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Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

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  • #1112
    MarkY91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,071 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    Bull76 wrote: »
    What's with guys using the hair dryer to dry their toes, seen someone today using it to dry his balls. Just use the towel like a normal person. So off putting walking into the changing room and encountering near naked guy drying his balls with the dryer.

    That's the reason the Carlisle got rid of the hairdryers. Have to bring my own now. Takes up so much space in a small bag


  • #1113
    MysticMonk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 903 ✭✭✭MysticMonk


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    You don't have to watch and certainly not for long enough to be able to describe them playing the dryer merrily around their junk.

    What if they're doing it in front of my locker and I cant help seeing them and also need to ask them to move?

    I'm glad they got rid of the hairdryers in northwood anyway,nobody needs to use one to dry their bollocks...they should be able to use a towel by that stage in their lives.


  • #1114
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,764 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    MysticMonk wrote: »
    What if they're doing it in front of my locker and I cant help seeing them and also need to ask them to move?

    Look them in the (facial) eye.


  • #1115
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,594 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    I've never dried my balls with a hair dryer.


    I don't see the problem with someone else doing it. It's not as if they're rubbing their balls on the hair dryer. Or are they? When I use a hair dryer on my head it doesn't make contact. Am I doing it wrong?

    I dry my balls by squatting down and gently shaking my balls in a circular direction. The key is making eye contact with someone in the changing room*. Is that better or worse than using the hair dryer.






    *I don't do this. I use a towel, like any sane person.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • #1116
    livedadream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭livedadream


    This thread is now officially freaking me out and I am So glad I'm a girl


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  • #1117
    Eoinbmw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭Eoinbmw


    How long are lads pubes that they need a feckin hairdryer?
    Time to start trimming :p


  • #1118
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Eoinbmw wrote: »
    How long are lads pubes that they need a feckin hairdryer?
    Time to start trimming :p

    'Nair' from Dealz, ?1:50 for two tubes and you're silky smooth (and looking longer/bigger :p ) in ten minutes.. Easy on the aul crack area too :D


  • #1119
    SGSM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭SGSM


    When people were on about hairdryers, I thought they meant the ones stuck to the wall. I was thinking feck there must be some odd sights in changing rooms. 😂😂😂 (My gym would be small and has no hand hair dryers)


  • #1120
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,378 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    SGSM wrote: »
    When people were on about hairdryers, I thought they meant the ones stuck to the wall. I was thinking feck there must be some odd sights in changing rooms. 😂😂😂 (My gym would be small and has no hand hair dryers)
    Those are hand dryers.
    A hair dryer is handheld for mobility


  • #1121
    JJayoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,799 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    Yano the Dyson hand dryers what you place your hands into, they wud be perfect for drying ones wang


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  • #1122
    D'Agger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,385 ✭✭✭✭D'Agger


    JJayoo wrote: »
    Yano the Dyson hand dryers what you place your hands into, they wud be perfect for drying ones wang
    Don't put your lad in anything with 'blade' in it's name


  • #1123
    2nd Row Donkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭2nd Row Donkey


    Saw an aul fella drying his balls with the hairdryer today. One leg cocked up on the changing bench. He was also wearing a wolly hat, over sized head phones and was posting it on Instagram at the time. Legend.


  • #1124
    Blacktie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,903 ✭✭✭Blacktie.


    2nd Row Donkey wrote: »
    Saw an aul fella drying his balls with the hairdryer today. One leg cocked up on the changing bench. He was also wearing a wolly hat, over sized head phones and was posting it on Instagram at the time. Legend.

    But was he foreign????


  • #1125
    MysticMonk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 903 ✭✭✭MysticMonk


    Blacktie. wrote: »
    But was he foreign????

    Bet he wasn't!ðŸ˜


  • #1126
    dinorebel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭dinorebel


    2nd Row Donkey wrote: »
    Saw an aul fella drying his balls with the hairdryer today. One leg cocked up on the changing bench. He was also wearing a wolly hat, over sized head phones and was posting it on Instagram at the time. Legend.

