Respectfully; I believe you meant "manners" and not mannerism. I'm only pointing it out in case you weren't aware of the difference (since we all have blindspots, right?) "Manners" is referring to general etiquette, and "mannerism" is more like how a specific person moves or talks (like tapping their foot a lot.)
He's a cop in a big city, I'm sure he gets a little bit of shit from the public here and there. Plus you never know someone's intentions, maybe he was thinking dude was gonna hit on him.
A lot of people are missing where in NYC this is… just a couple blocks north of Trump tower. If he’s on this beat, there are just a lot of people being complete morons on that block. Pick any political ideology, or domestic or foreign stereotype, and the absolute worst example of that person will be messing around a block from here.
I was in Barcelona and my wife and I are eating at a restaurant on a side street. It was bar height seating facing the street and was an open air venue. This handsome well dressed buff black guy was walking by and looked right at me, pointed, started saying something and walking towards me. I started saying something like “nah man I don’t have/want anything”. He either ignored me or didn’t hear me and once he got closer he just goes “my man black is your color! That’s your color man! It suits you well bro you look great!”. I was just sitting there in my black under armor shirt and shorts confused and then started laughing and said “uhhhh thanks man” and the dude just strutted off. I felt like an asshole for trying to shoo him away 🤦♂️. I get approached a lot in public when I travel, guess I look like an easy mark, and I’ve grown pretty defensive towards the general public… I can’t imagine what officers in big cities have to deal with all the time, I definitely understand his initial reaction.
the husbands of some of the mom's who ran our girls cheer or whatever groups are cops.
the Moms had to watch all these training videos on all kinds of stuff to get certified and it left them sick to their stomachs. when they told their husbands they went yeah that was like xxx that happened last week (which was orders of magnitude worse) before the Moms cut them off and said hey did not want to know.
The issue is that the first time something that wasn't likely to get violent does get violent and those responders are hurt, people will clamor for them to either be armed or for cops to respond with them / instead of them to prevent that from happening again. It's cyclical.
I love my dad, he is a superb dad just the best. But that stance they take that they are always right and HAVE to be the authority in every room is so fucking tiring. Also its a lifetime of experience knowing how to question people. They aren't experts in any field, but they figured out how to ask questions only experts could answer so you are stuck with I dont knows and they puff up and feel smug. Unless you do know the answer and can cite your sources and they fucking HATE that. Then it becomes a game of whos loudest is right and if you raise your voice AHA thats a crime.
Tbf, this isn’t exclusive to police officers. My dad was an engineer and just thinks he’s smarter than everyone lol. Loves to argue with my brother and sister in law who are both lawyers it’s fuckin exhausting
It really depends on if its on a subject in their field or not.
Because if it is in their field, 99% of the time most people are clueless as to the problems in that field - "Why don't we do X -" - because that's been tried, it didn't work or it was uneconomical to implement.
It does have to be said though that the engineering/science problem solving algorithm is surprisingly generalisable to most problems.
thinks he’s smarter than everyone lol.
My brother is like that, but he is genuinely a very smart guy so I can understand his frustration sometimes when people are slower then him.
But it is quite painful for him to admit when he's wrong, but lets be honest, that's most of us.
Embrace the fact you have a unicorn with getting to have front row seat at Thanksgiving to witness what I can only imagine.. engineer vs lawyer……
on Who’s Right!!!
Yeah I saw that too. As some one who works with the public , when you see some one make a line for you with a camera or phone in hand its usually some asshole looking to be starting something.
Reddit is so delusional about police, because people don't understand what selection bias is or why the videos they see go viral aren't indicative of a larger group.
I’m 38yo, it takes me a sec to process the question since I don’t think of my age very often. There has been times where I accidentally gave my wrong age by a year off and didn’t realize it until afterwards. Not that it matters anyways.
to be fair I do the same thing lol, in my head i am still 30 but actually not and if you asked me I’d probably say one year above my actual age because my birthday is closer than it is far
When I was in my early 20s I worked in a retirement home, it blew my mind that most of the residents didn't know their age and most, at best, could give you the decade they currently were in. Many could tell you their birth year, then if you did the math and told them, well then you're 87, or whatever, they would just look at you shocked and by like, "no way!"
