I think I will stick to self-medication and World of Warcraft.
I’ve been struggling all day to find something to write about that isn’t Ft Hood related. I think I found a winner:
Meet Max:
Lutz, Florida- Every year, millions of people in the United States are diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, but for some a doctor’s office just isn’t enough.
“There’s 554 books in my house,” says Max Sanchez, a Vietnam veteran with an extensive book, video and picture collection that focuses on moments of war.
Surrounded by memories of the battlefield, Sanchez says his time in the army- “Four years, six months, three days,”- is something he’ll never forget. “I can’t change what happened. There’s things that were good, and things that were bad.”
Now Max is a bit of a contradiction, in that he says he wants to forget his service, and yet he wears a military cap, has a gazillion military books, and is the only person I know with such a huge library of VHS tapes.
Oh, and also, his “treatment” for PTSD involves walking around naked.
According to Sanchez, he’s a part of a group of veterans who live at the Fountains at Paradise Lakes, a clothing-optional housing complex, where they find peace by going bare.
“I forget about the whole world,” says Sanchez.
Right now I would embrace virtually any way of excising from my memory the image of Max walking around naked, but to each their own I suppose. But, since I am a giving sort of person, I give you the strange tale of naked Max:
I suspect I am not the only one wondering “what did I just watch?”
I think I will stick to playing World of Warcraft and walking my dog when I feel stressed out. I like wearing shoes.
Category: Who knows
Thanks for that image TSO… I did not even have to hit play, and my brain is scarred for life.
Dude looks a lot like Paul (of the Ballsack).
One word…. “Moobs”
I now am scarred for life as well……..Thanks TSO!
Thanks TSO!!! I’m heading over to the Walla Walla VA now to claim PTSD for watching that video. I’ll take my laptop to show them the cause. Once they see it…it’s a done deal. 😀
ChipNASA Am I wrong or does he have TWO sets of man tits going on?
I think he is Irish … because he is hiding it!
Now that I’ve been thoroughly traumatized, I am going to crawl, cringing and whining, into the closest dark basement I can find.
TSO, you need to start posting warnings, you twisted bugger.
It’s always the same! Clothing optional places, like this one in the article and the one near me, could also pass for a retirement home. It hardly makes it worth peeking over the fence, everyday.
It’s always the same! Clothing optional places, like this one in the article and the one near me, could also pass for a retirement home. It hardly makes it worth peeking over the fence, everyday.
Yet you still peek, everyday, on the chance that some overnight miracle took 40 years off of everyone.
I wouldn’t click on that arrow with YOUR mouse! As for the still shot:
2/17 Air Cav…Thanks. LMAO. I had forgotten about the “bro”.
It’s a mansierre…
w. t. f. is that.
(Falls off chair laughing, finds self short of breath, recovers, did not watch video, still shot enough.)
TSO, thank you for my morning lesson on how to prevent congesitve heart failure.
Really. He actually suggests that immersing himself in war stories is the way to rid himself of thoughts of war? OK. There ya go.
Does ridding himself of clothing mean that he has a fear of clothing, or that he loves clothing too much? It’s all very confusing.
Either way, thanks, but no thanks.
Wow. I think that video needs a warning that you might vomit in your mouth a little while watching his floppy man tits….
For me firing up call of duty and shooting some 14 year old’s pixelized avatar in the face and listening to his whiny little voice bitching about how he got beasted by an old guy is extremely satisfying….and when followed by naked hot tub time and a vodka tonic very relaxing…
sorry, couldn’t resist…
re: Call of Duty, scrub to 4:20 in this video, where the late Chris Kyle speaks about his prowess at that game:
http://youtu.be/T9Bfc9KGfc0?t=4m20s
Thank GOD for untrimmed, waist high shrubbery . . . .
How much do you want to bet that all that lawn furniture smells like ass?
554 books and movies? Hell, we have more books than that in ONE ROOM and over twice that many DVDs. Nowhere near that many of them are just on war…. we’re sane.
This guy reminds me of that essential truth we learned in Gemany: the folks who go clothing optional are NOT the people you want to see nude.
He appears to be simply one of the many “professional veterans” that publicly milk their service to the fullest.
He must play horde.
