Pet Peeves

Ugh, so I'm at the gym doing my squats. I'm working my way up to my working set of 225lbs. I want to use the belt for this to stabilize my core. I walk over to the belt rack and my normal belt is not there. the others are so small I can't get them around my waist. So I'm forced to survey the sausage fest taking place only to find a dude wearing the belt doing curls!!! Really d-bag you don't need to walk around with a belt on doing curls and shoulders. Squats, dead lifts, even leg press yeah but curls....Mad me so mad!! But on a lighter note, I learned I can squat 225 without a belt.
 
simtech said:
Ugh, so I'm at the gym doing my squats. I'm working my way up to my working set of 225lbs. I want to use the belt for this to stabilize my core. I walk over to the belt rack and my normal belt is not there. the others are so small I can't get them around my waist. So I'm forced to survey the sausage fest taking place only to find a dude wearing the belt doing curls!!! Really d-bag you don't need to walk around with a belt on doing curls and shoulders. Squats, dead lifts, even leg press yeah but curls....Mad me so mad!! But on a lighter note, I learned I can squat 225 without a belt.
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You guys don't own your own belts? Personally, I don't want to use some nasty ass floater belt while I'm doing weights.
 
Sac Arrow said:
You guys don't own your own belts? Personally, I don't want to use some nasty ass floater belt while I'm doing weights.
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Ive only seen a few people with there own belts. I do think though, that now I'm gonna get me my own belt and a set of straps for dead lifts and shrugs. I'm tired of my fingers holding on for dear life!
 
Menopausal women who dont understand the concept of a 'thermostat'.
 
weilke said:
Menopausal women who dont understand the concept of a 'thermostat'.
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My fiance doesn't understand a thermostat either :mad2:

She will be hot or cold, and instead of incrementally moving it, will throw it to one extreme or the other, and then not remember it, until it becomes obvious it is too hot/too cold and needs adjusted again.

I told her I'm going to buy a locking case with a key to put over it, like you see in some public buildings
 
ajstoner21 said:
I told her I'm going to buy a locking case with a key to put over it, like you see in some public buildings
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At home it is simple, get a wifi thermostat and set up the app on your smartphone. Makes it easy to control the excesses.

My problem is at work.
 
Which reminds me. Some a**hole took my lucky locker at the gym this morning. I think I need to pee on it to mark it again.
 
denverpilot said:
They doing have to be menopausal to have that particular logical difficulty. ;)
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Man, I guess my girl is more easy going than a lot out there.

Me: "Hey babe, are you feeling chilly? I can turn the heater on..."

Her: "Nah it's okay, I'll just grab a blanket."
 
weilke said:
At home it is simple, get a wifi thermostat and set up the app on your smartphone. Makes it easy to control the excesses.

My problem is at work.
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As a former cat herder at FedEx I can attest to the following:

1) The least amount of thermal dissatisfaction is expressed when the t-stat is set at 72dF. Year round. Lock 'em at that.

2) Women are no more likely to be thermally dissatisfied than men, but they are far more likely to voice that dissatisfaction.

These aren't just my opinions, this topic has been studied and these are the findings.

It was my experience that the findings were accurate.
 
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weilke said:
At home it is simple, get a wifi thermostat and set up the app on your smartphone. Makes it easy to control the excesses.

My problem is at work.
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Better yet, hide the wireless one and leave the old one up for the "placebo effect".

Works at work too. :stirpot:
 
Heh. My lovely bride is easy going about it. She just also has a broken internal thermostat.

Since I'm a geek and have thermometers all over the house, in almost every room, she knows I'll just go look and read it out loud.

And she also knows I don't care if she turns it up or down. I'm easy going too.

When the pellet stove is going to alleviate using propane, the basement Great Room often reaches 85F. Keeps heat rising up the staircase to the upstairs.

One morning I realized I left the pellet stove going overnight because I was hit with 92F when I opened the bedroom door that adjoins the Great Room. LOL. Oops!
 
denverpilot said:
One morning I realized I left the pellet stove going overnight because I was hit with 92F when I opened the bedroom door that adjoins the Great Room. LOL. Oops!
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I've done that, too. Years ago, I heated the house with a large wood stove, a Morso. It was way oversized for the space. One below zero evening I loaded it up for the night, opened up the air vent wide to get a good fire going inside, and promptly fell asleep. When I woke, the only room of the house that was thermally habitable was the entry foyer. I closed the stove vent and moved a chair to the foyer... Wife comes home from a late meeting, and asks what I was doing in the foyer... All I said was "don't go in the living room" which of course she did. Well below zero outside, and 95 inside! -Skip
 
Just posted to another thread...

...why specify something as 16,800 milliamps?

That's 16.8A, right?

I know the reason - just seems a bit silly, is all.
 
FastEddieB said:
Just posted to another thread...

...why specify something as 16,800 milliamps?

That's 16.8A, right?

