Of course. I just find many of these comments amusing and I started the thread for a change of pace. Some of this stuff is comical. Like I said, I only find one comment offensive, “Do you just not eat?”
I got this one a few weeks ago from a new-hire at the office: Damn…what do you do? Crossfit?
What made it funny was the dead-pan, serious way he asked that question…as though Crossfit is the only form of exercise a person can partake in…haha
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my old man asked me “are you still doing protein?” like the shit was crack or whatever.
Colleagues at work who only ever see me eat my bodybuilder lunches ask me things like “do you ever eat pizza?” or “do you only eat healthy?”
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That’s f#$%ing hilarious!
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I know, right? Like he’d find me on the bathroom floor with my eyes rolled back in my head and whey protein powder crusted on my nostrils
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My Mum in relation to creatine: ‘Does that contain steroids?’
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I think it’s a combo of genuine interest and the sheer amount of misinformation out there. I mean, everyone wants to lose fat and then there you are doing it. How many diets are out there? Hundreds with no ones every week.
then you here about models/actresses starving themselves so I can see where some would think you just don’t eat and the fat comes off.
Then of course there are the “live a little” people, who perhaps don’t want to see you succeed for whatever reason. People being social creatures really can’t stand those who deviate from norms, in all walks of life, it makes us uncomfortable for whatever reason.
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I agree @Lonnie123 because before I started working out on my own and researching I had no clue. I was embarrassed at all the misconceptions I had and dumb questions as a result. It’s funny now that I look back but I’m still newish and am sure will have plenty more stupid questions to come.
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Omg! That is so funny! Shit I can’t stop laughing. 
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Ha, I also have a degree in philosophy/cognitive science and also abstain from any conversation regarding it.
I am going to go back to the why do you lift part. When i was in 5th and 6th grade i was heavily bullyed by a kid who was older than me. So i started taking Taekwondo, when was around 7th grade my best friend had me lifting, then i bought a karate instructions book by mas oyamas, which the in one of first chapters had a weightlifting and stretching routine, that i followed.
Anyway it was the first day of school 8th grade, and i was dreading the beating i was going to get on the bus going to school. My freind said the first thing you do is put him in a fucking head lock and choke him, the kid was three years older then me and taller and heavier than me. So he started his shit up acting like he was going to punch me in arm. Then i jumped across aisle put him in half nelson power him down, he almost started crying. The bullying stopped and shortly after he started driving to school.
Around this time i started developing gynocomastia, then in 9th grade would wear like three shirts to try to hide it. Then in football we would have to shower together and one kid in particular kept calling me tittie boy , how did i react lift more. I found that all that angst i put into the fucking barbell and i started getting very strong by high school standards.
Then i was walking from school one day and an old lady asked me if i was a boy or a girl, as i had the mullet thing going, and blonde curly hair, that was it. I got the surgery , gynocomastia cut out. Then it flipping a switch im me, what 15 year old boy want people to think he’s a girl. Then i stepped it up a notch trained like someone possessed, eating two pounds of meat a day, sets of 50 on squat and deadlift everything i could do to get morr masculine looking.
Ive met some of best freinds at gym, and i love lifting, except some leg days. You know when got to do a pr pull or do a 20 rep squat workout, i remember dry heaving in parking lot of gym several times, but once it was over i felt awsome.
As for as the sexes and what they are atracted you are right, when i was younger i slept with easily 200 different women. I know now that is nothing. As far as choosing partner you can’t just go by apperance, i want someone who supports what i like to do, and we are a team. I’ve lived with 5 different girls and haven’t found yet.
I am on trt now and lifting harder again and feal better then i did 10 years ago, but guys my age seam to be jealous because they are looking more like women, and getting weaker. So knees might hurt a bit , elbows, but if i hurt my back its from a 700 deadlift not starting lawnmower.
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The thing is that although people are not intending to be rude or disruptive, in many cases they are! I went to a party for my cousin’s daughter’s baptism, and I got questions and comments fired my way constantly! I had a slice of prosciutto, I got, “You can eat that?” I had a shit if whiskey, I got, “You can drink that?” I’m eating a plate of catered food: “where’s your measuring scale?” Then the questions on the leftover Dream Tan. Then the “you’re skinny comments.” It can indeed disrupt ones time! And it’s not lie like I brought the topic up!
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I know, you think the questions would be “wow man, you really managed to get into incredible shape when it seems like no one else can, what exactly did you do?” but instead its the ones you mentioned.
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Come back to office locker room post workout:
“Whew, I saw you straining/going red… youre not going to get a heart attack are you?”
Me “Nope. Have you ever once seen someone get a heart attack training?”
Them “Eww no, but I read about that out of shape celebrity who took a spinning class… blah blah”
We used to joke that that’s how Glenn Danzig is going to go out.
Honestly this one was fucking funny.
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It is funny, but at the time I got it, I was close to choking on my food after all the explanation and agitation while eating.
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Yeah wait till they come out a smokeable form of creatine.
Isn’t there already a PWO named Enject or something that you have to inject or some shit?
I wont be suprised if the vapor people don’t have a pwo.