I see my chiding worked. Yay me!

all of detroit going to be on suicide watch tonight

Michigan won the college national championship a few weeks ago. Maybe suicide watch in East Lansing.

Dislocated my left shoulder playing hockey, my left arm/hand will likely be gimped for months thanks to nerve damage. Didn't have any clue a dislocated shoulder could be so debilitating.

I'm assuming Squiddy or maybe the ski / motorcycle guys here have done something stoopid similar? Have a brother who did it a while ago, but I didn't really clue in to the extent of things.

Goddamn peck typing sucks, I'll likely go dark here for a while.

Gsomuchfor2024,here'sto2025!G

Bummer.

Get well soon, gg!!

GG - I have had 3 shoulder surgeries and a couple o nasty procedures. I have a bunch of nylon anchors holding stuff in place. I have perminent nerve damage b/c of it. You have to rehab the piss out of it. Every time u dislocate it it gets easier and easier to reinjure and as you now know it can be really painful.

Of all the surgeries I have had the shoulder is the one that scares me the most. The post op pain is real bad and the recovery/rehab is fcuking brutal. I would gladly trade 2 or 3 knee surgeries for a single shoulder. They suck that much (at least for me).

Point is rehab and rest is a drag and if you dont do it proper and you try and stay active you are more likely to dislocate it again and again and eventually fcuk it up enough to the point where you need to go under the knife and that is super negative fun.

I wish you a fast and total recovery my man

sorry gg

try using swype on your phone, it's way faster (for phones) and most phone keyboards can do it, i slightly prefer using google's gboard and then switching it to swipe, takes maybe 5 minutes to get used to and then off you go

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That’s no good mate. I’ve been very lucky not to have any shoulder injuries but to double what Squid says, everyone I known who had shoulder surgery said basically to not do it unless you had no other option - get 2nd 3rd and 4th opinions etc.

Hopefully it won’t be necessary for you


Also…hope it’s not your folding arm?

What do you think of the mini? I wanted to get one when I got a new-to-me car 4 years ago but wife was putting up too much of a fight about it cause the kiddos were still in car seats. I got a slightly bigger Hyundai elentra gt, which is still pretty small, but whenever I get a new car, I really like the big guy getting out of the obnoxiously small car thing. Plus only so many cars come in stick now a days, I might have to check out that fiat.

visited friend in munich

his partner worked for bmv - one of the perks was access to the fleet, could choose any car desired and just drive in and swap out with the current one - while visiting and staying with him we swapped between a larger bmv for the lengthy trips where we went to amsterdamn and venice but always switched it up to the mini when we were toying around locally in munich

was surprisingly spacious inside, handled great, city parking was a breeze - was by far the favorite option of a guy who had access to any car in the greater bmw family - which i think speaks volumes about it

my dad test drove one earlier this year (he's also big like me) and he loved it but hated the price tag so got a truck instead

i'm in the same boat, manual drive cooper mini is on the list of cars i'd like to own but am currently too poor to justify it

wait, what? Why do you like this?

Love the Mini. Not my aesthetic, but the performance is amazing. It blew the doors off my Miata on the Autobahn, and handled like it was on rails at 140mph. Also, it works surprisingly well for big folks. My wife has the Clubman (original gen) which is the same width, but 10" longer than the Cooper. We were fine with a 6'9" guy in the front passenger seat, though no one could sit behind him, and when I ended up in the back seat, it was fine.

Downside is that like all BMWs, once it starts to go, it cascades. I wish we hadn't put in the new fusebox, much less the new engine. It was great until it wasn't, but now it is temperamental.

Sorry to hear. Hope you have a speedy recovery.

Shoulder injuries are tough, painful, and require a lot of rehab. My shoulder separation sucked pretty bad, took me nearly 12 weeks of PT before I could bench press, and I'm still deformed from it with my collarbone sticking up out of my shoulder.

ETA: I had a grade 3/4 separation and opted not to have surgery. I have no idea what it would be like if I had the surgery. But I know I can only breathe from one side while swimming, benching heavy feels like my shoulder is going to tear apart, and I'll likely never throw a backflip on skis because I can't risk a crash that will separate it further.

Above poster watched me eat **** and tear my rotator cuff on skis in 2019. That was fun

i can see how it went down already

I don't know if it's the best britpop record, but it's up there. Lucky Man is excellent, but Bittersweet Symphony is an anthem for the ages.

I recently read this about Oasis and they went up considerably in my esteem.

I was also reading about the New Radicals guy the other day. Apparently, he's produced a **** ton of records for famous artists.

I had a torn labrum and got the surgery. I’d never do it again. It was the worst ever, and if I’m not strength training consistently it starts feeling like it did pre surgery. The thing was sore the other day from I’m not even sure what. Not sure I’m necessarily better off with it.

Yikes, sounds like I'll do my best to avoid surgery then; still early days so we'll see what happens.

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For some reason Bittersweet Symphony never quite made the iPod cut. IIRC, Mick and Keef eventually gave all royalties to Ashcroft, which I'm guessing he needed a lot more than they did.

Gthedrugsdoinfactworkandaregreatlyappreciatedright nowG

dare I ask how much Oasis is on there?

Posting to get the spoiler-o-rama into the previous page for those using 100 posts per page.

Sorry, rick, but if that doesn't fix people's ability to browse the thread, I may have to edit or even delete your hard work.

Really sorry about your shoulder, GG. In a counterpoint to the "no surgery posts," both my parents had shoulder surgery and were big fans. They said their range of motion increased and pain decreased within a day of the surgery.