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Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

optimistic_

Whatever happened to that old thread? I loved that thread.

Anyway, wanted it back because it's entertaining reading. I'm finding it hard to get the ball rolling because at 6.30am there's not much in the way of annoying behaviour in my gym. The usual plates not returned to racks or whatever. Or people splashing big gross wet footprints around the place after the shower.

What new horror stories have we for 2015?

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ButtersSuki

So this morning after my workout and shower I'm shaving at one of the sink areas (4 sinks side by side) wearing a towel and flip flops. I'm about half way through when some young lad (18-22 I reckon) comes in and proceeds to lather up and shave. Except he's balls naked at the sink. No towel, just standing there shaving bollock naked like it's the most natural thing in the world. WTF?

ButtersSuki

bluewolf wrote: »

I couldn't confront them because i didnt see who it was. Was on a break between squatting. I assume it was the guy beside me who mysteriously ended up eith a green 10kg plate just the same.
I said did you take my plate
Huh
Did you take my plate
Huh there's another rack
DID YOU TAKE MY PLATE OR SEE WHO DID
no

Fine

Now i know i apparently have to guard the barbell in future. I heard a rattle all right but people take and replace plates off the racks all the time so i wasnt bothered to look

Well that's annoying. I always leave a towel on the bar between squats to (hopefully) prevent such a thing occurring by signalling I'm not finished yet.......has worked so far.

[Deleted User]

Yeah i do too if I'm walking away at all it's a good move

ButtersSuki

bluewolf wrote: »

Yeah i do too if I'm walking away at all it's a good move

And still he took it? :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[Deleted User]

I didnt have the towel on because i was sitting right in the rack. With all my stuff. And a loaded barbell

Dtp1979

Jesus H Christ I’d actually look at cctv footage to find that Cnut.

Alf Veedersane

ButtersSuki wrote: »

So this morning after my workout and shower I'm shaving at one of the sink areas (4 sinks side by side) wearing a towel and flip flops. I'm about half way through when some young lad (18-22 I reckon) comes in and proceeds to lather up and shave. Except he's balls naked at the sink. No towel, just standing there shaving bollock naked like it's the most natural thing in the world. WTF?

You do know you don't have to look at his tackle?

ISOP

ButtersSuki wrote: »

So this morning after my workout and shower I'm shaving at one of the sink areas (4 sinks side by side) wearing a towel and flip flops. I'm about half way through when some young lad (18-22 I reckon) comes in and proceeds to lather up and shave. Except he's balls naked at the sink. No towel, just standing there shaving bollock naked like it's the most natural thing in the world. WTF?

whats the problem here?

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

ISOP wrote: »

whats the problem here?

He was shaving his bollocks.

ButtersSuki

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

You do know you don't have to look at his tackle?

Good one. :rolleyes:

ISOP wrote: »

whats the problem here?

Does he have to do it naked? Could he not wear a towel?

Hunky Monster wrote: »

He was shaving his bollocks.

No, he wasn't.

Dtp1979

ButtersSuki wrote: »

naked like it's the most natural thing in the world. WTF?

Well it kinda is

ButtersSuki

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Well it kinda is

Would you shave standing naked next to a another man in a gym changing room?

ButtersSuki

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Well it kinda is

If you're going to quote me can you not selectively edit it to make it look like I said something else?

Alf Veedersane

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Would you shave standing naked next to a another man in a gym changing room?

I would. I probably wouldn't even look to see if he was naked or not.

It's a change room. Presumably showers in it. There's going to be nakedness. It shouldn't really be that big a deal.

dastardly00

As long as his meat & 2 veg weren't resting on the sink or counter-top then I wouldn't be bothered by the nakedness

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

It’s normally old fellas who do this in my gym. Surprised at a young fella. Probably a bit...fruity.

caviardreams

bluewolf wrote: »

I didnt have the towel on because i was sitting right in the rack. With all my stuff. And a loaded barbell

Same thing happened me with the seal row last week - was sitting on the floor beside it resting after finishing a set, and somebody took a plate from the far side (a 2.5kg) without me noticing - I was changing songs on my phone. Hop up on the bench and lift the bar for the first rep and it wobbles everywhere. FFS :mad::mad: AT least have the decency to take the same from both sides like :rolleyes:

Mellor

Hunky Monster wrote: »

It’s normally old fellas who do this in my gym. Surprised at a young fella. Probably a bit...fruity.

