I’m in this meme and I don’t like it
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Submitted 9 hours ago by grintigergratler@lemmy.wtf to [deleted]
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omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’m the guy in the shirtless photo, but the rest is not accurate.
Well ok I have a long beard, but it’s mot my personality.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I’ve got an alarming quantity. The saving grace is I don’t think I’m strong, say any of the weird shit, post the memes or have delusions about my fighting proficiency. And I’m not bald.
I used to be rather fit and I wrestled in high school. I’m fairly confident I could break free of someone roughly less skilled than me and maybe a hair stronger and flee. I’ve never been in a fight, I’ve been punched while boxing but was too disoriented to get a good hit back (first and only time boxing), and I’ve punched a friend in the face as the culmination to a funny conversation about how he’s never been punched in the face.
Flannel is really comfy, and I want to be the sort of person who goes on more hikes than I have time to.
I have no self delusions in the physical realm.
PotatoLibre@feddit.it 8 hours ago
I’m just happy I don’t wear baggy shorts cause I think I checked all the rest.
individual@toast.ooo 8 hours ago
I’m in this meme and I like it
alienzx@feddit.nl 8 hours ago
I feel attacked
mlg@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Forgot the “Thinks his skills at hitting 100m targets will allow him to fight the government in a civil war situation”
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 hours ago
That’s genuinely good enough for urban warfare.
Too bad a lot of these guys are rural
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Depends on how “the government” fights, too. Guns don’t do shit against chemical warfare (tear gas etc.) or bombings. IMO, in a modern, developed state an insurgency can’t do shit if the military isn’t at least neutral, or they get support from foreign forces.
Poayjay@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Forgot the tribal tattoo
5in1k@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I mean I do manual labor. I am pretty strong plus the weight. I don’t fight or act like I fight though. The beard is just a beard, I don’t have a strong chin.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
WTF is invisible lat syndrome, and why am I certain I have it?
Soku@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
If your friend fails the pencil test, it’s definitely a moob
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Ok, but when is it definitely a pec?
amotio@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Can someone please explain me what is the pencil test?
sundray@lemmus.org 8 hours ago
You must be at least this tall_________
To be in this meme
Ferrous@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Oof, ILS is a menace.
Paddlers of invisible carpet rolls.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
On a separate but slightly related note: When is the Brawny paper towel guy going to get a beard again?
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
So while I really hate performative tough guy bullshit as a former MMA practitioner, I would really caution you against thinking the guy in the picture on the left is not really fucking strong. the guy who’s all cut up and striated with the ideal visible body often isn’t stronger than the dude with a couple layers of fat over his muscles that has been lifting his heavy body around his whole life. There’s also a class of dude I run into that just have some kind of genetics for absurd super colossal strength without any particular background in weightlifting or anything to justify why they are that strong (I’m sadly not in that cohort).
Additionally, we have weight classes for a reason. There was a fight recently where a chunky out of shape dude was put up against two female fighters and he won pretty handily. The gold medal winning women’s soccer team got absolutely destroyed by a boy’s 15-year-old club. Having trained with plenty of women in the gym over the years, none of them have ever expressed a rhetoric where they think that they can realistically fight a man in a venue where grappling is allowed. I will definitely take a lady Thai fighter over Joe barstool in a stand-up only bout though. There’s plenty of footage of foreigners in Thailand trying their hand and getting absolutely pasted with some devastating leg kicks.
I give this starter a pack only a 5 out of 10.
TaterTot@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Many a man underestimated Butter Bean.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I’ve got some martial arts training, but only did like a month of BJJ with no other real grappling training. A girl-jock friend of mine, super active in BJJ and pretty big and buff for a girl, wanted to do a little playful sparring.
I pinned her so fast, with so little effort, it wasn’t even funny. She’d been training for years, and she was in great shape for it, but my amateur ass absolutely destroyed her.
Also, I did do some powerlifting for a while, and everyone who actually lifts heavy looks like a chubby farm boy.
abcd@feddit.org 6 hours ago
I once did some fun boxing with a friend of mine. He punched me just in my arm without any effort and it was enough to make me stumble. He is around 10-15cm taller than me, and around 20-30kgs heavier. My arm was blue for weeks.
Weight absolutely matters. It’s simple physics (kinetic energy)
Also you can compensate a lot with training. I‘m also in this picture. But since I do regular cardio, I can run for hours and move my dad body the whole day without getting tired. With a bit of strength training I am able to build some serious invisible strength. I wouldn’t underestimate a guy with a bit of body fat.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I also bet you ask most women fighters if they feel comfortable taking on any guy at 230-245, they are having none of it. 100lbs of fat is still an absurd advantage.