Fights In the Gym?

[T3hPwnisher]

Cool.

[chris_ottawa]

@liftangryordie500

No response from me would be necessary, because people like that don’t warrant enough respect to receive one.

It would have been better if he had like 600lbs on the bar, tell her to do a set instead.

[EmilyQ]

“Gum-chewing” is total code. I use it all the time. “Is he one of those good for nothing gum-chewers? Because if so, I won’t have him near the children.”

I mean, who knows if the woman was a racist? Isn’t that the point? No one knows her or what she was after when she made her single, fairly odd statement.

@T3hPwnisher

N.R.E’s husband may have died in Korea, but he was part of a racially integrated unit, and he had nothing but good things to say in all of his letters home, and NRE took that message to heart. She marched in all the marches, taught at integrated schools: a paragon of equality!

Seems analogous to this to me. Just weird assignment of character and motive.

@Veteq

Mind you this lady must have been old enough to live through segregation, Jim Crowe, the lynching of Emmitt Till, the Civil Rights Movement, the assassination of MLK and Malcolm X, and when it was literally illegal to be black in Oregon (my home state). While she didn’t straight up call me the n-word; her comment was most definitely racially charged.

[T3hPwnisher]

@EmilyQ

I mean, who knows if the woman was a racist? Isn’t that the point? No one knows her or what she was after when she made her single, fairly odd statement.

I, for one, am enjoying the mystery. “Racism on the Orient Express”

Which is actually only minorly racist.

[EmilyQ]

All right then, we’ll have to have @Veteq up the ante for us, see what happens next.

I think when he sees her he should confront her about…hmm…maybe whether she’s been eating jarred pickled herring, since that’s code for both Jew and Swede, and will surely get a reaction of some sort out of her. After she makes a sentence in response, we’ll pore over it and assign meaning to it. Another piece in the puzzle.

[T3hPwnisher]

Mothertruckers are all playin’ Sorry, while you’re over here playing 4d Chess.

[SkyzykS]

@EmilyQ

maybe whether she’s been eating jarred pickled herring, since that’s code for both Jew and Swede,

That’s about as crackered up as anything can be.

I can just see it now. A bunch of porch honkeys standing around eating pickled herring, comparing cardigans and talking about Yale or some shit.

[flappinit]

He didn’t assume she was racist. He just said, a lot of people jumped down the guy’s throat for suggesting she was racist when we weren’t there, didn’t hear the tone in her voice, didn’t see her facial expressions, and don’t have any information besides a couple sentences on a forum. But none of his posts actually had any suggestion that she was racist, only that it’s funny how many people said she wasn’t.

[poisoneve]

@flappinit
“While she didn’t straight up call me the n-word; her comment was most definitely racially charged.”

That’s what he wrote. I think he assumes it.

But in my opinion @chris_ottawa is right, jumping into conclusions is wrong, and the best scenario was to confront her there the same time so that we don’t have to wonder if she was or not a racist.

In my mind, considering the place(gym), his situation (in a machine between sets), the old lady just tried to give him a boost in the wrong way(for him, maybe if it was you you could laugh etc), and we have to think that he may be look or not as a non-white from his appearance so the lady maybe didn’t at all understand he isnt white (sometimes I can’t either understand if a person belongs to my ethnicity background) and just made a comment that was funny/on point in her mind.
Keep calm and don’t spot racism everywhere

[poisoneve]

Haha that’s funny about the police I mean.
Well, think about we reach 70-80-90 years old and maybe you can find why sometimes they don’t have a filter etc maybe they face a constant pain the same time a conversation is being held so we better think that sometime (God first) we will be in their position.
I don’t say let everything just pass, but maybe do not give so much attention !

[simo74]

@T3hPwnisher

Me “ WHEEEZE GASP HEY! GASP I-I’mmmmmm on dry heave on set siiiiixx of t-” phone timer goes off “Of f**k my life”

Lmao this was me tonight between sets of tempo paused squats, heaving for breath trying not to heave and guy asks says hello and asks how I’m going? All I could manage was “hrrrrr hrrr goooood, urggh hrr hrrrr”. He just kinda nodded and walked away.

