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On 12/3/2023 at 8:18 AM, Orbert said:
Seeing Cher just made me sad. Her face is so plastic that most of it doesn't move when she talks and it's stuck in a permanent sad look.
I find her hard to look at.
QuoteTom and Julia were both great, but I like both of them and they can usually do no wrong in my eyes.
Julia did especially right in her choice of a sweater and pants (except when it made her sweat 😀). It's always bugged me how the men can just sit there but so many of the women wear outfits that don't allow that. I'm watching the Emma Stone episode right now. What the hell was she thinking?
QuoteI only know Timothée from Dune (part 1) but he seems pretty cool.
I find him very appealing. He's seems very mature for his years, while still seeing like a kid. And I love his lankiness.
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On 1/18/2024 at 2:07 PM, Browncoat said:
I am a biologist, and have always pronounced it zo-ology. Zoo-ology would be the study of zoos.
I'm kind of a hybrid. I took Zoology for Non-Majors at the University of Texas. I always pronounced it zoe-ology, but also thought the class would be about animals. It turned out to be one slide after another of chromosomes with a nick in them or something, and nothing about elephants or zebras.
The only thing I remember from that class is a condition called Cri du Chat, which makes afflicted people cry like a cat. It was also the first French I ever learned.
And another Texas homophone I was just reminded of. Hill and heel, which might be a double homophone? I had a Jazzercise teacher who would say, when we were jumping, "Make sure your hills come all the way down." While a rancher would be likely to say, "My property extends past those heels out there."
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12 hours ago, Yeah No said:
Also, why is it so bad for Emily to push back on Keisha's questions but when Brennan refuses to talk about those things with the therapist there are apologies made for him like he just doesn't want to do it publicly or whatever?
Brennan's refusing to talk at all is different from what Emily did on the aftershow. Emily said Brennan got mad and threw things, and then said it was because of something she said. So the host asked her what she said, and Emily refused to answer. The host pressed, pointing out that Emily's presenting her version of what happened, and there are facts related to that version that viewers need to be able to have a fuller picture. Emily refused to respond, apparently believing that her version shouldn't be challenged or even subject to any doubt.
Brennan is just saying nothing, instead of presenting a version of an event and getting pissy when somebody wants some more facts, especially facts that you've alluded to but not actually stated.
5 hours ago, Shauna said:I would be massively pissed off at Emily if I were Becca. To be vulnerable and think you could trust a friend, only to have said friend blab to the world your sex problems? Unforgivable.
Then again, Becca barely even knows Emily, so maybe she should have called on an actual friend to be vulnerable with. I'm sure the producers pressed her to talk to Emily about it, and I know they can be persuasive, but everything that she told this person she barely knows was uttered voluntarily.
I liked the scene of two of the women out by the pool/hot tub, because I was watching the people behind them getting into the water and then disappearing (did he drown?!?) and then reappearing (whew!). The fact that these shows let their editing hijinks be on such blatant display tells me they don't really care if they look sheisty.
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16 minutes ago, ECM1231 said:
Pacific Northwest, right? I've never been but from what I understand the climate is such that you don't get bone-chilling winters, or tons of snow, right?
I've spent winters in Seattle/Tacoma, in Olympia, and in Portland, Oregon, and I never felt warm. It wasn't cold by thermometer standards--usually within 10 degrees either side of 42 degrees--but it was persistent and a different kind of bone chilling. Plus the sun went down early, and even when it was up, it was almost never sunny. So no radiant heating like in Denver, where if the sun is shining on the windows in my motorhome, I have to open them to keep from roasting, even when the outside temperature is in the 30s.
I remember once on May 1 in Tacoma, I decided, "It's time to quit wearing long underwear." I went out that day, and the next day, put it back on.
I'm in Austin right now, and the high on Monday was 24 degrees, and the high on Thursday, three days later, was 77 degrees. Crazy.
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6 hours ago, Elizzikra said:
And just to be a shallow bitch about it, I'm tired of Emily's one-note, I-just-sucked-on-a-lemon, pursed lips, facial expressions.
Almost perfect description. She also turns her eyes into little slits. I also think she looks rough, which is about the only way I can describe it. Just kind of not bright and fresh, and I associate that with people who drink a lot.
(That said, I liked seeing her play soccer. She's got real skills.)
