Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

Yeah, that single seat is there because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know for the whole of The Tree of Life (or until they walk out). And if it's nowhere near sold out then it becomes a place to dump my coat/bag/whatever.

I mean, one could counter-argue that *true* savagery consists in arriving late to a nearly full house and expecting everyone else to have made allowances for you. That said, I've been to plenty of events where the ushers ensure that gaps don't get left in the first place if it's going to be full, which seems like a good policy.

(no dickish intent there, btw)

None taken. At the cinema I think I can live with it because I rarely attend a sold out screening without allocated seating.

Still though if you choose to go to a public event like a concert you need to make your peace with the likelihood of your coming into close proximity with other people. Or else don't go.

Btw, this show displayed a very visible SOLD OUT sign on the front of the building. Even if it had not I'm pretty sure everyone would have had a decent idea.

a very visible SOLD OUT sign

Fair play then, and these are the circumstances in which I've most often experienced the auditorium staff appealing for gaps to be filled and the general harrumphing from displaced patrons as this takes place.

which kind of leads on to the savagery of those who, in cramped concert hall seating, maintain elbows of cast iron on the whole of the shared armrest(s).

To be fair, I think a lot of these situations would be helped if the venue was a little more helpful about informing people that something is sold out and reminding them that there will be no open seats.

i LOVE it when i go see a popular movie the weekend it comes out and i get there early to get a good seat and then five minutes before the movie starts people are still trickling in and they inevitably look astounded, ASTOUNDED, that there are so many people there and all the empty seats are in the back or right up by the screen. it's hilarious!

saw a dude on the train who ticked all the boxes:

white v-neck t-shirt
key chain on belt loop
sunglasses in the subway
fedora
cocktail straw in mouth (which had to be removed to speak) in lieu of toothpick

the straw really tied everything together

i hate when people notice me!!!!

okay maybe i can get a ruling itt about an incident at the movies tonight. went w/ friends to the local dollar-fifty theater, which has small, cramped seats. we took up four seats out of a row of seven; i put my purse in the fifth seat next to me. a decent crowd fills the theater, but the first four rows are empty and there's sporadic seating farther back.

fifteen minutes into the movie, some ladies come up to me and ask if i'm saving the end seats. i indicate that i'm not saving the last two; one of them points at the seat with my purse and says "what about that one? are you saving it?"

i'm a bit flustered because the movie's in full-swing, and i don't know how to express that i don't want a stranger sitting right next to me in these tiny seats, fighting for arm-rest space. finally i say "i would prefer if no one sat there."

lady repeats, full of disbelief, "you would prefer if no one sat there?" i nod. "i have never heard someone say something like that."

she and her friends go and find other seats -- in the row directly behind my group. fortunately after some initial muttering there is no further interaction. but i felt conflicted, like...i don't think i was being super-unreasonable in my request, but i could also see that lady posting her side of the story on a thread just like this one somewhere.

I'm sure you're a perfectly nice person but I'm with her tbh.

While you might prefer that seat to remain free, you have no right to it whatsoever. (Unless you pay for an extra seat for that purpose, which would be an odd thing to do, and hard to explain to a stranger, but would change the situation somewhat.)

i hate it when strangers sit next to me when there are plenty of spare seats elsewhere but if they do you kind of have to just suck it up really.

today's disgusting savage: went for a run, at the 8k mark (ie i'm fucking dying at this point) this toddler decides to try to race me. i'm not here to play games so i just ignore her and she seems fine. thus far, whatever. her fucking dad gets on his fucking high horse and is all like "why didn't you run alongside her! she just wants to play!" the fucking gall of the man. for ONCE in my life i don't suffer from esprit d'escalier - it's true what they say, exercise is good for your brain - and i snap back "the sooner she learns that the world doesn't revolve around her the better - it's not too late for her, UNLIKE HER DAD"

kmt stoke newington

looool

nice one!

