Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

i googled and did not find a satisfying answer

Actually it’s a good point. If I saw a human sitting on a patio chair holding a big piece of steak in his/her mouth, and then she/he jogged off at my approach while maintaining a no-hands, all-mandible grip on the steak, I’d post about that here too.

we are holding the birds to too high a standard here

birds got no hands Tombot, don't be speciesist

i got hardmanned about edgelording on the intermemes and all i learnt was that birds are evil not cool

I didn’t say evil or uncool I just pointed out that they are savages of the disgusting variety

the no-hands argument doesn’t work for anything, hands are not the things we use to be civil, you can still be thoughtful and decorous with no hands at all.

what does edgelord mean as a verb?

and is it anything like 'big bird' as a verb?

xp hm you specified "a no-hands, all-mandible grip" as the creepy thing tho

A sentient, non-disgusting, civilized handless individual would be able to disclaim such an action by saying something to the effect of “I beg your pardon for what I am about to do” before grasping their fellow mammal’s flesh in their jaw and galloping forth.

Such a display of remorse would also imbue me, and perhaps any other unfortunate witnesses, with at least a modicum of confidence that the utterer would do their best not to drop the carcass flesh on some other poor soul.

Perhaps the bird I saw tried to communicate this. But he failed. And for that, I condemn his entire order.

Maybe because he failed to fully master the grammar of sign language? With no hands it's a tough call. On the other hand I recently met a corella who when preparing to spring out and attack, muttered "what are you doing, Robbie?" under his breath.

Your choice of user name betrays your biases in this debate

aha but my 12 year old daughter chose it for me! Oddly prescient of her.

people when you don't respond right away to texts and say "hey why didn't you respond" - no manners, fuck

People who may or may not be one’s brother-in-law sending overnight non-emergency messages for an hour when you’ve told them not to after the first volley woke you up, that get more ALL CAPS and ranty the more you ask them to cut that shit out.

fuck, suzy..

What he doesn’t know is that I’ve screenshotted the entire convo and my mom’s getting cc’d later today. She already wants to give him $100 and a one-way Greyhound ticket to Detroit plus a restraining order, just to keep it interesting.

suzy, yeah!

Another one: anyone who tags their SO and posts that both are *drinking adult beverages* as a FB status.

trash

anyone who feels the need to announce their current activity as a FB status

suzy that's tolerable unless it's 'cheeky' in which case arghghgh

American prayer-chain GOP voter types

It made me temporarily store barf in my mouth

People who keep talking to you on the phone after you've said 'I can't speak, I'm rushing to get somewhere'. 'Oh yeah, where are you going?' etc

people who answer their phones when they're not free to speak

boom

people who call me

9 times out of 10 you should be answering the phone imo, even if just to say you're tied up. could be something important for someone to bother actually making a call these days, and what are you doing that so important that you can't answer the phone? fuck all, that's what. feel like there's a thread in this. i want no part of it.

My wife does this thing when on the phone with her mother: she says "I'm going to let you go" when what she means is "I desperately want to get out of this conversation."

It used to annoy me slightly because it's disingenuous - clearly the other person doesn't want to be let go - but it may be kinda brilliant in that it switches the agency and makes it seem like the talkative person is being given the right to get back to his or her life, and makes it seem like it was their idea all along.

is she irish, thats p much a standard here

scumbag city council pigfuckers who want to overturn overwhelmingly popular ballot initiatives

Classic (i.e. terrible) experience on London Transport.

I have a sort-of hearing disability - extreme hearing damage, made from a mix of tinnitus and hyperacusis (oversensitivity to loud noise). It's not technically a legal disability, but it *is* disabling in the literal sense, and I am considered "work disabled", which means my workplace is legally obliged to make sure I'm ok when I'm at the office.

Anyway, I was in Camden Town to see the (excellent!) Goscinny exhibition at the Jewish Museum. When I got back to the station, it was closed for entrances as usual - people getting off can leave the station, but you can't get in - you have to walk to Kentish Town or whatever instead.

Just for the hell of it, I'd asked if they'd make an exception for me and let me down the stairs. "I have a hearing disability and Camden is very noisy," I said. Of course they said no, which wasn't very surprising.

What *was* unusual was the response I got afterwards. One staff member said to me, "It's pretty noisy in Camden market - what are you doing here in the first place?" That was a bit rude, so I asked to speak to the manager. His response was: "You realise it's noisy on the train as well, don't you?"

I guess the suggestion was - as a person with a chronic health issue, I was asking for trouble just for being outdoors in the first place?

9 times out of 10 you should be answering the phone imo, even if just to say you're tied up. could be something important for someone to bother actually making a call these days, and what are you doing that so important that you can't answer the phone? fuck all, that's what. feel like there's a thread in this. i want no part of it.

Having a communication device on your person doesn't obligate you to respond to anyone at anytime who wants to communicate with you

Chuck, have you got a Disabled Person's Railcard? You can get it for hearing issues.

Interesting! It looks like you can only get it for being deaf. My hearing is screwy, but I'm not actually deaf - it's the extra sounds that make it screwy, not the lack of them, of that makes sense. But I'll check out-thanks! I don't really need a discount but it might be useful to swat at TFL people if I need help.

9 times out of 10 you should be answering the phone imo, even if just to say you're tied up. could be something important for someone to bother actually making a call these days, and what are you doing that so important that you can't answer the phone? fuck all, that's what. feel like there's a thread in this. i want no part of it.

What is this horseshit? Fuck off with this "must be available to everyone at all timea!!11!" crap. Once of a time you happily left voicemail messages and waited on a callback. Or wrote a fucking letter.

Dont call me in the middle of dinnertime then send me 3 txts cos I dared not answer my phone because heaven forbid I might be doing something else.

this was a call on my work phone. I get people riding me for things all day while I'm trying to work but the name never comes up, just the number, so I'm kind of obliged to answer it, but more often than not it's nothing that couldn't be written in an email

*ringing

Yeah work desk phones obv slightly different, especially if its your actual job to answer a phone, haha.

Even then tho Ive sometimes let a call through to the keeper cos I'm in the middle of something. They'll call back/send an email if its urgent.

surprised at the ppl who hate their friends and loved ones itt

if you really love someone you should absolutely recognize them as a disgusting savage at least occasionally

My friends and loved ones know I hate phone calls, lol

solidarity Trayce

And I do this for a living! (answer phones. At least partly anyway)

(I still hates it)

There is a lady in the garden next door who's keeps yelling MIAOW MIAOW at her cat every 20 seconds. She doesn't live there but her cat's come over a few fences and she's trying to get him back.

I heard her saying, "I know it's annoying, but this is how I get the cat to come back to me." She's been yelling it for an hour now. The cat has not come back.

Like, the cat is literally at the bottom of the garden, ignoring her.

it sounds like she has a lot to teach you

lol, true

MIAOW MIAOW!

Meanwhile the cat's thinking like "That's not even my dialect of Cat, beeyotch. And anyway what you are saying is meaningless; you're just mimicking the sound. Christ, get one dictionary."

not even a question mark on the miaou ffs