Making fun of obese people at the gym...- Page 2
Making fun of obese people at the gym...
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#25making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/27/08 at 9:33pm
Its January people. New Year's Resolution time. The gym is always packed with people joining gyms as their resolution. There are obese people, moderately overweight people, just out of shape people crowding the gym. Most will be gone by the end of February.
If someone sticks with it,great. I wouldn't mock anyone trying.
I was in the moderately overweight category when i first joined a gym ages ago. I stuck with it. The best compliment I received was from the guy who signed me up when I went to renew. "I thought you'd one those people who are gone in six weeks."
#26making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/27/08 at 11:15pm
He made it up.
It never happened.
#27making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/27/08 at 11:17pmWe're on the same page tonight, PJ-that was going to be my next comment on this thread.
#28making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/27/08 at 11:26pm
It sucks getting lumped in with that "new year's resolution" crowd when that isn't the case for you. I joined a gym at the beginning of the month, but it's because I moved at the end of December after having lost 50 pounds going to the gym at school. It'll be fun to prove people wrong by sticking around.
Also, I have to side with PJ and Jane here. I have a hard time believing that people would be that awful (or, at least, conspicuous in their utter rudeness).
#29making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/27/08 at 11:30pmPersonally, I think it's funny when a skinny person comes into a gym and can't keep up with the more full-figured person.
#30making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/27/08 at 11:54pm
I've actually witnessed it.
Of course, that doesn't mean that Cruel did.
But it does happen.
#31making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/28/08 at 12:16am
I've never seen this happen at my gym either.
Cruel probably saw this in a movie and he decided to make it real so he could start another thread.
-Kad
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#32making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/28/08 at 9:46am
Same here--I used to WORK in one and I never saw or heard anything like that--even in college.
And by the way folks, if it's not okay to call the fat folks names, the same goes for the skinny ones--like skinny b!tch, skinny punk, etc--that's a two-way street.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#33making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/28/08 at 9:48amWait a minute...I thought obesity was healthy! Dammit!
#34making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/28/08 at 9:56amOnly in Maury baby world.
#35making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/28/08 at 2:41pm
The thing about obese people (and god knows I'm one) is that their burden in life shows on the outside. Everyone else carries their burdens inside and has the great good fortune of being able to keep their problems to themselves. Once they open their mouths to make fun, then their issues show.
Well put tourist!
Granted I go to a college gym, but half the time it seems like a place to be seen rather than workout. That said, it isn't un-common for someone of ample size to be thrown a "what are you doing here?" look. As rude as these looks can be, I've never encounterd something this offensive.
#36making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/28/08 at 2:45pm
Eh, I don't think that obese people carry their burdens ONLY on the outside. My father is one, and that's not the whole truth at all.
And the intimidation I think many feel at the gym is felt by the scrawny among us as well.
This is a competitive country, ya'll, and the gym is even more so--especially here in New York. There's always a jerk.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#36making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/28/08 at 2:45pm
Well I certainly haven't been going to the gym as long as Pal Joey...cause, well I'm younger. Much, much younger. But I haven't seen anything of the kind, either.
I see people who are obese at the gym and think, 'Good for you! And good for me!'
Oh...and there's this one guy at my gym...chunky...no doubt about it. And the face of Dan Futterman. I'd do him in a HEARTBEAT!
#38making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/28/08 at 2:46pm
Perhaps I only go to best gyms, but in my experience, the people at the gym seem only interested in their own workouts. Not only do I never see anyone caring if an obese person is working out, I also never see anyone making a fuss over someone who is in perfect shape either.
As I said, the folks at my gyms mind their own business!
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#39making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/28/08 at 2:48pm
"I also never see anyone making a fuss over someone who is in perfect shape either."
You've never been in the men's steam room, have you Jane?
#40making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/28/08 at 2:50pm
Robbie--I never ONCE made fun of you at Equinox, did I?
See, Cruel? That proves no one ever makes fun of obese people at the gym.
#41making fun of obese people at the gym...NEVER HAPPENS
Posted: 1/28/08 at 2:55pmPJ--was that you on the bike in THE WOMEN? Your granddaughter was looking for you....
#42making friends at the gym...and not the way robbie and pj do
Posted: 1/28/08 at 2:57pm
one of the most popular guys at my y is an overweight guy named vinny who works in the waste management industry. he's rounder than he is tall, but he's there at least three mornings a week puffing along on the treadmill or the long-strider or the elliptical and sweating in the sauna. he knows everybody's name and always has a kind word for you. i'd say in my gym those of us who are belly-ous outnumber those in shape almost 2-1. maybe in the afternoons it's different, but in the mornings everyone kinda gets along and is supportive of each other no matter what they look like.
i don't use the word obese much because i don't see the point. it has its purpose in a clinical dialogue, sure, but i just am not a fan of it in a day-to-day setting. overweight is overweight.
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#43making friends at the gym...and not the way robbie and pj do
Posted: 1/28/08 at 3:08pm
"You've never been in the men's steam room, have you Jane?"
LOL, nope, not even the women's!
#44making friends at the gym...and not the way robbie and pj do
Posted: 1/28/08 at 3:11pm
Obese is a quasi-nice way to say fat, but it still packs something of a punch. The insinuation is that you aren't just FAT, but disgusting. So, wow, I guess I'm kinda with you on this one, papa. I only say obese when I'm being less than ladylike.
I like a guy with a lil extra, as we've talked about on other threads before, so I don't think being overweight is such a turn-off. Seth Rogen anyone?
#45making friends at the gym...and not the way robbie and pj do
Posted: 1/28/08 at 4:52pm
There is no such thing as a true synonym.
Obese is a quantifiable term. Fat is an opinion.
And no, I've never seen that happen at any gym of which I've been a member, and that covers four states and six cities. Maybe high school gym. But of course, my gym here promises "no judgments." (a slogan that, of course, excludes the trainers who love to offer unsolicited advice in hopes that you will be snookered into signing up for several hundreds of dollars worth of sessions)
#46making friends at the gym...and not the way robbie and pj do
Posted: 1/28/08 at 4:59pmDepends on the advice, Cal.
#47making friends at the gym...and not the way robbie and pj do
Posted: 1/28/08 at 5:05pm
*sigh* I'm still waiting on the cute boxing trainer to give me THAT advice.
But that might require me to take a boxing class. And I don't like hard objects flying at my f..........ahhhh, never mind.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#48making friends at the gym...and not the way robbie and pj do
Posted: 1/28/08 at 5:21pmI wouldn't dream of joining a gym that allowed fat people, let alone obese ones!
#49making friends at the gym...and not the way robbie and pj do
Posted: 1/28/08 at 5:38pm
I took 6 boxing lessons last year from a cute trainer named Andrew.
It was hawt. ;-}
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