Weird Things You Have Seen at the Gym

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[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:

[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:

[quote]Alex27 wrote:

[quote]DBCooper wrote:
As far as the towel thing goes, what’s so weird about that? I’m trying to improve my grip strength for an upcoming Strongman comp so I do pullups, rows, pulldowns and T-bar rows with a towel.

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The weird thing about it is that his friend was holding it while he was pushing down on it. (Very awkward since the guy pushing down on in was on his knees and practically in the guys crotch) There were no barbells, machines or weights involved. What you are doing with the towels is great, good luck with your competition and I hope you overcome your plateau (I am currently in a plateau as well, it sucks)[/quote]

I face backeards so I dont see the mirror and focus more on keeping my head in one spot vs checking out how cute i am at the top of every rep…

the towel thing is fine too.[/quote]

Yeah. I never squat facing a mirror. I always turn the catches around to squat facing away. As awesome as I no doubt look, the mirror screws me up.
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I used to do this all the time. A gym I used to train at was on the 3rd floor of the building, and some jackass put the power racks by windows overlooking the parking lot. Looking out those windows, the other buildings, the parking lot, etc… Always fucked up my squatting. Some mild vertigo or something. Turning around and facing the opposite direction fixed that problem easily enough.

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[quote]DBCooper wrote:

[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:

[quote]DBCooper wrote:

Take your running arguments with Roguevampire. Personally, I think it’s unbecoming of you and I’ve made this clear multiple times. [/quote]

Dude, I guaran-fuckin-tee you he’s a troll. If he’s not a troll, I agree the arguments are unbecoming. “He” is too dumb to be true. Fuck, I could make much better use of my time period - the whole participation here is bordering on unbecoming and definitely unproductive![/quote]

Dude, OF COURSE he’s a troll. Either way, the arguments are ugly. But whatever. You’re right, this site is starting to degrade our intelligence levels. I mean, you can’t even parody the whole Accipiter/gay sexual assault thing and here I am stuck in some dead-end argument with roybot about some assumption he made about Nards’ mindset and opinion toward Filipinos who dance on a fucking TREADMILL! And then I engaged the poor motherfucker for three whole pages about it! We’re slipping BG, we’re slipping. From now on, I’m doing everyone a favor, myself included, and I’m going to stay out of as many threads as I can. I’ll just relegate myself to my advice thread and the MLB thread, which WestCoast has just summarily blocked me because of. [/quote]

I’m not slipping - this place as made me plumb stupid from the day I started participating in the forums. The sad thing is that I know it…try to pull out, and get pulled back in by some myterious anti-intelligence forum gravity.

Anyway, when a dude is a troll, the arguments cannot be ugly by rule. You’re “arguing” with an imaginary person and you know you’re doing such. It’s almost like acting. If I were arguing with a non-troll variety poster, you’d be 100% right. It’s parody brother, parody.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
LOL at being against “cliques” on this site…as if being “the guy against cliques” isn’t also now a clique as well. I swear I see just as many people around here making sure they point out that everyone else is “nutswinging” yet they seem to think this distinction puts them outside the drama…when it really puts them right in the middle.

The opposite of love is indifference…not caring so much about other people that you spend this much time in threads complaining about cliques.
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next, the opposite of love is actually hate.

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[quote]Nards wrote:
ALL I ask is that you guys who don’t like the videos I’ve captured call me an asshole, just please not a pervert.
I love T-Nation because you guys that don’t like the idea make that distinction that it may be “kind of” bad but you don’t go as far as some of the guys on youtube that post in all of my gym videos (there are about 20) and on my channel page that I’m a “fat ugly pussy fucker” etc. etc.

The oddest thing I’ve found is the people that are understandably against it ( I am taping people after all) but go on and try and make excuses for the stuff the people are doing. I don’t agree with that kind of attitude. A guy doing 2 inch ROM 30lb lat pulldowns is doing something no-good. Just because you think I’m an asshole doesn’t mean you have to think the guy in the video I made is actually right. That’s one thing that bugs me. And if a guy calls me fat and ugly…how does that change the fact that the guy in the video I made is sitting on the floor with the Smith machine’s bar on his back? And I’m not exactly sure how they know I’m fat…it’s true but I don’t have any videos where you can see me, except one where I’m trying to do one of them carnival games where you hit the thing with a sledgehammer and ring the bell, and that video has about 50 views.

