I’m just offended dirty folks, old folks and skanky folks aren’t getting any respect or defense here. Some of my bestest friends are old, dirty, or skanky. As usual the fat folks are hogging all the attention.
OK, give me a sec… alright, I’ve thought hard. Seeing as how I do have a gym membership and use it several times a week let me share* my* observations. First of all your bullshit about ‘fat people sweat more’ is smoke and mirrors. In my experience the fat people don’t work as hard so even though they might sweat more if they did, they don’t. Sweating quantities under lab conditions is not relevant to gym etiquette.
Second, I don’t really give a fuck how much sweat is left on a machine. I carry a towel (mandatory at my gym) so just wipe up any sweat left behind. Solved.
Third, you are still trying to change the nature of the OP. It was not about which body type sweats more. Look I get it, the fatty pissed you off and it felt good to insult her as such. But that’s a side bar to the real problem which is rude gym practices by anyone. So you present your case in an ad hominem-ish way to an intellectual group whose membership contains people of size. You are in the wrong here… but don’t let me drag you off of your high horse. Ride on!
Not fat people, fat people who don’t wipe the machines down. Despite stating multiple times that I don’t have a problem with fat people I feel it necessary to clarify that and realise the obvious error of my ways. If I had known the board lardarses would descend on me like a free buffet I wouldn’t have bothered.
That last part was dripping in irony, for anyone offended.
I deleted my post in light of the simul-post from you. 
Then your experience is different to mine. I was bitching about my experience, making yours irrelevant.
I do give a fuck. If that bothers you, I don’t give a fuck.
Look, I’ve said I was wrong to use the word ‘fat’ as an insult. Still makes me pissed off when they leave copious amounts of dripping perspiration at the machine I want to use.
Be sure to wipe that up before you leave… OK?
I’m a gym rat myself, and though I can understand his frustration, I think it’s a bit off-base. There is a fundamental problem with gym ettiquette at my gym, but it’s entirely correlated with someone barely being in the gym, fat or not, in shape or not, or simply someone being a self-important ass. Sure, a lot of the horribly out of shape people are fat, but plenty of them are also really skin or just utterly lacking any resemblance to muscle. That said, the whole wipe-down thing gets blown out of proportion by some people; it’s just sweat. You get exposed to as much in any number of other physical activities. No one complains about getting someone else’s sweat on them when playing basketball.
First of all, your hands and anything else that might touch something at the gym is going to be gross afterwards no matter what. If it really bothers you, consider wearing gloves and long pants/sleeves if you aren’t already. Yes, it’s particularly gross if there’s a pool of sweat there, and someone is a jack ass for leaving it, but it simply isn’t worth ruing your work out to confront an obvious jack ass about something that you can handle yourself in a few seconds with far less frustration and effort. If they’re just ignorant, then they’ll figure it out or self-select and stop showing up after a few weeks. And if they’re a self-important jack ass, what do you think talking to them will accomplish?
Second, if it’s not sweaty, I personally don’t bother to wipe it either before I use it, or after I’m done. I’m going to wash up after anyway, so I’m just wasting time, and if someone else is going to be bother enough to wipe down something before they use it, even if it’s dry, then they’re going to do it whether I do it or not. Hell, I end up working in with or letting others work in with me often enough, should I wipe down between each set? I do, of course, wipe up if there’s sweat on it.
Third, the majority of people with bad gym ettiquette will be there during peak hours. If it bothers you enough, go in during non-peak hours. Not only will you have a lower absolute number of jerks, but you’ll tend to have a lower ratio of them as well. This has another benefit of, with the gym being less crowded, it being less hot, and so less sweat and less need to wipe down and less probability that someone is on a machine you want immediately before you use it.
And, frankly, there’s a lot worse things that people do at the gym. Far worse in terms of rudeness to me than a little sweat, is starting to strip weight off of equipment I’m using the moment I finish a set without even asking me if I’m done or if you can work in. Or for something that is both rude and dangerous, if I’m carrying heavy weights, don’t try to dart in front of me, wait 2 seconds and go behind me; I’ve seen people get bumped into and drop weight because of that.
Well fuck me, this has been an experience. But the best lessons learned are ones where the other person calls you a prick. Hopefully I wasn’t being too damn prickish and you see the original point I was trying to make before the whole thing deflated like so much poorly-cooked soufflé.
I see what you did there…
(Bold italics mine)
I’d also like to apologise to anyone who smuggles rice in the rear of their trousers, attaches mutton to their face or is aged in years. These life choices are perfectly valid and don’t denigrate you as a person.
Dirty skanks can still do one, though.
How about plum smugglers? What’s your stance on those?
What a delightful trip down memory lane those were. Especially the second one, in which there were links to follow and train wrecks to enjoy.
This was awesome. I LOLed.
Oh god, I remember that one. I also remember the poster – he wasn’t all that bright.
I do think there should be a rule that every time you insult someone’s appearance, you should be required to provide a picture of yourself.
On the other hand, the whole, “you fat bigots!” bullshit is getting out of hand around here. DSeid, you need to chill.
Balls.
You shouldnt need an orientation class to remind you about the horribly complex notion of cleaning the fuck up after yourself.
Simple logic is allowed in gyms you know.
“Oh, I left a big patch of sweat, and lots of people seem to be using these machines, what should I do now? Clean up you say? Well fuck off, the gym instructor never mentioned I had to clean up after myself.”
I would think it far easier to catch ringworm or some other fungus infection than MRSA from sweaty gym equipment. I always wipe the equipment before & after. Takes 10 seconds.
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My personal gripe this week about gym etiquette is the young person who was using a particular weight machine, one of 6 that I use as part of a regimen advised to me by a physical therapist. It was the last machine I had to use. She was watching television and verrrrryyy sloooowwwly pushing the weights - at a very low level, just barely paying any attention to what she was doing. Now, I’m not putting her down for moving slowly or using light weights for resistance. You have to start somewhere. But I could tell she was really just going through the motions and not putting much effort into it. I waited 5 minutes and then left because I was not feeling assertive enough to say anything. I tried making it obvious I was waiting, but she was not paying attention to anything but the dam TV.
Geez what got your fat, black, gay-ass vagina all sandy?
Yeah by a buch of fucking pussies whose skin is so thin, despite the hundreds of pounds of fat, that some words on a message board sands up their vaginas so bad they have to go on a crusade to try to turn their fatness into a new protected class from hate speech like “fat”
This thread is awesome. All the fuckting retarded fatties getting all upset that one guy in the world called a couple of sweaty gym fatties fat on the internet.
Look fatties get over your enormous selves. You’re not special.
Oh god, now you’ve done. I’ve pissed off Sandy Vagina before. It makes the Terminator look like a Smurf thats had a bit too much weed.
Run, run for your lives I tells ya.
As a fat bastard myself I don’t really get upset about people calling me fat (or being mean to fatties).
But i might accidentally trod on you like the little ants you are due to being large and having diabetes and going blind and stuff.
I usually bring a towel to the gym tho. Because… well fat bastards tend to sweat more.
Drunk Smurfs are the best Smurfs.
VC03? Are you back at last? I’ve missed you, man.