You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

[The Last Stand]

Maybe it's me being on here regularly or just living in the middle of nowhere, but ghetto behavior irks me.

 

[Meat Target]

Bad gym etiquette at my gym, including:

- people racking heaving weights over lighter weights on a machine weight rack (eg 25s, then 10s then more 25s....)

- people fiddle faddling on their phones between "sets." Recovery time should be about sixty seconds, no longer than two minutes. Get off your phone. People want to use the machine or station you currently occupy.

- people who take attachments to the cable machine and take them some place so others cannot find them.

- people who ask me how many sets I have left. I don't dilly dally. I don't look at my phone, or if I do I'm done in seconds. My seta are usually 60 seconds to at most 90 seconds apart. Let me do what I want to do and need to do. I am listening to my music, and trying to stay focused. I don't want to talk to you, and I don't want to be interrupted. Leave me alone.

- people who do dumbbell exercises in front of the dumbbell racks. You are in my way and in the way of everyone else.

- people who take the position or bench next to mine by the dumbbells and have no concern whether there is proper clearance between you and what I am doing.

- attention seeking whores who wear sports bras and yoga pants presenting themselves the way a baboon presents its ass, replete with cheeks and camel toe.

I hate it then they don't put weights back.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

I can complain a lot about my work. People that can't sort crap out, the government telling people to stay home resulting in us getting a rubbish financial day, constant stream of transfers and non-existant air conditioning.

But what I would REALLY like to complain about is the music that the lead chef (not to be confused with head chef) is nothing but awful music! It's just bloody rap and one time, his music had the same sound effects that the Da Ting Goes song used.
The best music he plays is reggae and I don't like reggae but it's much less noiser and uncouth than rap.

His songs use the words nigga, bitch and pussy like it's everyday words and I don't understand how he thinks it's a good idea to play such songs at work. The worst offended is a song I heard that literally says, "I love finger fucking you" WTF?!!

So many people say that his songs suck but he's such a nice guy, I think no one dares to say anything. I want to but I'm a lower employee, my opinion isn't worth anything.

 

[Alabaster Disaster]

Bad gym etiquette at my gym, including:

- people racking heaving weights over lighter weights on a machine weight rack (eg 25s, then 10s then more 25s....)

- people fiddle faddling on their phones between "sets." Recovery time should be about sixty seconds, no longer than two minutes. Get off your phone. People want to use the machine or station you currently occupy.

- people who take attachments to the cable machine and take them some place so others cannot find them.

- people who ask me how many sets I have left. I don't dilly dally. I don't look at my phone, or if I do I'm done in seconds. My seta are usually 60 seconds to at most 90 seconds apart. Let me do what I want to do and need to do. I am listening to my music, and trying to stay focused. I don't want to talk to you, and I don't want to be interrupted. Leave me alone.

- people who do dumbbell exercises in front of the dumbbell racks. You are in my way and in the way of everyone else.

- people who take the position or bench next to mine by the dumbbells and have no concern whether there is proper clearance between you and what I am doing.

- attention seeking whores who wear sports bras and yoga pants presenting themselves the way a baboon presents its ass, replete with cheeks and camel toe.

Shit like this is exactly why I switched to a 24 hour gym even though it's smaller and a bit less feature -rich than my previous one. I can go during Real Autist Hours, and often have the place either entirely to myself or with so few other people we need never acknowledge each other

 

[Shidoen]

Atheist's who basically act like they guzzle fluoride as they proudly proclaim their Atheism when I roll my eyes.

 

[Norbert the Tiger]

I hate it then they don't put weights back.

For the most part I agree. I.am not talking about leaving a 45 lbs plate on each side of a vertical chest press machine, which I don't really care about and.sort of welcome bc it's Les plates I have to put up. I am referring to the storage racks on the side, and the weigh plates are racked such that it states with heavier plates, followed by small.ten or even five. Lbs weights, which are the. Followed by 25 or heavier weights, sich that in order to get to the ten lbs weights, I have to in unrack the heavier weights on top of the weights I want to use....

Shit like this is exactly why I switched to a 24 hour gym even though it's smaller and a bit less feature -rich than my previous one. I can go during Real Autist Hours, and often have the place either entirely to myself or with so few other people we need never acknowledge each other.