I know the reason - just seems a bit silly, is all.
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Why does the Kraft Mac & Cheese recipe call for 1/4 C of milk and 4 TBS of butter when 1/4 C and 4 TBS are the same thing?

The instructions used to call for 1/4 C of both but changed a few years ago.

Yeah, I know, sticks of butter have TBS tick-marks on them but they also have a 1/4 cup line.

Besides, if someone isn't smart enough to know 1/4 C = 4 TBS then they shouldn't be allowed to turn on a stove.
 
FastEddieB said:
Just posted to another thread...

...why specify something as 16,800 milliamps?

That's 16.8A, right?

I know the reason - just seems a bit silly, is all.
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Not really, specifying 16.800 amps is a tad goofey as well.
 
One of mine - why are we still using English measures at all?
 
Somehow, Shylock demanding a kilogram of flesh doesn't have quite the same impact.
 
Many of my family are coming "home" for the weekend and 6 of us "boys" will be playing golf today.

I seldom wear a ball cap but have many and I tried to find one to wear today since I'll be out in the sun all afternoon...

I don't have one, not one, out of about a dozen of an acceptable color, that has the bill installed straight on the cap.

Straighten the cap, the bill is crooked.

Straighten the bill, the cap is crooked.

Noticeably!

WTF?

No matter what, I'll look like Gomer if I wear one.
 
timwinters said:
Many of my family are coming "home" for the weekend and 6 of us "boys" will be playing golf today.

I seldom wear a ball cap but have many and I tried to find one to wear today since I'll be out in the sun all afternoon...

I don't have one, not one, out of about a dozen of an acceptable color, that has the bill installed straight on the cap.

Straighten the cap, the bill is crooked.

Straighten the bill, the cap is crooked.

Noticeably!

WTF?

No matter what, I'll look like Gomer if I wear one.
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Are you sure it's the hat making you look like a Gomer?:lol:;)
 
I have 1 ball cap but it says "Dallas Cowboys" on it so it is like not really having one at all.
 
Gomer or Goober?

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My pet peeve is pet peeve lists.
 
Waiters/waitresses at restaurants that come back every two minutes (not exaggerating) , asking if everything is OK...Now, I'm all for superb service, but AT LEAST give me several minutes to finish my meal...
 
It really irritates me when they don't write the order down.
Seems to be a new trend in restaurants and I do not like it.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
It really irritates me when they don't write the order down.
Seems to be a new trend in restaurants and I do not like it.
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I don't care if they don't write it down. But if'n yer not gonna write it down you best not screw it up. That would be my peeve...jacked up order when they didn't bother to write it down.
 
Re: waiters/waitresses

If you're paying cash...when they pick up the bill and your cash and say "do you need change".

I think that's the most rude and pretentious freakin thing they could possibly say and by doing so they just reduced their tip by half.
 
timwinters said:
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If you're paying cash...when they pick up the bill and your cash and say "do you need change".

I think that's the most rude and pretentious freakin thing they could possibly say and by doing so they just reduced their tip by half.
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Good point. I agree.
 
timwinters said:
Re: waiters/waitresses

If you're paying cash...when they pick up the bill and your cash and say "do you need change".

I think that's the most rude and pretentious freakin thing they could possibly say and by doing so they just reduced their tip by half.
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When I was waiting tables/bartending, I personally never asked that question because I thought it was poor taste, but if you're going to let that alone cause you to tip half of what you would have had they not asked it....sorry, but that's kind of a toolish move. People who wait tables for a living depend on tips to make a living, so to set such arbitrary tip standards for what was probably fine service otherwise is depriving them of much needed income.
 
GCA319 said:
When I was waiting tables/bartending, I personally never asked that question because I thought it was poor taste, but if you're going to let that alone cause you to tip half of what you would have had they not asked it....sorry, but that's kind of a toolish move. People who wait tables for a living depend on tips to make a living, so to set such arbitrary tip standards for what was probably fine service otherwise is depriving them of much needed income.
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For what it is worth, if a restaurant adds mandatory gratuity to a check, I will ask only once for it to be removed. If it is not removed, they get not one cent more than the mandatory gratuity.

If it gets removed, I tip accordingly, which is generally more than their 15 or 18% they tried to dictate to me.

You don't tell me what to tip, I tell you what you earned.
 
Ooh here's another one: people who write/type "defiantly" when they mean "definitely"
 
Sports announcers on TV that say, "Thus far". "Thus far, the defense has been <whatever>."

I hear it a lot during college basketball season.
 
jfrye01 said:
Ooh here's another one: people who write/type "defiantly" when they mean "definitely"
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I'm sure that's more of a typo issue.

Matthew said:
Sports announcers on TV that say, "Thus far". "Thus far, the defense has been <whatever>."

I hear it a lot during college basketball season.
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I've always thought it to be archaic form, but I didn't know it was incorrect.
 
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