[strongmangoals]

@flappinit

He didn’t assume she was racist. He just said, a lot of people jumped down the guy’s throat for suggesting she was racist when we weren’t there, didn’t hear the tone in her voice, didn’t see her facial expressions, and don’t have any information besides a couple sentences on a forum.

People are going to, and we should expect them to, comment on the information they are given. But don’t forget this is not a news page of static information it is a forum. One where additional context can be added. The OP chose not to add any detail of this nudge, nudge, wink, wink that may or may not have happened even though he continued to discuss this very topic and continues to frequent the forums regularly.

It is entirely appropriate for posters to assume there is no additional context if the opportunity to provide it is given and not taken.

What would be strange is for every poster to start making up context as they choose, I raise your racist undertones with he had been hurrying her through her work out for the previous hour.

But none of his posts actually had any suggestion that she was racist, only that it’s funny how many people said she wasn’t.

I didnt see too many people say she wasn’t racist, only that what she said wasn’t racist.

The OP threw what is considered one of the more vile smears in today’s society around. He also chose to throw it at a member of one of the more vulnerable groups in our society. The only thing he had put up to back his claims made it literally impossible make any call on whether the lady was racist or not. The guy could have bumped into my grumpy old nan

Yeah, people defending the nanna in this situation, that’s really puzzling lol I’m also puzzled by why my head hurts when I slam it in my car door.

[EmilyQ]

@strongmangoals

The guy could have bumped into my grumpy old nan

Haha, my grandmother was fond of phrases like, “Whaddaya got, potatoes in your ears?” The gum-chewing, to me, is like the “flappin’ your gums” my grandmother might have urged me to stop doing and get moving.

But again, we won’t know until he escalates the situation by calling her a fruit-lover, or whatever he thinks is appropriate, and then suggesting that she get the lead out and speed up her [thing she does at the gym]. So “…and sit in the sauna like you fucking mean it!” for example.

[T3hPwnisher]

I’d really prefer that this not occur, as I’ve already got QUITE the fan-fiction brewing as N.R.E goes on time traveling adventures with a more racially diverse “Bill and Ted” to right the wrongs of history. It’d totally ruin the story to add more details.

I’m not going to spoil the ending, but I’ll reveal the twist in her origin story: her husband may have died in Korea, but it turned out it was from choking on gum. It TOTALLY explains her aversion to gum chewing.

She says it out of love people. Out of love!

[chris_ottawa]

@flappinit

He didn’t assume she was racist.

He assumed that me and others were certain that the woman was not a racist:

@T3hPwnisher

people have already built up the character of this woman in their minds and that woman is NOT a racist.

She might be a racist, but you can’t judge that based on the information we have here.

[flappinit]

@poisoneve

While she didn’t straight up call me the n-word; her comment was most definitely racially charged.”

That’s what he wrote. I think he assumes it.

That’s what Veteq wrote. Not Pwn, who Chris was talking to. I think you’re confused about who was talking to who here.

[EmilyQ]

@T3hPwnisher

her husband may have died in Korea, but it turned out it was from choking on gum.

Bogus, dude.

@T3hPwnisher

She says it out of love people. Out of love!

Excellent!

[flappinit]

@strongmangoals

The guy could have bumped into my grumpy old nan

@strongmangoals

What would be strange is for every poster to start making up context as they choose

Super strange.

[SkyzykS]

The lady was from a time when having a milkshake at the drug store and exotic chewing gum flavors ended up getting people in trouble (preyygnit) and Chesterfield were the Healthy Cigarette!

So yeah. She was just trying to keep the dude from getting sent off to the convent.

[anna_5588]

@EmilyQ

she’s been eating jarred pickled herring,

That was my dinner last night