Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

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.

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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.

motorists, tbh

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.

who even has an enormous flag

^Wankers. Only useful flag, ever: the FUCKED-UP CHILDREN banner/Spacemen 3 homage marking '89 Reading campsite.

What is wrong with you, Maranhao?

Holy shit.

Quartered him?

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.

I have the feeling that some of the details in that story will be eventually proved inaccurate.

"his head didn't REALLY come off - it was just sleight of hand"

apparently pics have surfaced. I will not be seeking these out

http://jodycast.podomatic.com/entry/2013-08-24T16_24_35-07_00

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.

I mean doing that and making people who are pregnant, disabled, old, have luggage, have strollers etc. wait is just unbelievable.

It's cool how you can tell whether somebody is perfectly healthy just by looking at them.

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.

'too lazy to ride an escalator' doesn't even make sense. you can stand still. like you would in a lift.

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.

even if those other people are inconveniencing those in genuine need?

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.

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.