Revisiting: Surprising Gym Results.
Blog hiatus'ing still, and I remain grateful that my current gym doesn't talk to me this way.
I like my gym. It is small, tidy, and there's never a wait for the machines. Chris and I go there every weeknight for about an hour. My workout varies from resistance training, circuits, and sometimes just some plain old cardio.
Last night, I did a cardio circuit that involved 10 minutes on the elliptical machine, 10 minutes on the treadmill, 3 minutes jumping rope, and then another 10 on the stationary bike. (Thirty-three minutes. Larry Bird, baby.) After I was done on the bike, the machine beeeeped! and flashed a message of completion which took me by such surprise that I yelped.
Excuse me?
Apparently the machine was programmed in the wrong language, because as it cycled through the results, it offered me my snitt fart count, as well.
I do not know what language this is. All I know is that it surprised the hell out me. And I ended up with an impromptu ab workout due to uncontrollable laughter.
Originally published here: Surprising Gym Results.
Comments
In case you were still wondering, it's Norwegian. ;)
Posted by: Emma | December 21, 2011 12:14 PM
That's hysterical! You made me hold my laptop upside down. I used to be annoyed that all glucose monitor images showed a number between 103 and 105 (advertisements, strip boxes). When I was first diagnosed, I thought I was the only one getting crappy numbers until I watched DLife and read your blog. Yesterday I got out a new box of new glucose test strips and froze for a second when I saw 501 on the meter on the box cover. Then I realized the box was upside down, 105 right-side up. (That is what I call running on diabetes brain.) Anyway, your treadmill message didn't look like any language I knew, couldn't make sense of it as an acronym, so, turned the screen upside down. Mystery remains.
Posted by: e-i | December 21, 2011 01:29 PM
That totally made me laugh out loud...esp. the second part...and I don't even like potty talk...must have been the "Snitt" in front of the "Fart" that made it esp. funny.
Posted by: Roselady | December 21, 2011 02:16 PM
Ha! During college cross country we used to run fartleks, and giggle about it every time. http://runners-resource.com/fartlek
Posted by: Eric Lagergren | December 21, 2011 03:11 PM
hahah this is sooo so osos os osamazing! hahahah I would have laughed so hard!
Posted by: Lauren | December 21, 2011 04:19 PM
that is hilarious!!!!
Posted by: Meghan | December 21, 2011 05:24 PM
I can't stop laughing...that is HIL.AR.I.OUS!!!!!
Snitt Fart.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
Ab workout...done.
Posted by: Wendy | December 21, 2011 06:35 PM
Haha, that's Swedish!
Slut means the end or ended and snitt fart (well, it's supposed to be snittfart) means average speed ;)
I love reading you blog, btw! Funny, smart and touching. Makes me feel less alone. Keep it up :)
Love from a Swedish reader
Posted by: Cajsa | December 21, 2011 06:51 PM
sooooo funny! lol!
Posted by: jaimie | December 21, 2011 07:36 PM
This is amazing. I kind of want this to happen at the gym for amusement purposes.
Hilarious :D.
Posted by: kerri the PWoD | December 21, 2011 07:49 PM
Very funny. As Emma posted, those words are Norwegian. "Slut" means "End" and "Snitt Fart" means "Average Speed."
I'm not sure how a fitness machine in the USA could get set to Norwegian though. Spanish or even Chinese, I could see. But Norwegian?
Posted by: JB | December 26, 2011 10:50 PM
I really feel like, this is something that would only happen to you, Kerri! How random yet not completely surprising :)
Posted by: Linds | December 27, 2011 04:25 PM