Planet Fitness Founder and Former CEO Says the Trans Gym is "Basically Destroyed" by Boycotts

Planet Fitness Inc. Founder and CEO Mike Grondahl detailed a history of rampant abuse at the company and alleged it misrepresented its financials during a recent interview with controversial right-wing X user Libs of TikTok.
This comes after weeks of calls for boycotts of the brand after the company canceled the membership of a Planet Fitness gym goer after speaking out about a biological male in the women's locker room.
Planet Fitness's policy allows gym members to use the locker room associated with their gender identity. But this policy has led to a few high-profile cases of women feeling uncomfortable in Planet Fitness women's locker rooms, and some women and children have reported abuse and sexual harassment at the facilities. Many of these incidents resulted in the women losing their membership, but an arrest was made in at least one instance, as previously reported by Benzinga.
In the 15-minute interview, Grondahl outlined the history of the company and the reason behind its founding. Grondahl started the gym, noting the Judgement Free Zone was meant to be a welcoming signal to novice gymgoers looking for a place to start. But when speaking about the company today, Grondahl says it's "devastating" what it's become.
"Planet Fitness was like another child for me. And I put my heart and soul into building that company and it's been pretty much destroyed in, ya know, it's lost all respect within the country within the last couple weeks," he said. "There's no common sense standing behind this."
Grondahl told Libs of TikTok he didn't approve of the policies or the response to them in recent weeks. Grondahl sold the company to private equity in November 2012 and lost control. Following the sale, he remained CEO until he was ousted after he reported that the chief administrative officer (CAO) and general counsel hired by the private equity firm had been found guilty of multiple charges over several years and abused minors on several occasions. In two instances, he was a teacher and was found guilty of abusing his students. The CAO left Planet Fitness in 2017.

"When we went public, the majority of the board knew that this lead attorney was a pedophile. It's in the culture." Grondahl said during the TikTok interview.
The Planet Fitness "culture" includes accusations of widespread abuse at the company.
"It started at the corporate office, this attorney started abusing employees, then he's abusing them sexually, now the culture leads into the people doing the right thing are being thrown out of Planet Fitness," Grondahl said.

Planet Fitness is covering up cancellations!! A follower sent this to me and says he explicitly told them he’s quitting because of their woke policies. They instead wrote “no time” as the cancellation reason.

Why is @PlanetFitness covering up the fact that women don’t feel safe… pic.twitter.com/z72c1Es3Go
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 10, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:14 PM

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1 FIRST!

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 10, 2024 12:14 PM (CIS44)

2 No way.

Posted by: fly gal at April 10, 2024 12:14 PM (ABONH)

3 First on the treadmill!

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 12:14 PM (MNhXM)

4 Good

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 10, 2024 12:14 PM (JMAcK)

5 called 'em

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 10, 2024 12:15 PM (CIS44)

6 PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:15 PM (MvF+J)

7 You hate to see this.

Oh wait, no you don't.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2024 12:16 PM (CsUN+)

8 Hi Ace
Feeling any better today?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 10, 2024 12:16 PM (t/2Uw)

9 PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?

The question is how many of those paying $10/mo actually go to the gym. It's a pretty cheap virtue signal.

If they all showed up, you wouldn't be able to get in the door.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM (CsUN+)

10 Boycotts, ace?? BOYcotts??

How dare you assume their gender!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM (vtyCZ)

11 Like most of the corporate class that doesn't really care about the company they run: They plan to put their head in the sand and hope this blows over until they can fail up to a better gig.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM (JMAcK)

12 Good. Glad to see that boycotts actually work.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM (QNSds)

13 Good to see people making even the smallest sacrifice.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM (JeYYB)

14 "When we went public, the majority of the board knew that this lead attorney was a pedophile. It's in the culture." Grondahl said during the TikTok interview.

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But thinking that the elite class of America, mostly originating from prestigious institutions like the Ivy Leagues, are filled with pedophiles.

What do you do? Believe in Comet Pizza?

Crazy rubes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

15 6 PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:15 PM (MvF+J)

They make it cheap enough so that people don't bother canceling even if they never actually use the gym.

Posted by: Liberty at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM (IoAmk)

16 6 PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:15 PM (MvF+J)

The model was based on a huge customer pool of people who don't come to the gym very often. However, since it's only $10 month, they don't cancel because psychologically, they have a gym membership. In practice, Planet Fitness is a no-frills workout place. It was a great model. Emphasis on past-tense.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM (a/dOO)

17 Perhaps they can save themselves from closing by winning a dodgeball tournament

Posted by: Doof at April 10, 2024 12:18 PM (JunzL)

18 Following the sale, he remained CEO until he was ousted after he reported that the chief administrative officer (CAO) and general counsel hired by the private equity firm had been found guilty of multiple charges over several years and abused minors on several occasions.
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"Do not notice, or you will be punished."
-- Rule 1 in the Guidebook of American Business

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:18 PM (HnUIn)

19 9 PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?

The question is how many of those paying $10/mo actually go to the gym. It's a pretty cheap virtue signal.

If they all showed up, you wouldn't be able to get in the door.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM (CsUN+)

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Get them in during the January period with a low-intro offer. Hope that some significant percentage forget they have it and don't bother too much with a $10 charge on their credit card every month.

It seems to be the dominant gym business model.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

20 Like most of the corporate class that doesn't really care about the company they run: They plan to put their head in the sand and hope this blows over until they can fail up to a better gig.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Boeing management at April 10, 2024 12:19 PM (CsUN+)

21 You reap what you sow

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2024 12:19 PM (Akjoo)

22 Turrible newz

But... anyway...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 10, 2024 12:19 PM (Q4IgG)

23 PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:15 PM (MvF+J)

Their entire business model is that you pay such a small amount that you don't quit, but also you don't go to the gym.

It like a subscription to TELL people you belong to a gym but never actually go and if everyone who had a membership actually used it, the gyms would be overwhelmed.

You'd think a business model that basically requires people to forget they have a membership would do EVERYTHING to not be noticed.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 10, 2024 12:19 PM (JMAcK)

24 ...and alleged it misrepresented its financials during a recent interview with controversial right-wing X user Libs of TikTok.

Who is the CEO now? Craig Benson. Founder and former CEO/President of Cabletron Systems - which became Enterasys Networks. Which got into a lot of trouble with the SEC for ....... misrepresenting its financials.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 10, 2024 12:19 PM (N39Ws)

25 Anything trans turns to merde!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 12:19 PM (MeG8a)

26 Sweet, sweet, schadenfreude. Couldn't happen to a more woke company. If only other companies would learn from things like this.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at April 10, 2024 12:19 PM (MTm8X)

27 "Planet Fitness Founder and Former CEO Says the Trans Gym is "Basically Destroyed" by Boycotts"

I'm so sorry this is happening to them. Thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at April 10, 2024 12:19 PM (gxokI)

28 sound the lunk alarm

Posted by: brak at April 10, 2024 12:19 PM (25k9m)

29 Planet Fitness started shit a long time ago banning meatheads if you let out too loud a grunt or fart lifting heavy. I mean you have a few screaming weirdos every now n again but they went way overboard on policing that shit.

F that place. Go to a real gym like Old Stool Iron in Vacaville, Ca where they have puke buckets next to the squat racks.

Posted by: JROD at April 10, 2024 12:20 PM (IlL6s)

30 PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshmen

all of the big box gyms stay in business by selling many more memberships than could actually be used, if everyone showed up they owuld be insanely over capacity. The bank on the people who sign up dont come and never cancel.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 10, 2024 12:20 PM (CIS44)

31 controversial right-wing X user Libs of TikTok.

GFY, Caleb Naysmith, if that is your real name.

Posted by: spindrift at April 10, 2024 12:20 PM (OguvZ)

32 IDNKT!

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:20 PM (MvF+J)

33 "It started at the corporate office, this attorney started abusing employees, then he's abusing them sexually, now the culture leads into the people doing the right thing are being thrown out of Planet Fitness," Grondahl said.
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The institutional equivalent of Gresham's Law. It's how we got here.

Gresham's Law is about fiat currency eliminating strong money very quickly when it's introduced. The law is "bad money chases out good."

Well, the same applies to institutions. "Bad people chase out good." You can survive a rotter on the production line or pushing paper through the mail room. It's much harder to survive a rotter in the C-suite, because he can - and will - replace other high-ranking people with rotters like him and eliminate non-rotters who might object to him.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:20 PM (HnUIn)

34 My only regret is I cannot boycott something I don't partake in...

Posted by: Inogame at April 10, 2024 12:20 PM (53oGX)

35 also, support local gyms

Posted by: brak at April 10, 2024 12:20 PM (25k9m)

36 Great ROI if you are a sexual predator.

Planet Fitness needs the Boy Scouts treatment - sued into oblivion.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 10, 2024 12:20 PM (HQ4xf)

37 Covering up the cause of cancellations is a different matter. If they really are doing this, and it's a corporate-wide directive rather than the owner(s) of a few franchises (I assume Planet Fitness has a franchise model), then they are potentially engaging in fraudulent financial reporting.

You don't have to be a publicly traded company to get into major trouble for falsifying financial statements.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at April 10, 2024 12:21 PM (a/dOO)

38 Private equity has a habit of screwing everything up. They have no emotional stake in the company, no loyalty to the brand so they are suckers for ridiculous BS like woke and DEI.

Posted by: spongeworthy at April 10, 2024 12:21 PM (DWqKI)

39 33 Well, the same applies to institutions. "Bad people chase out good." You can survive a rotter on the production line or pushing paper through the mail room. It's much harder to survive a rotter in the C-suite, because he can - and will - replace other high-ranking people with rotters like him and eliminate non-rotters who might object to him.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:20 PM (HnUIn)

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"I can only work with my team of directors and VPs who helped me crash the last business I was in charge of."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

40 Geeee whiz, I just can't understand why a woman wouldn't want to share a locker room with a pervert in a dress.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 10, 2024 12:21 PM (pohLc)

41 Planet Fitness is covering up cancellations!! A follower sent this to me and says he explicitly told them he's quitting because of their woke policies. They instead wrote "no time" as the cancellation reason.
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Assuming that this is true and commonplace, is it fraud? If it's true and normal, Planet Fitness is fudging its own numbers, but does it rise to fraud or misleading investors? It might - if investors want to know why things are declining and the company lies about it, that might be a problem. I'm not sure where this would land.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:21 PM (HnUIn)

42

How many homos can a homo homo if a homo homos homos?

Posted by: Pervo Pete, Ex-Pandabator at April 10, 2024 12:21 PM (i3+Oa)

43 PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?

they specifically market to people who don't like gyms, as they are less likely to keep using the facility (and forget about the $10 monthly auto debit)

Posted by: brak at April 10, 2024 12:21 PM (25k9m)

44 *stool* lmao Old Skool Iron

(facepalm)f'ing spellcheck lmao

Posted by: JROD at April 10, 2024 12:21 PM (IlL6s)

45 I wsa thinking about signing up with 'em after I retire. Then came the news that they chastise you for making unavoidable noises like clinking the weights when you put them down, junk like that. And now this.

There's an Anytime Fitness even closer to me, and I can go there 24/7.

Is YouFit any better than PF? The same, or worse?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 12:22 PM (J2vNu)

46 "...during a recent interview with controversial right-wing X user Libs of TikTok..."

What group(s) has Yahoo Finance labeled as "controversial left wing"?

*already knows the answer to own question*

Posted by: Doof at April 10, 2024 12:22 PM (JunzL)

47 Trans issue or not , I was never going to join a planet fitness . Same with Bud Light. One day I'll be tested on a boycott but so far it hasn't happened. Giving up watching pro sports ball was also fairly easy to do.

Regard to the $10 a month membership, I always thought thought that charging a small walk in fee per visit might be more profitable.

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 12:22 PM (MNhXM)

48 "I can only work with my team of directors and VPs who helped me crash the last business I was in charge of."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fi

Boeing has advised all shareholders to elect their leaving CEO to the board.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 10, 2024 12:22 PM (CIS44)

49 >>8 Hi Ace
Feeling any better today?

a little, thank you.

Apparently I can't eat within four hours of going to bed any more.

Posted by: ace at April 10, 2024 12:22 PM (KRtlO)

50 PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?

The question is how many of those paying $10/mo actually go to the gym. It's a pretty cheap virtue signal.

