Brickbat: I Lift, Bro

Cal State

Robert Weide, an assistant sociology professor at the California State University at Los Angeles, doesn't think much of that school's chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom. After the group announced it would host a speech by conservative author Ben Shapiro on "When Diversity Becomes a Problem," Weide posted on the group's Facebook page, comparing them to white supremacists and saying the event would need police protection. When others began to push back, he challenged them to a wrestling match, but warned "I lift bro."

Comments

[Frank Frankelson]

It's refreshing when the mask slips and the out and out resort to threats and bullying. Maybe the rest of the world will see them for the petty tyrants they are.

Plus, you may have and army of sociology professors that lift, but we have a Warty.

[Mr Lizard]

And a RAPESQUATCH

[Frank Frankelson]

But has anyone ever seen Warty and STEVE SMITH in the same place at the same time?

[some guy]

Yes, but we've also seen Warty, Warty, Warty and Warty in the same place at the same time, so it proves nothing. He has a time machine, after all...

[Warty]

Look at his skinny neck. He doesn't lift, bro.

[Swiss Servator]

Are you saying doing Jazzercise with 5lbs dumbells in each hand isn't "lifting"?!

BTW - I am back to where I was, pre-surgery, on the Uncle Warty's DEADLIFT YOU FOOL! program. I feel (relatively) mighty.

[Warty]

Excellent. Nice work.

[buybuydandavis]

"Maybe the rest of the world will see them for the petty tyrants they are."

Trouble is, many people like that.

[Frank Frankelson]

As long as they are pointing at the other tribe.

[cavalier973]

What if bro doesn't want to be lifted?

[Fist of Etiquette]

DO YOU EVEN LIFT BRO

[Agammamon]

Do you even Lyft, bro?

[Libertarian]

Shapiro is obviously an idiot. According to his wikipedia entry, he couldn't handle 3rd OR 4th grades (he skipped them both) and didn't even write his first book until he was 17. And even the book was totally irrelevant. I mean, "Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth"?? Pffft.

[Princess Trigger]

Well Prof-Bro Weide has such academic research as:

"The History of Freight Train Graffiti in North America"
"Gang Graffiti: East Coast vs. West Coast"
http://sociology.as.nyu.edu/do.....DWeide.pdf

[Tejicano]

Well, if the weights he lifts are not much heavier than the intellectual content of his academic work then I wouldn't be too worried.

[Swiss Servator]

*applause*

[Libertarian]

oops, that's supposed to be "3rd or 9th" grades

[Dark Lord of the cis]

A wrestling match? OK, its been a few years, but I can still put a ham sandwich on your back and starve you to death.

[Adans smith]

'You have view's I don't like so I'll beat you up cause,diversity."

[Jerryskids]

Nobody fucks with the Jesus.

[Libertarian]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MAKE IT STOP!! I CAN'T TAKE MILLENNIALS ANYMORE. MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Gone are the days when guys would actively avoid graying hair. For a new generation of adventurous men, dyeing one's hair gray is gaining traction, appropriating a naturally occurring phenomenon from older men and giving it a millennial twist."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02.....below&_r=0

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

Grey is associated with wisdom. They want the appearance of wisdom. There, I said it.

[Libertarian]

But they're appropriating my naturally occurring phenomenon!

[Hyperbolical]

+1 grecian formula

[Notorious UGCC]

I rarely have to look at the hair on my head. It's other people who look at it. If they don't like looking at it, I can change it, re-color it, etc., unless they want me to have a mohawk or something, I wouldn't do that no matter how popular it was.

[Notorious UGCC]

And if millennials want any of my grey, just let me know what shade they want it in and I'll give it to them.

[Agammamon]

I used to be thankful that my hair would likely never go gray. But then I realized "wait a minute, I'm going bald. At least you can hide the gray - you can't hide bald."

[Hyperbolical (wadair)]

I'm no wrestler, and I haven't lifted weights in many years, but I do know that there's more to wrestling than strength.

[cavalier973]

There is also the obligatory folding chair to the head.

[some guy]

+ 1 drop kick FROM THE TOP ROPE!

[EMD]

FROM OUTTA NOWHERE!

[Lee G]

Watch out! Watch OUT! WATCH OUT!

[Stretchy]

OH MY GOD! THATS TONY's MUSIC!

[Tejicano]

In high school, after just one seasonon the wrestling team, I got into a semi-friendly, semi-serious scrap with some dude who was a couple inches taller and a bit heavier than I was. The difference in stamina, knowing a few key moves, and having "mat sense" made the match up no contest. It would have to be a huge difference in strength to even make a difference.

[pan fried wylie]

see for example: children and pajamas

[Warty]

If a strong guy has no skill, he has no chance. But if his skill is even close to that of the smaller weaker guy, he'll be able to beat guys who are considerably better than him. It takes a large amount of skill disparity to make up for a sizable size and strength deficit.

[Tejicano]

If this mouthy assistant prof had any skill to talk about I expect he would have mentioned that rather than just saying he "lifts". No idea if any of the kids he is threatening have skills - but I doubt he knows either. I'd love it to turn out that one of the kids is a former state wrestling competitor and takes the fool up on his offer.

[Old Man With Candy]

+1 Ernie Pickett

[SFC B]

I was doing some Army combatives training as someone whose prior hand-to-hand skills consisted of pugil stick training in Basic 21 years ago. I'm 6'5, 260, and actually fairly muscular despite a fluffy appearance. After about a week of training I was able to hold my own against the instructors who were all a good foot shorter and I outweighed by 60-100 pounds. I still lost about half the time and got my ass kicked occasionally because they were much better fighters than I and in better shape, but I could usually give them a fight and win enough to have some self-respect.

[Warty]

Exactly. There's a reason there are weight classes.

[Agammamon]

Sure, there's the jamming you fingers into some guys asscrack too.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

I see Brickbat has made it back to a more visible spot on the site.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

I wonder if the good professor is one of those dumbass lifters at the gym.

You know what I mean.

[Notorious UGCC]

Since he's a dumbass, then if he lifts at the gym he'd be a dumbass lifter at the gym.

[cavalier973]

"Hi, I'm Newlin Mantrose!"

[cavalier973]

Getting Gymnasty, Volume 2

[cavalier973]

Getting Gymnasty, Valume 3"

*Features gymnast and actress Callie Ryalls

[cavalier973]

Sorry, messed up the link.
https://youtu.be/Prcc54jo45U

[buybuydandavis]

Nothing quite says "I'm a car carrying member of the Progressive Theocracy" quite like trying to get someone banned from speaking at a university, and then threatening them with violence.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

The problem with people like this douchebag is they turn around and pain themselves as the victim. 'I exercised my right to call them white supremacists and now look at how they react! See? I told you they're Nazis!'

[Bill Dalasio]

So, PC Principal is now teaching Sociology?

[pan fried wylie]

AUSTERITY

[dantheserene]

The best we can hope for is that his account was hacked and someone's messing with him. I prefer to believe that, rather than believe that a professor would be this far off the rails (minor reference to his work with freight car graffiti, cause I'm a laugh riot that way).