Short, skinny guy claims that having social skills and dressing well is usually better being big when it comes to saving damsels in distress:
The implication that guys lift weights to be more intimidating is off target (it might be a goal but IMO it’s almost never a primary one - otherwise you’d see everyone doing clean and presses to build big traps and shoulders), but aside from that he’s got a point. Being huge isn’t as important to performing manly deeds as it used to be. Though it sure doens’t hurt.
I can’t believe that guy. Well, I also can’t believe I read that whole thing. But he was saying all this crap about how he used body language and his AMAZING sense of style and crap to drive the big bad guy away. He was paying way too much attention to her actions too…manly would’ve been telling him to his face to bugger off, and hang out with people who want to be with him. And then some physical reinforcement if necessary. Oh wait, I forgot, you don’t need muscle to be manly.
I don’t lift weights for the ability to intimidate.
I lift weights so that if some overly dressed doucher (I’m a fan of dressing well, but not to the point of pretentiousness) trys to cockblock me then I can crush him like a can.
[quote]** I know that many readers find my interest in clothing tiresome, but it’s serious stuff: when I walk around the dining hall, I’ve made 6’4 musclebound football players who are Black move out of my way in games of “Chicken.” (I stand 5’8 and weigh 135 lbs.) Part of it is walking deliberately and slowly, suggesting you won’t steer away, but dressing several levels above them is necessary too. It’s the same reason why a prole who lives in the gym will always move out of the way of a sharp-looking investment banker, even if they grumble in envy about what an obnoxious prick he is afterward.
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Or perhaps these tremendous black football playing proles realize that when they collide, it’s always a case of the larger guy being a “bully” in the eyes of almost everyone around. Or maybe he’s just the only one playing chicken in the dining hall.
What a pretentious ass that dude is. What’s wrong with being proletarian?
this guy slips in the mud and ruins his clothes and he essentially has nothing left because he bases his entire person on how he looks. If he ever can’t afford his male model boy clothes he’ll be fucked.
Wow, that’s like looking in the mind of a rapist. I mean . . . that was just unbelievably delusional, especially since no words were exchanged, the girl didn’t move, he left before the end of the session, ect. What a jackass.
[quote]Bullmoose wrote:
** I know that many readers find my interest in clothing tiresome, but it’s serious stuff: when I walk around the dining hall, I’ve made 6’4 musclebound football players who are Black move out of my way in games of “Chicken.” (I stand 5’8 and weigh 135 lbs.) Part of it is walking deliberately and slowly, suggesting you won’t steer away, but dressing several levels above them is necessary too. It’s the same reason why a prole who lives in the gym will always move out of the way of a sharp-looking investment banker, even if they grumble in envy about what an obnoxious prick he is afterward.
Or perhaps these tremendous black football playing proles realize that when they collide, it’s always a case of the larger guy being a “bully” in the eyes of almost everyone around. Or maybe he’s just the only one playing chicken in the dining hall.[/quote]
This reminds me of a Dostoyevski story, Notes from Underground. The narrator/protagonist is a small, peevish man who spends weeks building himself up to play a game of chicken with a larger man who never even noticed he exists.
The football player in this jackass’s story probably stepped around him as he would any small, insignificant obstacle, like a chair or potted plant. Obviously the football player could easily knock the chair over, but then he would look like a clumsy oaf.
Let the little man have his little victory. He obviously needs it.
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
Bullmoose wrote:
** I know that many readers find my interest in clothing tiresome, but it’s serious stuff: when I walk around the dining hall, I’ve made 6’4 musclebound football players who are Black move out of my way in games of “Chicken.” (I stand 5’8 and weigh 135 lbs.) Part of it is walking deliberately and slowly, suggesting you won’t steer away, but dressing several levels above them is necessary too. It’s the same reason why a prole who lives in the gym will always move out of the way of a sharp-looking investment banker, even if they grumble in envy about what an obnoxious prick he is afterward.
Or perhaps these tremendous black football playing proles realize that when they collide, it’s always a case of the larger guy being a “bully” in the eyes of almost everyone around. Or maybe he’s just the only one playing chicken in the dining hall.
This reminds me of a Dostoyevski story, Notes from Underground. The narrator/protagonist is a small, peevish man who spends weeks building himself up to play a game of chicken with a larger man who never even noticed he exists.
The football player in this jackass’s story probably stepped around him as he would any small, insignificant obstacle, like a chair or potted plant. Obviously the football player could easily knock the chair over, but then he would look like a clumsy oaf.
Let the little man have his little victory. He obviously needs it.[/quote]\
[quote]Brant_Drake wrote:
Wow, that’s like looking in the mind of a rapist. I mean . . . that was just unbelievably delusional, especially since no words were exchanged, the girl didn’t move, he left before the end of the session, ect. What a jackass.[/quote]
Haha! Has anyone noticed that at the bottom of the page is a link to this thread? I hope the well-dressed intimidator wanders over here and starts reading.
[quote]Brant_Drake wrote:
Professor X wrote:
It looks like average “small man syndrome” to me.
It’s just difficult to believe that some people go around with these kinds of monologs running through their minds.
[/quote] I BET THIS IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG… *
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bold type and caps to symbolize the intimidation factor of me typing this wearing a shirt with a polo player on it while sitting relaxed but upright in my desk chair and hitting every key with a slow, but deliberate motion[/i]
[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
I posted a comment, but doubt it will make it through moderation, somehow
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I also did, but again, it won’t make it.
Something this douche doesn’t realize is that some people have this thing called manners. Some of us hod doors for little people, old ladies, and women and kids.
I’ve taken armed self defense. Not MMA stuff, but Glock, SA, colt style self defense. When you carry a gun it is imperative that you be the nice guy. You are also trained to be very alert, much more than your average blog writing douche. you should see all things going on around you to give you time to avoid trouble or properly react to trouble if you must.
You don’t start stuff, act very polite, and avoid confrontations. you’re held to a higher standard by the law since you have a lethal means of defense. It’s not because I’m scared of an expensive wearing suit silly ass who thinks he’s all Alpha Male because he has a blog and read a book or two.
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That T-Nation website is hilarious – a throwback to when Conan the Barbarian had power. Those days are long gone, and Johnny Depp gets millions more girls than some steroid-addled gym monkey. But a gorilla can always hope.[/quote]
I agree with him about this “T-Nation” website. Which is why this place is my home away from home.
I also like how he chooses to use large words when smaller words would suffice. That kid’s funny.
He isn’t alone. I have noticed a lot of smaller guys act this way in the gym. I could be going to the water fountain while they could be walking in the other direction. They will purposely walk directly into you as if they are daring you to push them out of the way. That only leaves you the choice of walking in a ridiculous semi-circle to avoid this head on collision or forever be seen as the bad guy for bumping into someone much smaller. It’s only now that I wonder if this same scene is playing out in their heads. I also don’t see many jumping out of the way of investment bankers simply because they are in a suit.
[quote]Bullmoose wrote:
Or maybe he’s just the only one playing chicken in the dining hall.[/quote]
Pretty much. Two people are walking towards each other on a collision course. One moves. Intimidation, or basic civility? Was he scared, or did he simply have nothing to prove? Could he be - despite his large muscles - just a nice guy?
So many questions are raised, but the only thing clear about this is that if you are the type of person who walks around playing Chicken against larger people without their knowledge, keeping detailed internal logs of your unrecognized-in-reality conquests only to relish the experience later with your Internet blogging buddies, then…you have issues.
Because the best examples of superiority come from the ignorance of others…making it known to the other person that you are going to make them your bitch just, simply, wouldn’t make any sense at all (not to mention it might tarnish the winning streak slightly).