If they all showed up, you wouldn't be able to get in the door.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM (CsUN+)

That would be true of most gyms in America. They are crowded beyond belief around the New Year as folks who've decided "this is the year" hit it hard and wrong.
After a few weeks of ever increasing pain and sometimes injury, it tapers back to the usual regulars.

Planet fitness has an entry level price that is truly low, but IIRC that is just for that site. The next level up gets you access to nationwide sites, and then you can have towel access, yada yada.
Most people spring for something other than the base membership.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 10, 2024 12:23 PM (FCbAQ)

51 49 a little, thank you.

Apparently I can't eat within four hours of going to bed any more.
Posted by: ace at April 10, 2024 12:22 PM (KRtlO)

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How do you manage eating while asleep like that?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

52 awwwwwww

Posted by: fd at April 10, 2024 12:23 PM (62pMU)

53 Planet Fitness Founder and Former CEO Says the Trans Gym is "Basically Destroyed" by ~~Boycotts~~ Evil, Idiotic Policy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2024 12:24 PM (FVME7)

54 Huh.
Turns out the "no judgement!" mission attracted people who really needed protection from judgement.

Go figure.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 10, 2024 12:24 PM (6IDWi)

55 Regard to the $10 a month membership, I always thought thought that charging a small walk in fee per visit might be more profitable.
Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 12:22 PM (MNhXM)
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If the membership is actually used, probably.

But most memberships are not used. Gym membership sales soar at New Year's time, as people get ready to pursue resolutions. Then it doesn't last very long, but the membership fees keep rolling in for a goodly while, sometimes for years. Tons of people paying that $10/month rarely or never step through the doors. You don't need to build capacity for them and they cost you almost nothing in terms of processing.

"I pay, but I don't go" is the population that makes the gym chains profitable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:24 PM (HnUIn)

56 Who is the CEO now? Craig Benson. Founder and former CEO/President of Cabletron Systems - which became Enterasys Networks. Which got into a lot of trouble with the SEC for ....... misrepresenting its financials.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 10, 2024 12:19 PM (N39Ws)

Well, combined with my post at #37, if I were PF's auditor, I would be scrutinizing various disclosures very closely...

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at April 10, 2024 12:24 PM (a/dOO)

57 A common theme in 1960s/70s comedy movies was young men going to absurd lengths to peep at women in a locker room.

Now denying them the 'right' to do so is 'literal' genocide

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:24 PM (ibTVg)

58 Pull my finger.

Posted by: The Invisible Hand at April 10, 2024 12:24 PM (aD39U)

59
Get them in during the January period with a low-intro offer. Hope that some significant percentage forget they have it and don't bother too much with a $10 charge on their credit card every month.

It seems to be the dominant gym business model.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024

***
I'd be after them to cancel me if it were a $2.00/month charge.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 12:24 PM (J2vNu)

60 >>Geeee whiz, I just can't understand why a woman wouldn't want to share a locker room with a pervert in a dress.

Really, a pervert --out-- of his dress.
YUCK

Posted by: Lizzy at April 10, 2024 12:25 PM (6IDWi)

61 The post on the MR about Vibe change seems to apply here. Itis now safe to express opinions that go against the regime.
In case you missed it.
https://tinyurl.com/msbmzvk5

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 10, 2024 12:25 PM (t/2Uw)

62 Maybe...Planet Fitness pay attention to what Confucius say: "Man who shower with boner in Women's locker room go home with sticky fingers."

Posted by: MR. KIM at April 10, 2024 12:25 PM (DGlaL)

63 Boeing has kinda fallen off the radar which means another 737 Max 9 is about to shed parts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 10, 2024 12:25 PM (HQ4xf)

64 I can’t shake the suspicion that the proponents of opening the women’s bathrooms and locker rooms to men do not have men of any identification leering at their wives and daughters in a state of undress. It’s relatively easy to allow men access to women when your women are safe.

Posted by: Advo at April 10, 2024 12:25 PM (VHN21)

65 I did body building for over 10 years. Never ceased to amaze me how full the gym was January 1, and how empty it was January 30.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 10, 2024 12:26 PM (pohLc)

66

No time left for you
On my way to better things
No time left for you
I'll find myself some wings
No time left for you
Distant roads are calling me

Posted by: Got no time at April 10, 2024 12:26 PM (63Dwl)

67 59 I'd be after them to cancel me if it were a $2.00/month charge.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 12:24 PM (J2vNu)

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Dolley's like that. She inspects every statement. She's very sensitive to financial fraud considering her line of work (in financial fraud).

But a lot of people aren't like that.

I went to the dentist earlier today and heard a woman telling the lady at the desk how she got conned by an Instagram post that looked like it was from Home Depot. Her entire identity was stolen. First of all, that's not something you proclaim to a stranger. Second of all, that's real dumb, ma'am.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

68 "I can only work with my team of directors and VPs who helped me crash the last business I was in charge of."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:21 PM (GBKbO)
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Corporate locusts. They swoop in, loot a bunch of money from the company, destroy it, then collect more cash on the way out.

Rinse and repeat.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 12:26 PM (7fElN)

69 My brother quit PF because they insisted that he check in with his smart phone.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 10, 2024 12:26 PM (w6EFb)

70 Boeing has kinda fallen off the radar which means another 737 Max 9 is about to shed parts.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 10, 2024 12:25 PM (HQ4xf)

New whistleblower has got the FAA to open investigations into 787 and 777 lines

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 10, 2024 12:27 PM (CIS44)

71 A six-foot dude walks in the ladies locker, and they didn't fire off the "lunk alarm"?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 10, 2024 12:27 PM (cf/0E)

72 >>A common theme in 1960s/70s comedy movies was young men going to absurd lengths to peep at women in a locker room.

Now denying them the 'right' to do so is 'literal' genocide

Excellent point.

Hey, remember the Left's / Obama WH's obsession with "rape culture" and the "campus rape epidemic?"
Funny how they shifted from ALL MEN ARE RAPISTS to MEN IN EVERY DRESSING ROOM/BATHROOM/LOCKERROOM.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 10, 2024 12:27 PM (6IDWi)

73 69 My brother quit PF because they insisted that he check in with his smart phone.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 10, 2024 12:26 PM (w6EFb)

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It's my understanding that a lot of gyms do this to cut down on people using gyms as TikTok studios.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

74 Assuming that this is true and commonplace, is it fraud? If it's true and normal, Planet Fitness is fudging its own numbers, but does it rise to fraud or misleading investors? It might - if investors want to know why things are declining and the company lies about it, that might be a problem. I'm not sure where this would land.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:21 PM (HnUIn)

Speaking as an auditor, yes. Yes, it is fraud. Because the cause of cancellations of a subscription is important information to existing and potential shareholders and lenders.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at April 10, 2024 12:27 PM (a/dOO)

75 The only gym I've seen in the last 30 years is the one I used to drive past on the way to the smoke shop to buy cigarettes, so I don't know what's typical. But I recollect looking through the big glass windows from time to time and most of the people there were sitting at the fruit bar guzzling smoothies rather than exercising.

Posted by: Paco at April 10, 2024 12:27 PM (njExo)

76 From the future Acd is the best Ace

And it can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2024 12:27 PM (k93YN)

77 Well, combined with my post at #37, if I were PF's auditor, I would be scrutinizing various disclosures very closely...
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at April 10, 2024 12:24 PM (a/dOO)
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If we look into them closely, they'll leave us for one of the others. We're about appearances and fees, not results.

We all operate the same way, and the odds of another one of us getting scapegoated into destruction like Arthur Andersen are pretty low.

Posted by: Alliance of Big Five Auditors at April 10, 2024 12:27 PM (HnUIn)

78 The gym thing is fucking funny as hell. These dumb fucks actually gave me a reason not to go to the gym. Hint, I didn't need it.

I asked my gal about dudes in the ladies locker room...not seen in there yet. Military town though.

Posted by: DOYLE at April 10, 2024 12:27 PM (Z8Yh2)

79 It is amusing to see the occasional 3rd generation feminist like Rowling fighting tranny crap. Because if you went back to say 1994 and asked the average feminist if men should have the right to go into a locker room if they just claimed to be a woman 100% of them would call you a patriarchal misogynist for even asking...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:28 PM (ibTVg)

80 survive a rotter on the production line or pushing paper through the mail room. It's much harder to survive a rotter in the C-suite, because he can - and will - replace other high-ranking people with rotters like him and eliminate non-rotters who might object to him.

"A people hire other A people.

B people hire C people."

--Steve Jobs

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 10, 2024 12:28 PM (YAtuc)

81 "When we went public, the majority of the board knew that this lead attorney was a pedophile. It's in the culture." Grondahl said during the TikTok interview.

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Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 10, 2024 12:28 PM (46MnI)

82 I heard the offending gym also prominently featured garish lemon and shell murals. Who would do that?!

Posted by: Nude Elderly Man Reclining On a Festive Lemon Palanquin at April 10, 2024 12:29 PM (Zz86T)

83 Speaking as an auditor, yes. Yes, it is fraud. Because the cause of cancellations of a subscription is important information to existing and potential shareholders and lenders.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at April 10, 2024 12:27 PM (a/dOO)
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I figured it might fall under "misrepresentation" of some kind, but wasn't sure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:29 PM (HnUIn)

84 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:24 PM (HnUIn)

Yes I've considered that but getting $3-5 every time for those that do go should generate more revenue. You would need more than a 20 to 1 ratio of those that don't go than do to not get more revenue.

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 12:29 PM (MNhXM)

85 It's always been a hobo hangout. Might as well cater to trannies.

Posted by: nckate at April 10, 2024 12:29 PM (Y5N4O)

86 New whistleblower has got the FAA to open investigations into 787 and 777 lines

hope he has good life insurance

Posted by: brak at April 10, 2024 12:29 PM (25k9m)

87 Funny how they shifted from ALL MEN ARE RAPISTS to MEN IN EVERY DRESSING ROOM/BATHROOM/LOCKERROOM.

When the news story surfaced in Loudoun VA about that tranny raping a girl in the bathroom it was a *common* response from the left that if she did not want to be assaulted she should not have gone to the same bathroom the tranny used...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:29 PM (ibTVg)

88 Find some non woke place like Gordo's Gym and Boxing club. $10 a month gets you a locker (no showers, do that after you run home). Might even pick up a buck or two when Killer Kowalski is advertising for sparring partners (guy had a confirmed kill in an eight rounder in AC).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 10, 2024 12:29 PM (0EOe9)

89 PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:15 PM (MvF+J)

Their business plan is to get lots of members, most of whom almost never show up.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 10, 2024 12:30 PM (gSZYf)

90 14 "When we went public, the majority of the board knew that this lead attorney was a pedophile. It's in the culture." Grondahl said during the TikTok interview.

he meant the gay male culture

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 10, 2024 12:30 PM (AcWfM)

91 I went to the dentist earlier today and heard a woman telling the lady at the desk how she got conned by an Instagram post that looked like it was from Home Depot. Her entire identity was stolen. First of all, that's not something you proclaim to a stranger. Second of all, that's real dumb, ma'am.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

That's real retarded, sir.

Posted by: Rachel Jeantel at April 10, 2024 12:30 PM (a/dOO)

92 hope he has good life insurance
Posted by: brak a

Life Insurance doesnt pay out on suicide or 'suicide'

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 10, 2024 12:30 PM (CIS44)

93 Apparently I can't eat within four hours of going to bed any more.
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Hello, GERD, my old friend,
I've come to visit you again

Posted by: paul simon at the white house dinner at April 10, 2024 12:30 PM (vtyCZ)

94 88 Find some non woke place like Gordo's Gym and Boxing club. $10 a month gets you a locker (no showers, do that after you run home). Might even pick up a buck or two when Killer Kowalski is advertising for sparring partners (guy had a confirmed kill in an eight rounder in AC).
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 10, 2024 12:29 PM (0EOe9)

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Buy free weights and use classes listed on Youtube until you get the hang of the exercises and develop a habit. Then just make your own schedule at home.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

95 Can people use gyms without using the locker rooms and showers? Or is that considered gauche?

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:31 PM (MvF+J)

96 I like visiting gyms when I travel. I've gotten to train at some great gyms all over the country and even a few overseas. There has been a boom of independent gyms in the last 10 years. If you really enjoy working out, you're not going to Planet Fitness.

