I must agree. Sometimes if you breathe incorrectly you need to catch up. If you sound like an airhose at a service station, you're doing it wrong, but a bit of grunting/shouting is fine if it's pushing you to the limit. Somedays you grunt, somedays everything is simple and you don't.

Get over it or get out of the free weights room. It's already hard enough to train with any serious amounts of weight without some whinging little sod walking up and complaining that you're "monopolizing" a bench or a barbell or a dumbbell they want because you've been swapping exercises on the bench for 20 minutes or because you're being "disruptive" by making NOISE. Jesus christ how frigging hard is it? When you lift, if it's a heavy weight chances are it'll muck with your breathing unless you have years of training to do otherwise. Your chest tightens, your abs tighten, your back tightens, your muscles tighten just to support you and your oh so precious internal bits. THIS SQUEEZES ON YOUR LUNGS. IT MAKES GETTING A BREATH WHEN IT ALL GOES DIRECTLY TO YOUR MUSCLES HARD. SOMETIMES A PARTICULAR IMPACT WILL DRIVE THE AIR FROM YOUR LUNGS. SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO GASP IT BACK IN TO AVOID PASSING OUT.

I'll stop.


I ask that you are not readily mistaken for a woman like, say, Bill Kaulitz. I like my gender lines easy to spot.

Everyone in Canada calls it pop. I have never heard a person, in real life ever say "Let's get a soda."

It just doesn't happen. I don't know maybe it is a southerner thing.

New England: Soda.

Midwest / West: Pop.

South: Coke.

According to a report on NPR yesterday.

(PS: It appears to be Soda in Quebec as well-- always is every time I'm up there. And I believe in some parts of Ontario, like Toronto-- the Toronto-folk I know use Soda. So apparently it does happen.)

I thought about it some more, and we don't call them soda or pop or coke. In Chinese we do call them what is literally translated as gassy drinks (汽水), but in English, I don't think we have an actual term that we actually use for such drinks.

Why not call it Soda Pop? You get the best of both worlds that way.

Lighten up! Generally, pet peeve threads are more for fun than taking things seriously. Earlier, some guy mentioned he hates southern accents. I could have gotten offended, but it isn't anything worth getting all worked up over! Pet peeves are simply small annoyances, not eternal vows of hatred. I already said that I grunt too on my heavy lifting days! I was talking about the fellas who were doing it to the point of sounding as if they were giving birth. Yes, grunting is necessary. No, it isn't necessary to be heard outside the gym itself in an attempt to impress others. Because frankly, that's the only reason anyone would be grunting that loud unless they've seriously hurt themself.

Don't be so touchy.

Rule number 7.
# No power lifting and no chalk

It's hard enough to work out anywhere and lift large weights. I've been kicked out of one place already because the Man IN Charge decided that I was being disruptive by using the leg press for 300 kilo weights, far and away the best I can manage. Somehow. The gym I'm in currently is fairly tolerant, we've got one proper power lifter and a the standard bunch of Large Men, as well as Frightening Muscle Girl Number 1. Thank christ.

I'm from California, I live in Oregon now, I have never called it pop. Only old people called it that.

To be fair, they said "New England and California".

Never mentioned anything about Oregon, but Washington state used pop when I was visiting. Which would fit in the "West" category.

Should write the whole thing, then.

And some Oregonians use Pop. It irks me.

Pet peeve #1: People who buy $300 worth of groceries and can't be bothered to lift a finger to pack any of their own bags. So, they stand there staring dumbly at the cashier, who (because Sunday = super crowded) is unassisted by a bagger and is therefore stuck trying to ring up what appears to be half the store while bagging the items.

Of course, then the cashier looked at me like I had two heads because I bagged my own, so idk.

Pet peeve #2: Grocery stores on the weekends. I wish I wasn't too tired on weeknights to shop

Pet peeve #3: The Quiverfull movement. Holy those people scare me.

You guys are lazy then. Here in Norway you always pack your own bags at the grocery store. It honestly ain't that difficult.

What is that?

I always pack my own (in reusable cloth bags, which earns me a small discount), but yeah a lot of people don't feel that they should.



It's a small religious movement stemming from a phrase in the Bible that basically says you should "keep your quiver full for God", i.e. women should have more than five children so as to build "God's Army", and basically be walking, talking baby factories. Girls are brought up to believe that their only value is in this pursuit, they're often discouraged or forbidden from attending college, and are taught instead to be "good, submissive wives and mothers for the lord." There's also a lot of stuff about dressing modestly, which seems to mean you're supposed to look like the women in a Prairie Reenactment costume catalog.

That's great. In Norway you always have to buy or bring your own bags, and always pack them yourselves. I don't get why it isn't like that in some other countries. It isn't that exhausting. Even an 80 year old can pack their own bags.

As for the "Quiverfull", it sounds more like you should get a quiverfull of arrows for them. To shoot holes into such a backwards, selfish ideal.

I've heard it called many things, but not a quiver.

Many grocery stores are moving in that direction, but Americans tend to be slow to adopt things that require effort. So, for now what they do is give you a small discount per reusable bag you use (at the store where I shop it's 5 cents/bag), with the eventual goal of phasing out free paper/plastic bags entirely.

Cloth or heavy plastic reusable bags are far more efficient, honestly. They hold more without breaking, and even the cheap ones ($1 USD) are heavy enough for most grocery items.



Indeed.

People are stupid?

Another Pet Peeve: People who think because they don't want kids, nobody should have kids. In fact, they think kids are so terrible they hand out condoms and birth control samples. And lists of "Things you can do if you never have kids." They don't advocate "don't have kids now". They advocate "NEVER HAVE CHILDREN"!

Dammit, if it's my dream to have kids one day, let it be my dream.