Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

recently saw someone honking at a minibus as it not-especially-slowly took on passengers from a nursing home, now that's some savagery right there

2. Forcing an ignorant driver to realize they are not alone (i.e. "Stop backing up" or "It's green now")

"stop backing up because I'm behind you and you're getting p. close now" = yes
"it's been green for a few seconds (perhaps you have not noticed a filter light)" = eh maybe a tiny tap on the horn
"it's been green for 0.0001s and I am a massive boy-racer dick" = fuck yooooou

Yes

Wish cars had a smaller, friendlier sounding sort of bicycle horn option meaning the above things, e.g. hey I'm over here, the light has changed etc.

Some people are supersensitive and reactive abt horn honking, personally I'm grateful for this kinds of heads-up but have been flipped off for trying to give it to others

also: people driving way under the speed limit on single-lane road who upon getting (legally and safely) passed get their panties in a bunch

erm by single-lane I mean two-way road with dashed line

In my driver's manual, there was some suggested rule about honking your horn before passing another driver, to alert them that you were about to overtake them.

Which, in theory, may sound like a good idea, but ...

No, that's not a good idea anywhere, unless a meteor or a volcano has blacked out the sun, every lightbulb in the world has been destroyed and they can't make any more, and the car you are driving that needs to pass the other car is an ambulance.

imo only two permissible horn sounds should be La Cucaracha and "chinga tu madre cabrón"

the my brother my brother & me podcast proposed a three horn system

regular hey dipshit horn for get out of the way, watch where you're goin

neutral/special occasion horn for non-traffic related things, celebrating sports team wins etc

great job horn for dope traffic maneuvers, narrow-misses, perfectly executed parallel parking & ppl driving the same car as you

i only recognise horns for ppl driving the same car as you, this is important information to celebrate, the rest can gtf and indeed eat my fuc

neutral/special occasion horn for non-traffic related things, celebrating sports team wins etc

as long as this one is silent I'm on board

hate it when some shitty football team wins a shitty football match and then for the rest of the day you have to hear that stupid honking pattern over and over again, it is suddenly ok for drunks to wander round the streets from 4pm until 4am bellowing incomprehensibly at strangers, etc

I hate fun but also hearing any sound not entirely of my own choosing, except maybe birdsong, but only after I've got out of bed in the morning

There is this—I hesitate to call it a group of people—it's more of a mentality, I can't pin it down.

Someone is exiting a shop, house, or other structure just as I'm walking past. They see me, bustle hard to get in front of me on the sidewalk, then slow the fuck down immediately and sort of waver across the sidewalk like a drunk.. I'm a fast and purposeful walker and this makes me deeply annoyed. Why can't you possibly just perceive the rate at which I'm walking and decide to hang the fuck back for one second in the doorway? Do you:

A) Have some inbuilt shitbag mentality where "getting ahead" literally means "getting ahead"
B) Have some sort of cognitive deficiency as far as perceiving the velocity and trajectory of objects in motion
C) Struggle to not be a parasite.

Aston Martin drivers who feel their car is too flash for a regular parking space in Sainsbury's, and so take up the whole of the paved motorcycle parking area.

my version of fields of salmon's is, when biking, idiot hotdog bicyclists who pass me in order to run a red light, but then in the next straightaway I get stuck behind them because when they're not doing reckless stupid things they are slowwww, so now I have to pass them. repeat at next red light.

his description also fits car drivers in Austin, TX to a T

basically at this point the most ubiquitous and galling savagery consists of being thoughtlessly in the way. living in nyc seems to consist of just endless variations on this theme per day.

one time in the office, one of our seasonal contractors basically jogged around me on the right to get to the cafeteria, and muttered (without looking back) "psst, slow traffic keep right"

People who put gifs in their goodreads reviews

people who don't respond to timely texts for over a week because they don't want to deal with them. even worse when this is just their operating behaviour

You just made me respond to one. Thanks Ross!

:)

People who shoot guns at approaching hurricanes. Deadly weapons are not props for some kind of idiotic performance art.

that’s really the only only social good for them tbh, I am torn

same here honestly. but chances are they'll hurt somebody else, not just themselves

anybody commuting to their office job in a pickup truck deserves severe physical pain

Not so much robbing from charity shops, but haggling.

Dude who wears over ear headphones into a movie theatre, that persistently flash a distracting light

>:( wtf

Every motherfucker who makes sudden mid-block u-turns on my busy residential street, usually just bc they don't feel like going all the way around a block. This is some kind of Queens thing, I see it all the time here.

the 2 ppl who insist on crossing my street ~less than 100ft from traffic lights~ every single morning in fairly heavy traffic & all i want to do is yell WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU ARE YOU TRYING TO GET RUN OVER

Dude who wears over ear headphones into a movie theatre, that persistently flash a distracting light

inexcusable except for possible excuse: could it be that given the over-ear positioning of the headphones, the wearer is not and has not ever been aware of the existence of flashing light?

Lol maybe

"Why is everybody always mad at me when i listen to tunes man?"

people who make you take your shoes off upon entering their home, but don't keep the floors clean.

Kind of lol but mostly sad thread intersection

El Tomboto has just described my nearly-3-year-old daughter as a disgusting savage.

Most 3yos are iirc

you make your daughter clean your floors?

they roll around on the floor all the time, you just wash all the dirt and lint off their clothes

seems a little tough on them

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lads

Nah, the 3yo insists on everyone taking their shoes off when they come in (often quite... angrily), but doesn't clean the floor herself. And, indeed, contributes extensively to its uncleanliness.

when I was a 3 year old i insisted all my friends keep their shoes on and if their shoes weren't sufficiently muddy, made them go outside and dirty them up first

3yos are for sure disgusting savages but they're hard to stay disgusted at

Mine wandered around sunny Torbay today wearing her best, spiderweb-adorned witch's dress. Because she's an awesome rainbow goth.

people in transit who swear in front of kids

people who post the same craigslist ad over and over with slightly different titles