Little things that bug you

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So my husband and I joined a gym, called Planet Fitness, mainly because it’s open 24 hours, and on his way home from work (and I can bike there). It’s a national chain, but I don’t know if they use the same slogans nationally.

Here, their slogan is that it’s the “Judgement Free Zone.” Spelled like that. It looks wrong to me. I know “judgement” is spelled like that in the UK, but it should be “judgment” in the US. There’s no reason for them to use a UK spelling. If it were a pub, or something, called “Flavour and Colour,” I’d get it, but it’s a gym, a pretty American gym.

Also, “judgement free,” or even “judgment free” looks wrong. I think it should have a hyphen. Without a hyphen, I think it means the opposite of what they want it to mean. They want to say that there is no judging going on in the place, but without the hyphen, it looks like a place to do your judging freely, unfettered, as opposed to a place free of judgment.

Like I said, it’s a little thing-- except it’s plastered everywhere, on every weight machine, treadmill, inch of empty wall space, everywhere you turn your head. And so it bugs me.

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Bugs bug me, also children.

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Holy crap I have been spelling it the British way all my life and never even noticed. I came in here all fired up ready to argue with you but it turns out you’re right. :eek:

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Bugs bug children?

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I am bugged by people who insist on using text abbreviations everywhere - even on hand-written signs. Stuff like “How r u” or “car 4 sale” - definitely scream-inducing.

I don’t like cutesy spelling either. “Katie’s Kuntry Kitchen” especially when the letters look like branches - that makes me stabby!

“In memory of…” stickers on car windows. It is really a fitting tribute to your loved one to have peeling vinyl letters on the back window? I saw a car the other day that had THREE of them. And don’t get me started on roadside memorials.

<deep cleansing breaths… deep cleansing breaths…>

When I become Queen of the World, I’ll issue an edict!!

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Roadside memorials are frankly, gross. Sure, let’s honor and commemorate the place your loved one was brutally and gruesomely killed. And if that wasn’t enough, let’s leave it there, year after year, looking worse and worse, rusting away, making a mess.

Yeah I’m a curmudgeon. :mad:

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Spelling notwithstanding, I couldn’t get past the “judgement-free zone” combined with “we judge people for grunting when they lift heavy objects.” What the hell?

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Like Anaamika, I’ve always spelt it as judgement. I find the dgm letter combo in the American spelling, well, buggy.

(Not really.)

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I’ll echo this one. I don’t know why these things bother me so much, but they do. There’s one near our office, where a 19 year old kid crashed his car one night while driving intoxicated, flipped his car, and burned himself up, about 4 years ago.

The family and friends have erected a 5 foot cross, a stone marker and a bench, all on the shoulder of the a 5 lane road, right in front of someone’s house. I’m pretty sure that all of this is on the right of way, thereby being city property.

I don’t get it. I know everybody grieves differently, but seriously, just because your loved one died in that spot, doesn’t grant you the right to erect a memorial there, especially one so large.

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Uh, on second reading, I’m not sure if this post could be considered threadshitting. I didn’t intend it to be (and apologies if it is threadshitting). Anyway, I’ll make a more substantial contribution to the thread. :slight_smile:

I used to cringe when cutesy shorthands are used for business jargon: “I can’t repro this issue on my system” or “Please highlight X and Y in your preso.” Reeks of forced informality to me. That said, I have warmed to combo, no doubt thanks to years of being asked if I would like to make that a combo. I guess in time, I will come to accept repro and preso as well.

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I bet those people love having to look at a memorial to a drunk driver every single time they step out of their house. That’s the other thing - that kid died because of his own mistake. The one in my neighborhood was riding his bike, at night, with no reflectors and no helmet. Not that the loss isn’t still there, but they make it out like it’s some bearing on the location.

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The firehall/VFD across from our church had a giant banner made to hand down their drying chimney proclaiming their 75th Annivesary. It was like this bad tooth I couldn’t get rid of.

(On the good side the mistake was by the company that made it. They got a full refund but the company refused to make a replacement. And since it had been up a month before I spotted it and pointed it out to the Chief, they just left it like that.)

