Topic: The stupidest thread on bitcointalk. - page 4. (Read 4390 times)

Like was stated by chatGPT in boils down to the intensity and wright
So you can't put a score, it varies
Checking the thread you can find many doing way more than a 100
I could do more than a 100 per sitting before I fell ill
So 100 Push-up feels like its in correlation with $100K
You can do more or lesser.


And what I posted was how reading certain post burns calories was just on a lighter note
Research shows that reading burns around 50-80 calories in an hour
And around 90-150Cal/hr while reading such that requires deep concentration.
Depending on the persons weight and metabolism

Me, you, don pedro and ognasty should hug it out.

 

It was a response to you saying that I should post in the thread and/or whether I'm interested in the topic. No need to get all defensive. Some people like to brag about their big manly man things, some don't.


Finally something I can agree with

It is difficult to understand why you seem to be so worked up about such issue.  i am worked up about it, since I have been participating in the thread, and for me, perhaps it would not have been a very BIG deal to move the thread in the beginning, if such a determination would have had been made,  yet it seems a bit problematic to move the thread 8.5 months later.


Exactly.  You are not very interested in the speculation on BTC topic, and you have probably posted fewer than 100 times in the WO thread in your past nearly 11 years of being registered on the forum. I am guessing...

In other words, you are not hanging out in the WO thread very much, relatively speaking... which means that you are not very interested in that particular topic, relatively speaking.  Accordingly, you are not interested in speculation as a topic, and you are not very interested in pushups, so how are you going to really be able to get into something like a pushups' thread that combines the two topics, inclusively in ways that you might not be within your abilities to relate to such framings due to your lack of interest?.. and did you realize that there are guys all over the bitcoin space doing pushups (not just on bitcoin talk forum) in anticipation of the BTC price going to $100k - and did you realize that such a cultural phenomena (potentially also complemented by the pushup's thread on this here forum) had started right around the time that the pushups' thread started?  Of course, you probably don't even know these kinds of factual matters, because you hardly give any shits about either of the topics in any kind of heartfelt way, (and you find such topics uninteresting), yet you still want to chime your feelings into the administration of such thread to assert that it needs to be moved when you likely cannot even relate to such topics in any kind of personal and/or meaningful way.


Yes.. you are petty, especially if you consider what we are doing boils down to mere bragging...  And, even if it does amount to bragging, then so what?  I like to think about a competition against myself, but also a kind of competition to do the pushups every single day and without stopping.. and I surely try not to impose my own standard onto others, since some of the members have a kind of weekly schedule that allows them days off in the week, and others are less flexible about how many and when to do their pushups.   They can choose to get their name included in the pushups' table or not.... The pushups' table created a lot of incentive for members to report their results, and the pushup table seems to have had helped to get more guys doing actual pushups, which maybe you might be able to thank us later, to the extent that you own any bitcoin and you benefit from the BTC price going up. .. whether it reaches $100k or not.  


For sure my pushups hurt today, but they feel more productive than farting...and more socially productive, and worthy of sharing... and worthy to talk about when we have a thread specifically on the topic.  There are likely several of us who would not have had gotten into pushups, except that it was theoretically and practically connected to the BTC price in such a way that we are able to create commonality with others who are also bitcoiners speculating about the BTC price.. .. and yah, maybe I am too old for pushups too.. since frequently I am questioning about whether I am plateauing and/or getting benefits from doing pushups every day for 268 days straight.

 

It's up to you to attempt to make such a topic and to relate it to bitcoin price speculation, and sure some of us could make arguments in regards to how closely your topic is either related to the BTC price or to some aspect of bitcoin culture or you just making shit up and/or trolling the forum like Don Pedro seems to have had done with his admitted parody thread. If you are not serious and you are not able to get other forum members behind you and you are not able to present the topic in ways that relate to bitcoin, then you might be less likely to be successful as the pushups' thread seems to have had been in regards to being allowed to stay within bitcoin speculation.. or maybe the pushups' thread stayed in speculation due to dumb luck, including that no one made any timely objection and/or report of the thread.

