Slippery weasels
I’ve been good about the gym. Twice a week is all I reckon I should do at my age, to leave plenty of recovery time, and I’ve hit it every week but one. I’ve been at it a couple of months now and I think I’ve developed…a muscle!
So I was puffing away on the shoulder press and a member of staff sheepishly approached me and said, “I’m sorry – the manager sent me up here to tell you you can’t wear jeans in the gym.”
!
So it’s slippery spandex for this little weasel. I hate it. Can you imagine a weasel in spandex? I asked Grok to, but I don’t think it really gets lycra. Cute that it signed its work, though.
Posted: September 15th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 9
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Comment from Uncle AL
Time: September 15, 2025, 6:00 pm
No blue jeans?!? How…how…tacky of them.
Given UK current events, you might want to try something like these.
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: September 15, 2025, 6:11 pm
Uhm, Uncle Al, I am pretty sure that displaying the British Flag is illegal in the U.K. these days. Happened just the other day if I recall.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mum-arrested-flying-union-flag-080659534.html?guccounter=1
Comment from QuasiModo
Time: September 15, 2025, 7:40 pm
I wonder what the authorities would do if you wore American flag pants?…if they came down on you for that and Trump heard about it, the fur would fly 🙂
Comment from Carl
Time: September 15, 2025, 10:09 pm
Some Veg: The police said that she wasn’t arrested for placing a flag on the steps of the local council offices during an anti-immigrant protest.
The Assistant Chief Constable said. “She was arrested on suspicion of breaching a Section 14 order as we sought to de-escalate a highly emotional situation. To be very clear, despite suggestions we’ve seen on social media, she was not arrested for flying a Union Flag on the Civic Centre.”
She was held briefly for failing to comply with the conditions that the police had placed on her as one of the organisers of the demonstration.
Comment from Uncle AL
Time: September 15, 2025, 10:33 pm
@Carl — Thanks!
IOW, she was arrested for flying a Union Jack flag because she had been ordered not to do anything such as that. I thank the Ass. Chief Constable 🐷 for clearing that up.
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: September 15, 2025, 11:38 pm
Do the men wear spandex? I always liked cotton sweat pants and a t-shirt. You could wear one with Margaret Thatcher on it 😉
Comment from Carl
Time: September 15, 2025, 11:39 pm
Uncle Al. The flag was incidental. The police gave permission for the protest to go ahead in that location on condition that they did not encroach on the actual council building, including the steps and balcony. She had agreed to accept that restriction and then ignored it.
I wonder if I would be allowed to display a flag at the entrance to the White House.
Comment from nbc
Time: September 16, 2025, 7:03 am
I recommend a burkha, in denim. Oh, and carry a bag…
Comment from Anonymous
Time: September 16, 2025, 1:45 pm
R.I.P. Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025)
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