    And they say only women can multitask.


  • #1127
    Gunslinger92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭Gunslinger92


    I'm sure this has come up before but it was my first time witnessing it for myself today.

    A girl taking snapchat videos of herself on the treadmill. She got a few selfies in too.

    I don't know about ye, but no amount of snapchat filters could make me look well enough to go on snapchat mid gym :pac: not that it'd even enter my head, well done love, you did some light jogging, you'd best tell all your Snapchat buddies so they can see how great you are


  • #1128
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Gunslinger92 wrote: »
    I'm sure this has come up before but it was my first time witnessing it for myself today.

    A girl taking snapchat videos of herself on the treadmill. She got a few selfies in too.

    I don't know about ye, but no amount of snapchat filters could make me look well enough to go on snapchat mid gym :pac: not that it'd even enter my head, well done love, you did some light jogging, you'd best tell all your Snapchat buddies so they can see how great you are

    Some people are just fcuking idiots and you have to accept that


  • #1129
    laserlad2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭laserlad2010


    This is incredibly minor but highly annoying. Was back in Macken Street there on Friday, one lad was working up to a heavy set of 2 or 3. I've seen him a few times, he has a few lads with him to video him and stuff. He went to 180 or thereabouts but walks it out away from the squat frame instead of using the safety bars in the rack. No spotters. Then struggles on the last set.

    This really annoys me. Safety is really important when you're moving heavy stuff. If he failed and ended up hurting someone around him or himself... Why not just use the safety bars??:mad::mad:


  • #1130
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    laserlad2010 wrote: »
    This is incredibly minor but highly annoying. Was back in Macken Street there on Friday, one lad was working up to a heavy set of 2 or 3. I've seen him a few times, he has a few lads with him to video him and stuff. He went to 180 or thereabouts but walks it out away from the squat frame instead of using the safety bars in the rack. No spotters. Then struggles on the last set.

    This really annoys me. Safety is really important when you're moving heavy stuff. If he failed and ended up hurting someone around him or himself... Why not just use the safety bars??:mad::mad:

    Why not wear a condom, or why tightrope walk without a safety line......Its easy bail out of these lifts safely if you know what your at, at at 180 sound like the chap knows his onions.


  • #1131
    ongarite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,499 ✭✭✭ongarite


    Were the safety bars fixed height or adjustable?
    In my gym there are 2 styles of squat racks, one fixed, other with adjustable safety bars.
    The fixed bar is too high for low squats so I'll back out of the rack when doing these sets.
    No problem with the adjustable bar rack as I can set them to the required height.

    Guy could still be an ass though :)


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  • #1132
    Aspiring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭Aspiring


    laserlad2010 wrote: »
    This is incredibly minor but highly annoying. Was back in Macken Street there on Friday, one lad was working up to a heavy set of 2 or 3. I've seen him a few times, he has a few lads with him to video him and stuff. He went to 180 or thereabouts but walks it out away from the squat frame instead of using the safety bars in the rack. No spotters. Then struggles on the last set.

    This really annoys me. Safety is really important when you're moving heavy stuff. If he failed and ended up hurting someone around him or himself... Why not just use the safety bars??:mad::mad:

    Were they bumper plates on the bar? I wouldn't mind a lad doing that if they were. I squat without safety bars. It's really easy to bail on a squat, and as long as the bumpers are on there the bar and the ground are fine afterwards.


  • #1133
    Demforeigners
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭Demforeigners


    People that wear matching outfits and makeup at the gym. Honestly nobody looks pretty when working out so just stop it.


  • #1134
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    Demforeigners wrote: »
    People that wear matching outfits and makeup at the gym. Honestly nobody looks pretty when working out so just stop it.

    I have to say, I do like the girls that make an effort (appearance-wise) in the gym ......... it can make a gruelling workout that little bit easier, from my perspective. :)


  • #1135
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,378 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Women complaining about what other women wear in the gym comes across as very bitchy.
    But I'm in the wear what ever you want camp. Hats also don't bother me.


