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What’s your pet hate at the gym?
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People who do not clean the equipment when they are done. Nobody wants to sit in your funk, pandemic or not.5
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The yappers that camp out on a bench and gab with whoever will listen to them. Get off the damn machines if you’re not lifting!!!
Groups of 3 that take over the bench press rotating between themselves for an hour. I can adjust to work around equipment in use, but not if you monopolize it for an hour.2 -
Women who follow us around, echoing our monthly workout sheets as we execute our coach's instructions "for our optimal body goals"... Annoying a.f. Pay for your own damn assessment/program.
Further, 25# or 45# lifters who hog weight machines, benches, spaces in the free weights area for hours texting/clueless/taking selfies.
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At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
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At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
ah yes, "wife bad" boomer humor, hilarious. you know, kids these days are trying a crazy new thing called "don't marry someone you hate," but i guess there's something to be said for the classics.
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dear old man at pf: there's literally the whole rest of the room for you to set up your mat and do your situps or whatever. it is 6 AM and you and I are the only living beings here. could you maybe not set up three feet away from me?10 -
loving the disagreeeeeees
someone please explain to me where the humor is in talking about your spouse with so much naked contempt, idgi5 -
goal06082021 wrote: »loving the disagreeeeeees
someone please explain to me where the humor is in talking about your spouse with so much naked contempt, idgi
You're reading a tone. You have no idea what the real tone was in the remarks. You have no idea what their joint idea of humor is. You have no idea how the person posting embellished or spun the story to make it funny, which clearly they were trying to be (hint: the reveal that the poster works out at home and the mocking woman with the beer is the poster's wife is what's called a punchline -- and before you get excited, "punch" lines aren't about domestic violence).18 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »goal06082021 wrote: »loving the disagreeeeeees
someone please explain to me where the humor is in talking about your spouse with so much naked contempt, idgi
You're reading a tone. You have no idea what the real tone was in the remarks. You have no idea what their joint idea of humor is. You have no idea how the person posting embellished or spun the story to make it funny, which clearly they were trying to be (hint: the reveal that the poster works out at home and the mocking woman with the beer is the poster's wife is what's called a punchline -- and before you get excited, "punch" lines aren't about domestic violence).
okay but like
why is it funny to talk about your spouse, a person whom you purportedly love enough to have made it official in the eyes of the state and/or your God, in a disparaging manner?
genuinely, why is that A Thing, in the parlance of my generation? I'm reading exactly the tone that was intended, WiFe BaD sO FuNniE. It's a bad joke, the whole class of them are bad jokes that aren't funny. I'm beginning to think the jokes won't die until the people making them do. Stop trashing your spouse for the lulz.9 -
goal06082021 wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »goal06082021 wrote: »loving the disagreeeeeees
someone please explain to me where the humor is in talking about your spouse with so much naked contempt, idgi
You're reading a tone. You have no idea what the real tone was in the remarks. You have no idea what their joint idea of humor is. You have no idea how the person posting embellished or spun the story to make it funny, which clearly they were trying to be (hint: the reveal that the poster works out at home and the mocking woman with the beer is the poster's wife is what's called a punchline -- and before you get excited, "punch" lines aren't about domestic violence).
okay but like
why is it funny to talk about your spouse, a person whom you purportedly love enough to have made it official in the eyes of the state and/or your God, in a disparaging manner?
genuinely, why is that A Thing, in the parlance of my generation? I'm reading exactly the tone that was intended, WiFe BaD sO FuNniE. It's a bad joke, the whole class of them are bad jokes that aren't funny. I'm beginning to think the jokes won't die until the people making them do. Stop trashing your spouse for the lulz.
Are you in a bad marriage because it's...just...a...joke.
And it was funny.
(They say dying's hard. Comedy is harder.