Posted by: brak at April 10, 2024 12:31 PM (25k9m)

97 Hey, remember the Left's / Obama WH's obsession with "rape culture" and the "campus rape epidemic?"
Funny how they shifted from ALL MEN ARE RAPISTS to MEN IN EVERY DRESSING ROOM/BATHROOM/LOCKERROOM.
Posted by: Lizzy

It's because only MEN with penises rape. Women with penises are totes safe. Duh.

Posted by: Ivy League sophomore at April 10, 2024 12:31 PM (ABONH)

98 But I recollect looking through the big glass windows from time to time and most of the people there were sitting at the fruit bar guzzling smoothies rather than exercising.

The gym I go to once or twice a week had to put up signs telling people not to check their phones sitting on the gym equipment.

It was common to someone to use a Nautilus machine or something for two minutes, and then sit at the machine for fifteen minutes checking their phone.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 10, 2024 12:31 PM (YAtuc)

99 Boeing has kinda fallen off the radar which means another 737 Max 9 is about to shed parts.
Posted by: Anna Puma

United Pilot Seemingly Caught Repairing Plane Window Before Takeoff

https://shorturl.at/iuDEW

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It seems to suggest this was a Boeing but doesn't really say so.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2024 12:31 PM (FVME7)

100 There's a Planet Fitness a block from my house. I ho there three times a week but we've never had an issue as far as I know.

Hope this one stays open, since it's so close.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 10, 2024 12:31 PM (tV+o1)

101 As say often
Trannies are there to look at women not be a woman

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2024 12:31 PM (k93YN)

102 My brother quit PF because they insisted that he check in with his smart phone.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 10, 2024 12:26 PM (w6EFb)
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A gym that banned phones, cameras and video equipment would probably find a market for itself. A full ban would be detrimental - the phone and the walkman converged back in 2008 - but a "if you bring it in here, it stays in your pocket unless you're changing songs and if it comes out you get a warning and if it comes out again, you're banned" policy or something like that would probably be something many people would welcome.

If you're not already fit, going to the gym is humiliating enough when you're the guy bench-pressing an empty bar or the fat lady on an elliptical. Who wants to run the risk of being made social media famous when you wind up in the background of some gym THOT or rude dudebro's "fitness influencer" stream and pilloried by the "content creator" and his or her audience?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:32 PM (HnUIn)

103 Apparently I can't eat within four hours of going to bed any more.

Posted by: ace at April 10, 2024 12:22 PM (KRtlO)

Welcome to middle age.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 10, 2024 12:32 PM (gSZYf)

104 Buy free weights and use classes listed on Youtube until you get the hang of the exercises and develop a habit

a pair of 45 lb plates and a barbell will cost you more than a year's dues gym membership

Posted by: brak at April 10, 2024 12:32 PM (25k9m)

105 >>he meant the gay male culture

Ah, now THAT makes sense.
Why else would the executive team not care about the pedo proclivities?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 10, 2024 12:32 PM (6IDWi)

106 It's because only MEN with penises rape. Women with penises are totes safe. Duh.

No women with penises have raped me.

Unfortunately.

Posted by: David French at April 10, 2024 12:32 PM (ibTVg)

107 Yes I've considered that but getting $3-5 every time for those that do go should generate more revenue. You would need more than a 20 to 1 ratio of those that don't go than do to not get more revenue.
Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 12:29 PM (MNhXM)
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I'd be shocked if the ratio of goers to non-goers was that low.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:32 PM (HnUIn)

108 103 Apparently I can't eat within four hours of going to bed any more.

Posted by: ace at April 10, 2024 12:22 PM (KRtlO)

Welcome to middle age.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 10, 2024 12:32 PM (gSZYf)

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28 is middle aged now?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

109 I ho there three times a week but we've never had an issue as far as I know.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 10, 2024 12:31 PM (tV+o1)

I know times are tough, but...dude!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 10, 2024 12:33 PM (gSZYf)

110 104 Buy free weights and use classes listed on Youtube until you get the hang of the exercises and develop a habit

a pair of 45 lb plates and a barbell will cost you more than a year's dues gym membership
Posted by: brak at April 10, 2024 12:32 PM (25k9m)

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One, those aren't free weights.

B, they last a lot longer than a year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

111 Loss leaders.

Posted by: Joe Mama at April 10, 2024 12:34 PM (lZVy/)

112 Biden's new State Department diversity chief labelled America as "failed historic model" with "colonizing past." Come read her word salad.

"In every position I have held, from junior associate to Senior Advisor, there have been opportunities to challenge the forces that seek to silence women and those most vulnerable in society. In those board rooms, in the tight knit working group, in the advocacy and activist spaces and in grand bureaucracies, there are mechanisms and cultures which dispute the humanity and ability of people like me to be trusted to lead. This happens, not because we are unprepared or unwilling, but because the rules created in our organizations and baked into their very foundations, are often riddled with racism, patriarchy and exclusion. These are chinks in the armor of traditional leadership that refuse to reconcile with a colonizing past, or recognize that time has run out for experimentation and tweaking of a failed historic model."

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"Chinks"?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2024 12:34 PM (FVME7)

113 What are the shower facilities like?

Posted by: Pantloadius Hero of the Greeks at April 10, 2024 12:34 PM (PDZWG)

114 >>[I know times are tough, but...dude!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Ah, then the dementia came in....

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 10, 2024 12:34 PM (tV+o1)

115 Just don't pee in the shower.

Posted by: george costanza at April 10, 2024 12:34 PM (vtyCZ)

116 I stumbled across some old ( 2014 ) numbers. Planet Fitness' business model is to appeal to the casual gym goer. Half of their billed customers NEVER use the facilities after a short period of activity.

Also, the value of the company is basically flat over the last five years. If the company is destroyed it hasn't hit the bottom line yet.

However, they would seem vulnerable to a boycott by getting the payers who aren't using the facilities to cancel.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 10, 2024 12:34 PM (z+89e)

117 I caught herpes from the weight machine.

Posted by: Some Fat Chick at April 10, 2024 12:34 PM (v0R5T)

118 PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment

They make it up in volume.

Probably and under-the-table premium paid by Pedos and MAP's. And "trans women" who get to shower with real women.
The place needs to be burned to the ground. Figuratively and literally.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 10, 2024 12:34 PM (vcOmj)

119 Long ago I had to quit 24 hour fitness by my house because it was no longer diverse iykwim and actually became dangerous. Lot of non members on the basketball court.

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 12:34 PM (MNhXM)

120 Apparently I can't eat within four hours of going to bed any more.

Posted by: ace at April 10, 2024 12:22 PM (KRtlO)

GERD those loins.

Posted by: Joe Mama at April 10, 2024 12:35 PM (lZVy/)

121 One, those aren't free weights.

B, they last a lot longer than a year.

yes barbells and plates are generally considered free weights as opposed to machines

and true, but the high cost upfront turns most people off the idea

Posted by: brak at April 10, 2024 12:35 PM (25k9m)

122 94 Even crippled up pretty bad by Arthur, I maintain some upper body strength by simply doing push ups during commercial breaks on the tube ( the number is staggering) and simple isos with the cane.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 10, 2024 12:35 PM (0EOe9)

123 The question is how many of those paying $10/mo actually go to the gym. It's a pretty cheap virtue signal.

If they all showed up, you wouldn't be able to get in the door.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM (CsUN+)

Not to mention if you run a gym where basically nobody shows up, you don't have to replace equipment as often, either.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at April 10, 2024 12:35 PM (XPM1I)

124 I can't even imagine with high profile leftist college gyms are like...As a woman you'll probably see more peen in 4 years in the "women's" locker room then you will in the rest of your life...well...unless you go on to a career in pron...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:35 PM (ibTVg)

125 Planet fitness was a gym for fat people to buy a gym membership badge for $8/month so they can claim they're not fat because they're eating 22,000 calories a day, but because of genetics. Then they'd use that membership just to get free weekly pizza.

They of course would pander to mentally ill trannies, as they're part of the same world as mentally ill obese people.

Posted by: Rbastid at April 10, 2024 12:35 PM (rYMyQ)

126 "Apparently I can't eat within four hours of going to bed any more."

Next up is no sex after dinner date. Or, eat very light, your choice.

Posted by: DOYLE at April 10, 2024 12:35 PM (Z8Yh2)

127 Repairing a window?

Hopefully Boeing nor Airbus have switched to the old BAE method of installing the cockpit windows from the outside. Undersized bolts caused the windscreen to blow out and almost sucked the pilot out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 10, 2024 12:35 PM (HQ4xf)

128 It's my understanding that a lot of gyms do this to cut down on people using gyms as TikTok studios.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

No, I don't mean that he has to turn over his phone - they want him to USE his phone to check in, and he refused. Apparently you can't just check in by showing up.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 10, 2024 12:35 PM (w6EFb)

129 I was on a five-year CV kick decades ago. Did 30 mins at 140bpm on the airdyne religiously every nite. I suppose I could dust the thing off, but dusting is so exhausting.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:35 PM (MvF+J)

130 Planet Fitness = more apt to be of the deplorables and D listers. Inclusiveness in everyday life is not for the Elites and near elites.

>Out dot com: The CEO of Planet Fitness Donated to Donald Trump. He also gave money to a pro-conversion therapy lawmaker. Nico Lang, September 30, 2019

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you too at April 10, 2024 12:36 PM (NFX2v)

131 Planet Fatness >>> Planet Fitness

Posted by: Joe Mama at April 10, 2024 12:36 PM (lZVy/)

132 Next up is no sex after dinner date. Or, eat very light, your choice.

Then: Remember don't drink too much on my hot date tonight or I won't be able to perform!

Now: Remember don't eat too much on my hot date tonight or I won't be able to perform!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:36 PM (ibTVg)

133 128 No, I don't mean that he has to turn over his phone - they want him to USE his phone to check in, and he refused. Apparently you can't just check in by showing up.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 10, 2024 12:35 PM (w6EFb)

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Well, that's different.

So much of modern life is tied to smartphones. I'm actually kind of surprised that airlines still have the ability to print paper tickets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

134 Planet Fatness >>> Planet Fitness
Posted by: Joe Mama
.......

Don't forget to stop at the Cheeseburger Bar after your workout!

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2024 12:37 PM (v0R5T)

135 'd be shocked if the ratio of goers to non-goers was that low.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:32 PM (HnUIn)

Admittedly I have no idea.

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 12:37 PM (MNhXM)

136 Honestly I find all I need is an exercise bike for workout equipment. Combine that with situps, pushups, and hiking, and you'll stay in decent shape.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:37 PM (ibTVg)

137 Seattle Dance Crowd Triggered by American Flag Shirt

https://shorturl.at/EIPXY

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But don't say they're un-American!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2024 12:38 PM (FVME7)

138 Then they'd use that membership just to get free weekly pizza.

Posted by: Rbastid at April 10, 2024 12:35 PM (rYMyQ)

Don't forget the free bagels, too!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at April 10, 2024 12:38 PM (XPM1I)

139 There's a CrossFit joint in town that's had off and on issues with the clientele. It's mostly a bunch of guys from the base nearby that go into some sort of roid induced madness and end up beating each other to a pulp or whomever happens to be there. They also leer all over the women.

Which begs a question about the mentality of these people.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 10, 2024 12:38 PM (Q4IgG)

140 Someone at FB must think I’m Jewish (I’m not) and single (I am). I keep getting that JDate promo I mentioned yesterday, with the couple that looks like a cracker and a latina. I’m assuming someone who knows how to market to Jews chose this couple to promote a Jewish dating app. Right?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2024 12:38 PM (iFTx/)

141

"Craig Benson. Founder and former CEO/President of Cabletron Systems - which became Enterasys Networks"

Wow, that's really weird.

I cancelled my membership. It worked for me, but Im now into boxing and walking.

At a place I did krav, there was one tranny, and he was a tranny, who tried to get into the girls room. The owner of the facility was a butch lesbo who was quite MAGA. She wasn't having any of it. The dude got all pissy about it.

I'm pretty sure he had bad intent.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 10, 2024 12:38 PM (et1vG)

142 Caleb Naysmith needs some remedial education on how to write a story.

Posted by: profligatewaste at April 10, 2024 12:38 PM (nd/mG)

143 Planet Fatness has the Jonah Goldberg Double Chin seal of approval.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 10, 2024 12:38 PM (HQ4xf)

144 Two anecdotes about YMCAs in MA.
First, the one we joined had separate locker rooms for kids - they made sure no adults had access to kids, period. No incident, even hint of weirdness for our kid (phew).

