Trivial annoyances

[Enforcer]

Originally posted by shrugs
COme to think of it, I have only seen maybe 5 other people doing deadlifts in my life.

Deadlifts and Stiff Legged Deadlifts are maybe the two rarest sights in a public gym. Which is comical because they are two of the best compound lifts and should be a part of every serious routine. You never have to wait in line to do deadlifts, or even to use the squat cage. But the Smith machine and leg presses are always a wait. Benches are maybe the most popular of all, because the Chest Monkeys don't work anything you can't show off in a t-shirt.

Larry

[shrugs]

Originally posted by Larry Nagel
Deadlifts and Stiff Legged Deadlifts are maybe the two rarest sights in a public gym. Which is comical because they are two of the best compound lifts and should be a part of every serious routine. You never have to wait in line to do deadlifts, or even to use the squat cage. But the Smith machine and leg presses are always a wait. Benches are maybe the most popular of all, because the Chest Monkeys don't work anything you can't show off in a t-shirt.

Larry

'sho nuff. I have been slowly getting back into deadlifts and squats and as usual everything else just falls into place.
I hate Smith machines. And I won't even mention what those bar cushions were called at the gym where I was a regular for two years,

[Pete C]

Originally posted by Mike Goodbar
How about people (NPR newscasters in particular) who use a "foreign accent" on foreign words that have been adopted into English.

Like "Poggioli"?

[Chris D]

Hey, leave my woman Sylvia outta this!

[Pete C]

Originally posted by Chris D
Hey, leave my woman Sylvia outta this!

Sylvia Poggioli
Pogo
Stix Hooper


Oops, wrong thread!

[Dan G]

Originally posted by Ron Thorne
Drivers who start driving toward your rear end as soon as the traffic light turns green, regardless of whether or not you've been able to move forward yet.

Drivers who don't start to move immediately when the light turns green (or who aren't already in motion by then).

[MRS]

Originally posted by Mike Goodbar
How about people (NPR newscasters in particular) who use a "foreign accent" on foreign words that have been adopted into English.

Hilarious. . .like Jon Miller on ESPN. To your point. . .even if they are words adopted into English with verbal/etymological vestiges, like denouement, contretemp or most confounding, golf, the hosts seem to throw even more punch into the inflection.

Hey Noah. . .how do you say 'banana daiquiri' in Spanish?

[Dennis Gonzalez]

Originally posted by Chris D
my son is going to grow up thinking Viagra is like a One-a-Day vitamin.

Me too, until someone asked if I needed a flag with that.

[Ron Thorne]

Originally posted by Chris D
People who say "regardless of whether or not," when it's either "regardless of whether" or "whether or not." (Just kiddin', Ron....)

Touché, Chris. That was superfluously redundant, wasn't it? :-)

Another one:

• Isn't the proper response to "thank you", "you're welcome?" Or, "my pleasure", possibly. Not another "thank you."

[GoodSpeak]

#1 That damn lip on the edge of every jewel case which makes it virtually IMPOSSIBLE to lift up the liner notes without risk of numerous paper cuts or other semi-serious personal injury.

#2 Exercise machines which INSIST you tell it your life's freaking story before you can press GO. [I was born...in a log cabin...lo' these many years ago...whatever happened to "Press Start"?]

#3 Librarians. That's it. Do the math.

#4 Motorcycle cops. They have GOT to be THE most humorless people on the face of this or any other Planet.

#5 Political pseudo know-it-alls. FOX pinheads to Green loonies...Morons.






sheesh.

[Monte Smith]

Originally posted by Michael Schaumann
Hilarious. . .like Jon Miller on ESPN. To your point. . .even if they are words adopted into English with verbal/etymological vestiges, like denouement, contretemp or most confounding, golf, the hosts seem to throw even more punch into the inflection.

Hey Noah. . .how do you say 'banana daiquiri' in Spanish?

HAHAHA!! Michael, I love your take on NPR. It is so wonderful to hear someone articulate what I have thought for ten years. Here I was in my car thinking I am all alone!

*Banana daquiri* in NPR-ish "foreign." It's too rich!

[Monte Smith]

Buh nuh NAH dahka RHEE.

[Nate Dorward]

Originally posted by GoodSpeak
#3 Librarians. That's it. Do the math.

Why, what's wrong with librarians as a breed?

[moneyp]

Originally posted by Larry Nagel
1. Circuit training at the gym. Yeah, thanks for monopolizing three pieces of equipment at once.

