Mark Lyle, "The Human Vacuum" on MTV "True Life" tonight.

[liberalnurse]

Mark is my step-son. He is a Competitive Eater. He will be featured in tonight's episode of MTV's show, "True Life". The Episode is about sport of Competitive Eating.

Here is Mark:

http://www.competitiveeaters.com/MarkLyletheHumanVacuum.htm


Here is the MTV link:

http://www.mtv.com/onair/dyn/truelife/about.jhtml

On the next edition of True Life, we follow three competitive eaters through the ins-and-outs of this budding "sport." From a rookie in Kentucky to a Wall Street day trader, to the hot-dog champ in Japan -- we find out what drives someone to eat 53 hot dogs in ten minutes or six pounds of shoo-fly pie in eight minutes. Watch True Life: I'm a Competitive Eater Wednesday, February 22nd at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT


AICE Rankings As of 2/9/06

1. Takeru "The Prince" Kobayashi
2. "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti
3. David "Coondog" O'Karma
4. Bob "Killer" Kuhns
5. Mark Lyle 'The Human Vacuum
6. Miyuki Iwata
7. Ian "The Invader" Hickman
8. Pete "Broken Wing" Maurizio
9. Angel "Dumplings" Chiriboga
10. Arnie "Chowhound" Chapman

[Javaman]

1. How come Miyuki Iwata has no nickname? nt

[liberalnurse]

4. I don't really know.

I think this competitor is a female and is new to the field.

[FSogol]

2. No offense, but I'll always found these things to be highly offensive.

I'll been to places where people are starving. What is great about overconsumption?
And what about the effects on your stepson? This can't be healthy can it?

[liberalnurse]

6. This thread is not about

bleeding heart liberalism...............Go start your own thread.

Mark is in excellent shape. This is a sport and he does not eat this way daily....Go take a look at him....

[FSogol]

18. Nothing to do with bleeding hearts.

1. I find waste distasteful. Why not see who can pour oil or interferon on the ground faster?
2. Sport? It is a contest.


Edit: fixed typo

[Stuckinthebush]

3. It's considered a sport?

Interesting.

Do they purge after an event? Yikes.

[liberalnurse]

7. I heard some tales that

they have vomited after the event....mostly due to nausea not intentionally. I suspect some do so intentionally. mark has not done so.

[BoneDaddy]

5. Don't take this the wrong way but...

I find it incredibly ironic that a nurse has a step son who eats competitively. Kinda like a dentist whose kid is is a chocoholic.
Competitive eating....isn't that called gluttony?

[liberalnurse]

9. Nursing is just a fucking job..........

Mark is a adult...............Competitive Eating is a Sport. I don't hear you making any bones about the health hazards of football, boxing or firearms.

[BoneDaddy]

17. wow

take a xanex sweetheart. I was just curious on why you would advertise it, being such an sick little "sport".

[Obamarama]

8. And this is posted in General Discussion exactly WHY???

1) I'm glad your son appears to have a healthy appetite.

2) I'm happy he is getting his "fifteen-minutes-of-fame-even-if-it-makes-me-look-like-a-complete-ass-on-an-overrated-reality-show" moment.

3) Competitive eating is not a "sport." If that were true, however, our country would dominate that "sport"

4) Mods, why isn't this over in The Lounge with the kitty-cat pictures?

[liberalnurse]

10. Probably becuse it is a Sport

and all the Baseball-Football threads are posted here.

[Obamarama]

11. MEMO TO LIBERAL NURSE: nobody CARES.

At least not in General Discussion. Vanity posts belong in THE LOUNGE.

On edit: if eating is a "competitive sport" then I want to see "competitive masturbation" on MTV...maybe I'd actually tune in.

[liberalnurse]

12. It looks like you have

a little competitive spirit yourself......No, maybe it's a control issue. ...yes, that must be it. My first clue was your belittling tone and attempt to insult the poster who wishes nothing less than to share a personal experience with friends on a message board.

I wish you luck and hope you seek clinical intervention.

[Obamarama]

14. Nope...just a common sense issue, that's all.

Not going to go at it with you anymore. Just gonna let this post sink, sink, sink.

[Stuckinthebush]

13. Damn friend!

That was cold.

LiberalNurse is proud of her stepson and that is cool. Perhaps the lounge is a better place for this, but let's not be mean about it.

[liberalnurse]

15. WhooooWeee...

The rage we are subjected to here is not from the DU of a few years ago. Thank you Stuckinthebush for your kindness. O8)

[Obamarama]

16. Yeah, it does sound cold. But, I come to DU for information.

There are enough crucial things we need to be discussing. General Discussion and Political Discussion boards are known to be territory for discussion of politics, Bush administration, etc... The Lounge is where information meaningless to the general public should be posted, i.e. this post.

There is enough important information to be shared and gleaned on this board without having to have ridiculous vanity posts littering the landscape. I will state AGAIN...that's what The Lounge is for.

[FSogol]

19. Competitive Masturbation? I'd be afraid they would start without me.

;-)

[liberalnurse]

20. kick since the thread got

bumped. Apparently Kittie Pic's are a specialty in the Lounge.