And Professor X, I must mention that when I taped that woman on the treadmill, you can only see her face because she spins around like a bunny rabbit. I did not intentionally tape her face.[/quote]

Meh to the whole thing. We live in a society and age where everyone is on camera pretty much all the time while in public. Everywhere. I challenge everyone to really ponder that. That said, everyone’s taste for humor is different. I "get it’ that you’re trying to be humorous. I agree that some of the people that you have taped are loony motherfuckers. Would I tape them? No. I just don’t care. I am as someone said, “indifferent” - does that mean I hate it? LOL Other people will see it as mean spirited. We have and have had entire TV shows dedicated to pretty much what you’re doing. In addition, “sports bloopers” and the ensuing commentary pretty much mimic what you do. For crying out loud - there is more than one show that focuses on nothing but horrific accidents caught on tape. There will always be people that are “entertained” by others misfortunte or folly, and others that think it’s mean, and still others that are “indifferent” to it. In general, we are increasingly a “voyeuristic” society and there is certainly no privacy once you step out your front door. It’s the world we now live in and it has been since you could tape someone from your PHONE.

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[quote]overstand wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
LOL at being against “cliques” on this site…as if being “the guy against cliques” isn’t also now a clique as well. I swear I see just as many people around here making sure they point out that everyone else is “nutswinging” yet they seem to think this distinction puts them outside the drama…when it really puts them right in the middle.

The opposite of love is indifference…not caring so much about other people that you spend this much time in threads complaining about cliques.
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Look at this asshole, acting like he’s not in a clique, when in reality he’s now part of “the guy who points out that the guy against cliques is now a clique” clique.[/quote]

LOL. The point is, you are as much in this as the people you criticize. That is all.

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[quote]Nards wrote:
ALL I ask is that you guys who don’t like the videos I’ve captured call me an asshole, just please not a pervert.
I love T-Nation because you guys that don’t like the idea make that distinction that it may be “kind of” bad but you don’t go as far as some of the guys on youtube that post in all of my gym videos (there are about 20) and on my channel page that I’m a “fat ugly pussy fucker” etc. etc.

The oddest thing I’ve found is the people that are understandably against it ( I am taping people after all) but go on and try and make excuses for the stuff the people are doing. I don’t agree with that kind of attitude. A guy doing 2 inch ROM 30lb lat pulldowns is doing something no-good. Just because you think I’m an asshole doesn’t mean you have to think the guy in the video I made is actually right. That’s one thing that bugs me. And if a guy calls me fat and ugly…how does that change the fact that the guy in the video I made is sitting on the floor with the Smith machine’s bar on his back? And I’m not exactly sure how they know I’m fat…it’s true but I don’t have any videos where you can see me, except one where I’m trying to do one of them carnival games where you hit the thing with a sledgehammer and ring the bell, and that video has about 50 views.

And Professor X, I must mention that when I taped that woman on the treadmill, you can only see her face because she spins around like a bunny rabbit. I did not intentionally tape her face.[/quote]

Dude, I don’t think it makes you a pervert. I grew up in the 80’s too.

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In my opinion, Nards videos are not that bad. They didn’t trigger my “White Knight” alarm.

Also, I wouldn’t be too offended if someone, internet or live, laughs at me because when rising from taking my notebook, I hit the barbell. I’m the first one who laughs at this. Just clumsy stuff. But I’d get irritated if someone would mock my (lack of) strength.
In the CSR thread, “we” mock the former, not the latter.

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In my last year of living in Japan, I became friends with an American pilot. He was from New Jersey originally, but had spent 10+ years flying out of various exotic locales and banging the hell out of the local stewardesses. Great guy, but much preferred statements to questions - you all know the type. He was maybe 5 feet tall and 240 pounds - lots of muscle, but a lot more flub. You know those old Looney Tunes where the character swallows something and their body adopts the shape of it? This guy looked like he swallowed 25 cannonballs.

