So...Rant left his wife and kids?

[Fat Cat]

Went full retard? OD'd on antidepressants? Am I not entertained?

[baffled]

Went full retard? OD'd on antidepressants? Am I not entertained?

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Which one of you is "Negro dance for your whiskey" or "nonstop assrape"?

[Shafpocalypse Now]

Really? It's ok John, you'll level out.

[WildGorillaMan]

You guys are a bunch of Rant marks.

[Fat Cat]

Think of the children!

[TerryB]

Went full retard? OD'd on antidepressants? Am I not entertained?

[The Crawdaddy]

Who?

[baffled]

Think of the children!

They must be relieved.

[Abandoned by Wolves]

Rant went back to the "you are all cunts because I am closer to the magical number 185" well one too many times. He used to be at least mildly entertaining back when he was talking about Bikram and the whole "the body is an organic system not a machine" idea, but interacting with "real" commentors (and various sock puppets of his own devising) turned out to be a bad idea. I gave up last week and have not been back since.

[Turdacious]

Think of the children!

They must be relieved.

It was probably by court order.

[Mickey O'neil]

Rant went back to the "you are all cunts because I am closer to the magical number 185" well one too many times. He used to be at least mildly entertaining back when he was talking about Bikram and the whole "the body is an organic system not a machine" idea, but interacting with "real" commentors (and various sock puppets of his own devising) turned out to be a bad idea. I gave up last week and have not been back since.

I thought he was pretty interesting at that time as well. He's just fucking insane now.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

I came to this wonderful place through the MI. Rant had his moments:

Are you an ab fag?

12/26/07


I’m sure some of you have heard the claim that any man over 30 with a visible six pack has to be a fag. This may or may not be true. Just having a visible six pack is not in and of itself a direct indicator of homosexuality. I had a six pack until I was about 33. This is about the time I hung up the boxing gloves and became a desk jockey.

Now I never did fret about my diet much. I ate well but I had no qualms about putting down a half gallon of ice cream if the urge hit me. Morning roadwork, a day job loading trucks and moving furniture, and regular boxing training in the evening made it nearly impossible to carry body fat.

I’ve done a lot of training and played a lot of different sports over the years but I have NEVER been a bodybuilder. I have never bought a bodybuilding magazine or book. Outside of Arnold I couldn’t name you one other bodybuilder either present or past. Wait that’s a lie. I know who Lou Ferrigno is. OK, that’s 2 but the only reason I know these dudes is because of their TV/Movie careers.

At heart I am and will always be a football player. That was my first love and arguably my best sport. There a many different body types on a football team. Everyone wears equipment so no one really notices the build of a particular player and only a kweer would give a damm. In football it’s all about getting the job done. Lifting weights in simply a means to an end. If it helped you to knock your opponent on his ass that was great. Strong abs certainly makes for a stronger football player but no one cared whether or not they showed.

The whole obsession with the six pack abs is a recent phenomenon. Outside of bodybuilders, who are all kweers, no one ever talked much about six pack abs. I never heard girls fuss about them.
When we were in high school most of us had six pack abs simply due to low body fat. No one cared. In the last 10 or 15 years it seems to have become more of an issue largely fueled by the large scale “coming out” of society’s homosexuals.

Men are very visual. You need look no further than the explosion of internet pornography to see evidence of male obsession with imagery. Guys have always been worked up about tits and other parts of the female anatomy. This is just how men are. If you are getting set up the first thing you want to know is what? Correct. How does she look?
Chicks will want to know what a guy does and if he’s nice and all that ****.

So the obsession with abs is a male obsession just like that of penis size. If you think this is what women are thinking about you need to get offline and go meet some real live women. Physicality is important to women but it’s ancillary at best. In this sense they are smarter than men. They realize that youthful good looks quickly fade with the passing years. So if you started with a good looking asshole in a few short years you’ll be stuck with just an asshole. Men just don’t get this. We want big tits and a nice ass and seem more than happy to put with the royal bitch attached to these body parts. But sooner or later many guys realize that the nice tits are temporary and the bitch part is permanent. Then the guy leaves the bitch with sagging tits for the young bitch with the perky one and thus starts the cycle all over until no on wants his sorry ass anymore.

But I’m digressing. The fact is that the obsession with abs is a gay guy thing. Gay guys are just as visual as straight ones but their focus is on other dudes. I find the whole concept of guys comparing their bodies to other guys beyond sickening. This is what chicks do and it’s why about 2/3 are completely neurotic. One of the great joys of being a man is never having to ask anyone if these jeans make your butt look big. I used to associate with a dude that was always fretting about his waistline and never did anything about it. Shut the **** up already and man up. Geez.

