Anxiety said:

I'm pretty sure that outfit will be mentioned on the "make or break a relationship thread" if it hasn't already, as are many of your personality quirks.


You're very lucky you're cute, cause everything else about you is so angry and bitter....as is evident in your stance on working it in.

Imago said:

sleeveless tops, legless bottoms?

mzsadii said:

I call that the rubbing in method

ZombieKitten said:

Yeah I kinda think this guy wanted to "rub in" with Anx.

Cinnie said:

sounds like it has nothing to do with the machine

ZombieKitten said:

and more to do with that gym outfit

ZombieKitten said:

you guys, he looked like a wood hippie. quit turning it into an episode of "queer as the city".

why did i think i could expect even the briefest spark of precious clarity from starting this doomed, doomed thread?

Anxiety said:

even wood hippies have needs you know, don't be so insensitive!

ZombieKitten said:

wood hippies don't need me! they need a bundle of sticks!

Is "wood hippie" code for the patrons at Stewies or whatever that vegetarian restaurant was that we all ate at to try to make up for all the cat fighting the night before?

Anxiety said:

[Edited 7/9/09 18:24pm]

I'm sorry but this thread is coming from a dark, angry, place.

I just find all these 'things' that pop up in the culture so horribly conformist and 'trendy'. I mean, 'working in' doesn't even make sense! Somebody please explain how literally it ties in with taking turns with some equipment in a gym. Fuck 'fashion forward' too!

These 'things' just about reach me out here. I'm obviously still not living far away enough from the US.

Don't you find it all such an unnecessary burden, or a distraction at least? Anx clearly does. When did it stop being about wanting to exercise, going to the gym because they have good facilities and equipment for doing so, working out, then leaving? Is life in the US really so dull that just 'doing stuff' isn't enough and you need to come up with all these buzz-words, codes of behaviour and social fads?

Anxiety said:

I don't wear flip-flops to the gym.

It sounds like they were used to using that specific set of weights.

Sorta like, "uhhh I know you were here first RIGHT NOW, but those are MINE. Let's 'share' them."

Imago said:

you can KISS my dark, angry place.

Imago said:

Every gym is silent and grey..

Fauxie said:

"Working in" is no more a strange faddish slang than "topping off" a drink. It makes sense, and it's natural to use such language.

I think the issue here is not the semantics but the behavior that Anx is pointing out. What are the guy's motives? To assert some type of dominance? To intimidate Anx? To have sex with him?
If any of those are close to the truth than I'm still surprised as I would imagine Anx going to the gym to score sex and drugs has been part of his routine since at least the 80s.

Cinnie said:

do you think he peed on them to mark them?

Anxiety said:

I would work it in for you but I really need to go downstairs for some breakfast soon.

Anxiety said:

and if he's a wood hippie, he won't flush until he has pooed on them too.

Imago said:

downstairs?

are they locking you in the basement for the day or letting you out of the attic to eat?

Anxiety said:

sethxxy!

this thread is really about wood hippies.

and imago's chronic self-gratification issues.

same thing, really.

Anxiety said:

Is this metaphor?



You so nasty

^morning wood hippy

Cinnie said:

i mourn the wood that created him.

Imago said:

'Topping Off', or 'topping up' at least, makes more literal sense to me than 'working in'. I mean, 'in'??? It's nonsense, but caught on obviously.

I don't know about all that about flirtation, wood hippies, sex, drugs and legless bottoms. If you stop a moment isn't it just hilarious already that a thread like this exists, that there's even an issue to speak of? I don't get it, Dan. I just don't.

Someone asked to share weights? So either you say 'ok' and share or since there's the same equipment available elsewhere in the gym you point them towards it. Right?