The Flame-Free Confession Thread II

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9972

What I meant is, using “scapula” instead of “shoulder blades” is trying to be fancy, whereas “medial” in place of “lateral” is wrong.

Anyway, I agree with the fact that we don’t need to say “scapula” in place of shoulder blades. It does come more natural, for example, to an Italian speaker like me, to say scapula though. We have a word for scapula in Italian (scapola) and no word for shoulder blade. So I’m not necessarily assuming everybody that employs the former is trying to distract me with magic tricks, haha

9973

I understood. I was saying the latter is a consequence of the former.

9974

My bad, I misunderstood your response

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9975

I feel like the lateral delt got hosed. The front and rear delts get cool names like anterior and posterior.

“What about this other one in the middle?”

“Ehhhh, lateral? Sure, let’s go with that.”

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9976

While we are all on the subject, what are the general opinions on increasing size in posterior delts? I have generally strong shoulders overall (I think?), but my shoulder’s seem to develop in a rather imbalanced manner. I don’t know if I just over-emphasize regular barbell presses and neglect something that hits the posteriors better.

9977

Legit question:

Is lateral viewed as a “fancy” or uncommon word in English?

Side is lato in Italian, so laterale is a really common word. But being that lateral sounds nothing like side, doesn’t it still count as a fancy word?

9978

Fancy is pretty subjective, but yes Id say lateral is not used commonly outside of anything that isnt a particularly technical discussion.

You say I moved to the side, not I moved laterally, you talk about the side of your car, the side of your house, the side of anything you can think of where you probably could use the word lateral, but you’d have to go out of your way to do it.

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9979

About the only time I see an American use the word “lateral” is when discussing football.

And, of course, because we are stupid, we end up with lat raises and lateral pulldowns.

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9980

well… irregardless!

Haha, I kid, I kid. I still don’t use it actually lol

9981

I think so. I only really hear it when talking to those in the medical field

9982

“Lateral” where gym bros and doctors unite.

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9983

Have you forgotten about pharmacology?

Just one is professional, while the other is enthusiastic amateurs.

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9984

Possibly an understatement.

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9985

Every now and then I scan craigslist to see if there’s anything good up for grabs. I ran across this today. Unsure whether or not I should contact:

“variety home-only not comm. gym items ALL types. ASK QUES. have ltd puter times avail. must sell now, MUST SEE yo SELF! i dont have the inventory list. NO prof gym pcs; these r all home use only. none the xpensive big stuff either ok??? don’t waste both our times; TY.”

9986

Hope you dialed 911 to help the poor bastard having a stroke.

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9987

You should definitely buy the things he is selling so he can buy more drugs.

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9988

Medial instead of middle is trying to be fancy though.

9989

I just remembered the worst people are the ones who say clavicle instead of collar bone

9990

Okay I have to admit this: yesterday I wasn’t, but now I’m getting low key annoyed by that idiot that will now keep rambling for a week straight about how he’s right about medial being the same as lateral. I might have done my clown dick jerking circle yesterday but it appears he didn’t fail to do his own with his “biomechanic guys.” And they’re all still wrong.

Flame free

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9991

Living well is the best revenge.

If a dude has to call up a BUNCH of his friends (not 1) to invalidate something an 18 year old said to him on the internet, living well will not be difficult.

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