Now you know I’m gonna be in that AO sometime and either have too many single malt scotches or Irish car bombs (or both) and go visit this dude. You know I am.
Take pix!
Zero: for God’s sake, why? Won’t she suffer enough just seeing that heinous sight?
The idea of her with a camera taking pix just cracks me up!
She’s said she’s gonna be shitfaced going in. What’s not to like?
Oh yeah Hondo, you said Heinie.
Might want to read that one again, ZP – yer slippin’. (smile)
“and either have too many single malt scotches or Irish car bombs (or both)”
Be still, my black, beating heart! 😉
As far as that world of warcraft game goes, I think TSO may be more of an example of ‘the norm’ than most realize.
I have the honor and pleasure of knowing an old-school serious BAMF. US Army SF in Vietnam, MACV-SOG, ran recon with Bob Howard (MoH), and so on.
And he plays world of warcraft all the time. I was stunned when I learned this. Apparently he likes to join large ‘group operations’ in the game and help out new players. Likes the stories in the game as well.
This image put a smile on my face: a bunch of far younger players, who also play the military shooter type games, chatting online in world of warcraft about what badass virtual gunfighters they are. Never realizing that one of the guys listening to them ran recon with MACV-SOG, no NODs, stone-aged comms when compared to today, nothing close to a modern JTAC on the team as far as technology goes. Just serious commando skills, a CAR-15, some grenades and claymores, and a pair of giant, clanking brass balls.
If they ever found out I’d love to see their faces, assuming they were capable of realizing whom they were chatting and playing with in world of warcraft, and what deeds he’d done.
mr. sharkman: good stuff! Next time you see him, ask him about Leroy Jenkins 😉
What’s next, will we suddenly hear the rumor that he likes to paint himself green at night and go around shaking the bushes in people’s yards?
Dammit, Proud!
I was just about to swallow hot tea! I blew it right in my own face! You skunk!
Great, now I need the brain bleach!
Everyone who has played for awhile knows the legend of Leroy Jenkins!
At home he is known as Max “Dirty” Sanchez.
Why is it that the only people who want to walk around naked are the ones you need eye bleach to look at? Are there no attractive crazy people out there?
There ain’t enough liquor in this state to drink looking at that video into a good idea.
Does the compulsion to wear skin tight purple spandex have the same roots? Come on ShOrTbUsWiNdOwLiCkEr41, you are so close.
Thanks a lot. I have errands to run, do you have any idea how hard it is to drive after the necessary multiple doses of eye bleach that picture (no, I did NOT click on the video) caused?
WTF MATE!?!?! I’m gonna have to drink a bottle of bleach to get that image out of my head.
This is amazing.
Thanks, TSO. All of us who saw this have now caught the PTSD.
You young people pasting those remarks about Veteran Sanchez looking gross and etc do not understand the nudist lifestyle and beliefs, nor will you return to this website and review the followup posts. It is not about arousing sexual desires, but about freedom and friendships. Just think about what you will look like in 30, 40 and even 50 years if you live that long and do not self destruct. Just look at people that you see every and picture them without clothes and that is what you see in the nudist resorts. There are those over 18 that can maybe raise your sexual thermometer and even some that will not, but we are not there for raising our sexual thermometer, but for the freedom of being textile free as nature meant us to be, to let go of all illusions of one person being better than another, and to make and enjoy friendships that are free of stress. Open your minds, stop being judgmental,go and attend a nudist resort and then speak once you have done so. Nudist resorts are not swinger resorts and people do not go there looking for a sexual hookup. However nudists are still sexual and do have sex with their partners back in the privacy of living accommodations when it is desired.
Yeah, “you young people”, is exactly the way to get your point across. In the meantime, you should point your Garand at us and tell us to get off your lawn.
Says the Wrinkly One, “It is not about arousing sexual desires….” He also says, “There are those over 18 that can maybe raise your sexual thermometer…..” Then there’s another: “[W]e are not there for raising our sexual thermometer….” If those sexual references weren’t sufficient, he then refers to “swinger resorts” and ” sexual hookup” and says that “nudists are still sexual and do have sex…..”
So, with all those sexual allusions, I guessed that the post and comments must have been chocked full of sex. I found none. So, Wrinkly, why do you mention sex repeatedly while insisting that nudism is not about sex?