So if you have a six pack that’s fine but if this is some all out goal on your part you may want to take a good hard look at your motivations and inclinations. Answers the following question truthfully and if you answer ‘yes’ to two or more you are just a heartbeat away from a wide stance in the men’s room at your next trip to the airport. You dirty kweer. You are an ab fag.

1. Is direct ab training ever anything more that any after thought thrown in at the end of your routine?

2. Do you ever hesitate to take your shirt off at the beach because you are self conscious about your stomach?

3. Do you actively seek out situations where you can take off your shirt so you can show the world your little six pack?

4. Do the queens at your gym routinely mistake you for one of them?

5. Do you take great delight in berating other men because they have big stomachs?

6. Have you ever seriously used the terms “ripped” or “shredded” in a conversation about another man?

7. Do you now or have ever thought that bodybuilding was actually anything more than a male vanity show for closeted homosexuals?

8. Have you ever posted a picture of yourself on the internet so other men could see your six pack?

9. Do you consciously amp up your ab training as spring approaches (ab season)?

10. Are you all fagged out about your diet? Do you fret about every calorie you consume and how it will effect you figure?
Like I said answer ‘yes ‘ to two or more and you are an ab fag.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

Motherfucking arms day.

Lately I have been training around not one but two injuries. Neither very serious but serious enough to have to train around instead of through. So I’ve been going to a local community gym because they have more stuff to help me train around the injuries. The gym is owned by the city of Boston and runs $30 a year so you can’t beat it. However I still prefer my garage gym because of all the gym numb nuts that dominate this gym. Benching and E-Z bar curls are the order of the day at this gym and I think its mando that all members wear fingerless weightlifting gloves and lifting belts. The belts must be worn and cinched tight at all times, even when working on the pec deck.

Anyway after I finished up I took a seat on a box in the corner to scan out the various routines. Nothing too remarkable. Then walks in Steve and Doug Butabi, you know, the characters from A Night at the Roxbury. I knew these chowderheads from a my pre-garage gym days. There they were in all their glory pulling on their gloves and cinching their leather belts. Donned in spaghetti strap muscle Ts and parachute pants they made their rounds slapping hands with the other numb nuts. This is their gym. After the formalities they bee lined straight for the preacher curl bench for a warm up with the E-Z curl bar. Thirty seconds later they were off to the incline bench for incline dumbbell curls. Then on to the tricep pushdown machine. After that they went to the flat bench for concentration curls super setted with tricep kickbacks. I don’t think I saw a dumbbell used over 30 pounds but I could tell they were feeling the burn by all the yelling and screaming while transfixed on the mirror in front of them. After the super sets they socialized more and then proceeded back to the preacher curl bench for the real work.

Now you may be wondering why I was sitting there for so long watching the Butabi brothers pump iron. Well I had finished my work out and was socializing with a few guys I hadn’t seen in years. I was just sort of half watching the Butabi brothers. One couldn’t help it because they were making spectacles out of them selves.

Now back to the preacher curl bench. Now at this point I did sit down and watch because one of the Bubati brothers, let’s call him Steve, pointed to my chalk and asked in a very audible voice, “who’s is dis”? I said it was mine and he asked if he could use some. Of course I said yes but couldn’t help wondering what for. He chalked up, cinched his belt, adjusted his fingerless gloves and braced himself in the preacher curl bench. His brother, Doug, handed off the E-Z curl bar to him with as much as 45 pounds loaded on the bar. He then proceeded to do forced reps. After about 6 or 7 reps it was Doug’s turn. I asked him if he needed some chalk. He declined, tightened his leather belt, gloves and believe it or not wrist wraps. He went to his set but apparently lacked the zeal that Steve had. I know this because Steve began berating him like a red-faced drill sergeant. Steve said, “You motherfucker, get serious! This is fucking arms day! It’s motherfucking arms day man!

In my 25 years of weight training I have never seen anything more ridicules than this whole scenario and that’s saying a lot. And I don’t know what bothered me more, the fact that these guys were such faggots or the fact that no one in the gym seemed to find anything unusual about this scenario. Anyway I laughed my ass off all the way to the showers. I may have to go to the gym more often. With gym dues only $30 a year you can’t beat this kind of entertainment value.

[TerryB]

don't crosspost that bullshit

[KingSchmaltzBagelHour]

Rant had some good posts until he became an ab fag.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

don't crosspost that bullshit

Go away.

[Beer Jew]

Hi rant