Boot Camp
The trouble with being a citizen of a country that enforces conscriptions is that here is no easy way to avoid serving the nation. If you are man enough, you grin and bear two and a half years of torturous national service. If you are not man enough, you still serve, but l your energies are concentrated on coming out alive!..
Anyways, the first time I heard the words ‘Boot Camp’, was when I was nearing the compulsory conscription age. I heard some of the guys in the locker room mention it with the kind of dread that is reserved for ghosts, ghouls and other such creepy phenomenon. Although the very term sent my flesh crawling for cover, I put up a brave front and ventured to ask a buddy what a boot camp was. I might as well have asked him if he were a cannibal. The chap was horrified and the enigma of the boot camp only deepened.
The day before I was shunted off to boot camp, my dad (who is an ex-serviceman by the way) bid me a tear filled good bye and exhorted me to be the very best I could. I didn’t have the heart to tell him how mortified I was by the prospect of going off to boot camp. With hindsight, I probably should have wailed and begged for mercy and asked him to get me off the hook. But I didn’t have this hindsight then.
Let’s just say that I spent the next couple of years in boot camp going through all the hell imaginable and then some more. I was screamed at, exercised to death, made to circle the globe thrice over (with my backpack on my shoulders), stay awake for days on end, feed off grub that my dog back home would scoff at, bullied, assaulted, intimidated… basically everything that you never hope is done to you, was done to me. As far as I was concerned, boot camp was sheer hell.
To say that I came out of the experience unscathed and unhurt would be blatantly lying. I’m pretty sure the cold sweat I break into when I am dream… having my nightmares is a by product of my days spent in the boot camp. I am also sure that my non-confrontational nature and general timidity is a lifelong gift that the boot camp has endowed me with. But above all, I look back at my days in the boot camp with absolute and unresolved incredulity. Which warped human could have come out with a concept like a boot camp?
I now know that there are boot camps for troubled teens, boot camps for difficult boys, boot camps for juvenile delinquents (is it just me or does the word boot camp always have something to do with the more unsavory elements of human kind?) But despite knowing that these kids, vile as they are, probably deserve to be in those boot camps, I have nothing but sympathy for all of them. To think that just a few years after getting out of these boot camps, they will have to get through the one I barely managed to sneak out of!
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Originally posted 2007-12-12 16:41:27.
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I assume your bf is talking about guys who get together and talk about their girlfriends or girls they've slept with in almost vulgar detail. Not all guys do that, in fact, I don't even think most guys do that.
So yeah, it's just guys talking about sex, in the locker room, perhaps while naked. Maybe your bf isn't who you thought he was?
lol, jk
Q. "What phrase did the Glazers bring to Man U from America?"
Ans. "In Man U's Locker room"
Before the Glazers Americanised things it was called the Dressing Room or Changing room.
Why? Because there is not a Locker in sight , just some coat hangers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1QF4hpaVvQ
was excellent, waiting for a Shiyin Yin will be the beginning of the “good life Gao scared cold sweat:
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Good Bye Polar Bears, Gray Wolves and Bald Eagles–Forever.
Good Bye Rain Forests all over the Globe.
Good Bye Stem Cell Research and the Teaching of Science in Classrooms.
Good Bye to American Colleges and Universities attracting the Best and Brightest Minds from all over the World.
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Hello Dark Ages.
The Sharia law refers to exposing certain amounts of your body to members of the opposite sex, to whom you are not married. Your question is erroneous, unless they integrated locker rooms since I graduated high school.
No problems of any kind. My wife is completely pleased that I am natural. My father and brother were also intact, but I never spent any great amount of time comparing penises with them. My father was a very modest man. Nobody said anything unkind in the locker room or elsewhere — it was just not an issue, ever.
I have never had any kind of genital infection, nor has my wife. Keeping clean is just a matter of washing it like any other body
I sincerely belive that circumcision is child abuse and that no one, not even a [...]
Usually, the locker room IS used to get dressed and draw up plays. but in the Boston locker room, Pierce and Garnett "do things" to each other in the showers.
What KG and Pierce allow in the locker room is a girl. They want it guys, and only guys.
lol I came from the same prison video and watched that 3 story about boot camp and shit. This guy tells great stories
The blackspot on the song is that Sykes doesn’t raise? the octave in the chorus (Cold, cold sweat). than that, the performance is high as expected