I thought I heard the distant pitter patter of back peddling.
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my physique is fine. very pleased with my progress. I just need a cut.
That is fine, it just sounds like you overstated it.
I am glad you are happy with your physique.
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I’m sure you’ve had this experience… Everyone wants to say ‘I used to look like you when I was X years old’, or ‘when I did Y’. I hear it all the fucking time. Sometimes the back pedaling immediately follows, which is always a little funny. ‘well not quite as big, but I was really strong for my size. I outlifted everyone on the football team’.
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what back peddling? I’m all natural that needs to lose some gut weight. I think I said that a few times? or maybe not?
No-one doubted either of those things. It’s the bit where you said you looked like a more muscular flipcollar that set off a few alarms I think
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Cute. Like my other responses haven’t been reasonable.
I didn’t say that it did. The real question is whether or not it has benefits society as a whole.
In some cases, a dual-income has enabled men to have a better work-life balance and has reduced the financial burden men once shouldered solely. The shift from goods production to services has opened a ton of career fields for men. I assume you work in an office as do I and most of the posters here. Most of us would be working an assembly line a few decades ago.
I would list others, but it’s clear by your response you didn’t understand my post.
*As an example, I’m about to take a break (I’m currently telecommuting) and go bench in my home gym. A home gym I would likely not have without our dual-income.
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more muscular looking? absolutely not. more mass? probably.
I’m 5’11 at 212lb. If I lean down to 180lb, Jesus… I don’t even know if it would be possible to keep mass and get that lean without taking something.
Yes, let’s bold that in some cases.
I feel like the income a man could have gotten 50 years ago is now split between the man and the woman a lot of time.
We can see that the cost of living, inflation, has all gone up, and wages have been stagnant. Average combined income for most Americans I believe hovers around 56k
tbf I find your posts to be extremely unreasonable … especially the one where you berated a gate attendant at the airport for your flight being canceled then proceeded to throw a tantrum and doused yourself in hot coffee in protest in the middle of the terminal. Very very unreasonable.
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See the pictures of @T3hPwnisher above. Or 5 years ago @flipcollar. Or plenty of others on this site alone.
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I feel like this is another one of those instances where you may not be able to observe the breakdown in your communication style, so allow me to explain via analogy.
There you and I are: in line at Taco Bell. It’s a good day. They’re advertising the $5 box, and it’s got everything: a burrito, nachos, a taco, EVEN dessert and a drink.
I say "Oh man, that looks REALLY good"
you reply "I have $5. I’ll buy it and you and I can split it."
I’m really shocked. How generous of you! Then, we get to the register, you pull out your wallet and go "Well, actually, I don’t have $5. In truth, that’s too much money to expect an average guy like to just HAVE. The guys walking around with $5 are most likely cheating.”
So now I’m a little disappointed, because you originally said you have $5, and I believed you, and I had my heart set on splitting that taco, burrito, nachos and dessert with you. I was even going to let you have ALL of the drink, because you were treating and sharing drinks is how you get mono.
But then you say “But I ALMOST have $5 in my wallet.”
So I look, and just me luck: Nachos Bel Grande are $4.38! That’s pretty much almost $5, and I LOVE me some Nachos Bel Grande.
And then you look into your wallet again and go “Hey man, look, I don’t have that much money. I have $2.76. But I’m really PROUD of that $2.76! I worked hard for it. All I need to do is just earn a little more money.”
Man, that’s great and all, but I REALLY wanted some nachos.
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And you guys are pretty funny in here, very interesting group…
making a jab at my comment about being a teenage athlete , I mean those are the most vital years of an athletes life, it’s when you know if you are going to be a college/pro bound athlete
Or do you guys believe a skinny unathletic kid at 18 all of a sudden finds himself in his late 20s early 30s and is able to go pro beast mode??? lollllll
I’ve known plenty of tiny dudes that decided to poke the bum bum and turn into a totally new person. That doesn’t fucking say much besides that you react really well to performance enhancing drugs.
This shit is hilarious.
EDIT: but my apologies, I forget where I am sometimes. bodybuilding has never been much respected around athletic circles, it’s a vanity sport mainly to do with what type of substances you can put together and perform with and the luck of draw when it comes to insertions. But you all know that.
Then why are you here at all?
For exactly that, vanity.
But I’m not the type of dude that is going to boast about how awesome I am at the gym when I know half or more than half was achieved with supplementation.
I already get enough of that at the public gym I go to. There’s 22 year olds in there that look like greek sculptures. If one of them opens their mouth about hard work… get what I’m saying? I roll my eyes.
Likely in many cases and possibly in most.
I don’t really care what you feel is the case. I feel like household income is double what it was 50 years ago.
Unsubstantiated opinions are fun!
Economic mobility isn’t stagnant. The number of ways a person can make a living is probably greater today than it was 50 years ago. People also live very differently now than they used to.
What was the average household income in the, say, 50s adjusted for inflation?
The worst part, the absolute worst part, was that when I got home my wife wasn’t there cooking me breakfast! I had to do it myself! The nerve of these women amirite.
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I object to this. I am objectively not funny.
Didn’t comment or doubt you for a second here, and it sucks you were injured.
I don’t understand your point here, or how it’s relevant to anything you’ve posted. Flip has already demonstrated it’s possible to be a high level amateur strongman from this start.
That’s nice. Also irrelevant to any post I’ve made.
Neither particularly true, nor relevant.
You stated above that you looked similar to flip, except carrying more muscle. Many people called bullshit. You backtracked. We have now ascertained that you do not have a physique comparable to flipcollars at all. That is all this conversation needed to be.
google “average household income”
google “stagnant wages” or “inflation vs wages” or “cost of living”
google “social mobility” hint: this gen will be the first that achieves less than their parents
google is your friend.
That’s normally what someone says when they don’t know what they’re talking about.
Fyi, average household income was about $25kish in the 50s (adjusted for inflation) per my friend.
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umm… ok?