It is sad that people are so obnoxious that anyone with a minimum baseline of courtesy has to resort to astonishing levlels of antisocial behavior to insulate himself from all the bad behavior.
The gym I belong to used to be 24 hrs during the week but now closes at 11 (10 on Saturday, 8 on Sundays). With the hot weather, I have been going at about 930.. Not quite as crowded but I still have to suffer through people's obnoxious behavior.

I have had some run-ins with the woman who manages the gym, was not treated fairly at all so I know any interpersonal problems I have, no matter how much in the wrong the other person is, will create problems for.me that I'll be singled.out...

Aside from offering better sound quality and decent sound isolation, I use these dj hi fidelity headphones by Pioneer in part because they communicate that I am insulating myself from others and don't want to be bothered. They are rather prominent compared to earbuds (which I find insurable bc I sweat so much) and make it unmistakable townveryone that I am listening to my music. I can only imagine my appearance would deter any sensible person from bothering me, but people still interrupt me, asking if I am using a.machine.or station next to me when I just finished a set (with more to go) at the station I'm at (without moving myself or my water bottle or giving any clues that I am done doing what I am doing...)

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

Bad gym etiquette at my gym, including:

- people racking heaving weights over lighter weights on a machine weight rack (eg 25s, then 10s then more 25s....)

- people fiddle faddling on their phones between "sets." Recovery time should be about sixty seconds, no longer than two minutes. Get off your phone. People want to use the machine or station you currently occupy.

- people who take attachments to the cable machine and take them some place so others cannot find them.

- people who ask me how many sets I have left. I don't dilly dally. I don't look at my phone, or if I do I'm done in seconds. My seta are usually 60 seconds to at most 90 seconds apart. Let me do what I want to do and need to do. I am listening to my music, and trying to stay focused. I don't want to talk to you, and I don't want to be interrupted. Leave me alone.

- people who do dumbbell exercises in front of the dumbbell racks. You are in my way and in the way of everyone else.

- people who take the position or bench next to mine by the dumbbells and have no concern whether there is proper clearance between you and what I am doing.

- attention seeking whores who wear sports bras and yoga pants presenting themselves the way a baboon presents its ass, replete with cheeks and camel toe.

For the most part I agree, though I'd take issue with the 'two minutes at most' rest period. If I'm hitting 190 triples on backsquat, I'm sure as fuck not resting for 60 seconds lol. If you're referring to machines, that is however a fair point. Even on heavier sets and mega heavy singles, I'm typically resting for 3 minutes at most.

I feel there's some nuance with the 'how many sets do you have left?' question. Typically I'll find another place to setup if the platforms are taken, but if I'm after something specific on a PR day, I won't think twice about asking a dude. There's a key difference between asking once however, and hovering around like flies on shit and getting in someone's way.

What boils my piss the most is faggots who superset on multiple machines, and get bent out of shape if someone tries to use one. Thats just selfish dickhead behaviour- no surprise it's always desert dwellers or noghers who are guilty of it.

People scrolling for ten minutes between sets also deserve the death penalty.

 

[Norbert the Tiger]

For the most part I agree, though I'd take issue with the 'two minutes at most' rest period. If I'm hitting 190 triples on backsquat, I'm sure as fuck not resting for 60 seconds lol. If you're referring to machines, that is however a fair point. Even on heavier sets and mega heavy singles, I'm typically resting for 3 minutes at most.

I feel there's some nuance with the 'how many sets do you have left?' question. Typically I'll find another place to setup if the platforms are taken, but if I'm after something specific on a PR day, I won't think twice about asking a dude. There's a key difference between asking once however, and hovering around like flies on shit and getting in someone's way.

What boils my piss the most is faggots who superset on multiple machines, and get bent out of shape if someone tries to use one. Thats just selfish dickhead behaviour- no surprise it's always desert dwellers or noghers who are guilty of it.

People scrolling for ten minutes between sets also deserve the death penalty.

I believe I wrote sixty second to two minutes..A full three minutes seems excessive to me.

