This guy I work with was talking about how his son finally beat him in a race the other day. Then he says he can run 2 miles in 6 minutes. So I'm like, um.... no you can't; the greatest runners in the world run 1 mile in about 3:45 seconds, I'm thinking the world record for 2 miles has to be at or a little under 8 minutes (which was actually close, a Kenyan did it in 7:56). He looks at me and says, damn.... I run it faster than that!
At this point I'm really trying hard not to facepalm. Then he says he runs a track that goes around a football field, and 4 laps = 2 miles. I tell him no, 4 laps is roughly a mile.... he disagreed. Nice enough guy and all; runs a mile in 6 minutes, which is actually impressive for an almost 40-year old. So should I win an easy couple bucks off him by offering a prop bet or not?
Notes:
1) I keep reading people talk about negging. But no one knows what a neg is when this is discussed. This sentence stolen from a PUA blog is fairly concise: "He complimented her, but the result was to target her insecurity." Sometimes people make comments like this unknowingly. (Complimenting something that one is insecure about.)
2) The Mobility WODs have been pretty good. I will continue to do them despite having virtually no external rotation in my hip (making some of the stretches... impossible).
I think Galifinakis can be really good, but he hasn't gotten much to work with in the movies he's made.
I've never been a big fan of Ferrell's movies though. Comic actors these days (or maybe in general?) seem to play the same character every time out. Burgundy, Ricky Bobby, the campaign guy all seem really similar and rely on the same approach for laughs. I do like Ferrell's work, I just have a tough time sitting through 90 minutes of it at once.
It's not just a comic actor thing. Actors get typecast and most directors/studios think "well they were good doing x in y so lets get them to do it again" while lots of people (read: the whole internet) get turned off on performers because their character starts generating diminishing returns, lots of consumers like it because the character these actors have played before works as a shorthand for the audience and makes them more comfortable.