But adding to the shallowness: I laughed during the obstacle course because Becca said her eyes are her best feature and told Austin he couldn't see them when she was wearing a blindfold. I find her eyes to be buggy, not the least bit attractive, bordering on repellent.
I also noticed that on the aftershow, Emily said their apartment is below Becca's and Austin's apartment, and said they can hear what goes on up there. Austin looked alarmed. And I was alarmed when Emily said they could hear when they were doing the obstacle course, because Becca was slowly tiptoeing or crawling around. They can hear that? But actually, I think it's more likely they heard them moving the furniture around and later found out it was for the obstacle course.
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22 hours ago, JTMacc99 said:
Nice thing about the super light snow is that I could use my little leaf blower to clean off the back porch so that Norman doesn't track it into the house.
I love that super light snow. Denver gets it in the earlier part of the winter, and the heavier stuff in March. We got about a foot of the light snow once and I got all of it off the car with a whisk broom, and dug out the car with the plastic dust pan thing that came with the whisk broom. All while the sun was shining. It was by far not the worst day I've ever had.
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On 12/30/2023 at 3:43 PM, Raja said:
I haven't seen much Godzilla besides the one that attacked San Francisco since the 70s. Minus one blew me away.
I pretty much stick to theaters, and managed to see the original Godzilla a couple of times in past years, and liked it (obviously, if I saw it and went back a few years later). Then I saw Shin Godzilla, and it was great, so I thought I was a fan of Godzilla movies.
Then I saw Godzilla vs. Kong and it was okay--nothing to write home about, but I enjoy spectacle every once in a while. So I figured I should stick to the Japanese Godzillas, and did manage to see Godzilla Minus One today.
I thought it was fantastic. I didn't think any of the acting was weak. I understood why the lead might be troubled, although I realized he really isn't responsible for all those deaths because even if he'd shot, it wouldn't have killed Godzilla, and it no doubt would have just made him madder, and wished he'd realized that himself. The kamikaze thing, well, he did chicken out on that, but to no known huge effect. But the combination of the two no doubt worked against his mental health.
One thing I really liked was the music. Those choppy strings just really work for me. During Godzilla's first visit to Tokyo, the music heavily referenced the original in style and sound, but didn't duplicate it, which I thought was a nice touch. And then in the last battle, it was the exact music from the original for just a little bit, which to my mind is some of the best music in a movie ever.
And even better, I understood the plot completely. I don't see a lot of "spectacle" movies, but when I do, I almost never get really involved in the plot, and I never remember it afterward. This one I did, I think because they didn't throw money at every frame of the movie, and allowed it to breathe a little.
Whatever...I'm super glad the stars aligned and I got to see it before it leaves theaters entirely. As it was, I had to make a pretty good trek, but it was totally worth it.
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On 1/10/2024 at 10:06 PM, Elizzikra said:
Oh - and could the ladies please knock it off the pink on AfterParty. I know Barbie was a thing and all but there are other colors.
Did they say it was for Barbie? Wednesday was some sort of wear pink for the new Mean Girls movie promotion.
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On 11/20/2014 at 11:34 PM, random chance said:
I didn't blame her mother one bit, because her reason was perfectly valid: Amy wasn't insured to drive her car.
That actually bugged me because generally, if you give someone permission to drive your car, they're covered under your insurance if they cause a wreck. I assume there's a point at which family members need to be included on insurance policies by name, but occasionally? She's probably covered.
Then again, we saw her drive. In fact, I kind of loved how many times we saw her pulling up somewhere in her car or leaving somewhere in her car.
I'll also say that I floved her clothes. Laura Dern is a beanpole so she'll look good in just about anything, but all of her clothes were so pretty and she made them look great.
I also finally saw some credits (Max is cutting them off unless I hit the right button at exactly the right time) and found out it's Dermot Mulroney playing the reporter. I could not place him.
I watched both seasons over the last couple of days, after realizing it was done by Mike White. And the lineup of guest directors was pretty darn impressive. You don't exactly look at Mike White and think, "Hollywood Heavyweight."
Plus I want Luke Wilson's apartment something awful.
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3 minutes ago, meep.meep said:
Reston is home to the national headquarters of the U.S. Geological Survey and many employees live in town. They love their rocks.
They love their security, too. We wanted to do their Trek Through Time walk, and looked on the satellite view of the campus and saw giant parking lots, so on our way out of town went by there. We drove the car and motorhome separately, and parked in a corner of an empty lot, and a security guard pulled up within a couple of minutes. "This is government property and you can't park here." I said we were there to do the walk, but he wasn't having it.