Or maybe he is just comfortable in his own skin.
A lot of irish people struggle with that, a combination of being slightly embarrassed of their own body, and the good old catholic guilt. Nakedness is evil.
Usually those notions fall away by the time we're 65 :pac:

leggo

I’d find it weird tbh, much as I’m enjoying your man getting the piss taken out of him. Nudity is a part of changing rooms and isn’t a big deal, but you’ve also no reason to be naked while shaving so it’s that creepy line where, like with auld fellas in the gym, you’d feel they’re trying to be provocative by being naked and it gets uncomfortable.

I remember when I was younger and at the gym, I went to the sauna afterwards and some auld lad was in there starkers on a towel (ew, for a start, they’re unisex so not okay). It was just me and him and I tried to just avert my eyes anywhere else, then he kept trying to talk to me before pouring a big bottle of water on the heater and boiling the room saying, “That hot enough for ya eh?” I just left. Really weird and predatory. So there’s definitely a line.

ButtersSuki

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

I would. I probably wouldn't even look to see if he was naked or not.

It's a change room. Presumably showers in it. There's going to be nakedness. It shouldn't really be that big a deal.

I wasn’t deliberately looking to see if he was naked or not - as I suspect you know or are you just trying to be a dick and make this into something it’s not? There’s a sink to ceiling mirror that runs across the length of the 4 sinks. I would estimate it’s about 16-20 feet long. You couldn’t help but see him.

Your comment about showers is ridiculous. Of course people are naked there. But that’s a showering area - total body. People are naked in the general changing area as they towel down and change but that’s for a short period of time. Shaving in a changing room should not be done naked IMO. It’s not a quick exercise. And I’m no prude.

Alf Veedersane

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I wasn’t deliberately looking to see if he was naked or not - as I suspect you know or are you just trying to be a dick and make this into something it’s not? There’s a sink to ceiling mirror that runs across the length of the 4 sinks. I would estimate it’s about 16-20 feet long. You couldn’t help but see him.

Your comment about showers is ridiculous. Of course people are naked there. But that’s a showering area - total body. People are naked in the general changing area as they towel down and change but that’s for a short period of time. Shaving in a changing room should not be done naked IMO. It’s not a quick exercise. And I’m no prude.

I'm not trying to be a dick about it so there's no need to get so defensive. I don't consider it the norm but I wouldn't be all that bothered by it.

And I don't really see why it should bother someone.

There are only 2 sinks in the changing rooms in the gym I use...if someone was shaving naked when i was there, I'd be more put out by the fact they were taking up the sink for as long.

Dtp1979

ButtersSuki wrote: »

If you're going to quote me can you not selectively edit it to make it look like I said something else?

Relax, it was said in a light hearted manner.
Anyway, if it wasn’t for yourself and your numerous complaints about annoying gym behaviour, this thread would be dead long ago. So I’m grateful

ButtersSuki

I'm on a roll:

Very early this morning I walked down to the Fee Weights Area of my gym and was about to start my workout with Bench Presses when I notice the only BP station in the gym has 180KG in plates on it and a towel and a bottle on the bench.....but no-one near it. I look around to see the only other person in this area is Jumping Jack Gash (I've mentioned her previously) and though I assume it couldn't possibly be her stuff as she's working out nowhere near the BP station (and the weight on the bar etc.) and considering I've asked her politely before not to leave her stuff on the benches as it "marks your territory" and people assume you're using it when you're not I still very politely ask her if that's her stuff on the bench as I'd like to use it if not. She says it's not, so I ask her did she see if anyone was using it? She said no. So I then assume someone has gone to the bathroom etc. and will be back - even though I've never seen anyone bench 200KG in this gym.