Why ask someone how many sets they have unless that person is dicking around, wasting time? It is articular y.rudr and unwelcome.whrn listening to headphones.
It's rare that I can elect to do a different exercise than what I am awaiting for, but sometimes it is possible. I patiently wait from a distance, so that I am seen to any one observant but not looming over anyone. If I see someone on the phone or making small talk and taking longer than necessary, then I ask, more as a rhetorical question to inform.that person that he is not the only one on the gym.

 

[Meat Target]

For the most part I agree. I.am not talking about leaving a 45 lbs plate on each side of a vertical chest press machine, which I don't really care about and.sort of welcome bc it's Les plates I have to put up. I am referring to the storage racks on the side, and the weigh plates are racked such that it states with heavier plates, followed by small.ten or even five. Lbs weights, which are the. Followed by 25 or heavier weights, sich that in order to get to the ten lbs weights, I have to in unrack the heavier weights on top of the weights I want to use....

I hate it when people leave dumbbells on the floor. Other people are not the butler. Pick up after yourselves, you inconsiderate jerks.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

I believe I wrote sixty second to two minutes..A full three minutes seems excessive to me.

Why ask someone how many sets they have unless that person is dicking around, wasting time? It is articular y.rudr and unwelcome.whrn listening to headphones.
It's rare that I can elect to do a different exercise than what I am awaiting for, but sometimes it is possible. I patiently wait from a distance, so that I am seen to any one observant but not looming over anyone. If I see someone on the phone or making small talk and taking longer than necessary, then I ask, more as a rhetorical question to inform.that person that he is not the only one on the gym.

Hitting multiple reps, multiple sets at +85% on any compound lift definitely requires two minutes or more in rest periods, if you're training optimally. Three minutes is adequate, but experienced powerlifters will often take longer. For me personally, three minutes does it even for singles at close to my 1rm.

But point taken - if you're using machines, three minutes is certainly excessive. I'll go anywhere from 1 - 2 minutes depending on exercise if it's machine work.

I should have qualified. I know a great deal of guys in my local gym, who takes it seriously and whatnot. If I see someone I know who takes his training seriously in the squat rack, bench, etc, I'm not gonna bother asking them. Some casual with 40kg loaded, who's been on there 40 minutes and on his phone constantly? I'm asking, fuck his feelings.

I don't think we really disagree on anything to be honest. But I do like looking at the sluts on occasion, but only if they're not obese and poured into their Lululemons.

 

[Norbert the Tiger]

Hitting multiple reps, multiple sets at +85% on any compound lift definitely requires two minutes or more in rest periods, if you're training optimally. Three minutes is adequate, but experienced powerlifters will often take longer. For me personally, three minutes does it even for singles at close to my 1rm.

But point taken - if you're using machines, three minutes is certainly excessive. I'll go anywhere from 1 - 2 minutes depending on exercise if it's machine work.

I should have qualified. I know a great deal of guys in my local gym, who takes it seriously and whatnot. If I see someone I know who takes his training seriously in the squat rack, bench, etc, I'm not gonna bother asking them. Some casual with 40kg loaded, who's been on there 40 minutes and on his phone constantly? I'm asking, fuck his feelings.

I don't think we really disagree on anything to be honest. But I do like looking at the sluts on occasion, but only if they're not obese and poured into their Lululemons.

I looked it up and absolute strength gain does seem to be maximized by three to five minutes, but it depends wildly on number of reps, what percentage of one time max one is lifting etc.

There is a balancing act between short rest periods that tire your muscles down while still lifting enough to build muscle.. I might try longer rest periods and incorporate changing rest periods as I shift back and forth every three to four weeks between higher weight lower reps descending and starting mid weight, ascending to two higher weights second and third sete, then descending in pyramid formation.

I typically do six weight exercises altogether on chest and triceps day (three chest, three tricep). My shoulder is tender so am doing three upper back and only two shoulder exercises with low weights high reps on shoulder on the second weight training day (third overall) I always change up exercises using machines and free weights....
One problem with four or five minute rest periods is that I'd be in the gym over ninety minutes at least.
I don't like the slutted out chicks bc:
- I'm not single, somewhat older and not in the game, and
- they are not nearly as hot as they think they are

 

[Tingle]

Maybe it's me being on here regularly or just living in the middle of nowhere, but ghetto behavior irks me.

