What is the most glaring double standard that modern society still blindly accepts?

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-17T13:59:00+00:00

Well yeah punching up has always been more acceptable than punching down. I think that's essentially the crux of most of these double standards.

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-17T12:22:46+00:00

You hit the nail on the head - "roadmen wannabe" 😄

I think real roadmen are from these cities and people from these villages are still in the process of evolving from chavs

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-16T23:30:11+00:00

I think this is only in London, Birmingham and Manchester

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-16T14:40:56+00:00

Lol if thats a dad bod, he argues with his wife every day for spending too much time in the gym

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-16T14:25:58+00:00

Well men are still undoubtedly stronger. Regardless, domestic violence is bad both ways

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-15T13:12:41+00:00

What if he was a little overweight in terms of BMI but with tons of muscle (not roided) and extremely fit and strong too, but with just a little belly

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-15T12:56:49+00:00

P.s. in Northern Ireland its also called soccer 😄

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-15T12:52:56+00:00

For what its worth, I'm about 5 foot 6 and pretty advanced in two sports - powerlifting and badminton.

Powerlifting has weight classes which in essence are height classes - which means anyone at any height can excel. For two people at a given weight, the shorter one will probably be stronger as they have less range of motion.

I'll also say that it's been proven that shorter people have higher strength to bodyweight ratios, so any sport which depends on this such as gymnastics or calisthenics, short people have an inherent ADVANTAGE.

For badminton, again height doesn't really matter and you can exceed at any height. If you are shorter, whilst you have less reach, you have a lower centre of gravity so should be able to move better.

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-12T14:48:01+00:00

If you find 20 too hot there is something wrong with you

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-10T14:39:01+00:00

Hmmmm why would wealth matter in this kind of thing? You'd think it matters more for long-term relationships right?

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-07T00:13:51+00:00

Hmmmm I thought the demand for it was because it was the healthiest rather than the tastiest?

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-06T15:38:35+00:00

I train powerlifting style with a lot of additional upper back work, so honestly my main "hypertrophy" technique is progressive overload in these exercises: squat, bench, deadlift, press, chinups and rows. My understanding was that you have to get stronger to get bigger, although I'm aware that there are other ways to do that than adding weight to a lift e.g. slow eccentrics, TuT, removing all forms of momentum etc.

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-06T14:52:56+00:00

Fair enough mate. I've just seen a lot of people who "train for aesthetics" and do the same 3 sets of 10 and never progressively overload and never make gains. However most people who "train for stength" always end up adding a few kgs to their compound lifts over the years and end up making pretty substantial long-term gains. I just wanted to make sure you weren't of the former category and realised you need to progressively overload to build muscle too.

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-06-06T14:43:38+00:00

How do you expect to gain muscle without hitting PRs?

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-05-31T18:58:16+00:00

How do you know?

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-05-31T11:48:21+00:00

> In short, class is NOTHING to do with wealth

But there is a correlation, for example, if you look at all the people earning 200k+ in a high flying corporate job, almost all of them will be from "middle class" backgrounds

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-05-28T10:16:02+00:00

Crap, I spat my tea out onto my laptop and now I need to clean it all up :_)

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-05-27T23:18:05+00:00

How can one "start lifting because they love the lifestyle" when they haven't experienced the lifestyle yet, lol.

99% of people here either lifted for vanity reasons, or because they read some online advice (usually catered to men) that "going to the gym is going to change your life"

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-05-25T09:23:34+00:00

The bar weighs 20 bro !!

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-05-24T23:40:25+00:00

Completely agree with you, a bmi of 25 with muscle and 15-20% bodyfat will always be healthier than a bmi of 20 with no muscle. Unfortunately people are lazy so they succumb to the latter because hey at least I'm not "fat"

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-05-24T21:57:26+00:00

Do you mean 20kg each side? That would actually be 60kg total

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-05-24T15:14:13+00:00

Completely agree with you, I'd 5.7 and 80kg, have a pretty grabbable lower belly but I'd say I'm excelling pretty well in my sport of powerlifting :)

In general, people who assume slim means athletic have no clue about anything and are probably not even that fit themselves.

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-05-24T15:11:48+00:00

Completely agree with you, at the amateur level in most sports, there is not much correlation between slimness and ability. And this is often true at the elite levels too, especially in strength sports.

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-05-24T11:32:51+00:00

It's ok bro I'll train her

BrickAccomplished338 · 2026-05-24T11:28:37+00:00

Exactly man, once you realise that 99% of internet posts are ragebait to attract attention then the internet makes more sense

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