MELTDOWN WARNING: I melt numerous times in this thread.
I'm not one to call myself "rich". All I want is to live modestly and to provide for my children off my current savings for the rest of my life - barring complete economic collapse - which is a possibility that I do NOT ignore. 2020 was a crazy year.
Lol, we've just been Rope-A-Doped out of TRILLIONS by China. So let's not pretend our entire economy is guaranteed to survive.
Every time I pay for something in cash here, the tellers seem surprised. At drive-thrus, they also pass me the payment machine on a stick, and seem surprised I have cash. I don't trust banks, so I use them as little as possible. It seems like "they" are trying to eliminate fiat cash currency. Not good.
Back to Getbig's standards, I feel like no amount of proof is enough. Look at how Larry Wheels gets slammed. Seems the better/stronger you are, the more grief you get. wes was called a "tiny tit", meanwhile, there are fit 20-year-old's who strive to look like wes did at 60.
What was that giant 6'4" French bodybuilder who competing in LA, then the Amateur Arnold, who may have won it? There was a full thread slamming him.
To my knowledge, I've never boasted about money, but I can't stand being called out for things aren't true [being weak, being poor - ABANDONING MY CHILDREN...WTF, seriously who says that to someone?].
Walter Sobchak did this, and it led me to a day of chronic melting.
Every time I read one of his posts about me - I would immediately MELT. He even had a way to make me melt by addressing qualities I'm happy with - like when he reminded me how I FAILED to style my hair around Canada's Prime Minister Blackface, Justin Trudeau. Looked like sh*t though - I looked like a troll. Trudeau probably uses hair products.
Regardless, I immediately MELTED.
Although most of what he said that was true didn't cause me to melt.
But when he called me poor, I immediately MELTED. When he said it again, I MELTED again.
I spent the entire day MELTING over Walter Sobchak's posts about me.
I came to realize long ago, there is no pleasing Getbig.
So here's my question:
What is "rich" to Getbig? Conversely, what is poor? What is "strong"? What is fit/healthy? What man is "handsome" by Getbig's standards?
Does anyone actually meet Getbig's standards?
Tommywishbone MUST impress everyone here, right - not just me? Or is deadlifting 585x12 at over 50 not impressive here?
I'm more than happy to post a video of me bench pressing 250-lb for 17. Does that meet Getbig's standards?
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Re: Define "Rich" by Getbig's Standards in 2021.
« Reply #1 on: Today at 04:53:33 AM »
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After Walter Sobchak made me melt like 3-5+ times yesterday, I realized something:
Social media can mess with our minds.
Remember when the [mainstream] "media" was blamed for giving us unrealistic body-images, or self-images? Well - social media can do that too.
I know I'm strong - I know wes had a physique at 60 that MARK WAHLBERG had - at 20!
And don't even dare say that physique didn't get Wahlberg millions of adoring female fans.
I'm honestly not one to care what is said about me online - unless it's NOT TRUE.
That's why Walter Sobchak calling me poor immediately caused me to melt, and why I immediately took photos of my home to show that wasn't true.
And weak...ok, let me try to understand this:
Bench pressing a one rep max consistently between 325-lb and 345-lb @ 170- to 180-lb is "weak"?

How about benching 315x8 @190? In Dave Palumbo's Bros vs. Pros bench-off, ANDY HAMAN benched 325x20. And the man weighed 245- to 260-lb at the time.
So WTF is "strong" by Getbig's standards?
FYI, I take things very personally, LOL. I'm more offended when Getbiggers bash others than the people actually being bashed!
My concern is - Getbig's high standards mess with people's heads. Normally I'm oblivious, until I melted yesterday.
I'll dig up an example showing why it's bad to be so critical on here to people doing very well [in general, not just to me].
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Before anyone calls me crazy for posting this thread, or chronically MELTING from reading Walter Sobchak's posts...let me give you one clear VIVID example of what I'm talking about:
Does anyone remember Italian IFBB pro Daniele Seccarecci [1980 - 2013]? He posted on Getbig leading up to the 2013 Finnish Pro. Getbiggers were critical of him - specifically of his conditioning. Here is the thread in question:
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=488677.0As we all know, he died in his basement shortly after returning home from the IFBB Finnish Pro. Sadly, his mom was the one who found him. He was only 33.
So my point is - I think we as Getbiggers have some level of responsibility in not trashing people needlessly. The bodybuilding world is one rife with people with body image issues. And I think slamming these people - who look amazing, and have world class physiques - is not a positive good.
It's this constant criticism leading to heavy self-induced pressure to improve, which also led to Dallas McCarver's death. And at only 26? Wow.
My experience is that some bodybuilders don't even want to hear CONSTRUCTIVE comments, that could help them. But just trashing them...I honestly believe Daniele Seccarecci upped the diuretics after reading the negative comments on here.
In a sense - a loose sense, obviously, but still - we have blood on our hands.
I honestly don't feel personally attacked on Getbig. I'm weird, I write long posts, and I'll always be looked at as an autistic geek. But Getbig is my favourite place online, and most people are friendly to me here.
I get that this is a snowflake post...but I was just thinking of Daniele's death, and some of the in-fighting between members here.
Is it making the board a better place?
Just wondering. I guess I wish people didn't trash others just for the sake of being negative.
Lastly - I'm 100% pro free-speech, and I would never demand anyone be censored. I'm just curious what other Getbiggers think of members who just come here apparently just to trash others. Sometimes I see members picked on without any cause that I can discern.
PS - this will my last long post. When I wake up today, I'm going to start typing one-handed.