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I've had to roll my eyes twice in the last week due to this phenomena.
Yesterday I saw a man with a t shirt that proclaimed " I would flex but I like this shirt" ,
He only had biceps marginally larger than mine which he had to inspect on a regular basis. Seeing as I fall into the before picture category I thought this was somewhat laughable.
The second chap was a bit larger but he had his best vest on so that we could all admire his physic. As he walked he had that " my pecs are so large I have to walk with my arms out sideways at 45 degrees " gait. Problem was there was clear daylight twist arms and torso.
I can't remember what was emblazoned upon his chest but I think it was along the lines of "I can pick things up".
As is the way amongst junior execs these days they work out at the gym .When given the opportunity at the spa we frequent they thrust out their shaven ,manly torsos (they always have skinny legs though) for us all to admire.
There they stand with their page 3 stunna girlfriends, Kings of all they survey. Photos of flexes , blonde pouts and selfies of smugness are taken upon spangle encrusted iPhone 6s.
Then emerging from the changing rooms are our gallant knights of retribution. Those who make the 5 series brigade feel as inadequate as the rest of us.
England rugby team .... Thank you.
There's pouncing about in a gym , then there's those guys.
Hats doffed.
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-6d083913-0bfb-4988-8cd8-d126fa6dcff1 ]Maybe, they're trying to entice in Purple Aki?[/url]
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Triangle Man!
Disco muscles.
Maybe, they're trying to entice in Purple Aki?
Don't say it 3 times!! I grew up in St Helens. It was the strangest proto-social media phenomenon when there was this wave of hysteria and surprise across the internet about 10 years ago of "**** hell! Purple Aki is real!"
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Don't say it 3 times!! I grew up in St Helens. It was the strangest proto-social media phenomenon when there was this wave of hysteria and surprise across the internet about 10 years ago of "**** hell! Purple Aki is real!"
I grew up in Ashton-in-Makerifeld and during the early 90s Aki "was the threat" 😆
Them in the gym with a baseball cap on backwards are on my list.
Does baffle when a certain chap in the gym at work sits on the bench, then gets two other people to pick up some massive dumb-bells off the floor for him so he can then push them into the air. ???? Wha? then take them off him when he's done.
Don't say it 3 times!! I grew up in St Helens. It was the strangest proto-social media phenomenon when there was this wave of hysteria and surprise across the internet about 10 years ago of "**** hell! Purple Aki is real!"
As someone who grew up in Warrington, everyone spoke of Purple Aki in hushed, terrified tones.
i do find it amusing when Mr Pumping Iron gets a bit older, and they can't be arsed spending 5 hours a day at the gym any more. They go a really funny shape. Particularly where roids have been involved. A bit like this....
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during the early 90s Aki "was the threat"
Before I totally cottoned on to the rumours I was was having difficulty distinguishing between Purple Aki and Purple Ronnie. I'd seen the Purple Ronnie mugs before I heard the Purple Aki threat and got them muddled. So when I heard the thread '........or Purple Aki will get you' I thought 'well that seems fine surely he's pretty harmless - what's he going to do? Read me a whimsical poem?'.
I read the article last night and according to him you've all ruined his life. He's not a sex pest, he just admires your muscles.
ironic?
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Its a great article. Its weird that he could have become myth in the way that it did - I don't think the internet would allow mystery like that to persist anymore. But even when you take away the mystery the facts are just baffling.
The stuff about ASBOs is particularly interesting - the idea that it can create a taylor made crime that only one person commit. So squeezing muscles is a crime only Aki can commit, its not really clear why but 'being a passenger in a car that isn't a taxi' is a crime only he can commit too.
I hadn't spotted the link at the bottom of that article - apparently theres a BBC3 documentary online - I'll have to check it out
Oh yes, we have a few of those round here. You can tell who they are as they wear vests and trousers to the gym.
Personally I hone my physique in the exact opposite way, I have pretty damn good legs but absolutely no upper body at all. Chris Froome is my body idol.
You can tell who they are as they wear vests and trousers to the gym.
Yep, few of them in the local body builder's gym next to work. Huge upper body and spindle legs in skin tight jeans...
This is amazing
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Girl in my CF Box has that one...
A few also wear this one
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[quote=maccruiskeen ]Maybe, they're trying to entice in Purple Aki?
Don't say it 3 times!! I grew up in St Helens. It was the strangest proto-social media phenomenon when there was this wave of hysteria and surprise across the internet about 10 years ago of "**** hell! Purple Aki is real!"
Weird how widespread that was. He was a bogeyman down here in Essex in the mid to late '80s.
footflapsGirl in my CF Box has that one...
Corn Flakes?
My nephew is a good looking lad. Lays bricks and has plenty of arm muscles.....
but he always wears a pair of jogging bottoms under his trousers.
That picture above has made me realise why!
JimJam.. Carbon Fibre. Take no chances with her escaping. It's lighter and stronger than steel dontchaknow.
Girl in my CF Box has that one...Corn Flakes?
Does she wear it whilst hangin' with the raisin girls?
The only things worse than those slogan gym tshirts are [url= https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=vape+tshirts&num=100&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwirpafttYzPAhUBIsAKHSSZB3sQ_AUICSgC&biw=1920&bih=1064 ]the vaping equivalents[/url]
TIL There are t-shirts for vaping. Wow!!
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I've now added Purple Aki to the list of things to be afraid of
...and maybe CF boxes too
Don't forget your post-workout selfie !!!!!!
