r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 • 5d ago

/r/all of a husband

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u/Agitated-Contact7686 5d ago

There is a grocery clerk at my local Winn-Dixie who matches the height and the weight of the mountain. But he is just a depressed grocery clerk. And he could have become a legend... If he wasn't constantly rattling off conversations to himself and ignoring everybody while scratching his ass.

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u/mai_tai87 5d ago

Maybe he's not depressed, maybe he's just sick of people asking him about the weather.

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u/Holiday_Pi 5d ago

“Hey, how’s the weather up there!?” 🤓

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u/ThePoWhiteTrash 5d ago

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told a story that he was on an elevator with Wilt Chamberlain, and somebody asked them, “How’s the weather up there?”

Chamberlain spit on him and said, “It’s raining.”

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u/Holiday_Pi 5d ago

Incredible

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u/TricellCEO 5d ago

“Why don’t I lift you up into the air so you can feel for yourself?”

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u/PricePsychological26 4d ago

Good one 👍 👏 👌. Lol

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u/Cyrus_the_Meh 5d ago edited 5d ago

I always feel kind of bad for genetic freaks like that. Unless you dedicate your entire life to athletics, you really can't fit in anywhere. Imagine being 7 feet tall and just trying to live a normal life, but no matter what normal job you have, everyone will be staring and commenting on you your whole life.

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u/Positive_Barnacle298 5d ago

My husband is 6ft 11 and hates when people call him ‘wasted potential’.
He’s more than happy being suited and booted and a clean corporate guy, he doesn’t mind the convo cos it’s easy and he’s so used to it. We’re in the north of England it’s genuinely a conversation he has daily. People can be super rude too.

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u/rowdy_sprout 4d ago

Not nearly as far off the bell curve but at 6’6” I’ve been told my whole life not playing basketball was “a waste” I was recently in a Dunkin’ Donuts waiting to pick up my order and as soon as I sit down a random man comes over and was like “stand up, how tall are you?” It seemed innocent so I stood up and told him, then get asked if I can dunk. I say idk I don’t play basketball and he angrily goes “What a waste” and walked away

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u/ANTICHRIST-BOISE 4d ago

Fuck that guy lmao

What an odd interaction

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u/rowdy_sprout 4d ago

Very strange haha, usually not as antagonistic as that but strangers comment on my height/body almost every time I’m out in public. It’s very odd. And as a self conscious fellow even when it’s positive attention I just hate being so visible.

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u/Positive_Barnacle298 4d ago

It’s crazy isn’t it? You can’t help it and yet so many people think it’s necessary to comment on your bodies and give a negative opinion. So rude.
I will say he mostly gets positive interactions, women always say he’s scary so I guess it keeps some people away.

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u/QING-CHARLES 4d ago

I spent the day once with a 7ft tall man. Literally the only thing people said to him were "How tall are you?" A: "7ft" and "Do you play basketball?" A: "Sometimes"

He was the sweetest to everyone and never seemed to get tired or annoyed at people asking him. I was more annoyed than him. He must have been asked about 100 times that day.

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u/PM_me_yr_bonsai_tips 5d ago

I think the strength/muscle mass is the hard part.

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u/IRefuseToGiveAName 5d ago

Honestly? It kind of is. I knew someone who was that heavy and they ate literally all day every day. It wasn't much different than me when I smoked. They'd finish eating and then start thinking about their next meal.

When I was heavy into power lifting I also had a very intense seasonal manual labor job which I worked at 40-60 hours a week. I needed to eat upwards of 4-5,000 calories a day to not lose weight. It was fucking awesome at first. Eating chicken strips, fries, ice cream, candy bars every day. I was so fucking sick of eating by the end of that summer.

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u/Rhawk187 4d ago

We had a guy in our engineering programming was that size. Was also doing 1,000lb deadlifts and trying to break records, but he had a stroke at 30. Some people's bodies handle the steroids better than others.

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u/Im-a-bad-meme 5d ago

Well, ya gonna climb him or nah bro?

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u/Many_Imagination_166 4d ago

So more of a Hodor versus the Mountain?

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u/masterdogwalker 5d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/dB12mOQb99BwDlM83I
Do you have beef with this man or what

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u/Langer88 5d ago

That’s not the Mountain, that’s Hodor

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u/DavidHoggsDong 5d ago

Proof of small pp

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u/cantstopthewach 4d ago

Sounds like he has a career digging in his butt

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u/NDSU 4d ago

Height and frame size doesn't mean determine capacity for muscle growth, and peak muscle power

Thor is an outlier in that he's competing at such a high level at his height. Most people competing in World's Strongest Man and power lifting are shorter. The taller you are, the further you have to squat/deadlift

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u/PauloAEAE 4d ago

And you could be a professional violinist, playing in a orchestra in Italy...If you weren't judging people on the internet.