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goal06082021 wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »goal06082021 wrote: »loving the disagreeeeeees
someone please explain to me where the humor is in talking about your spouse with so much naked contempt, idgi
You're reading a tone. You have no idea what the real tone was in the remarks. You have no idea what their joint idea of humor is. You have no idea how the person posting embellished or spun the story to make it funny, which clearly they were trying to be (hint: the reveal that the poster works out at home and the mocking woman with the beer is the poster's wife is what's called a punchline -- and before you get excited, "punch" lines aren't about domestic violence).
okay but like
why is it funny to talk about your spouse, a person whom you purportedly love enough to have made it official in the eyes of the state and/or your God, in a disparaging manner?
genuinely, why is that A Thing, in the parlance of my generation? I'm reading exactly the tone that was intended, WiFe BaD sO FuNniE. It's a bad joke, the whole class of them are bad jokes that aren't funny. I'm beginning to think the jokes won't die until the people making them do. Stop trashing your spouse for the lulz.
I don't see it remotely as being in that class of joke. It's about this horrific image of a person going out of her way to mock total strangers as entertainment (complete with drinks and snacks) being turned on its head by the reveal that it's a home gym.
It's not: My wife is such a nag. You should see our blacksmith bills. Ba dum tss!12 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »goal06082021 wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »goal06082021 wrote: »loving the disagreeeeeees
someone please explain to me where the humor is in talking about your spouse with so much naked contempt, idgi
You're reading a tone. You have no idea what the real tone was in the remarks. You have no idea what their joint idea of humor is. You have no idea how the person posting embellished or spun the story to make it funny, which clearly they were trying to be (hint: the reveal that the poster works out at home and the mocking woman with the beer is the poster's wife is what's called a punchline -- and before you get excited, "punch" lines aren't about domestic violence).
okay but like
why is it funny to talk about your spouse, a person whom you purportedly love enough to have made it official in the eyes of the state and/or your God, in a disparaging manner?
genuinely, why is that A Thing, in the parlance of my generation? I'm reading exactly the tone that was intended, WiFe BaD sO FuNniE. It's a bad joke, the whole class of them are bad jokes that aren't funny. I'm beginning to think the jokes won't die until the people making them do. Stop trashing your spouse for the lulz.
I don't see it remotely as being in that class of joke. It's about this horrific image of a person going out of her way to mock total strangers as entertainment (complete with drinks and snacks) being turned on its head by the reveal that it's a home gym.
It's not: My wife is such a nag. You should see our blacksmith bills. Ba dum tss!
I had to read that 3 times to get it all the while thinking if you have to explain a joke, it's not funny. 😁2 -
goal06082021 wrote: »At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
ah yes, "wife bad" boomer humor, hilarious. you know, kids these days are trying a crazy new thing called "don't marry someone you hate," but i guess there's something to be said for the classics.
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dear old man at pf: there's literally the whole rest of the room for you to set up your mat and do your situps or whatever. it is 6 AM and you and I are the only living beings here. could you maybe not set up three feet away from me?
The fact that my post was labeled as "boomer humor" makes this 30 year old a happy man. I'll continue to perfect my dad jokes while rocking my jorts and white new balances in hopes to continue my journey into the ultimate dad. Good luck with your old man at pf, I think he likes you 20 -
In general, people that do not wipe down equipment!
At my condo gym specifically, they never turn on the aircon. 90 degrees at 90% humidity-we need aircon.4 -
At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
That is funny (no, I am not a boomer). I told it to my wife - she thought it was funny, and she is a millennial...
Not that age is a barrier to a sense of humor. But some folks here seem to have none. So sad for them.11 -
Theoldguy1 wrote: »At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
That is funny (no, I am not a boomer). I told it to my wife - she thought it was funny, and she is a millennial...
Not that age is a barrier to a sense of humor. But some folks here seem to have none. So sad for them.
Replace old man with fat man or fat woman and see if there is a sense of humor about that.
There was no "old man" in that story to replace.3 -
Theoldguy1 wrote: »At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
That is funny (no, I am not a boomer). I told it to my wife - she thought it was funny, and she is a millennial...
Not that age is a barrier to a sense of humor. But some folks here seem to have none. So sad for them.
Replace old man with fat man or fat woman and see if there is a sense of humor about that.
