Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

people who wear vibram 5 fingers

people who always have thier status set to away on AIM/gmail but choose to IM you when it's convenient for them

Able-bodied savages who take the lift to go up one flight of stairs.

hipster bicyclists with "funny" mustaches and without helmets listening to ipods who ride their vehicles on the goddamn the sidewalk / cut you off at an intersection yelling 'move' or 'watch out' or 'have some respect' from three feet away while you are struggling to carry three bags of groceries home from the supermarket

Those, definitely, and also the jogger, jogging through the park the other day, who started pushing some Italian tourists out of the way who were having a nice walk in a group in the park on a sunny day in case he had to stop jogging. Take your goddam headphones out, say excuse me if you want to get past, or just hold up a bit, go round, whatever, but don't start shoving at people! You disgusting savage.

day way day way.

okay i need to vent my spleen a little. i live in cambridge, ma, where having a car is definitely a luxury - public transportation is significantly above average. this is a pedestrian-saturated area, and there's nothing more savage and disgusting than pedantic asshole drivers who try to 'reclaim' the road (or whatever) by slavishly following the letter of the law and honking / inching forward / yelling through the window / glaring / feinting and braking at pedestrians who are straggling when the light changes, or jaywalking during a lull in traffic, or crossing a few feet from the designated crosswalk. i mean yeah, pedestrians probably shouldn't be doing some of the stuff they're doing - but they are outside, unprotected in frequently crappy weather, and trying to navigate a dense, populated, semi-confusing and occasionally dangerous situation while you, pedantic asshole driver, are sitting cushy in your largely unnecessary car possibly delayed by half a minute or so while filled with righteous, indignant, ire. big damn deal! just chill the F out, build an extra minute in your commute time, and let the walkers/joggers/bicyclists go where they need.

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Joggers don't ever "hold up" or "go round". They lurch right down the middle of the path towards you like wheezing tracksuited zombies, fixing you with this look of "my knees hurt too much to slow down or change direction, so you WILL get out of my way in deference to my superior lifestyle of health and fitness".

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Have some respect? Seriously?

Never mind that this is the most insane example of projection I've heard for today - if a cyclist yelled that at me I'd have a very hard time not throwing a stick at his spokes.

oh yeah, reminds me-

pedestrians, particularly jaywalkers, and particularly those in groups that talk up the width of any given path.

fuck em. disgusting savages.

build an extra minute in your commute time

This is the big problem when it comes to disgusting savages though, isn't it? People just don't want to do any such thing. Why drag your ass out of bed 3 minutes earlier when you can back up traffic at every stoplight because you need the mirror to apply your eye makeup? Its so much easier to sleep in that extra 4 minutes and run your electric shaver as you drive down the expressway, rather than actually paying attention to what is going on around you.

why bother to follow the pedestrian light sequences for the same reason, though?

dear drivers, if a pedestrian is walking with their back to you and you plan to turn off down a very quiet side road right in front of them, please remember that the pedestrian has neither wing mirrors nor psychic powers - you are hard for them to see if you signal, and impossible for them to see if you don't

therefore if you don't signal and screech round the corner an inch in front of them without waiting for them you are being kinda savage imo

that "don't" made my post hard to parse, i am disgusting savage but you will hopefully get my point

dear everybody, please never leave the house

^ well yeah, I mean I'm not all pro-driver of a three ton vehicle against the guy walking, drivers along country lanes are very often DS's of the highest degree. But "drivers getting po'd at jaywalkers" I mean really?

joggers in the designated bike lane. you aren't that fast, get on the sidewalk.

people who wear vibram 5 fingers

― ampersand (remy bean), Tuesday, April 20, 2010 6:36 AM (2 hours ago)

I kinda really really want these, so I guess I'll be a disgusting savage when I buy these and am running so faaaast and can feel the ground.

People who are disgusting savages though, are the people who leave the sprinklers on either during or right after it rained. I'm tempted to say all people who even use sprinklers. I mean, come on, plant for your zone.

fuck drivers

But "drivers getting po'd at jaywalkers" I mean really?

be po'd at jaywalkers basically wherever you want -- except in a significantly pedestrian-heavy area that you choose to drive through when the vast majority of people are on foot in frequently inclement weather.

obviously there are layers here, but are we still talking about people walking across traffic regardless of lights, crossings, whatever? don't see what weather has to do with it

(NB I am an extremely nice and courteous driver, promise)

Aren't the bits you are choosing to drive through, erm, roads? Where cars have right of way?

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I very often choose to drive on footpaths myself.

Maybe this is a US/UK thing – but in the US, pedestrians have right of way when in a crosswalk - unless there is a light, which there frequently isn't. In the case where there is a light, pedestrians have right of way when the light indicates they may cross, but may also use a designated cross-walk if they judge it safe to do so without impeding traffic, even if the light is not in their favor.

lol (xpost)

I drive in subway tunnels, fuck everybody who gets in my way

bless ur courage and godspeed

Yeah, that's pretty much how it works here, but your argument seems to be that drivers getting pissed off at pedestrians not sticking to this are the savages. If a driver's there and getting pissed off, that'll be because he's getting impeded.

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anyway, people who interview you for a job then ignore you for the rest of all time - disgusting savages.

be po'd at jaywalkers basically wherever you want -- except in a significantly pedestrian-heavy area that you choose to drive through when the vast majority of people are on foot in frequently inclement weather.