Second, the YMCA in a Cambridge-adjacent town put a lot of money and effort into creating Family locker rooms - You can now have your whole family together! It lasted maybe weeks after opening because European member moms and dads were walking around naked in front of other peoples' kids. How was this not anticipated, lol?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 10, 2024 12:39 PM (6IDWi)

145 When an exercise workout is trimming your toenails you know you have arrived! Checked the day planner, and tomorrow is the night.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 10, 2024 12:39 PM (0EOe9)

146
Planet Fitness needs the Boy Scouts treatment - sued into oblivion.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 10, 2024 12:20 PM

The trial lawyers conspired with the Boy Scouts of America and a host of state legislators to go "bankrupt" while retaining 80% of their assets. The assumption was that about 10,000 former scouts would join the suit and they'd receive about $300,000 a piece - which is kind of middling to low for sexual abuse cases.

Instead, nearly 90,000 scouts reported abuse of a sexual nature. You can easily do the math on what kind of settlement they'll end up getting. Meanwhile the trial lawyers don't GAF because they get 1/3rd of the pie no matter what. The judge handling the case is a female and I hope she asks the BSA, "Compared to female cases of sexual abuse isn't $35,000 per scout remarkable low?"

But the fix is in I'm certain.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 10, 2024 12:39 PM (RKVpM)

147 Maybe the "We have glory holes in the women's stalls" wasn't such a good selling point after all.

Posted by: Orson at April 10, 2024 12:39 PM (dIske)

148 "Obviously, This Is Very Bad News For Biden": Wall Street Reacts To Today's Red Hot Inflation Print

"We’re approaching the point where high inflation is bound to still be in voters’ minds when they head to the polls, regardless of how the price figures come in over summer."

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2024 12:39 PM (RHGPo)

149 Sort of on the topic of this post, it's my lunch break and I need to go get a workout in.

So even though she will miss me, this blonde in tight jeans thinks it's admirable that I'm trying to do the right thing:
http://tiny.cc/au1qxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:40 PM (HnUIn)

150 Planet Fatness has the Jonah Goldberg Double Chin seal of approval.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 10, 2024 12:38 PM (HQ4xf)

ARE YOU STARING AT MY ASS?

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at April 10, 2024 12:40 PM (v0R5T)

151 71 A six-foot dude walks in the ladies locker, and they didn't fire off the "lunk alarm"?
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 10, 2024 12:27 PM (cf/0E)

They'll probably repurpose it as the "tween girl in women's locker room alarm" for the benefit of their newly prioritized clientele. Doesn't quiet roll off of the tongue like "lunk alarm," though. Maybe, "leer alarm"? Eh, I should stop giving Planet Sexpest ideas.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at April 10, 2024 12:40 PM (DTX3h)

152 I do see a lot of people claiming they can't lose weight that I see eating the following:

Breakfast: Bagel with cream cheese, frappachino

Lunch: Big Mac and large fries or half a pizza or dinner sized serving of food from the local fast casual place

Snack: Another frappachino with a pastry

Dinner: 2000 calories of crap

Dessert: another 1000 calories of crap

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:40 PM (ibTVg)

153 The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, which represents small colleges and universities, has barred transgender women from participating in women’s sports. Competitive cheer and dance events are exceptions to these rules, as they are coed. The Council of Presidents approved the policy 20-0, the Associated Press reports. The NAIA has 241 member schools, mostly small and private, representing about 83,000 athletes.

The NAIA states that besides cheer and dance, every other sport “includes some combination of strength, speed and stamina, providing competitive advantages for male student-athletes.” But numerous scientists and activists contend that trans women — who were assigned male at birth — do not have an inherent advantage over cisgender women.

Civil rights activists were enraged by the move. “It is a shocking and devastating development that the NAIA, an organization that has done so much to open doors, is now slamming those doors shut on transgender athletes, based on ignorance, prejudice, and ginned-up public hysteria. Research has amply demonstrated the many benefits for students that flow from participation in school sports..."

Posted by: Intercepted Advocate.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 10, 2024 12:40 PM (JCZqz)

154 doing [...] simple isos with the cane.
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I'm glad you're keeping Abel, Bill.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 12:41 PM (vtyCZ)

155 Second, the YMCA in a Cambridge-adjacent town put a lot of money and effort into creating Family locker rooms - You can now have your whole family together! It lasted maybe weeks after opening because European member moms and dads were walking around naked in front of other peoples' kids.

I'm not an exhibitionist, pedophilic perv, I'm European!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2024 12:41 PM (CsUN+)

156 I swear that many if not most of these gyms are vehicles to launder money. By necessity, gyms tend to need huge spaces that must cost a fortune to rent. I'm sure costs and overhead are huge, especially in a modern gym with all the facilities and accoutrements.

So how do these places make money? There are always discounted membership rates and other promos that make joining fairly cheap.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2024 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

157 They may lose their entire business...

but, that one Tranny has a place to shave her LadyBalls until their lease runs out.

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2024 12:42 PM (lknh/)

158 I don't eat much of anything after supper, so usually 3 hours sometimes 2 hours. Been much better doing it.

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2024 12:42 PM (k93YN)

159 Afternoon Ace, glad you got some sleep. Just can't get worked up about Planet Fitness plummeting in value. A lot more women don't like men in their locker rooms than men who want to be there. Simple business decision. But nooo, so get woke go broke

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 10, 2024 12:42 PM (ixVYR)

160 Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 10, 2024 12:39 PM (RKVpM)

I have no doubt some of the same plaintiff attorneys and advocates to sue BSA are the same ones that were going to sue for discrimination for BSA not allowing Homo scout leaders.

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 12:42 PM (MNhXM)

161 I've had a membership to 24 Hour Fitness since around 2000. I haven't been in several years (working out in masks sucks) and the one I could walk to closed down. Why do I keep it? $99/year for life. If I'm ever conveniently around one again, I'll use it.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 10, 2024 12:42 PM (KAi1n)

162 If you drive to these gyms, be careful about leaving valuables in your car. Some patrons leave their wallets in their cars and the thieves know this.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:42 PM (MvF+J)

163 When an exercise workout is trimming your toenails you know you have arrived! Checked the day planner, and tomorrow is the night.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door
........

You might want to stretch a little before you do that.

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2024 12:43 PM (v0R5T)

164 No Taxes For 'Black Folk', Says Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett

“Because then again, that puts money back in your pocket...”

.. so does robbing banks

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2024 12:43 PM (RHGPo)

165 Apparently I can't eat within four hours of going to bed any more.

Posted by: ace at April 10, 2024

***
Ace, I dodged that problem for years. Tums, Rolaids, and/or a little baking soda in water sometimes helped but not always. Then I cut out first foods with corn syrup, and then pretty much all sugar. Heartburn be gone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 12:43 PM (J2vNu)

166 Life Insurance doesnt pay out on suicide or 'suicide'
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 10, 2024 12:30 PM (CIS44)
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It does for medically-assisted suicide.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2024 12:43 PM (RIvkX)

167 >>So how do these places make money? There are always discounted membership rates and other promos that make joining fairly cheap.

Volume.

Posted by: Polish Watermelon Salesman at April 10, 2024 12:43 PM (lknh/)

168 "By necessity, gyms tend to need huge spaces that must cost a fortune to rent. I'm sure costs and overhead are huge, especially in a modern gym with all the facilities and accoutrements."

If they've got showers, the water and sewer bills would be killers.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:44 PM (MvF+J)

169 No Taxes For 'Extraterrestrial Folk', Says Democrat Rep. ALF

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2024 12:44 PM (RHGPo)

170 Well maybe you should not have done the stupid shit then.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 12:44 PM (di6C2)

171 163 Ha!

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:45 PM (MvF+J)

172 How about...no taxes for anyone who had ancestors that ever engaged in forced labor? Is that fair?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:45 PM (ibTVg)

173 http://tiny.cc/au1qxz

That's almost as bad as purple or green hair to me. But she has a pretty face and smoking body.

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 12:45 PM (MNhXM)

174 In the 15-minute interview, Grondahl outlined the history of the company and the reason behind its founding. Grondahl started the gym, noting the Judgement Free Zone was meant to be a welcoming signal to novice gymgoers looking for a place to start. But when speaking about the company today, Grondahl says it's "devastating" what it's become.

You're the fucking CEO. Nothing happens without your blessing.

WTF?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 12:45 PM (FMTLw)

175 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:40 PM (HnUIn)

She's a pretty woman, but that is some weird photo. It's looked like the bottom half of her was photoshopped in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2024 12:45 PM (XkYcA)

176 168 "By necessity, gyms tend to need huge spaces that must cost a fortune to rent. I'm sure costs and overhead are huge, especially in a modern gym with all the facilities and accoutrements."

If they've got showers, the water and sewer bills would be killers.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:44 PM (MvF+J)

Wear and tear on equipment could be good or bad, I dunno. Exercise shit ain't cheap.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 12:45 PM (di6C2)

177 "We’re approaching the point where high inflation is bound to still be in voters’ minds when they head to the polls, regardless of how the price figures come in over summer."

Lawrence Summers (former President of Harvard) and a couple of other economists noted in a paper that if we calculated inflation using the pre-1983 metric, inflation in 2022 was 18% - worse than under Carter.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 10, 2024 12:45 PM (YAtuc)

178 152 I do see a lot of people claiming they can't lose weight that I see eating the following:

Breakfast: Bagel with cream cheese, frappachino

Lunch: Big Mac and large fries or half a pizza or dinner sized serving of food from the local fast casual place

Snack: Another frappachino with a pastry

Dinner: 2000 calories of crap

Dessert: another 1000 calories of crap
Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:40 PM (ibTVg)

Often the same people who claim their pills make it impossible to lose weight based solely on some fine print in the label, without ever having tried any serious, sustained calorie reduction.

Most people can lose weight if they try. Admittedly, it is less fun than eating whatever you want. But simple calorie reduction will work for most, without a bunch of other dietary voodoo and gimmickry. But admitting that would require people to acknowledge they're making bad choices and reaping the consequences.

Posted by: Personal Responsibility? No Thanks at April 10, 2024 12:46 PM (X5tRe)

179 Eat smaller dinner meals, earlier. That's how I got rid of heartburn, gastric reflux and other indigestion. If we have a big meal it's at lunchtime.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 12:46 PM (MeG8a)

180 Lawrence Summers (former President of Harvard) and a couple of other economists noted in a paper that if we calculated inflation using the pre-1983 metric, inflation in 2022 was 18% - worse than under Carter.

Most things I purchase are double what they were when Biden was installed. You don't get 100% over 4 years at 8% or less a year...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:46 PM (ibTVg)

181 148 "Obviously, This Is Very Bad News For Biden": Wall Street Reacts To Today's Red Hot Inflation Print

"We’re approaching the point where high inflation is bound to still be in voters’ minds when they head to the polls, regardless of how the price figures come in over summer."
Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2024 12:39 PM (RHGPo)

========

"Inflation is a right wing conspiracy theory created by Fox News at orders from Trump. Also, it's good that inflation is happening because it limits American purchasing power. Also, Biden beat inflation with the Inflation Reduction Act. Also, illegal immigration is fighting inflation. Also, inflation is caused by greedy corporations who are price gouging customers. Also, did I mention that Biden beat inflation and that it's a right wing conspiracy theory?"
-DU, 99.99993% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

182 Former WNBA Player Val Whiting Makes Clear Stance on Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports: “Not Fair nor Safe”

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Pretty much says it all.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2024 12:46 PM (FVME7)

183 Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee 11h
The House must NOT reauthorize FISA 702 without a warrant requirement.

Please share and tell your representative immediately, as votes are scheduled for tomorrow.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 12:46 PM (vtyCZ)

184 So much of modern life is tied to smartphones. I'm actually kind of surprised that airlines still have the ability to print paper tickets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

I won't own one. Fortunately Doordash and Ubers aren't of interest to me.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 10, 2024 12:47 PM (w6EFb)

185
I have no doubt some of the same plaintiff attorneys and advocates to sue BSA are the same ones that were going to sue for discrimination for BSA not allowing Homo scout leaders.