Anyway, he tells me he’s looking for a gym, so I recommend mine. From his first workout I knew he’d be a tremendous source of comedy. He had the habit of giving a very vocal running commentary whenever he’d do an exercise. He’d be doing curls, for instance, and announce at 110 decibels - roughly the same noise level as one of his planes taking off - that his “biceps are fucking infernos”. Sometimes he’d just repeat the name of the exercise he was doing, punctuated by odd grunts and random noises. “Lateral raises! Medial delts!! GGGG-HWAAAAH!!!”, and so forth. He saw moments of silence as threatening holes, holes which he needed to fill, either with words or random sounds.

Needless to say, his demeanor was in stark contrast to the rest of the Japanese gym-goers, who would lift in complete silence. Even the background music was muted, so this pilot provided the involuntary soundtrack to a lot of people’s workouts.

He insisted on watching me whenever I would do squats. He wasn’t spotting me - I’m 6’4" and he wouldn’t have been physically able to - but rather acted as a cheerleader, one that I didn’t want but also didn’t have the heart to shoo away. Instead of the usual “it’s all you”, “one more rep”, and so forth that you hear at most gyms, his “cheers” were a combination of an 1800’s auctioneer and a cattle driver. I’d see him approach in the mirror and prepared myself for the onslaught of noise which was to follow. He was fond of saying “GYUP!”, but only when squatting. An example would be as follows:

“GYUP GYUP GYUP!! Doin’ heavy squats!! GYUP goin’ heavy, GYUP goin’ deep!! Push it out GYUP GYUP GYUP GGGG-HWAAAHH!!”.

I’m not exaggerating here. I think I’m actually understating his enthusiasm. It was distracting, but I could never tell him so. Like I said, great guy, one who hooked me up with four separate Japanese stewardesses over the course of 6 months.

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[quote]Edevus wrote:
In my opinion, Nards videos are not that bad. They didn’t trigger my “White Knight” alarm.

Also, I wouldn’t be too offended if someone, internet or live, laughs at me because when rising from taking my notebook, I hit the barbell. I’m the first one who laughs at this. Just clumsy stuff. But I’d get irritated if someone would mock my (lack of) strength.
In the CSR thread, “we” mock the former, not the latter.[/quote]

My point was, it is easy to say that you don’t care. My guess is, if the scenario was that your girl who just started training gets laughed at on the internet, she just may stop going at all. Yeah, we might be talking about distant possibilities and I doubt anything Nards has posted could cause that effect, but it is the same idea.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:
In my opinion, Nards videos are not that bad. They didn’t trigger my “White Knight” alarm.

Also, I wouldn’t be too offended if someone, internet or live, laughs at me because when rising from taking my notebook, I hit the barbell. I’m the first one who laughs at this. Just clumsy stuff. But I’d get irritated if someone would mock my (lack of) strength.
In the CSR thread, “we” mock the former, not the latter.[/quote]

My point was, it is easy to say that you don’t care. My guess is, if the scenario was that your girl who just started training gets laughed at on the internet, she just may stop going at all. Yeah, we might be talking about distant possibilities and I doubt anything Nards has posted could cause that effect, but it is the same idea.[/quote]

I can actually understand it. If you are feeling insecure about something, and starting at the gym is usually quite frightening, being mocked, even if in good spirit, can be devastating.

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[quote]Edevus wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:
In my opinion, Nards videos are not that bad. They didn’t trigger my “White Knight” alarm.

Also, I wouldn’t be too offended if someone, internet or live, laughs at me because when rising from taking my notebook, I hit the barbell. I’m the first one who laughs at this. Just clumsy stuff. But I’d get irritated if someone would mock my (lack of) strength.
In the CSR thread, “we” mock the former, not the latter.[/quote]

My point was, it is easy to say that you don’t care. My guess is, if the scenario was that your girl who just started training gets laughed at on the internet, she just may stop going at all. Yeah, we might be talking about distant possibilities and I doubt anything Nards has posted could cause that effect, but it is the same idea.[/quote]

I can actually understand it. If you are feeling insecure about something, and starting at the gym is usually quite frightening, being mocked, even if in good spirit, can be devastating.[/quote]

Which is the only statement being made. I am used to people looking at me. I have even looked up and saw a guy video taping me. It didn’t bother me. I would be more upset if after all of this time in the gym, no one noticed.

