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    Quote Originally Posted by CommanderFun View Post
    Society seems to cater to very unhealthy people with large waists and twig limbs.
    Society prefers these people. They are less trouble.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daveyboy View Post
    My chair-sitting position options have reduced. I can no longer cross my legs one knee over the other. It's either ankle-on-thigh or plain old manspreading nowadays. Nobody tells you about this!
    Assuming you are a male this is a good thing, you have no business crossing your legs knee over knee like a woman lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by RMiller1991 View Post
    Assuming you are a male this is a good thing, you have no business crossing your legs knee over knee like a woman lol
    One would've really hoped that 31 years of life would be sufficient to not hold such silly and stupid convictions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RMiller1991 View Post
    Assuming you are a male this is a good thing, you have no business crossing your legs knee over knee like a woman lol
    I think if I tried to cross my legs knee over knee at this point I'd BECOME a woman from all that crushing pressure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CommanderFun View Post
    I think if I tried to cross my legs knee over knee at this point I'd BECOME a woman from all that crushing pressure.
    But not zft.

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    Define "heavy"

    Aside from accidents and injury which are hit or miss. Sleep Apnoea, caused by the thicker neck. If you don't know you have it, or no-ones ever told you that you stop breathing multiple times a night, it could be potentially nasty as not breathing tends to affect a lot of other aspects. I dare say it's far more common amongst board members then the general public.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    But not zft.
    This would be more aptly written as "zft isn't fat, unlike CommanderFun".

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    During the NLP, as the size of the latissimus dorsi increases, so does the frequency of painful collisions of elbows with doorframes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zft View Post
    This would be more aptly written as "zft isn't fat, unlike CommanderFun".
    zft isn't male, like CommanderFun.

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    As a fellow 62 year old female lifter with multiple sclerosis there is no down side for me. However, for my husband who is 68 and a self-professed lazy man, this is not true. He is stronger today than he was in his twenties. We are gloriously retired. But, while he is stronger, I now expect him to work harder. Honey, move those 80 lb retainer wall blocks because , you hunk of a man, I know you can. Honey, please unload the twenty 50 lb bags of soil I loaded into the car at the store because I know you can. Come with me Honey and load my zillion buckets of wood mulch into the car I have thoughtfully shoveled for you (and bring them where I want them when we get home). Honey, please pick my old afflicted heavy butt off the ground because I've fallen again and I can't get up. I crack the whip and there is nowhere to hide. That's a downside...and maybe also that he's been saddled with me for 42 years.

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