Reddening, I'm on your side in spirit, but sadly I think Upt0eleven is right on this one

otm, we're all disgusting savages at one time or another

yeah, if the situation comes up again i'll have to rethink my response -- it also occurred to me later that she might've thought i was objecting to something about her specifically, which would be shitty and wasn't my intent. as a larger lady i've got some anxieties about being in close proximity to others and "taking up" too much of the shared space, so a surly part of me is still like "argh you couldn't just choose one of the 30+ empty seats in front of me?", but yeah i regret how i handled it in retrospect.

Nice one lex!

lex otm

lex wtf

as in you didnt eat the baby

ppl who ask for their bagels "scooped out"

unban chaki

bosses who playfully refer to their employees as "champ" or "tiger" or "buddy" or (especially) "boss".

people who work on commission who get into super-aggro "always be closing" salesman mode when you tell them no. when i say no to something, i'm usually pretty confident in my answer.

i remember working in retail and being told that the customer had to say no three times before you could stop trying to push the product on them (in that case, the store credit card, which was a complete ripoff).

yeah, that's fucked, especially if you've already committed to buying something, and the salesperson won't stop pushing additional price-elevating features. you've already made your sale, and I don't want your cupholders/warranty/glare-resistant lenses.

i remember reading about a restaurant where the chef told the waitstaff "if we don't sell out of this special by the end of the night, you're fired." i never order the special -- someone on that waitstaff would be fucked!

bosses who playfully refer to their employees as "champ" or "tiger" or "buddy" or (especially) "boss".

― cher's missing (unregistered), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:38 PM (38 minutes ago)

or worse, employees who refer to customers as "boss". i'm not your fucking boss and if i were, you wouldn't work here.

Recruitment consultants. Subhuman scum.

people who work on commission who get into super-aggro "always be closing" salesman mode when you tell them no. when i say no to something, i'm usually pretty confident in my answer.

― my copy has boobs (get bent), Thursday, 12 January 2012 01:42 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah this is usually down to pressure from above. It's frustrating for all parties.

Motorists who obtruct your smooth passage into merging traffic lanes b/c they seemingly can't live with the idea of being one car length behind on their obviously very urgent course of travel - these people are fucking savages.

people do not understand the traffic zipper, people are stupid

The dudes who yelled at me on my bike the other night, and then RAN AFTER ME, although obv with no idea what they were going to do if they caught up. Go home and apologize to the wolves who raised you for making them ashamed of their offspring today. Jesus christ.

whaaaat!?

Just kids. I didn't speed up or anything, one of them could probably have reached out and touched me for a sec before he gave up.

people who can't wait five seconds to go through the turnstile but instead leave the subway station via the emergency exit, thus setting off the piercing alarm

(obvs if you're pushing a stroller then carry on)

ppl posting ilm threads to ilx

er to ile, rather

tho either way tbh

Smokers who walk down the street with a lit cigarette pointing out and away from their body, while they are so absorbed in texting that they can't be bothered to lift their head up to see where they are walking. Thanks for the burn, asshole. Hope that lung cancer kicks in soon.

Maybe that's extreme, but I still think you're an asshole. Hope you get a nasty coughing fit for the rest of the day.

ppl who call refer to themselves as evolved/enlightened.

Anyone who regularly says, or even types out, the word "squee" as an exclamation of excitement.

I don't do it ALL the time

lol, i really only posted it here because of a friend on FB and Twitter that uses it at least four times a day

four squee and seven yores ago

how many yores in a squee?

bosses who ask their employees for help by saying, "can I grab you?" or "can I steal you?" or "can I borrow you for a second?" as if you are an animated office tool, a humanoid 3-hole punch. I want to respond snarkily, "yes, you can borrow me, but please could you oil my hinges and empty my chad trap and leave me in the middle desk door when you're done?" I'm sure they're just trying to be friendly and whimsical, but it comes across as really really dehumanizing.

I got a "can I steal you for a second to pick your brain?" this morning from Boss Savage.

Middle-aged guy who took out his "Ready-to-Use ENEMA" from his duane reade bag and started examining it ON THE SUBWAY.