How about this?
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[quote]DJHT wrote:
Nards always wins these threads, he works out in the most fucked up gym in the world. [/quote]
Thanks, but no way I’m posting any of those stories here as some people have gone full Spock mode and seem to be providing excuses for stuff they didn’t see.
Like if I tell the story about the woman than dances and hops on the treadmill and pushes the buttons so that they beep along with the gym’s music they’d just say that maybe she’s training for Dance Dance Revolution or something.[/quote]
Its more about you being average and making fun of people who are average. Its like when youre with a chick who is a 7 and she sees a 6.5 then proceeds to talk shit about her…
thats you.[/quote]
Damn Ct you in a bad mood?
Have you seen Nards videos?[/quote]
Im good
Yea Ive seen the vids and have been opposed to them from the beginning.
If Nards is so advanced in this gym shit why isnt he helping them rather than being a mouthbreathing voyeur?
I talk a lot of shit but Id never talk or look down on someone with the only intent of humiliating them. Yea Ive laughed at people lifting but best believe I made attempts at making sure they understood what they were doing is wrong and how to fix it.
Its completely classless to do otherwise.
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I think you’re missing the point of Nards’ vids. He lives in a different world. Some of the antics he has filmed are not the sort of behaviour you can fix with a few words of advice.
Some of the stuff, like the girl dancing on the treadmill, flys in the face of common sense. If he told her to use the treadmill properly I doubt her response would be positive. She knows how to use the treadmill properly otherwise she wouldn’t be able to dance around like she does. She does it that way because she wants to.
I hear what you’re saying, Rock. I appreciate and agree with the sentiment behind it, but Nards isn’t some assless facehole that hides in anonymity. He puts himself out there and isn’t the vindictive type.
His squat rack curl vid put it all in perspective. The cardinal sin of gyms around the world is probably CT-level innovation in the eyes of his fellow gym-goers.
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Since when does doing something because you want to do it, in a manner that isn’t harming anyone at all, require “fixing”? Who’s to say what is and isn’t the correct way to use the treadmill? Why do we work out in the first place? Pretty much every reason boils down to a simple sentiment: we want to be happy/happier.
Looks and sounds to me like this crazed Flip is pretty happy doing what she does on the treadmill, so what’s the problem? She isn’t conforming to whatever outlandish standards you’ve set for everyone, including people on the other side of the Equator and in a different hemisphere?
She may know how to use the treadmill and this may be her choice to use it in the weird manner that she does, but I for one applaud her and her eccentricities. It’s about time people started going into the gym and started having some fun with their workouts. I can’t imagine that whatever rain dance she’s performing on that treadmill doesn’t have SOME sort of cardio aspect to it that benefits her. So what’s the problem?[/quote]
Have you seen the video? Did you read Rock’s post as well as my response before you replied? Thought not.[/quote]
I’ve seen the video, and many like it. I did not read Rock’s post or your response since I was typing up my post when yours and his were posted. What does anything that either of you said have to do with my post?
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How did you come to directly respond to my post then? You hopefully read my response because it’s quoted directly above your reply. [/quote]
I thought you were talking about the after the post above.
Again, what is your point? You specifically referred to “antics” that need to be fixed, and then directly referred to the woman dancing on the treadmill. What about her behavior needs to be “fixed”? And let’s get right down to the gist of things here. What makes you think you are the person to decide what behavior in the gym is broken and needs fixing in the first place.
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No, I fucking well didn’t say that…If you dispense with the creative writing for a moment and read my reponses to Rock’s comments, you will see that I was not passing judgement on anybody’s gym behaviour and you will see my point: I was defending Nards and his clips - no more, no less.
It’s cool though. You have a following and I don’t, so people are are going to side with what you say no matter what. No wonder egos get so inflated around here.[/quote]
I have a “following” on here? Really? I wasn’t aware that I had a fan club and every time I turn around I don’t see anyone following me. And believe me, my ego was hyper-inflated long before I’d ever even heard of this site.
