I think it’s funny how even if I’ve stayed virtually the same weight when someone saw me last, and I’m maybe a tad leaner/more muscular, they’re all “Wow man you’ve gotten HUGE since the last time I saw you” mainly because they’re not used to seeing muscular people, so when they see you again it’s like they realize how you look compared to most people all over again.
I’m expecting to get a lot of this when I visit home in a week for the first time in 11 months…
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
I think it’s funny how even if I’ve stayed virtually the same weight when someone saw me last, and I’m maybe a tad leaner/more muscular, they’re all “Wow man you’ve gotten HUGE since the last time I saw you” mainly because they’re not used to seeing muscular people, so when they see you again it’s like they realize how you look compared to most people all over again.
I’m expecting to get a lot of this when I visit home in a week for the first time in 11 months…[/quote]
You can play it to your advantage though too…Mom will always give you double heapings of dinner when everyone else only gets one.
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
I think it’s funny how even if I’ve stayed virtually the same weight when someone saw me last, and I’m maybe a tad leaner/more muscular, they’re all “Wow man you’ve gotten HUGE since the last time I saw you” mainly because they’re not used to seeing muscular people, so when they see you again it’s like they realize how you look compared to most people all over again.
I’m expecting to get a lot of this when I visit home in a week for the first time in 11 months…[/quote]
You can play it to your advantage though too…Mom will always give you double heapings of dinner when everyone else only gets one.[/quote]
Haha if you’d been raised in a family with 9 kids, you’d know that meals are always “serve yourself” style back home for me. Makes everything much easier 
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
I think it’s funny how even if I’ve stayed virtually the same weight when someone saw me last, and I’m maybe a tad leaner/more muscular, they’re all “Wow man you’ve gotten HUGE since the last time I saw you” mainly because they’re not used to seeing muscular people, so when they see you again it’s like they realize how you look compared to most people all over again.
I’m expecting to get a lot of this when I visit home in a week for the first time in 11 months…[/quote]
You can play it to your advantage though too…Mom will always give you double heapings of dinner when everyone else only gets one.[/quote]
Haha if you’d been raised in a family with 9 kids, you’d know that meals are always “serve yourself” style back home for me. Makes everything much easier :)[/quote]
Should of slowly exerted dominance over the rest of the pack thus making them wait on you to eat and ultimately forcing them out of the pack over time leaving more food for you.
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
Burn the shirt. Spend money on quality clothing or food (or if you want I’ll come and sharpie the words affliction on a white t-shirt and it’d be just about the same).[/quote]
I will buy whatever makes me look good and I feel good wearing as long as I am not going broke and have enough money to comfortably pay for my responsibilitys. Some people like shoes, I like my t-shirts, it’s money well spent if you’re spending it on something you enjoy. And that shirt comment was a joke lol, obviously I wasn’t getting comments because of a shirt I was wearing.
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
I think it’s funny how even if I’ve stayed virtually the same weight when someone saw me last, and I’m maybe a tad leaner/more muscular, they’re all “Wow man you’ve gotten HUGE since the last time I saw you” mainly because they’re not used to seeing muscular people, so when they see you again it’s like they realize how you look compared to most people all over again.
I’m expecting to get a lot of this when I visit home in a week for the first time in 11 months…[/quote]
You can play it to your advantage though too…Mom will always give you double heapings of dinner when everyone else only gets one.[/quote]
Haha if you’d been raised in a family with 9 kids, you’d know that meals are always “serve yourself” style back home for me. Makes everything much easier :)[/quote]
Should of slowly exerted dominance over the rest of the pack thus making them wait on you to eat and ultimately forcing them out of the pack over time leaving more food for you.
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That’s what I did while I was with the parents, and eventually there were no eggs for anyone else!
