Feel like your at the end of your rope??

**BigPerm** · 01-16-2009, 01:07 PM

Having a bad day.. feel like your at the end of your rope? Watch this and shut up

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog...c-get-back-up/

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 01-16-2009, 01:16 PM

wth....

That sucks

But at least he is making something out of it.
I'd rather be dead

**Matt** · 01-16-2009, 01:18 PM

Im lost for words...

**RuhlFreak55** · 01-16-2009, 01:27 PM

**** that, i'd rather be dead and try again

**FallenWyvern** · 01-16-2009, 02:43 PM

Last kind video that I would ever want to watch is one of a guy with no arms or legs. At least give us some warning.

**higherdesire** · 01-16-2009, 03:12 PM

what it must be like to have to rely only on your mind to gain respect and admiration...wow. No abilities to impress with anything else. I wish I could reach THAT deep along with the faculties that I have been blessed with, healthy body and dashing good looks, athleitcism, dexterity, and so on. I can't help but wonder where it would lead. But I would not want to live like that primarily because I rely so heavily on those things to compliment my worth.

**l2elapse** · 01-16-2009, 03:15 PM

really brings you back down to earth

***G-1000*** · 01-16-2009, 03:22 PM

Wow man i look at that and think. I really dont have it that bad at all.

**firmechicano831** · 01-17-2009, 12:40 AM

I thought it was a great video.

***RAGE*** · 01-17-2009, 12:42 AM

That is sad but puts me in my place

**amcon** · 01-17-2009, 01:00 AM

Originally Posted by BigPerm

Having a bad day.. feel like your at the end of your rope? Watch this and shut up

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog...c-get-back-up/

great post! some of you guys are so funny!!!

amen amen amen

you should put a poll with this weather you teared up or not ... i did

**drummerofgod87** · 01-17-2009, 02:08 AM

I'm on cycle and I have more estrogen in me than all of Oprah's Book Club combined. Of course I cried.

**WOLFCRAFT** · 01-17-2009, 03:24 AM

What kind of Tales from the Crypt bullshit is this?

***D7M*** · 01-17-2009, 08:33 AM

I didn't tear up, but it was intense.

I bet that guys abs are strong as sht.

**BigPerm** · 01-17-2009, 09:27 AM

some of you ****ers are just to damn MANLY! LOL

It was just supposed to bring you back down to earth and help you through times when you feel like there is no hope or when the word feels like its not being fair.

We have it Good, no matter whats going on in your life.

**BigPerm** · 01-17-2009, 09:28 AM

Oh, and remember that no matter how bad it is, it can ALWAYS get worse.

**gst528i** · 01-17-2009, 04:30 PM

Wow .. truely inspiring.
This man an an iron will..

**james21** · 01-17-2009, 06:19 PM

ill never click on your links again

**Sir Lifts-a-lot** · 01-17-2009, 11:00 PM

My god.... I have been crying all day (f'n estrogen) and this just set me off!

This is a man that we can turn to for strength when it seems that the world around us is falling apart. Whether it be the economy, or the loss of jobs, or the wars being waged all over the worlds we can always get back up.

I don't know, maybe it was watching Obama go down the east coast and the sworms of middle class people out there chanting and looking to him for help and him telling us that we have to do it, or this guy not giving up, but for the first time in a long time I have faith in the human race again. I have faith that we will all be alright again and that we will stand tall.

**DSM4Life** · 01-18-2009, 11:45 AM

Good video but i do have one question. When he fell of the surf board how did he swim to shore ?

I can't help but think of zoonlandr at a time like this :

**Tock** · 01-18-2009, 07:33 PM

Up until the 1950's or so, many people with significant birth defects were assurred a comfortable income as carnival sideshow attractions such as these:
http://phreeque.tripod.com/

Just south of the Dallas area, about the 1880's, a girl was born with four legs. She not only found a lucrative career as a sideshow entertainer, but a husband to whom she presented four (normal) healthy sons.

When PT Barnum went bankrupt back in the 1800's, his #1 star, the midget Tom Thumb, not only bailed him out, but bankrolled his second try at fame and fortune.

But nowadays it is considered socially unacceptable to allow siamese twins or limbless dwarves to exhibit themselves for a fee, or for bored suburbanites to pay to gawk at deformed human beings. Instead, we warehouse them in institutions in an attempt to be more humane, and they end up living in poverty.

Seriously, I'm in favor of bringing back the honorable profession of sideshow entertainer to anyone who wants to pursue it. It would give them an honest income, a greater degree of control over their future, and change them from being consumers of tax dollars into taxpayers.

Here's an interesting book on the subject, fyi:

http://www.amazon.com/Freaks-Who-Are...328214&sr=8-12
a review:

It is easy to assume that this book is going to be a kind of titillating exploitative look at freaks, but that is not what it is at all. Mannix draws from his extensive carnie experience to create a tender and even sweet look at people who were not like others around them. Mannix is clearly fueled by anger that political correctness has deprived these people of their means of earning a living and forced them into institutions. It is a way of thinking that I had not encountered before this book. He covers giants, midgets, people with parasitic twins, hermaphrodites, fat people, wild people and many others-- telling stories and anecdotes of his time on the road. Well worth the time.

Anyway, the fellow in the video has found a better life for himself exhibiting himself as a human oddity with a message, and away from well-intentioned institutional incarceration. Not the best job in the world, but still better than welfare.