can't even see straight today. I'm really really really tired. gonna crash with movies tonight.

Odd coincidence, the right click button on my mouse at work gave out, even after a reboot.. The funny thing is the switch feels like it's working..

I thought we were, too.

They are using them at my great-niece's middle school, instead of chairs.

I need a different office chair and don't want to buy the same type of conventional office chair again.

Probably will wait until after I move, but might consider trying an exercise ball in the meanwhile. I just wonder if some are better than others.

oh good than it's not me :wink: whew!

what other kinds of balls can we talk about then?

we've covered red.... how about blue? :sheepish: :eek:

Eags, generally big balls are the best, unless you plan on sitting on them for a long period of time, which you'd want to make sure they get plenty of air to reinflate.

got mine at sport authority - but I see the same brand at target etc. they come in different sizes - pick one that fits your body. mine is a Med one. the large I can't get my feet positioned on the sides of well.

I love my ball - I use it to exercise, to stretch, I roll over on it and do pushups and planks and all sortsof stuff.

I love my ball - I use it to exercise, to stretch, I roll over on it

I try not to roll over, it tends to hurt. I do exercise, though. If I'm lucky. :sheepish:

LMAO, Bear.

Don't go for the 'cheap' exercise ball either - get the ones weighted down with sand - it stays in place better and kind of discourages kids from using it as a projectile device.

taking 2nd at whiskey rack tonight!! instead of chopping it down!!!!! like offered!!! the poker gods are pissed at ME!!!!

I went in with 98% of the chips in the Turanment and LOST!!!! :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:

Heh - They all said balls :sheepish:

Well I'm ever upper-class high society

God's gift to ballroom notoriety

And I always fill my ballroom

The event is never small

The social pages say I've got

The biggest balls of all

I've got big balls

I've got big balls

They're such big balls

And they're dirty big balls

And he's got big balls

And she's got big balls

But we've got the biggest balls of them all

And my balls are always bouncing

And my ballroom always full

And everybody cums and cums again

If your name is on the guest list

No one can take you higher

Everybody says I've got

Great balls of fire

I've got big balls

Oh, I've got big balls

And they're such big balls

Dirty big balls

And he's got big balls

And she's got big balls

But we've got the biggest balls of them all

Some balls are held for charity

And some for fancy dress

But when they're held for pleasure

They're the balls that I like best

My balls are always bouncing

To the left and to the right

It's my belief that my big balls

Should be held every night

Oh, we've got big balls

We've got big balls

We've got big balls

Dirty big balls

He's got big balls

She's got big balls

But we've got the biggest balls of them all

Oh, we've got big balls

We've got big balls

We've got big balls/And I'm just itching to tell you about them

Dirty big balls/Oh we had such wonderful fun

He's got big balls/Seafood cocktail

She's got big balls/Crabs

But we've got the biggest balls of them all/Crayfish

Oh, bullock sucker

Bullock sucker

Bullock sucker

Bullock sucker

Bullock sucker

Bullock sucker

Bullock sucker

Bullock sucker

Bullock sucker

Bullock sucker

Bullock sucker

Eh-yeah

2ndplace is awesome ice. good job!

No Country for Old Men .... I know I kept falling asleep but what the hey? did he kill the guys wife near the end? where was the money in the end? I know I had another question but don't remember now.

yeah, yeah, yeah, we've heard about your balls before :eek: :litesmile:

I really didn't get that movie... It didn't seem to have any kind of ending to me. After the credits rolled I was just saying "What?"

Please write spoiler if answering her ?s. I want to see it.

Who did you end up heads up against?

Also - Eags - if you don't take care of the balls they tend to swell and get discolored, and the only thing that will solve the problem is sweet release.

Oh gosh! No! Not DEFLATION???

I'm sorry, I thought you did see it already.

I was trying to spoil it for everyone else :wink:

some old dude?? I dont rember!!

IS the ICEMAN GOING SOFT????

