Is it just me?
Jan. 20th, 2011 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgHave you seen this latest incarnation of the Abdominator? It's called the Ab Circle Pro and requires one to get down on one's knees, spread 'em, then wriggle one's bottom back and forth. It doesn't look foolish at all (results may vary). I believe it serves the design purpose of money elimination and is easy to store.
Every time I see this ad (which is a lot, because they sponsor The Zoo on GEM) I'm distracted by the sympathetic screaming coming from my kneecaps. Am I alone? I have never been able to kneel on a hard surface without excruciating pain, but it took me a long time to discover that this was not normal. Being raised a Catholic I was given plenty of opportunities to kneel, but eventually I was excused from actual kneeling and took up awkward scrunching in the pew when required by the script. I was also under the impression for some time that kneeling+suffering=saintly behaviour, and everyone else seemed able to kneel on wooden or concrete floors without fuss. Fuss was not encouraged.
I couldn't sit cross-legged until well into adulthood either, so school assemblies and floor-based activities caused many problems as a child. "She'll grow out of it" they said.
So, can you kneel? Does the Ab Circle Pro look like a good idea, relatively speaking? Or does it promise naught but torture?
Every time I see this ad (which is a lot, because they sponsor The Zoo on GEM) I'm distracted by the sympathetic screaming coming from my kneecaps. Am I alone? I have never been able to kneel on a hard surface without excruciating pain, but it took me a long time to discover that this was not normal. Being raised a Catholic I was given plenty of opportunities to kneel, but eventually I was excused from actual kneeling and took up awkward scrunching in the pew when required by the script. I was also under the impression for some time that kneeling+suffering=saintly behaviour, and everyone else seemed able to kneel on wooden or concrete floors without fuss. Fuss was not encouraged.
I couldn't sit cross-legged until well into adulthood either, so school assemblies and floor-based activities caused many problems as a child. "She'll grow out of it" they said.
So, can you kneel? Does the Ab Circle Pro look like a good idea, relatively speaking? Or does it promise naught but torture?