  • #1136
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Mellor wrote: »
    Hats also don't bother me.
    They make my head itchy.

    :(


  • #1137
    Nervous Wreck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    Mellor wrote: »
    Women complaining about what other women wear in the gym comes across as very bitchy.
    But I'm in the wear what ever you want camp. Hats also don't bother me.

    You're a monster.


  • #1138
    marialouise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 483 ✭✭marialouise


    Demforeigners wrote: »
    People that wear matching outfits and makeup at the gym. Honestly nobody looks pretty when working out so just stop it.

    I don't put makeup on just to go to the gym, sometimes it's already on my face from that morning, I hope I wouldn't be classed as "annoying" for not removing my makeup before working out :O


  • #1139
    RockSalto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭RockSalto


    Mellor wrote: »
    Women complaining about what other women wear in the gym comes across as very bitchy.
    But I'm in the wear what ever you want camp. Hats also don't bother me.

    I bet you wouldn't even frown upon the sight of a hoody either.

    Or both together!!

    I need to sit down.


  • #1140
    Demforeigners
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭Demforeigners


    marialouise wrote: »
    I don't put makeup on just to go to the gym, sometimes it's already on my face from that morning, I hope I wouldn't be classed as "annoying" for not removing my makeup before working out :O

    Not annoying just saying why bother going to that effort only to look like you've been shot in the face with homer simpsons makeup gun.


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  • #1141
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Demforeigners wrote: »
    Not annoying just saying why bother going to that effort only to look like you've been shot in the face with homer simpsons makeup gun.

    Very topical Hanley actually wrote a blog post for you today:

    "I don't know how to start this email to you.

    You might remember a while back I went on a bit of a rant about the fitfam and said that sometimes I get so annoyed and frustrated the words just get choked in my throat and I cant adequately express myself.

    Well it's happening again.

    See I got to talk about the whole "make up in the gym" thing with someone recently.

    And honestly - it does my head in.

    It does my head in that ladies have ANOTHER barrier to overcome in the gym.

    In the last week I've met 3 new women RevFit members who were quite nervous about starting (...and a few more who weren't, for the record).

    3 women who broke out of their comfort zone to try something new, and who shut up the mean girl voice in their head that said "you can't" and gave it a go.

    If you're a seasoned gym rat, that might not seem like a big deal. But for some people joining a gym is as a terrifying as being asked to stand up on stage and sing in front of a group of hostile strangers.

    It's scary, man.

    Could you imagine how **** it would be if I then had the audacity to tell them what they can or can't wear to my gym?

    Whether it's "right" or "wrong" let's just all be adults and admit that a lot of women rely on make up and clothes to feel good about themselves, just like a lot of guys rely on muscles or fancy cars to feel good about THEMselves.

    In a perfect world, we wouldn't need the external support. But in case you haven't noticed - this world isn't perfect.

    So how about this - next time, before you make a smart comment about how caked someone is in the gym, or what clothes they're wearing... shut the **** up and show some empathy.

    Think about how exposed she might be feeling.

    Show some compassion.

    ...that doesn't mean go up and give her a sweaty hug by the way. It just means don't be a judgmental dick.

    And yes - I know what you're thinking "but some girls DO do it for the attention". Absolutely. I 100% agree with you.

    Truthfully, it wrecks my head because those same girls tend to be just as insecure, but because they're further along their fitness journey and have a large following, they become "influencers" and eventually online coaches (who couldn't superset scratching their head and rubbing their belly at the same time) but since they look the part, dupe other people into believing their bull****.

    **deep breath James...**

    Moving swiftly on.

    The whole wearing skimpy clothes and make up to the gym isn't that different to the way as some girls wear greyhounds and giant heels on nights out.

    But really, since it's not actually effecting you, how about you...

    ...shut the **** up and get on with your life."


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