{"id":38322,"date":"2014-02-25T22:01:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38322"},"modified":"2020-07-10T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T02:02:10","slug":"pretty-sure-i-disagree-with-this-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38322","title":{"rendered":"Pretty sure I disagree with this phrase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-38323 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/obsessedmuch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/obsessedmuch.jpg 365w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/obsessedmuch-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I saw someone wearing this statement on a shirt at the gym.\u00a0 And I am pretty sure that I disagree with it, completely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Simply put, in my opinion, I interpret the word \u201cobsession\u201d as having taking sort of enjoyment out of the subject being obsessed over, be it anything like Indian food, the Halo series, making and\/or watching cat videos on YouTube, to the morbidly extreme, like disemboweling homeless people, assaulting hookers, or torturing small animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">To some degree, I do not think there is a particularly positive connotation to the word \u201cobsessed,\u201d and is probably grounds for some concern for me, if it were ever directed at me for any reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Contextually, this shirt was for a popular website known for its enthusiasm for weight lifting, and it just so happened that Google image search found this particular image on their servers.\u00a0 So it was pretty fitting that I saw it at the gym of all places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Regardless, I go to the gym every single work day, because I am dedicated to a regular exercise routine.\u00a0 I would by absolutely no means say that I am obsessed with going to the gym, because quite frankly, I don\u2019t necessarily always enjoy working out every single day.\u00a0 I do it because I am dedicated, not because I\u2019m obsessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">If I were obsessed with working out, my dong would have a hard time staying in my gym shorts all throughout a workout, because I would be peeing or rubbing my junk on every piece of equipment that I use on a regular basis to attempt to mark my territory and hope that it\u2019s sufficient enough to keep people off of my shit.\u00a0 I would yell and scream orgasmically when maxing out on anything, and throw my weights down with a psychotic look on my face afterwards and a dark stain on my crotch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">That would be obsessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Dedicated is going whether or not you want to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">When your body is wrecked after doing the Spartan Run on a Saturday and you\u2019re sore all over still on Monday, but you limp down to the gym regardless, because that\u2019s what you\u2019re supposed to do on a Monday, have the most pathetic workout ever, but still show up and do it.\u00a0 After a four-day weekend of drinking at Dragon*Con, trudge to the gym on Tuesday, and struggle through a session on the treadmill, sweaty and jelly-legged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Clearly, this ludicrous phrase was developed by someone with obsessive tendencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>FTFY:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>OBSESSED<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">is a word the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>fearful<\/em>\u00a0use to<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">describe the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>OBSESSIVE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw someone wearing this statement on a shirt at the gym.\u00a0 And I am pretty sure that I disagree with it, completely. Simply put, in my opinion, I interpret the word \u201cobsession\u201d as having taking sort of enjoyment out of the subject being obsessed over, be it anything like Indian food, the Halo series, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pretty sure I disagree with this phrase<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,109,15],"class_list":["post-38322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-gym","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38324,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38322\/revisions\/38324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}