Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

"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.

Mandated reporting is a great thing, but when it's some random stranger on a bus or at a gas station, calling CPS might not accomplish much since you don't have any information on the family (names, addresses, etc.). It's best to call law enforcement in situations like that (faster response times, police have more legal authority, and the fact that you are witnessing a crime in progress). Once the cops respond, they'll call CPS out anyway.

People who believe "Movember" is in some way funny.

People who say "cheers" instead of "goodbye"... UGGGGGGGGGH

I've never heard this "movember". Explain?

(if there is anything to explain that is)

what's funny/not funny about movember? it's like comic relief - which by definition is supposed to be funny*, right?

*YMMV

xp

http://www.movember.com/

I'm being a grouch, it's a ll for a good cause, but it seems tailor made for Colin Hunt/ David Brent-type office jokers to grow a hilarious moustache while congratulating themselves about all their good work for charidee.

Oh Christ, it's a mustache thing.

Ron Swanson would definitely not approve of either charity nor growing a moustache ironically.

Anyone involved in a newspaper review on tv.

I grew a big-arse David Boone moustache for Movember 3-4 years ago. Raised loads of money but ugh.

btw the indignation of looking a twat on public transport for a month was all about raising awareness, not out-testosteroning middle management.

people who think finger moustaches or handlebar moustaches are still funny

not that they ever were, but you know what I mean

oh man, I noticed a friend has one of those and it's just embarrassing

at a sold out show (or even one that isn't) with unassigned seating, people that leave a single seat between them and the next group along are disgusting savages.

four of us arrived late(ish) last night and there were individual seats dotted about in rows front to back, meaning we had to go riiiight to the top to find space just for two of us together. don't mind sitting at the back if that's all there is but when it is totally avoidable..... GAAAAAAAH.

I don't think its such a big deal at a non-sold out show, tbh. If it sold out and well known to be so, people should definitely make an effort to not leave open seats though.

Yeah, that single seat is there because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know for the whole of The Tree of Life (or until they walk out). And if it's nowhere near sold out then it becomes a place to dump my coat/bag/whatever.

I mean, one could counter-argue that *true* savagery consists in arriving late to a nearly full house and expecting everyone else to have made allowances for you. That said, I've been to plenty of events where the ushers ensure that gaps don't get left in the first place if it's going to be full, which seems like a good policy.

(no dickish intent there, btw)

None taken. At the cinema I think I can live with it because I rarely attend a sold out screening without allocated seating.

Still though if you choose to go to a public event like a concert you need to make your peace with the likelihood of your coming into close proximity with other people. Or else don't go.

Btw, this show displayed a very visible SOLD OUT sign on the front of the building. Even if it had not I'm pretty sure everyone would have had a decent idea.