I thought I'd ask ChatGPT how many calories you burn in 100 push-ups, assuming you do 5 sets of 20.


I thought JJG was a serious guy, with all the explanations he gives about how to accumulate bitcoin at different prices and the amount of time he has been on the forum, but since this thread I can't take him seriously anymore, and, in fact, I have put him on ignore. What does he care if the thread is moved to off-topic? He doesn't wear a paid signature.

The first one who should have moved the thread himself to OT, or created it there, is the lying OP.

I don't hate the pushups thread. Being on the wrong board and being hated is not the same thing.


I'm sure you've seen me in WO but honestly there is only so much "speculation" that can be done without it becoming boring and repetitive. It will either go up and down, and two months later I can claim having predicted it very accurately.

As for pushups... or exercising in general, I can't fathom a reason to brag about it online. Too old for that "every fart must be published on social media" nonsense I guess. Every minute spent posting about it is 10 less pushups done.

Neither of the above has any bearing on whether something is on-or-off-topic however. Time and place for everything. I would say the same thing about a "I eat 100 cookies every day until Bitcoin hits $100k" thread but it appears that you would invoke "special" and "subtle" arguments to justify one but not the other.

You know that you are not serious about any desire to dilute the pushups' thread with other thread discussion points that may or may not be kind-of related to the pushups thread and/or the overall stated reason for the pushups thread, so wouldn't you speculate that sometimes it would be better to just let it be. your wanting to troll and hate upon the pushups' thread?

To me, it seems that I have largely already explained fairly well, and as I already mentioned several times, perhaps your best troll would be to join us rather than continuing to fight in what seems to be a losing battle... and are you even interested in either topic (bitcoin speculation and/or pushups?)?

Had you ever noticed that there tends to be a decently-sized difference in perspective when a person actually join into a topic rather than just talking about it in theory.. which seems to what we have going on in the pushup thread.  We have active discussion of pushups and speculation on the BTC price, even if the BTC speculative angle (and the bitcoin culture angle) might be a bit more subtle than our directly reporting and/or talking about our ongoing (and sometimes daily) pushups process.

Come on now. I thought you'd be happy to have some actual price speculation in that thread.

One might look at the thread and wouldn’t find any correlation between Bitcoin price or how it could affect Bitcoin price because, there is actually none. It’s got no means by which it could affect Bitcoin price but rather, it would affect the lives and health of users on this forum.

Now, it’s okay for it not to make sense when you’re not deeply rooted in the idea of exercise and just go through life as you see fit. I for one wasn’t always frequent on the thread but coming to find a thread of this nature and as someone who cares deeply about my well being and being sportive as well, it’s encouraging to find such a thread on a forum like this, having to push people into testing their limits and breaking those limits in sporting activities like the pushups.

Now, the $100k isn’t where the exercise is pushing Bitcoin to, no! It serves rather as the bench mark for the whole activity. While Bitcoin does its thing in price fluctuations, users are in for the pains and gains in fitness and building Bitcoin portfolio in the process. That’s why you don’t find most users having to make Bitcoin price speculation a major theme on the thread but rather, chip it in as an element of the thread.

Though, there might be those that would lie about their performance, even their lies does motivate those that would do the work and the lies are detected in some narratives, I came across a few as if your into fitness, you ought to know that which is feasible or not. However, a lot of users whom took it for what it was have themselves improved in character as per breaking limits and becoming a more “I can do it” person. Ain’t nothing stupid if you can actually benefit that much from a thread, sorry to say.

You run in a race, you keep your eyes up ahead for the finish line.
In the challenge, you find users about the pains and gains in fitness and portfolio building, while looking at the charts for price.

The proposals in this here thread are getting dumber and dumber.

