Does weightlifting make you ruder or just less tolerent to crap?

Ive definately noticed ive got a shorter temper since ive start lifting, i put it down to me just being less tolerant of time wasters and deliverate idiots, but after this thread im not so sure ^^

Edit: also Ultra you shouldnt feel the need to defend yourself here, its amazing how fast the moral fags come out of the woodwork on these forums, as if they never did anything bad in their perfect lives...

Also some of those comments are hilarious, makes you wonder what kids actually get taught in sex ed. classes these days.
 
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Sgt_Pepper said:
to all the bulked up people who think their size makes them more threatening, i point you in this direction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath

Your size does't make you any more scary than the next man. How does the saying go "The bigger they are the harder they fall". :D
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Hang on, thats in an ideal world m8. If a 6ft6in 280lb bloke with 20in biceps squared up to me i would by urinating, defecating and probably somehow vomiting in my pants. Fortunately blokes that size are rare. At 6'2 and 220lbs im fairly large and i dont think an average guy smaller than me would be thinking "oh good he's a big fella he'll go down nice". Sure if your trained in a martial art or something thats is how you think but normal people dont have the david and goliath mentality.

Truth is i cant fight for balls anyway, it get destroyed by a fighter unless i managed to land a solid blow somewhere important. Scary thing about that is you might kill em. Theres no point fighting at all once your strength gets to a point. You'll just get locked up.
 
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I'm joining this a bit late but it does sound as if you rather over-reacted, while I can understand your view of no harm no foul as your car was stopped I don't think throwing your yoghurt at the guy was really necessary. I'd personally have probably just laughed at him but my personality is obviously rather different to yours. I have found though that most people won't follow through if they realise that you aren't afraid of them and laughing at them suggests that which can even be rather humiliating for them so you've turned the tables without resorting to any form of physical intimidation.

I don't think my personality has changed due to the weightlifting that I do (and I'm well aware that I'm a long way from the level of some people here), what might have changed is that I've got less patience for stupidity as I get older. That doesn't mean I've got any more aggresive, it simply means that I'll walk away sooner to avoid wasting my time on people who aren't worth it.
 
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Interestng points. I think on the first hand that more than what he said he was being intimidating and threatenening to someone he didn't know. That was really what i reacted to, being threatened and someone attempting to intimidate me in the street. You know what these blokes are like, yelling at women who walk past the pub (despite it being a sunny saturday afternoon) with comments like "fancy a job love" while rubbing at their crotches. They are bums, old beer swilling overweight bums. That yoghurt is probably the closest he's been to nutritious food in years!

Second, maybe it is age. The more hair my chest grows the shorter i've become with people i deem not worth my attention. For example if a kid comes up to me in a bar or club and tries to chat to me (because of my family and the notoriety of my social group in my school days, many young people know me while i dont know them). I give them about one minuite to prove they arent another kid trying to come across as cool to the older guys. Then i just tell them to get lost. Same goes for people my age who start going off on one about how successful they are and what amazing things they have done. In the past i would have indulged them at length only to walk away going 'sheesh what a loser'. Now i just say it to their face and see what happens. Mostly they look hurt, then confused, then leave. But they deserve it. Im sick of people bigging themselves up, im sick of 'the chat' im just so tired by how false most people are that im losing all faith in humanity.

Reading that back i actually think it might be the difficulty of living in a small town with rampant dole-mania and few prospects for improvment. Perhaps its not humanity that i'm pitying, but more the pathetic, hopeless, joyless existence that is unemployed west wales culture. It's like living in one big sunny, sandy, green picturesque ghetto
 
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Royality said:
Haha, I like it Ultra_Extreme. I get it. ;) You're just trolling.

Because, seriously, no one is that ignorant.
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People who spout the word ignorant often are even more ignorant themselves. During one debate on racial issues that i had with some uni student friends, who were of the liberal persuasion, i retold a story that my dad had seen first hand in Africa. Essentially to do with corruption of governments and how the black man in Africa was still stuck in the tribal mindset. The students in question branded me ignorant for my point of view simply because it was unfavourable to a minority group. Thats right, some middle class, white, university student kidsm straight out of school, called me ignorant for presenting facts and subtatiation albeit via anecdote because they found it contrary to their own morals. Thats the problem with bandying the word ignorant, you often show the very same trait in its use.
 
