Nice argument...so, your platform is that if one has CHOSEN to use gear for a set amount of years, then they are addictive?? LOL...addicts have NO choice but to use, hence the word ADDICT. Perhaps a dictionary may be of use for you...
Lost me on the work ethic/ hobby/ business rambling...try english as long as you've got the dictionary open
"Have no life"= spending countless hours on a BB forum when it's obvious the people in question have yet to step in a gym, have anything to do with BB, or contribute anything but negative and condescending bullshit over and over, anonymously at that...
I am welcome to my own life, and my own way of living it....question is....why is it any cncern of YOURS?
We hereby consider an entry from the 'Dictionary.com' website. Granted, not an Oxford dictionary, but I'm sure that it will surfice for the purpose.
Consider the 'dictionary's' definition of the word 'addict': a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance: a drug addict.
Now, one may deduce that someone who has taken bodybuilding drugs for approximately a quarter of a century would certainly classify as being 'addicted' to that particular activity. Indeed, whilst one may argue the old and tired genetic angle, you would have (would not) look as you did/do if it were not for the copious years of bodybuilding drug use. The fact that it is still a major aspect of your life after approximately a quarter of a century tells the tale that you are 'addicted' to 'resembling' the look that cannot be attained without bodybuilding drugs. Indeed, I question your ability to totally eradicte your use of them, and have to live with the reality of being smaller in physical appearence, hence adding to the 'addict' angle.
Now, my original argument, of which you subtly changed the angle of, concerned my opinion of your dubious self- proclamation of your "success" being due to work ethic and, um, 'talents.' My argument was, and still is, that I fathom to reason how being addicted (as per the 'dictionary' definition stated
earlier) to bodybuilding drugs and attaining a look that could not be done without the use of such illegal drugs constitutes 'talent'. Indeed, we recall that you countered, and discussed your 'talent' with regard to writing and MC'ing. Considering those points, as with bodybuilding judging, that is subjective, and I cannot find evidence of 'talent' in those two particular activities of yours-just because you are paid to partake in MC'ing and writing, does not automatically render you 'talented' in those fields.
Finally, it seems that you did not understand my reference you the connection between your (alledged) hard work ethic and the fact that you work in a field that is essentially your hobby. Again i reason that almost anyone who found themselves fortuitous enough to gain employment in a field that also constitutes their hobby would not appear to have an ,at least improved, work ethic; they are working at what they enjoy doing, hence that usually translated to additional self-imput.
For completeness, we often see the results of such 'hard work ethic' in the mysterious disappearance of pro-bodybuilding 'weekly' when you and your colleagues decide to have a week off (from the 'weekly' show) when you please.
