Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

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.

They do that in my building as well. Urge to kill rising . . .

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.

So I said something to her and she said, "Oh my! Uh-uh!" And laughed.

^ this sounds like the public transport equivalent of people who drive in the breakdown lane. savagely disgusting

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."

oh my. uh-uh! hahaha

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?

cashiers who haven't learned how to process refunds

(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.

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

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.

"DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"

"Is there a neurologist in the queue? Lady here has amnesia, doesn't know who she is."

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.

those ppl are probably paranoid about having it snatched out of their hand, imo.

Yeah, I definitely don't hang out with my wallet/ATM card in my greasy little paws, all enticing and easily snatchable.

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.

otm

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.

People who don't use auto top-up are the most disgusting of all.

"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

This was in Chicago, not London.

Chicago, the London of America.

People who open toilet windows when it's snowing outside.

I don't care how much your shit stinks, that's just indefensible.

you'd rather smell shit than breathe in fresh air?

People who aren't eligible to use the carpool lane using the carpool lane.

you'd rather smell shit than breathe in fresh air?

Ideally neither but the former is preferable to turning the cubicle into an icebox.

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.

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.

you definitely get proper queues for certain commuter-heavy bus routes outside train stations in the morning.

the term 'savages' is particularly fitting for the London bus queue problem, for some reason London public transport turns everyone into merciless Hobbesian beasts.

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

(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)

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, 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

but you'd have to wait!

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.

Everyone is a ds

no u

People in convenience stores who play their scratchers at the counter when there's a line of people behind them.

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

anyone who prefixes their challenging opinions with the phrase "Can I just say...?"

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.

^^^^^is supremely disgusting, but it's much more sinister than savage.

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.

car drivers who don't bother indicating cos there aren't any other cars about, only pedestrians

people who pick up fresh, unwrapped bread or rolls in the supermarket, give the item a squish with their hands, decide they don't want it and then put it back on the shelf

people who pick up chilled goods in the supermarket, then decide they don't want the item and put it down on just a random shelf

f if you don't indicate for whatever reason. I yelled at a car who turned down the road I was crossing and nearly hit me after I very obviously looked at his indicators and crossed

in a similar vein, motorists who blithely cruise across zebra crossings when pedestrians are obviously waiting to cross.