do people put up with your senseless yapping in real life, matt?
To be honest, I'm remarkably quiet in person. I don't have very much to say unless people bring up the subject, and I find that in person, people tend not to be as vocal as they are online. Since my commentary tends to be responsive or reactive, it's hard for me to speak a lot when I have nothing to respond to. People don't bring up the depth and breadth of topics as they tend to in message boards or in writing, so I am quiet as a result. When I do speak a lot, it tends to be rich in facts and specific details, so yes, people listen to me. They do not consider me to be senseless. Quite the opposite, when people's marriages and lives fall apart, they tend to speak to me. I hate that I haven't been able to give all of them as much time and attention as I do to some posts here on Getbig.
That answers your question for your purposes - the following is what I would add only for people who are interested in what I have to say, with this being my judgment on my own posts, and their length:
As to my post above, it is long, but it is on-topic, specific commentary. For example, the point about Bisping lasting less time with Georges St-Pierre than literally almost a decade's worth of welterweights...does that indicate that either Bisping is less than his best, or perhaps more likely, as GSP has said repeatedly [and I trust him as a pretty objective judge of himself] that GSP himself is at his lifetime best?
Yes, I'm long-winded, but I have a lot of relevant facts in my posts. I follow both the UFC and bodybuilding with great interest, and I believe my comments come from the position, at the very least, of an educated fan. What exactly is senseless about objectively reporting on GSP's fight history and speculating on the reason for the outcome in his most recent fight? I have quite enjoyed the posts of others regarding their speculation regarding GSP, as I too got the sense his gas tank was dwindling into the third round, before his massive flurry. It's like he caught a second wind.
Back to cephissus' post about me - I am not forcing anyone to read what I have to say. Anyone is free to just skip over it and not read it. I'm not going to stop posting as long as I know that I am making quality posts, devoid of profanity, personal attacks, and spelling errors - or at least, mostly devoid of those things.
I have had waaaayyy too many people, including professional bodybuilders and others in the industry, tell me that they have read my posts with great interest for me to stop posting as I do. But my posts are not for everyone - they are obviously very long!! But on that note, once again, I am not forcing anyone to read my posts.
Basically I have a compulsive desire to speak in full points. I always feel the need to make what I say absolutely clear - the irony is, I would get more readers if I made smaller posts. I think. Things need to be made digestible to the masses, and I basically never do that.