You likely already know (but perhaps playing dumb) that the pushups' thread is its own unique combination of pushups and thoughts about $100k including some fairly recent bitcoin culture on those combinations of points.  

I doubt anyone arguing in support of the pushup's thread staying where it is at (Ognasty or otherwise) told you the thread is merely about speculation $100k in some narrow sense that you are proclaiming, and even if one of us might have done so, such person would have had been wrong, since we can look at the thread and see that it speaks for itself in that it is not just about speculation since it has the daily pushup component contained therein, and perhaps you, suchmoon, even tried out doing some pushups and thinking about $100k BTC prices coming soon^tm in order that you might be able to chime into that thread and tell us how doing pushups within such a mindset might make you feel?  

On the other hand, maybe you did try out a few pushups in recent times?  since we seem to be getting a little more uppity in the past 24 hours.

I counted at least 8 threads about $100k Bitcoin just on the first page of Speculation. Seems a bit excessive. Since OgNasty's thread is one of the oldest and largest, and we've been told numerous times that it is totally surely about Bitcoin and price and speculation, I think all those other threads should be merged into it.

I mean, you're being a little dramatic, aren't you? It's not like this thread has affected yours in any way, has it? All it's done is made you aware that some people think your thread is stupid and/or shouldn't be located in Speculation... I've got no problem with your thread (though, it could really do without that "message" from Satoshi, IMO) or where it's located (I do think it's a little out-of-place where it is, but, not by enough to justify moving it, especially if that's going to be taken, by the people who are obviously using and enjoying that thread, as some kind of a blow). If I were you, I'd have just avoided this thread altogether (I don't think I've once seen you respond to criticism in a way that doesn't leave you looking like a first-rate douchenozzle).

I pointed this out on the second page of this thread, you probably ignored it at that time:


The reason why this thread kept going was because you didn't realize this earlier. There is nothing wrong with voicing your opinion about something, others might agree or disagree with you which is normal, but using words such as "The stupidest" or anything else that could trigger someone was completely unnecessary.

I didn't agree with your opinion, so I told you that you were being unreasonable, but if I was the one who had started that thread and had at least spent some time building it up, I would feel bad too. I bet you would feel the same way if I take one of your threads where you have been very active, building the thread and hype up, keeping yourself and others in that thread engaged with anything you and them are doing, and call it stupid, you would feel bad as well. If I think your thread is in the wrong section, I can simply point that thing out respectfully and ask if others agree or not.

So, a lot of things that happened shouldn't have happened, however, as they say, better late than never.

Reading certain post in the forum helps to burn calories.
The new title Would have been with lesser scrutiny
But we humans and ain't above mistakes.
Well about the exercise routine
I don't have a personal gym nor the time to hit one up but Push Ups are exercise I could do in my spare times.
Though not as effective as picking weights I have personally seen the effect and how much changes it has caused
Not excluding on cardiovascular activities. 

One thing I hope people get out of this whole ordeal is that it doesn’t matter how good your intentions are, how much good you do, how many people you inspire to do good, or how much better people’s lives are as a result. Someone will always complain and here it is always the same group of people. Imagine trying to run any Bitcoin project in this environment.

Well I wouldn't like to pick up a fight with you since you've come to your realisation, continuous agument will Leed to  making this thread more lively as you said. I wan to tell you that I am not jealous of you and will never be. of course that will be stupid of me to be angry of another person progress. I only said what was right, I know my turn will surely come Afterall am not the only one who is not in paid signature currently. I was in campaign but It paused so I won't kill myself. Who knows I might even be manager.


Hurting people's feelings is like a broken glass that can't be fixed no matter how hard you try.

This quote has been on my mind for several hours and has made me understand what has happened. I was the first to be surprised that this thread went over two pages, because in it I said two things that are obvious to me.

1) This thread is off-topic in that section.
2) Doing 100 push-ups a day is, let's put it nicely, useless.