He went away and came back and said he had a place for us to park, and to follow him. We ended up in a bus parking space that was like a bus stop--just a wide part of the street. Much more intrusive than where were were.
And he told me I had to park the car in the adjacent visitor lot, but I couldn't park in the empty spaces near the motorhome--he made me park farther away.
Whatever.
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On 1/3/2024 at 10:14 PM, Elizzikra said:
I will say that I am enjoying the different outings. That ski-treadmill thing that Cameron and Claire did looks awesome!
I taught skiing on one of those 25 years ago. It was a nice way for Texans to get on skis before heading to the slopes for the first time.
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On 1/11/2024 at 12:24 PM, Book Junkie said:
There's no music at all in the commercials I've seen,
I've seen previews in theaters for it probably five or six times, and I didn't realize it's a musical.
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23 hours ago, aghst said:
Giamatti sits down for interview with Fresh Air on the movie and his other roles.
I heard the beginning of this the other day in the car. They played the scene from the movie where he's handing out the graded papers, and in it he says something like "my ocular limitations" and my first thought was the discussion here. It was definitely a plot point.
In the interview, he used the word "carapace." I think it's the first time I've ever heard that word used out loud.
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47 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:
Yes and yes. But what I really miss is the early days of the internet (up to maybe 2004 or 5?) when phone numbers and reverse lookup addresses and a lot of academic stuff was not yet locked down behind paywalls.
And it was more accurate because the incentive was to provide information and not to generate as many clicks as possible or entice people to want to buy your collection of addresses and phone numbers over the many others, which is aided by having more content, not more accurate content.
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2 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
I'm curious if you know the medium of the mini-art? Is it heavy enough to be painted on masonite? Or is it light enough to be on cardboard or foam board? Is it acrylic or oil? (That could be uncertain if not labeled — perhaps with a miniature title card🥰).
That's what they need in these galleries. A tiny description that you need a magnifying glass to read.
I don't know anything about art. It's 3" x 3" and on the back, you can see where the canvas (I think it's canvas--it has a grid texture) is folded over along all four sides and a square piece of white vinyl (?) covers the edges of the folded over part, making for a smooth back almost to the edges. It's about 2 millimeters thick, and when I tap it on the table it sounds kind of clacky. It weighs maybe 1/3 of an ounce.
I don't know the difference between oil and acrylic, but whatever the artist used it's thin--you can clearly see the texture of the canvas even in the painted areas.
3 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:Ooooo. These must be my kind of people!
Here's another one, where the rocks look like a stream flowing out of the sideways flower pot. It really was a super fun find.
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4 hours ago, annzeepark914 said:
@StatisticalOutlier was this little gallery in the Lake Anne shopping area? I love that unique area...so European in style. Reston is a planned community & that section was the original town (the goal, back in the late 60's was people could walk/cycle to work, to stores etc).
I'm interested in urban planning, so Reston has been on my "must see" list for a long time and I finally made it there.
The gallery is located among the condos that face Lake Anne due south of the shopping area (but you have to go around the lake a little to get there). Also in this area is this cool rock garden, I guess you'd call it. There's a whole row of units that have decorated their outdoor areas with rocks.
This is why I like to ride bikes in places I've never been to--to run across odd things like this but covering a lot more distance than walking, even at my very leisurely 7 mph pace.
For you dog fans, here's a stick library in Sycamore, Illinois, in the corn fields west of Chicago. I don't really understand why they require you to return them, especially since you can keep what you find in free little art galleries, or the little free library across the street from the stick library. Oh well. Their stick library, their rules.
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I just noticed I called it a Little Free Art Gallery, but the sign says Free Little Art Gallery. I guess because the art is little?
FWIW, after much deliberation, I took the one on the far right. It reminded me of David Hockney's non-swimming pool paintings. I'm going to put it in this little alcove-type thing in my cabinets, where I previously installed one of those clocks that is just hands and I've never liked it.
I kind of like knowing that the artist, Betty Flowers, will never know what happened to her little painting.
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1 hour ago, EtheltoTillie said:
So wait you don't live in NYC and you were just passing through and went to Gray's Papaya? LOL.
