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mega_bassist wrote: I'm also getting tired of people trying to get me to join a CrossFit gym. I DON'T WANT TO DO IT.
You don't want to be a member of a gym which uses the same rhetorical techniques as L. Ron Hubbard?
please clarify. er what? Mind you my only knowledge of cross fit is switching up between rum and whiskey.
It's basically a high-intensity workout regiment that incorporates several types of exercising, like powerlifting and calisthenics. While it's awesome in theory, I've seen videos of instructors giving poor advice/training since their classes can get so large, exercises that that be hard on the body, especially when not done correctly. You're basically working till exhaustion, and that creates opportunities for injuries/improper forms, and injuries. And their memberships cost a feth-ton (hehe). The last time I priced stuff out, they're about 60-80 a month for a membership.
One thing that's always annoyed me a bit is when some members of the Irish American community take being 1/64 Irish sooooooo seriously, it might be a bit insensitive of me but it always grated on my nerves.
gianlucafiorentini123 wrote: One thing that's always annoyed me a bit is when some members of the Irish American community take being 1/64 Irish sooooooo seriously, it might be a bit insensitive of me but it always grated on my nerves.
Hoo boy. Blood quantum. That's always a real picker upper for conversations.
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kronk wrote: I'm 1/128 Indian and 127/128 donkey-cave!
So 100% indian donkey-cave?
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please clarify. er what? Mind you my only knowledge of cross fit is switching up between rum and whiskey.
CrossFit is a company that has branded an exercise program which has existed for many years. This would be fine, were it not pressuring gyms that use its program to pressure people that have no business using it into into signing on, because you can only attain "Elite Fitness" by way of CrossFit.
For example, this...
...is not productive, or safe (Why is there a dog in there?), at all.
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I don't lift, but all I could think of watching this was how bad their form was, those people are going to wreck themselves and the guy filming sound just like this guy
kronk wrote: I'm 1/128 Indian and 127/128 donkey-cave!
ONly 127? Hah have you beat there.
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I use a variety of public transport on a daily basis to get across the capital; bus, tube and mainline.
During rush hour keep moving, if you don't you're a hindrance. People with huge luggage and tourists standing around bewildered just get in the way. If you don't know what you're doing please travel outside commuting hours.
People who smell. It's not just BO, there's this guy who gets on the bus smelling like he bathed in beer. Alcoholics and pot heads are pretty unpleasant to share a carriage with.
Children running around trains. They're all excited after school, but running around carriages and platforms isn't safe, especially not crossing between carriages on the tube when moving. Those doors are for emergencies only and if you go under the train we're all delayed.
People with rucksacks getting them trapped in doors on the tube. Why so often people with a rucksack can't be aware that they need to give themselves more space I don't know. Instead they forget and step into a carriage and stand right on the door edge looking surprised when the doors close around their bag. Also the same people are always hitting others when turning around and the like.
djones520 wrote: So here at work we have a Quality Assurance log where you note down errors of products that previous workers produced. I have this one guy who when he relieves me writes me up for items, that I'm very clearly doing correctly, he just doesn't understand the procedure. Every time he does it, I annotate that it is correct, explain why, and then list the reference to the guidance that shows why. Then the next day he does the same exact thing again.
Today I got tired of it, and left a nasty (but still polite) note in the log. This just drives me nuts. While I don't exactly appreciate it when people point out I did something wrong, when it's legitimate I can at least accept it, and strive to do it better. When I'm repeatedly told i'm neglecting my duties though, even though I am not, it just pushes my buttons the wrong way.
Oh, people who leave toilet paper floating in the toilet, that drives me insane as well.
What bout you guys?
Automatically Appended Next Post: And yes, I know this is probably the umpteenth time this thread has been done, but I needed to vent damnit.
Everyone else.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
I'm not denying the lack of safety in CrossFit. I don't support it or practice it. I'm just saying that video is a little over the top from what I've seen/watched on it.
Also, that's a damn shame. A little safety goes a long way. I hope other people read/watch that, and learn from it.
mega_bassist wrote: I'm not denying the lack of safety in CrossFit. I don't support it or practice it. I'm just saying that video is a little over the top from what I've seen/watched on it.
mega_bassist wrote: I'm not denying the lack of safety in CrossFit. I don't support it or practice it. I'm just saying that video is a little over the top from what I've seen/watched on it.
Then we're on the same page.