But everyone isn’t like that…and you never know how becoming a spectacle can affect someone.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:
In my opinion, Nards videos are not that bad. They didn’t trigger my “White Knight” alarm.

Also, I wouldn’t be too offended if someone, internet or live, laughs at me because when rising from taking my notebook, I hit the barbell. I’m the first one who laughs at this. Just clumsy stuff. But I’d get irritated if someone would mock my (lack of) strength.
In the CSR thread, “we” mock the former, not the latter.[/quote]

My point was, it is easy to say that you don’t care. My guess is, if the scenario was that your girl who just started training gets laughed at on the internet, she just may stop going at all. Yeah, we might be talking about distant possibilities and I doubt anything Nards has posted could cause that effect, but it is the same idea.[/quote]

I can actually understand it. If you are feeling insecure about something, and starting at the gym is usually quite frightening, being mocked, even if in good spirit, can be devastating.[/quote]

Which is the only statement being made. I am used to people looking at me. I have even looked up and saw a guy video taping me. It didn’t bother me. I would be more upset if after all of this time in the gym, no one noticed.

But everyone isn’t like that…and you never know how becoming a spectacle can affect someone.[/quote]

I personally don’t like it, but it really depends why you are being made fun of. Hallowed posted a video, recorded by herself, of some woman dancing in front of the mirror. I think that’s funny, some genuine comedy.
While at my gym there’s an overweight guy who does some “exercices”, with very poor form (waving the dumbbell for curls and etc.) and takes easily 10 minutes break between sets. I’d dislike if someone recorded him to make fun of him instead of helping him. I’d do it myself, but between language barrier and not looking credible enough…

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[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
LOL at being against “cliques” on this site…as if being “the guy against cliques” isn’t also now a clique as well. I swear I see just as many people around here making sure they point out that everyone else is “nutswinging” yet they seem to think this distinction puts them outside the drama…when it really puts them right in the middle.

The opposite of love is indifference…not caring so much about other people that you spend this much time in threads complaining about cliques.
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next, the opposite of love is actually hate.[/quote]

Actually, it isn’t. The opposite of caring is NOT caring. Hate requires emotion towards someone.

That is why the statement, “the opposite of love is apathy” is well known.

See, you get to learn something everyday.

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[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:
ALL I ask is that you guys who don’t like the videos I’ve captured call me an asshole, just please not a pervert.
I love T-Nation because you guys that don’t like the idea make that distinction that it may be “kind of” bad but you don’t go as far as some of the guys on youtube that post in all of my gym videos (there are about 20) and on my channel page that I’m a “fat ugly pussy fucker” etc. etc.

The oddest thing I’ve found is the people that are understandably against it ( I am taping people after all) but go on and try and make excuses for the stuff the people are doing. I don’t agree with that kind of attitude. A guy doing 2 inch ROM 30lb lat pulldowns is doing something no-good. Just because you think I’m an asshole doesn’t mean you have to think the guy in the video I made is actually right. That’s one thing that bugs me. And if a guy calls me fat and ugly…how does that change the fact that the guy in the video I made is sitting on the floor with the Smith machine’s bar on his back? And I’m not exactly sure how they know I’m fat…it’s true but I don’t have any videos where you can see me, except one where I’m trying to do one of them carnival games where you hit the thing with a sledgehammer and ring the bell, and that video has about 50 views.

