DMcL1971 wrote: » Taking photos in the changing rooms really annoys me. It doesn't matter if they specifically frame it so that other people aren't seen. This is a changing room. It is the one place you should be guaranteed no one is going to photograph you. You should be able to be naked or expose the full horror of your body (in my case) without worrying that it might get immortalised on the internet.
ButtersSuki wrote: » This morning after I finished my session I went to shave after my shower. There was a young lad (18ish I'm guessing) in the sinks and bathroom area of the changing room with his top off taking pics of himself. He literally has no discernible muscle to photograph, he's so skinny he looks undernourished. I spent about 10minutes shaving (I butcher my face unless I'm very careful, it's a process!) and homeboy is still there posing and taking pics. I've seen him in the gym a few times, he's as skinny as a rake, one of those guys who normally spends more time on his phone than actually doing any exercise and congregates with his buddies hogging a machine for ages while the 2/3/4 of them burst out 3 sets each with 10minute intervals between sets and half talking to each other, half on the phone etc. - I'm sure you know the type. So I finish shaving and return to my bag and he leaves the sink area to go to the locker beside mine. He then puts on a t shirt and heads into the gym. I for some reason had assumed he'd finished his session and was taking post work out pics, but no, this was before he did a thing. Edit: I honestly don't know what he'd use these pics for. If you posted them on social media you'd be laughed at. Maybe in the way there's "feeders" who like fat lovers there's women who like the malnourished look?
EagererBeaver wrote: » If he was ripped, it wouldn't make this any better. People do take photos in changing rooms are twats. End of story.
Alonzo Weak Genius wrote: » Rejoined my local gym and already have seen somebody benching with a plate sandwich: One tiny plate in-between two big ones.
Alf Veedersane wrote: » Maybe it's for progress photos for himself for future reference to his starting point.
brownej wrote: » EagererBeaver wrote: » If he was ripped, it wouldn't make this any better. People do take photos in changing rooms are twats. End of story. I dunno, Its usually where the best lighting is, I know I look my swoliest (is that a word) in the changing room after a gym session. I have been know to send the odd snapchat from the changing room.... I try and make sure the changing room is empty of other people first though.
EagererBeaver wrote: » Tough ****. Your desire to get a picture of yourself after a workout for some unfathomable reason doesn't trump other people's right to privacy. Almost all gyms will explicitly ban cameras from changing rooms.
Dtp1979 wrote: » But how are their Instagram followers gonna know they were in the gym then?
Iwouldinmesack wrote: » People shaving in the sinks in the gym, always seems to be one or two using the entire length of sink. hate having to go and wash hands after going to toilet as they always look offended that you have dared to ask them to move. Shave at home ffs.
ButtersSuki wrote: » Jeez, how many sinks does your gym have? Mine has 12 (3 x rows of 4) in the gents changing room. I don't think I've ever recalled a situation where more than 4 would have been in use at any stage. What's wrong with shaving in the gym (as long as you clean up after you)?
Iwouldinmesack wrote: » . Just the two in mine, hence why its annoying. Nothing wrong with it but dont act all offended if i ask you to move so i can wash my hands, not gonna wait around for you to finish your shave��
ButtersSuki wrote: » I wouldn't act annoyed if there were just 2 and both were occupied - that's completely fair; but if there's 12 and 8+ are free.......then I think you know where you can go :pac:
laoch na mona wrote: » Annoying and potentially criminal Someone but a lock on a locker with my stuff in it(forgot my own lock but as it was early in the morning I thought it'd be grand) From the reaction of the staff member who cut it open so I could get my stuff out I don't think it was a harmless prank
D3V!L wrote: » Maybe they were trying to help you secure your belongings. Or they were p!ssed off having to look for a locker that didn't have someones stuff in it when they thought it was empty.
leggo wrote: » That’s pretty funny to be fair...
D3V!L wrote: » Yes, very Personally if I can't find a locker and I find one with stuff in it and unlocked I take the stuff out and leave it somewhere. If someone has that little regard for their belongings then they can't expect others to have.
EagererBeaver wrote: » I was in the (practically empty) gym this morning, doing a superset of squats and bicep curls using the EZ bar. A bit strange maybe but I'm perfectly entitled to. I was four sets in when an American lad, having just watched me do a set, walked over and asked "are you using that" about the EZ bar. I just said "yes" and because of his tone didn't fell like reminding him that was another bar (albeit with slightly different angles) in the stand. He walked away and grabbed some light dumbbells and do some curls of his own, about five feet behind me, pointedly staring at me and making sure I could see him staring at me during my rest. What was supposed to be a five set workout for me very quickly turned into eight!
Eoinbmw wrote: » Seriously? You are looking to get a smack!
laoch na mona wrote: » but would you do it when the gym is near empty
ButtersSuki wrote: » EagererBeaver wrote: » I was in the (practically empty) gym this morning, doing a superset of squats and bicep curls using the EZ bar. A bit strange maybe but I'm perfectly entitled to. I was four sets in when an American lad, having just watched me do a set, walked over and asked "are you using that" about the EZ bar. I just said "yes" and because of his tone didn't fell like reminding him that was another bar (albeit with slightly different angles) in the stand. He walked away and grabbed some light dumbbells and do some curls of his own, about five feet behind me, pointedly staring at me and making sure I could see him staring at me during my rest. What was supposed to be a five set workout for me very quickly turned into eight! I agree he was a bit of douche, but you being a bit of a douche back doesn't really help the situation doe sit? Maybe you misread the whole situation and he fancied you, just expressed it awkwardly? :pac:
