Wow, lot of bitter former readers of GRR Martin on these forums. LOL.

I’ve accepted that the books just aren’t gonna happen. Compared to Rowling’s retroactive edits, his way may even for the best at this point. I had to take notes when I read the ASOIAF series to keep the characters straight; maybe he got as bored with it as I did.

Maybe he’s entering the final stretch on Winds of Winter . . . or is churning out another 200,000 words of Targaryen lore.

The first amendment does not protect someone using racial slurs to insult another person. They could be arrested.

The police officer said to the American that if he used the n-word again, that he would be arrested. That’s when the American went into his rant about his First Amendment rights. As I understand it, in the US, the First Amendment would not allow someone to be arrested for using racial slurs.

Apparently he doesn’t understand the law in the US, either, since the First Amendment means that the government can’t tell you what to say or not say. Individuals and businesses can tell you to STFU and remove you from their property if you are rude or racist. Free speech does not mean, “I can say anything I want…

I saw a guy at our work gym in jeans, street shoes, and a shirt, on a stationary bike. He was also talking really loudly on his phone.

Yes, I feel like I would feel my ass jiggling if I worked out in sweats. It’d be the same as working out without a sports bra. Same with some of the thinner “running tights.” I need compression!

I used to cycle some when I lived in NYC.  Always cracked me up to arrive at the turnaround point (about 20-25 miles out, same back) and all the cyclists were smoking.

Yes! Who wants all that extra material flopping around?

I usually buy the moisture wicking workout leggings. Not like regular cotton based stretchy leggings I’d wear under a dress, if that makes sense? Obviously sweat but don’t notice any larger amount than if I was wearing shorts. And I feel like shorts always ride up on me, so leggings are my preference. Usually cropped.

We’ve got a couple of those at my gym, nice guys but it’s just so odd. They did switch recently to gym shorts, I think they got tired of all the “why jeans” questions.

I used to work out at Planet Fitness at 2am and you get some strange characters around that time. Once, I saw some guy in a gold velour tracksuit.

There’s a guy who bikes around my neighborhood, he’s got the fancy bike, the skin tight outfit, the fancy aerodynamic helmet, all while smoking a cigarette. Makes me laugh every time I see him.

Hahahaha. This reminds me of when I was a teenager and my dad and I participated in a 3-day bike trek for the American Lung Association. One of my fondest memories of it was this older man, probably late 50s, who was biking while puffing on a cigar. And that’s no easy feat as it was 60 miles a day, for three days,…

I side eye the lady that walks on the treadmill at approximately 1.5 mph while eating a snickers bar.

Yes! There’s a guy who occasionally runs in my neighborhood while wearing jeans, and each time I want to call the cops on him because I think he’s just burgled something and is running from the owners.

I’m a boardshorts, ratty old tshirt and (strictly) indoor only sneakers at the gym, guy; and I do not care one bit what anyone else wears at the gym.

But I will say this....I do not like the way it feels when you change to a laying down exercise like leg curl or crunches* and the inside of the garment leg sticks to a…

YES. There’s a woman in my body pump class that constantly wears jeans, and I don’t get it. That has to be so damn uncomfortable.

I’m always waiting for that first lady to put too much of her foot on the front and just full on eat it.