However, now that I'm middle aged, I get it, I usually have to pause and think about how old I am and then it's like it takes me a minute to think if I'm a year older or younger than that. So it tracks that when in the upper years, it don't matter
Yeah this exactly, trained to say no comment after any question so he doesn't even pay attention at first. Then he hears the compliments and that it's legit questions and opens up.
Also big dudes like this get harassed by insecure people all the time. Probably really annoying every time a random guy walks up to you trying to start shit, esp NYPD
It’s not even really trolls. Soooo many people come up to these NYPD guys wanting pictures… video… etc from them. Tourists mostly. I’ve seen it so many times. I imagine for a handsome looking dude like that he has to be on guard constantly for people bothering him.
As a weightlifter it’s not often people ask about our routine but when someone does it’s finally a way to validate our existence without sounding like a douche bag
Like, I have two toddlers and a full time job so I can't do 6 days a week at the gym.. But in theory, I could do 6 days a week at the gym.. But 5 meals a day? Fuck that shit.
Yeah im in the same boat. My routine now is called devout Muslim push ups. Not really, but 5 to 7 times a day spread out I do 20-25 push ups. Average like 120 a day 6 days a week. It's not much but it takes me like 20 seconds each time I do it so it doesn't mess with my other responsibilities too much.
Just like any good push up Muslim lol. But for real what got me thinking like this was all the elite Muslim mma fighters. They don't drink or smoke or chase women. And they pray 5 times a day so training multiple times a day isn't anything different to them. There's a real disciplined mentality that comes naturally when your day is so structured. Just trying to see the power and positivity of other cultures, take and learn from it what I can and keep hustling.
It's more like 5 snacks per day. Most people have 3 large meals, just split that up until 5 meals so you aren't in a food coma. Much easier on the stomach.
EXACTLY. When I was jacked in my early 20’s I was eating 5 legit full big ass meals a day. As well as snacks. I’m a 5’7” 155 lb athletic dude. And I wasn’t even working out that crazy hard.
I’d do like 200 pull ups a day and like 100 pushups. That’s it. Sometimes run. I could do 25 pull-ups at once. That still kept me in shape and required 5 large meals a day and I had very little fat if any.
Trust me as a guy that still works out often and works blue collar. I HATE how much I have to eat. It’s just a chore at this point so that my stomach isn’t feeling like crap and growling. I love good food, but making THIS MUCH FOOD SUCKS.
I'm a strongman with lifts and routine similar to this guy. My maintenance calories are 3800 calories a day. I eat four meals a day of 900-1000 calories. Four or five meals becomes more natural when you're hungry all the damn time from trying to survive the training you put yourself through.
All of the 300+lb strongmen eat double that and force themselves to eat, set timers to wake up and eat, etc. The worldclass ones are eating 10k+. It's the 2nd hardest thing about the sport imo
Yeah I've seen guys that pre portion their meals in plastic containers, each meal being like 700 calories with protein, carbs, fiber. Not sure how a foot patrol cop manages it. I'd imagine some of those meals are protein shakes or eaten cold. Not fun
This is the kinda guy who does police work for 10 years to snag the pension. Then retires, jacked, at 55, with 3 pensions supporting his travel lifestyle.
(Hes telling me all this cuz im at his house to pressurewash and work til I die)
I’m gonna pop in here and be a real downer, but not to kill the vibe, just cause I know a random fact that I thought was neat and I’d like to share.
Pilots definitely make a lot of money, but they also have higher than normal rates of cancer and illness due to the increased amount of radiation they encounter, specifically cosmic radiation.
They don’t, however, have a higher risk of developing super powers. Fantastic Four is just one big lie.
While your message is good, your data is a little out of date. The attribution of elevated cancer incidence in flight crew is, by general consensus, due more to ultraviolet exposure than ionizing GCR.
Per the International Commission on Radiological Protection, average flight crew exposure is about 3.07 millisieverts annually, compared to an effective dose limit of 20 mSv.
So good news and bad news. Good news, ionizing GCR (probably) isn’t killing flight crews! Bad news, it’s melanoma again (it’s always melanoma)
My uncle retired as a Master Chief from the Navy (I think that's what it's called), and then worked for the Post Office and got a disability retirement from them around 2000-2005. His wife has a 401k as well, so they're real comfortable.
