Well, I’m not particularly concerned about it because I get my exercise the old-fashioned way (I go out my front door and take a walk), but while sweat isn’t the medium for MRSA, skin is. MRSA is spread from skin-to-skin contact, and that includes touching the handles that other people have been touching and obviously haven’t cleaned, because they’re still sweaty.
I know there’s a mentality on the Dope that if you ever wash your hands you’re a germophobe, but there’s a happy medium between being aware and being phobic. I think giving handlebars that many people touch all day long a wipe isn’t phobic; I think it’s reasonably cautious.
Yes, because I clearly said that all overweight people everywhere are incarnations of Satan. Please. Calling someone black or Jewish or whatever isn’t an insult, calling them a disgusting fat slob is. If you can’t see the difference, well - read a bit above. I don’t actually care if you’re fat if you wipe the goddamn machines down. In my experience, those who are of the portly variety tend not to, hence why I insulted the specific demographic at my gym.
Again, I completely understand the people who carry hand sanitizer and sanitize after every doorknob and every weight machine. And the irrational thouht that wiping off sweat with a towel will somehow protect from some cooties does not bother me. The amount this doofus is bothered by the fact that someone else didn’t give a shit that he was using a non-wiped machine just kind of tickled me. The person with the problem here is the one who is bothered that the other person is not bothered. If this individual is so concerned about others’ sweat then just make the effort to wipe it down before use as well as after. It is really very little effort. In my office I use sanitizer before patient contact, after patient contact, before computer keyboard contact, and after computer keyboard contact. If you are in an environment in which you care about the risks then that’s what you do on the basis of your concern.
Mr. K., using “Black” or “Jewish” *as an insult *is something you understand to be off-limits. You, I think, are not so stupid as to think that a racist must claim that all Blacks are lazy, or that all Jews are cheap or sneaky or clannish in order to be a racist or an anti-Semite. Fat however is different? Okay. Nuf said. Fat people do sweat more so the comment was arguably justified as pertinent. I had started off with that and perhaps we should leave it there.
Of course not, but those obviously racist claims are in a completely different ballpark. Hell, they’re not even the same sport. With the word fat, I guess you could say I was using the word both descriptively and as an insult, since, being the Pit, I wanted to throw some insults around. Like I said, I don’t have any problem with overweight people - none of my business what you eat or how you live your life. When you sweat buckets and expect me to either clean it up or bask in the wonderful scent, then I have a problem.
Got to sat I was baffled by your response and the equivalences of knocking the overweight with bigotry and racism. Must be an American thing.
The ugly, mutton-faced rice-butted cretin
Won’t mop up her sweat from the seat ‘n
bars with spray that’s provided
Despite being chided
And she’s fat! - so I’ll give her a beatin’
How can you be so mean and cruel to your legions of fans? They all envy your ability to consume vast quantities of hot dogs and not gain weight. They are trying to emulate you. Cut them some sweaty slack.
Seriously? Okay, I think the Fat Offenderati have gotten a little out of control. You all need to go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done for about an hour. Or maybe walk around the block a few times and think about what you’ve done.
It’s funny how the kind of guys who are disgusted that they must inhabit the same planet as all these grotesque fat women always make comments about how they need to get their fat asses into the gym, but when they do they still get called names and are told they need to lose weight.
It’s a gym. People of all shapes and sizes go there. Hell, some of them do enjoy taking their time and chat with friends. These are all legit things to do at a public gym. And because it is a place where various activities happen simultaneously, just about everyone will occasionally see/hear things that bug the shit out of them. That means there are probably times when YOU do things that could annoy others. Live and let live.
I’d believe that if your OP bitched about PEOPLE instead of “fat, ugly, mutton-faced wobbly rice-arsed old cretins”. This isn’t a Dope thing, it’s a politeness thing. So me and my rolly-eyes will jog around the block again and still think you’re rude.
He didn’t say it to them, he bitched about them on the internet. We’re not even allowed to be anonymously pissed off with people we interact with on the internet now? My, how sensitivities have changed.
Yes seriously. I know it is considered politically correct to bash people for being fat and to use “fat” as an insult but that does not mean that it is not a form of hateful speech.
Yes seriously. If substituting a more generally understood to be discriminated against group for the word “fat” in a statement would be out of line, then using “fat” there (or “skinny”) is probably also out of line.
This particular poster can’t decide if he thinks fat people are the ones who are lazy disgusting people who leave their sweat on equipment, or if he just want to use fat as an equal to calling someone a moron. He should make up his little mind.
And no it is not okay to say insults about a class of people as long as you are not directing it to their faces.
In any case, his sweat phobia is very odd. But then I was a wrestler back in the day, so others sweat is not something that I have much of a fear about.
Look, DSeid, I’ll level with you. I call it as I see it - fat sweaty people using the equipment. They don’t wipe it. This irritates me.
I didn’t think this was a hard concept to grasp. Learn to read - I’ve said that I used ‘fat’ as an insult. If I was trying to be nice, I’d have said ‘overweight’, or ‘poor unfortunate souls who perhaps have glandular problems and deserve my sympathy’. But guess what; I wasn’t trying to be nice.
But still, calling someone “fat” is hate speech? Give me a fucking break.
