MELTDOWNS wanted...$50 apiece

[Special Ed]

FROM CRAIGSLIST

1-Minute Video Footage needed - will pay $50
Reply to: gigs-465007678@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-10-31, 12:09PM EDT


We are looking for 25 people to submit 1-minute video depicting a “meltdown” moment (someone being mad, unhappy, or very sad). All footages needed to be in by Thursday 11pm EST. If selected, you will be paid $50. Please feel free to email us if you have any questions or need more clarification.
   

[Mad Nickels]

derekanthony20 [12:41 A.M.]:  im going to kil lyou

 derekanthony20 [12:41 A.M.]:  ill have my boy come in and slash you

 derekanthony20 [12:42 A.M.]:  im goign to kil lyou

 derekanthony20 [12:43 A.M.]:  your dead

 derekanthony20 [12:43 A.M.]:  im goign to have you shot

 derekanthony20 [12:43 A.M.]:  your so dead

 derekanthony20 [12:46 A.M.]:  shot shot when the gun goes pop!

 derekanthony20 [12:46 A.M.]:  im goign to kil lyou

 derekanthony20 [12:46 A.M.]:  i hate you

 derekanthony20 [12:46 A.M.]:  i want you dead

 derekanthony20 [12:49 A.M.]:  ok if you have acll me here s my prepaid
 derekanthony20 [12:49 A.M.]:  lets see how big a pussy you sound like
 derekanthony20 [12:49 A.M.]:  516 848 9019

[Mad Nickels]

maybe i'm just feeling sorry for myself, but i feel that i have no one else to turn to, so i thought i would go to my mayhem family and friends with my gripes. right now i'm preparing for the team universe competition and i feel utterly and completely alone. much of my motivation comes from within, and it has always been that way. however, right now i'm waving my white flag.

i feel so alone that i have contemplated not doing the show, despite the fact i'm a little over two weeks away. it's not because the prep is stressful or i feel i might not be ready. it's because i feel dead inside.

i pride myself on being a consistently positive person. a friend once said to me, "one thing's for sure, no one can take away your joy." well, they were wrong. i'm not trying to be melodramatic here, but this is honestly how i feel right now.

if you care to continue reading how i got to where i am now, i'll take you through the sequence of events:

1) i moved to las vegas with my boyfriend, excited to start a new career in a new place with new friends-- essentially, a new life. i was also going to be able to train under one of the most accomplished fitness professionals in the history of the sport. i was really looking forward to it.

i formed a very close bond with this woman. besides a coach, she became a friend and a source of inspiration. what she taught me in the time we knew each other i will value for the entirity of my competition days. she exited my life as quickly as she entered; the reality of her life and decisions is devastating- from an outside perspective and on a personal level. i will, however, always value what she taught me and the friendship we had in our time together.

some of you may be somewhat familiar the situation i described above, but if not, it is not essential you know the details. just know that now i am involved in an ongoing legal situation involving the woman and many others, and it is somewhat stressful. i try not to think about it.

2) during said "stressful situation" the boyfriend with whom i moved to vegas, was unsupportive. he attacked my actions, character, and decisions. he also demanded more from the relationship when i had given all i could. he did not get me anything for my birthday. things had been very strained for a while, and i had taken all the emotional abuse i could stand.

i called my parents looking for advice and support, but they did not really tell me anything. i decided it would be best to just leave, even though i could barely afford to, as my training business was just getting off the ground. i took my things while he was at work one night, and moved in with a friend from the gym who had offered me a good deal on a room.

3) i dropped my trainer at 14 weeks out. i'm not going to name names. this person wanted me taking thermos and doing double cardio sessions at 16 weeks out, with no fat and no added fat in the diet. i wasn't even out of shape!! i was not willing to do this, so we had to part ways.

i still approached my contest prep with enthusiasm, and really enjoyed the day by day experience of training and training my clients. my business was starting to really do well by this point.

4) my parents. they have been uninvolved in my life, but we have maintained contact.
i have been trying over the last twelve weeks to get my parents to come to this show. it's not just to see me, i want to see them!!! my mother had offered, when i was about 13 weeks out, to arrange my trip through her travel agent for her business. supposedly, they get great deals. the show date would get closer and closer, and still no trip. i ended up arranging it myself, of course. two weeks ago, i offered to her to cover the room for she and my father, if they could just get plane tickets. i told her if afforability was an issue, that i would cover the plane tickets as well. she insisted that her agent at work would her out and that would not be necessary.

yesterday, i received a message from my father, stating it would not be possible for the two of them to attend (they're divorced, by the way) due to the cost of the trip. i called him and told him that i had been prodding for him to make arrangements, or at least tell me whether or not he would attend so i could cover the trip, for quite some time.

i told him i should not have to beg for attention and i would not anymore. no more contact please, with the exception of an emergency. he had nothing to say. i called my mother and said the same thing. they both ended the conversation with me as though they were hardly affected.

5) it seems my suit designer has flaked on me. she told me twelve weeks ago that i would be taken care of and not to worry about it. she wouldn't accept a deposit or payment at that time, but i offered. we have what i would consider a close, personal relationship as well, for two years now. she calls herself my "big sister" and we have spent time together outside of competition-related activities, as well as a considerable amount of time on the phone.

i spoke with her yesterday, and now she acts like she doesn't know what i'm talking about when i tell her she said she would outfit me for the show. it is stressful, but more hurtful on a personal level. i can wear the same one and two piece that i wore for this show last year, but three months ago i had tried to make arrangements to avoid that scenario. i followed up at least three times since, so it's not like she forgot.

