Dude I made $36,000 my freshman year in college I have never worked at Mcdonald’s…stroke that ego though people love to read about people doing that online go ahead.
I’m in high school so even having 12 inch guns means your jacked to the average kid unfortunately, all day every day there is a roidys comment or something about me lifting weights. At first it was flattering ( about a year ago) and now its fucking annoying and over played.
[quote]Jbrew wrote:
Dude I made $36,000 my freshman year in college I have never worked at Mcdonald’s…stroke that ego though people love to read about people doing that online go ahead.[/quote]
Dude, this is turning into a good thread… Please remove yourself if you can’t intelligently comment on it.
Chicken balls can do the same.
[quote]Jbrew wrote:
Dude I made $36,000 my freshman year in college I have never worked at Mcdonald’s…stroke that ego though people love to read about people doing that online go ahead.[/quote]
Who was even talking to you? I quoted bodyguard and responded directly to him. Why would the word “Mc Donald’s” cause you to think we were talking about your past job experiences? Your stats show you as 5’7" and 200lbs. That’s great and you may just have some size on you, but I am guessing bodyguard and I stand out a tad more and we are talking about our own experiences.
I doubt people are going out of their way to the same degree with you as far as we have experienced.
I stand corrected then my apologies…
[quote]ChickenNiglets wrote:
Don’t get too worked up over it countingbeans. If it makes you feel any better I don’t think you look like you’re on steroids at all. [/quote]
LMAO - classic.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Jbrew wrote:
Dude I made $36,000 my freshman year in college I have never worked at Mcdonald’s…stroke that ego though people love to read about people doing that online go ahead.
Who was even talking to you? I quoted bodyguard and responded directly to him. Why would the word “Mc Donald’s” cause you to think we were talking about your past job experiences? Your stats show you as 5’7" and 200lbs. That’s great and you may just have some size on you, but I am guessing bodyguard and I stand out a tad more and we are talking about our own experiences.
I doubt people are going out of their way to the same degree with you as far as we have experienced.[/quote]
At the risk of this being a veiled brag, while I don’t mind looking the way I do, there is positive attention (an admiring look or compliment) and negative attention (he must do steroids or, he must be less intelligent) and also embarassing attention (sitting at a poker table at the Borgata most recently listening to the table debate how much you can bench press). It’s all good, I have thick skin no matter what and I’m no shrinking violet. But like X said, when it potentially affects your income or livelihood, it’s no longer amusing. “Do you take steroids” is under no circumstances a compliment. Taken to its extreme, it’s like accepting “do you practice bulemia” as a compliment because you’re thin. Although being big and in shape and recognized for it is an ego boost, there simply are NO positive connotations with steroids for general society and it is therefore never a compliment.
Yes X, “corporate clothes” are sometimes your best friend in a business setting.
Weak sauce. Natural reaction is to be pissed, but how could you let a comment like ‘eww, gross’ offend you? I understand that you feel bad for her/them for being ignorant, but truthfully they are just in awe of your accomplishment, which the fact that you don’t look like a regular person is, so don’t take their reaction as a put down, or anything of the sort; It’s not.
People suck, life’s too short to let it really irk you.
Folks are right, it’s not a complement; it’s a way of taking away from the hard work you put it, the same way folks will say that doctors or rocket scientists are just born really smart, and while it’s true some might just be geniuses the majority busted their fucking ass everyday for years in school and continue to daily.
People will always try to belittle your achievements.
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
ChickenNiglets wrote:
Don’t get too worked up over it countingbeans. If it makes you feel any better I don’t think you look like you’re on steroids at all.
LMAO - classic. [/quote]
Hey, look at that, two people that like to make themselves feel better by putting down others…
hmmmm. How on topic guys. Thanks for making examples of yourself for us all…
Ok can I ask an indirect question here that I think relates now…what came first lifting and your size or your career then you started lifting seriously?
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Jbrew wrote:
Dude I made $36,000 my freshman year in college I have never worked at Mcdonald’s…stroke that ego though people love to read about people doing that online go ahead.
Who was even talking to you? I quoted bodyguard and responded directly to him. Why would the word “Mc Donald’s” cause you to think we were talking about your past job experiences? Your stats show you as 5’7" and 200lbs. That’s great and you may just have some size on you, but I am guessing bodyguard and I stand out a tad more and we are talking about our own experiences.
I doubt people are going out of their way to the same degree with you as far as we have experienced.
At the risk of this being a veiled brag, while I don’t mind looking the way I do, there is positive attention (an admiring look or compliment) and negative attention (he must do steroids or, he must be less intelligent) and also embarassing attention (sitting at a poker table at the Borgata most recently listening to the table debate how much you can bench press). It’s all good, I have thick skin no matter what and I’m no shrinking violet. But like X said, when it potentially affects your income or livelihood, it’s no longer amusing. “Do you take steroids” is under no circumstances a compliment. Taken to its extreme, it’s like accepting “do you practice bulemia” as a compliment because you’re thin. Although being big and in shape and recognized for it is an ego boost, there simply are NO positive connotations with steroids for general society and it is therefore never a compliment.
Yes X, “corporate clothes” are sometimes your best friend in a business setting.
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I realized suits and dress shirts save you a lot of the questions a long time ago. I think it is because a whole lot of times, besides covering you up, out of shape people can convince themselves that when you are big you’re fat, just like they are. When you have on short sleeves or a tshirt or whatever, their rationalizations of you being fat don’t work so they have to rationalize that you’re on steroids, because “Nobody can just work hard and look like that.”
