Fools at IRONAGE posted a recent pic of Sergio Oliva in his casket

[Bix]

Like Howard I enjoy joking around. They were posting photos of Robby Robinson and at the time he didn't want any of his images posted without his permission. I jokingly posted in one of their Robby threads that I was Robby's internet police and they should take the photos down or I would report them to Robby. Well a  couple of them got all serious about it and acted like real asses so I said hell I will tell Robby. Well I guess Robby called Shawn Perrine at the Weider offices and left him a message informing Shawn that he wasn't very happy about it and called him a" BOY". That hurt Shawns feeling enough that he banned me for life from ironage, LOL

[GoneAway]

John is a good guy and I have no idea about who/what the Sergio casket pic is about?
In my opinion, that would be in bad tatse , but who knows?

In a place like IA, it's a nice farewell pic. If it was posted here, it would probably get comments that it didn't deserve.

[Hurricane Beef !]

Take it easy on those guys. Sergio and the golden age athletes are imortalized forever there ( hell THE BEEF is a member) and they( we, view it as respect.)

May God bless Sergio and the Ironage.

THE BEEF

[Roger Bacon]

Please, explain to me what is disrespectful about taking pictures of someones corpse? I do not care what is done with my corpse after I die. It may be left on the street to rot if that's someones will. I won't be alive to see it anyway.

Apparently people use to do this.  My great grandmother left a album full of coffin photos, so I looked it up. 

[BB]

Apparently people use to do this.  My great grandmother left a album full of coffin photos, so I looked it up. 

Yes, up until the easy availability of cameras, it was somewhat common for families to photograph at funerals. Many times folks would only a few or no photos of a person due to cost and set up, so sometimes a funeral was the only and last time to get them, It's faded for the most part here in America, but you'll still see it in certain parts of the world.

Here's a rather creepy collection of older ones -

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[andreisdaman]

There is some excellent dialogue and classic era pics on that site.
They don't want to discuss drugs at all along with any g4p , that went on in the golden era.
the thing that bugged me is they tried to pretend it was an era that was near perfect, and it wasn't.
For me and many others who lived outside muscle beach, the 60s and 70s were not that great a bodybuilding era.
Gyms were few and far between, supplements sucked and the number of contests was small.
The 80's/early 90's was for me the ideal as this was before figure or fitness and a show was 100% bodybuilding.
Gyms were springing up everywhere and bodybuilding was covered on TV...go figure.

very good point ..agree all the way

[sync pulse]

It's part of the culture of people in Europe east of Germany to take photographs of people in their caskets.   I have relatives with numerous photo albums of dead people in their caskets.

[Vince B]

It was sad to view that photo of Sergio. Sobering and sad. We are all mortals, afterall. Even the Myth.

Howard has reported a few misconceptions about Ironage. I say what is on my mind and haven't been banned. They do discuss steroids now but that was taboo a few years ago. The moderators were changed when Shawn Perine got too busy for the site. One moderator didn't approve of me and that was unpleasant. It is difficult when moderators join discussions. Always has been and always will be. The current two moderators on the general forum are doing a good job.

Ironage allows all manner of discussions but they don't want people attacked personally. They don't want that site to resemble the nonsense that occurs here on Getbig where nasty people post what they want.....usually behind anonymous handles.

Yes, you have to join to even view the site which is a pity. I don't think they have anything to hide. Just their policy. I always thought the Ironage was from 1940 but that isn't what the owners of that site think. They do remember and celebrate champions from the past and that is what the site is mainly about as far as I am concerned.

[hipolito mejia]

I don't see anything wrong with the photo of Sergio forever resting, if is posted on a site where he is Idolized........

There's a lot of fools that actually think Arnold is a God,  that can be irritating after 5 mins on that site.

[Kwon_2]

A pic from 2007..

[JasonH]

Casket of peace.

[Powerlift66]

Dave Mastorakis is a great guy.

Funniest IronAge post I ever read, was where Perine said he benched 405 raw as a 16 year old teen weighing 130 lbs..

Classic..

[the trainer]

I prefer to see Sergio in his prime as the myth those freaky pictures that i saw as a kid that made me want to work out, why would you want to see pictures of him in his casket.

[hipolito mejia]

I prefer to see Sergio in his prime as the myth those freaky pictures that i saw as a kid that made me want to work out, why would you want to see pictures of him in his casket.

Again, You don't want to see a pic of anyone in a casket, or go to a funeral, or cemetery....hell you don't even want to die....but it happens lad.

[hipolito mejia]

You only die once......



But once is way TOO MUCH !.....  don't you think ?

[GoneAway]

You only die once......



But once is way TOO MUCH !.....  don't you think ?

Yes... it would be great if we could live forever... but we all have an expiry date. I was watching this show on TV about an inmate facing the death penalty. He was a young kid, maybe 20 or so. Way too young to die... Even if we aren't dying now or in the next couple of years, we all will reach our expiry date and die. It's the reality of life as a human.

[Primary Captain]

Friend of mine just showed me a thread that the fools at Ironage posted showing Sergio Oliva in his casket at his recent wake. Ii think Natural Mr.O, John Hansen posted it as he is the moron who took the picture too. I find it disrespectful that he even took the pic. Fucking fanboy. Pathetic and disrespectful to post it on the site. Over at Ironage they act all proper and shit, but they find it ok to post such a thing. Now here on Getbig, I would have expected such fare.

Aren't you the asshole who makes up fake gay stories about the pros?  What's the problem: mommy didn't give you enough attention at home? F@ggot.

[funk51]

Did Dallas go into some off the wall rant with quotes from his mother, or some Steve Reeves worship talk ?? Odd ball..

i told dallas on rawiron.com to try out getbig, his reply " my mom doesn't allow me to go on sites where they use curse words."