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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Sign up sheets in gyms are going to give you a heart attack? That's kind of ironic. And also pretty weird. I'd tell you to smoke a bowl and mellow out, but I know how the weed just gets you into one of those paranoid, heart-racing panic attacks. Maybe you should take up Zen?

Can someone explain how signups are bad or prevent you from getting your workout? Doesn't a total free for all erupt if, for example, two or more people are waiting for a treadmill, perhaps unbeknownst to each other? Without a signup, who wins? My gym is signup only and it is fair and reasonable and generally avoids confrontation. I go to the gym to work out, not to do some sick power play or to wait around until someone decides to let me workout. I show up, I sign up, the machine I sign up for is mine for the time I am signed up on it, end of story, no argument. I will not let you finish up "just five minutes" if it cuts into my time, and I am not rude for saying "I signed up. NOW." A person who refuses to follow signup rules and asks me to forfeit my time is rude.

sebastian_dangerfield

08-25-2006 02:14 PM

Etiquette at the Gym

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Until you learn to relax and deal with your sign-up sheet hypertension issues, that third thumb is always going to be down.

You keep telling yourself it's all about how you use that pinky.

nononono

08-25-2006 02:15 PM

Deadwood parody

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Originally posted by patentparanyc
I've met a fair amount of people as well, and I've gotta say he was not one who put me at ease instantly with his warmth and personable amiability and "great sense of humor" I'm married and and old fart but we had little in common little chemisty on an interpersonal level and by the end both of us were like gee, the train, gee banana republic until my next train.

That is a contributing factor to why I flatlined. We both did really, he's not my hypothetical type. I like down to earth gregarious funny smooth types, BSDs with all the right lines that type of smoove talker. he was too into being edgy. I also like polite. I can take rude or shocking or bawdy only if he's my type plenty of people I work with say crazy things to me and we laugh. I consider myself a shrewd judge of character and I've gotta say I think he has issues.

Now I'm confused. I thought you met so that he could assess you. You write about this as though it was a potential date or hookup....

sebastian_dangerfield

08-25-2006 02:19 PM

Etiquette at the Gym

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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Can someone explain how signups are bad or prevent you from getting your workout? Doesn't a total free for all erupt if, for example, two or more people are waiting for a treadmill, perhaps unbeknownst to each other? Without a signup, who wins? My gym is signup only and it is fair and reasonable and generally avoids confrontation. I go to the gym to work out, not to do some sick power play or to wait around until someone decides to let me workout. I show up, I sign up, the machine I sign up for is mine for the time I am signed up on it, end of story, no argument. I will not let you finish up "just five minutes" if it cuts into my time, and I am not rude for saying "I signed up. NOW." A person who refuses to follow signup rules and asks me to forfeit my time is rude.

Dissent. I don't keep a regimented schedule. I make time to go to the gym, and use whatever machine is open when I get there. I don't ask anyone to forfeit anything. I just go to the next open machine. Sometimes, if they're all full, I lift weights instead.

I don't mind the guy who has only so much time and comes running in and wants to use a machine. But the prick who comes in and signs up to use a then empty machine 20 minutes later - so he can do his lifting and stretches first - then throws a person who's gotten on the machine in the meantime off the machine is just a douche. Cardio stuff is the most used in the gym. It should never sit idle while some prima donna twit waits for his alloted time. He has an obligation to use it as soon as he sees it open.

ThurgreedMarshall

08-25-2006 02:20 PM

Car Talk

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Speaking of "thumbs up," my sisters and I have started an experiment of giving the "thumbs down" instead of the finger to the drivers of cars that piss us off. The reactions have been pretty hysterical, as most drivers are prepared for a hand gesture that implies that the driver is an asshole, and they are automatically prepared to be defensive. Then they get a hand gesture indicating disappointment and regret (it helps the gesture if you shake your head sadly) in the driver's previous behavior, and they start looking contrite and apologetic.

Everyone expects the finger. No one expects the thumbs down.

It's been fun. I've had to use it a lot.

I don't live there, but based on you driving record I think I speak for everyone in Texas when I say, you should keep both hands on the wheel.

TM

Hank Chinaski

08-25-2006 02:23 PM

Car Talk

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Somehow, I knew this was going to come up in this endless discussion.

Let me go on record as saying that I, for one, like only weak, demure, boring, shy, introverted, and helpless women. With little to no personalities.

If those inflatable porn dolls could cook and clean, I'd be all over that shit.

if the inflatable dolls are cool, you'd save the hooker bucks and can get dry cleaning and carry out with the savings! didn't you have any economics courses?

ltl/fb

08-25-2006 02:24 PM

Etiquette at the Gym

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Dissent. I don't keep a regimented schedule. I make time to go to the gym, and use whatever machine is open when I get there. I don't ask anyone to forfeit anything. I just go to the next open machine. Sometimes, if they're all full, I lift weights instead.

