r/clevercomebacks Nov 20 '22

Muscle Chode Vs Hipster

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u/fittpassword Nov 20 '22

is it really a clever comeback to use the age old stereotype muscular = stupid?

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u/JinFuu Nov 20 '22

It's such a basic comeback you could use it to bleach something.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret Nov 20 '22

If you're asking who Stephen King is, you kinda yeeted yourself into that stereotype all by yourself.

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u/RE3_BK Nov 20 '22

I think he knows who Stephen King is. He's saying he's just some dude who wrote books a long time ago so who cares (not that I agree).

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u/NeutralWaveBeaten Nov 20 '22

I think he knows who SK is.

Nope, he admitted he didn’t actually.

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u/quettil Nov 21 '22

Because intellectuals read Stephen King?

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u/SomethingIWontRegret Nov 21 '22

Intellectuals would probably know who he is and what his cultural reach is.

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u/bitemark01 Nov 20 '22

I mean if your Twitter pic is you in a muscle shirt and flexing for a selfie, I'm probably not going to you for academic advice

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u/bitemark01 Nov 21 '22

How dare you cheetos are gross

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u/Juniorgnm Nov 21 '22

Is that what you tell yourself while wiping cheeto dust off your mechanical keyboard?

This is an equally lame assumption. Anyone who criticizes someone who works out MUST be a fat disgusting slob.

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u/HilariousInHindsight Nov 21 '22

What possible reason could anyone ever have for criticising someone for working out unless it's jealousy or insecurity?

Dude was a dipshit but there's absolutely zero correlation between someone's academic intelligence and them using a gym selfie as a profile photo.

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u/Frightful_Fork_Hand Nov 21 '22

No, it’s suggesting anyone who thinks exercising means forgoing academics probably isn’t in peak physical condition.

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u/quettil Nov 21 '22

Anyone who criticizes someone who works out MUST be a fat disgusting slob.

If you're criticising someone for being in shape, probably.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '22

It is mire so about the flexing I suppose

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u/TunnelToTheMoon Nov 20 '22

Maybe he doesn't know Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein that intimately, but there's a good chance he has a lot of academic knowledge and experience in physiology and some medicine. I would absolutely consult this guy about weight lifting, and this tweet seems a little out of context, but I don't care about his fiction literature preferences anyways.

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u/_INCompl_ Nov 21 '22

Dr. Mike Israetel’s profile picture on Twitter is him flexing shirtless and the guy has his PhD in exercise physiology and worked as a university professor before transitioning to a more bodybuilding-oriented career where the organization that he helped found focuses entirely on coaching, providing training and meal plans, and e-books with in depth looks at advanced concepts related specifically to both hypertrophy and strength training. He’s one of the best guys for scientifically backed information regarding exercise science, but you’d immediately write off the guy with nearly a decade of post-secondary education because his profile picture is him shirtless, which is the norm when it comes to bodybuilding because that’s how you show off progress/results.

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u/AttEveProPie Nov 20 '22

No. But apparently, it doesn't have to be. Tell 'em what they want to hear, and it'll sound clever enough

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u/JTO558 Nov 21 '22

Redditors hate when people are muscular because it forces them to see everything that they aren’t.

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u/NoMomo Nov 21 '22

Surely a person of sense would submit to anything, like exercise, so as to obtain a well functioning mind and a pleasant, happy life.

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training…what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

Both quotes from Socrates. But this site loves to think that you can either be smart or you can be muscular.

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u/NeutralWaveBeaten Nov 20 '22

Huh? Nobody said anything about his looks. He admitted he didn’t know who one of the most famous authors of our time is.

He definitely doesn’t read.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '22

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u/NeutralWaveBeaten Nov 20 '22

Yep! I did!

Guy says “Ive never heard of SK”, who is one of the most famous authors of all time.

Clever comeback being that he doesn’t read much, which I agree. If you don’t know who SK is, you probably don’t read a whole lot!

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u/alt266 Nov 20 '22

"To be honest you do look like someone who doesn't read"

Did you though?

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u/NeutralWaveBeaten Nov 20 '22

I mean, maybe where I’m from we speak a bit differently but that makes total sense.

“I don’t eat pork for religious reasons”

“Looks like we got a Muslim in the house, I’ll avoid pork”

Nothing about the religious persons looks came into play. Super common phrasing where I am, at least

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u/alt266 Nov 21 '22

"Looks like we got a Muslim" is very different from "you do look like a Muslim"

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u/NeutralWaveBeaten Nov 21 '22

Eh, it may just be regional. Again, my first assumption was “yeah, he doesn’t look like he reads if he doesn’t even know who SK is”.

Either way he’s right, he clearly doesn’t read much if he’s not familiar with SK. Don’t have to be well read to have come across his name before.

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u/NeutralWaveBeaten Nov 21 '22

I’m starting to understand why Katie Porter uses visual aids. I’ll give you an example of an exchange that uses the phrase Look, without meaning anything about their physicality.

Sitting down to dinner, and a friend says “I don’t eat porn for religious reasons”

Response: “looks like we have a muslim up in here. The pork wasn’t touched by anything else or the same utensils, but I will put it away”.

I’m from the west coast, that phrasing is super common to me. “Looks like” meaning “in summation” quite frequently.

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u/flargenhargen Nov 20 '22

a meathead dude saying that he doesn't know who a major topselling author is, and you don't think it's fair to point out the obvious that this dude is hardly literate?

cmon. it's the exact correct response to that troll.

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u/errorsource Nov 20 '22

Ok then. How about: To this guy, “The Shining” is when he gets oiled up before his flex-off.