But if this thread has reached 10 pages it is because there are people who have never moved their asses in their lives and believe that joining the 100 push-up movement has impacted humanity, as Pi-network314159 says, that it has greatly improved the health of those who practice it. So, of course, they have had their feelings hurt by me.

So, I've decided to change the title of the thread so that you don't feel so hurt, and we can focus on what's important. If you want to (supposedly) keep changing the world by doing push-ups you can continue to do so in the off-topic section.

And by the way, if you want to burn calories, the best thing to do is to walk, while if you want to grow muscle, you have to destroy the muscle you are working that day and then let it rest for at least two days.

Although I didn't read all 180+ pages of the other post or even all 10 pages of this one. What I did not see mentioned with a quick skimming is that of you have not been doing exercise like this before talk to your doctor before you start. Using myself as an example: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/hernias-suck-hernia-surgery-sucks-too-5382906

When my doctor told me I had hernias I had *no* idea. Didn't hurt, didn't bother me, nothing. So getting the news was a bit of a shock.

Since I did not know about them and if I had started a challenge I would have made the tears a lot worse.

So yeah, life is life and if you are going to get hurt you will, but if you are going to start exercising or exercising in a different way then swing by and get a checkup 1st.

Now we can all go back to whatever else was being discussed.

-Dave

I don't know what you want me to tell you, Alone055, other than what I have already explained. It's as important to train as it is to rest.


A healthy person like me, with a healthy body, wouldn't even think of doing that. Doing 100 push-ups the day after doing chest presses at the gym cuts muscle recovery, and if you don't go to the gym and just train at home you'll do a lot better resting your chest than if you do that nonsense every day.


That this thread is in Meta and has not been trashed despite having been reported, smartass. Stupid threads on Meta don't last an hour.


I see you are jealous because I am in a paid signature campaign and you are not but I'm going to explain one thing to you in a simple way so that someone with a gnat's brain like you can understand: if what I'm writing is low quality my manager won't pay me for the posts, and rest assured that I have no problem meeting my quota, which is quite low, without this thread.


This thread has not been locked because you weepy people who feel special because you're doing the push-up bullshit every day keep coming here to bump the thread.


You make it clear that with your gnat brain you don't understand why I created that thread.


Really? And you are part of that special movement that has impacted humanity by doing push-ups, right?


So what?


Yeah, keep whining and talking rubbish while you bump the thread and complain because the thread is still alive.

Those of us participating in the pushup thread are doing pushups, talking about pushups and talking about the bitcoin price and how our actions are currently somewhat synchronized with bitcoin culture. 

If we are doing any of those other kinds of exercises or talking about them then that may or may not be tolerated to discuss, at least not to pump that other bullshit, unless we might just be talking about that other stuff in passing and NOT trying to directly pump that crap in the thread, kind of like trying to talk about shitcoins in a bitcoin thread.. it does not fly too well unless it might be done in non-pumping kinds of ways.

Regarding the extent to which pushups might not be connected to the bitcoin price, well that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.



hahahahahahaha

 


I would not classify the pushup thread advocates as whiners, but hey perhaps I might be biased in my assessment of myself and my companions, yet I see that you speak a wee bit of truth when you suggest that some of us might be inviting LoyceV and any other forum members over to join our efforts to support BTC culture and perhaps even the BTC price... and surely there are some aspects of daily pushup doing that may well help many forum members in their bitcoin journey, whereever they might be in such journey.. 

In other words, all bitcoiners welcome and we might even be willing to tolerate shitcoiners who are doing pushups and trying to concentrate on bitcoin prices - on the other hand if members might be pumping some other kinds of exercises and naysaying pushups, then those may well end up serving as fighting words.