And Professor X, I must mention that when I taped that woman on the treadmill, you can only see her face because she spins around like a bunny rabbit. I did not intentionally tape her face.[/quote]

Meh to the whole thing. We live in a society and age where everyone is on camera pretty much all the time while in public. Everywhere. I challenge everyone to really ponder that. That said, everyone’s taste for humor is different. I "get it’ that you’re trying to be humorous. I agree that some of the people that you have taped are loony motherfuckers. Would I tape them? No. I just don’t care. I am as someone said, “indifferent” - does that mean I hate it? LOL Other people will see it as mean spirited. We have and have had entire TV shows dedicated to pretty much what you’re doing. In addition, “sports bloopers” and the ensuing commentary pretty much mimic what you do. For crying out loud - there is more than one show that focuses on nothing but horrific accidents caught on tape. There will always be people that are “entertained” by others misfortunte or folly, and others that think it’s mean, and still others that are “indifferent” to it. In general, we are increasingly a “voyeuristic” society and there is certainly no privacy once you step out your front door. It’s the world we now live in and it has been since you could tape someone from your PHONE.[/quote]

Thanks.

As someone else put it once, my videos are sort of like hot dogs. Better to just enjoy them and not ask how they were made.

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[quote]Edevus wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:
In my opinion, Nards videos are not that bad. They didn’t trigger my “White Knight” alarm.

Also, I wouldn’t be too offended if someone, internet or live, laughs at me because when rising from taking my notebook, I hit the barbell. I’m the first one who laughs at this. Just clumsy stuff. But I’d get irritated if someone would mock my (lack of) strength.
In the CSR thread, “we” mock the former, not the latter.[/quote]

My point was, it is easy to say that you don’t care. My guess is, if the scenario was that your girl who just started training gets laughed at on the internet, she just may stop going at all. Yeah, we might be talking about distant possibilities and I doubt anything Nards has posted could cause that effect, but it is the same idea.[/quote]

I can actually understand it. If you are feeling insecure about something, and starting at the gym is usually quite frightening, being mocked, even if in good spirit, can be devastating.[/quote]

Which is the only statement being made. I am used to people looking at me. I have even looked up and saw a guy video taping me. It didn’t bother me. I would be more upset if after all of this time in the gym, no one noticed.

But everyone isn’t like that…and you never know how becoming a spectacle can affect someone.[/quote]

I personally don’t like it, but it really depends why you are being made fun of. Hallowed posted a video, recorded by herself, of some woman dancing in front of the mirror. I think that’s funny, some genuine comedy.
While at my gym there’s an overweight guy who does some “exercices”, with very poor form (waving the dumbbell for curls and etc.) and takes easily 10 minutes break between sets. I’d dislike if someone recorded him to make fun of him instead of helping him. I’d do it myself, but between language barrier and not looking credible enough…[/quote]

The commentary I had on that video… I am laughing but it is like delighted giggling. I am saying how awesome it is. That lady truly brings joy to my heart and is my favorite gym goer.

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[quote]Hallowed wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:
In my opinion, Nards videos are not that bad. They didn’t trigger my “White Knight” alarm.

Also, I wouldn’t be too offended if someone, internet or live, laughs at me because when rising from taking my notebook, I hit the barbell. I’m the first one who laughs at this. Just clumsy stuff. But I’d get irritated if someone would mock my (lack of) strength.
In the CSR thread, “we” mock the former, not the latter.[/quote]

My point was, it is easy to say that you don’t care. My guess is, if the scenario was that your girl who just started training gets laughed at on the internet, she just may stop going at all. Yeah, we might be talking about distant possibilities and I doubt anything Nards has posted could cause that effect, but it is the same idea.[/quote]

I can actually understand it. If you are feeling insecure about something, and starting at the gym is usually quite frightening, being mocked, even if in good spirit, can be devastating.[/quote]

Which is the only statement being made. I am used to people looking at me. I have even looked up and saw a guy video taping me. It didn’t bother me. I would be more upset if after all of this time in the gym, no one noticed.

But everyone isn’t like that…and you never know how becoming a spectacle can affect someone.[/quote]

I personally don’t like it, but it really depends why you are being made fun of. Hallowed posted a video, recorded by herself, of some woman dancing in front of the mirror. I think that’s funny, some genuine comedy.
While at my gym there’s an overweight guy who does some “exercices”, with very poor form (waving the dumbbell for curls and etc.) and takes easily 10 minutes break between sets. I’d dislike if someone recorded him to make fun of him instead of helping him. I’d do it myself, but between language barrier and not looking credible enough…[/quote]

The commentary I had on that video… I am laughing but it is like delighted giggling. I am saying how awesome it is. That lady truly brings joy to my heart and is my favorite gym goer.[/quote]

Yeah, there’s no malice on it.