The punchline still works.1 -
Oh, there's a literal elderly gentleman that does this at the gym I go to, I have a specific human person in mind. It's not his age or sex that is the problem, it is his proximity. I don't want the young woman making content for the 'gram set up three feet away from me, either.5
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Theoldguy1 wrote: »Theoldguy1 wrote: »At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
That is funny (no, I am not a boomer). I told it to my wife - she thought it was funny, and she is a millennial...
Not that age is a barrier to a sense of humor. But some folks here seem to have none. So sad for them.
Replace old man with fat man or fat woman and see if there is a sense of humor about that.
There was no "old man" in that story to replace.
Ohhhhh - you meant the other reply to the post with the joke awhile back, not what was actually posted just now you replied to.
That could be confusing to Tito_Tim since he said nothing about that other reply, and you responded to him about it.3 -
Theoldguy1 wrote: »At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
That is funny (no, I am not a boomer). I told it to my wife - she thought it was funny, and she is a millennial...
Not that age is a barrier to a sense of humor. But some folks here seem to have none. So sad for them.
Replace old man with fat man or fat woman and see if there is a sense of humor about that.
In my few years of experience, fat people are always funnier lol I mean when I was heavier (much heavier) I was definitely funnier. I also drank more, so maybe I just thought I was funnier? O well, the internet world is full of all sorts and I hope someone can find a laugh from my post. If not, I recommend drinking a beer and coming back to read it again (repeat til funny) 4 -
goal06082021 wrote: »Oh, there's a literal elderly gentleman that does this at the gym I go to, I have a specific human person in mind. It's not his age or sex that is the problem, it is his proximity. I don't want the young woman making content for the 'gram set up three feet away from me, either.
So why not just call out the proximity? Isn't it a coincidence, then, that he's old, male?
The point is that if it was a specific human person who was fat, and you'd said "fat man" or "fat woman", that would likely be called out as kinda tacky, but it's OK to add the (apparently irrelevant) fact that he's an "old man", and it's OK to critique a joke you find offensive by calling it a "boomer" kind of thing to say (even though it turned out the guy who said it was not a boomer) . . . because stereotyping people based on age is OK, and maybe even kind of trendy.
Generally, it's quite reasonably (IMO) thought not socially acceptable to irrelevantly cite someone's sex, gender, ethnicity, national origin, etc., when criticizing their purely individual behavior.
Totally cool to look at age differently?
I admit, the boomer thing ticks me off, when some of my younger friends (who are very conscious about other kinds of broad-brush negative stereotyping) go there. It's not, I think, *just* because I *am* a boomer, but more because this mode of thinking separates young people from older folks who'd collaborate with them on many common causes, if they mutually saw past the age issue to the common interests. (IOW, I reject the "millennials do dumb stuff" memes and stereotypes that some people closer to my age promulgate, on the same basis.)
If I were a troll farm, negative boomer/millennial and other negative age references are exactly the kind of notion I'd want to get rolling in the world, to divide people for no good reason. It's insidious.
Yes, I'm being humorless here. Meh.12 -
Theoldguy1 wrote: »Theoldguy1 wrote: »At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
That is funny (no, I am not a boomer). I told it to my wife - she thought it was funny, and she is a millennial...
Not that age is a barrier to a sense of humor. But some folks here seem to have none. So sad for them.
Replace old man with fat man or fat woman and see if there is a sense of humor about that.
There was no "old man" in that story to replace.
Ohhhhh - you meant the other reply to the post with the joke awhile back, not what was actually posted just now you replied to.
That could be confusing to Tito_Tim since he said nothing about that other reply, and you responded to him about it.
Yeah, dude is lost. He is replying to me about a post a did even comment on. 😎🍹1 -
People that do not know what headphones (or earbuds) are. I love music, but I do not want to hear yours. This is a much bigger problem in the Philippines than in the US. 😎2
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goal06082021 wrote: »Oh, there's a literal elderly gentleman that does this at the gym I go to, I have a specific human person in mind. It's not his age or sex that is the problem, it is his proximity. I don't want the young woman making content for the 'gram set up three feet away from me, either.
So why not just call out the proximity? Isn't it a coincidence, then, that he's old, male?
