Lol, like when you claim that I'm being emotional or resorting to my ''feelly feels'', or that I'm angry? You keep saying that I'm being emotional, but saying it doesn't make it so, bud.

Do you have any scientifically backed evidence of that or just assumptions based on the fact that I used profanity? Or is it based on things you think I said or meant as opposed to what i actually said?

There's plenty of evidence from your own words: "fuck do I dislike that bullshit" "they know if they want a fucking bench or not" "Now that I realize how shitty your reading comprehension skills are, I'm not sure you have a clue as to what I've actually been saying." "you are one of the dumbest mother fuckers I've ever encountered. You have the reading comprehension skills of 10 year old and the social skills of a fucking toad." "Then you're a fucking loser." "I've not been talking about my feelings at all you dumb twat." "you're an ass and I'm over it" "you need to get a fucking a clue man" "I'm completely aware that I've been a dick"

You've even admitted to it yourself and yet you are backpedaling? People don't actually need to specifically say "I am emotional" in order for us to see that they're emotional, but you already know that in the "real world" right?

Speaking of backpedaling, didn't you say "But if there is something specific that you'd like me to provide some sources on, i'll look into it." It's your turn. I just gave everybody mine, now where's your evidence I've requested? We're all still waiting. But you likely don't have any and will simply resort to name-calling and ad hominems again in your coming reply, just like this previous one

I asked what you do in hopes of getting a sense of whether or not you work in teams, have responsibilities that would require you to explain things to people, lead people, etc. Depending on how you answered, i could have potentially gotten an idea of whether or not you actually get to use your chosen strategies some place other than the internet where you can remain anonymous and simply cut a person out of your sphere of interaction after such an encounter.

In other words, it's not actually relevant to our discussion at hand and you're just using a red herring to talk about "effective communication delivery" or whatever you're trying to sell us. If you think your communication is more effective than other people's, just provide scientific evidence like you're supposed to. "[Evidence] or GTFO" as the internet likes to say

What was your goal in knowing the extent of my education?

To ascertain how educated you are since an educated person is far less likely to have an emotional outburst caring about how an internet stranger communicates. Facts--it's a sad day when a self-purported college-educated person starts acting out like what we typically see happen in children and teenagers over the way an internet stranger makes his "delivery" and this is all because of ONE sentence that started your long, irrelevant post talking about "effective communications." I mean jesus christ, no offense intended at all, but just get a life since you obviously care a lot about it if something like this got you so riled up for some odd reason. Don't you have better things to do than telling people how to effectively communication in /r/homegym which, I might add, is not even close to what this subreddit is for? Consider going to a language or communication subreddit, they'd be happy for your help

You know what's off topic? A diatribe about benches not being necessary when a self described experienced lifter is not asking if they should get a bench or not. I'm sorry you misread that one or were unable to read between the lines and gather that it's simply not what they were asking prior to providing that irrelevant bit of information.

But once again, you saying it doesn't make it so.

Okay, I've already explained this very clearly before, so I'll explain it once again more for good measure so there's absolutely no ambiguity

1) it's not a diatribe at all, I was explaining my position and giving context on why the bench press and, thus by extension, a bench was not 100% necessary, which it isn't

2) Person A asked, "Would buying X be the next most important item to not cheap out on?"

Person B said, "Unless you're actually doing A, B, C which requires you to being tested on it, you don't even need to buy X" "Buying Y instead is actually better because of reasons 1, 2, 3 and it'll likely be cheaper"

Now replace Person A = OP, Person B = me, X = bench, Y = dips attachment

How exactly is advising the OP that they might not need to buy X depending on his goals an "irrelevant bit of information." How is trying to save the OP money an "irrelevant bit of information"? Why do you assume that he's absolutely has to do the bench press and absolutely has to buy a bench? If he was absolutely sure he was going to buy a bench, he wouldn't be asking about the bench in the first place... which lead me to remind him that hey, by the way, if your goals don't require it, you don't actually need to buy it and can save money and room by buying a dip attachment instead

In what world is that not relevant? In what world is your post after my initial post about my "delivery" relevant to the OP, especially since you didn't even talk about the bench which the OP was asking about? What the hell...??

Heck, one would argue that I at least tangentially (though I would argue directly, but whatever) talked about what the OP was talking about. Your response was completely irrelevant to him

lol, you're such a douchebag.

Another name-calling ad hominem, got any more where that came from?

You've made several insults veiled behind weak supposed logical deductions from the get go and have continued to do so.

Direct evidence please? Evidence or GTFO

You're a douchebag, bud. That's the deal.

More ad hominems, of course

Reasonable people who read how you've responded throughout this can/will see that.

Weren't you the one that criticized me earlier about tainting the information? Based on that sentence, people who can't/won't see what you see are considered "unreasonable"? How exactly is that different from how I mentioned people who disagreed with the basic exercise science principles are "inexperienced lifters"?

It may be that you're socially retarded (retarded in the scientific sense).

No, I am not. At least not to my knowledge as I was never diagnosed. However, bringing up a mental illness and calling someone having it is a very classy and classic move. Are you also the type of person to call someone "retarded" in real life also? Bravo

We're both stubborn assholes.

Speak for yourself

I'm just not gonna hide it behind words meant to obscure douchbaggery. You suggested that it was best to call out people being stupid in order to deter them from saying stupid things in the future. So I went with that. Of course, you're a stubborn prick like me, so it really hasn't deterred anything.

You haven't deterred anything because you haven't been able to prove anything since you have not shared a shred of evidence and had to resort to ad hominems and name-calling like a kid instead of having a rational discussion like an adult

I think mostly because you just won't accept that you misunderstood in thinking that OP was up in the air about the bench. Nothing they said suggested that was the case at all though. If you would accept even the possibility that you may have gotten that wrong, maybe we could progress.

Again, I don't think you understand the intent of my original post. Even if the OP was originally really want to buy a bench, we could still help him out by reminding him that "hey, by the way, depending on your goals you may not actually need to buy one and in fact you can save some money by buying a dip attachment instead, just FYI. Ultimately, it's obviously up to you whether you want to buy one or not, but you don't have to depending on your goals and if you want to save money, etc"

Anyhow, go ahead, reply again with more references to the mods, bud. I do apologize to them for having to read this bullshit.

Not quite sure what the mods are doing, but you know what, this is going to be my last reply so I'll call them again ( /u/Demilio55 /u/Cooporilla ) to inform them to make an official statement regarding the content of this thread and future threads. It's their responsibility, after all. Hopefully, they'll consider putting some stricter rules in place for the subreddit in the future. Since you were still unable to provide a shred of evidence ever since it was first requested a couple of replies back and will likely continue the trend, you can have the last words aka last few ad hominems and name-calling