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
car drivers who don't bother indicating cos there aren't any other cars about, only pedestrians
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:10 (ten years ago) link
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
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:15 (ten years ago) link
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
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:16 (ten years ago) link
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
― kinder, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 11:46 (ten years ago) link
in a similar vein, motorists who blithely cruise across zebra crossings when pedestrians are obviously waiting to cross.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 11:56 (ten years ago) link
motorists, tbh
― the REAL Dr Morbius (silby), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
Reminded of this by BBC Glastonbury footage, but those who take enormous fucking idiotic flags on enormous fucking poles to any festival and then wave them throughout every set, thus blocking the view for everyone behind them, are the filthiest savages imaginable.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Monday, 1 July 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
who even has an enormous flag
― j., Monday, 1 July 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
^Wankers. Only useful flag, ever: the FUCKED-UP CHILDREN banner/Spacemen 3 homage marking '89 Reading campsite.
― aldi young dudes (suzy), Monday, 1 July 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
What is wrong with you, Maranhao?
― Fetchboy, Sunday, 7 July 2013 11:40 (ten years ago) link
Holy shit.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 7 July 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
Quartered him?
― carl agatha, Sunday, 7 July 2013 13:15 (ten years ago) link
I read about that story yesterday - so surreal. even more horrifying is that it was in retaliation for the referee KILLING a player by stabbing him after a fight escalated.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 7 July 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
I have the feeling that some of the details in that story will be eventually proved inaccurate.
― OORT (Matt #2), Sunday, 7 July 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
"his head didn't REALLY come off - it was just sleight of hand"
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 7 July 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
apparently pics have surfaced. I will not be seeking these out
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 7 July 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
http://jodycast.podomatic.com/entry/2013-08-24T16_24_35-07_00
― Real cyberpunks think Radio Shack sucks (get bent), Saturday, 24 August 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
Perfectly healthy, non-old people who ride the elevator on the subway at rush hour. Being too lazy to ride a fucking escalator is about one step away from needing to have your being on earth privileges revoked.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 23 September 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
I mean doing that and making people who are pregnant, disabled, old, have luggage, have strollers etc. wait is just unbelievable.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 23 September 2013 13:48 (ten years ago) link
It's cool how you can tell whether somebody is perfectly healthy just by looking at them.
― carl agatha, Monday, 23 September 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
yeah that is a good point but there seem to be a hell of a lot of young people in my office who have invisible debilitating conditions that mean they can't ever use the stairs.
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Monday, 23 September 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
'too lazy to ride an escalator' doesn't even make sense. you can stand still. like you would in a lift.
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Monday, 23 September 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
Good point. Young people are never disabled. Also perfectly healthy people are never tired or injured or just not in the mood to take steps and everyone should have to take a "sincere needs" quiz scored by you before having access to these conveniences.
Nb: I think people who police other's peoples use of elevators and stairs are disgusting savages.
― carl agatha, Monday, 23 September 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
even if those other people are inconveniencing those in genuine need?
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Monday, 23 September 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
it's impossible to tell who has a genuine need and there's no sensible way of policing it. i've said before i am in favour of "please take the stairs if you're able to" notices by lifts but i dunno what else you can do.
― Tyskie in the giro (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 September 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
I work in a building with an ancient and criminally slow lift, afaic the people that ride it one floor every single day are savages of the worst order. Accept the point that some of them may have legit health concerns and of course I wouldn't censure anyone in those circumstances, but these fuckers are legion and tbh I'm simply not buying that they do all have legit health concerns.
In fact I'm pretty sure that one of them doesn't at least, because I have previously pass-agg mentioned to him that it might be quicker to take the stairs and he laughed and hand-waved it off as him being lazy.
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Monday, 23 September 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
thing is some people don't want to tell everybody that they have a health condition/hidden disability and they might laugh it off. i agree that logic says some people are being selfish gits but as i say, no sane way of policing that.
― Tyskie in the giro (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 September 2013 14:06 (ten years ago) link
I'm talking about stops with escalators -- how can you be too tired to take the escalator? Obviously if someone actually has some invisible debilitating condition, I am not including them in my "disgusting savages" set. If I can carry my stroller, 30-pound toddler and bags up seven flights of stairs when the elevator is broken and I got five hours of sleep, I don't want to hear someone complaining that they're "too tired" to walk 30 feet to the escalator and stand on that instead of in an elevator while a bunch of old people and pregnant people and parents stand around waiting.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 23 September 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
this "policing" is just a muttering voice in my head and of course once should always strive to be less judgemental. there ain't half some lazy fuckers though.
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Monday, 23 September 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link
once one
NV otm
― carl agatha, Monday, 23 September 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link
yeah, nobody policing in here, just metaphysically shaming
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 23 September 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
I mean you could make the same argument about disabled seating. "How do you know who's disabled? And maybe sometimes a young healthy person is just tired and wants to sit in the disabled seats on a crowded train at rush hour"
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 23 September 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
xxpost to NV - Oh of course I'm aware that the conversation w/ that guy proves nothing but for the purposes of that conversation I took him at face value and it made me stew. Find this shit too annoying on a day to day basis to be anything other than cynical regarding the motives of these people, even when logic dictates that I should be more mellow about it
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Monday, 23 September 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
i mean, i've expressed the same thought upthread i think, it's just that the price of not singling out one section of society is that other sections get to be dicks sometimes if they wanna
― Tyskie in the giro (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 September 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
have strollers etc.
ah, the heart of the matter
― mookieproof, Monday, 23 September 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link