Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

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people who drive more than 15mph in parking lots

people who drive less than 70% of the speed limit in normal weather

guilty as charged

People who ignore the one way signs in supermarket carparks because it means they can exit the carpark about ten seconds quicker than driving into the correct lane. Especially when they refuse to budge when I'm driving down the lane that they are coming the wrong way up.

Hi, is it savage to make changes to the temperature of a busy office w/o asking? Maybe I am overly talkative in my need to ask people if they mind windows being opened or the heating being on, but the fan heater is noisy and makes the floor vibrate and makes the atmosphere v. dry and stuffy, and it drives me nuts that this thing is unilaterally controlled by a woman whose idea of "cold" is about 10 degrees above everyone else's

xpost this is true but supermarket car park designers seem to delight in hiding the one-way signs and exit signs in places that can only be seen after you've given up and randomly picked a lane to go down

I hear that...in my old office the temperature controller would literally wear a fleece and shiver during an august heatwave while the rest of us begged and pleaded for ventilation, our words garbled as we drowned in thick sweat, our tongues shrivelled to pellets with the dehydration.

disgusting savages - middle-aged men with superficially cacophonous teenage boy-racer cars who spend every sodding evening revving their engines in the car park while we're trying to get a two-year-old to sleep.

even more disgusting savagery - fit and healthy people who write to the newspaper full of righteous indignation that some busybody asked them not to park in the disabled space at the supermarket. "why should I walk another ten feet, just because I can? it's a free country. political correctness gone mad."

Hi, is it savage to make changes to the temperature of a busy office w/o asking? Maybe I am overly talkative in my need to ask people if they mind windows being opened or the heating being on, but the fan heater is noisy and makes the floor vibrate and makes the atmosphere v. dry and stuffy, and it drives me nuts that this thing is unilaterally controlled by a woman whose idea of "cold" is about 10 degrees above everyone else's

this is a constant thing in our office, to the letter as you've described. there should be someone in your floor/building responsible for the environmental conditions covering this- if one person is consistently turning it up or down (ours is frequently set at 26C) then you should probably have a word.

Or all go to work in Bermuda shorts, Hawaian shirts, sombreros etc

i am pretty much always the coldest person in a warm office, sorry for being a savage

geting to work in bermuda shorts when it's 1.5C outside- no small feat.

good point, forgot flip flops for yr small feet

they only look small cos it's cold.......

Sorry harbl! Actually I feel kind of bad about this because I thought I was always the coldest person in a given room, so it is kind of amazing to me to find this happening.

(Also I work somewhere with no dress code so I spend all winter wearing many layers, giant sloppy sweatshirt etc - I appreciate that smarter dress often requires women to freeze themselves while men sweat under smart jackets and button shirts)

smarter dress often requires women to freeze themselves

? genuinely confused here.

women have way more leeway wrt smart dress

ha i don't really care, tbh i agree the cold person shouldn't be controlling the temp
i loved working somewhere with no dress code too, that really helped

no dress code = I work from home

Yeah I guess I sort of did make that up, tbh haven't tried to dress "smart" at work since working a place with a no-trousers-for-women code, which was COLD in the winter! Also I hate skirts so that didn't last long. Women's work trousers/blouses are often pretty thin too but yeah, there is more layering potential there.

Damn this thread for making me suspect coworker "crop dusts" on his way out to lunch (everyone else eats in the office), but maybe it's just that his packed lunch always smells unholy terrible

no trousers for women code? fuck that noise imo

No LJ

packed lunch

i am pretty much always the coldest person in a warm office, sorry for being a savage

What about a colleague who maintains that they are "allergic" to air conditioning AND fluorescent lighting? That these both give them "really bad migraines", as if there were another kind, and thus must be switched off at all times.

clicking away from Noodle Vague and darraghmac talking about God and capitalism then trying to go back but accidentally clicking on this tab to see them talking about cold offices - confusing. The inventor of tabbed browsing is a disgusting savage.

Where is god and capitalism talk?

I seriously don't see any difference between raising your kids to fear imaginary deity and raising your kids to be law-abiding passive consumers tbh and think in many respects the former is preferable

everyone on that thread^

oh god yeah. we are all savages but some of us are looking at the arse.

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Members of HannaH*s Field.

People who, regardless of irrefutable evidence to the contrary, maintain that they are ALWAYS RIGHT.

Think that's covered by "17 year-old boys" tbh.

People who get you to click on the other thread with promises of looking at arse.

I already copped to being a disgusting savage once.

people who go "woo!" and "yeah!" during quiet moments at shows (happening to me right now)

A Booker Prize nominated author is apparently the absolute most disgusting savage of all time if you work in our IT department, so much so that 2 members of DST have to go and attend to him in case he gets aggro (which he will).

Rod Liddle

People who spell your name wrong in emails to you even though they are replying to your email which, unsurprisingly, contains your name spelled correctly.

I must confess I did that once, ant put Karen instead of Karyn I felt so guilty.

all ISPs and all energy suppliers in the UK

xxpost ah jeez yeah. I'm gonna start signing off 'Iain'

People who spell your name wrong in emails to you even though they are replying to your email which, unsurprisingly, contains your name spelled correctly.

If all these people were lined up against a wall and shot, there might be adequate resources for the rest of us. Just sayin'.

Tempted to post that people who have "quirky" spellings of regular-sounding names and who get uppity when people spell their idiosyncratic version wrong in a quickly dashed-off email are disgusting savages. but I shan't.

One colleague calls me 'Rob' half the time, I let it fly. But I know where he lives. And I can get explosives.

people who lick their thumb in order to flip through a stack of banknotes more easily, then hand their payment to the poor cashier, who will soon die of meningitis.

SM, there is *never* an excuse for misspelling a name in correspondence. It's just disrespectful.

people who have "quirky" spellings of regular-sounding names and who get uppity when people spell their idiosyncratic version wrong

but aren't these people as much the victim as you are? Sure, it's possible that Megan had her name legally changed to Meghyn to distinguish herself from the plebs, but chances are it was her idiot parents who made the decision. blow up her parents' house, is what I'm sayin'.

People who think that instant coffee is acceptable.

People that eat peanut butter from the jar with a spoon.

dutch librarians

People who belch (?) in public. Or fart. Yes, last week during tennis the bloke on the other field belched REALLY LOUDLY. WTF. I first thought it was our teacher who loudly proclaimed "I AM NOT THAT RUDE" lol