"Some of the antics he has filmed are not the sort of behaviour you can fix with a few words of advice.
Some of the stuff, like the girl dancing on the treadmill, flys in the face of common sense. If he told her to use the treadmill properly I doubt her response would be positive. She knows how to use the treadmill properly otherwise she wouldn’t be able to dance around like she does. She does it that way because she wants to."
Those are your words. Are you telling me that you didn’t mean any of that? Because I fail to see how the above quote is not you passing judgment on others. What would you call “use the treadmill properly”? What about “She does it that way because she wants to”? Or, my personal favorite, “…not the sort of behavior you can fix with a few words of advice”? That isn’t you judging her behavior? That’s you supporting something that Nards said?
Oh, I get it now. You speak some long-forgotten version of English that I’m unfamiliar with where words have entirely different meanings than they do in the more common version of English that the rest of the Western world has been speaking for centuries now. I believe it’s known by its original name, I Don’t Have The Slightest Concept of Reading Comprehensionlish.
Look, first of all not everyone here sides with everything I have to say. It may happen frequently, but only because I am frequently right and/or because when people disagree with me I do a pretty damn good job of explaining my reasoning behind why I feel the way I do and why I feel they are wrong. But believe me, NOT everyone on here agrees with me. Obviously you haven’t read the MLB thread. I wouldn’t be sporting this stupid fucking avatar if everyone in THERE agreed with me.
So I ask you for a third time: what about her behavior needs fixing? What about her use of the treadmill is really that improper compared to how other people use it? What is wrong with her using it the way she wants to?[/quote]
A third time? Oh, fuck off. You can write but you can’t read. You have to respond with paragraphs of misdirection simply because you misread what I had to say it the first place.
To recap: Count Rockula told Nards to give his fellow gymgoers good advice instead of looking down on them. I told Rock that some people in the gym don’t want to be fixed. That was the point of Nards’ vids. You skimmed over Rock’s posts and called me out for passing judgement on people and asked me three times why I said anybody needed to be “fixed”. Except I never said that - it was Rock.
Is that clear enough?[/quote]
When you say that some people don’t want to be fixed, the overt implication is that something is broken. What is broken? What does Nards think is broken, if you’re simply trying to guess at what his feelings about the matter are. And if that is NARDS’ point and not yours, why would you not make clear that you don’t feel this person’s use of the treadmill is not broken and does not need to be fixed, instead of blatantly citing it as an example of something that is not fixable with a few words of advice. And when you channel your inner Nards in the future, could you indicate when it is that you are now Nards speaking through Roybot and when it is actually you speaking?
I’m not going after Rock because he corrected/clarified his feelings on the matter, whereas you have apparently spoken in vague, cryptic terms in which you may or may not have channeled Nards’ thoughts on the issue into your own brain. Your “recap” is nothing more than revisionism after the fact. The ONLY thing that is clear here is what you said, which I directly quoted and which was the progenitor of this whole argument.
So, for a fourth time. What is broken that needs to be fixed? And if you feel that what Nards’ allegedly MAY have thought about the matter is wrong, why is the way she used the treadmill NOT broken.
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Repeat after me. I. Never. Said. Anyone. Was. Broken. [/quote]
Just explain the meaning of your quote a little more clearly, specifically this one: “Some of the antics he has filmed are not the sort of behavior that can be fixed with a few words of advice.”
What is broken that needs to be fixed? Did you disagree with his assessment that her use of the treadmill was broken? I don’t know why it’s so hard for you to directly and unambiguously answer these simple questions. You wrote it, and yet you can’t explain what you meant by the above sentence? It’s pretty clear to me what you meant, but I can’t understand WHY we seem to be at an impasse about it. I’m sure you’ll answer THAT question with more profanity and sophistry that avoids answering what I’ve spent 2 pages trying to get answered. Maybe if I just keep asking over and over again you’ll eventually slip up and actually tell me what YOU meant by the sentence I directly quoted from you above.[/quote]
I’ve answered you. You aren’t reading. Rockula said that Nards should be helping people instead of filming them. I said that some don’t want to be helped - there’s nothing ambiguous about it and nothing to read into here. There’s nothing “broken”, nothing to be “fixed”. Any sophistry is coming from you.