BTW, off subject but the suggestion of business clothes and people’s perception reminds me of an incident with my brother. He’s a pretty muscular guy and lifts, but not as big as me - about 220 or so and the same height. Anyway, he’s a minister and after his first sermon a member of the congregation comes up to us and mentions that we both are “pretty big”. Everyone knows my brother lifts at the church so the guy knows he can’t make a dumb ass comment to him. Somehow how much I weighed came up. I was about 265 or so at the time and the guy basically makes a comment to the effect that I need to lose weight so I can be like my younger brother. My baby brother, the minister, gets a serious look on his face, looks the guy dead in the eye and says “First of all, you have to be an idiot to insult your assistant pastor’s brother. Second of all, it’s called muscle. Just because you’re fat doen’t mean anybody bigger than you is out of shape, too.”
Talk about getting owned.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Hey, look at that, two people that like to make themselves feel better by putting down others…
hmmmm. How on topic guys. Thanks for making examples of yourself for us all…
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Are you fucking shitting me guy? Seriously, you of all people should not be calling anyone out for putting down others.
All you do is stomp around these boards like Mr.Hardcore, telling people what a badass you are in the gym, and throwing around that “everyone around me is a cockroach” attitude. Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit - you follow X around and attack the shit out of people pretty much every day around here, so maybe you need a reality check.
It was actually a pretty amusing comment, and it’s pretty accurate - I wouldn’t think for one second that you were geared up.
I think you have some relevant things to say a lot of the time, but you also storm around acting like an uber-tough guy with a shitty attitude equally as much…so before you tag someone for “putting others down” perhaps you should examine your own behavior.
I take it all as a compliment, I’ve been a fat, pizza faced, ugly motherfucker. When I learned to take others negative comments and use them as fuel for the fire, the changes came in. I now thrive on negative comments, call me small, fat, and pathetic all you want I will just enjoy it more when I prove you wrong. Tell me I’m on steroids and I usually respond with " Yea steroids have some of the best fruity flavors ever. I really like grape." or " Steroids? You mean hard work right? Yea I guess it’s working out well for me."
Also, when others try and put you down I think its really just trying to make them feel better about their own failures.
[quote]BulletproofTiger wrote:
Weak sauce. Natural reaction is to be pissed, but how could you let a comment like ‘eww, gross’ offend you? I understand that you feel bad for her/them for being ignorant, but truthfully they are just in awe of your accomplishment, which the fact that you don’t look like a regular person is, so don’t take their reaction as a put down, or anything of the sort; It’s not.[/quote]
You don’t understand how someone exclaiming “ew gross” out loud as [art of some overreaction to seeing muscles could offend someone?
Here’s what you do, the next time you see a woman (and make sure it is a formal meeting place like in front of the whole class or in a doctor’s office), just yell out, “EWW, NASTY!!” right after you look at her and wait for the response.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
SkyNett wrote:
ChickenNiglets wrote:
Don’t get too worked up over it countingbeans. If it makes you feel any better I don’t think you look like you’re on steroids at all.
LMAO - classic.
Hey, look at that, two people that like to make themselves feel better by putting down others…
hmmmm. How on topic guys. Thanks for making examples of yourself for us all…
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Wow. You took that way too seriously. T’was only a joke…
[quote]Jbrew wrote:
Ok can I ask an indirect question here that I think relates now…what came first lifting and your size or your career then you started lifting seriously?[/quote]
Dude, I’ve lifted since first year of college and your question is still irrelevant…because I have made progress since then and all of the way through school and even the military.
People either think you were “always big” or that you simply used steroids and that is the only reason you look the way you do.
[quote]thesupreme1 wrote:
I take it all as a compliment, I’ve been a fat, pizza faced, ugly motherfucker. When I learned to take others negative comments and use them as fuel for the fire, the changes came in. I now thrive on negative comments, call me small, fat, and pathetic all you want I will just enjoy it more when I prove you wrong. Tell me I’m on steroids and I usually respond with " Yea steroids have some of the best fruity flavors ever. I really like grape." or " Steroids? You mean hard work right? Yea I guess it’s working out well for me."
Also, when others try and put you down I think its really just trying to make them feel better about their own failures.
EDIT: On looking back now I see how after a point the above doesn’t apply no more. When EVERYONE things your on something, and tells you about it things will change. That and annoy the living fuck out of you.[/quote]
Stats?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
You don’t understand how someone exclaiming “ew gross” out loud as [art of some overreaction to seeing muscles could offend someone?
Here’s what you do, the next time you see a woman (and make sure it is a formal meeting place like in front of the whole class or in a doctor’s office), just yell out, “EWW, NASTY!!” right after you look at her and wait for the response.[/quote]
Eh - who gives a shit? I mean, I’d rather act like a mature adult and ignore it or laugh it off, because the alternative is to lambast the shit out of some dopey, 19 year old girl.
I mean really, what would be the point of that?
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
Professor X wrote:
You don’t understand how someone exclaiming “ew gross” out loud as [art of some overreaction to seeing muscles could offend someone?
Here’s what you do, the next time you see a woman (and make sure it is a formal meeting place like in front of the whole class or in a doctor’s office), just yell out, “EWW, NASTY!!” right after you look at her and wait for the response.
Eh - who gives a shit? I mean, I’d rather act like a mature adult and ignore it or laugh it off, because the alternative is to lambast the shit out of some dopey, 19 year old girl.
I mean really, what would be the point of that? [/quote]
Gee, most of us DO laugh it off. What did you think, that every time we hear this we punch someone in the face?
How you handle it isn’t even the issue. We are discussing the FACT that this shit isn’t a fucking compliment even though some of the smaller guys here seem to think it is.