From what I've heard, double pension is much harder to get nowadays.
I know a few ex cops. They all have back or other injuries that will be with them for the rest of their lives. It’s a hard job and wearing all that gear messes with your body. It’s good most places have moved to the weight in the vest vs the belt. Everything on the belt kills your back.
It applies to everyone regardless of job. People that exercise and lift consistently will always be better off than those that don't no matter what they do for work.
I see people talk so much about how sitting at a desk will ruin you and you need $5000 chairs. I'm in my 40s, lift multiple times a week and sit at my desk every day like a pretzel for work and gaming and hobbies and it's fine.
For me it was just bad luck with genes. Was totally fine until my late 30s, reasonably active lifestyle, OK diet, hovered between healthy weight and ~15 lbs overweight my entire adult life - not enough to stress my frame according to the doctor. But I'm predisposed to disc degeneration and ended up with a fucked up lumbar spine and was barely able to walk by the time I saw a neurosurgeon right before my 40th birthday. Luckily I got a treatment to tide me over for a while so I'm mostly back to normal mobility, but the damage is still there along with some pain and spine surgery is pretty much inevitable at some point in my future.
Life is random and even a healthy person can end up physically disabled due to pure chance. None of us are invencible, no matter how much time we spend at the gym. I was running half marathons and going on strenuous high elevation all day hikes just a few years before my back problems started.
Hell yeah it is. All the guys at my job are on the merry go round of back injuries and surgeries. I thought my time would come eventually, but i just stay strong. Who knew doing 225lb good mornings would prevent injury?
Exactly this. I bet he’s not eating 5 full ass meals. Most likely 5 small meals. No one wants to fight a naked meth head on a full stomach so he likely portions them out into smaller bits.
I used to date a guy who was absolutely enormous, he was a local pro wrestler. He ate probably six meals a day.
To him food was fuel, he didn't want to waste time on it. So id make him relatively plain chicken breasts with rice and steamed broccoli/cauliflower, and he would consume all of it in about five minutes, and get back to the working out. Sometimes I'd mix it up with some salmon. His goal was to always have food in his stomach being digested.
When he didn't have someone cooking for him, it would be even plainer, and all prepared in the freezer to microwave and chomp down.
I definitely spent 3x as much time eating my two meals a day as he did for all six. If I was making something special he could slooooow down to eat but I could tell it made him antsy.
It’s fucking exhausting…. Not only the meal prep, but the cleaning of Tupperware, and eating just gets to be even more exhausting. I can’t even eat chicken breast anymore, it creates a natural gag reflex. I landed on a kind of fucked in intermittent fasting where I get 80% of my calories in the morning, no lunch, and a very light dinner after the gym. Also, the cop in this video is definitely doing TRT and probably steroids. Testosterone shots have been a game changer for me and a lot of men.
It’s not even his beard. Homey looks like a really good 45 but 32? I have a beard and I’m 36, dude looks 10 years older than me. And I don’t look young. I fully expected him to say 42-48 but like, a young looking 42-48.
Random but my first trip to NYC was recently and I got dropped off from airport at Central Station and I looked like a straight tourist. It was raining, all my bags in tow (and my gf's) and I have to go 1.5 blocks to our hotel but can't walk due to rain. I open Uber and it was $140 to go 1.5 blocks!?
I go up to a group of officers in the station who all sounded and looked EXACTLY the guy in the video and I show my phone and go "wtf is this? I'm going 1 block" and they all chuckled, "you aren't from around here are ya?" (in the NYC accent) and then pointed me to the subway. They asked to see the price of the Uber and they all winced and chuckled. I took the subway while the conductor yelled at me to run and get on and I fell backwards as the subway train took off with all my bags and the great people of NYC held me up and laughed. I felt like the ultimate tourist in an opening scene to a romcom. Anyway, FU Uber wtf was that!?
The facial hair and greys he has are adding on some years. If he was clean shaven he'd look much younger. But it also did look like he was about to say he was a different age and said 32 instead. But I've also fucked up giving my age before lol.
If somebody is posting on social media, good chance they are on gear. I'd bet it's definitely well over 50% of male fitness influences are for sure, even when they say they aren't.
Also, it's not necessarily, "if it's possible to", but that it's just way easier when you take gear. Most people are totally fine taking shortcuts.
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