So I decide to do some ab work and some more stretching waiting for homeboy to come out and finish with the BP so I can start same rather than do nothing. About 10-15minutes later still no sign of homeboy and whilst I'm hanging from a bar doing leg raises guess who goes over to the bench and takes the towel and water away with her and basically sprints into the ladies changing room? Jumping Jack Gash! She could have put her towel and water bottle ON THE BENCH SHE WAS USING, on one of the many other free benches, on the very large and deep window sills - but no, she puts it on the 1 bench press station the gym has. She's an utter twatwaffle geebag.

Extra: you have to be a certain kinda person to stop someone using something you’re not using just out of spite, deny it’s your stuff when asked about it and then run away like a little beeyatch thinking I didn’t notice.

Just move it when you're politely asked FFS.

razorblunt

New gym today.
Only one bench press station, 3 smith machines.

Some lad doing shoulder press exercises for 35 mins on it.

EagererBeaver

Shoulder press at a bench press? How does that work?

brownej

razorblunt wrote: »

New gym today.
Only one bench press station, 3 smith machines.

Some lad doing shoulder press exercises for 35 mins on it.

If theres 3 smith machines but only 1 bench press station in your gym I would be reconsidering the gym...

ButtersSuki

brownej wrote: »

If theres 3 smith machines but only 1 bench press station in your gym I would be reconsidering the gym...

I don't find that unusual tbh. I'm a member of 2 gyms (long story). One is near home, one is at a place of work. A lot of public gyms I see have that kind of set up - 1 x BP, 2 or 3 x Smith Machines, 2 x Power Racks etc.

I'll agree that's it's not ideal however!

givyjoe

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I'm on a roll:

Very early this morning I walked down to the Fee Weights Area of my gym and was about to start my workout with Bench Presses when I notice the only BP station in the gym has 180KG in plates on it and a towel and a bottle on the bench.....but no-one near it. I look around to see the only other person in this area is Jumping Jack Gash (I've mentioned her previously) and though I assume it couldn't possibly be her stuff as she's working out nowhere near the BP station (and the weight on the bar etc.) and considering I've asked her politely before not to leave her stuff on the benches as it "marks your territory" and people assume you're using it when you're not I still very politely ask her if that's her stuff on the bench as I'd like to use it if not. She says it's not, so I ask her did she see if anyone was using it? She said no. So I then assume someone has gone to the bathroom etc. and will be back - even though I've never seen anyone bench 200KG in this gym.

So I decide to do some ab work and some more stretching waiting for homeboy to come out and finish with the BP so I can start same rather than do nothing. About 10-15minutes later still no sign of homeboy and whilst I'm hanging from a bar doing leg raises guess who goes over to the bench and takes the towel and water away with her and basically sprints into the ladies changing room? Jumping Jack Gash! She could have put her towel and water bottle ON THE BENCH SHE WAS USING, on one of the many other free benches, on the very large and deep window sills - but no, she puts it on the 1 bench press station the gym has. She's an utter twatwaffle geebag.

Extra: you have to be a certain kinda person to stop someone using something you’re not using just out of spite, deny it’s your stuff when asked about it and then run away like a little beeyatch thinking I didn’t notice.

Just move it when you're politely asked FFS.

What gym is this?! I'd be tempted to give her a swift punt

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

What’s the fashion like in your gym?

I’m old school, pair of shorts, T-shirt and a good pair of trainers.

More and more I’m seeing lads wearing yoga pants and string vests. Lads with such small t shirts even nipples aren’t covered. Women going around in hot pants and bra things. It’s like the gym is something COMPLETELY different to the thing I joined almost 20 years ago. I mean do you really have to dress to get the most attention?

There was a girl there last week, good looking girl, hot pants, see through white top and clearly no bra. Seriously off putting, great in a night club, not so great in the gym.

MarkY91

Went to the Colosseum gym just off the long mile road a couple of times.

There's always a bench with a bottle of water on it. Said bench is never used upon my duration there. So frustrating! I wouldn't dare say anything as the gym is full of "gangsters"