Remember When...

It doesn't seem so long ago when everyone encouraged and supported one another. We used to post about the fun and crazy shit people did. Posts about helping people out. The "trash" talking used to be in fun and jest.

People did voice their opinions but were not so quickly ridiculed in the process. There were constructive debates, not pissing matches and threats.

I am not even going to weigh in on Women's Weights, as far as I'm concerned it's up to the AD, period. Otherwise let the women themselves figure it out on their own.

I wish you all the best and hope that cooler minds prevail.

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Thanks Rob.

Detroitpete wrote: 'roid raging, HGH fueled, sodium-loaded swol up old men and those that value this outlook.

Why is everyone so vague all the time?

If you want to call someone out then just man up and call someone out.

jsully wrote: Detroitpete wrote: 'roid raging, HGH fueled, sodium-loaded swol up old men and those that value this outlook. Why is everyone so vague all the time? If you want to call someone out then just man up and call someone out.

My wife calls Facebook - "Vaguebook." Because half the people (exaggeration) that unfortunately make up the updates that Facebook chooses to tell me their status are putting up vague posts that are begging people to ask them what they mean. Then the same people are even more vague and say they don't want to talk about it. Even though they posted something that was obviously a cry for attention.

jsully wrote: Detroitpete wrote: 'roid raging, HGH fueled, sodium-loaded swol up old men and those that value this outlook. Why is everyone so vague all the time? If you want to call someone out then just man up and call someone out.

I have.  I think that no matter how much I might hope that conversations here or elsewhere on the internet, could be more like sitting across a table, having a beer or coffee and a chat--an exchange of ideas in a civil manner, there are some that just aren't able to do that.  Any disagreement or difference of opinion is taken like a physical attack and their response is thereby escalated until there becomes an amount of hyperbole that is beyond all sense and logic.  I can't think of a name I haven't been called on this site or a threat I haven't received, but I'm very clear that I have never said anything here or on FB that I haven't or wouldn't say to someone face-to-face.  We've forgotten how to disagree and discuss in a civil manner.

jsully wrote: Detroitpete wrote: 'roid raging, HGH fueled, sodium-loaded swol up old men and those that value this outlook. Why is everyone so vague all the time? If you want to call someone out then just man up and call someone out.

I always like when people insult others on the web and then fall back on the "I have never said anything that I wouldn't say in person" excuse.  Great so you are saying that you are an asshole in real life as well, good to know. 

Whatever else, a shot in the puss from a man like Silverback would be the only one you ever need. We hold some truths to be self-evident...

Further, advanced geezerism may have robbed some of us of our speed and power, but intensity is a frame of mind. Therefore, it follows that Intensity and courtesy are not mutually exclusive.

Here, have a beer...

You know to take this further, how do you leave people in general?  When you leave the room did you lift someone?  Or did you drag them down and crap on them not knowing a thing with what they have been through or the shoes they walk in.  It is real easy to check in here and crap on someone out there in e mail land, but it is really harder to find out what they are and do something about it.  Just in general, I wonder what people think about you when they see you?  I need a hand, I need a lift, I need all the help I can get.  So if your wondering, there it is for you and I am guessing most of us are the same way.  Life is hard enough without your amigos, peers, throwing buddies yanking you down because they are focused on the one thing we do not agree on, not the 99.9% we do.  I have been blessed to cross the path of Durso, I met and learned from him while he lifted me up.  Does that make him soft or weak, hardly.  Intelligent intensity magnified with years of hard honing.  I use him as example as when I see the most interesting man on TV, I think of Durso.  The man is an example of what we all hope to be. He is not less for giving to me, he is more.  Your stronger lifting people, making them better, making them worth more, cause in the end, your not giving anything, your just putting that out there to come back and fill up your coffers.

Silverback wrote: You know to take this further, how do you leave people in general?  When you leave the room did you lift someone?  Or did you drag them down and crap on them not knowing a thing with what they have been through or the shoes they walk in.  It is real easy to check in here and crap on someone out there in e mail land, but it is really harder to find out what they are and do something about it.  Just in general, I wonder what people think about you when they see you?  I need a hand, I need a lift, I need all the help I can get.  So if your wondering, there it is for you and I am guessing most of us are the same way.  Life is hard enough without your amigos, peers, throwing buddies yanking you down because they are focused on the one thing we do not agree on, not the 99.9% we do.  I have been blessed to cross the path of Durso, I met and learned from him while he lifted me up.  Does that make him soft or weak, hardly.  Intelligent intensity magnified with years of hard honing.  I use him as example as when I see the most interesting man on TV, I think of Durso.  The man is an example of what we all hope to be. He is not less for giving to me, he is more.  Your stronger lifting people, making them better, making them worth more, cause in the end, your not giving anything, your just putting that out there to come back and fill up your coffers.

I think we should post this at the top of the forum main page.