I know you know what I’m saying and you’re trying to make a spectacle of me. Congratulations. Hope you feel all warm and glowy inside.
I think video taping these people is pretty damn voyeuristic. Many of these gyms even have no cameras allowed signs because of things like this. Just like the op thought mechanical resistance using a towel was the strangest thing he had seen. Honestly, the only way I could see someone being ok with that is if they think they themselves don’t stand out enough for anyone else to tape.
I think doing that and posting it on the internet for fun is pretty fucked up. What’s the escalation of that behavior? What happens when people start video taping you walk all of the way home?
I’ve said this in the past about nard’s videos. Nard can be the “nicest” poster in the planet and it doesn’t erase how strange that is.
I am really wondering how some here would feel if they turned around and found out they were being taped just for the lulz. All of the women here would be ok with this? Their husbands and boyfriends too?
Seriously, can you finish your argument or take it somewhere else?
[quote]Alex27 wrote:
Seriously, can you finish your argument or take it somewhere else?[/quote]
Sure. Tell DB Cooper to rewind to the point where he should have read the post I was responding to instead of spinning a ripping yarn informing me of what I meant to say.
Hi, sorry, I was sleeping.
First: I label my videos “How Not To Work Out” and try not to name any names or say “What an idiot!” except for the first one I made which was the woman on the treadmill and I named it “Nutbar on the Treadmill”
One thing you need to know is that in my video she has people on her left and right. I’ve seen her one other time and if there are free treadmills next to her she will turn them on also at a low speed and hop from one to another. I haven’t seen her in a long time and am thinking she got banned.
Also, indeed I may be considered an asshole or jerk for taping these people (I try to never tape their face, as I believe that truly is illegal as opposed to just video taping the public) but I get comments on youtube about me being a pervert.
Now I understand that the people who don’t like my taping of people (by the way, it’s not like I camp with the camera for crying out loud…I have it in my gym bag in my locker anyway and fetch it when i see stuff) would like to insult me, it’s the internet, but just please class me properly as an asshole because other than the woman on the treadmill my videos are of guys and I’m certainly not taping it because I think they’re hot.
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[quote]Alex27 wrote:
Seriously, can you finish your argument or take it somewhere else?[/quote]
Sure. Tell DB Cooper to rewind to the point where he should have read the post I was responding to instead of spinning a ripping yarn informing me of what I meant to say.[/quote]
Im not going to join the argument but you are right it should have been ended at that point. Any point for that matter. I just want to know what kinds of things people have seen out there, not see pages and pages of quotes from an argument that really does not need to continue over 3 pages.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Hi, sorry, I was sleeping.
First: I label my videos “How Not To Work Out” and try not to name any names or say “What an idiot!” except for the first one I made which was the woman on the treadmill and I named it “Nutbar on the Treadmill”
One thing you need to know is that in my video she has people on her left and right. I’ve seen her one other time and if there are free treadmills next to her she will turn them on also at a low speed and hop from one to another. I haven’t seen her in a long time and am thinking she got banned.
Also, indeed I may be considered an asshole or jerk for taping these people (I try to never tape their face, as I believe that truly is illegal as opposed to just video taping the public) but I get comments on youtube about me being a pervert.
Now I understand that the people who don’t like my taping of people (by the way, it’s not like I camp with the camera for crying out loud…I have it in my gym bag in my locker anyway and fetch it when i see stuff) would like to insult me, it’s the internet, but just please class me properly as an asshole because other than the woman on the treadmill my videos are of guys and I’m certainly not taping it because I think they’re hot.[/quote]
Them being male or female really isn’t the issue. I made it your girlfriend or wife because that seems to be the only time that people consider that maybe they wouldn’t want the same happening to them.