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
I will buy whatever makes me look good[/quote]
I look pretty good in spandex…just saying 
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
Burn the shirt. Spend money on quality clothing or food (or if you want I’ll come and sharpie the words affliction on a white t-shirt and it’d be just about the same).[/quote]
I will buy whatever makes me look good and I feel good wearing as long as I am not going broke and have enough money to comfortably pay for my responsibilitys. Some people like shoes, I like my t-shirts, it’s money well spent if you’re spending it on something you enjoy. And that shirt comment was a joke lol, obviously I wasn’t getting comments because of a shirt I was wearing.[/quote]
Sure it’s not part of the culture? You’re a self-proclaimed MMA aficionado/“fighter”, that culture always seem to be sporting an affliction shirt (over-priced poor quality).
And as was said earlier, just because you look good in spandex, doesn’t mean it needs to be worn in public. I assumed the shirt comment was a joke.
Just because money is spent on something you like does not mean it’s well spent. I see a guy who works at the local grocery who has the latest and greatest of cell phones, gold teeth, shoes that probably cost way too much (and look retarded in my opinion), yet he has to use food stamps at the grocery store and I’ve heard him talking about how his kid “is just going to have to go to his mothers to eat this week.” So he likes his watch, his phone, his gold teeth, and his trendy shoes, you tell me, was it money well spent?
EDIT: Wow I rambled on a lot there. Put in some line breaks to break it up.
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
Burn the shirt. Spend money on quality clothing or food (or if you want I’ll come and sharpie the words affliction on a white t-shirt and it’d be just about the same).[/quote]
I will buy whatever makes me look good and I feel good wearing as long as I am not going broke and have enough money to comfortably pay for my responsibilitys. Some people like shoes, I like my t-shirts, it’s money well spent if you’re spending it on something you enjoy. And that shirt comment was a joke lol, obviously I wasn’t getting comments because of a shirt I was wearing.[/quote]
Sure it’s not part of the culture? You’re a self-proclaimed MMA aficionado/“fighter”, that culture always seem to be sporting an affliction shirt (over-priced poor quality).
And as was said earlier, just because you look good in spandex, doesn’t mean it needs to be worn in public. I assumed the shirt comment was a joke.
Just because money is spent on something you like does not mean it’s well spent. I see a guy who works at the local grocery who has the latest and greatest of cell phones, gold teeth, shoes that probably cost way too much (and look retarded in my opinion), yet he has to use food stamps at the grocery store and I’ve heard him talking about how his kid “is just going to have to go to his mothers to eat this week.” So he likes his watch, his phone, his gold teeth, and his trendy shoes, you tell me, was it money well spent?
EDIT: Wow I rambled on a lot there. Put in some line breaks to break it up.[/quote]
Disagree on “Poor Quality,”
And that dude is a bum, most important part of what I wrote “I will buy whatever makes me look good and I feel good wearing as long as I am not going broke and have enough money to comfortably pay for my responsibilitys.”
And to answer the above dudes question of it being fucked up that I lied about fighting, well that seems to be the thing these days, everyone does MMA, everyone can kick anyones ass so when some bum asks me if I fight, yeah I’ll have my fun and be a douche. No I’ve never stepped in the ring and have been judged on my ability, it’s not one of my goals. Yes most of my cardio comes from boxing and kick boxing work, I can absolutely handle myself in almost any situation, fact is though, it doesn’t interest me like bodybuilding/powerlifting does and I don’t see myself competing in a fighting sport anytime soon.
I think it’s pretty funny you told them you do MMA. At a bar…shit, LOL at people acting like they never bullshit people at bars just for lolz and/or to make themselves look good.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
I think it’s pretty funny you told them you do MMA. At a bar…shit, LOL at people acting like they never bullshit people at bars just for lolz and/or to make themselves look good. [/quote]
It was hilarious, like I said, MMA besides the actual UFC and it’s proffessionals is now a joke. Every punk supposedly fights and the sad fact is a lot of these guys get their asses kicked on a regular basis. But I was pretty shammered and was enjoying just bullshitting. I lied about playing football too to get some free drinks, it was fun.
