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Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums
- powera 8y agoAn article about Usenet by somebody who has never heard of Usenet.
- DrScump 8y agoBefore the world stratified into random web forums, there was misc.fitness.weights.
- gerbilly 8y agoAwesome thread, where body builders argue about how many days there are in a week: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751
- wging 8y agoIt is reviewed at length by the incredible Jon Bois (you might know him as the author of 17776): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4
- ericol 8y agoThis is priceless. Thank you.
- jedberg 8y agoThis is like an argument about 0-based vs 1-based arrays.
- hopler 8y agoBut that's a style choice, not a mathematical error.
- bavell 8y agoWow 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 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error
- loser777 8y agoYes! 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
- gerbilly 8y agoAlso known as an 'Obiwan error'.¹ 1: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/O/obi-wan-error.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/O/obi-wan-error.html
- bavell 8y agoGlad I could help! So satisfying to find a concise name/explanation/rule/heuristic for describing complicated phenomena. ^_^
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- edgarvaldes 8y agoI love finding and reading these classic threads again.
- imjk 8y agoThank you for sharing. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. This was my previous favorite bodybuilding thread: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=161809003&page=1 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=161809003&pa...
- m-ee 8y agoThat's up there with the original frogtech bulk https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=174863921&page=1 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=174863921&pa...
- sharadov 8y agoUnfuckinbelievable!
- hbosch 8y agoOmg, 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.
- hombre_fatal 8y ago"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.
- codesushi42 8y agoThis whole article takes me back to the late 90s/early 2000s gaming message boards when NeoGAF was simply "Gaming Age Forums". A lot of shit talking, and some on-topic discussion about gaming every now and then. What a wonderful time to have been a teen.
- baud147258 8y agoShit talking/posting on gaming forums do still exists. I joined a 20-year old forum 2 years ago and some thread are funny and some threads are on-topic
- TheHypnotist 8y agoJust so I'm clear we're all team Justin, right?
- neRok 8y agoSun -> Mon = 1, Mon -> Tue = 2, Tue -> Wed = 3, Wed -> Thu = 4, Thu -> Fri = 5, Fri -> Sat = 6, Sat -> Sun = 7 So Sun -> Sun = 7 days = 1 week! OP's mixing duration with a "period" of time.
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- maxxxxx 8y agoVery 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.
- vertline3 8y agoI have a feeling the guy is trolling.
- tfandango 8y agoHilarious! Reminds me of the classic Fark streetlight thread, which sadly has lost all of it's images looks like: https://www.fark.com/comments/2618004/WTF-did-I-just-take-a-picture-of-I-thought-it-was-a-planet-but-it-looks-really-weird https://www.fark.com/comments/2618004/WTF-did-I-just-take-a-...
- eBombzor 8y agoA WEEK IS NOOOOTTTTT SUN-SUN!!!! IT'S SUN-SAT, S-E-V-E-N-DAYS!!!! Sun-Sat is only 6 days?! Sunday ONE Monday TWO Tuesday THREE Wednesday FOUR Thursday FIVE Friday SIX Saturday SEVEN Arizona public schools=FAIL Oh my lord that is hilarious. Another hilarious thread from bbf: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=139812923&page=1 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=139812923&pa...
- PlasticTank 8y agoNow the ultimate argument for gym goers, do you count the bar? http://i.4cdn.org/fit/1554264639754.jpg http://i.4cdn.org/fit/1554264639754.jpg
- rhegart 8y agoMy favorite thread of all time. Always gets me a laugh
- jansan 8y agoThis seems to have taken the role of the Onion's Outkube project: https://www.theonion.com/new-decoy-website-launched-to-lure-away-all-moronic-int-1819573050 https://www.theonion.com/new-decoy-website-launched-to-lure-... It was actually implemented and comments were just going wild. Here is one thread on the WaybackMachine: http://web.archive.org/web/20120214071531/http://outkube.com/go_/?p=245#comments http://web.archive.org/web/20120214071531/http://outkube.com...
- rofo1 8y agoThanks for that, extremely entertaining, fun to read! :) "That's terrific you have alot of money. Can you lend me $800? I'll pay you back $100 every other day for 2 weeks. Sound cool?"
- flukus 8y agoThis is probably the funniest forum post of all time, it was the first thing I thought of when I read the title here, unfortunately it ends on a depressing note: > My point was proved by smarter people, if you take a single week, not two weeks, just a single week, and workout every other day, you can workout 4 days a week, the end, stop bitching.
- Scoundreller 8y ago> The articles used to have automatic comments sections after each, but the members were such know-it-alls that the site, despite paying staff very well, had difficulty retaining authors. Eventually, that particular place nuked its comments because these members were just the worst type of internet experts, and authors didn’t want their serious work to be followed by a thousand forum comments that begin with ‘well actually.’” Well actually, author-marketers didn’t like paying money for an “article” only to get trashed for it. And site operators didn’t want “authors” to realize their “serious” product placements caused a negative impression.