Does she wear it whilst hangin' with the raisin girls?
'fraid not.
She did snap her arm during an arm wrestling comp though and was nice enough to put the vid on Youtube....
I feel somewhat inadequate at work everyday....... 😕
my mouse has hovered over the play button of that youtube vid several times now and I don't know whether to press.
my mouse has hovered over the play button of that youtube vid several times now and I don't know whether to press.
Go on, it's not that bad.
The scar on the back of her arm, where it was plated, is very impressive...
An encounter with Purple Aki was pretty scary.
He got me a couple of times in Liverpool when I was in my early 20s. I was going to the gym 4 times a week and in decent shape. He did the full feel my biceps thing, properly terrifying.
Was in my cycling gear yesterday walking in the underpass between St Georges Hall and Lime St station and there he was walking towards me, Purple Aki! We were the only two people there, walking towards each other, he didn't look twice at me, gutted.
You need to invest in new cycling gear
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So what is a CF Box? Country File doesn't quite fit and Castro's Finger is just weird...
my pecs are so large I have to walk with my arms out sideways
Lats, old boy, lats.
I appreciate that he was still a **** though.
Does baffle when a certain chap in the gym at work sits on the bench, then gets two other people to pick up some massive dumb-bells off the floor for him so he can then push them into the air. ???? Wha? then take them off him when he's done.
Yeah, that's an actual normal thing. It's done to avoid positions where you might get injured. It happens when you get past starter weights. Get in position, then take the strain slowly, etc.
Girl in my CF Box has that one..
It's a gym. Not a box. A gym. Mind you, crossfit is a whole nother topic.
Country File doesn't quite fit and Castro's Finger is just weird...
Christian Fellowship
'Box' is what the hip young god bothers call their chapel. 🙂
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Not condoning what he did or the awful affect it had on the victims and their families, but reading that bbc article I do feel a little sorry for that Aki chap, he obviously isn't right and needed some help
My mate at work is from Haydock and wasn't impressed when I started laughing about the whole Purple Aki thing. He said it was a genuine concern for young lads in that area at that time and that one of his mates was made to do pressups whilst Aki straddled him. He also told me he once tried to do his thing with Andy Farrell on his was home from school. Apparently AF put an end to it pretty sharpish!
he obviously isn't right and needed some help
I think the problem for him is the help he needs seems to be outside the scope or anyone that would help him. He seems to know he shouldn't do what he's doing, and he doesn't seem to have ill-intentions, but he doesn't seem to be able to stop himself either. But he's so unique in his drive and MO that someone trying to help him presumably doesn't know where to start.
He touched my biceps once at Orrell Park train station. He was very polite and seemed like a pleasant enough chap. He's welcome to do it again but I don't think he'd be interested. But now I feel like a victim.
I remember him hanging around outside central station in that 'after work, before proper drinking time'.
We had to hole up in the Midland Hotel until he left, no way we were going out with Purple Aki about.
my mouse has hovered over the play button of that youtube vid several times now and I don't know whether to press.
Go on, it's not that bad.
The scar on the back of her arm, where it was plated, is very impressive...
You don't see a great deal to be honest, but the noise..... Eurgh
Was in my cycling gear yesterday walking in the underpass between St Georges Hall and Lime St station and there he was walking towards me, Purple Aki! We were the only two people there, walking towards each other, he didn't look twice at me, gutted.
You certainly wouldn't want him touching you in the underpass, crikey!
Was in my cycling gear yesterday walking in the underpass between St Georges Hall and Lime St station and there he was walking towards me, Purple Aki!
I never knew that was what the song was about.
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my mouse has hovered over the play button of that youtube vid several times now and I don't know whether to press.
I'd highly recommend not! I squealed!! 😳
My flatmate did similar in the pub a couple of years ago; it seems the plate that he'd got in the same arm from another recent break focussed all the force to a spot on his humerus and back to surgery he went. He's got some really ugly arm scars...
A charitable interpretation, IMHO. Seems like a predatory and intimidating ephebophile, who has harassed 100s of young men in the NW. Just his method of, er, gratification is so comical that he's an internet joke.I think the problem for him is the help he needs seems to be outside the scope or anyone that would help him. He seems to know he shouldn't do what he's doing, and he doesn't seem to have ill-intentions, but he doesn't seem to be able to stop himself either. But he's so unique in his drive and MO that someone trying to help him presumably doesn't know where to start.
Agree with you and others that the purple Ali is real! moment was unbelievable. Milestone of the internet.
I suspect that had his victims been female rather than male the law would have dealt with him much more harshly.
Pop or slash?
That article goes with a BBC3 short documentary which is available on iPlayer. Really weird stuff but worth a watch if you found the article interesting.
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Watched a doc on purple aki last night. He really was a boogeyman for kids growing up in Liverpool and the surrounding areas.
This is the reason why I don't go to the gym.
Well, either that or I'm a lazy bugger. One of the two.
WTF? just googled Purple Aki. The guy has some serious issues and needs help, god knows what kind of help though. Maybe just let him hang around at the World's Strongest Man qualifiers. At least they can tell him to bugger off without feeling intimidated. I now live in the North West, so glad I'm built liked a racing snake that's gone slightly to seed. Half freaked out and half feel pity for him.
On the actual thread topic I love no necks. They are my favourite body builder species. Never understood form over function when it comes to muscles.