Jocks: Classic or Dud?

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We had a real-live jock in our house tonight! It was exciting. He was someone's brother. He's like a small-town police officer and everything with a buzz cut and big sweater and deep booming voice and body mass and shit. I watched an entire hockey game tonight and actually started to get excited when shit happened within a period or so. You know, by about halfway through I was thinking he's just like a regular human being, he's just 80 pounds and a few decibels bigger about it and stuf. Anyway, yeah, are they OK? Was there a justification for all those "I Hate Jocks" patches people wore in high school?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 6 January 2003 06:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic.

To paraphrase the pinefox on beauty, athletic excellence: the simple thing, so difficult to achieve.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 6 January 2003 07:15 (twenty-three years ago)

haha but felic how does being a jock necessarily = "athletic excellence"?!!

― geeta in DC, Monday, 6 January 2003 07:21 (twenty-three years ago)

how does it not? You must have a very liberal definition of "jock." Otherwise they're just sad sports fans like me.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 6 January 2003 07:25 (twenty-three years ago)

i like to fuck them.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 6 January 2003 07:29 (twenty-three years ago)

My sister is the biggest idiot in world history, she was engaged to a San Diego Chargers second-stringer but dumped him because of some minor peccadillo (I think he got somebody else pregnant). We could've had some goddamn money in our family for once if it wasn't for silly moral judgementalness!

― dave q, Monday, 6 January 2003 09:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone remember that film 'Jocks'? Fuck was that ever funny! "I'm being beaten by a faggot!!!"

― dave q, Monday, 6 January 2003 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Dave Q's sister was engaged to Doug Flutie!

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 6 January 2003 09:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the Taffs more.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 6 January 2003 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, they're both. Dud because you would never REALLY want to be friends with one (what would you possibly talk about?), but classic because they're hot and the collegiate mesh shorts they wear turn you on and you have locker-room fantasies about getting molested by groups of them wearing tight uniforms in a steamy sauna/shower setting. But its the same thing w/ frat boys, that conundrum, you know? As i was talking with a friend recently: you secretly hate them, want to fuck them, and want to BE them all at the same time - no matter what, a case could be made for the non-jock desiring the jock's power within his own self, of consuming a manifestation of that masculinity and making it his own.

― Vic (Vic), Monday, 6 January 2003 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Any collection of people devoted to specialisation warms the cockles of my heart, with one exception. Dud.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 6 January 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the way the concept of "jocks" just doesn't quite work properly over here.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh heh, what if this was about Scottish people?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I played sports in high school but wasn't a jock. I hung out with all the "freaks" and "stoners" according to the jocks. But the jocks in school were a bunch of assholes. They didn't take kindly to my long purple hair.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

jocks that beat up people I don't like = classic
locks that call me a fag = dud

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 6 January 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah we had the 'rugby lads' at University but they weren't especially popular or thought of as hot or anything, they were just kind of louder than other people, and they didn't enforce some mentalist social hierarchy either.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Fringe sport jocks, esp. non-team sport, are often pretty classic. Embody freak/jock dialectic. I usually define jock as _doing_ something athletic...am I off? Cause if you just mean beer-swilling yobbos and their upper-middlebrow corollaries, the golf slobs, then dud.

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 03:54 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the best things about Britain is that you can be short, fat AND ugly AND still be good at our sports when you're at school.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Rugger buggers, who are the British Jocks, = DUD, obviously. That charming combination of chauvanism and listening to the Stereophonics tends not to win me over. And the fact they're a bunch of rich cunts as well doesn't help.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Though obviously we're all above simple minded stereotyping, obviously. The two senior schools I went to, I can't think of a single person that I'd fit into either of these categories. Nor anyone I've got to know since, either.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I really didn't care if people were jocks or not; I was much more concerned with intelligence. Most of the jocks in the honors program with me were on pretty good terms with me.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

jocks are dud, but JOCKO is classic

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

ditto
smart jocks = classic
dumb jocks & jockettes = dud

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, very funny.

Matt DC said it best in his first post. I'm just picturing a bunch of jocks sitting around the locker room, debating the correct formulation of "nerd" before taking action.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

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