# My Gym, My Rules **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 20, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gym-my-rules/313346 "2005-07-20T20:29:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gym-my-rules/313346/121 "2005-07-29T22:27:21Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Where do I sign up? > > Some more: > > 1. please wipe the bench with a towel that looks like it’s been washed recently - it doesn’t need to smell like violets, but using a rag that seems to have spent the last 3 months being used to wipe benches, then slowly roasting inside your gym bag is extremely, extremely icky. And then some. People who are seen using such rags will be forced to eat them while everybody else applauds. > > 2. trainers who look at newbies asking for training/pointers/machine instructions will be fired. Same for trainers who tell a woman asking for machine instructions or to join the kendo class “you should go for aerobics instead, dearie, this is man stuff” On point two, they should be fired, or disciplined at least. That’s sexual discrimination, and if they respond with the “this is man stuff” line, then it should be reported to their superior, or higher up the gym food chain. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gym-my-rules/313346/122 "2005-07-29T23:35:25Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#): > > Yes, there are. > > “Strip your plates” is one of them. > > “Wipe down” is another. > > Most fall under the “leave it the way you found it” category. If there were universal standards, everybody would know them, and everbody would agree with them. If that were true, this thread never would have happened. ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gym-my-rules/313346/123 "2005-07-29T23:59:18Z")
On the management side, the big-screen TV’s in the cardio room will never, ever show the [Alka-Seltzer US Open of Competitive Eating](http://www.ifoce.com/). (Yes, this is based on a personal experience I had yesterday.) ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gym-my-rules/313346/124 "2005-07-30T10:09:44Z")
> [@Tierce](#): > > On the management side, the big-screen TV’s in the cardio room will never, ever show the [Alka-Seltzer US Open of Competitive Eating](http://www.ifoce.com/). > > (Yes, this is based on a personal experience I had yesterday.) Thank you for, through this post, giving me a reason to live. I am now entered as an eater. I will dedicate all my triumphs to the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Lockseer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gym-my-rules/313346/125 "2005-07-30T21:01:57Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > If there were universal standards, everybody would know them, and everbody would agree with them. If that were true, this thread never would have happened. The existance of standards is independent of universal awarness and universal agreement of said standards. Standards can arise spontaneously in a culture or community without said standards being written anywhere. This is why people of a more individualistic bent, who do not belong to the community in the true sense of the word, seem more likely to 1) be unaware of the standards that the more active members expect to be followed and 2) “violate” these standards. For example…on this message board there are certain standards or unwritten rules of etiquette that we expect of each other (as well as written rules). New visitors (who do not yet know the culture…and each message board out there has its own culture) or people who stop in infrequently and don’t interact with the community much are more likely to be violators of the expectations of the more regular members. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gym-my-rules/313346.md?page=6)