Actually, we walked from our hotel on 48th between 10th and 11th (good god, I can't believe how gentrified the tire-changing district has become) to the TKTS place near Lincoln Center, and then to Gray's Papaya. And then to Radio City to see the Rockettes, and then to see the windows at Saks (sadly the only windows left down there) and the tree at Rockefeller Center, and from there to the Whitney, and then back to our hotel.
We were there for two full days and parts of two days and walked something like 35 miles. Walking in NYC is (obviously) one of my favorite things to do. Cigarette smoke started ruining it for me, when they banned indoor smoking and everybody started smoking outside--there's nothing worse than trying to outpace someone to get out of his smoke slipstream, because New Yorkers walk fast. Some of that has changed to vaping, which is good, but the smell of weed everywhere (which stinks, unlike the stuff we had back in the 1970s) has been an overall net loss on the pleasantness of walking scale. It's a shame.
One night we were in Chinatown doing a tasting tour of pineapple buns and decided to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. Maybe it's because it was right before Christmas, but it was gross. There were vendors with carts and giant bright lights shining right in your eyes all along the walkway, selling tourist shit that you can buy everywhere else in the city. We thought we might walk far enough to get past them, but realized they extended a long way, and we'd have to walk right by them on the way back, too. Thank you for ruining the Brooklyn Bridge.
QuoteAnd you travel full time like Jack Reacher?
Heh. I have about as much in common with Jack Reacher as you do. No, we travel fulltime like every other asshole who saw some youtube videos during the pandemic and bought an RV and hit the road for FREEDOM!!!!, making it impossible to find places to stay now.
I'm telling you, the great recession was nirvana for fulltime travel. Hardly anybody was fulltiming yet, and there wasn't a lot of money floating around for people to buy RVs or even vacation, so only the most popular places (like Yellowstone) required any advance planning or timing, and no place required reservations just to get into the park. We just went here and there, wherever we wanted, without worrying about where we'd stay when we got there. (Wow--look at all the words that start with W in that sentence!)
Those days are long gone.
QuoteI was a fan of the Kinsey Milhone alphabet mysteries by Sue Grafton.
We have instituted a policy to get books only out of Little Free Libraries, being fans of pre-internet serendipity. Since we travel all around, we get a good variety (there's nothing more annoying than looking in a Little Free Library and seeing only books you put in there). So far, we've scored 10 of the Grafton books, and 10 of the numbered Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum books.
Actually, I use Little Free Libraries as a gauge of neighborhoods, and like to see if I can predict how dense they'll be just based on looking around. I have a pretty good track record.
Some have so many you could use them like cairns--you can see the next one when you're standing at one. Hey, Takoma Park, Maryland--not every house needs to have a Little Free Library.
And check out this Little Free Art Gallery in Reston, Virginia. Just when I think all humanity is nothing but a collection of assholes, I run across something like this.
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8 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:
FWIW, I think the food at Popeyes is always too hot. I have to wait a bit to eat it. I love it, though.
The bone-in chicken can be too hot to even touch, never mind eat, but that rarely happens with tenders, for some reason.
3 hours ago, Yeah No said:The two times I couldn't find people from my past online I later found out they died before it became common to have an internet presence. Both died in the '90s just before social media became a thing. Very sad. 😞
I have a very common name and it would be super hard to find me just by using online search tools and my name.
The ironic thing is that Mr. Outlier and I started a website back in 2003 when we started traveling fulltime. For several years, if you searched google for information about the aircraft boneyard in Tucson, our site was at the top of the results because we wrote a story about our visit and posted a bunch of photos. Google's pre-advertising algorithm favored sites that were actually pertinent to the search and contained useful information instead of machine-generated copy, and there were very few websites like ours at the time, so ours was at the top, which always cracked me up. We're the source for information on the boneyard??
Does anyone remember city directories? They were also called criss-cross directories, and were kind of the reverse of a phone book. They listed all addresses in the city, and the name of the person there, and they also had a list of all phone numbers, with the person who had it.
I ran across one the other day (improbably, in a car repair place) for Austin in 1978. I went to college in Austin for a year, and then moved away and came back in 1978. All the people I went to school with were still there, and it was a gas looking them up. (You have to have an address, not a name, but I'm a savant for addresses and phone numbers.)
I also, for the first time, read the introduction to the city directory, and found out it was compiled for businesses to find customers. (I was surprised to find it wasn't compiled so high school girls could see where a cute guy lives and look up his family's name.)
