Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

My gripe is with people who set up shop for hours in a busy cafe (not just a coffee shop, where this is more part of the culture) or whatever. Finish their meal and then monopolize the table, reading or working on a laptop while people have to hunt and wait for an open table to eat. I've seen someone literally set up shop recently, spreading out their business receipts and notebooks all over a common-area table during peak lunch rush hour.

Right up there with the people who take two kerbside parking spaces because they can't be arsed judging the distance to the next vehicle. The other weekend I pulled in behind another driver into two consecutive spaces - and then she just stopped half way along the gap and got out. She knew I was there, just dgaf. I'm hoping the look I gave her left a permanent lesion on her retina.

You non-savages must love Nando’s. You walk in, the host gives you a table number, you go to the counter and order, then you find your assigned table and sit. Problems solved!

That's a great system; its one flaw is that you end up eating food from Nando's. (I spent a week on tour with a band in England and that was all they ate. It was fine on Day 1, but by Day 6 I was having nightmares about sweating pure chicken grease.)

people who are printing shit the same time is you and narcissisticly think everything at the printer is theirs, not bothering to check, and grab your shit with theirs. so yay I have to print everything again!

worse even is when someone does this crap at like a FedEx Office. I stopped at one to print a concert ticket once and went to the printer and there was nothing there. went back to the computer station annoyed that I"d have to print again and saw that the idiot at the machine next to mine had grabbed everything off the printer, saw my ticket, and instead of putting it back on the printer, just left it at his station for no good reason.

fuck skin. i hike over a fucking mountain in blazing sun, no sunburn. i ride a bike in the rain, sunburn. skin can get fucked.

Members of my household who take from the communal bowl of Pistachios, then put the empty shells back in the bowl. The garbage can is 3 feet away. wtf

Bearded persons who allow the moustache to overgrow the mouth, and are thereby apparently content to dunk their facial hair into everything they eat and drink.

saw a beardy kinda dude with growth that wasn't quite a full beard but longer than 5oclock shadow, but it was completely covering his cheeks almost up to his eyes and it looked so horrible

it just looked like a horrible untended garden or something

People who feel so compelled to upload something owned by a large corporation on YouTube that they make it completely unlistenable and unwatchable by fucking with the audio, cropping it to 1/10th of its size, vignetting the edges into near darkness and adding a filter that makes it look like you're viewing it through a sheet of digital hessian.

Drivers waiting to turn onto a main road that you are cycling along who stop three feet over the stop line, and/or don't even wait till you've cycled past before they start pulling out.

people who can't figure out an ATM and then try and figure it out for 15 mins instead of just giving up and going the fuck inside

Old people who just board a random bus and then have a meltdown because it isn't going exactly where they want to go

Where has thread been all my life?

Anyway, woman with monster toes and a huge attention grabbing tattoo in gothic script (thankfully illegible) on her foot who insists on wearing flip flops in the office

ppl infected with laurel brain worms

re calstars: the more appalling the foot, the more it will be put on display

someone in my building was clattering up and down the stairs in flipflops yesterday. incredible racket. awful beast

In the UK? What a disgusting savage.

in an office building, in the uk, in may. it's so bad it's almost good

that type of savagery would seem ok in Cornwall, but sometimes I see people in the local Onestop in their slippers and trackie bottoms on a morning, and I think fuck it, live and let live!

ILX's sartorial sensitivity always gives me a little chuckle but in a "bless you all" way

i wd wear sandals all the time if i could get away with it

come to think of it i'd wear 'jamas all the time if i could get away with it

That I can understand.

tbc it was just the incredible noise of someone strenuously slapping up and down the stairs which was strikingly savage, and gave lie to the idea that their clothing choice was about being casual or comfortable or in any way lowkey

the savagery that amuses me more than annoys me are some of the local skinny young lads, whose emaciated frames suggest they've been troubled neither with vigourous gymnasium activity nor any hard labour yet, and probably not eaten many greens. And as soon as it goes anything above 17 degrees they go bare-chested and adopt this *pushing an invisible wheel barrow* type parody of a hardman walk in gangs of 3 or 4.

kinda not feeling today's turn towards the hatefulness of the bodies of women posing no harm, rudeness or inconvenience to anyone around them

That was kinda one post.

lol I read "skinny young lads" as "skinny young ladys" or something, prob cuz i was already ticked and really just scrolling to the bottom to gripe abt calstars's post

I'm not sure how often skinny young ladies go bare-chested on the streets of West Yorkshire, best ask calz.

fortunately it was unproblematically aimed at boys, phew!

c'mon it's not symmetrical, women's bodies are policed totally differently, "how dare you expose your toes, they displease me" would resonate very differently in the lived experience of most women than most men, etc.

actually saw a shirtless hero riding his shitty extra loud bike down the main drag last week, my favourite annoying sound of the summer

Set that bike on fire, make Boaby Gillespie smile.

people who walk to the counter of a fast food place and keep saying "excuse me" to the cashier as they're trying to talk to you to get your order

xp doc - the post was abt shirtless swagger. I don't think it's unreasonable to be sceptical when ppl's generalised concern outstrips their attention to specifics

People that mumble/read aloud their emails, sort of quietly to themselves but still audible to adjacent desks.

did i mention the fingernail clipper at his desk right behind my desk in this thread yet

also like who clips their nails daily (not a disg savage move but still)

My old boss would constantly clip his fingernails on calls, at one point he even took of his shoes and started clipping his toenails under his desk. How I did not quit on the spot remains a mystery.

did i mention the fingernail clipper at his desk right behind my desk in this thread yet

also like who clips their nails daily (not a disg savage move but still)

the day i do is the day i begin phase 2 of annoyance with nail clipping - murder

phase 1 of complaining on the internet and not saying anything has not yet worked

people who hear "yanny"

People who engage in any form of blue dress/gold dress online viral bullshit, I am (mostly) silently judging you and finding you infra digital.

Yeah, fuck people for engaging in anything, right?

That’s not what I said but go right ahead and misunderstand me, it will bring you some kind of temporary fulfilment.

suzy, I am not sure I agree that viral bandwagon stuff is harmful, but "infra digital" is a really deft coinage. You have my undying respect just for that.

Suzy otm, also see my post today on Ideas for ILX

I mean, if people want to post a list of acceptable viral topics for discussion and those that aren't, that'd be helpful. Or just continue silently judging people for daring to take a modicum of interest in something beneath you and reveal yourself to be an asshole. Whatever works.

That's more pissy that I wanted to be, but I sincerely don't understand people who can't just look at something online, think "boy this is dumb, I don't get it and can't for the life of me understand why people would bother" and simply move on. Instead they have to demonstrably proclaim their superiority by refusing to engage. It's dumb and I just don't get it.

argh, my wording got completely butchered in that post. "demonstrably proclaim their superiority for not engaging" is closer to what I meant.