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
Burn the shirt. Spend money on quality clothing or food (or if you want I’ll come and sharpie the words affliction on a white t-shirt and it’d be just about the same).[/quote]
I will buy whatever makes me look good and I feel good wearing as long as I am not going broke and have enough money to comfortably pay for my responsibilitys. Some people like shoes, I like my t-shirts, it’s money well spent if you’re spending it on something you enjoy. And that shirt comment was a joke lol, obviously I wasn’t getting comments because of a shirt I was wearing.[/quote]
Sure it’s not part of the culture? You’re a self-proclaimed MMA aficionado/“fighter”, that culture always seem to be sporting an affliction shirt (over-priced poor quality).
And as was said earlier, just because you look good in spandex, doesn’t mean it needs to be worn in public. I assumed the shirt comment was a joke.
Just because money is spent on something you like does not mean it’s well spent. I see a guy who works at the local grocery who has the latest and greatest of cell phones, gold teeth, shoes that probably cost way too much (and look retarded in my opinion), yet he has to use food stamps at the grocery store and I’ve heard him talking about how his kid “is just going to have to go to his mothers to eat this week.” So he likes his watch, his phone, his gold teeth, and his trendy shoes, you tell me, was it money well spent?
EDIT: Wow I rambled on a lot there. Put in some line breaks to break it up.[/quote]
Disagree on “Poor Quality,”
And that dude is a bum, most important part of what I wrote “I will buy whatever makes me look good and I feel good wearing as long as I am not going broke and have enough money to comfortably pay for my responsibilitys.”
And to answer the above dudes question of it being fucked up that I lied about fighting, well that seems to be the thing these days, everyone does MMA, everyone can kick anyones ass so when some bum asks me if I fight, yeah I’ll have my fun and be a douche. No I’ve never stepped in the ring and have been judged on my ability, it’s not one of my goals. Yes most of my cardio comes from boxing and kick boxing work, I can absolutely handle myself in almost any situation, fact is though, it doesn’t interest me like bodybuilding/powerlifting does and I don’t see myself competing in a fighting sport anytime soon.[/quote]
Fair enough, your idea of quality and mine differs and your desire to spend money on things I find worthless is your decision. It’s kind of like when I spent money on POGS back in the day (if anyone actually remembers those). Man I wish I had that money back.
As far as being able to handle yourself in almost any situation, it’s usually attitudes like that that get people killed in bar fights. The beer bottle to the head and the broken pool cue through the gut does a good bit more damage then a fist…any anyone can use them. I’ve seen big ass guys who thought they could handle themselves go down real quick. In a bar fight it’s not the person who is the best fighter or the strongest, it’s the person that is willing to take it to the most extreme level of violence the quickest. In the words of DBCooper “slit his throat”
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
Burn the shirt. Spend money on quality clothing or food (or if you want I’ll come and sharpie the words affliction on a white t-shirt and it’d be just about the same).[/quote]
I will buy whatever makes me look good and I feel good wearing as long as I am not going broke and have enough money to comfortably pay for my responsibilitys. Some people like shoes, I like my t-shirts, it’s money well spent if you’re spending it on something you enjoy. And that shirt comment was a joke lol, obviously I wasn’t getting comments because of a shirt I was wearing.[/quote]
Sure it’s not part of the culture? You’re a self-proclaimed MMA aficionado/“fighter”, that culture always seem to be sporting an affliction shirt (over-priced poor quality).
And as was said earlier, just because you look good in spandex, doesn’t mean it needs to be worn in public. I assumed the shirt comment was a joke.
Just because money is spent on something you like does not mean it’s well spent. I see a guy who works at the local grocery who has the latest and greatest of cell phones, gold teeth, shoes that probably cost way too much (and look retarded in my opinion), yet he has to use food stamps at the grocery store and I’ve heard him talking about how his kid “is just going to have to go to his mothers to eat this week.” So he likes his watch, his phone, his gold teeth, and his trendy shoes, you tell me, was it money well spent?
