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Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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Post by hombre_fatal »

hbosch wrote: post #19
gerbilly wrote: post #3

Awesome thread, where body builders argue about how many days there are in a week: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

Omg, this is awesome. I love this quote: > "You don't count what day it is when counting days, I just explained that. If today is SATURDAY, it's not 2 days until SUNDAY now is it?" The sheer concept that Sunday to Sunday = 1 week versus Sunday to Saturday = 1 week is kind of bending my brain.

"Sorry to hijack, but Josh dude how are you arguing with a calender?"

"He is in Josh world. The g'damn dumbest world in the universe!"

Classic. Reminds me of arguing Xbox vs Playstation as a teen on neogaf.com.

Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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Post by maxxxxx »

gerbilly wrote: post #3

Awesome thread, where body builders argue about how many days there are in a week: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

Very funny. I also am often in a discussion where I develop some theory about something and only after a while start thinking "Huh? What am I talking about? This makes no sense.". Happens to the best of us.

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paavoova wrote: post #29

Elliot Rodger posted on the Misc subforum. In retrospect, reading his posts is like a morbid dark comedy - the lack of social awareness, the insecurity, all shone through to the point of feeling insincere. It could very well have been a troll, there was no way to know. It's no wonder he barely aroused alarm despite posting his ideologies on many a public forum including Youtube. He indirectly mentions posting on Misc…

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Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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Post by JasonGenova25 »

paavoova wrote: post #29

Elliot Rodger posted on the Misc subforum. In retrospect, reading his posts is like a morbid dark comedy - the lack of social awareness, the insecurity, all shone through to the point of feeling insincere. It could very well have been a troll, there was no way to know. It's no wonder he barely aroused alarm despite posting his ideologies on many a public forum including Youtube. He indirectly mentions posting on Misc…

ok grandpa. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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Post by JetSpiegel »

cyberUltraFlex wrote: post #15

Body building forums were really weird places, back around 2002, up until maybe 2004 when MySpace started to explode, and then, eventually Facebook. I remember encountering at least one, and the passages I read tended to brush up against a sort of dimwitted infantile fan fiction, mixing bizarre fantasies with near-zero understanding of human anatomy and physiology. One particular discussion that sticks out in my mind…

Username checks out. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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Post by whycombagator »

atomical wrote: post #26
whycombagator wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He convinced a lot of people that he was an expert at all things science despite using an incredibly immature writing style I skimmed the article, but couldn't find examples or mention of his writing style.

He ran an internet forum with a cult following. It shutdown because: > Thirteen months ago I was diagnosed with a very serious health issue. The prognosis is poor. That was obviously a lie.

I am aware. But back to my initial comment:

Where are the examples of his immature writing style that convinced people of his expert knowledge in all things science?

Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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Post by bavell »

loser777 wrote: post #14
bavell wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow that thread is gold hahaha! Bodybuilders making a classic programming off-by-one fencepost error https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error

Yes! I have been looking for a name for this type of error for a long, long time. |{i, i+1, i+2, ..., n}| = (n - i) + 1 is a little clunkier to say

Glad I could help! So satisfying to find a concise name/explanation/rule/heuristic for describing complicated phenomena. ^_^

Re: Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums

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Post by atomical »

whycombagator wrote: post #38
atomical wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He ran an internet forum with a cult following. It shutdown because: > Thirteen months ago I was diagnosed with a very serious health issue. The prognosis is poor. That was obviously a lie.

I am aware. But back to my initial comment: Where are the examples of his immature writing style that convinced people of his expert knowledge in all things science?

There may be a few ripped pages of his forum floating around. His forum was members only. There won't be anything on archive.org.

I was a member of his forum and read his posts from time to time out of curiosity.

The compounds he sold through his alias "Tom" were very vanilla, most of which were available from reputable companies like Ceretropic.

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