I had an advantage there, (not that any wrestling I ever did was formal) but I worked on farms growing up. Great fun at college when everyone is sizing eachother up with a nice firm handshake. You wait until they are firmly convinced that the bean pole before them is no more threat than any other twig, and are giving your hand their winningest squeeze. Then just as the seratonin begins to rise you crush their metacarpals into powder. Alas it has now been a long time since I have done manual labor so the fun is over.

I do have some pathetic wrists. Never won a game of mercy in my life.

I vaguely remember you claiming to be around my height before. Am I hallucinating?

You've called my bluff. 6'3.75" to the last digit. My life is a lie. Not sure what height I look in my profile. Maybe a foot high tops? You can't really tell from the image, because I cropped it, but I have a torso and legs as well.

Now you've doxxed yourself... Chad.

Except people are exactly at tall as they look... Except to women. I followed a guy into home Depot that made me feel downright feminine. A middle aged lady working there approached him and said "let me guess 6 ft 6?" I about choked. I am 6' 4" and looked a right midget. He begrudgingly offered that he was 6'9". He was more gracious than I would have been. I'd have politely offered to guess her weight.

It is kind of an act but also not really. The thing most people don't understand is that he is genuine. But he is also a bit autistic. Not a lot, but enough that he doesn't know how to communicate without being offputting. My sister-in-law's brother is similar. He was pretty famous at a relatively obscure athletic activity. He did really well at an event a lot of fans took very seriously. He obliterated it. Made it look easy, and even showed off a bit in the process. Fans hated it because they thought he was disrespecting their event. He wasn't, he wasn't even trying to show off. He was just trying his hardest to what he thought people would want him to do, but his social understanding was slightly sub par and nomal people misread it. Elon is kinda the same way. He tries to express his big ideas and timelines in ways he thinks will make people happy or otherwise move the needle to gaining support for the vision. But he is clueless. Very little of what he says gets understood and he says way too much. I don't actually want to defend him too much, because he should be able to override his lack of social ability with intellect and discipline. But he chafes at discipline and damn the torpedoes. Great for him. The torpedoes may not affect him much being insulated by wealth and position, but other people definitely get burned. I wouldn't want to work for him.

I happen to like Elon and his companies (this is not a wholesale endorsement) but man do the sycophants drive me nuts. Occasionally I'll see some obscure reply of his burried in the comments of an interesting topic. Something I could intelligently comment on and I see he posted it like one minute before I saw it. Maybe I'll add to the conversation... Nope. Click in and there are already 5k comments informing Elon of how right he is and how his companies are just going to continue winning. Elon may not be dumb, but he will be by the time his fans are through with him.