Reminds me of the Welsh soccer fan who cut off his own testicle and then walked to the local pub to show it off.

Ouch. I know Welshmen are pretty crazy. But the ones I know personally seem more attached to their balls than that.

Right, which is why whenever you see male soccer players forming a defensive wall in front of a direct kick, the smart ones will all have their hands positioned directly in front of their groins.

Completely legal (and recommended).

If any part of my body has a three inch gash in it, never mind the genitals, which are loaded with (generally happy) nerve endings, I actually can't play. Anything.

In a 30-year soccer career, I probably got kicked in the groin hundreds of times. Luckily, no wounds. However, I got up and played on from far worse injuries than an incidental boot to the bag. I believe a professional athlete would be more highly motivated to continue playing if capable.

"You didn't put your cup in, did you."

Cup is not optional equipment in SCA fighting by regulation and by psychiatric assessment. I've forgotten mine once. Once.

Right, which is why that subordinate clause about people who are insane.

It really isn't necessary. Hundreds of professional games are played every week and every 5-10 years or so, one story comes along to make everyone go "ook".

Okay, now I've got that "Badger Badger Badger" thing with "Todger Todger Todger"...

flea is being very bad for my ability to not snort coffee loudly at work today.

What's he going to do, make an appointment with his plastic surgeon? Get out there and do your job! (His team won after he scored a goal, post-injury)

I gotta wonder why the ref let him back on the field with blood soaked shorts. FIFA put in rules years ago requiring any player with an open wound to leave the field to have it bandaged before allowing them to return for fear of transmitting blood-borne diseases. Unless the rules only applied to amateurs, but that seems unlikely because the incident that led them to institute the rules occurred in a pro match.

We don't have massage chairs in my office. Nor a selection of desserts. But I have an appointment for a professional massage next Thursday, so I'm not feeling to bad about my life. My neck has been feeling incredibly tense and tight (to the point of pain) and figured I'm probably so tensed out that it's having a bad effect on my body. Weird arm tingles, headaches, etc. So there'll be $70 that I had planned on paying down the credit card balance a bit more going toward keeping me off of muscle relaxants. 'Cause owie.

As she stomped away she yelled, "Someone get our stupid King off the floor!"

BWAH!

Try expedia.com's map page. I believe they still let you select from shortest by mileage, quickest, and, possibly, scenic.

Also, randmcnally.com

GMaps Pedometer.

It really isn't necessary. Hundreds of professional games are played every week and every 5-10 years or so, one story comes along to make everyone go "ook".

This is what the hockey players said about helmets. The hockey players who routinely were missing front teeth and had facial scars and broken noses.

Catchers don't often get rung in the cup (they get it on the knuckles a lot more often, or so it seems to me), but they still wear cups anyway.

I gotta wonder why the ref let him back on the field with blood soaked shorts. FIFA put in rules years ago requiring any player with an open wound to leave the field to have it bandaged before allowing them to return for fear of transmitting blood-borne diseases. Unless the rules only applied to amateurs, but that seems unlikely because the incident that led them to institute the rules occurred in a pro match.

I agree, I suspect he was required to change the shorts before continuing and the reporter was going for drama.

So there'll be $70 that I had planned on paying down the credit card balance a bit more going toward keeping me off of muscle relaxants. 'Cause owie.

I can't speak highly enough about the contour pillow, or at least, about the relief it has brought me. It's not as comfortable (in the hedonistic sense) as a nice fluffy pillow, but I'm sleeping again, and each day, I've woken up feeling better than the day before. Prior to getting the pillow, waking was actually the worst part of the day. I want this thing under my head when they bury me.