Larry, what's "circuit training?"

3. 58 year old men who weight 290 pounds who are extremely comfortable about sitting or walking in the lockerroom completely naked while carrying on conversations. Get some *humility.*

You think that's bad? We have guys who group sing in the gym shower. Like a full freakin' set list.

[john williams]

Originally posted by GoodSpeak

#3 Librarians. That's it. Do the math.

Huh? What, all of us? You are a strange little fellow Goody?

Did you get one too many overdue notices or something?

I have to say the old style severe woman with hair in bun saying shhh type are past their use by date for sure. However most of us are pretty good in the doing the research for frequently ungrateful teachers department. high school librarians can be a little on the fascist side too and sometimes give us tertiary librarians a bad name.

However we do fetch and organise resources and are on the front line as far as curbing censorship and other such repressive activities.

But hey, if you want to live in a boring dumb world of simplistic generalisations, who am I to argue. I should know better than to argue with complete fool.

You might want to read this and see what the ALA does for you behind the scenes, and maybe you will get a little perspective.

http://www.ala.org/Content/Navigatio...al_Freedom.htm

[Ron Thorne]

Since my wife has made tremendous contributions to a Consortium Library on a university campus for over 25 years, Goody's curious, unqualified remark, "That's it", caught my attention. I'm even more baffled by "Do the math."

Care to elaborate, GS?

[Monte Smith]

Originally posted by Ron Thorne
Since my wife has made tremendous contributions to a Consortium Library on a university campus for over 25 years, Goody's curious, unqualified remark, "That's it", caught my attention. I'm even more baffled by "Do the math."

Care to elaborate, GS?

You think Goody doesn't know what he's talking about?

[Ron Thorne]

Originally posted by Monte Smith
You think Goody doesn't know what he's talking about?

It's more that I'm not sure what he's talking about, so am seeking some clarification, if possible.

If I understand correctly, librarians score slightly less than motorcycle cops and political pseudo know-it-alls in Goody's world of trivial annoyances. Or, is there no order involved?

[Jimmy Cantiello]

Originally posted by Larry Nagel
58 year old men who weight 290 pounds who are extremely comfortable about sitting or walking in the lockerroom completely naked while carrying on conversations. Get some *humility.*

Larry

We got those at my gym too. One of them insists on sitting on the couch to watch tv. Not a pretty sight........................

[Gary Sisco]

Well, Goodie just blew it with Root Doctor.

There was a cryptofascist male librarian at my high school, who took it upon himself to erase a semester's worth of taped interviews that was half of my grade for an independent study, because he didn't approve of the subject matter (various "authority figures'" takes on the New Left). Thanks a lot, prick. He ended up dying slowly and horribly, as befits fascists, crypto or otherwise.

In Burlington, if you start moving forward as soon as you have the green light, you'll die within the first couple of days. There's an unwritten traffic law there that the first two cars who get the red light don't have to stop, or expect to. And people who want to make a left turn at an intersection, do it after they have the red. If you visit, remember. Natural selection at work.

Also, by way of warning: stop signs there are entirely optional and normally ignored. To make matters more complicated, check your right-had sideview at all times, because if you are gauche enough to stop for a sign, someone's going to pass you on the right in the "shoulder lane" (which is called parking spaces in other parts of America).

If you're a pedestrian, be sure to understand that drivers running reds and stop signs have the right of way, laws be damned. Possession is 9/10 of the law, as we all know. They have the lethal machine, you don't. Tough.

They won't tell you these things in tourist guides, so ... remember.

[Gary Sisco]

Speaking of guys, of whatever weight, why is that so many American men seem to be unable to piss in a urinal without spraying the walls and floors first?

On second thought, probably better not to answer that one ... Thank goodness they have to sit to shit.

[Pete C]

When I was doing a lot of research there was no better resource than a good librarian. Indifferent ones were a trivial annoyance.

[john williams]

Originally posted by Gary Sisco
Well, Goodie just blew it with Root Doctor.

There was a cryptofascist male librarian at my high school, who took it upon himself to erase a semester's worth of taped interviews that was half of my grade for an independent study, because he didn't approve of the subject matter (various "authority figures'" takes on the New Left). Thanks a lot, prick. He ended up dying slowly and horribly, as befits fascists, crypto or otherwise.

