This guy I know doesn’t lift. He’s just strong from all the arduous work he does on the police force:
[quote]deanosumo wrote:
This guy I know doesn’t lift. He’s just strong from all the arduous work he does on the police force:
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He can handcuff me any day!
[quote]RJ24 wrote:
Also, I’d take their looks over almost any others any day.
RJ [/quote]
Well…that makes one of us.
I am from Manila…
do you guys like, live in huts and shit?
"You look like tom cruise… do you get that alot?’
Sadly… I do.
[quote]GreenMountains wrote:
It would be nice if people would learn the difference between race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, and nationality.
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Ah yes, the difference between ethnicity and religion …
Co-worker, several years ago:
“So you don’t celebrate Christmas, do you? I thought you were from a Jewish background.”
What I had said to my co-worker when the subject of ancestry had came up several months earlier:
“My ancestry is 7 16ths Ukrainian, 1 16th Polish, 3 16ths English, 1 16th Irish, and 1 quarter Jewish. But my religion is Catholic.”
What he apparently heard:
(Like the sound of the adults in the Peanuts television specials and Peanuts movies: )
“Bwamp bwamp bwamp bwamp bwamp bwamp bwamp, bwamp bwamp, bwamp bwamp, bwamp bwamp, bwamp bwamp !!JEWISH!!. Bwamp bwamp bwamp bwamp bwamp.”
[quote]RJ24 wrote:
Also, I’d take their looks over almost any others any day.
RJ [/quote]
So you want to look like a strong looking fat dude? I’d rather be a strong looking lean dude, myself.
WTF?
No offense at all to any of the guys in the photo because you all seem a good bunch of blokes, but
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none of them look big. They look normal. Maybe Aussies are bigger in general coz that is what normal guys look like. And yes I realise everyone there is over 6 foot.
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none of them look like they go to the gym and workout because everyone is carrying way too much fat to look like that / be mistaken for looking like that. Then again it might be an Aussie thing, there are tonnes of people down here who are muscular and have low bodyfat … enough that the average person wouldn’t look at those guys and think they go to the gym. However the average person here would probably think that these guys play rugby … which is probably a bit of a compliment because a lot of people might associate going to the gym with being metrosexual, if not outright gay, down here (there are a lot of gays in Sydney)
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Have you actually met a pro bodybuilder or competitive (top level) strongman? they are fucking huge and make these guys - these normal, average looking guys - look really small. Again this is not a negative comment on those guys because they probably could compete if they put their mind to it. And maybe they should (not the guy with the bad knee though)
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I severely doubt bodyfat is below 15% in many of those guys
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the fact that they are not enormously muscular but are in fact strong is part of the reason people out there think that size and strength are not related and that huge bodybuilders are necessarily weak. There isn’t a direct relationship but there is a relationship. Unfortunately guys who are not super huge but are strong help perpetuate the myth.
Geeez bummer about the “no beer” wtf is with that in Australia legal age is 18 and usual age to start drinking, 13.
Again, no offense at all, it is good to see people being strong, relaxing, enjoying a beer and not being uptight about bodyfat etc… as opposed to people being neurotic, not eating, or alternatively, eating too much and being a lazy pig. I’d say these guys are not afraid of a big meal … eating large amounts of food is very anabolic and if they have grown up eating big and working hard, there lies the foundation of their strength. Something a lot of people around here need to learn.
Hang on what was this thread about?
Girl: “Excuse me, where is rapid roulette?”
Me: “Do you see that big flashing neon sign on the wall opposite us? The one that says rapid roulette? Well…um thats it”
[quote]maryjane wrote:
but i do have two pet turtles![/quote]
2 turtles don’t make an alligator…
mhh maybe… if they are hungry…
I don’t think it’s fair to pick on the Americans. The following question came from a German pen pal of my wife visiting SA:
Getting off the plane at Johannesburg International airport, she was genuinely dissapointed that there was no elephants or lions to be seen. She also wanted to get out of the car in the Kruger national park to pet a wild lion. When I pointed out that it will eat her, she asked: “But I thought lions eat meat?” And you are…?
Conversely, a local tour operator introduces al Americans as being “from Texas”.
Now let the American bashing continue:
The most frequent question I get asked by Americans when they learn that I am from Africa, is “Why are you white”
Secondly, whether I know the guys in these Nigerian 419 scam letters.
Damn… yes it’s true there are alot of stupid Americans.
Is that a wig? (Hating on my afro)
Me: No
Really?
Me: No
Me: Damn man your such a hypocrite
Friend: Whats a hypocrite?
Me: A female Hippopotamus
Yes he actually believed it, till a friend of mine had to ruin it 
Same friend as the last one: You know about computers right?
Me: Yea
F: Whats better 256 MB of RAM?
Me: … glares
F: …
Me: … (Wow he is this stupid?)
F: …
Friend #2: Or what?
Me: (Yes! not all my friends are retarded!) Burst out laughing
F: ???
Me: You can’t just ask me what is better you moron… you speak like that when comparing something.
F: (Doesn’t get it till another few seconds of explaining but I dont feel like typing more “…”) Ohh I meant is 256MB good?
