# Cluelessness: It Definitely Forces One To Reconsider A Gym Membership **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cluelessness-it-definitely-forces-one-to-reconsider-a-gym-membership/447402 "2008-04-29T23:00:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cluelessness-it-definitely-forces-one-to-reconsider-a-gym-membership/447402/21 "2008-04-30T21:20:55Z")
[QUOTE=nyctea scandiaca] Agreed. You have awesome diagram drawing skillz! [/QUOTE] Why thank you. I studied contemporary stick figure representational art in university. That degree never helped me get a job for some reason. > [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > Are you related to lobstermobster? **Lobster** has mad stick figure skillz too? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cluelessness-it-definitely-forces-one-to-reconsider-a-gym-membership/447402/22 "2008-04-30T21:26:23Z")
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] Why thank you. I studied contemporary stick figure representational art in university. That degree never helped me get a job for some reason. **Lobster** has mad stick figure skillz too? [/QUOTE] [Are you kidding?](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2156/1590463915_74fd0a3d08_o.jpg) (from this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=440463)) ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cluelessness-it-definitely-forces-one-to-reconsider-a-gym-membership/447402/23 "2008-04-30T23:14:22Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief] [Are you kidding?](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2156/1590463915_74fd0a3d08_o.jpg) (from this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=440463)) [/QUOTE] Awesome! šŸ†’ ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cluelessness-it-definitely-forces-one-to-reconsider-a-gym-membership/447402/24 "2008-05-01T17:43:10Z")
Any word on the guyā€™s condition? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cluelessness-it-definitely-forces-one-to-reconsider-a-gym-membership/447402/25 "2008-05-01T19:32:23Z")
[QUOTE=Pullet] That is the most awesome diagram ever. [/quote] :: nods :: > [@Pullet](#): > > Is the equipment really supposed to be bolted down? I donā€™t think anything at my Local Major Chain gym is bolted to the floor. I was sitting in one of the machines at my gym when I noticed it wasnā€™t bolted down. But many of the taller ones are. ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cluelessness-it-definitely-forces-one-to-reconsider-a-gym-membership/447402/26 "2008-08-22T11:50:46Z")
bumping this for an updateā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cluelessness-it-definitely-forces-one-to-reconsider-a-gym-membership/447402/27 "2008-08-22T11:56:46Z")
This should have a ā€œTMIā€ in the title so unsuspecting innocents like myself donā€™t throw up all over their keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cluelessness-it-definitely-forces-one-to-reconsider-a-gym-membership/447402/28 "2008-08-22T12:13:46Z")
FWIW, thereā€™s a larger than usual number of fire and rescue follk that work out at my Y, and all of us are known to the staff, just in case. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cluelessness-it-definitely-forces-one-to-reconsider-a-gym-membership/447402/29 "2008-08-22T12:47:33Z")
[QUOTE=nyctea scandiaca] Agreed. You have awesome diagram drawing skillz! [/QUOTE] Yes. I was confused a bit until I saw the diagram. Now itā€™s all too sickeningly clear and my breakfast is not sitting right. Thanks, I thinkā€¦ šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cluelessness-it-definitely-forces-one-to-reconsider-a-gym-membership/447402/30 "2008-08-22T13:45:28Z")
[QUOTE=JohnBckWLD] ā€¦and a quarter ton contraption snapped front over back onto a now mangled cranium at about the force of 5 gs. [/QUOTE] No. It hit him with an \*acceleration \*of 1 g, by definition. To have any practical meaning, youā€™d have to define its kinetic energy when it hit him (1/2 m v[sup]2[/sup]). [QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] Iā€™m having trouble picturing it too, but Iā€™m thinking [like this diagram?](http://www.flickr.com/photos/9426210@N05/2454217351/) Jeebus, what an idiot! I also donā€™t get why he would shim the one side. If the equipment was _seriously_ wobbly, then youā€™d want to alert the gym staff, because itā€™s dangerous. Shimming it with a weight seem preposterous to me! [/QUOTE] It probably wasnā€™t wobbly, he was probably just trying to incline or decline the machine to get slightly different muscle groups. That doesnā€™t make it less retarded. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cluelessness-it-definitely-forces-one-to-reconsider-a-gym-membership/447402.md?page=1)