- atomical 8y agoA really intriguing story related to bodybuilding is the story of DatBTrue. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/sports/doping-thomas-mann-peptides.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/sports/doping-thomas-mann... He convinced a lot of people that he was an expert at all things science despite using an incredibly immature writing style. It turns out he was a lawyer!
- whycombagator 8y ago> 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.
- atomical 8y agoHe 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.
- whycombagator 8y agoI 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?
- atomical 8y agoThere 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.
- robax 8y agoTangentially related but, Zyzz was also a hugely popular member of the BB forum. He was known as having one of the most desirable physiques and had a big personality (he frequently posted videos of himself at the club). It was then discovered he was using steroids, which caused some of the community to hate him. He got booked for a reality show, but then died due to an undiagnosed heart defect. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/zyzz https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/zyzz
- cyberUltraFlex 8y agoBody 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 was something akin to a 12 year-old's musings (and it might, very well, have been some little kid), about how protein travels from a dinner plate all the way into the muscles, and it was tempting to believe one person was sock puppeting the whole thread, pretending to carry multiple sides of the conversation, as a sort of blend of creative writing and performance art, but just based on the voice and tone of the various replies, it really did seem like some sort of group fantasy role playing session. This was before I knew the true depth and breadth of furry subculture, and eventually, once I became more familiarized with such facts of life, and developed an understanding of the intersection of interests between fan fiction and fur suit fetishists, I surmized that on some level, what had been going on with all those body building forums was that a subset of the fur suit/fan fiction subculture had begun to fantasize collectively about bulging human muscles and oiled up skin, as if it were a form of fur suit, and then took to authoring concept pieces, to role play within that context. In the same way that ASMR is something akin to an alt-kink version of phone sex, this sort of thing seemed to be likened to alt-cybering in an obscure sub-genre of fur kink. Anyway, that was the weird shit I remember bumping into back then. Now I suspect it's all rolled into the general morasse of Facebook flotsam, diluted and washed out. Maybe it's better that way... Maybe.
- chipperyman573 8y agoWhy was this marked dead? It doesn't seem off-topic or anything.
- pault 8y agoGreen users often get their comments deaded. Possibly because they used the word "sockpuppet" which would definitely be a heuristic for low quality flamebait.
- oarabbus_ 8y agoBodybuildingforum is one of the most entertaining and influential places on the internet. I honestly believe it to be on par with 4chan in scope of "internet cultural influence"
- NeoBasilisk 8y agoIt's always weird to see articles like this talking about traditional forum sites as if no one uses them anymore.
- HNLurker2 8y agoMaybe it will die out just like livejournal
- adreamingsoul 8y agoTime is relative?
- jayar95 8y agoAny miscers checking in?
- robax 8y agoin.gif
- veryworried 8y agoAdmitting to being a miscer might put you on privately run HN blacklists.
- justtopost 8y agoThats next level echochamber. Do people actually do this?
- veryworried 8y agoYup, even custom css to help point out who you should downvote.
- strken 8y agoThat's really interesting. Can you point to a github repo or chrome extension or something?
- obvzzzzzz 8y agoHoly shit, dude. The last time anyone created a (((chrome extension))) for forum sliding, it basically ruined free usage of parenthesis, and now (((doing this))) means you're some kind of closet racist, because memes on the internet are a clear indicator of secret real world truths, so watch out for the whisper networks and dog whistles, or gangstalkers will dox and gaslight you.
- veryworried 8y agoThese groups tend to be invite only and don’t publicly post this code as it reveals usernames of people on blacklists, but if you search around discord channels or some subreddits you might find them.
- paavoova 8y agoElliot 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 in his manifesto, and how he ultimately failed to reach his fitness goals and the subsequent insecurities. I can't help but wonder if people like him would be or have been better off without ever coming across communities like BB forums. There's little to glorify, it's not a part of internet "culture" to look fondly back on.
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- JasonGenova25 8y agook grandpa. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
- dondawest 8y agoHey man wanna slap-box for like thirty seconds ?
- jplayer01 8y agoI didn't know who Elliot Rodger was, so for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings
- awareBrah 8y agoI actually posted in one of his threads. The sad part is I and I’m sure 99% of miscers were convinced it was a troll post. The stuff he wrote was so unbelievable that it seems to be designed to trigger some members. I specifically remember a post where he bragged about having a bmw and still had no luck with girls and he saw <some other race> in a Honda with a pretty girl and he couldn’t believe it. It was so outlandish it was impossible to take seriously.
- HeyLaughingBoy 8y agoJeez. No comments about tuna shakes? :-)
- beezle 8y agoThe 90s also had the Weights mailing list. It was moderated so always a pretty respectful place but the advent of web based forums ended it.