2 Friends of mine were recently arguing but it was so wrong because one is smart and is modest about it, while the other is probably in the lowest 10% of all people intelligence wise, yet thinks he is the second coming of Einstein. So they are arguing about geography.
F2: Spain is next to mexico how much you want to bet.
F1: Have you ever seen a map? I am also 1/2 Mexican…
F2: See stupid you don’t even know shit about your own country.
F1: Whatever just look at a map someday.
They have another argument right after except france is next to canada this time.
I get asked are you from “X” country all the time. only like 20% of the retards who ask this get 1 country right, to be fair to guess all 4 would be almost impossible Egyptian, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian.
Stupidity runs rampant in NYC. I don’t even try to learn yet I know more about most subjcts then 95% of the people I meet. Well I guess I am gifted genetically with a 147 I.Q (If only I was gifted for lifting too! )
You would have gotten alot of ass off that 20 years ago. Now people probably think you just look like that “crazy guy in the moving pictures.”
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
"You look like tom cruise… do you get that alot?’
Sadly… I do.[/quote]
My uncle is like that. He’s never lifted weights in his life, but he’s in his mid 40s now and has been doing contruction since he was 14. He is ridiculously strong just from all of the work-related lifting he has done.
[quote]RJ24 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
chinadoll wrote:
And cool photo btw.
Agreed. Don’t take that as insult to the guys in the photo but I seriously doubt people are mistaking any of them for “bodybuilders” or people who spend a lot of time in the gym. I ahve no doubt many of them might be naturally strong, however.
Thanks for the compliment Chinadoll.
And to the Prof.
Yes, they are all extremely strong. The man to my right recently took a bet that he couldn’t carry 8 five gallon buckets of carpet glue across the warehouse by himself. Each bucket weighed about 50 lbs.
Long story short, he won the bet, holding the handles of four buckets in each hand. How’s that for grip strength?
And the guy to his right has loaded a 12’x50’ roll of vinyl from the ground up onto his shoulder and walked about 50 yards with it. FYI, the roll weighed in the neighborhood of 375-425 lbs.
Well, that’s it for now. But I do agree, none of them look like off season BBers, but I would bet they’re stronger than anyone I’ve ever ran into in the gym (not that that’s saying much).
Also, I’d take their looks over almost any others any day.
RJ [/quote]
[quote]Phatshady912 wrote:
Damn… yes it’s true there are alot of stupid Americans.
Is that a wig? (Hating on my afro)
Me: No
Really?
Me: No
Me: Damn man your such a hypocrite
Friend: Whats a hypocrite?
Me: A female Hippopotamus
Yes he actually believed it, till a friend of mine had to ruin it
Same friend as the last one: You know about computers right?
Me: Yea
F: Whats better 256 MB of RAM?
Me: … glares
F: …
Me: … (Wow he is this stupid?)
F: …
Friend #2: Or what?
Me: (Yes! not all my friends are retarded!) Burst out laughing
F: ???
Me: You can’t just ask me what is better you moron… you speak like that when comparing something.
F: (Doesn’t get it till another few seconds of explaining but I dont feel like typing more “…”) Ohh I meant is 256MB good?
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I hate when people ask computer stuff.
Person: You do computers don’t you?
wtf? how in the hell does someone “do computers”?
Or the common “I want to get into computers. I’m doing a course”. wft does that mean “get into computers”. Its not like a car or something. And even if “get into computers” made sense, I would expect that to involve some kind of programming, networking or database studies - not “Word for Windows 101”.
People dont say “I want to get into cars” and then take their driving test!
Another one…
At school (years ago) when we were discussing peoples backgrounds, the teacher was adamant that Trinidad (where my father was brought up) was part of the US - even though they gained their independence from BRITAIN in 1962.
Teachers can be so stupid…
While visiting the Mainland:
“Is the Pacific Ocean salty?”
[quote]chinadoll wrote:
He can handcuff me any day!
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*** Tries to clear mental images ***
DEMONS BE GONE!
DEMONS BE GONE!
got a few more.
Do you know Dave Matthews / Charlize Theron?
No, but I wish I knew her.
Do you know <insert name of random South African the person knows/met>
I mean clearly I should know every other South African currently living in the States.
[quote]Ren wrote:
I mean clearly I should know every other South African currently living in the States.
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Clearly. Slacker.
Btw, why do you all hang out with so many stupid people? I never hear these kinds of things, other than the occasional urban legend.
Israeli guy in Guatemalan Hostel was telling me that he though the Central American Lonely Planet Guide was good, but complained that it didn’t include Mexico. I told him that Mexico was not included because it is part of North America not Central America. He actually argued the point with me…
…but to be fair to him, many Americans and Canadians don’t know that Mexico is part of North America either. Ever heard of NAFTA?
Some British guy in same Guatemalan hostel, he asked me if I was from Texas… I said no, I was from Oregon. His very irate reply was… “you bloody Americans think that everyone knows where your state is.” … Uh… didn’t you just ask me? Anyway, when I travel and people ask where I am from I always say The States and only offer more detail if questioned further.
German woman in Colombian Hostel:
She was complaining that that Colombia “has no culture.” Funny, I thought that only Americans had no culture.