The couch thread

Hank Scorpio · Post by **Hank Scorpio** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:01 am

[quote="Doughboy"]The warrior ethos is non-existent. [quote]

This is easily one of, if not the, stupidest statement ever made in the history of IGx.

DikTracy6000 · Post by **DikTracy6000** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:36 am

[quote="Mickey O'neil
What happens to those guys when they get out of the service? What kind of life do they lead when they are brainwashed with this mentality? Serious question.[/quote]

They come back to Civ. life and start Target Focus Training or SCARS, ala Tim Larkin or Jerry Peterson and make bagloads of $$$. Oh wait, Johno shot Tim's cred's all to hell on DD.

DBID · Post by **DBID** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:55 pm

steamboatwillie wrote:
Doughboy wrote:The warrior ethos is non-existent.
This is easily one of, if not the, stupidest statement ever made in the history of IGx.

Please prove that it exists.

GoDogGo! · Post by **GoDogGo!** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:09 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos

It'll be harder than getting a decent photo of Bigfoot.

GDG!

Hagbard · Post by **Hagbard** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:28 pm

Dough I think this thread marks a lowpoint in your trolling. I have come to admire your ability to get people spun up, but this instance is kind of depressing.

Hoping you return to your previous greatness,

Hag

Hank Scorpio · Post by **Hank Scorpio** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:32 pm

Doughboy wrote:
steamboatwillie wrote:
Doughboy wrote:The warrior ethos is non-existent.
This is easily one of, if not the, stupidest statement ever made in the history of IGx.
Please prove that it exists.

If you were willing to accept anecdotal evidence, I'm sure that my BB's, johno's and my own experiences, and collective surprise at your remark, would have been enough to convince you that a warrior ethos provides the foundation of military leadership.

I don't suppose that is sufficient for you, so I suggest you re-read "On Killing," which you yourself recommended to us in the PR forum, and do so more closely. It's loaded with concrete examples of this ethos shaping mens' actions under extreme duress and adhering to a code of conduct that you now claim is non-existent.

Alternately, you could just prove that it doesn't exist.

DBID · Post by **DBID** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:41 pm

Hagbard Celine wrote:Dough I think this thread marks a lowpoint in your trolling. I have come to admire your ability to get people spun up, but this instance is kind of depressing.

Hoping you return to your previous greatness,

Hag

I know. It's hard to take on the special forces boys with any success.

FSF - Whitley on the skewer - Eminem no longer SRKC. TGIF.

powerlifter54 · Post by **powerlifter54** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:40 pm

Whether you are kicking somebodies ass in the air, on the ground, on the mat or on the field, or even in the boardroom, it is all about something very luch like the warrior ethos.

In a highly feminized society, it is just frowned on publicly.

Until it is needed.

johno · Post by **johno** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:38 pm

powerlifter54 wrote: In a highly feminized society, it is just frowned on publicly.

Until it is needed.

Kipling wrote a poem about Tommy....

johno · Post by **johno** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:38 pm

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot;

An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
But Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!

powerlifter54 · Post by **powerlifter54** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:51 pm

One of Kipling's Best, and a great War Poem.

My Favorite "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner":

http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/gunner/gunner.html

DrDonkeyLove · Post by **DrDonkeyLove** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:40 pm

Kipling wrote the immortal "If" to his son who was an officer in the British army and going off to WW I where he perished.

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:24 am

Wow.

New stuff. Dan John was CCed on an email where Greg Glassman said this about him:

Note, this was highly edited. I also received this email in the same CC that Dan did.

Just for the record: What happened with Dan John was that he wouldn't admit his professional and extensive use of gifted CrossFit intellectual property when publicly challenged to respond to claims of our having derived CrossFit from his work. And (edited) has found it OK to repackage and promote CrossFit as his own work - "confusing free speech with free beer" to quote Eric Raymond, the open source guru. This "borrowing" continues to this very day. (Consider this in light of (edit) much ballyhooed stand on HIS intellectual property and Dan's professional role in the Catholic Church.)

Greg Glassman
CrossFit Inc

Dan's reply was interesting, but was quickly deleted from the "Community" section of the Crossfit message board, and edited by Lynne Pitts, who's becoming a regular little spin doctor and skilled in the repression of negative comments upon Glassman's behaviour on the forum. The geist of Dan's reply was that upon these events, some 8 months ago, he removed all Crossfit materials from the school he taught/coached at, erased the named "girl" workouts listed on whiteboards, and took the program in another, more productive, direction, abandoning the Crossfit stuff.

You can see the deleted and edited post in the Pukie's Bucket section, as well as some general nutswinging, spindoctoring, and overall lying by a guy named Ronnie Boose, from Santa Cruz, who can join Tony Budding on the list of known Crossfit lie-men, and scumbag cult spindoctors.

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:27 am

Dan sez:

I make a point about an email concerning me and "poof" post vanishes...

Me sez:

Oh yeah, and the spindoctoring started almost immediately. All that's left is for someone who's name rhymes with "Rony Studding" to send a loosely worded, vague threat to someone else via email.

I just wanted to include Dan's comments and mine here, for posterity's sake.

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:29 am

Glassman is a fucking scumbag. I would gladly fuck his wife in the ass while he lay before me, bleeding out of a neck wound.

PC Polar Circle Person · Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:40 am

Fat Cat wrote:Glassman is a fucking scumbag. I would gladly fuck his wife in the ass while he lay before me, bleeding out of a neck wound.

LOL. Seems fair to me.

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:47 am

The last posts by Dan and I were quickly thrown moved to Pukie's Bucket.

Mickey O'neil · Post by **Mickey O'neil** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:59 am

I just checked out some of the threads that have been moved to Pukie's Bucket and the reasoning behind it. That place is straight up communist. It's freaking scary.

Crust Bucket · Post by **Crust Bucket** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:26 am

Dunno why people keep falling for that shit.
I guess the saying is true....The masses are asses.

bill fox · Post by **bill fox** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:44 am

Mickey O'neil wrote:I just checked out some of the threads that have been moved to Pukie's Bucket and the reasoning behind it. That place is straight up communist. It's freaking scary.

Did you see the one related to this one. I asked a 100% legit question.

Mickey O'neil · Post by **Mickey O'neil** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:57 pm

bill fox wrote:
Mickey O'neil wrote:I just checked out some of the threads that have been moved to Pukie's Bucket and the reasoning behind it. That place is straight up communist. It's freaking scary.
Did you see the one related to this one. I asked a 100% legit question.

Oh yeah, I saw it. It's like couch receives every question or perceived negative comment as a threat to "his" program. He's mental.

DBID · Post by **DBID** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:19 pm

But remember, Crossfit is a great way to train...

GoDogGo! · Post by **GoDogGo!** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:15 pm

bill fox wrote: Did you see the one related to this one. I asked a 100% legit question.

The way it's organized and the way posts are edited in the Bucket, it's hard to find anything. Which I guess might be part of the idea?

GDG!

johno · Post by **johno** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:31 pm

Fat Cat wrote:Glassman is a fucking scumbag. I would gladly fuck his wife in the ass while he lay before me, bleeding out of a neck wound.

Are you condoning adultery?

Grandpa's Spells · Post by **Grandpa's Spells** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:16 pm

Shaf wrote:Wow.

New stuff. Dan John was CCed on an email where Greg Glassman said this about him:

Note, this was highly edited. I also received this email in the same CC that Dan did.

Sweet! Who sent the e-mail? Was this something that Couch sent to someone who in turn forwarded it to Dan, or did Couch send an open letter to lots of people himself? Was he asked for info about DJ or did he just decide to broadcast this 6+ months after the fact?