Don't be unrealistic Loyce.. and the thread is not to create unrealistic expectations or to impose your values on other members, as long s there are attempts to focus on pushups and bitcoin, then there surely would be flexibility in terms of guys doing whatever form of pushup they like, but imposing your own values on others is not very inclusive, which I believe that there are some attempts at that.. and sure even myself, I have been trying to suggest that guys have to have at least 10 pushups per day (on the days that they are doing pushups) in order to be included in the  pushups table, yet my opinion is not carrying the day so far on that, yet even with that, I am not proclaiming that they are not welcome to participate in the thread and try to work up to doing at least 10 pushups in a day.. .. I mean my own idea is that if a guy does not have some reasonable explanation for his inability to do pushups and/or he cannot even do 10 pushups in a day (even perhaps modified pushups), then he might not be really serious in his attempts to do pushups and participate in the pushup thread in a non-trolling kind of a way.  No one likes to be made fun of, even guys doing pushups and fantasizing about BTC prices reaching $100k soonish.^tm


I would suggest that there really is no way for us to verify whether or not you are doing the pushups that you claim to do every day, yet there is no need for such verification, and largely it is acceptable to take the word of guys about their pushups, unless some things might not add up, then we can ask, to the extent that we might want some clarifications, yet largely just based on representations of other forum members.. including that I would suspect that an overwhelming majority of members participating in that thread are doing the pushups that they claim to be doing...


To have something similar to pushups (meaning you don't need any special equipment and you can do it almost anywhere), then I would consider something like walking lunges to be a pretty good candidate.  https://www.healthline.com/health/exercise-fitness/walking-lunges


Of course the pushup thread is specifically about pushups and not about other exercises or physical fitness or how to prove yourself to be more manly than other forum members and blah blah blah. 

Forum members can create whatever the fuck exercise thread they would like, but that would not be the topic of the pushup thread in which the participant of the pushup's thread happen to be mostly be attempting to stay focused on pushups with perhaps a bit of deviance here and there, but largely coming back to pushups if guys might end up deviating too much from the topic, then hopefully they might end up being reigned in or told that they are not on topic if they start to talk about all kinds of stuff  (such as other exercises) that might not somehow at least attempted to be related to doing pushups and/or emphasizing the daily (perhaps daily?) doing of pushups.. ... and that might be part of the reason why doing pushups daily (or perhaps as frequently as you can?) is actually going to bring us to $100k BTC prices sooner than if we had not been doing such pushups on a persistent, consistent and ongoing basis.... . .

and yeah, I will admit that pushups tend to be a wee bit of a guy's kind of an exercise, yet we are not excluding chicks, even though they might not be as inclined to do that kind of an exercise.. or full pushups or might want to do some kind of a modified pushup or perhaps even propose a pushup substitute, yet so far (to date) no chicks have chimed in and said that they were going to do some other exercise as a pushup substitute. 

Surely, with Phillipma1957, a couple of months ago, he initially was participating in the pushups' thread and saying that he could not do pushups due to some physical issues that he had, so he was substituting planks for pushups.. like 100 seconds of planking.. something like that, yet in recent times, maybe slightly more than 2 weeks^tm ago, he came back into the thread and he has been reporting the doing of modified pushups and stating that he would do modified pushups while work his way up to 100 pushups per day over the coming months... which seems to be his own attempt at tailoring pushups to attempt to fit with the theme and spirit of the thread, yet within his own ways of doing pushups in a way that he believes to be acceptable to his own physical and/or psychological abilities..

I speculate that it could be that maybe Philip might end up contributing enough pushups on the margins that in the whole scheme of things could end up causing the BTC price to reach $100k a wee bit sooner than it would have had reached $100k if he had not been doing the pushups, and then I will hope that you pushup naysayers, are going to apologize for your seemingly excessive hater kinds of negativity and denial of the power of pushups as it arguably relates to the bitcoin price and/or a forum member's willingness, steadfastness and ability to better stay more focused on bitcoin... and you might end up thanking the lord, and perhaps Phillip too that the pushups thread was able to stay in the forum's bitcoin speculation section rather than interfering with an already good thing... in the sense that if it ain't broke then why fix it?