Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

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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.

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.

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.

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.

once one

NV otm

yeah, nobody policing in here, just metaphysically shaming

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"

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

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

have strollers etc.

ah, the heart of the matter

I had a DISGUSTING SAVAGES moment when a couple cut in front of us at the Pet Shop Boys concert where he was 6'2" and she was 5'11" (I am 5'7" and my wife is 5'1") but shortly before the show started the woman in the couple turned around and said to my wife "Can you guys see? Do you want to switch places?" which was a valuable lesson in realizing that some people only resemble disgusting savages and you must always give them a chance to make you feel like you are the real disgusting savage.

maybe the escalator is scary

If I can carry my stroller, 30-pound toddler and bags up seven flights of stairs when the elevator is broken

jesus christ will you please stop blocking the stairs there are perfectly physically healthy ppl behind you trying to run up them

Oh come on NV, it's pretty clear that this is about self-absorbed teeny-boppers playing Angry Birds or w/e, not looking around to see who else is waiting, and nimbly hopping into elevators to avoid ONE FLIGHT of an escalator while someone pushing a stroller or w/e is stuck outside (or crammed against a wall). The DS thread is all about policing/judging other people on snap judgments, not sure why this one needs a white knight.

otm

we're on the Internet, everything needs a white knight

i think it's cos i work with people who can't use the stairs but don't appear to be disabled and even they cuss out not-disabled-looking people getting into lifts

The DS thread is all about policing/judging other people on snap judgments

quis custodiet ipsos custoses

I got in the elevator with two women in my work building. One of them, a healthy-seeming woman who seemed to be in her mid-20s, went up only one floor. The remaining woman said, "Ugh, 1 floor, are you kidding me?"

I lied and told her that the other woman had bone cancer. For the rest of the ride she sputtered and went, "Oh no! Oh my god! I'm such a jerk!"

lol

well done

hahaha awesome

Je55e is one of my favorite type of savages

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.

so you can't carry your stroller and 30 pound toddler up the escalator but you can carry them up seven flights? likely story, buddy!

DJP's cautionary tale is otm.

truly it is us who were the disgusting savages all along.

and posting in this thread, we have truly "listed them all" ;_;

you can't bring a stroller on an escalator

Only those who dare to be bold may bring strollers onto escalators.

I see strollers on escalators all the time, especially when the alternative is to lug the thing up stairs.

but every escalator has a sign on it that says "NO STROLLERS" because I think the combination of the two will make them explode or something

It's harder and more dangerous to take a stroller on an escalator - you can't really put the thing down but you can't go forward (assuming there are other people on the escalator), so you have to just kind of hold the thing in the air and balance.

A lot of CTA stations have escalators but no elevators (if they have either *sigh*) and no signs prohibiting strollers. It looks precarious, no doubt.

CTA stations are not models for accessibility by any stretch of the imagination so I'm not saying that their approach is correct. Just that it's the reality.

overly aggressive restaurant/fast food joint cleaners. on the one hand, as a customer, i appreciate your attention to cleanliness. but on the other hand, i don't enjoy my feet being slammed around by a broom while i'm eating because you can't possible be bothered to wait until i'm done eating to sweep under the table/counter.

lies, who doesn't love a good foot slam?

yeah those dudes who play mop hockey under your chair -- probably they just hate their jobs

i can't say i blame 'em, but i also kinda feel like it would make their job easier if i wasn't in their way. although i think the blame probably falls to the shitty store managers that constantly scream at their employees about how they "MUST CONSTANTLY KEEP THE FLOOR CLEAN"

You got time to lean, you got time to clean.

haha omg my boss at my first job washing dishes in high school said that unironically all the damn time

I don't actually condone hitting someone's feet with a broom but are you guys seriously saying restaurants, especially fast food restaurants, should clean less