Walter Sobchak bashing adult Getbig members = seemed like he had a stick up his ass, but I didn't give it much thought.
Walter Sobchak trashing me as a father, and dragging my small children into this discussion = I thought: maybe he has psychotic depression, or some medicated psychiatric condition that he decided to reduce the intake of his prescription without consultation with his psychiatrist because the medication was making him "drowsy", or something.
I'm not normally one to speculate on the psychiatric status of anonymous negative people online. But who brings small children, one being only three years old, still learning to talk, into a discussion to trash a guy who never uttered a negative word to him prior to being the recipient of repeat personal attacks? In 17 years on Getbig, not ONE person has done that. And we've had our share of negative members here.
So Walter Sobchak - let's pretend all your claims are true:
You independently own two successful private companies, live in a home worth over one million dollars, bench press 405-lb, deadlift in the 500+ range for reps, earn a handsome annual income deep into the six figures, yet devote half the time you spend on Getbig personally attacking fellow members, some of whom [presumably not just me] literally didn't state a single negative word to you in all the time during which we both actively posted here.
Again - let's pretend all your personal claims are true:
It seems to me that your millions aren't making you happy.
Nor does being stronger than 99% of men make you happy. Nor does living in a big, expensive, no doubt very comfortable home made to your specifications, presumably in one of the safer urban areas near Chicago.
If you have all that going for you - if all those claims above that you've made about yourself in other threads are true - then you are in the top 1% of income, net worth, and physical strength. Independently owning two private companies would also put you in the top 1% of industriousness, risk-taking, and entrepreneurial ability. And if you carry the size and muscularity you claim, you would most likely be in the top 1% of male size/muscularity - effectively making you among the top 1% of biggest AND strongest men alive. That would mean you could walk into ANY gym in North America at any time, and always be in the top 10% of biggest and strongest men present.
If what you are saying is true, in most gyms, you would consistently be the strongest man in the facility, any time of day, any day of the week. The 10% figure is just in the event you walk into a gym, and happen into a group of top powerlifters training there. Most times you walk into a gym, there is NOT a 405-lb bench presser there.
And yet half your posts here are just taking other Getbiggers down a peg? Some of whom you have zero history with, and who have never posted a single iota of negativity towards you in their respective posting history?
If you have all the extensive business and personal success and vast financial and material wealth you claim to have, in addition to possessing a physical strength level which makes you stronger than 99% of men, why would you make fun of people beneath you?
If you are as strong as you claim, it would mean you are the strongest person at your gym almost every time you enter - and that would be true at almost any time in every gym in North America.
So here's the thing: men who are accustomed to being that strong have no need to tear down other people, consistently, with no basis. You'd be so accustomed to being the strongest man everywhere you go that you would take it for granted. And you'd also grasp that if a 175-lb lifetime lifter is consistently that size, that obviously he didn't ever devote to steroid cycling. And you would grasp that dabbling in steroids literally a decade or more earlier would have zero or next to zero benefit today.
If you are as strong as you claim, you either use steroids or eat high calories - or both. So you would be well aware that smaller lifters may do both, but at lower levels.
The fact that you think my 170-lb physique at around 15% body fat is the result of ANY serious level of steroid use just makes me wonder if you even work out.
If you were like "Did you take a month of Anavar to look like that?", THAT would be a reasonable question...but NOTHING in my results should make any long-term lifter think I even remotely take steroids seriously - or even a high-protein diet, for that matter.
Frankly, I should be flattered you think I actively use steroids.
But the ONLY people I get that suspicion from are those who don't work out.
If you are a legit 405-lb bench presser, by necessity, you know what it takes to achieve that. And a lifter in the 170's with 15% body fat shouldn't even register as a steroid user to you. If you don't work out, then yeah - I could see why you would think I use steroids.
When gyms reopen, you better believe I'll be benching 360-370 at 175-lb body weight.
And if another Getbigger was benching 280 and throwing his hat in strongman contests in his region, it wouldn't cross my mind to make fun of him - because everyone would know I'm stronger, so why point it out just to poke fun?
Do you think I'm a long-term steroid user, stuck at 175-lb?
If so, did you think that maybe I DON'T WANT to get any heavier than 175-lb? I have three small children who need me. Do you think I want to put on size to gain strength, knowing it can ONLY hurt my health? Did you ever stop and think that some of us don't want to reduce our organ integrity, tax the processes of our bodies, reduce mobility, potentially reduce our lifespans, and risk injury, just for a plastic trophy?
How about a friendly bet, Walter Sobchak?:
When gyms open in Ontario, I'll surpass all my previous best lifts at 175-lb, within six months. I'll give you a 70-lb weight advantage [245-lb], and we'll both upload our top lifts, and post them here. Let's see how much you can out-lift me with a full 70-lb body weight advantage. You can feel free to use whatever steroids you want, as well. I would do it drug-free - not like you'd believe me anyway.
Then let's see how much you make fun of me for being "weak".
I'll give you a 100-lb weight advantage if you want. I'm not saying I'd beat you - I just want you to eat your words, seeing my "weak" top lifts at 175.
And back to my previous point - do you think it's cool bringing my children into this discussion and speaking negatively about them?
Do you think it makes you a big man to talk badly about a 3-year-old girl, still in the process of learning to speak? Even my two oldest children are 11 and 10, and you have the audacity to state they were raised poorly?
I'll say this as a general statement:
If anyone in person ever bashed my commitment as a father, or insulted my children, I'd very politely ask them to apologize. If they refused to apologize, I'd give them one more warning.
Then a switch would flip in my brain, that I have no control over.
Then I'd go to jail.
So my STRONG SUGGESTION to you, Walter Sobchak, is: continue to be an internet tough guy, while you are safe behind your computer screen. But I must SERIOUSLY caution against you talking trash about a man's family in real life - especially insulting his commitment as a father, or telling him his children didn't receive a proper upbringing.
The odds of you travelling to Middle-of-Nowhere, Northern Ontario are about 0%, but I am absolutely, positively 100% confident that if anyone disrespected my commitment as a father, or insulted the upbringing of my children in person the way you did online, I'd very politely ask them to apologize.
And they would apologize.
And that would be the end of it.
Once again - my kids are my life. I take any issues involving my children very seriously.
And you would NEVER insult a father in real life. Or bring up his children in ANY context. Not just to me - but to ANY man with kids. You're too scared to post using your real name, and you're describing yourself as a badass. Do you REALLY think anyone here believes any of your claims?