I think so!!!! :coolfrown: :coolfrown:

couldn't close the deal with a older chick tonight!!! not cool like ICE!!!

and no stim. on hand HOW!! why????

To much on the MIND!! lol

NOT enough on the MIND!!! LOL

I don't know???

They make pills for that. Consult your physician.

Alcohol: It enhances the urge to... and yet also inhibits the ability to...

(It's some line from Shakespeare - I was a theater major in college and still have no clue which speech it is from)

I think you're looking for "Alchohol: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."

Remember: "I" before "E," except in Budweiser

That's Homer Simpson - I know, it's an easy mistake... :grin:

How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never kills the ones that made me want to drink?

self-preservation. Same reason they give you a lolly when you're done at the dentist.

I know that was a rhetorical question, but it in-toxic-ates each part of the brain, and the smaller parts (including the executive decision making part that knows the difference between ugly and pretty and knows when enough is enough) get pickled long before the bigger part that allows people to attempt to carry out their usual physical functions.

Note the word toxic there, which denotes the toxic effect and the oxic part comes from what it does to the oxygen supply to the brain.

I am reminded of the above because I just finished reading 101 medical journal articles about what factors influence brain oxygenation. I also know this info because a family member who is brain-injured cannot drink due to the black-out effect to him is evident after even one drink. Unfortunately, it was ten years after the brain injury before any medical person thought to tell him how the combination of alcohol and his brain injury might affect his judgment. Especially given that they knew exactly which part of his brain was injured.

If you know anyone who has ever peed in a closet while drunk, or gone out into a hotel hallway naked while drunk, etc., this is the same effect.

I used to work for a company that made penile implants. It was amazing how many men found out they didn't need an implant once they stopped or at least drastically modified their alcohol intake.

Please understand, the above is not a judgment about whether people should drink. Just a statement of facts about human physiology. The rest is simply about making choices, but the trick is to make the choices BEFORE drinking!

did you just say if a person stop drinking its going to get bigger yet...??

For a lot of men dealing with erectile dysfunction, it is worth a good trial of alcohol abstinence (additionally, they should consider what other chemicals might be interfering) to see if things improve.

I would say the "bigger" quality would be secondary to the "harder" quality that might result.

But theoretically, yeah, bigger might happen, of course to the limits of one's own physical anatomy.

<-sees no incentive to stop drinking. ..... (yet)

LOL!

I am right there with ya!! kitch!! I got pills But I went to play Deal or No deal And Didn't think nothing of having a good time! so didn't bring any and have never had this problem before!!! argggg

oh well life goes on!!! maybe it was a good thing maybe the little brain found something he didn't like about it????

I choose TO Drink!

I think I will drink also but for tows just in case momnetes I am going to start to Carey some of my friends with!!!

Twin Cities Transport and Recovery. I was on my way home from my parents tonight, driving the speed limit, which was more than enough considering the conditions, and this tow truck is riding my back bumper all the way down century. I know it wasn't heading to a vechicle to pick up, because there's a lot for their trucks on Century, more than likely this person was done with their shift and in a hurry to get home. I had to make a left, turned my blinker on giving the truck overly fair notice (but not enough that they , and it doesn't slow down a hair. In fact, I had to swerve out of it's way to make my turn and not have had the trunk of my car rearranged to the engine compartment.

This isn't the first, nor even the second time I've had one of their trucks tailgating me on century. And mind you, I drive at regular speeds, not 5 to 15 miles below the limit. So I'm not giving them any reason to drive the way they are.

complain to the company.

or better yet...

get the info like plate # ..etc..

than a bunch of us call and complain also....

:wink:

I've done that. All they do is offer some meaningless apology and ask if I got the plate number. Umm.. no, I was a little busy trying to keep my car, and by extension myself, in one piece.

HA!

bummer for you (in some ways)

beer? sex? beer? sex?

and personally, coming from a woman, Even though the pill can be nice for longer play....

I'd rather know that you got it up because of me not because you had to take something.