There are two kinds of people I know for a fact are going to hell.
You, person who had the bench this morning as I was clearly waiting for one and got up with two 45 plates on it to walk away... somewhere. And never come back. At least tell me you're done so I can start instead of leaving me hanging and I'll rack them for you! Are you going to grab some water or a towel? Are you just pacing between sets? What are you doing?!
You, person who has five 10s on each side of the barbell so there are no 10s left in the gym. Use a 45 and a 5 or two 25s! It's the same amount of weight!
Hellfire, that's all I'm sayin'.
- You, person who had the bench this morning as I was clearly waiting for one and got up with two 45 plates on it to walk away... somewhere. And never come back. At least tell me you're done so I can start instead of leaving me hanging and I'll rack them for you! Are you going to grab some water or a towel? Are you just pacing between sets? What are you doing?!
Do you see them around? No? Take the bench. If there's nothing on it, presume it's clear. Nothing wrong with that.
- You, person who has five 10s on each side of the barbell so there are no 10s left in the gym. Use a 45 and a 5 or two 25s! It's the same amount of weight!
Depends. Were they doing a pyramid? Makes sense if they were. What sort of shitty gym only has 10 10-plates?
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
Do you see them around? No? Take the bench. If there's nothing on it, presume it's clear. Nothing wrong with that.
People get so butthurt about it I don't feel it's worth my time to bicker - it's not 7 am, I don't even. But some bros even mark their territory by leaving their shakers/towels on the bench while they chat up cute girls or do supersets across the gym, etc.
Depends. Were they doing a pyramid? Makes sense if they were. What sort of shitty gym only has 10 10-plates?
Most racks only have 2x plates other than the 45s which there are multiples of. It's not like you ever need more than two of the rest to make up whatever weight you're going for.
There is a bit of slack (I think for 5s and 10s) since people borrow them for stuff and don't bother returning them to the racks, naturally.
But some bros even mark their territory by leaving their shakers/towels on the bench while they chat up cute girls or do supersets across the gym, etc.
That's fine. I'm saying that if they don't do that, wipe down their bench. If they don't get back to the bench by the time you're done, it's yours. And that's bro code: mark your territory or lose it, bub.
Most racks only have 2x plates other than the 45s which there are multiples of. It's not like you ever need more than two of the rest to make up whatever weight you're going for.
There is a bit of slack (I think for 5s and 10s) since people borrow them for stuff and don't bother returning them to the racks, naturally.
That's not responsive to what I asked, but I was being illustrative.
There are times when using multiple plates is appropriate: for example, a pyramid set. Used to do those when I was younger: started with 1 25-plate on each side of a leg press, knocked out 20 presses, then took a 30-second break before I added a plate to each side and repeated; did that until 5 plates were on each side, and then started taking them off, set by set.
Maybe it's the same here? If not: yeah, total douche.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@Ganymede Nope! He put 5 10s on each side then squatted the whole time with that configuration. He did rack them again afterwards so maybe there is some hope of redemption left in the pits.
"Just a moment. We're improving your Skype experience."
No, no you're not. Stop lying to yourself and others and you'll be on the road to being a better program.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@Thenomain said in RL Anger:
"Just a moment. We're improving your Skype experience."
No, no you're not. Stop lying to yourself and others and you'll be on the road to being a better program.
My skype has been randomly crashing of late too after the most recent update. It'll be background idle and then when I want to use it or I get a message it will stall and then I get the not responding message. Annoying as hell.
@Jaded I've noticed my skype tends to crash at bizarre times, usually when I'm pasting text onto it. Not always when I've pasted text, but every time it has crashed it has been because of it.
Having to cancel a recital I was really looking forward to perform because I basically spent two weeks coughing and hacking due to sickness, and now I have to wait a comparable (if not longer) amount of time for my poor vocal cords to be recovered enough to even try to sing for sustained periods of time.
It's times like these that I envy people who have their instruments on the outside of their bodies.
Vorpal is actually Satan made MU*nifest
@Vorpal Just use autotune. You're welcome. 
@dontpanda said in RL Anger:
@Vorpal Just use autotune. You're welcome.
Noooo...@Vorpal sounds like they have actual talent and singing ability.
@dontpanda said in RL Anger:
@Vorpal Just use autotune. You're welcome.
Noooo...@Vorpal sounds like they have actual talent and singing ability.
Fine. Lip sync to a previous performance. Who's going to know?
I don't mean to brag, but...
Who the fuck am I kidding? I mean to brag.
@dontpanda said in RL Anger:
@dontpanda said in RL Anger:
@Vorpal Just use autotune. You're welcome.
Noooo...@Vorpal sounds like they have actual talent and singing ability.
Fine. Lip sync to a previous performance. Who's going to know?
LL and Chrissy, that's who.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
@Thenomain The worst part is when it updates 4 times a week, and each time tries to hijack my browser when I do it.
If you don't take your groceries out of the hand basket and put them on the conveyor belt, and instead put the handbasket on the conveyor belt, and expect the cashier to unload it for you-- you are a fucking asshole.
Also. Don't address your cashiers by name. That's creepy as fuck.
I used to work at a grocery store as a cashier. Every time people would do that with the basket I would call for a price check and tell the stocker when he got there that there was no price tag on 'basket full of things'.
I didn't last too long.
@Cobaltasaurus said in RL Anger:
Also. Don't address your cashiers by name. That's creepy as fuck.
This x100. I felt the same way during my career in retail.
At least for the average customer, if you are in the store a lot and we have chatted some awesome call me by name, if you are some dude I have never seen before don't.
Who even speaks with the cashiers.
@dontpanda said in RL Anger:
@dontpanda said in RL Anger:
@Vorpal Just use autotune. You're welcome.
Noooo...@Vorpal sounds like they have actual talent and singing ability.
Fine. Lip sync to a previous performance. Who's going to know?
LL and Chrissy, that's who.
