If you shave your pubic region due to the summertime heat, and apply ball powder the next day because it’s going to get hot, either:
a) Wear underwear, even though it’s summertime.
b) Don’t wear knee length shorts.
c) Put your black knee brace on after the powder has expunged its potential energy.
d) Probably the most sensical option, don’t be as liberal with the powder as when you had pubic hair to catch and distribute said powder.
Is there actually such a thing as ‘ball powder’, or is it just baby powder?
I use Gold Bond. The menthol is invigorating.
I don’t really use it anywhere else, and it’s much more commonly referred to as ball powder in my social circle(s?).
Well, duh!
Ball powder always needs shorts to catch the over-dusting, and to redistribute it as needed.
Dude…are you playing rugby deforested and commando?
Gold Bond Medicated Ball Powder…
I’d buy it.
There’s another TMI warning, if you were looking for one. Never play rugby without underwear. Ever. Ever ever ever. It sucks to run, it sucks to tackle, it sucks even more to be tackled. Just trust me, and don’t do it. But, no, I blew my ACL out a month ago, and had it replaced a week and a half ago, so I’m out for the summer. That’s why I was wearing a brace that the ball powder got all over, but I’m already walking unassisted (Crutches for 5 days, cane for 5 days, and now neither), so life is good.
As far as playing rugby deforested… I’ve never noticed a difference. Claims of increased aerodynamics have been disputed.
Or hair, or jeans… it was a perfect storm this morning. And I got a flippin’ speeding ticket. Lame.
I thought pubic hair served as insulation? I wouldn’t know either way. Wait, let’s rephrase that. I’ve never shaved it so I wouldn’t know by comparison. Phew!
Huh. I saw the TMI warning, but I didn’t think I’d learn so much about your balls, Santo Rugger. I’m sorry that they’re now bothering you. (Or being bothered by something else? No idea.)
Anyway, since I did make it this far, I’m going to ask a question. It’s about your knee, rather than your balls. Hopefully you can get over your disappointment.
How long is your surgery going to keep you out of work? A friend blew out his ACL years ago, and insists he couldn’t (and still can’t) get it repaired because it’s going to keep him out of work for six weeks. Is that what you’re experiencing?
My balls weren’t bothering me one bit! I was more concerned with the talcum all over my shoes, brace, and shorts!
It’s been 10 days since my surgery, and the physical therapist told me to quit using my cane. I took it out tonight, and my big brace, because I was drinking (and walked about a mile), but I took three days of leave, had regular Friday off, plus Memorial Day, and was back to work 7 days later.
To be fair, though, I went to the ortho as soon as the swelling was at a reasonable level (which is when they want to see you), so my surgery was between 3-4 weeks of the injury (on the NMT pitch, no less). It was a pure orthoscopic ACL cadaver replacement, with no microfracture of cartilage or meniscus or patella damage. Had I had either of those, I’d be in a locked brace for 6 weeks. I’m fortunate enough (for this situation, at least) to have a desk job, so I just sling my leg on the desk and keep on a truckin’. I was out for a total of 1 week.
My balls still feel nice from the Gold Bond Medicated Ball Powder this morning, 'cuz I know you were wondering that, too. 
Thanks for all the info, Santo Rugger.
I don’t really know much about my friends knee, but does “in a locked brace” mean “can’t do a desk job”?
And, really, you do a desk job? That seems odd for the image I have of you.
Wait…menthol? On your boys? Is that some kind of ultra-macho rugby pain endurance ritual or something?
Can’t comment on the cojones situation, but I’ll add my .02 re: ACL.
I had ACL reconstruction using a ligament from my leg and orthoscopy. I had a 80% tear of the ACL and very little cartilege left by the time I had surgery (I had injured my knee over a year prior). I was down and out for 4 days, not moving. Crutches for two weeks, cane for another two weeks. I was out from work a week and a half, but it was a desk job. If I had to have mobility while at work I’da been screwed. I went from a full crotch to ankle brace to a nifty adjustable brace once I was given the okay to start moving around. The adjustable brace was locked initially, then gradually loosened to allow movement.
They stress waiting for the initial swelling/healing to occur, then they want to you start moving it. I also had PT for 6 weeks.
Thank you, MissTake. I can see how that would be a lot of trouble for work and other mobility. I appreciate it.
Damn, they let you wait after ACL surgery to start moving it? I had a total knee replacement last year, and they started me on PT less than 12 hours after I came out of the OR!
There’s a pimple on my butt.
I’ve just been waiting for a TMI thread to mention that.
I’d still be able to do a desk job in a locked brace, I just wouldn’t be able to move my knee at all. MissTake’s scenario is more typical, I was just lucky enough to have a clean tear that didn’t require any farther invasiveness, allowing me to walk around sans assistance 10 days out of surgery.
Yes, I have a desk job, and I hate it. I need to finish school soon so I can go back to testing explosives and watching things go boom outside.
Nope, it’s pretty much pure bliss. But, a note of warning… don’t have sex before showering, even with a condom. It might preclude you from ever having sex with that person again.
Cite?
Yeah, see, I thought you had a job blowing things up. I was very confused by the combination of “desk job” and your user name.
I would anticipate that graphite dust shed off your nutsac would more closely approximate the color of your knee brace.
No offense intended here, but I can’t imagine anyone needs to be told this. Isn’t it just one of those things that people who live in this physical universe would just know?