Yeah... no. Having been a pedestrian in that area for a good long while, the blithe disregard most other pedestrians have for their personal safety is kind of breathtaking.

when u are a pedestrian, all drivers are disgusting savages.

when u are a driver, all pedestrians are disgusting savages.

this is the way of the world.

^^^ truthiest of truth bombs

HI DERE you are probably right – I think I am just mad because twice in the past week I have been honked at (and once yelled at) by drivers while I was using the crosswalk legitimately. But the blithe disregard bit is true. The Chinese tour busses are the worst offenders, too, because when they are in town a whole cadre of tourists will just kind of flock to the middle of the road, irrespective of the traffic situation. Once in the middle of the traffic, the tour guides will actually stop and shepherd their waddling group onward while preventing traffic in both directions with hand gestures. They will all curse the cars in some pigeon guttural Cantonesenglish while taking photos of kids wearing Harvard gear.

Oh don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people who drive way too fast through Harvard Square, almost like it's a competition to terrify the largest number of pedestrians, but it wouldn't be as much of a problem if the pedestrians weren't also wandering out into the street without looking.

So basically, ppl in Harvard Square are disgusting savages.

The Chinese tour busses are the worst offenders, too, because when they are in town a whole cadre of tourists will just kind of flock to the middle of the road, irrespective of the traffic situation.

hahahah my mother has always told me that I can cross whenever I want to as pedestrians always have the right of way and if I get hit that's a big insurance payout

otoh this has led to me treating pedestrians with kindess to the point of pedantry when I am driving

so wait

are we saying that chinese tour guides are the world's most disgusting savages?

okay, on a different tack:

white people who go to thai/indonesian restaurants and angrily demand chopsticks from their servers

hahahahaha

ah surely we're in strawman territory now?

swear to god i saw this last week.

white people, daaamn.

I have noticed that when cars are in nose-to-tail traffic they quite often go right through the red light at a pedestrian crossing even though they have to stop 6 metres later anyway. I can see two possible explanations for this:

1. traffic jams are so dull that you enter a kind of trance of only looking at the car in front for your stop/start cues and not looking at anything else
2. these people are disgusting savages

I'm in a good mood so I'll go with 1, but it's still pretty annoying when you're the pedestrian and you miss your turn to cross just so some guy can get a whole two car-lengths further before being stuck behind the same bus as before, etc. (Why not ignore the lights and just cross if traffic keeps stopping? Cz the other side is probably not stopped, is why)

a non-crossing spacecadet

okay, here's an anecdote: my girlfriend (vietnamese-chinese) came to christmas with my family. so did my aunt's chorus friend, who we'll call Claudette. Claudette, who is as white WASPy as they come, a self-described 'swingin' single in her sixties' greets my girlfriend for the first time by saying 'it's nice to have a familiar Asian face around' and explains that two of her nephews are adoped from Thailand, and then says 'they do amazing things with water buffalo over there.' My girlfriend, a Buddhist, says, 'oh, how interesting' and asks what kind of things, imagining she's gonnna be in for an off-the-cuff lecture on the role of animals in agriculture or whatever. Claudette proceeds to tell her how she saw a water buffalo being butchered and served raw to 'the villagers' when she went on a tour, and asks if my girlfriend has tried such a thing 'back home.' My girlfriend, born and raised in the U.S. says – 'you mean in Oregon?' and then tries to explain to Claudette that the water buffalo is a sacred animal to many Buddhists, because of the sutra associated with it, and wouldn't be butchered or eaten at all. But Claudette doesn't really understand, and just says 'so it must be expensive' and gives my girlfriend a list of all the ways she has eaten it, while the rest of the table looks on in embarrassed silence.

Able-bodied savages who take the lift to go up one flight of stairs.

These people are the worst. In my building there's a set of stairs leading right up to the main door, but I see so many savages walk down a long hallway to the elevator, take it up one flight, and then back down the hallway to get to the main entrance. I can't comprehend what's going on in their head that makes this seem like a reasonable thing to do.

Also kind of infuriated by the huge group of students who pile on the bus at the stop three blocks from campus and ride it for 45 seconds to the main bus stop when it's beautiful outside. They've been waiting for the bus for longer than they'll actually ride it.

^^^ cosign that last one, it sucks to be riding a bus that suddenly gets intensely crowded for no reason every three stops. Also, these students all wear headphones and are totally unaware of basic bus etiquette, so even though the bus is jam-packed full, they will stand in the aisle BLOCKING AN EMPTY SEAT cause they, personally, aren't in the mood to sit down. And forget about getting them to move back into pockets of empty space so more people can get on the bus.

People who take the time to ask you through IM for easily found information. Its called Google, you disgusting savage.

I am a non-walking savage. I hate to walk esp in warm or hot weather, and would much rather sit somewhere and read while I wait. So I would take that bus, but I draw the line at taking an ELEVATOR to avoid some stairs that are right in front of you.

xp My ex-roommate (and also ex-friend) used to make me 100% CRAZY with asking things that she could easily find out. Pure laziness and selfishness imo.

I'm the only one I ever see using the stairs in the building that my agency's in, but, to be fair, it's a medical office building and quite a few of the people I see there can't use the stairs.

In a similar bit of savagery, my wife makes fun of me for parking at the empty end of the parking lot instead of driving up and down the rows looking for a spot that's really close. When I question her reluctance to walk an extra 100 feet and probably save 2 or 3 minutes of waiting for a spot to open up, she says that I'm missing out on the thrill of the hunt.