Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

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.

People who stand on the escalators on the way out of work casually rolling a ciggie and not paying attention to the fact that I want to get past them so i can catch my train. it happens every day and it's these guys's fault i have to wait a half hour at kings x every day for no reason.

not paying attention to the fact that I want to get past them

have you tried saying "excuse me"

kkvsg your wife is nuts

i would rather drive just about anywhere else over a busy, cramped parking lot

love "the thrill of the hunt"

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

I always take chopsticks from the dispenser when I get Thai takeaway for lunch, but this is because the wee plastic sporks they give you otherwise are p much useless for holding a slippery flat noodle on the 2-second journey from container to mouth, let alone getting some vegetable AND noodle in the same mouthful. I also decline a spork and take chopsticks at the salad place around the corner, too, have at me

silver-haired gentleman in the target checkout line, casually eating a raw hot dog out of the package, disgusting savage or american hero?

ewwwwwww

it was cooked - just cold.

Woman who seemed blithley unconcerned that you'd left your handbrake off and your carvhad rolled (albeit) gently into mine and made a small dent in my (already dented) bumper, you can't fucking park at the best of times, and you're a disgusting savage.

cocktail snobs

People who leave their own offices to make a mobile phone call, then stand in the open plan desk area (with all the office doors still open too) where the ENTIRE FLOOR can hear: you're either disgusting savages or good value entertainment providing all this gossip for everyone

People who come into work and make a giant fuss abt how they've caught something terrible and they feel really ill and their weekend was awful because of it and it was really a struggle for them to come in and bring all their germs into the office

(ps yes it sucks when you are ill but there is some major meeting or deadline you can't get out of - but that is not currently the case for this repeat offender)

(oops, this thread is 90% me, which is pretty disgusting)

People who put books back on a shelf with the spine facing inwards.

haha what sort of psychopath does that

yeah i'm gonna say right out that that has NEVER happened in the history of this or any other universe tbh

Madness. Can barely believe it. It would have to be motivated by active and ingenious spite.

have worked in a library before and saw this maybe....2-3 times tops?

more annoying are people who, when putting books back, shove them so hard that they get swallowed up by the adjoining books. it's like disappearing into book buttcheeks.

Oh it happens - pure laziness. Pick up a stack of books will-i nill-i, and just plonk them back on the shelves. In this case g/f tho, so have to vent spleen on ilx rather than to face.

Have seen this happen in bookshop as well.

Opposite to loose bumcheeks is incredibly bad habit of shelving books too tightly on, meaning you have to put the thumb on spine to get it out.

guilty as charged ;_; (but you try 8 rows of books)

I had a roommate who sorted his books by the colour of the spine. Disgusting.

My wife did that once with my CDs and DVDs :(

Worse than any of those is people who put books back at a library IN THE WRONG PLACE. Ensuring they will NEVER BE FOUND except by pure chance or like if they do a systematic inventory every x years. I constantly catch mis-filed books while I'm browsing; I don't know if it's the shelving staff or dumbass patrons but it's horrible, disgusting savagery.

^ first proper DS behaviour in a long time itt

Not to mention customers who misfile records at the store. (Even though I know I'm guilty of it myself—having to pare down my stack of "maybes" and "will purchase" records when the clerk announces that they are closing in two minutes. Possible karmic balance as I tend to correctly file records while browsing.)

People who come into work and make a giant fuss abt how they've caught something terrible and they feel really ill and their weekend was awful because of it and it was really a struggle for them to come in and bring all their germs into the office

This lady is in today as well and giving us a running commentary on how many boxes of tissues she's gone through, going "ha ha, it will be funny if the new manager visits the office, he'll catch my flu" (thankig u for the hilarious implied joke that everyone already in here has got yr "flu"), etc

she has no special reason to be in but I'm covering for someone on 3 weeks' leave and had to swear blind that I would not be taking any time off

People who schedule meetings at lunchtime (any time between 12 and 2, gtfo)

I have one at 1.30, although probably could and should have vetoed it. It concerns my "career" though.

i'm public sector, and 12-2 seems excessively precious of a lunch allotment even to me tbh.

i just wanna be flexible (usually go 12.30-1.30)

(xp) good luck at the job centre tomorrow

xp 2 me in ref to irish public sector? cos it might as well be tbh

The perfectly healthy guy at my gym in the new Jaguar who parks in the handicapped spot every day, without a handicapped placard or license plate. Die, you entitled motherfucker.

In response to Doctor Casino's library comment; we used to shelf-tidy for an hour every Friday morning, all library staff from heads to cleaners just checking the shelves on a roar system and putting books back in the right place. We officially had the least lost books of any academic library in the country. Then new management came along and determined that it was more important to have the service desk open that extra hour.