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[quote]Nards wrote:

[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:
ALL I ask is that you guys who don’t like the videos I’ve captured call me an asshole, just please not a pervert.
I love T-Nation because you guys that don’t like the idea make that distinction that it may be “kind of” bad but you don’t go as far as some of the guys on youtube that post in all of my gym videos (there are about 20) and on my channel page that I’m a “fat ugly pussy fucker” etc. etc.

The oddest thing I’ve found is the people that are understandably against it ( I am taping people after all) but go on and try and make excuses for the stuff the people are doing. I don’t agree with that kind of attitude. A guy doing 2 inch ROM 30lb lat pulldowns is doing something no-good. Just because you think I’m an asshole doesn’t mean you have to think the guy in the video I made is actually right. That’s one thing that bugs me. And if a guy calls me fat and ugly…how does that change the fact that the guy in the video I made is sitting on the floor with the Smith machine’s bar on his back? And I’m not exactly sure how they know I’m fat…it’s true but I don’t have any videos where you can see me, except one where I’m trying to do one of them carnival games where you hit the thing with a sledgehammer and ring the bell, and that video has about 50 views.

And Professor X, I must mention that when I taped that woman on the treadmill, you can only see her face because she spins around like a bunny rabbit. I did not intentionally tape her face.[/quote]

Meh to the whole thing. We live in a society and age where everyone is on camera pretty much all the time while in public. Everywhere. I challenge everyone to really ponder that. That said, everyone’s taste for humor is different. I "get it’ that you’re trying to be humorous. I agree that some of the people that you have taped are loony motherfuckers. Would I tape them? No. I just don’t care. I am as someone said, “indifferent” - does that mean I hate it? LOL Other people will see it as mean spirited. We have and have had entire TV shows dedicated to pretty much what you’re doing. In addition, “sports bloopers” and the ensuing commentary pretty much mimic what you do. For crying out loud - there is more than one show that focuses on nothing but horrific accidents caught on tape. There will always be people that are “entertained” by others misfortunte or folly, and others that think it’s mean, and still others that are “indifferent” to it. In general, we are increasingly a “voyeuristic” society and there is certainly no privacy once you step out your front door. It’s the world we now live in and it has been since you could tape someone from your PHONE.[/quote]

Thanks.

As someone else put it once, my videos are sort of like hot dogs. Better to just enjoy them and not ask how they were made.
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While I agree with your basic sentiment here, the best thing to do is to not eat hot dogs in the first place. Choosing to remain ignorant about them is pointless. Like Zach de la Rocha said, If ignorance is bliss, then wipe the smile off my face.

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Just posting this again because it makes me laugh everytime I see it lol. Poor guy had no help.

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Yeah…what were they waiting for???

I have a true story that sounds nuts but at my university there was a guy who was always around the gym and he needed me to spot once, he was doing some heavy bench, I forget how much now but over 315, and his left side was going down to what I thought was too far so I helped.
Well he leaped up and said that I’d ruined his lift.

Three or four years later he killed two people at a party and the news then released the story that he and another boy killed an old man when they were 12!

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[quote]Nards wrote:
Yeah…what were they waiting for???

I have a true story that sounds nuts but at my university there was a guy who was always around the gym and he needed me to spot once, he was doing some heavy bench, I forget how much now but over 315, and his left side was going down to what I thought was too far so I helped.
Well he leaped up and said that I’d ruined his lift.

Three or four years later he killed two people at a party and the news then released the story that he and another boy killed an old man when they were 12![/quote]

Thats some scary stuff. Good thing he did’nt get more upset that you spotted him. As for that video, I see kids do that all the time at the gym I go to and I saw it all during high school in the weight room. I used to just watch, but now I can tell tell when its going to happen and I do my best to jump in and save the kid lol.