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Showering at the Gym/Pool/Public Showers

  • 13-02-2011 10:07pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭


    Do you?

    Can be a little disconcerting I find but nothing too weird...

    Knew a guy in school who would rather go home sweaty than take a shower at the gym.

    Find some people don't obey shower room 'etiquette' either :eek:

    :P


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    No problem with me if someone looks at my cock I know I'm straight so as long as no one touches me don't give a fu(k. I like to be clean.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Doc wrote: »
    No problem with me if someone looks at my cock I know I'm straight so as long as no one touches me don't give a fu(k. I like to be clean.

    Ok so, pics or GTFO!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,150 ✭✭✭✭LuckyGent88


    Suppose it can be a bit strange sometimes.
    Dont really have any problem with it but i find a few things disconcerting:
    1. When one of the local priest is in the gym and shower area
    2. When the 70/80 year old men stroll around with there cocks out with no thoughts of covering up especially with young children around


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 527 ✭✭✭Lukekul


    I leave the gym without showering.

    but then i do live across the road...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Ok so, pics or GTFO!

    Na I'm at the bus stop getting it out might cause a commotion


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Doc wrote: »
    No problem with me if someone looks at my cock I know I'm straight so as long as no one touches me don't give a fu(k. I like to be clean.

    I'd say it's a whopper is it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    orourkeda wrote: »
    I'd say it's a whopper is it?

    STAY AWAY FROM MY GYM!!
    :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭Feeded


    I never played team sports in school and only started the gym last year. . The gym i use is part of a hotel so they've got doors on seperate cubicles. It's not that i'm prudish, it's just that i shower every morning on my own so why would i want to share such a space with a bunch of strangers?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    orourkeda wrote: »
    I'd say it's a whopper is it?

    This topic isn't about my genitals. You'll have to join my gym or be a good looking woman to find out ;)


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Always shower in the gym and have no problem letting it all hang out.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Dean0088 wrote: »
    STAY AWAY FROM MY GYM!!
    :p

    I tend to avoid gyms alright


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Suppose it can be a bit strange sometimes.
    Dont really have any problem with it but i find a few things disconcerting:
    1. When one of the local priest is in the gym and shower area
    2. When the 70/80 year old men stroll around with there cocks out with no thoughts of covering up especially with young children around

    By "with their[sic] cocks out" do you mean erect and in their hands? If not, then what's the issue?

    Never got the adverse reaction of children and nudity. Reminds me of a woman I knew who brought her 9yo into the ladies changing room with her because she didn't want him looking at naked men (I pointed out to her that he'd be one some day).

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭Cybertron85


    I don't hang around. I get in the shower, quick wash, quick dry and out of there like a flash without making too much eye contact.


    The worst is when you look up to see some fellas hairy arsehole staring back at you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭cassid


    my gym has private cubicles for the ladies showers- prefer to show in private:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭seafood dunleavy


    I hate making a show of everyone else with my huge cock.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Ricardo G


    I like to tuck my bollox between my legs and do a litte dance

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    Im comfortable with my sexuality but showering naked with other men gets a no no from me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭alandublin15




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭alandublin15


    Ricardo G wrote: »
    I like to tuck my bollox between my legs and do a litte dance

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    think this is what ricardo meant



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Jeez, I never get why the Irish are so uptight about showering / changing in public, or public (appropriate!) nudity generally. I really thought the current generation would have gotten over it, but apparently not.

    I remember being on a 'safari' in the Sahara a few years back, and one of the nights we were booked into a "hotel" (really more a hostel) which was situated in an old Bedouin cave village. We went down to get a shower to find that they were located in one of the caves, were mixed, completely open-plan and busy. Ofc, no-one else seemed to have any problem with this apart from the 5 Irish (and two English people who actually fled!). Well, I should say the 4 Irish, because being me I was under a shower and luxuriating in the hot water before I even realised the others were hanging back.

    Why are we so uptight about our bodies? Personally, I think it's some kind of a hang-up from the guilt culture of the Catholic Church and a hangover from the Victorian era which seems to have survived in these islands way past its sell-by date!

    Isn't it about time we copped on and got over it? :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 580 ✭✭✭shampon


    I'm not a repressed freak so I dont care. Shower is shower as sky is sky. If this were the stone age, would anybody give two ****es? no.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭Poor Craythur


    Never thought I'd get naked in public but did that Spencer Tunick thing a few years ago to test myself.