I don't mind the guy who has only so much time and comes running in and wants to use a machine. But the prick who comes in and signs up to use a then empty machine 20 minutes later - so he can do his lifting and stretches first - then throws a person who's gotten on the machine in the meantime off the machine is just a douche. Cardio stuff is the most used in the gym. It should never sit idle while some prima donna twit waits for his alloted time. He has an obligation to use it as soon as he sees it open.

Um, why can't you check the signup sheets and use a machine that no one has signed up for? Since you indicated there were a bunch of empty machines. It's pretty assholey to be on the one machine that someone signed up for when there are a bunch of empty non-signed up for machines around.

My gym does not have signup sheets though there's a posted but unenforced 45-min limit. Sometimes (gasp!) I don't get to use my favorite model of elliptical trainer (there are 3 of them) and have to use one of the other 5 varieties.

str8outavannuys

08-25-2006 02:25 PM

Deadwood parody

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I hadn't thought of this in years. Thanks!

"Grandmother's Song" by Steve Martin

Be courteous, kind and forgiving
Be gentle and peaceful each day
Be warm and human and grateful
Have a good thing to say

Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike
Be witty and happy and wise
Be honest and love all your neighbors
Be obsequious, purple and clairvoyant

Good one. I see you and raise you:

I was working all night in my office
When a man I had recently killed
Called me up from a phone near my building
So I looked out the window at him
He had the same obsequious manner
That was the reason I had him killed
So to calm my nerves I sang this song
To him, over the phone

Turn around, turn around
There's a thing there that can be found
Turn around, turn around
It's a human skull on the ground
Human skull on the ground
Turn around

str8outavannuys

08-25-2006 02:27 PM

Etiquette at the Gym

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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
So I am at the gym this morning and running on a treadmill. It is not the treadmill that I usually use, but there was no one else on any of the treadmills, I came up some different stairs, and hell, all the treadmills are the same.

I put in all my stats, get the program started, fire up the iPod, and start my run.

After about 15 minutes, a guy comes and stands right in front of my treadmill. I do not know him. After a couple of seconds of him looking at me, I reach up and take the earbuds out of my ears. And he says "That's my usual treadmill."

"Oh," I say. I look down at the display and say "I'll be finished in about 15 minutes."

He repeats that it is his usual treadmill. I look around, note at least a dozen unused treadmill, and shrug my shoulders. I then replace my earbuds.

Did this asshole really think I was going to just stop in the middle of my workout so that he could have "his usual treadmill"?

All the nuts roll downhill to Florida.

ABBAKiss

08-25-2006 02:28 PM

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The way the signup works, the machines do not sit idle. At my gym, you sign up for halfhour increments. When I arrive, I sign up for two half hour increments on an elliptical. If it is not yet to my time, but there is a machine open, I take it. We have a five minute grace perliod. I can throw someone off the machine I signed up for for the first five minutes of my time - then I have claimed the machine. If I fail to show, whoever is on the machine stays, until the next time slot. If I grab a machine I did not sign up for and someone claims it as their signup within the first five minutes, I get off - no question. After five minutes, the machine is mine - whoever signed up forfeited. The machines at my gym rarely sit idle...but neither do the workerouters because no one sits around waiting for anyone else to end their workout. We plan our workouts and follow the rules. I gym without signups is likely to have a lot of disputes. Mine has few, and all disputes are easily resolved with a review of the rules.

Shape Shifter

08-25-2006 02:29 PM

Car Talk

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
if the inflatable dolls are cool, you'd save the hooker bucks and can get dry cleaning and carry out with the savings! didn't you have any economics courses?

I miss Tina.

<sniff>

Hank Chinaski

08-25-2006 02:30 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Sebby strikes me as the kind of guy who would bored as hell in a yoga class.

which is why he needs it. Whoooooa, catch 22?

patentparanyc

08-25-2006 02:30 PM

Car Talk

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Don't burst her bubble. I'm convincing her on PM that when they yell "Timmy!" it's code for "I want you."

I was talking to my friend about another person who is an older spinster type very difficult and that friend said "Yeah, well, she don't make or break my day"

That is kinda how I feel about you. you nip at my heels but, you don't make or break my day.

SlaveNoMore

08-25-2006 02:31 PM

Etiquette at the Gym

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sebastian_dangerfield
I don't want to go anywhere I have to mkae reservations for. I'm not a restaurant nut. I like the drinks, and they taste the same everywhere.

Translation: other than perhaps Le Bec Fin, you don't need a reservation in Philly.

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