I remember at uni we had a similar librarian from the christian right who was a homophobe and filtered out gay related material on the internet, so those folks studying gender related courses were at a severe disadvantage. However, these types are exceptions and a good proportion of librarians adhere to the following.

Librarians have a professional responsibility to be inclusive, not exclusive, in collection development and in the provision of interlibrary loan. Access to all materials legally obtainable should be assured to the user and policies should not unjustly exclude materials even if offensive to the librarian or the user. Collection development should reflect the philosophy inherent in Article 2 of the Library Bill of Rights. A balanced collection reflects diversity of materials, not equality of numbers. Collection development responsibilities include selecting materials in the languages in common use in the community which the library serves. Collection development and the selection of materials should be done according to professional standards and established selection and review procedures.

Librarians have an obligation to protect library collections from removal of materials based on personal bias or prejudice, and to select and support the acquisition of materials on all subjects that meet, as closely as possible, the needs and interest of all persons in the community which the library serves. This includes materials that reflect political, economic, religious, social, minority, and sexual issues.

The American Library Association stringently and unequivocally maintains that libraries and librarians have an obligation to resist efforts that systematically exclude materials dealing with any subject matter, including gender or sexual orientation. The Association also encourages librarians to proactively support the First Amendment rights of all library users regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Adopted 1993. Revised 2000. (See "Current Reference File": Access to Library Resources and Services Regardless of Gender or Sexual Orientation: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights: 1999-2000 CD#19.4)

The ALA affirms that the use of filtering software by libraries to block access to constitutionally protected speech violates the Library Bill of Rights.

http://www.ala.org/Content/Navigatio...al_Freedom.htm

Americans should be proud of this and our own ALIA pretty much follows their example. The US has one of the greatest library networks in the world and the few fascist librarians are definitely operating outside these ethical boundaries.

[Dennis Gonzalez]

In high school, during study hall, we boys would do two things: 1) we would all sit in the front seats so that we could look back and see girls' panties; 2) we would go to the library and request all the African articles in National Geographic so that we could see the naked women. The librarian finally wised up and tore all the offending pages out.

[RainyDay]

58 year old men who weight 290 pounds who are extremely comfortable about sitting or walking in the lockerroom completely naked while carrying on conversations. Get some *humility.*

The only person who needs some humility in this scenario is Larry. Men who sit with each knee in different time zones come in all sizes and it happens outside of the gym. The real question is why you guys are ogling some overweight naked man in the first place.

[Jazzzoline]

Originally posted by Gary Sisco
Speaking of guys, of whatever weight, why is that so many American men seem to be unable to piss in a urinal without spraying the walls and floors first?

Ever heard of piercing?

[shrugs]

Originally posted by Gary Sisco
Speaking of guys, of whatever weight, why is that so many American men seem to be unable to piss in a urinal without spraying the walls and floors first?

On second thought, probably better not to answer that one ... Thank goodness they have to sit to shit.

Anyone notice newer urinals no longer have a flat back wall. They are much mo' friendlier to the 5 pints in a sitting release.

[Gary Sisco]

Good ones.

[jazzbluescat]

Originally posted by RainyDay
Baggy pants. How pathetic is it to see some schmuck getting arrested and the cops are pulling up his drawers and his pants? And doesn't it seem that the lower a guy wears his pants, the greater his chances are of getting arrested? In fact, a guy who wears his pants around his knees should do everybody a big favor and just check his sorry butt into San Quentin now.

Standing in line; especially at the grocery store with a half a dozen registers and only one open.

[Enforcer]

Originally posted by mone peterson
Larry, what's "circuit training?"



You think that's bad? We have guys who group sing in the gym shower. Like a full freakin' set list.

Circuit training is working multiple body parts in succession so that there is basically no rest between sets. An example would be doing squats and bench presses together. You do one set of squats and then immediately do one set of bench presses, then right back to one set of squats and so on, until you're done. You can get a lot of training done in a short time while still giving the muscle groups the necessary amount of rest between sets. There's also a cardiovascular benefit because the time you would have spent resting between sets is used to work another muscle so you're constantly doing something.

Circuit training is not a bad way to go if you're crunched for time. I know guys who will switch to circuit training for a period of time just to mix things up when they reach a wall in progress.

As for the singing in the shower, I would never be able to tolerate that. Ouch. Don't tell me they sing "You're In My Heart, You're In My Soul," do they?

Cringing at the possibility,
Larry