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Do you have an anecdote purporting to your brilliance for every word in the dictionary?
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Do you have word of the day toilet paper or something? Your sentence only just about makes sense. Purporting to be something means to, often falsely, claim to be something. An anecdote cannot purport to be anything. And the phrase purporting to your brilliance is just nonsensical. Perhaps you meant pertaining? In which case you should have written

Do you have an anecdote pertaining to your purported brilliance?

But i think you just vomited long sounding words in the hope that i would be too ignorant to realise your lack of understanding of the less common tongue
 
Ultra_Extreme said:
Im sick of people bigging themselves up, im sick of 'the chat' im just so tired by how false most people are that im losing all faith in humanity.
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The more i despise the weaknesses inherent in humanity, and yes the more i elevate myself above that.
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Funny how you describe yourself,

although i have noticed that as the thread has gotten longer your attitude has gotten smaller, perhaps next time someone shouts at you, you should go to the Internet before doing something stupid. :D

(Internet wins :D)

To be honest your probly an ok guy, we all have mad moments. It's nothing related to weightlifting
 
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This thread is funny. Lots of respect lost for a fellow 'bodybuilder', though I think you're undeserving of that tag. Bodybuilding isn't about pitying other people, or about looking down at those who don't make the same lifestyle choice. It's about realising ones own weakness's and changing those, not bullying other people because of theirs. You bring shame to the sport, and I'm sure a lot of the regulars here will be ashamed of the way you're behaving and using 'bodybulding' as the reason.
 
I don't need to spout anecdotes to show my brilliance. I'm humble enough to realise that I am not brilliant in any significant way. Perhaps you should reread your posts in this thread and consider whether or not you sound like a ****.

How would you feel if upon seeing Ronnie Coleman in your gym you walked up to him and tried to chat with him and instead of being patient and tolerant he gave you one minute to prove you weren't a nobody and then told you to sod off? Would you think to yourself 'oh that's fine, that's something I do all the time', or would you feel hurt and confused and then leave?
 
Ultra_Extreme said:
i retold a story that my dad had seen first hand in Africa. Essentially to do with corruption of governments and how the black man in Africa was still stuck in the tribal mindset
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called me ignorant for presenting facts and subtatiation albeit via anecdote .
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you did not present any facts to them, you presented an opinion based on heresay from you father, maybe its ignorant of you to just expect people to understand your point of view ?
 
Sorry Ultra, but getting out of your car, throwing yoghurt over his head, calling him a few names and then getting back in your car before driving off, is way over the top.

You gotta learn to control your temper, otherwise it will get you into trouble, at some stage.

What you did was totally unacceptable and is not only an arrestable offence, but something you couldve gone to court for, had a Police Officer or even the guy in question, reported you.
 
sunama said:
Sorry Ultra, but getting out of your car, throwing yoghurt over his head, calling him a few names and then getting back in your car before driving off, is way over the top.

You gotta learn to control your temper, otherwise it will get you into trouble, at some stage.

What you did was totally unacceptable and is not only an arrestable offence, but something you couldve gone to court for, had a Police Officer or even the guy in question, reported you.
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Perhaps, though have you ever been in criminal trouble? The police dont take petty stuff very seriously. If i'd punched him it would be very different. Lobbing food over someone might technically be common assault, but technical law and real law are very different beasts. Your right though, my manners are leading me ever closer to just ripping someones head of in a fit of pent up agression. Next time it might be a brick, or a trident.
 
I don't think im ruder I'm just more upfront about things now. If somebody says something I don't like I will confront them and people are often shocked that I have done so. I don't take any hassle either, if somebody is looking for a fight I'll give them one, I've never had the need to as they've always ended up apologizing profusely as soon as they see I'm not finding the whole situation funny and am one of few people who are willing to set this guy straight.


In your situation, while I would have gotten annoyed I cant say I would have throw my pot of yoghurt at him :p

I would have most likely just wound the window down and started laughing at him while giving him the finger.
 
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