6) i asked someone that i would consider a friend, if i could rent a suit from her. let me add that i have lent my suits out to three people this year, without asking for payment. i did this because i felt it was the right thing to do, and i would want someone to help ME out in a panicky situation.

after this girl's failure to return my call, she explained via text message that she was broke and only had two one-pieces. i said i understood, despite the initial hurt and frustration. i reasoned that she would help if she could, and she must be in a bad spot. because she's a friend, i felt it would be right to help her if i could. i wrote to her "okay, no worries!  i'll ask someone else. are you staying at the host hotel? you can stay in my room for free, i'm just a few minutes from the venue. two beds, if you're comfortable with that, my offer's out there." no thanks, no nothing, she just responds "i have a roomie"


SO, now that i've written you a book, if you've made it this far... i'm sipping on a cocktail of desperation and frustration with a twist of depression. i know i'm just feeling sorry for myself. but i do not understand why this is happening, as i have tried to go out of my way and be kind to others. i was so positive but these events have worn me down and i have nothing left.

i am not motivated to continue with my prep. i know i will probably do the show anyway, because i said that i would and i always follow through, but at this point i don't really want to. i never thought i would say that about something that gives me so much happiness and fulfillment, but that's where i am right now.

thanks for listening.

[Mad Nickels]

It's no big deal to fix.  But, honest to God, we are still married.

If we weren't why would you tell me and my boyfriend on our way to get married we couldn't get married.  Why would your attorney say we were still married.  Why would my attorney say she would go back to court and bifuricate our marriage next month?  Trust me it was never signed.

You are acting in a very bazaar way, Joe.  You and Lori put me in jail!  You continue to threaten to put me in jail unless I sign over full custody of my own son.  What am I suppose to do?  How would you feel if your mom signed you away when you were just 9.  What are you guys thinking?

I know your cop friends put me in jail the other two times too.  My girlfriend even heard you laugh the next day and say, "See I told you I know every cop in this town."

If you were 9, would you want your mom to sign you away?

How could you stand it?  Your son was begging you, "Please don't put mommy in jail."  It was going to be for one year!   What kind of monster is she, Joe, to put you up to this.  You were never like this before.  If she is mean to me; don't you think she is mean to your kid when you are at work.  He tried to tell you she was mean when he said, "She is really strict."  And all of the other weird things about her.

What were you two thinking.  She and you would spend your weekends taking your son to see their mom in jail?  Is she that insecure that she wants me in jail.

I don't understand why you are going through with her, Joe.  You could find a beautiful girl who would be nice to your son.  She has you working from 5:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night.  I am no one to judge; but you never look happy anymore, you never see your son, and she is always bossing you around.  She is honestly driving yourself to a heart attack, babe.

And while we have our differences... I want my son to have a dad that lives a beautiful life for a long time, not who is driven to a heart attack.  You are making the biggest mistake of your life.

You need to get it right with your God and look at life through your son's eyes.  Go to mediation and it can all be fixed for free.  Quit being a dick.  You have so hurt your sons.  And over what?  Some asain chick you picked up on getbig?  At the last baseball game the mom brought two girlfriends and they were all into you.  They were blond, sweet, and rich and so nice and just cool and I wished so hard you would see how many girls would like you.  You can't just marry the first girl you meet. 

Your God has a good life in store for you Joe.  But, you have to turn of the computer and open your bible.  You and Lori have a choice.  Make a peace with the fact your son has a mom and she is going to be in his life and work with me this school year.  Or put my son through the same hell you two did last year.

Turn off the computer, open your bible and get it right with your God.

[Al-Gebra]

hahaha . . . fitmandy. 

[Mad Nickels]

 

Quote from: Special Ed on Today at 07:55:49 PM
Blackmail? Tell me where I'm going wrong:

You paid me $2000 for my "sophomoric" Arnold videos and then called me a few days before the NY Pro and offered me $500 for a "package" that included my "sophomoric" video interviews and five days of spamming Getbig. Then I politely told you to fcuk off and did the videos for Bodybuilding.com. Then I quit your "Body Transformation". Then you melted down and "fired" me. In that order.

Dave, please correct any mistakes, so I can clarify them for the good of the bodybuilding community.

I also left out the part about the phone call requesting me to post disparaging information about AMI/Weider here on Getbig. If you think that conversation needs to be made public, let me know. I'm sure many would be interested in learning more about MD's not-so hidden agenda, as further indicated by your expansion into PBW's timeslot.

[Special Ed]

DOH!

[rocket]

Hah, $500 wouldn't even buy my silence if they wanted me to distort this board with paid-for agenda.

[garraeth]

FROM CRAIGSLIST

1-Minute Video Footage needed - will pay $50
Reply to: gigs-465007678@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-10-31, 12:09PM EDT


We are looking for 25 people to submit 1-minute video depicting a “meltdown” moment (someone being mad, unhappy, or very sad). All footages needed to be in by Thursday 11pm EST. If selected, you will be paid $50. Please feel free to email us if you have any questions or need more clarification.
   

Why not just search YouTube? Not like anything there has any copyright protection. It's pretty much a free for all media orgy.

I guess these "gigs-465007678" people haven't heard of "You Toob" yet.

[omg]

haha fitmandy sounds like miss estrogen right there