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 12:42 PM

I wouldn't doubt it. I don't see how the BSA can survive as anything other then an openly gay organization in the future. Especially with the youth self reporting as about 30% on the LGBTWTF spectrum.

I think the leaders are gonna pay off the scouts with a pittance, keep the 80% assets, decide to 're-organize', then shut down for good and divide the loot among themselves.

Shame. They had 100 years to learn how to keep the pervs out and they couldn't.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 10, 2024 12:47 PM (RKVpM)

186 152 Dessert: another 1000 calories of crap
Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:40 PM (ibTVg)

=======

Eating one meal a day, trying to limit it to no more than 1500 calories, strength training at least 30 minutes a day, and getting in at least 14,000 steps seems to work.

Or I could eat more bagels!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

187 When I quit drinking, my heartburn probs quit too.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:47 PM (MvF+J)

188 So even though she will miss me, this blonde in tight jeans thinks it's admirable that I'm trying to do the right thing:
http://tiny.cc/au1qxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2024 12:40 PM (HnUIn)

Wasn't it a rapper thing way back to wear a masterlock around your neck like a pendant?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 12:47 PM (di6C2)

189 Just don't eat.

Hunger is your body succumbing to self-pity.

Don't give in to it.

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2024 12:48 PM (lknh/)

190 Lawrence Summers (former President of Harvard) and a couple of other economists noted in a paper that if we calculated inflation using the pre-1983 metric, inflation in 2022 was 18% - worse than under Carter.

We're at the point where we're begging the Ukrainians not to attack Russian oil refineries anymore, because that's driving up the world price of oil, which increases gas prices here.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 10, 2024 12:48 PM (YAtuc)

191 180 This inflation is dire. It's eating me up.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:48 PM (MvF+J)

192 Obviously, This Is Very Bad News For Biden": Wall Street Reacts To Today's Red Hot Inflation Print

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Obviously a lie. Biden has destroyed inflation, like, 20 times now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2024 12:48 PM (FVME7)

193 Speaking of fitness, this hospice thing is working out pretty good. That's right, I don't fear the reaper...

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF7mP2LASCo

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at April 10, 2024 12:48 PM (X4yCj)

194 In the 15-minute interview, Grondahl outlined the history of the company and the reason behind its founding. Grondahl started the gym, noting the Judgement Free Zone was meant to be a welcoming signal to novice gymgoers looking for a place to start. But when speaking about the company today, Grondahl says it's "devastating" what it's become.

You're the fucking CEO. Nothing happens without your blessing.

WTF?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 12:45 PM (FMTLw)

Former CEO.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 10, 2024 12:48 PM (aD39U)

195 Life Insurance doesnt pay out on suicide or 'suicide'
Posted by: BruceWayne

Many contracts do but there is a two-year exclusion.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 10, 2024 12:49 PM (s1dWN)

196 Ace,
Try apple cider vinegar. Pour about a tablespoon into a glass of water and drink. Chase with another glass of water. Do this every morning.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 10, 2024 12:49 PM (S8Lqf)

197 >>How about...no taxes for anyone who had ancestors that ever engaged in forced labor? Is that fair?

Ugh, don't even start.
Been watching "Finding Your Roots" show on PBS. It goes far in demonstrating that everyone has hardships and heroes in their past, and if you go far back enough you can find a connection (thanks, melting pot, for all that mixing of family lines). However, noticed that Gates now makes a point to find and mention slave owner relatives for every white guest. I get the impression they can do this for anyone whose family has been here for a few generations - laying the groundwork for reparations.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 10, 2024 12:49 PM (6IDWi)

198 152 Dessert: another 1000 calories of ~~crap~~ beer.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:40 PM (ibTVg)

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2024 12:49 PM (v0R5T)

199 There's a CrossFit joint in town that's had off and on issues with the clientele. It's mostly a bunch of guys from the base nearby that go into some sort of roid induced madness and end up beating each other to a pulp or whomever happens to be there. They also leer all over the women.

Which begs a question about the mentality of these people.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 10, 2024

***
On the way home each day I pass a CrossFit that's in a converted warehouse near the river. Hot days, 90 F. or more, and the rollup door is wide open -- no A/C. That makes me question the *sanity* of these people.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 12:49 PM (J2vNu)

200 I suggest we fire every economist over at the Bureau of Labor Shitistics

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2024 12:49 PM (RHGPo)

201 195 Life Insurance doesnt pay out on suicide or 'suicide'
Posted by: BruceWayne

Many contracts do but there is a two-year exclusion.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 10, 2024 12:49 PM (s1dWN)

=======

Just keep an eye for the fine print on the double indemnity clause!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

202 #183 addendum:
House Judiciary GOP @JudiciaryGOP 14h
Want to search an American citizen's data? GET A WARRANT.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 12:49 PM (vtyCZ)

203 Wasn't it a rapper thing way back to wear a masterlock around your neck like a pendant?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

"Master"?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2024 12:50 PM (FVME7)

204 16 Posted by: Virginia SoCon at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM (a/dOO)

It might be worth ten bucks a month for the showers, if you can keep the transmission people out of yours.

Posted by: sven at April 10, 2024 12:50 PM (X0I7i)

205 Masturbatin' Pete should be their new spokesperson.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 10, 2024 12:50 PM (woPEM)

206 Former WNBA Player Val Whiting Makes Clear Stance on Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports: “Not Fair nor Safe”

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Pretty much says it all.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Throws bs flag. Any woman in the WNBA could whip King LaBron Flop's ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 12:50 PM (FMTLw)

207 202 #183 addendum:
House Judiciary GOP @JudiciaryGOP 14h
Want to search an American citizen's data? GET A WARRANT.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 12:49 PM (vtyCZ)

======

"How about, instead, we fund a search engine and have back doors into everything it touches?"
-The CIA, 30 years ago

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

208 178 152 I've dropped a few pounds recently by keeping a notepad hand and reading the cals on labels. Also, for some stuff, the measuring cup is your friend. If you go on a, say, 1200 cal regimen it's pretty easy to blow it in one lunch. Tough thing, that appetite we all have.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 10, 2024 12:50 PM (0EOe9)

209 I found that losing weight took care of a lot of my heartburn.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 10, 2024 12:50 PM (9yWhg)

210 Try apple cider vinegar. Pour about a tablespoon into a glass of water and drink. Chase with another glass of water. Do this every morning.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 10, 2024

***
Make it weak, though, or it will tear your throat out. That stuff is like battery acid unless you *really* water it down. On the other hand, if it's well-watered over ice, it's not bad.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 12:51 PM (J2vNu)

211 Oh, good. Joe Mannix is here. THANK YOU JOE! I just read your rant about those McCracken County layabouts who should have been out there at the street fair handding out GOP political tracts to the masses! Man, am I mad! Just think, if those cats had been out hustling in 2020 with every thing on the line, the McCracken GOP might have swung the county to Trump !!!!!! Let's see, 2020 McCracken County general election results ... dum dee dum ...

2020 General election McCracken County:

Trump: 21,820 Biden: 11, 195

OOOPSIE OOOPSIE Never mind.

Posted by: mrp at April 10, 2024 12:51 PM (rj6Yv)

212 Well then I'll never join a Planet Fitness! But I gots to watch my NFL!

Posted by: True Conserfative, Beer Belly Edition at April 10, 2024 12:51 PM (qUkBO)

213 >Obviously, This Is Very Bad News For Biden": Wall Street Reacts To Today's Red Hot Inflation Print

Priorities.

Inflation is bad for Biden.

Posted by: davidt at April 10, 2024 12:51 PM (SYTee)

214 However, noticed that Gates now makes a point to find and mention slave owner relatives for every white guest.

Thank God they don't do the black guests!

Posted by: Barrack Obama, Descendent of Slaveholders! at April 10, 2024 12:51 PM (YAtuc)

215 It like a subscription to TELL people you belong to a gym but never actually go and if everyone who had a membership actually used it, the gyms would be overwhelmed.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 10, 2024 12:19 PM

--

For some people--It's not important who--a gym membership is a resolution they forgot they made.

Posted by: Paul Cezanne at April 10, 2024 12:51 PM (wzAuc)

216 They should just change the name to "Tranny Fitness". It should go well for them since they have no problem dropping "straight" customers, there must be plenty of tranny's to keep them going.

Posted by: TC at April 10, 2024 12:52 PM (FjlUt)

217 I wore a master lock on a dog chain around my neck as a field expedient sap in my misspent youth.

Posted by: sven at April 10, 2024 12:52 PM (X0I7i)

218 *lays down $1000*

I guarantee that all of us have slave blood in our veins. The practice is DEEPLY ingrained in human history- all races, all places.

The ONLY ones who ever tried to stop it were those Enlightenment Christians.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 12:52 PM (di6C2)

219 I'm all for people who don't pay any taxes not filing taxes. That way they can't get tax credits that are paid for by actual taxpayers. No 10,000$ "refund" for baby mama, etc.

Posted by: nckate at April 10, 2024 12:52 PM (Y5N4O)

220 Planet Fitness should just embrace their chosen path and serve up disposable enemas and poppers at their 'bar'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 10, 2024 12:52 PM (3vcct)

221 It might be worth ten bucks a month for the showers, if you can keep the transmission people out of yours.
Posted by: sven at April 10, 2024 12:50 PM (X0I7i)

You know, that's a good point. When I start hoboing around the country in my windowless Free Candy van, that would be handy for the old personal hygiene.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 10, 2024 12:52 PM (aD39U)

222 Nicholas Fondacaro
@NickFondacaro

ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg openly claims, without evidence, that Republicans "want to bring slavery back"
She goes on to demand progressive-activist justices on the Supreme Court:
"One of the good things about the Supreme Court is you can fight to make sure you make stuff better"

https://tinyurl.com/ykp9z2tb

Posted by: redridinghood at April 10, 2024 12:52 PM (NpAcC)

223 The biggest complaint I've heard about Crossfit is that they don't have any facilities to take a shower after getting into a major sweat. I've heard of Crossfit folks getting a membership at Planet Fitness or LA Fitness just to have a shower.

There are also some funny stories about folks doing some of their Crossfit routines at LA Fitness being took to take it down multiple levels.

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2024 12:52 PM (RHGPo)

224 Black roots, bellybutton ring, and a Masterlock necklace
WSB

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2024 12:53 PM (v0R5T)

225 Post-impressionist sock discarded.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 10, 2024 12:53 PM (wzAuc)

226 I wonder what alcohol goes with apple cider vinegar.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 10, 2024 12:53 PM (LjgPm)

227 >>ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg openly claims, without evidence, that Republicans "want to bring slavery back"

I'm all for bringing them back to Africa.

I don't even want store credit.

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2024 12:53 PM (lknh/)

228 I never want to meet a heartburn that famotidine can't knock out. That stuff rocks hard.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:54 PM (MvF+J)

229 Was ace sick?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 10, 2024 12:54 PM (fPaY0)

230 Planet Fitness doesnt want to be called a Gym anymore. They are now a Gina.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 12:54 PM (JpCVk)

231 Eat smaller dinner meals, earlier.

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Didja see this?

New York Post
@nypost
Spam, Vienna Sausages demand ‘on fire’ as inflation rages: Cheap meat ‘a regular item again

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The Miracle of Bidenomics!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2024 12:54 PM (FVME7)

232 Just eating less will not be effective because your metabolism will slow down in response.

One must also increase caloric output through increased exercise.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2024 12:54 PM (RIvkX)

233 A common theme in 1960s/70s comedy movies was young men going to absurd lengths to peep at women in a locker room.

Now denying them the 'right' to do so is 'literal' genocide

So Porky's is now a story of the stunning and brave resistance?

Posted by: Ian S. at April 10, 2024 12:54 PM (2ocoG)

234 222 Posted by: redridinghood at April 10, 2024 12:52 PM (NpAcC)

She is an amazing intellect, Republicans were the ones who ENDED it.

Goddamn I miss Limbaugh.

Posted by: sven at April 10, 2024 12:54 PM (X0I7i)

235 Often the same people who claim their pills make it impossible to lose weight based solely on some fine print in the label, without ever having tried any serious, sustained calorie reduction.