The news does this by video taping from behind or with the entire face blocked. I haven’t seen many of your vids, but the one I did see, the girl’s face was visible…and yeah, you called her a nutbar. She may be a real nutcase, but by doing that, if people really knew who you were and who she was, you just committed slander or libel depending on how you look at it.
Yeah, you just may have good intentions…but those intentions don’t matter when the outcome is video taping people when they don’t know just to make fun of them later. I mean, even if you don’t personally, you know others will.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
And really roybot, stop patronizing me with this “you can write” and “you have a following on here” bullshit. I KNOW I can write and my paycheck each month confirms this. I don’t need further confirmation from you.[/quote]
It was meant a compliment. But thanks for the confirmation that you don’t take compliments well.
As for the following, you have one, you know it and you revel in it. Catchphrases, the full shebang.
[quote]Alex27 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
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Seriously, can you finish your argument or take it somewhere else?[/quote]
Sure. Tell DB Cooper to rewind to the point where he should have read the post I was responding to instead of spinning a ripping yarn informing me of what I meant to say.[/quote]
Im not going to join the argument but you are right it should have been ended at that point. Any point for that matter. I just want to know what kinds of things people have seen out there, not see pages and pages of quotes from an argument that really does not need to continue over 3 pages.[/quote]
It shouldn’t have started at all. He jumped in on Rock’s side because of the Rape Axe double act without reading what was going on. The quotes were necessary because he was trying to obscure what I said. 90 % 0f the quotes are him ramblimg over what I said when I stated my opinion quite clearly in a few lines.
Very true roybot. So have you seen anything odd in the gym lately?
Disclaimer: This is not to make fun of people, just merely to state something that you saw that was out of the ordinary.
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Trust me on this when I say the two biggest problems on this site are sycophants who side with certain members regardless of what they say (no further comment on that), or posters that collectively chase after others because of certain unwritten rules, yet not just leave trolls who pride themselves on staying where they are alone, but defend them through reams of bullshit.
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the cliques here are annoying.
the sycophants are annoying.
the men that grovel over vixens in SAMA to get a semi-nude pic are annoying.
what’s new?
pretty much mimics real life.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Alex27 wrote:
How about sharing some of the things that scare you/make you cringe at the gym? Like when people slam the bar on their chest while benching (smashing their sternum one rep at a time)[/quote]
The scariest shit I’ve ever seen at the gym is some jerk coyly pulling his cellphone out and proceeding to film some other jerk performing what looked like about 90% of the lifter’s 1rm for squats on a BOSU ball, and then laughing about it and posting it on here instead of advising the guy that 1) it’s totally unsafe to do that and 2) it doesn’t actually increase your balance or really do anything for you at all that regular squats doesn’t, except put you in prime position to suffer a horrific compound fracture of your tibia.[/quote]
serious question:
do you actually believe anyone that would squat on a bosu ball be receptive to some random dude’s intervention? I mean, you don’t wake up one day and decide to squat on the bosu ball. that person obviously believes they ARE informed. feel me?
[quote]Alex27 wrote:
Very true roybot. So have you seen anything odd in the gym lately?
Disclaimer: This is not to make fun of people, just merely to state something that you saw that was out of the ordinary.[/quote]
Well, I don’t see many odd occurences, but some dude almost hit me in the face at the end of a set of what I can only describe as vague rear delt pulls with a rope attachment. He dropped the weight (he drops the weight on every exercise) and sort of did a spinning backfist as he bailed on the last set.
I’m not taking a position on the whole video-taping deal, but if you’re in public, there is no expectation of privacy, no right of privacy, and therefore no crime…unless you’re trying to film up a girl’s skirt for instance.
