To be honest, and I think I mentioned this before, I found everything hard to believe my first time at Thunder’s.
Gather around boys and girls, have a seat and listen to a story about a boy named Rodney.
“How Ramrod got to Thunder’s Place,” by Rodley Ramsey.
Warning - Could be Boring.
(It all started a long, long time ago in February, 2003.)
The Enzyte commercials got me wondering about PE. I went online to investigate to the product. The Enzyte website is vague on how the pills work, but they do list the ingredients. So I checked out the ingredients and did a search on all the ingredients, Yohimbe, Saw Palmetto, etc., and considered to just buy these things at my local GNC.
Then I did another search for Penis Enlargement Pills. The results were several sites selling their own versions of penis pills, X-Tenz, etc. I had no idea there were that many. I wasn’t sure what to do, whether to buy the Enzyte, the other brands, or make my own concoction.
Fortunately, the search engine also rendered other websites containing “Penis Enlargement.” I clicked on a site of a guy explaining jelqing. It was a personal website made by some guy sharing his PE experience. He laid out simple instructions and gave a rudimentary explanation of how jelqing worked. I said, “Oooh, this is interesting.” I tried jelqing for a few days and I was shocked at how I could plump up my penis like that. I had no idea you could do such things. A week of jelqing gave me a noticeable change in erection hardness.
By now I was very interested in this notion of Penis Enlargement. I did another web search for “Penis Enlargement” and “Jelqing.” I hit on another website, don’t remember which one, that had a link to Thunder’s. I went to Thunder’s Place and started reading some posts. I kept running across this guy named DLD. His signature was, “Soon to be Triple.” Triple what, I wondered? I read a post with his stats on it. That made me very curious.
In the mean time, there was a lot of confusing acronyms and strange ideas posted — BPEL, BPFSL, Horse440, AI stretches, and so on. I was also struck at how seriously everyone was taking this PE stuff. (I was still skeptically, mind you.) Guys had routines.
Routines? What the hell is that all about? Who are these strange dick pullers? Do I really want to get involved with people like this? It sounds kinda gay.
But this “DLD” had intrigued me. I knew he had pics in the Pics Forum and I decided to join so I can see his pics, for proof. Well, we all know how convincing his pics are. Frankly, I was disappointed (and suspect) at the total lack of good before & after pics.
I was disheartened. I gathered enough info to from the Newbie Forum to start my own routine, jelqing and stretching. I didn’t post hardly at all. This was happening at the very start of the invasion of Iraq. I think in my first post I was expressing my dismay for our so-called friends abroad. We all know how tactful I can be, and Thunder was quick to scold me. :smack:
Anyway, I did my little routine for a while and got discouraged at the lack of gains. I retired from PE, or so I thought. In November, 2003, I decided to take another look at PE. I came back to Thunder’s and started reading the Hanger’s Forum to see if hanging was for me. Upon my return, however, I had noticed the Forum had been invaded by pirates, a guy who likes to hang around with pirates, and another guy who talked in riddles. They were having a jolly good time with their anal-invasion stories and bird jokes. Rather gay, I thought.
I went about my business and began my hanging journey. The pirates were everywhere, though. I could not seem to evade them, and they were discussing my beloved USA. I had to read what they were saying. This “CaptnHook” guy put words together that, well, made sense. Sometimes he’d say funny shit too. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. I reached out and extended the olive branch — nah, forget that corny shit. I’ll just say that I’m very happy I got to know the guys on this Forum.
The rest of my history most of you know. I’ve been hanging regularly, for exactly one year today as a matter of fact. I got my Bib Starter and started a real hanging routine on January 16, 2004. I’m not a frequent measurer and don’t really like talking “dick,” but in case you’re wondering, I have gained a little over 1” to just over 7” BPEL. The gains are quite real and I’m fairly certain they are permanent.
I was going to quit hanging at the end of this month, but things are going so well with recent gains (moderate weight and lots of sets) that I might extend it to March.
The moral of the story (sorry for the rambling) is that this PE is hard to believe. And this place called Thunder’s, with it’s outstanding efficiency, and extraordinary organization, and unique atmosphere created by the membership is difficult to comprehend for most people.