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Yeah, Kutsie spellings, windshield death notices, and roadside memorials annoy me too. I wonder if there’s a way to combine them all into one big snarky art project. Maybe a cracked windshield with a memorial on it used as a roadside memorial. But, the name on the windshield isn’t the person being memorialized. One must make it clear that it’s the person who drove the car with the name on it that died. And that they died because the name was blocking their view. Garnish with those little family member stickers along the bottom: mom, dad and six kids with all but one of them X’d out. And be sure to X out one of the legs on the survivor.

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It bothers me when people spell “each other” as one word (“eachother.”) I see it more and more, especially among younger people (though I’m only 30 and don’t want to sound like a cranky old fogey complaining about younger people. I’m just making an observation.)

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The impression I get from their commercials is that they’re a gym for people who aren’t fitness nuts. That’s what the “lunks” are supposed to be.

I’ve always spelled judgement with the e too. I don’t remember ever seeing “judgment,” frankly. I don’t think that’s as common as the OP thinks.

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Black Holes bug me. A lot. WTF is going on in there? Any explanation that comes up just raises more questions and generally creeps me the fuck right out. I think it bugs me more than my than my own mortality.

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Drivers who cannot (or will not) maintain a constant speed on an open roadway. There ought to be a law!

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The protocal for recipes makes me a little stabby, to be honest. Y’know a list of ingredients, in no particular order, with the amounts required, at the top. Like so:

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp oregano

Followed by the actual instructions, telling you what order to mix what with what. But without the amounts. WTH? This is entirely how and where egregious errors get made, and inexperienced cooks lose heart.

You must constantly reference the instructions, then the ingredients list, then back to the written instructions. Whoever came up with this should be shot, in my opinion.

If I find a recipe I want to try, I immediately rewrite it out, so it makes sense to me. Here’s how it goes:

Preheat oven to xx degrees, prep 2 cookie sheets

In a large bill combine: 1 cup flour
2 cups of butter
Etc, etc,… Set aside.

In smaller bowl beat together: 2 tbs oregano
2 eggs
Etc, etc, you get the idea!

Add wet ingredients to dry. Stir till just mixed.

Bake for 30 mins, at 250 degrees…

Cool before serving…Yada, yada, yada!

Reduces the most complicated recipe to only a few steps and enormously decreases the errors I make. It also allows me to do things like make sure I measure out the cup of sugar, before the cup of peanut butter.

I realize the protocal is so you can, at a glance, tell if you have all the required ingredients, or use it as a shopping list. But I just highlight the ingredients in red and achieve the same thing.

I realize it’s a very small thing, but it bugs me. (If I give someone a copy of one of my recipes, upon their request, I often hear back that they like how I have it laid out, very convenient!)

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We don’t have these Planet Fitness guys in the country where I live, so I don’t know what their deal is, but it seems like a pretty dumb slogan.

How do you enforce a judg(e)ment-free zone, anyway? Mind control? Hey, I’ll judge you if I want to. Try to stop me.

Besides, in my experience, gyms are pretty much judgement-free by default. Unlike in middle school, adults just. don’t. care. what the next guy over is doing at the gym. People are too busy minding their own damned business. Which surprised me when I started going to one, although in hindsight I realize that it shouldn’t have. My gym has a mix of the spectrum from fatsos to fitness freaks, but neither category give a damn what I’m doing or what shape I’m in. No one will give you wedgies or laugh at you. Or pay any attention to you at all. And why would they?

Seems to me that the slogan is just needlessly calling attention to what is really a non-issue (“don’t think of an elephant”). Either that, or it’s an unenforceable policy. Seems pretty stupid either way.

OK, so I typed the first part of this post, and then looked these guys up. And… WTF? “No lunks”? “Lunk alarms”? Hey, is it just me, or is your no-judgment policy totally judgemental to lunks? I would feel totally self-conscious about maintaining a sufficiently un-lunky attitude in this place. And how lunky is too lunky? How un-fit do I have to be to fit it? This looks even dumber than I thought.

Anyway, hijack over.

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Probably, but children really bug me.

Not if I become Queen first!:stuck_out_tongue:

I’d say most adults. While I haven’t been to a gym in years, I’ve had strangers on the street insult me because of my weight.