Most people can lose weight if they try. Admittedly, it is less fun than eating whatever you want. But simple calorie reduction will work for most, without a bunch of other dietary voodoo and gimmickry. But admitting that would require people to acknowledge they're making bad choices and reaping the consequences.
Posted by: Personal Responsibility? No Thanks

Frankly, a lot of it is both eating habits, and the foods that you choose to eat.
High carbohydrate diets tend to put on a lot of weight. And of course, the modern crisis
1) High fructose corn syrup as a sweetener
2) seed oils; canola, etc

My wife and I were looking at an article that had people on the beach in the 1970's versus people on the beach today.
Nobody was fat in the 1970's, and just about everyone is overweight (some by a LOT) today.
It's more than just "eating". The government and big agribusiness are literally trying to poison us all. The FDA will approve about anything in food.
continued

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 10, 2024 12:54 PM (vcOmj)

236 176 168 "By necessity, gyms tend to need huge spaces that must cost a fortune to rent. I'm sure costs and overhead are huge, especially in a modern gym with all the facilities and accoutrements."

If they've got showers, the water and sewer bills would be killers.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:44 PM (MvF+J)

Wear and tear on equipment could be good or bad, I dunno. Exercise shit ain't cheap.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 12:45 PM (di6C2)

My underinformed assumption was that these places stayed in business mostly because so many members don't use or barely use the facilities.

Posted by: Buying a Gym Membership is the First Step in a One-Step Plan for Many at April 10, 2024 12:54 PM (X5tRe)

237 President Biden has been quoted on many occasions as saying that no Constitutional amendment is absolute .. thus putting the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments (they ended slavery) up for grabs.

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2024 12:55 PM (RHGPo)

238 Heh...

The Cannes cut of Dawn of the Dead includes temp music from...Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

239 ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg openly claims, without evidence, that Republicans "want to bring slavery back"
She goes on to demand progressive-activist justices on the Supreme Court:
"One of the good things about the Supreme Court is you can fight to make sure you make stuff better"

https://tinyurl.com/ykp9z2tb
Posted by: redridinghood at April 10, 2024 12:52 PM (NpAcC)

I guarantee you Whoopi's has no idea how and why the Republican Party was founded. The communist brainwashing is easy to do to ignorant people.

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 12:55 PM (MNhXM)

240 I wonder what alcohol goes with apple cider vinegar.
Posted by: Beartooth at April 10, 2024 12:53 PM (LjgPm)
.......

Schnapps?

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2024 12:55 PM (v0R5T)

241 Be sure to alternate hands when jerking off to get the best work out results...

Posted by: Pervo Pete, Ex-Pandabator at April 10, 2024 12:55 PM (i3+Oa)

242 "One of the good things about the Supreme Court is you can fight to make sure you make stuff better"
---------

Oh is that what the Supreme Court is for? A "fight" to make things "better"? Lord.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 12:55 PM (JpCVk)

243 239 I guarantee you Whoopi's has no idea how and why the Republican Party was founded. The communist brainwashing is easy to do to ignorant people.
Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 12:55 PM (MNhXM)

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Doesn't matter.

The parties switched.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

244 "One of the good things about the Supreme Court is you can fight to make sure you make stuff better"

1980s > 2020s

So...that's not working out well

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:56 PM (ibTVg)

245 A good way to control calorie intake / overeating at meals is to try and have 4oz of Protein 30-40 minutes before you sit down to a meal.

Posted by: garrett at April 10, 2024 12:56 PM (lknh/)

246
The YMCA membership in my hood is about $57.00 per person per month. Huge freakin' facility. Two basketball courts that double for pickleball, two swimming pools, weight room, exercise room, paddleball court, two walking tracks, every fitness gadget possible.

Free with my healthcare plan. But they get charged only $2.00 every time I visit. Which is a good deal for the healthcare provider as I usually only go in the winter months.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 10, 2024 12:56 PM (RKVpM)

247 @139 Martini Farmer-its been a running joke for a long time now that CrossFit gyms are started up by dudes just looking to meet/hook up with women. The fighting/violence more than likely is over women. CrossFit is pretty popular for the newly divorced or long term relationship ladies that maybe put on a little weight after kids or complacency. After they've broken up they're determined to get back in shape. She goes there and is surrounded by male instructors that are in shape. These women are ripe for the plucking and a-holes take advantage of it. This is what has given CrossFit a reputation. Its happened a lot. It's too bad because it is a great way to stay in shape.

Posted by: JROD at April 10, 2024 12:56 PM (IlL6s)

248 242 "One of the good things about the Supreme Court is you can fight to make sure you make stuff better"
---------

Oh is that what the Supreme Court is for? A "fight" to make things "better"? Lord.
Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 12:55 PM (JpCVk)

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Isn't that what representative government is for?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

249
I get the impression they can do this for anyone whose family has been here for a few generations - laying the groundwork for reparations.
Posted by: Lizzy

Researched with all the thoroughness and in depth analysis of a Claudine Gay "peer reviewed" publication. Reparate that, buttheads.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 12:57 PM (CK+db)

250 >>Thank God they don't do the black guests!

Actually, they do. They've done it when slave owner fathered their great, great, great grandparent (or whatever) [see: Issa Rae] or when there's a white relative in the line that has a slave owner relative.

But last week Lena Dunham was told about a colonial era direct line relative in NY area who both swindled the local Native Americans bigly *and* owned slaves.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 10, 2024 12:57 PM (6IDWi)

251 Also, did I mention that Biden beat inflation and that it's a right wing conspiracy theory?"
-DU, 99.99993% probability
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Hey! Quit poaching on my turf!! Or, are you just making stuff up? It's so hard to tell...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 10, 2024 12:57 PM (JCZqz)

252 Everyone smoked in the 70's too. I'm not saying it's better or worse but you can't discount it. But clearly the emphasis on cheap grains and fast bread was a killer.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 12:57 PM (JpCVk)

253 I've dropped a few pounds recently by keeping a notepad hand and reading the cals on labels. Also, for some stuff, the measuring cup is your friend. If you go on a, say, 1200 cal regimen it's pretty easy to blow it in one lunch. Tough thing, that appetite we all have.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Adderall.
Seriously.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 12:58 PM (FMTLw)

254 My underinformed assumption was that these places stayed in business mostly because so many members don't use or barely use the facilities.
Posted by: Buying a Gym Membership is the First Step in a One-Step Plan for Many at April 10, 2024 12:54 PM (X5tRe)

To be fair, it is hard (not impossible) to damage free weights. Stationary bikes wear a lot on the moving parts, but you can keep them tightened down. My rowing machine, mostly what I do is keep the chain oiled.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 12:58 PM (di6C2)

255 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) suggests exempting blacks from taxes.

She then says maybe it's not the best idea because many blacks don't pay any taxes anyway… so maybe give free checks.

https://tinyurl.com/3vu824w2

Posted by: redridinghood at April 10, 2024 12:58 PM (NpAcC)

256 251 Hey! Quit poaching on my turf!! Or, are you just making stuff up? It's so hard to tell...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 10, 2024 12:57 PM (JCZqz)

=========

Makin' it up, boss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:58 PM (GBKbO)

257 Every president's family but one - Trump - owned slaves. Someone tell Whoopi and watch her big stupid head explode.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 12:58 PM (JpCVk)

258 42

How many homos can a homo homo if a homo homos homos?

Posted by: Pervo Pete, Ex-Pandabator at April 10, 2024 12:21 PM (i3+Oa)
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Didn't you get the memo? The word 'homosexual' and derivatives is no longer allowed as it is a pejorative term and hate speech.

Posted by: Ciampino - Myself? I like to call homosexuals 'queers'! at April 10, 2024 12:59 PM (qfLjt)

259 Just eating less will not be effective because your metabolism will slow down in response.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Not necessarily. I lost a lot of weight when I was going through a bad bout of depression and anxiety many years ago. One reason was because my appetite decreased, sure, but also because depression and anxiety eat up a lot of calories.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 10, 2024 12:59 PM (9yWhg)

260 Biden's new State Department diversity chief labelled America as "failed historic model" with "colonizing past." Come read her word salad.

"In every position I have held, from junior associate to Senior Advisor, there have been opportunities to challenge the forces that seek to silence women and those most vulnerable in society. In those board rooms, in the tight knit working group, in the advocacy and activist spaces and in grand bureaucracies, there are mechanisms and cultures which dispute the humanity and ability of people like me to be trusted to lead. This happens, not because we are unprepared or unwilling, but because the rules created in our organizations and baked into their very foundations, are often riddled with racism, patriarchy and exclusion. These are chinks in the armor of traditional leadership that refuse to reconcile with a colonizing past, or recognize that time has run out for experimentation and tweaking of a failed historic model."

It is, however, apparently permissible for her to dispute the humanity and ability of people she doesn't like.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 10, 2024 12:59 PM (YQ4mh)

261 Continued:

Compare some of the same "labeled" food products sold in Europe and sold in the US. The US food products have a whole host of additional ingredients; preservatives, color agents , etc., that are not present in the same-name products sold in Europe or the UK.
Why is that?
A clue is a lot of these things are not healthy, but the FDA permits these things because....they are paid off.
Eating healthy can be hard, because you really have to peruse the labels of a lot of things sold in the supermarket. HFCS, seed oils, toxic preservatives. And be careful of what kind of meat you buy. Especially chicken, as a lot of chicken producers load up their livestock with antibiotics and steroids, and other things to keep them healthy and fattening prior to slaughter.
Tyson. Enough said.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 10, 2024 12:59 PM (vcOmj)

262 Be sure to alternate hands when jerking off to get the best work out results...
Posted by: Pervo Pete, Ex-Pandabator at April 10, 2024 12:55 PM (i3+Oa)

Won't that get the magazine all sticky?

Posted by: some wanker at April 10, 2024 12:59 PM (v0R5T)

263 Everyone smoked in the 70's too. I'm not saying it's better or worse but you can't discount it. But clearly the emphasis on cheap grains and fast bread was a killer.
Posted by: ...

The USDA's food pyramid is upside down.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 12:59 PM (FMTLw)

264 So, from what I'm reading, the fact I don't have a weight problem and still have my hair, even at age 29, makes me abnormal by American standards?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 10, 2024 12:59 PM (tT6L1)

265 Best investment Mrs. G and I have made over the past few years is buying our own Barbells, Dumbbells, and Rig for our home gym. Never going back to a public gym, love the peace of mind of throwing heavy crap around in the comfort of my own home.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at April 10, 2024 12:59 PM (W3T6M)

266 Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee 11h
The House must NOT reauthorize FISA 702 without a warrant requirement.

Please share and tell your representative immediately, as votes are scheduled for tomorrow.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 12:46 PM (vtyCZ)

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How 'bout a "Truth in Labeling" Bill that changes FISA to the DPEISCGA (Domestic Political Enemies Intelligence Surveillance, Coup, and Gulags Act)?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 10, 2024 12:59 PM (cnXHa)

267
Posted by: mrp at April 10, 2024 12:51 PM (rj6Yv)
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His point was they should have been open.

This was a regional event attended by many from OUTSIDE the county. Bringing up old county vote totals is besides the point.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2024 01:01 PM (RIvkX)

268 252 Everyone smoked in the 70's too. I'm not saying it's better or worse but you can't discount it. But clearly the emphasis on cheap grains and fast bread was a killer.
Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 12:57 PM (JpCVk)

Last time I checked, the incidence of lung cancer was still rising even though the rate of smoking was dropping like a rock.

Now, on the other hand, you can tell smoking is not exactly good for you. But still, it makes you wonder.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 01:01 PM (di6C2)

269
2020 General election McCracken County:

Trump: 21,820 Biden: 11, 195

OOOPSIE OOOPSIE Never mind.
Posted by: mrp at April 10, 2024 12:51 PM (rj6Yv)

Maybe people outside Phil McCracken County came in for the eclipse? Nahhhhh that's crazy talk.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 01:01 PM (JpCVk)

270 It's more than just "eating". The government and big agribusiness are literally trying to poison us all. The FDA will approve about anything in food.
continued

I think most of this is a cope. "Government made me fat."

At any rate, there's no serious way to reduce your calories into a range that will produce weight loss that doesn't also involve jettisoning all the unnecessary sugar and carbs. The real problem is that American think of calorie reduction as having a diet coke with their daily lunch at What-a-Burger.

