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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAre you too scrawny? Weak? Nervous?
You might not be getting enough beer in your diet.
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Are you too scrawny? Weak? Nervous? (Original Post)
sl8
Oct 2019
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Used to be scrawny, weak and nervous. Mostly because I skipped "leg day" all the time
True Dough
Oct 2019
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,068 posts)1. Funny how tastes change according to marketing opportunists.
The great lumpen consumer masses are obsessed with gorging themselves on ultra-processed food-like substances while simultaneously being obsessed with size 0 models and beauty ideals.
True Dough
(17,371 posts)2. Used to be scrawny, weak and nervous. Mostly because I skipped "leg day" all the time
Bug then I got the Thigh Master and turned my life around. This is a reasonable facsimile of my workout:
Now, I can see the respect in everyone's eye when they cast their glance in my direction!
That skinny womans physique is what were supposed to aspire to. The woman on the left would be called fat by many.
Ptah
(33,055 posts)4. I like beer!
And look at his shapely figure!
Harker
(14,087 posts)5. Solid flesh?
Really?