Picture him doing the stories.
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[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Alex27 wrote:
How about sharing some of the things that scare you/make you cringe at the gym? Like when people slam the bar on their chest while benching (smashing their sternum one rep at a time)[/quote]
The scariest shit I’ve ever seen at the gym is some jerk coyly pulling his cellphone out and proceeding to film some other jerk performing what looked like about 90% of the lifter’s 1rm for squats on a BOSU ball, and then laughing about it and posting it on here instead of advising the guy that 1) it’s totally unsafe to do that and 2) it doesn’t actually increase your balance or really do anything for you at all that regular squats doesn’t, except put you in prime position to suffer a horrific compound fracture of your tibia.[/quote]
serious question:
do you actually believe anyone that would squat on a bosu ball be receptive to some random dude’s intervention? I mean, you don’t wake up one day and decide to squat on the bosu ball. that person obviously believes they ARE informed. feel me?[/quote]
Sure I feel you. I don’t approach these people and offer any words of advice, ever. Why? Because I don’t give a fuck if they fall off and snap their femur in half. I don’t care about ANY of the bizarre shit I see in gyms, and I see it every day. I don’t care about anything they do and I am more than aware that if I intervene and offer advice it will go unheeded and probably also illicit some sort of nasty reaction.
HOWEVER, I also don’t come on here and start threads or participate in threads that boil down to nothing more than people making fun of the stupid shit people do in the gym. If someone cares enough to post their opinion on this shit or if it bothers them, they should actually do something about it rather than just pointlessly make fun of them or surreptitiously videotape them and then post it all over the Internet. If they’re going to videotape them, maybe they should at least have the balls to go up to the person in question and say “Hey you dipshit. You look ridiculous doing triceps pressdowns with 10lbs while standing on that BOSU ball and I’m going to videotape it and post it on the Internet so me and about 150 other people can make fun of you. Carry on.”
I could at least respect that. If someone is going to be a complete dickhead about the workout habits of others, the least they could do is own up to it to the target of their derision’s face.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Alex27 wrote:
Very true roybot. So have you seen anything odd in the gym lately?
Disclaimer: This is not to make fun of people, just merely to state something that you saw that was out of the ordinary.[/quote]
Well, I don’t see many odd occurences, but some dude almost hit me in the face at the end of a set of what I can only describe as vague rear delt pulls with a rope attachment. He dropped the weight (he drops the weight on every exercise) and sort of did a spinning backfist as he bailed on the last set.[/quote]
Oh those weight droppers lol. I have plenty of those at my gym. My favorite is this guy that loads up the bar in the power rack with 9 45’s on each side of the bar and does “shrugs”. Then he promptly drops the bar so that it slams onto the safties and makes a huge “bang” noise. (Just a little fun fact: he recently broke the j-hooks on the rack because of this behavior)
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
I’m not taking a position on the whole video-taping deal, but if you’re in public, there is no expectation of privacy, no right of privacy, and therefore no crime…unless you’re trying to film up a girl’s skirt for instance.[/quote]
I agree, there’s no expectation of privacy in public. However, that doesn’t excuse dickhead moves like inconspicuously videotaping someone for the sole purpose of anonymously ridiculing them on the Internet. Just because it isn’t against the law or anything like that doesn’t make it right.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
I’m not taking a position on the whole video-taping deal, but if you’re in public, there is no expectation of privacy, no right of privacy, and therefore no crime…unless you’re trying to film up a girl’s skirt for instance.[/quote]
I agree, there’s no expectation of privacy in public. However, that doesn’t excuse dickhead moves like inconspicuously videotaping someone for the sole purpose of anonymously ridiculing them on the Internet. Just because it isn’t against the law or anything like that doesn’t make it right.[/quote]
The moment you video tape it and add negative remarks or statements about that person, it becomes more than just a random video tape of the public. If it can be considered “defamation of character”, you can be sued for it.