EDIT: Wow I rambled on a lot there. Put in some line breaks to break it up.[/quote]
Disagree on “Poor Quality,”
And that dude is a bum, most important part of what I wrote “I will buy whatever makes me look good and I feel good wearing as long as I am not going broke and have enough money to comfortably pay for my responsibilitys.”
And to answer the above dudes question of it being fucked up that I lied about fighting, well that seems to be the thing these days, everyone does MMA, everyone can kick anyones ass so when some bum asks me if I fight, yeah I’ll have my fun and be a douche. No I’ve never stepped in the ring and have been judged on my ability, it’s not one of my goals. Yes most of my cardio comes from boxing and kick boxing work, I can absolutely handle myself in almost any situation, fact is though, it doesn’t interest me like bodybuilding/powerlifting does and I don’t see myself competing in a fighting sport anytime soon.[/quote]
Fair enough, your idea of quality and mine differs and your desire to spend money on things I find worthless is your decision. It’s kind of like when I spent money on POGS back in the day (if anyone actually remembers those). Man I wish I had that money back.
As far as being able to handle yourself in almost any situation, it’s usually attitudes like that that get people killed in bar fights. The beer bottle to the head and the broken pool cue through the gut does a good bit more damage then a fist…any anyone can use them. I’ve seen big ass guys who thought they could handle themselves go down real quick. In a bar fight it’s not the person who is the best fighter or the strongest, it’s the person that is willing to take it to the most extreme level of violence the quickest. In the words of DBCooper “slit his throat”[/quote]
I don’t get into fights man, avoid confrentation as much as possible, just saying I am prepared.
Ohh and btw, I’ve been buying my shirts on ebay for 1/2-2/3 the retail price new with tags, so it’s not like I’m paying the retail 58 bucks a shirt. That’s a little crazy.
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
I say Benny Benis (Benny Benassi was the artist of the song that was playing and the only name I could think of to make up)[/quote]
Haha priceless. I only know the name of Benassi because my cousin’s a DJ and he’s headlined at Ministry of Sound (now defunct) in Singapore (Benassi that is) before.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
I think it’s funny how even if I’ve stayed virtually the same weight when someone saw me last, and I’m maybe a tad leaner/more muscular, they’re all “Wow man you’ve gotten HUGE since the last time I saw you” mainly because they’re not used to seeing muscular people, so when they see you again it’s like they realize how you look compared to most people all over again.
I’m expecting to get a lot of this when I visit home in a week for the first time in 11 months…[/quote]
You’re probably going to get the whole list of reactions from awe to wonder to fear to curiosity and everything in between. Would not be surprised if some didn’t recognize you (even family) haha.
was working in the trauma center today and had a crazy bum patient say:
“What do you bench press? Like two Volkswagens?”
then proceeds to say:
“I used to work out too but I dont anymore since I got out of prison.”
It was pretty awesome. I laughed and we BSed for a little while.
Fun thread!
When ever people find out that I practice karate I always get the “Whoa, I’ll have to be more careful around you!” comment as if I am totally going to snap one day and kick them in the face or something.
When I used the throw the discus in high school and junior high, I’d get the joking steroids comments from the boys because I could throw better than half of them. I wasn’t a big girl (5’6" ~120lbs) in school or anything either - just had the technique down. I’d joke along though and pull out my inhaler and say “yep, these steroids help me breathe!”
On the opposite side of things, there are plenty of people that thing they are huge and totally the shit. Hyena and i will walk over to a bench and notice dumbbells strewn about it-
Very loudly i would exclaim “Holy shit Man, Look at these dumbbells! Had to big some pretty damn big guys to lift these and leave em here. God i wish i was that huge”
“Well dude, they’re on the creatinze!”
“Obviously”
[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
On the opposite side of things, there are plenty of people that thing they are huge and totally the shit. Hyena and i will walk over to a bench and notice dumbbells strewn about it-
Very loudly i would exclaim “Holy shit Man, Look at these dumbbells! Had to big some pretty damn big guys to lift these and leave em here. God i wish i was that huge”
“Well dude, they’re on the creatinze!”
“Obviously”[/quote]
I gotta try this.