This time around, I also found out the directory has an economic rating for each block, indicating which quintile it is in for personal income in the city. Now that was fascinating. That was just when Austin was becoming more suburban, and the wealth was moving outward. The neighborhoods near downtown, except the ones with mansions, were in the lowest 40% of income, and the ring of development a few miles out was in the top 40%. Boy oh boy has that changed.
Anyway, I miss the solid, actual information that we had in phone books and city directories. I've used online sources to look up people, and they're stunningly inaccurate. Or, well, they have some accurate information but it's buried in massive amounts of inaccurate information, and there's no way to know which is which.
Which is disappointing for me because I've always been able to dig up info on people (which is why I knew about city directories back when I was a kid). You had to do some legwork, but what you unearthed came from reliable sources like city directories and phone books and county records. Nowadays everybody just click click clicks and they're getting scads of bogus information.
And sometimes you just need to be a person. Back in the early days of the internet, I was in Austin and a co-worker told me that another co-worker, Rhonda, is looking for an old boyfriend she had in Houston, and she'd heard I was good at finding people. I told her to get his name from Rhonda, and when she brought it to me, I took one look and said, "I know that guy. He was at a windsurfing clinic I went to a couple of months ago down in South Texas. Here's his email address."
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I once gave my brother a shaving mirror for Christmas. His response? "I have a beard."
And I had a boyfriend once who one day asked, "Did you not notice I shaved off my beard?" In my defense, this was before those giant woolly things people have, and he shaved his well-trimmed beard into a goatee. But he had a point.
But even I noticed Giamatti's wonky eye. (And off the top of my head I'd say Stanley had a mustache.)
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1 hour ago, annzeepark914 said:
and why did they send me the anti-itch ointment??
Because Amazon knows before you do that you're about to develop a rash.
I almost never order from Amazon because we travel and it's really hard to coordinate deliveries. Last year I ordered a chef's knife and paring knife that America's Test Kitchen had recommended. Only after I ordered them I got an email that the chef's knife wasn't actually available. Grrrr.
Then when I picked up the paring knife it seemed like a heavy package. Turned out they sent me 12 paring knives and charged me for one. I'd ordered the green one even though I preferred another color because it was like 5 cents cheaper. If I'd known I was getting a lifetime supply, I would have sprung the 5 cents for the color I wanted. 😀
And even though I like things to be right, fuck Amazon. But I don't actually have a lifetime supply of paring knives because as we travel around, I give one to any of my friends we encounter. They're always like, "Uh, thanks?"
1 hour ago, EtheltoTillie said:So $8.50 each at Grays Papaya? OMG. They were famous for a $2 meal.
Thanks for posting that because I went to their website to see how much the Recession Special costs, and it says $6.95 including tax. But someone got chili and cheese on his two dogs, which adds $1 to each dog. So $6.95 (mine) + $6.95 + $2. There's no planet on which that equals to an even dollar amount, and if it did, the closest one rounding up would be $16, not the $17.00 that's on my receipt (with no itemization--surprise surprise), and definitely not the $19.00 that was charged to my card.
Those bastards.
Oh, and I noticed a "service fee" on my Schlotzsky's receipt the other day. Turns out it's a 3% fee for online orders. I always order in person, but Wednesdays are buy-one get-one free pizza days, and you can't get the deal unless you order online.
And I ran into something similar today at Popeye's: if you want to use one of their promo codes, you can't just give/show them the number at the counter any more--you HAVE to order online. Do people just not care whether their food is hot any more? I don't really care with fried chicken, but cold chicken tenders aren't wonderful. Why in the world is the deal now restricted to people who order online (and are more likely to bitch on Yelp that their food was cold!)?
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On 1/5/2024 at 7:13 AM, EtheltoTillie said:
Here in NYC they imported the Pret a Manger chain quite a while ago, but they've gotten a bit expensive now too.
Years ago they had a roast beef sandwich I liked a lot but they took it off the menu, and I hadn't found any other sandwich I really liked. I was bummed because I liked the format.
But Mr. Outlier and I passed by one the other day and ducked in and they had a chicken banh mi that actually sounded appealing, so we got one of those and macaroni and cheese. It cost $25 including tax.