I'm going to add on to this: the influence ghetto culture has had on everything. People and coworkers using ghetto terms, loud shitty mumble rap in every ad and show, its direct contribution to urban decay and doubtless other things.

 

[Lady Bizness]

Bad gym etiquette at my gym, including:

- attention seeking whores who wear sports bras and yoga pants presenting themselves the way a baboon presents its ass, replete with cheeks and camel toe.

Back when I was these girlie's age, I was in the gym wearing comfortable clothes where you couldn't see much of anything and even then the male attention could often be a bit much and a couple of times quite upsetting. I'm not here to complain about it - just to notice a contrast. These girls, despite their ostensible nudity, are getting zero attention, at least at my current gym. I'm getting old, so nobody's paying attention to me at all, so I look around. The guys all have their eyes on their phone, their lap, the floor, anywhere but on these girls.

There's this one chick who already has an insane ass, but on top of that wears those leggings that are rouched in the asscrack, looks like her asshole has achieved singularity and is pulling everything towards the event horizon.

Anyway it cracks me up these girls will get changed in the toilet stalls while all the old ladies just walking around the locker room bush out. Like, girl, we already seen everything because your lulus are both flesh toned and membrane thin. Also come out, gaze upon your future. That ass is gonna crash eventually. Exhibit A, Exhibit B, etc.

That said, today I'm personally pissed at the guy deadlifting sub 200lbs like he's a badass and just letting that shit drop at the top of the lift.

 

[Meat Target]

Anyway it cracks me up these girls will get changed in the toilet stalls while all the old ladies just walking around the locker room bush out.

Ahh, so old ladies don't give a shit, either. Old men walk around the locker room like it's an ancient Roman bathhouse.

 

[seri0us]

Ahh, so old ladies don't give a shit, either. Old men walk around the locker room like it's an ancient Roman bathhouse.

Good for them. It's kind of ridiculous how people in changing rooms will go into stalls or go behind things like trash cans.

Edit: I have changed my mind on this. I was wrong.

 

[Lady Bizness]

Ahh, so old ladies don't give a shit, either. Old men walk around the locker room like it's an ancient Roman bathhouse.

A friend of mine says the number of times he's looked up from tying his shoe in there to see some naked old dude posing like Captain Morgan on the bench next to him is greater than 5.

The Koreans in my old neighborhood treated my old gym like a bathhouse. Never see these ladies in the actual gym but they were always in the locker room, fluffing themselves with handicapped hand dryer because it was placed conveniently at bush level. I've seen some weird things in the ladies'.

 

[Sugriva]

Good for them. It's kind of ridiculous how people in changing rooms will go into stalls or go behind things like trash cans.

Am I the weird one for not wanting to see some old dude's pendulous nads chafe against the floor?

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

The idea that only women and fruitcakes should own candles is so bafflingly stupid and misandrist. Owning candles should just be a standard adult expectation, like owning a set of screwdrivers.

You don't need to be a faggot to appreciate the use of candle light to relax. Does the average man no longer have a sense of romance when it comes to courtship and married life? Men don't exactly have magic cat eye night vision when shit hits the fan and the power goes out for a couple of days or more. Flashlights and phone lights will only do so much good for so long and take up one of your hands while doing it.

Look, I'm not saying that all the guys need to scurry over to Bath and Bodyworks and start huffing $35 strawberry cake-scented candles for an hour every weekend, just get yourselves some basic, cheap candles that can do the job of lighting various spots in your dwelling when the power goes out. Buy the other kind of overpriced candles, the ones marketed as "survival" candles if it makes you feel better. If someone has a problem with it, they're fucking dumb and can go crying to someone else's place when they can't see anything because their phone died an hour after a storm knocked a tree onto their power lines.

 

[BlaireWhitesBottom]

When people say the Holocaust never happened like have you ever seen that faggot H3 H3? Of course someone got tired of them eventually

 

[umami's milk]

People that steal packages. Even more so if you live in an apartment because you know the fucker that took it lives probably no more than a few feet away. What are you going to do with my womanly undergarments, you freak!?