Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

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thieving this word, hope you don't mind

I wish I could claim credit for it.

Passengers in cars who shout abuse at cyclists are disgusting savages and deserve to be tortured.

^^^ deserves a hearing

usually engine noise + doppler effect + wind makes it impossible to hear what the motorist is saying unless they're at a red light. I assume these people are shouting, "retard!" but for all I know they could be complimenting me on my rippling leg muscles. this deserves a thorough investigation and probably some torture.

This guy put on a silly high-pitched voice and yelled "do us a fucking wheelie". I was a mile from home after an 18-mile, 80-minute blast through the countryside during which I got soaked in a downpour. If I'd had stuff with me I'd have set fire to him.

Special extra savage points: they yell something incoherent, I yell back from the bike, and their retort is that I'm "not supposed to be in the street" (not true, local law is that the street is the ONLY legal place for me to bike) (but they never stick around long enough to hear about that, plus doppler effect etc)

i hate it when I'm whistling a proper melody and some disgusting savage comes along and starts whistling some tuneless shit of his own. is he trying to impress me? is this a passive-aggressive attempt to shut me up? is he trying to duet with me but hasn't the faintest idea how harmonizing works? probably he hasn't whistled in years, and my whistling inspires him to test out his long-dormant musical abilities, much to his delight and much to my enragement.

whatever it is, I always get a kick out of the gurgling noises he makes when I slice off his lips and force-feed them to him while I resume my pitch-perfect rendition of "Little Brown Church in the Vale".

they are just trying to remind you what whistling, anyone's whistling, sounds like anyone who is not the whistler

got some insults yelled at me from a van window while walking across a pedestrian crossing the other day, put me in a bad mood all weekend. fuck car-window-yellers and fuck anyone who thinks that because they are a man and i am not that means they need to tell me and the rest of the street how they rate my appearance. whether the rating is positive or negative it's just fucking rude, intrusive and creepy.

(on the plus side, this used to happen to me all the time in my previous town and it's much less frequent now. on the minus side, i think i was confusing "this hasn't happened to me much lately" with "i am now old and wise enough not to be bothered by this", which was clearly not true.)

"Macho Man" Randy

man the other day I was at a traffic light next to a dirty hippie with their feet out the window and then the car in front of me opens it door and the driver spits out a loogey. Fuck all y'all.

I was driving a stickshift car for the second time in my life and stalled it at a traffic light that was on a hill; I guess if you drive stick you know that's kinda tough for people who don't drive them. Guy in motorcycle yells out "learn to drive, asshole!" as he passes me. What the hell does he think I tried to do that??

I once saw a guy chuck his cigarette butt out of his (fucking huge 4WD) car, and someone else leapt out of their car, picked it up, and threw it back into his face

Wow

We were all waiting for a light, I should add--this wasn't done in moving traffic

Man, mark me a disgusting savage, but driving with your foot out the window is delightful.

indeed!

Mark me confused but driving with your foot out of the window is impossible. Isn't it?

Sales guys urging me to buy more stocks of various consumables "just in case" the earthquake in Japan has an impact on future availability. I know they're just doing their job but get out of my face with your distasteful incitement to panic buy.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/wpix-family-unhappy-about-obama-visit,0,4037272.story

"Dear 9-11 family member"

Abbott, kate, I sincerely hope you meant "RIDING with your feet out the window" and not "DRIVING with your feet out the window" otherwise eek

Oh man no I meant I spent ages 17-20 in sunny weather with my left foot out the window. Does it make you feel better if I say the car was an automatic?

thats a common practice in hawaii

Hawaiians drive like THIS.

(Driving with your feet out the window is stylish.)

I'm stylish in Hawaii.

People who think being clearly and obviously mean and dickish is ok as long as they say they were joking afterwards.

The annoying woman who has made me miss my train two days in a row now by refusing to move to the side of the escalator after I nicely say "excuse me". Nothing more frustrating than hearing them announce that your train is getting ready to close its doors and not be able to get around some dolt who could care less.

"annoying" doesn't do it justice imo, those people should be scuttled with force

skittled even

a year or so ago, i had a somewhat serious altercation with a motorist while i was on my bicycle. middle of the day, and i'm at this intersection of a smaller street (the main bicycle throughfare in that part of SF) and a much larger, busier street. i'm to the right, as is the law and so on, when this guy starts honking at me. he's trying to turn right on red, and i am blocking his way with my bicycle. i ignore him, because seriously, i'm already pretty damn far to the right, almost at the sidewalk. he keeps honking. so i turn around, sneer, and give him the middle finger. all of sudden, this prick in a suit turns off his car (a BMW, just sayin) gets out, and starts screaming at me about being 'civil' and tells me that i need to 'calm down,' and all i say is, "i'm where i'm supposed to be. and i don't need to calm down, i'm perfectly calm."

anyway, i diffused that situation, but a great number of motorists need to learn some fucking manners.

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The woman next to me at the gas station this afternoon that yelled the following at her crying three year-old daughter:

shut the fuck up you fucking little bitch before i knock all your fucking teeth outta your head

Few things depress me more than this. I mean, if this is what they say to their kids in public, like, oh my god how awful is the home life?

o_O. that's fucking terrible.

that goes beyond savage imo...need something worse to label them

Like, I feel awful for not interfering, but I just couldn't find the words to respond that wouldn't have immediately made the situation 1000x worse.

i would have called child protective services on the spot, but i'm a teacher and i'm legally obligated to.

jon - yea there's really not much you could have done in that situation.

remy - do child protective services intervene for mere cussing at a child? (Not patronizing question, I'm just curious).

I want to second Neanderthal's question, because I was wondering the same thing. As I was driving away I really wanted to call someone to report it, but I'm pretty sure the cops would file that directly in the "not really paid to give a shit" file without actually seeing abuse.

it would also be good to know cuz in FL people talking to their kids like that is as common as saying "hello", and I always feel uncomfortable not knowing what to do.

like on my AmTrak ride to NC, this dude behind me kept telling his infant daughter to stfu

Got into a thing with someone on a bus to Seattle with my sister that's related to this (we being British had no idea how mental just getting a bus in the states is). Woman kept punching her kid in the jaw and we intervened and immediately regretted it as she told us how much worse it was going to get for her when she got home. Made me so angry and I'm not sure what I'd do if anything similar ever happened again.

O_O

weirdly, that same exact thing happens in don quixote

#fuckyeahliterature

I'm not professing to being the first to discover the dilemma. It's pretty well documented, esp. in social care training.

Also the bus journey scared the fuck out of me because the driver was wearing like big black leather racing gloves and then it went through all these tight subway tunnels before it got into Seattle. Proper freaking out.

hey man, don't worry, no shame in being unoriginal — don quixote was a biter too

but really though that is awful — I think my brain went to DQ because it is a funny (rather than sad) version of the same story

in all likelihood, protective services won't be able to do anything. but the ball's in their court, and if the abuser has a history or tendency to abuse, or is later called up court, for custody battle, etc., it'll be an integral part of the record. that's a piece of mandatory reporting –– if you judge an action to be under the (admittedly wide) umbrella of abuse, you've got to hand it off to somebody who will likely deep-six it anyway.