Fashion Board--Penske . . . forever!

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but that settles it for me.

TM

Oh you're just bitter. Moron.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
In Boston and NY they had sign up sheets? Is this not done elsewhere? Fitcorp used to jam all the time as did NYSC and NYHRC for that matter. Have no idea what equinox and SCLA do

Sign up sheets are one of the many reasons I will never go to a corporate, specifically Ballys, gym again.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Sign up sheets are one of the many reasons I will never go to a corporate, specifically Ballys, gym again.

I am sure your gym is much more personalized and more warm of an atmosphere....NYSC felt like a factory.....

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Sign up sheets are one of the many reasons I will never go to a corporate, specifically Ballys, gym again.

What good does a sign-up sheet do if someone's already been on the machine for 15 minutes? "You skipped me, BnB, but I didn't notice for 15 minutes." Pay attention or suck it.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
What good does a sign-up sheet do if someone's already been on the machine for 15 minutes? "You skipped me, BnB, but I didn't notice for 15 minutes." Pay attention or suck it.

do you have an oral fixation?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Welcome newber! In the summer, Flower gets his man-pedicure done each Friday morning to be ready for the weekend. Anyways, he won't be in until noon CST. He'll have some advice and official words of greeting.

Greetings, Newber! Back and feeling pretty! Anyhoo, as promised, I have a few words of advice. First, in a figurative, metaphorical way, the Lawtalkers internet cyber virtual chatting board for lawyers has been referred to as a cocktail party. The metaphor is apt. Like in real life cocktail parties, things can be kind of awkward at first. Everyone is just hanging around making small talk until enough martinis are consumed to get the social juices flowing. Well, you are essentially walking into a cocktail party where everyone is already loaded, some people have puked and are passed out in the guest bedroom, and there is one couple loudly and sloppily fucking in the bathroom. So no need to bore us all with the mundane details of your futile existence. Let's get right into the action. Post often and with vigor, and you will be an accepted member of the Lawtalkers community before patentpara finishes fellating you.

[Pretty Little Flower]

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"?

Oh the stories I could tell you about spats over spin bikes!!!

[J. Fred Muggs]

Originally posted by Fugee
And you chose to meet Thurgreed????????? His posting style led you to believe he is Little Marvin Sunshine?

I think that it's more like little marvin gay, given the bed and all.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I think you flatlined because he didn't say what you thought he would say. I think that your impression of him and his of you was doomed for failure from the very beginning of this hairbrained scheme because of the contrived nature of the meeting. You didn't meet because you thought he was interesting enough and he thought you were interesting enough based off of your relative postings, which is how most people decide to meet IRL off the internet. You met because you wanted to prove something to him (and the board) that you ultimately couldn't prove to him. (What you proved to the board remains to be seen, but the board probably would have had more sympathy for you if not for the subsequent four days.) I think your meeting was too artificial for "chemistry" or "type" to come into play.

As for issues, we all have issues. This board is full of off-kilter people who I find to be a hell of a lot more interesting than most of the people I deal with on a regular basis, which is why I've put a lot of personal effort into keeping this place going. None of us fit the mold of the normal GA (whoever that poor soul may be). We're all rattling at our cages, and this is one of the only outlets we have. We're generally extroverts (with a bunch of voyeurs thrown in) who like our jobs to various degrees but have a lot of other issues and interests to keep us going. Our jobs are not the end all or be all of our lives. We're divorced or perpetually single or constantly moving jobs or hopping across the country or shocked as hell that somehow we became GPs or wondering how we managed to get older with kids and mortages but still feel pretty fucking young at heart. We don't want to necessarily become the GPs that we saw when we first entered this profession, but there are a shitload of expectations on us (usually from those very same GPs) that we do. Of course he has issues. We all do. It's the reason this board exists.

Wow. Put that way, we actually seem pretty interesting and likable.

I am going to print this and tape it to my wall as a daily affirmation.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Fugee
I wouldn't have been offended by the purse joke -- especially if I had been the one to bring up a co-worker who hires hookers. It may have been a bad joke for a first meeting, but you threw TM a softball and that's the swing he took at it.

Yes, but you're a freaky leather-chick. PPNYC already outed you on that.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Wow. Put that way, we actually seem pretty interesting and likable.

I am going to print this and tape it to my wall as a daily affirmation.

*Everyone* on this board is quirky and likeable in their own way, even moron over there. No one is one dimensional, everyone has their good points and bad and people seem solid all around. outliers a few, but what have you.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
I have a strong personality and it certainly does rub some people the wrong way. Especially some men who don't like strong women.

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.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Yes, but you're a freaky leather-chick. PPNYC already outed you on that.

You know she so swings from the chandelier.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Wow. Put that way, we actually seem pretty interesting and likable.

I am going to print this and tape it to my wall as a daily affirmation.

Be sure to correct "hairbrained" when you do it.

[patentparanyc]

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.

I so knew Mrs. Finch was like that. Spot-On baby.