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My mom, Pinuki and I are having אס"ק about the cast.
Odds are right now Israelis are laughing hysterically while everyone else is "Bwuh?", so I'll try to explain.
אס"ק, pronounced AH-sak, is acronym for "end-of-training atmosphere". It's military acronym for the sort of batshit that takes over everyone, staff included, near the end of a training period. Any training period, but most specifically the ones that have distance-smashing or something else major at the end, particularly long ones, or both. It's a special sort of batshit that doesn't really have a civilian equivalent - no, end of high school or college are not even close, trust me. The way teachers/profs. will sometimes go "Whatever" is sort of of the same kind (or, well, one of the kinds typically involved in assak), but nowhere near the same order of magnitude.
Assak is a very, very special kind of crazy. The core of it is that there's this period that's really Intense and Demanding and Very Rigid, it puts serious pressure on the people managing and enforcing it as much as the people surviving within it, and there isn't a fundamental difference of interests between the two groups (or sometimes the enforcing party is abstract, rules you need to adhere to for some reason but not actually people, and again: the reason for the rigidity and demandingness is not fundamentally against you).
Which is how having a cast for a month can have assak. The first week is not so bad, week 2 starts getting annoying, week 3 is even worse, then you can smell the end of it and -
- and that when (if you're seasoned) you give up, acknowledge the Batshit, and just try to ride it out.
Even if your 35kg hyper-clingy trickster of a Malinois mix smells the assak, too.
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Odds are right now Israelis are laughing hysterically while everyone else is "Bwuh?", so I'll try to explain.
אס"ק, pronounced AH-sak, is acronym for "end-of-training atmosphere". It's military acronym for the sort of batshit that takes over everyone, staff included, near the end of a training period. Any training period, but most specifically the ones that have distance-smashing or something else major at the end, particularly long ones, or both. It's a special sort of batshit that doesn't really have a civilian equivalent - no, end of high school or college are not even close, trust me. The way teachers/profs. will sometimes go "Whatever" is sort of of the same kind (or, well, one of the kinds typically involved in assak), but nowhere near the same order of magnitude.
Assak is a very, very special kind of crazy. The core of it is that there's this period that's really Intense and Demanding and Very Rigid, it puts serious pressure on the people managing and enforcing it as much as the people surviving within it, and there isn't a fundamental difference of interests between the two groups (or sometimes the enforcing party is abstract, rules you need to adhere to for some reason but not actually people, and again: the reason for the rigidity and demandingness is not fundamentally against you).
Which is how having a cast for a month can have assak. The first week is not so bad, week 2 starts getting annoying, week 3 is even worse, then you can smell the end of it and -
- and that when (if you're seasoned) you give up, acknowledge the Batshit, and just try to ride it out.
Even if your 35kg hyper-clingy trickster of a Malinois mix smells the assak, too.
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