The point is that if it was a specific human person who was fat, and you'd said "fat man" or "fat woman", that would likely be called out as kinda tacky, but it's OK to add the (apparently irrelevant) fact that he's an "old man", and it's OK to critique a joke you find offensive by calling it a "boomer" kind of thing to say (even though it turned out the guy who said it was not a boomer) . . . because stereotyping people based on age is OK, and maybe even kind of trendy.
Generally, it's quite reasonably (IMO) thought not socially acceptable to irrelevantly cite someone's sex, gender, ethnicity, national origin, etc., when criticizing their purely individual behavior.
Totally cool to look at age differently?
I admit, the boomer thing ticks me off, when some of my younger friends (who are very conscious about other kinds of broad-brush negative stereotyping) go there. It's not, I think, *just* because I *am* a boomer, but more because this mode of thinking separates young people from older folks who'd collaborate with them on many common causes, if they mutually saw past the age issue to the common interests. (IOW, I reject the "millennials do dumb stuff" memes and stereotypes that some people closer to my age promulgate, on the same basis.)
If I were a troll farm, negative boomer/millennial and other negative age references are exactly the kind of notion I'd want to get rolling in the world, to divide people for no good reason. It's insidious.
Yes, I'm being humorless here. Meh.
Yep - this. I hate it in the gym and outside: (negative) generalisations of people based on their age. It really irks me when people whinge about younger people being on their phone in the gym all the time (maybe they’re checking their programme and programming rest like I do?), or older people hogging equipment and talking too much (maybe they need longer breaks between sets - again I know I do). The whole boomer vs gen z / millennial is divisive, and frankly there’s enough hate in the world without polarising people based on their age. I can’t help being 47!!9 -
People that do not know what headphones (or earbuds) are. I love music, but I do not want to hear yours. This is a much bigger problem in the Philippines than in the US. 😎
I'm with you on this!
For me, it's people who don't wipe down equipment (or do it with their sweat towel
) and those that DON'T PUT THE WEIGHTS BACK. That used to drive me crackers. 1 -
I honestly thought that "the person who bicep curls in the squat rack" was a gym meme.
But no.
For two days running someone was curling in the squat rack at our gym. A different person on each occasion. We have ONE squat rack in the entire gym. They weren't even using the bar - they had taken a preloaded bar over to the squat rack. They weren't even using the safeties to rest the preloaded bar on - they were picking it up from the floor.
People who curl in the squat rack are now my pet hate in the gym.
Oh, and the woman who was face-timing in the changing rooms.9 -
SnifterPug wrote: »I honestly thought that "the person who bicep curls in the squat rack" was a gym meme.
But no.
For two days running someone was curling in the squat rack at our gym. A different person on each occasion. We have ONE squat rack in the entire gym. They weren't even using the bar - they had taken a preloaded bar over to the squat rack. They weren't even using the safeties to rest the preloaded bar on - they were picking it up from the floor.
People who curl in the squat rack are now my pet hate in the gym.
Oh, and the woman who was face-timing in the changing rooms.
yikes and yikes!
Is the only mirror in front of the squat rack or something?
Even then, not like curling requires that much form check.0 -
People who try to make light chitchat while I'm counting reps.2
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Theoldguy1 wrote: »SnifterPug wrote: »I honestly thought that "the person who bicep curls in the squat rack" was a gym meme.
But no.
For two days running someone was curling in the squat rack at our gym. A different person on each occasion. We have ONE squat rack in the entire gym. They weren't even using the bar - they had taken a preloaded bar over to the squat rack. They weren't even using the safeties to rest the preloaded bar on - they were picking it up from the floor.
People who curl in the squat rack are now my pet hate in the gym.
Oh, and the woman who was face-timing in the changing rooms.
Kinda wish I'd thought to do shrugs in the curl rack when the opportunity arose to make a point.
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At my gym we have this women who comes in two or three times a week and just hangs out to judge people. She'll plant her butt down on whatever she can find to sit on and just mock everything the rest of us are doing. On multiple occasions, I've seen her eating snacks and drinking what I'm pretty sure was a beer. I keep reporting her to management but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping with that guy.
Also....I workout at home...
Don't tell my wife I brought her up on the internet.....
that totally made my day... some people take life too seriously. I have been known to be that person. 5
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