[quote]StevenF wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]cstratton2 wrote:
haha apparently gyms in Taiwan are pretty well known for their character type members…
On a sidenote checking your ego at the door is pretty damn important for progress. [/quote]
Yeah, the gyms here (I can go to any one of World Gym’s 6 or 7 branches in the city) are filled with preening douche bags.
I mean every gym has its guys that wear all the gear, like straps and wraps and sleeves and wear the belt all the time and have tight Nike compression T shirts and only do lateral raises, shrugs and curls because it’s the easiest thing to do in the gym…I mean get some dumbbells from waist height and you only move your arms for all those exercises…I mean if there are more than 2 guys in the gym here at least one is doing lateral raises.
So as I was saying, every gym has those kind of guys but my gym really is mostly those types of guys.
This next story i tell while knowing that it’ll sound like complete bullshit:
There’s a personal trainer at one branch that wears all the stuff (even 5 Fingers) and starts his incline DB bench with the 5lb dumbbells!
I saw that and was startled…but I said to myself, just wait…his top DBs will be what decides it…so he went on to do the 10s, 15s, 20s, 25s, 30s and topped out at the 35s. And this has happened three times that I’ve seen over a few months, so there’s none of that “He was likely working around an injury” stuff…just trust me on this.
Aw man I’m getting depressed now.[/quote]
I’ve read these scenes of yours previously, Nards, and each time I get that weird internal feeling (not sure if it’s nausea or vertigo), like “This cannot be true”.
But I know it is. And it makes me HATE those stupid fuckers with a white-hot passion!
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Thanks for understanding…and I know what you mean about it sounding unreal, that’s why i know to preface with that thing where I say it sounds like I’m making this up.
There’s a story I actually stopped telling from about 15 years ago, because it sounded like it could have been true but wasn’t good enough and I embellished it…here goes (remember, this IS true)
Me and a buddy were at a bar, drinking on the patio and Dan Aykroyd was on the street, only about 15 feet away sitting on his parked motorcycle chatting with another couple of people on motorcycles. He was in Winnipeg filming a movie.
I’d had a beer or two and decided to say something, I even waited till he wasn’t talking to the other people on the motorcycles.I figure he’d heard the usual stuff so I said “Mr. Aykroyd, I really liked you in Driving Miss Daisy”
He didn’t turn his head but said “Thanks”
My buddy, who’d had a beer or two more than me instantly said “I liked in Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day!”
Dan Aykroyd finally looked at us and said “Uh, that was Bill Murray.”
My buddy said “Ah whatever, same thing!”
As I said I stopped telling that story with people I’ve met since (when my buddy Tim who said that isn’t around) because it just sounds made up. I saw it in people’s faces as I told it. Like they thought I was bullshitting.[/quote]
this is the BEST STORY I’VE EVER HEARD!!!
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Ha ha…y’see, if you’re not joking, then you can see why I stopped telling when people looked at me like I was lying.
If I were lying I’d have had me say it.
The neat thing was a few months later the movie Space Jam came out and me and that same buddy went to see it…in that movie Bill Murray walks in and Danny DeVito’s character sees him and says “Well well, it’s Dan Aykroyd!”
My buddy and I looked at each other like fish floundering on shore when that happened.
