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So I pulled my right quad a couple weeks back. I tried to avoid running on it for a week or so. Then I was fine for a week of frisbee practice, but I pulled it again at a tournament this weekend.

Does anybody have some good advice for how to treat these quickly? And can I ride a bike or something to make sure I don't get too out of shape while it heals?
 
What is with the almost ubiquitous misuse of the word "at" lately? I think it started with those stupid boost mobile commercials, but ever since-- for the past year-- people have been using "at" inappropriately in almost every sentence. Even media professionals have picked up the habit.
 
At. The new like.

So I was at at the mall with at Tiffaney and we at totally wanted to at...
 
It seems every new housing development, stadium, or shopping center has to be "at" something these days. I'm always reading crap like "Come live with us in Winleigh Riding at Northstar Pointe"...
 
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I'm talking about where people say stuff like, "Where are you AT?" "The Quarterback scrambled in the pocket but he couldn't find where his receiver was AT."
 
Philly
So I pulled my right quad a couple weeks back. I tried to avoid running on it for a week or so. Then I was fine for a week of frisbee practice, but I pulled it again at a tournament this weekend.

Does anybody have some good advice for how to treat these quickly? And can I ride a bike or something to make sure I don't get too out of shape while it heals?
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Quads are a dog, not much you can do but hot and cold it IMO, and rest it.
 
Omnis
What is with the almost ubiquitous misuse of the word "at" lately? I think it started with those stupid boost mobile commercials, but ever since-- for the past year-- people have been using "at" inappropriately in almost every sentence. Even media professionals have picked up the habit.
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Funny you should mention that, since we were discussing the exact same thing over coffee yesterday. My friend Alex is about to go to Boston to study at Harvard for three months, and I remembered an old joke about Harvard's reputed snootiness, which went:

I went to Harvard once and I couldn't find the library, so I stopped someone to ask for directions. "Excuse me, could you please tell me where the library's at?" I said. The Harvard scholar replied, "Sir, here at Harvard, we never finish our sentences with a preposition...", to which I replied, "Oh, OK. Could you please tell me where the library's at, asshole?"
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ExigeEvan
It's a cricket term. If you hit the ball out of the field of play (passed the boundary rope) without it bouncing you are awarded 6 runs.
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That is not what I was expecting. I thought it meant something like knocked unconscious. Now I'm confused even more.
 
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Basically the bowler (Pitcher) doesn't want the batter making "runs" (points) off his bowls (Equivalent of pitching in basball). If the batter hits the ball over the boundary ("Out of the Park") without it bouncing then he (the batter) is awarded 6 points and the bowler has been "hit for 6".

Sorry, I wasn't too clear first time.
 
Touring Mars
Funny you should mention that, since we were discussing the exact same thing over coffee yesterday. My friend Alex is about to go to Boston to study at Harvard for three months, and I remembered an old joke about Harvard's reputed snootiness, which went:
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I heard a similar joke about a Texan on a train, striking up conversation with a Californian woman.

"So, where y'all from?"
"I am from somewhere we do not end our sentences with prepositions."
*pause*
"So, where y'all from, bitch?"
 
Duke
It seems every new housing development, stadium, or shopping center has to be "at" something these days. I'm always reading crap like "Come live with us in Winleigh Riding at Northstar Pointe"...
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They're at out of names like Pine Tree __, Willow ___, and ___ Crossing.
 
How do you pronounce "cache", as in cache memory from a CPU. My teachers pronounce it just like the word "cash" but I'm not sure that's correct.
 
So, why do some people pronounce it cash-ay?

It isn't the people who typically have language skill issues. The few that I know who say it that way tend to be the ones that use perfect language and act snooty about it.
 
I'd say "cash-ay" if it were spelled caché, and "cash" when spelled cache... That said, I've never seen cache spelled caché except by people who use perfect language and act snooty about it.
 
I pronounce it cash-ay, (I think maybe because its similarities with the word cliché) though without the accent on it that cliché has I suppose that isn't correct. I've also commonly heard it called kaysh.
 
I was trying to fix a printer for a guy, talking over the phone, and had no idea what his problem was. He kept telling me the quay was filling up.

Which tray?

Nothing wrong with the trays that I can see, they all have paper. The problems in the quay filling up.

So what's filling them up?

After a few minutes I realized he was mispronouncing queue. The queue was filling up with jobs, no printing occuring. Hitting the 'ready' button was remarkably effective in solving the problem.
 
I always pronounced it wrong, then. For some inexplicable reason, I always said "cay-tsh", like "catch" with an i thrown in...
 
Ah. Well, at least now if you hear someone talking about the "cash-ay" of a local news organization, you'll know they aren't talking about computer memory. :)
 
Yeah, the computer memory one I've always heard has being pronounced "cash". But my new College teacher the other day called it "cash-ay" and everyone wondered what the hell he just said. :lol:
 
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But my new College teacher the other day called it "cash-ay" and everyone wondered what the hell he just said. :lol:
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That is what I am talking about right there. It is people like professors and business professionals who think they are coming off sounding intelligent by saying it "properly."
 
Might be about time to smack them with a dictionary. There's only one way that I know of to pronounce kāsh.

Trying to sound cool < Knowing what the hell you're talking about
 
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