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― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 28 March 2013 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
well yeah
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 March 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
On our transit, people are supposed to exit buses by the rear doors. If they try to exit from the front and get run into by people getting on the bus, it is THEY who are the savages, I submit to you.
This ^^^^
Also, drivers in parking lots who speed and don't yield right of way to passengers. I almost got hit leaving the grocery store on foot the other day and when I gave the driver the stink-eye he rolled down his window and yelled "I didn't have a stop sign!" Yeah, that's because you're in a parking lot and required by law to stop for any crossing pedestrians.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 28 March 2013 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
― k3vin k.
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 March 2013 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
Generally, yes, but during rush hours, the bus is often too crowded for exiting from the rear to make sense. Maybe that's taken for granted, but maybe not.
― Je55e, Thursday, 28 March 2013 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
smokers who don't exhale after their last drag before walking indoors― k3vin k., Thursday, March 28, 2013 3:48 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I haven't observed it at my new building, but where I used to work, people habitually lit their cigarettes while in the revolving doors, so entering the door was stepping into a small, smoke-filled chamber. One serial offender worked in the post office in the building and I really wanted to complain to her supervisor, but she works at the post office so that's probably punishment enough.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 28 March 2013 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
They do that in my building as well. Urge to kill rising . . .
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
This one woman, every morning, jumps the line for the bus. There is a clearly formed line and she walks past it and waits next to the very first person in it. She seems not to notice.
― Je55e, Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
So I said something to her and she said, "Oh my! Uh-uh!" And laughed.
― Je55e, Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
^ this sounds like the public transport equivalent of people who drive in the breakdown lane. savagely disgusting
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
Is this in London? Trouble is you can't do anything about it, since jumping queues was decriminalised a few years back, mostly on the grounds that jumping queues was unenforceable.
Now when it happens I just think: "OK, you obviously want to get to your crappy office/shop/bedsit so desperately, go ahead, and you'll end up like me in the stroke unit in 20 years."
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
oh my. uh-uh! hahaha
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
xp: omg that's savage! what je55e is describing almost never happens in the states. the woman he's describing is extremely brash and outside of the norms by doing this. I don't think that queue-jumping would even be a crime here because like, who the fuck would even do that. and you're saying it was such a problem in London that at some point it was a law and that basically everyone in london flaunted that law?
― how's life, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
cashiers who haven't learned how to process refunds
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
(xp) basically, yes. But London is full of arrogant people who think they own the place (otherwise they most likely wouldn't be in London in the first place) and so they had to have a law. Doesn't happen with bus queues in Glasgow and they are usually way longer.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
if that woman tried to edge in front of me i don't know if i would be able to resist elbowing her in the boob, i'm not a violent person but i am stubborn
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
On the NYC subway there's the thing where most people kind of form queue-ish groups on either side of the door to wait for the passengers to get off, but then there's always the one person who tries to get a little edge by just barreling through the middle while everyone is waiting on the side. I mean, it's hard not to be a bit savage on a rush-hour subway, but come on.
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
"DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"
"Is there a neurologist in the queue? Lady here has amnesia, doesn't know who she is."
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
People who wait in line for the ATM but don't take their wallet out of their pocket/bag and their card out of their wallet until they are actually standing right in front of it.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
those ppl are probably paranoid about having it snatched out of their hand, imo.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I definitely don't hang out with my wallet/ATM card in my greasy little paws, all enticing and easily snatchable.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
HOWEVER I bet we can all agree that people who are waiting in line to get on the bus and don't get their fare cards out until they reach the fare box are disgusting savages indeed.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
Or people who don't bother checking that there's any credit left on their Oyster card before getting on the bus and wondering why it won't work.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
People who don't use auto top-up are the most disgusting of all.
― Another turning point, a stork fuck in the road (ledge), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
"Oh my! Uh-uh!"
Oops, I meant "Uh-oh!" not "uh-uh." She said it in a treacly, condescending way, like I was a 4 year old.
FORTUNATELY FOR BOTH OF US, we get on and off at the same bus stops each day so we'll get to enjoy each other in the future. a;dksjf
― Je55e, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
This was in Chicago, not London.
Chicago, the London of America.
― kate78, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
People who open toilet windows when it's snowing outside.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
I don't care how much your shit stinks, that's just indefensible.
you'd rather smell shit than breathe in fresh air?
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
People who aren't eligible to use the carpool lane using the carpool lane.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Ideally neither but the former is preferable to turning the cubicle into an icebox.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually queue up at a London bus stop.
Thinking about it that would be logistically extremely difficult at a lot of them. The bus stop at Victoria where I take the bus to work serves about 7 different routes, which presumably would necessitate 7 different queues.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
indeed, plus the lottery of where the bus will actually pull up - often behind one or two others arriving at the same time so everyone has to walk down several metres anyway.
― nashwan, Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
you definitely get proper queues for certain commuter-heavy bus routes outside train stations in the morning.
― Another turning point, a stork fuck in the road (ledge), Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
the term 'savages' is particularly fitting for the London bus queue problem, for some reason London public transport turns everyone into merciless Hobbesian beasts.
― a similar stunt failed to work with a cow (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
The bus stop sign is in the middle of the bus stop layby at my morning stop, which means that:- if the bus goes right to the end of the bus stop, the door is halfway down the queue, and it turns into a free-for-all- if the bus parks with its door alongside the front of the queue, there's no room for other buses to pull up behind it, which causes its own annoying problems
I spend way too long thinking about these problems, and having a mental list of repeat queue-jumpers, and then justifying it when I queue-jump because I tend to get a different bus to most people and it doesn't hang about if you don't fight your way through the other bus's queue fast enough
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
(the placement of the sign being mentioned because that seems to be where the front of the queue forms, although I suppose it's a more complicated equation than that)
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
― a similar stunt failed to work with a cow (Merdeyeux), Thursday, March 28, 2013 1:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is a strange thing to think about (in NYC as well) -- for many people it'd probably be inconsequential if they didn't get on a particular train at all and waited for the next one, but we treat getting on as life or death
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Thursday, 28 March 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
but you'd have to wait!
― j., Thursday, 28 March 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
There is one bus stop that I use that that serves two directions of one route. Somehow, without any signage of any kind, people invariably line up the same way every time. Eastbound people line up at point X, westbound a just 2 or 3 feet away at point Y.
It's not even like Eastbound people line up on the east and Westbound on the west, b/c the stop is not oriented that way. Just the same side of the curb, no markers, no signs, nothing except strange unwritten rules that keep everyone orderly.
― Je55e, Thursday, 28 March 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
Everyone is a ds
― mister borges (darraghmac), Friday, 29 March 2013 08:18 (eleven years ago) link
no u
― gila free (electricsound), Friday, 29 March 2013 10:21 (eleven years ago) link
People in convenience stores who play their scratchers at the counter when there's a line of people behind them.
― naus, Friday, 29 March 2013 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
when youtube geoblocks a video with a delightful 'sorry about that' comedy sadface it makes me want to stab even more wank-suited industry idiots to fucking death
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 3 May 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
anyone who prefixes their challenging opinions with the phrase "Can I just say...?"
― Neil S, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 08:33 (ten years ago) link
people who do that thing where they don't look at you so it's okay when they walk into you or don't make any attempt to be polite in a public space.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 08:46 (ten years ago) link
^^^^^is supremely disgusting, but it's much more sinister than savage.
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 08:48 (ten years ago) link
it's like "pick a spot over here, i am walking to that thing so there are not people in the way" - often not even aggressive, almost childish imo.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 08:50 (ten years ago) link