Must've missed my earlier rant/explanation of it
Anywho, I'm glad other people are actually recognizing the issues with, and not jumping on the bandwagon. Keep up the (safe) lifting!
gianlucafiorentini123 wrote: One thing that's always annoyed me a bit is when some members of the Irish American community take being 1/64 Irish sooooooo seriously, it might be a bit insensitive of me but it always grated on my nerves.
1/16th Irish here. Totally get why that would annoy some people - personally, I reckon I'm pushing it at that...
I hate the "X vs Y" threads that keep popping up on Dakka. Usually X vs 40K. Silly threads with even sillier arguments usually.
Another vote for slow people, especially when I'm in a rush or walking late at night. Yes, these people travel slowly at night too.
Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
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gianlucafiorentini123 wrote: One thing that's always annoyed me a bit is when some members of the Irish American community take being 1/64 Irish sooooooo seriously, it might be a bit insensitive of me but it always grated on my nerves.
1/16th Irish here. Totally get why that would annoy some people - personally, I reckon I'm pushing it at that...
100% straight off the boat Irish and if I'm honest it doesn't trouble me too much. The exception being the Plastic Paddies who try to be more Irish than the Irish
mega_bassist wrote: I'm also getting tired of people trying to get me to join a CrossFit gym. I DON'T WANT TO DO IT.
This... combined with another bit.... So, as I'm leaving the military, I'm looking for a good gym to join, and I have certain "needs" in that regard. Being that I'm a 230lb. Hooker, I don't do crossfit, I power lift, and I get my cardio in by lifting more.
So, when I go onto the magical portal known as google and type in "power lifting gym [city name]" and the 2nd one on the list has Power in the name I get all excited. I email them to inquire about their price rating scheme, at which point they inform me, "ohh, well we're a crossfit gym, but if you wish to lift after your desired crossfit class, we have trainers and instructors that can help you with ALL your fitness needs"
It's false bloody advertising is what it is. If you are a crossfit gym, let me know it in the damn name! Don't waste my time contacting you for you to tell me you're a sleazy snake oil merchant
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*CrossFit.
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this is the most ridiculous thing to get annoyed about, but there's a rack at my college meal hall next to the seating area with some tobasco sauce and other spices on it. There's also a nice sign saying "these spices are for everybody, please keep them on the rack".
Would you like to guess what the odds of actually having tobasco on that rack is at any given time? The limit of x as x ->0 is pretty much a reasonable statement.
It's just so stupid and selfish. Can you not put the tobasco on before you sit down? There's a counter right there. How about...actually taking it back when you're done? Now there's an ides...*gasp*
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dementedwombat wrote: this is the most ridiculous thing to get annoyed about, but there's a rack at my college meal hall next to the seating area with some tobasco sauce and other spices on it. There's also a nice sign saying "these spices are for everybody, please keep them on the rack".
Would you like to guess what the odds of actually having tobasco on that rack is at any given time? The limit of x as x ->0 is pretty much a reasonable statement.
It's just so stupid and selfish. Can you not put the tobasco on before you sit down? There's a counter right there. How about...actually taking it back when you're done? Now there's an ides...*gasp*
It's pretty much the same thing in a deployment military chow hall... i cant remember how many times i sat at the one table with a bottle of flavoring, and whenever someone walked up, I knew instantly what he/she was after, lol
Dang. Also there's one other thing I think you might appreciate (then I'll be done I promise).
There's a fountain on campus dedicated to alumni of the university that have died in all the various wars from WWI up through the present day. It is a school tradition to take your shoes off and run through that fountain every time there's a home football game that we win...
When I found out about that I kinda wanted to punch a guy. Just saying.
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gianlucafiorentini123 wrote: One thing that's always annoyed me a bit is when some members of the Irish American community take being 1/64 Irish sooooooo seriously, it might be a bit insensitive of me but it always grated on my nerves.
1/16th Irish here. Totally get why that would annoy some people - personally, I reckon I'm pushing it at that...
Heh! American's are crazy with that 'heritage' stuff. I had a girl from Florida once tell me in IRC that she shouldn't rightly like me, because I'm English and she's "Irish" (Though she'd never set foot in Ireland in her life).
As it happens: I'm half Irish, have an Irish passport, even the English half of my family has Irish roots, and do love those potatoes!... I still don't consider myself Irish enough to go around calling myself "Irish" or putting on the accent. The term 'plastic paddy' would spring to mind.
I guess it fits a larger peeve, which is "Anyone trying to fake being something that they're not".
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