    Once everyone got their clothes off, it was no big deal. I acclimatised quickly. And I didn't see any fellas walking around with stalks on either! My sis and her boyfriend were there and beforehand she was like "Just look at his cock, just get it over and done with" and said the same to him re: my tits and lady garden. :D We did just that, and it was grand after about a second. In a big crowd of naked people, you don't feel you stick out like a sore thumb, everyone just sort of blends. But going by that event, lots of Irish people of different ages and sizes have no problem getting nekkid. Admittedly, it happened at dawn on Sunday morning so a lot of people were still tanked after their night out. I was completely sober though, it would have diminished the experience for me if I was under the influence of anything.

    So, if I ever use a communal shower (haven't yet because I exercise at home) I reckon I'd be OK with getting naked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Never thought I'd get naked in public but did that Spencer Tunick thing a few years ago to test myself.

    Once everyone got their clothes off, it was no big deal. I acclimatised quickly. And I didn't see any fellas walking around with stalks on either! My sis and her boyfriend were there and beforehand she was like "Just look at his cock, just get it over and done with" and said the same to him re: my tits and lady garden. :D We did just that, and it was grand after about a second. In a big crowd of naked people, you don't feel you stick out like a sore thumb, everyone just sort of blends. But going by that event, lots of Irish people of different ages and sizes have no problem getting nekkid. Admittedly, it happened at dawn on Sunday morning so a lot of people were still tanked after their night out. I was completely sober though, it would have diminished the experience for me if I was under the influence of anything.

    So, if I ever use a communal shower (haven't yet because I exercise at home) I reckon I'd be OK with getting naked.


    You got nekkid in front of your sister?!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    Einhard wrote: »
    You got nekkid in front of your sister?!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek:

    They are both girls what’s the big deal. The fact she and her sisters boyfriend where both naked in front of each other that’s another thing don’t know if my x would have been happy with me seeing her sister in the nip. In fact I know she wouldn’t.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭Poor Craythur


    Einhard wrote: »
    You got nekkid in front of your sister?!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek:

    I can only assume this is tongue-in-cheek. :p:D
    Doc wrote: »
    that’s another thing don’t know if my x would have been happy with me seeing her sister in the nip. In fact I know she wouldn’t.

    Thing is, my sister is one of those people who has a very continental attitude to nudity. She is very comfortable with it. So it really was no big deal for her.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Doc wrote: »
    They are both girls what’s the big deal. The fact she and her sisters boyfriend where both naked in front of each other that’s another thing don’t know if my x would have been happy with me seeing her sister in the nip. In fact I know she wouldn’t.


    Oops, thought she was a guy.
    I can only assume this is tongue-in-cheek. :p:D

    Oops, thought you were a guy. Sorry. :o


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭Poor Craythur


    Einhard wrote: »

    Oops, thought you were a guy. Sorry. :o

    No probs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    No probs.

    I re-read your post now. How the feck did I mix that up?? My brain turns to mush this early in the morn!














    teeheehee you said tits


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    Thing is, my sister is one of those people who has a very continental attitude to nudity. She is very comfortable with it. So it really was no big deal for her.

    No I think its fine its not like anything was going to happen but my x was the jealous type so me being in a situation where there where any naked ladies that weren’t her would be a big no no. There would have been no way she would have been cool with that situation.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭Poor Craythur


    Einhard wrote: »
    teeheehee you said tits

    :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    re: my tits and lady garden. :D

    PICS OR GTFO


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭Poor Craythur


    PICS OR GTFO

    Nothing that you haven't got in your pron stash. :p Actually, I'd probably look worse than what you have in your pron stash. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭BizzyC


    I prefer gyms with cubicle showers... It's not a problem with embarrassment, more of an oversion to standing next to naked men...


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    no problem with it meself... if only they had uni-sex showers like in dollhouse ;-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    As long as people don't piss in the showers I have no problem showering in public. However if I can be home within 10-15 minutes of finishing football I'll happily shower at home!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Nothing that you haven't got in your pron stash. :p Actually, I'd probably look worse than what you have in your pron stash. :pac:

    haha

    Good response


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    I dont care really, i always showered after matches at the changing rooms.

    As long as some lad doesnt have the auld dangling jasper swinging in your face it isnt really a problem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭xxfelix


    When i go to gym or swimming.....i have to say there's a lot of nakedness but i would always shower there and wrap a big towel around me :D.... ....3 kids later dont wanna scare anyone!!:o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Carl Sagan


    I don't really mind leaving the gym a sweaty mess. My shower's pretty deadly, so I think I'd much rather use that than a big open one with a bunch of other men.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭Poor Craythur


    Carl Sagan wrote: »
    I don't really mind leaving the gym a sweaty mess. My shower's pretty deadly, so I think I'd much rather use that than a big open one with a bunch of other men.

    Yeah, I don't see what so bad about being sweaty for a little while and showering at home. If you run or jog you get sweaty in public.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭yizorselves


    Not a problem once I have me flip flops


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