Posted by: Buying a Gym Membership is the First Step in a One-Step Plan for Many at April 10, 2024 01:01 PM (X5tRe)

271 I want to yell and hit a big kick bag at a gym.
Walk around like sumo wrestler.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 10, 2024 01:02 PM (J8LnB)

272
ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg

Dumb fuck who's dumb as fuck makes a statement chock full of dumb fuckery.

Do better, ABC. Do better.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 01:02 PM (CK+db)

273 I do see a lot of people claiming they can't lose weight that I see eating the following:

Breakfast: Bagel with cream cheese, frappachino

Lunch: Big Mac and large fries or half a pizza or dinner sized serving of food from the local fast casual place

Snack: Another frappachino with a pastry

Dinner: 2000 calories of crap

Dessert: another 1000 calories of crap
Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 12:40 PM (ibTVg)
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Stop staring at me!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 10, 2024 01:02 PM (FCbAQ)

274 Best investment Mrs. G and I have made over the past few years is buying our own Barbells, Dumbbells, and Rig for our home gym. Never going back to a public gym, love the peace of mind of throwing heavy crap around in the comfort of my own home.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at April 10, 2024

***
That'd be my plan too. Maybe in the garage -- though I'll need an A/C unit in the hottest part of the year, and some kind of heat in the coldest.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 01:02 PM (J2vNu)

275 >>ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg openly claims, without evidence, that Republicans "want to bring slavery back"

There's something so weird about a woman of such wealth and success obsessing about every GOP candidate in memory secretly wanting to bring slavery back. She's the one who asked John McCain if he was planning to do that, as if that was a policy he commonly discussed (not an out-of-nowhere racist allegation).

I don't get it - who discusses this, where is this fear coming from?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 10, 2024 01:02 PM (6IDWi)

276
I also think that shoes back in the 70's weighed a lot more then they do today. I pick up my shoes nowadays and there is hardly any weight to them. Since just plain old walking around exercises the largest muscle, you could see where that would add up for someone who walks a lot.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 10, 2024 01:02 PM (RKVpM)

277 Didn't you get the memo? The word 'homosexual' and derivatives is no longer allowed as it is a pejorative term and hate speech.
Posted by: Ciampino - Myself? I like to call homosexuals 'queers'! at April 10, 2024 12:59 PM (qfLjt)

As determined by a bunch of fags.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 10, 2024 01:02 PM (xPJvm)

278

Doesn't matter.

The parties switched.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

Must have just happened Whoopi's since it was the Dems who started the KKK, filibustered the Civil Rights legislation, elected a former Grand Kleagal as their Lion of the Senate, used abortion as a tool against blacks and believe blacks can't succeed without white Dems assistance.

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 01:03 PM (MNhXM)

279 Doesn't matter.

The parties switched.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

I always like to ask them if that means McCarthy would be a Democrat today but they never seem to want to own him.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 01:03 PM (JpCVk)

280 "ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg"

Too much ridiculous in that combination of words.

Posted by: davidt at April 10, 2024 01:03 PM (SYTee)

281 I also think that shoes back in the 70's weighed a lot more then they do today. I pick up my shoes nowadays and there is hardly any weight to them. Since just plain old walking around exercises the largest muscle, you could see where that would add up for someone who walks a lot.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 10, 2024 01:02 PM (RKVpM)

This, plus tech has made us a nation of sedentary retards. people bitched about couch potatoes in the age of TV, but I'd say it is even worse now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 01:03 PM (di6C2)

282 I worked out in my garage until it becomes too hot in summer then went to PFs as a cheap, AC'd alternate.

Found it to be full of fat haus fraus and gheys. Like the Weidmar Empire.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 10, 2024 01:04 PM (wBaIH)

283 Riddle me this: Is there ANYTHING that wokeness has either A) created uniquely and gone on to become successful and beautiful and meritorious, or B) not taken something from working and useful and beautiful and utterly broken it?

Show me your wins. Show me your benefits. It's like the dolts who forever proclaim the evils of capitalism and tout the wonder of socialism -- but can't find a single example of socialism doing anything but devolving into murderous chaos.

Posted by: red speck at April 10, 2024 01:04 PM (0Id0S)

284 I'm pretty sure Whoopi would stink at any kind of productive labor. So I don't think she has to worry about enslavement much.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 10, 2024 01:04 PM (9yWhg)

285 I also think that shoes back in the 70's weighed a lot more then they do today. I pick up my shoes nowadays and there is hardly any weight to them. Since just plain old walking around exercises the largest muscle, you could see where that would add up for someone who walks a lot.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 10, 2024

***
In '76, my first "real" pair of running shoes, a Converse model made of leather, weighed what felt like ten pounds each. When I bought a pair of Nike trainers, it changed everything.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 01:04 PM (J2vNu)

286 I don't get it - who discusses this, where is this fear coming from?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 10, 2024 01:02 PM (6IDWi)

It's coming from people like Whoopi Goldberg.

Pure psy op drivel. They gon put y'all back in chains.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 01:04 PM (JpCVk)

287 OT:
Was at AAA early this morning before opening. Guy sticks his head out the door and asks the woman in front of me if she was "Elizabeth".
Had to give him a hard time when I went in.
"You never asked ME if I was Elizabeth!" when I saw him again. We both got a good laugh out of it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 01:04 PM (ynpvh)

288 279 I always like to ask them if that means McCarthy would be a Democrat today but they never seem to want to own him.
Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 01:03 PM (JpCVk)

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They have one piece of evidence: Strom Thurmond.

They can't name a single other Dixiecrat, but they know that because Strom Thurmond went Dem to Dixie to Rep, that means all of them did.

Spoiler: Strom was literally the only elected Dixiecrat who did that.

Also, modern day Republicans love FDR and hate Coolidge while modern day Democrats love Coolidge and hate FDR.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

289 15 6 PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at April 10, 2024 12:15 PM

They make it cheap enough so that people don't bother canceling even if they never actually use the gym.
Posted by: Liberty at April 10, 2024 12:17 PM

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If your customers aren't noticing that monthly debit, maybe you oughta hit dat weekly?

Posted by: WinRed at April 10, 2024 01:04 PM (wzAuc)

290 but can't find a single example of socialism doing anything but devolving into murderous chaos.
Posted by: red speck at April 10, 2024 01:04 PM (0Id0S)

Real socialism has never been tried.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 01:05 PM (JpCVk)

291
These are chinks in the armor of traditional leadership

"chinks"?

"Chinks?!"

"CHINKS!!!!!!?????"

Do better, you bigoted scrunt.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 01:05 PM (CK+db)

292 For some reason, ewetub keeps saying there are massive storms in east texas and the swamp states. It's like every day.

True, or bullshit?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 01:05 PM (di6C2)

293 288 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

Well "no"....

Donks love the New Deal, they Jedi Hand Wave the Japanese Internment....

Cal was the smartest President ever in stopping inflation.

Posted by: sven at April 10, 2024 01:06 PM (X0I7i)

294 Private equity is ruining everything.

Posted by: From gyms to healthcare to housing at April 10, 2024 01:06 PM (pFhjh)

295 For some reason, ewetub keeps saying there are massive storms in east texas and the swamp states. It's like every day.

True, or bullshit?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024

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It poured here this morning between eight and ten, slacked off, and is raining (though more lightly) again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 01:07 PM (J2vNu)

296 293 Well "no"....

Donks love the New Deal, they Jedi Hand Wave the Japanese Internment....

Cal was the smartest President ever in stopping inflation.
Posted by: sven at April 10, 2024 01:06 PM (X0I7i)

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Also, modern day Republicans (well, the voters at least) seem to have real problems with Wilson's vision of an all-powerful administrative state which is odd if the GOP is descended from Wilson's party of the 1910s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

297 Doesn't matter.

The parties switched.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

I always like to ask them if that means McCarthy would be a Democrat today but they never seem to want to own him.
Posted by: ...

So Robert Byrd was a republican?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 01:07 PM (FMTLw)

298 For the longest time the *only* black Democrat reps were elected from majority black areas. It's probably still mostly true, I haven't checked lately.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 01:08 PM (JpCVk)

299 If you are 29 or over , all you need is a body weight exercise routine . You can gain as much muscle as you desire.

Genetics helped but one example is Herschel Walker.

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 01:08 PM (MNhXM)

300 297 So Robert Byrd was a republican?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 01:07 PM (FMTLw)

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I sure hope Joe Biden doesn't have quotes praising Byrd!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

301 Private equity is ruining everything.
Posted by: From gyms to healthcare to housing

Yep. That's how I lost my job last year. Company I worked for got acquired by private equity, and my position was eliminated. I hate private equity.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 10, 2024 01:08 PM (9yWhg)

302 The history of abuse in the management of the company is terrible.

How are we only hearing this because they went "woke"?

Posted by: Dianna at April 10, 2024 01:08 PM (kiM40)

303 His point was they should have been open.

This was a regional event attended by many from OUTSIDE the county. Bringing up old county vote totals is besides the point.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2024 01:01 PM (RIvkX)

At the county level, the GOP is all about the local officials. The offices are staffed by volunteers, either retirees, or people who work for a living. IOW, people with lives. A "regional" event? An eclipse that's a once-in-a-lifetime "event"? I've worked at the county level. If my county could turn out a 2 to 1 election vote count for my party, I'd be ecstatic. Probably watch the eclipse, too.

Posted by: mrp at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (rj6Yv)

304 296 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

Again "well no" Progressivism's birth in this nation was under the 1890s reformers starting in the 1880s.

Woodrow Wilson was a dickhead racist nutjob who used the US Constitution for toilet paper-he is perhaps literally Obama's grandpa.

Posted by: sven at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (X0I7i)

305 Sounds like they need to exercise their demons more than their biceps.

Posted by: Roberto at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (bkf/+)

306 ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg openly claims, without evidence, that Republicans "want to bring slavery back"

Damn guys, she's on to us!

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (4p0Xq)

307 We must, we must, we must improve our bust !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (NtVYv)

308 I may have told this story before. My company's office is next door to a gym. One day I'm out walking a lap around the building and I hear "Thump...thump...thump." I come around the corner and there's a guy with a tractor tire on the ground and he's whaling away at it with a sledgehammer. Probably pretty good exercise but I thought how good is your life when you can take time off in the middle of the day to go somewhere and pay money to pretend to do manual labor?

Posted by: Oddbob at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (/y8xj)

309 Just eating less will not be effective because your metabolism will slow down in response.

One must also increase caloric output through increased exercise.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2024 12:54 PM (RIvkX)

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About 10 years ago, I lost 60 lbs through diet alone. Gained it back, and trying to take it off again, but this time I'm also doing a lot of exercising; for the health benefits more than the weight loss. Cardio for heart & lungs, weight training for muscle mass, yoga/pilates for mobility.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (DRSnL)

310 If you are 29 or over , all you need is a body weight exercise routine . You can gain as much muscle as you desire.

Genetics helped but one example is Herschel Walker.
Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024

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Do calisthenics count as "body weight exercise"? I get in my pushups, crunches, and leg cycling nearly every morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (J2vNu)

311 305 Sounds like they need to exercise their demons more than their biceps.
Posted by: Roberto at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (bkf/+)

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You are correct, Sir!

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 10, 2024 01:10 PM (JeYYB)

312 For some reason, ewetub keeps saying there are massive storms in east texas and the swamp states. It's like every day.

True, or bullshit?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 01:05 PM (di6C2)
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According to my preferred weather thingy, it's true. Lots of lightning. Especially in LA, MS & AL

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 10, 2024 01:10 PM (xPJvm)

313 292 For some reason, ewetub keeps saying there are massive storms in east texas and the swamp states. It's like every day.

True, or bullshit?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 01:05 PM (di6C2)

There was in the north Houston area last night. Heavy rain in a short amount of time. But I didn't have to swim to work or anything.

Posted by: My backyard is probably a swamp at April 10, 2024 01:10 PM (X5tRe)

314 306 ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg openly claims, without evidence, that Republicans "want to bring slavery back"

Damn guys, she's on to us!
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (4p0Xq)

Even if it means I have to be a slave, myself, I want this brought back just because I want to see someone take a whip to Whoopi.

Posted by: XTC at April 10, 2024 01:10 PM (UnA8+)

315 307 We must, we must, we must improve our bust !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (NtVYv)

Next time we'll entrap more innocent people and shoot more of them when serving our no-knock warrant!

