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people who eat beef without mustard:

Having an appointment at a city tavern one day, [English stage actor Charles Mathews] was shown into the commercial room, where a traveler was regaling himself upon boiled beef. Casting his eyes upon the table, he observed he was not using mustard; this put him into a fidget. He took up a newspaper and tried to read, but spite of him his eyes would wander in the direction of that mustardless plate. At length he could endure it no longer. "I beg your pardon, sir," he said in his mildest accents, "I don't think you are aware that you have no mustard?" The man stared, nodded, and went on with his meal. Mathews again took up the newspaper; but again the abnormal sight irritated him beyond endurance, and advancing to the table and slapping it with his hand, he called out sharply, "Are—you—aware—sir, that you are eating beef without mustard?" Again the man stared without deigning a reply. This was more than Mathews could stand. Rushing to the side-board, he snatched up a mustard pot, and clapped it down in front of him with, "By ***, you SHALL take mustard!" But he did not, and Mathews in a towering passion summoned the waiter, and desired to be shown into another room, remarking that he had never been in the company of such a disgusting savage before, and that he was quite sick at the revolting sight.

~Henry Barton Baker, Our Old Actors, 1878

People that refuse to physically walk up or down an escalator when an arriving train can be heard, effectively blocking everyone stuck behind them from a shot at making the train.

someone should invent a motionless escalator of sorts. it would be wider, safer (no moving parts!), and less congested than the traditional escalator, allowing impatient travelers to sidestep the slowpokes and hurry up and down floors with ease. I dunno if there's a market for it (what with 95% of people being too lazy to walk, if given the option), but it's a thought.

People who hang around outside subway stations, places of gatherings (and in the middle of the day, not after parties/outside bars/etc.) who try to hand people cards with the address of their blog on it (and not printed flyers, but sheets of paper with the address handwritten on it).

People do this? How peculiar. Are they schizophrenics with web access or what?

remarking that he had never been in the company of such a disgusting savage before

IRL lols and eyes prickling with tears at this. A+++++++

Henry Barton Baker, Our Old Actors, 1878

I need this book. Fantastic quote.

Yeah, that was a great "drummer for Gay Dad" slow build to the payoff, totally great story in any case.

Would also make a great "ILX spirit in solitary post" blurb.

people who blast a shit and leave bits of it plastered to the toilet.

People who try the door of the toilet cubicle that you're in (and do it with such force that you think they might break in anyway).

People who make entirely shit "remixes" on youtube that serve no purpose nothing other than preventing you from finding the original film clip/actually funny video/whatever you were looking for.

All of these savages at the airport who don't want to go through the x-ray AND don't want to be frisked and believe that either of these are an imposition on their civil liberties.

the terrorists win every time I have to remove my shoes.

Just wear flip-flops.

Just wear flip-flops.

― kkvgz, Monday, November 15, 2010 2:48 PM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark

only a disgusting savage would say that

for real.

i dont really think its that savage to not want to go through a privacy-invading x-ray machine OR receive an 'enhanced' patdown, esp when neither technique has been shown to make flights more 'secure'? i mean i get that we hate libertarians and stuff but i think theyre right

i totally sympathize w/ those people, on the other hand i would prob just decide that i need to go where i was trying to go and just suck it up & do it

altho i've been thru a few enhanced pat downs in my day going into concerts/clubs & what not so i guess that doesn't seem like the biggest deal to me -- problem is just that it seems incredibly ineffective unless you get one of these dudes trying to smuggle birds in his pants from south america or w/e

i dont really think its that savage to not want to go through a privacy-invading x-ray machine OR receive an 'enhanced' patdown, esp when neither technique has been shown to make flights more 'secure'?

yeah, but you're being a DS every time you act like it's a surprise in an airport security line

yeah i mean i would go thru the xray, plane tickets are expensive

i dont really get that argument either, are there really people acting like its a "surprise"? the whole "if u dont want to go thru the security dont fly" argument doesnt really wash for me (at least in the US where flying is essential if u want to get from one end of the country to the other)

security is essential, or at least it is by the time you get that far. protest outside the airport or w/e

this isnt "security." it doesnt actually do anything.

yeah the problem w/ all types of invasive random screening like this is that on a national & worldwide level it's going to almost 100& be behind terrorism & it just sort of reeks of "we don't know what to do but we need to do something and here it is!" -- honestly on a moral level i'm far from a morbs or shakey and i'm not losing sleep over this i just find it to be an utter nuisance & it doesn't make me feel any safer when i step on a plane

100%**

i mean, pretty much all terrorist plots in the air either get foiled by intelligence before they even happen or because shoe bomber/underwear bomber types are incompetent bozos that can't rig a bomb properly right? am i wrong?

that's just the thing. All these security procedures do is make us think they're protecting us. They're not finding the bad guys, they're dumping out my shampoo and confiscating gramma's knitting needles. If some one wants to explode a plane badly enough, they're gonna find a way to do it.

whoever isn't flushing the loo at work.

most ppl learn how to use a toilet before they enter primary school, right?

i still have no idea what a loo is, sorry, it was probably me

dude who let moans/sighs at the urinal

dudeS

Men who slash in cubicles but leave the door open. Inevitably you walk into the back of them and urine goes everywhere.

people who are already urinating when they walk into cubicles

'inevitably'

The people who put stickers on apples are disgusting savages. I do not need to know who made every single apple.

People who monopolize group dinner table discussions with topics that only a couple of the people at the table have the background or knowledge to understand and drone on about them with no attempt to even bring other people up to speed on what they're talking about (i.e., my family).

Topics such as: DC school politics at a table full of New Yorkers, and the intricate personality quirks of a certain moderately well-known columnist that we just happen to know and that no one else can possibly have as much interest in.

People who write gchat/facebook statuses that are purposefully vague (presumably so that you have to ask them about their good news) -- "It's official now! Yay!"

17-year-old boys are the most disgusting savages in the world.

people who dart into the middle of the road when there's a crosswalk less than 50 feet away.

it's even worse when they amble about and shoot you a look when you don't slow down for them. GTFO OF THE ROAD

People who come to work full-blown sick! I don't fucking understand! This one person has come three days in a row, and I keep trying to gently hint that she should consider staying home and she's like "well who's going to sit up here and handle the phones?" NO ONE IF YOU GET THE WHOLE OFFICE SICK

Who invented blister packs?

the guy who came into our office yesterday to inform the town plumber that his toilet hadn't been working all christmas, and it was now 'full'- could someone call round and do something about it?

at this point the contents were on the floor i assume?

to be fair to him, no, he came in because he'd reached the brim.

My crap runneth over

I can't even..

the smell of that man's domicile!

People who sit on trains sodcasting music through their tinny mobile phone speakers.

People who come to work full-blown sick! I don't fucking understand! This one person has come three days in a row, and I keep trying to gently hint that she should consider staying home and she's like "well who's going to sit up here and handle the phones?" NO ONE IF YOU GET THE WHOLE OFFICE SICK

disgusting savages: people who brag that they've "never taken a sick day," making the rest of us actual human beings look like losers and malingerers for putting our own health before company productivity.

to be fair I'm one of those guys but not cuz I don't come to work sick, but cuz I just don't generally get sick.

going to work while ill as hell is lame for the reasons above, though when I had the flu I didn't have a choice but to go in for a half day.

sodcasting

thieving this word, hope you don't mind