We got two "recession specials" at Gray's Papaya on Broadway at 72nd. I have the receipt and it shows $17, but on my statement it says $19. Hmm. ($17 for some delicious but not-special hot dogs and "tropical drink" is bad enough; $19 really hurts.) This is why I try so hard to always get a receipt (fortunately, they usually just roll their eyes and do what the old lady asks).
A year or so ago Mr. Outlier got a loaner tool at Autozone--you have to pay some amount for the tool, but they refund it if you bring it back. He took it back and they gave him a receipt but it didn't show up on the credit card, and it took a couple of months to get the credit issued. He also returned some anti-freeze to a Caterpillar place (bought a gallon too much) and he got a receipt for that, too, but the credit didn't actually go through until he pestered them about it after the credit still hadn't shown up after like six weeks.
Maybe $100 total for these mistakes, but it's the principle. I like for things to be correct.
And yes, I will dispute the $19 vs. $17 with my credit card company. I wonder if Gray's Papaya will claim I left a $2 tip, but I know I didn't. (I never tip anywhere unless the employees are paid the sub-minimum "tipped" wage, like at table-service restaurants.) I don't want to think they do this on the regular because they assume most people won't notice. Maybe they do it because it all gets prepared right in front of you so they can't spit in the food of non-tippers, and have to get back at them some other way. 😀
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On 1/5/2024 at 7:49 AM, Mrs. Hanson said:
I got remarried at 52 ... and I wanted a registry of things you could take OUT of my house.
I have a friend who got remarried at about that age. The invitation specified no gifts, and said if you bring a gift, they'll make you take home a pallet of their junk.
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With my health insurance policy, I get free memberships to various gyms. One of them is Lifetime Fitness, which is a swanky chain. Memberships at Lifetime's cheapest locations are almost $200/month.
I joined a Lifetime location because it's free for me (I haven't actually gone yet), and am now on their email list. Apparently paying a lot in dues doesn't mean members will be better behaved than at a random YMCA or $10/month Planet Fitness, if this email is any indication:
To protect your experience, you can expect we will monitor for these issues and take action. Of course, we also welcome you to notify a team member if you witness these behaviors:
-Failure to place used towels in bins and improper disposal of trash.
-Taking photos/video with other members in the background or in prohibited areas.
-Occupying fitness equipment without using it.
-Not allowing others to work in on strength equipment between sets.
-Not sharing pool lap lanes during peak demand periods.
-Neglecting to clean or replace equipment after use, including re-racking weights and dumbbells.
-Rendering the sauna inoperable by pouring liquid on the heater/coals or placing paper towels on sensors.
-Exercising in the sauna or steam room or playing loud music in these areas.
-Engaging in loud, disruptive behavior or groups loitering in specific areas, such as the locker room or fitness floor.
-Disregarding the personal space boundaries of others.
-Proper swimsuit attire in all whirlpools.
-Failing to cover up or wear appropriate attire in all areas of the club, especially the locker room, steam room, pool, whirlpool and fitness floor.
-Bringing large workout bags onto the fitness floor, posing a tripping/safety hazard.
-Shaving in the sauna, steam room or hot tub.
-Vaping in the locker room or any other area of the club.
-Unauthorized parking in reserved spaces.
In my own experience, every locker room I've been in prohibits at least cameras, and most prohibit phone use of any kind. And yet there's almost always somebody doing some creepy full-length selfie pose in a mirror, sticking her lips and butt out at the same time, or talking on the phone. What part of "no cell phone use" is unclear?
As they said on Seinfeld, "People. They're the worst."
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Chit-Chat: What's On Your Mind Today?
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I lived there for about 25 years, and it's still been my "home base" while traveling fulltime for the last 20. I remember usually getting one or two hard freezes a year, but not being followed by temperatures pushing 80 a few days later. Then again, I was younger and I didn't really notice the weather that much--I just dealt with whatever it was, as young people do.
I used to make fun of old people talking about the weather, but now that I'm an old person myself, I get it. It's interesting.
I spent last summer in the Chicago area and a friend who was broiling in Houston asked me if it was cooler where I was, since it's farther north. I had to think about it, because usually northern latitudes ARE cooler that southern latitudes. Or maybe that's just the average temperatures? Because it gets hotter than hell in Chicago in the summer, and the humidity can rival Houston's. But the season doesn't last as long as it does in Houston, and the winters obviously bring down the average temperature in Chicago a lot.
Sounds like someone who's never been skunked after driving to a windsurfing launch based on the forecast. 😀