Posted by: BATFE at April 10, 2024 01:11 PM (pFhjh)

316 306 ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg openly claims, without evidence, that Republicans "want to bring slavery back"

Damn guys, she's on to us!
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (4p0Xq)

Braaaak! Braaaakkk! Republicans racist.

Braaak

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 10, 2024 01:11 PM (3aLWR)

317 Ugh two Planet Fitnesses opened up here in Denton within the last 2 years. They are both in nasty places. One opened up next to a planned parenthood clinic. The other opened up next to an Aaron's that's been frequently robbed. With all the development here in North Texas these bozos couldn't get better sites?

Posted by: Mishdog at April 10, 2024 01:11 PM (qWCcc)

318 High fructose corn syrup as a sweetener

It gets a bad rap because 'experts' have said it's bad. In fact it is only slightly different than what sugar (sucrose) becomes in the gut, it is very slightly richer in fructose but both are approx. 1:1 glucose:fructose.

Posted by: Ciampino - Top ... Men at April 10, 2024 01:11 PM (qfLjt)

319 Alex Jones To Sue CIA After Undercover Report Claims Agency "Went After Him Hardcore"

"We have to bring all this out..."

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2024 01:11 PM (RHGPo)

320 Teddy Roosevelt dabbled in it first, and was smart enough to figure out it was retarded by the time he was a Bull Moose.

The parties "switching" used to send me on 83,000 word cited posts using the Congressional Record.

I broke a young lady at my shop down to tears when I mocked her with pantomime asking which phone booth my family ran into as democrats and came out republicans.

Posted by: sven at April 10, 2024 01:11 PM (X0I7i)

321 Yep. Republicans plan on having slaves work on their vast plantations...

The truly sick thing is it's of course it's all more projection. The Left are busy winding the chains around everyone and the bits in our mouths this very day.

They plan to have the nation and eventually the globe imprisoned. And if you notice or speak out you will be ruined.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 01:12 PM (JpCVk)

322 "PF membership here advertised for $10/mo. How do they stay in business?
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment"

Because 90% of people that sign up for a gym use it a few times and then get bored or give up and rarely or never go back but keep paying anyway. The gyms know this.

Posted by: Ripley at April 10, 2024 01:12 PM (JojsZ)

323 305 Sounds like they need to exercise their demons more than their biceps.
Posted by: Roberto at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (bkf/+)

These days it's the LGBTQIAWTFBBQceps, you bigot.

Posted by: Inclusion! at April 10, 2024 01:12 PM (pFhjh)

324 Biden Expected To Issue Executive Order On Border Within Weeks

President Joe Biden told Spanish-language broadcaster Univision in a Tuesday interview that he plans to issue an executive order to 'dramatically limit the number of asylum-seekers' who can cross the southern border, Axios reports, noting that "while it's not final, such an executive order is likely by the end of April."

Oh so you can do it without Congress and $60B for Ukraine?

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2024 01:12 PM (RHGPo)

325 312 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 10, 2024 01:10 PM (xPJvm)

The ArkLaTex had severe weather since ~ 2000 last evening, until about 1000 this morning....

Tornado watches, flash flood warnings.

Posted by: sven at April 10, 2024 01:13 PM (X0I7i)

326 My major workout routine is a mix of walking and "trotting" -- I can't really call it running or jogging. One third trotting out of a mile, about six minutes out of eighteen. I can go for longer distance and run up the trotting time. At my 29+ age, it's gratifying when I can run, however slowly, for 45-60 seconds and not be out of breath.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 01:13 PM (J2vNu)

327 That'd be my plan too. Maybe in the garage -- though I'll need an A/C unit in the hottest part of the year, and some kind of heat in the coldest.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 01:02 PM (J2vNu)

We bought a cheap Wal-Mart rig and put it in our carport to do workouts outside in warm months. We use a fan just have some air flow. We have an indoor rig and weights from Rogue, which I can't recommend enough. We check the site for their rejects, which they sell anywhere from 30-50% off. Even the reject equipment is quality stuff.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at April 10, 2024 01:13 PM (W3T6M)

328 320 The parties "switching" used to send me on 83,000 word cited posts using the Congressional Record.

I broke a young lady at my shop down to tears when I mocked her with pantomime asking which phone booth my family ran into as democrats and came out republicans.
Posted by: sven at April 10, 2024 01:11 PM (X0I7i)

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I had my worst college professor announce that Congress members literally switched sides of the Congressional chamber during the Civil Rights vote.

Later, I looked up the actual record, and that's when I discovered that roughly 90% of Republicans voted for it while roughly 80% of Democrats voted for it.

Almost like the parties switched thing was bullshit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

329 290 but can't find a single example of socialism doing anything but devolving into murderous chaos.
Posted by: red speck at April 10, 2024 01:04 PM (0Id0S)

Real socialism has never been tried.

*kampuchea has entered the chat*

Posted by: anachronda at April 10, 2024 01:13 PM (v3pYe)

330 Do calisthenics count as "body weight exercise"? I get in my pushups, crunches, and leg cycling nearly every morning.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 01:09 PM (J2vNu)

Sure . You can add dips , pull ups and squats and you would be good to go. Adding reps and time between sets would measure your progression.

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 01:13 PM (MNhXM)

331 ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg openly claims, without evidence, that Republicans "want to bring slavery back"

She's nothing if not consistent in her invincible stupidity. In an interview with McCain during his Washington Generals gig against Obama, Whoopi directly asked him whether she had to worry about becoming a "slave again" if Ol' Maverick was elected.

Posted by: spindrift at April 10, 2024 01:14 PM (OguvZ)

332 nood fani ...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 10, 2024 01:14 PM (bving)

333 324 Biden Expected To Issue Executive Order On Border Within Weeks

President Joe Biden told Spanish-language broadcaster Univision in a Tuesday interview that he plans to issue an executive order to 'dramatically limit the number of asylum-seekers' who can cross the southern border, Axios reports, noting that "while it's not final, such an executive order is likely by the end of April."

Oh so you can do it without Congress and $60B for Ukraine?
Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2024 01:12 PM (RHGPo)

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AWFLs should vote for RFK because Biden is trying to make their gardening more expensive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 10, 2024 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

334 Because 90% of people that sign up for a gym use it a few times and then get bored or give up and rarely or never go back but keep paying anyway. The gyms know this.
Posted by: Ripley at April 10, 2024 01:12 PM (JojsZ)

Yuuuup. People who are serious about the gym typically don't belong to PF in the first place.

Posted by: They sell memberships not fitness at April 10, 2024 01:14 PM (pFhjh)

335 >>ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg openly claims, without evidence, that Republicans "want to bring slavery back"

Meanwhile, her president Biden is bring human trafficking and sex slavery into the US bigtime thanks to his open border and elimination of Trump era policies (DNA testing, etc.) that were used to determine if the adults ferrying kiddies into the US were their parents or pimps.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 10, 2024 01:15 PM (6IDWi)

336 The local PF seems to be struggling. That said, there have been four Hot Yoga places spring up nearby in the last year. Not sure that plays a part.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 10, 2024 01:16 PM (W/lyH)

337 Whoopi Goldberg openly claims that Republicans "want to bring slavery back"
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Didn't she say regarding the Holocaust, "not my people, not my problem", and that the "original" Nazi issues weren't about race?

So she'll defend Nazis but attack Republicans.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 01:16 PM (JpCVk)

338 >>>
Lunch: Big Mac and large fries or half a pizza or dinner sized serving of food from the local fast casual place

Snack: Another frappachino with a pastry

Dinner: 2000 calories of crap

Dessert: another 1000 calories of crap
Posted by: 18-1
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There was an all you can eat lunch buffet that served fried chicken and pizza, nothing else. Oh, beer but that was extra.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 01:16 PM (KMNmt)

339 Even if it means I have to be a slave, myself, I want this brought back just because I want to see someone take a whip to Whoopi.
Posted by: XTC at April 10, 2024 01:10 PM (UnA8+

Well someone already beat her with an ugly stick.

Posted by: polynikes at April 10, 2024 01:17 PM (MNhXM)

340 By what comment or policy does the republican party want to bring back slavery?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 10, 2024 01:17 PM (JeYYB)

341 For some reason, ewetub keeps saying there are massive storms in east texas and the swamp states. It's like every day.

True, or bullshit?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Tru-ish. Most have already moved out with more on the way. We got over 6 inches Monday evening in about 3 hours.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 01:17 PM (FMTLw)

342 Whoopie's bloated corpse is leaking gas. I mean she's saying stupid shit again.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 10, 2024 01:18 PM (JeYYB)

343 291
These are chinks in the armor of traditional leadership

"chinks"?

"Chinks?!"

"CHINKS!!!!!!?????"

Do better, you bigoted scrunt.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

Attended an Army antiterrorism class with a former SF major. Ethnically Korean with a good sense of humor, who was sitting in the front row. The instructor said something about the goal of the AT program to identify and correct chinks in the armor, and the major leapt to his feet, slammed the table, and bellowed "why's it gotta be chinks!?!?!" The instructor was stunned, started stammering apologies, completely confused and terrified. The major then smiled, said "nah, I'm just fucking with you" and sat back down.

Posted by: Military Moron at April 10, 2024 01:19 PM (JCZqz)

344 Whoopi Goldberg openly claims that Republicans "want to bring slavery back"
---------

Didn't she say regarding the Holocaust, "not my people, not my problem", and that the "original" Nazi issues weren't about race?

So she'll defend Nazis but attack Republicans.
Posted by: ... at April 10, 2024 01:16 PM (JpCVk)

She's lazy and her mouth's for rent.

Posted by: mrp at April 10, 2024 01:19 PM (rj6Yv)

345 337 Whoopi Goldberg openly claims that Republicans "want to bring slavery back"
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hummina, hummina, hummina Whoopie up for auction, no reserve, what am I bit?
hummina, hummina, hummina it's an open auction folks bid up
hummina, hummina, hummina anything, come on folks let's bid this up.

from the back of the room --- > not one plug nickle

Posted by: Braenyard at April 10, 2024 01:20 PM (KMNmt)

346 Remember when women 'sports reporters' got the right to go into the men's team locker room but male reporters didn't get the same right to the women's locker room? Well now all the guy with the microphone has to say is that 'she' identifies as a woman and bob's your aunty.

Posted by: Ciampino - Didn't the women reporters complain about nudity? at April 10, 2024 01:21 PM (qfLjt)

347 Only lizards watch The View for updating kill lists.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 10, 2024 01:22 PM (J8LnB)

348 Put y'all back in chains!

What nonsense. Nobody powerful wants slavery back in any form when selling the American Dream lets us put the shackles on ourselves.
Why pay for the housing and health care of your slaves when you can pay them just enough, or just not enough, to take care of themselves?

Really. The working class and the middle/upper middle classes extend themselves so far to live the lifestyle that they're locked in for decades to a job they may hate so they don't lose it all.
All the while buying shit they don't need to keep that consumption economy moving.

Slavery is a suckers bet.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 10, 2024 01:29 PM (FCbAQ)

349 347 Only lizards watch The View for updating kill lists.

only lizards > only fans

Posted by: anachronda at April 10, 2024 01:32 PM (v3pYe)

350 349 347 Only lizards watch The View for updating kill lists.

only lizards > only fans
Posted by: anachronda

I've got me eye on a few of them white whales...

Posted by: Captain Ahab at April 10, 2024 01:37 PM (JCZqz)

351 My major workout routine is a mix of walking and "trotting" -- I can't really call it running or jogging. One third trotting out of a mile, about six minutes out of eighteen. I can go for longer distance and run up the trotting time. At my 29+ age, it's gratifying when I can run, however slowly, for 45-60 seconds and not be out of breath.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2024 01:13 PM (J2vNu)

That's Stonewall Jackson's force march rules. Then 10 minutes out of the hour you were to stop and lie down.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 01:40 PM (eoQWY)

352 Joe Biden is the last Dixiecrat.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 01:40 PM (ibTVg)

353 They are changing the reason to “no time” because they can’t have people ending subscriptions for woke policies arrested yet.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 10, 2024 01:47 PM (WLul0)

354 We're RoboGym. We're better than you. And we know it.

Posted by: Tonyp at April 10, 2024 02:18 PM (8DMrW)

355 This is not new except that it has gone national. 2015 near me. Woman complained about a man in the woman's locker-room and then had her membership cancelled.

https://tinyurl.com/bdcsv5hd

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