I have noticed a lot of threads recently about people who are either clueless or just arrogantly ignorant of others concerns (dropping DB on the ground, smoking at the gym entrance, aquats in the curl rack…)
I had a situation two nights ago. Not gym related, but it was indiciative of how some people really don’t care about others.
These new people moved into my neighborhood right behind me. They have a dog. They keep it locked up in the back yard all the time. That freaking thing barks all night! I finally had enough. I went over to his house at midnight, rang his doorbell and asked him very nicely to bring his dog inside because it was disturbing the entire neighborhood. He said “I don’t hear anything”. I’m standing at his door and his dog is HOWLING. I said “you can’t hear that?” He just shrugged his shoulders.
I explained that his dog has kept me awake for the last 3 nights and that he needs to do something about it. He said “I’ll see what I can do”. No apology or “I’ll bring him in”.
I got back to my house and the dog was still barking. I called the police and they came out the next day. It was quiet last night.
Why are some people like that? Totally unconcerned about those who live around him. My plan if the dog continues to bark at night is to either go over and ring his doorbell or call his house and wake his fat ass up.
[quote]n3wb wrote:
or you could accidently missplace a couple pounds of chocolate [/quote]
Listen here assh0le, it’s not the dog’s fault he’s stuck outside all the time. And your solution is to kill him? Someone should misplace a couple of pounds of chocolate in your ass!!!
Ok, was that tough guy enough? I’ve been workin’ on my internet tough guy routine. How did I do? haha
People suck. That’s all there is to it. And your situation especially sucks because what can you do? I guess I would rather just keep calling the cops on him and let them deal with it. Rather than take situations into your own hands.
But I don’t know. What are the cops gonna do? Keep coming out the next day and talk to him? Well, that really doesn’t help you that night when you are trying to get some sleep.
I completely agree with you 100%. It’s a sign of the times.
The lack of quality time today’s adults recieved as their parents were busy working and/or pursuing careers and the like, a lot of people don’t have a strong foundation for interpersonal values and ethics, accountability to the next person, etc., as less time was able to be given to them to teach these values. The foundation for values starts at the very beginning, at home, with the parents and nuclear family.
Also, sorry to sound a bit jaded, but my theory is all the amphetamine-type drugs that have been epidemic to this country have fried a lot of peoples’ brains and also their sense of empathy/others, and it’s so evident now. Case in point the Craig Titus murder case and other bizarre things around the country…the crime rate is up, more people have bad psychiatric disorders because of organic or secondary reasons, domestic violence and child abuse are up, single parenthood is epidemic, substance abuse is epidemic, etc… People have a lack of a sense that we’re connected to one another. Another example of that is the divorce rate and families breaking up, neighbors fighting with one another or not even associating with each other.
I also believe it’s a sign of our materialistic culture in the land of plenty. There’s much less of a sense of COMMUNITY in a lot of American towns and cities. I feel the pain of this when I hang out with friends from second and third world countries who have emmigrated here. They naturally are community-oriented, considerate of others, will see their neighbors moving heavy items and will run over to help them, will cook extra food and bring it to their elderly neighbors’ houses and spend time with them, etc., much more than I’m used to. It reminds me of how much American society has lost in terms of Community.
I hope not to offend anyone. But the breakdown and near loss of the concept of Community of the whole of society affects everyone and I believe is one of the main causes that society has become so interpersonally selfish.
[quote]chinadoll wrote:
I completely agree with you 100%. It’s a sign of the times.
The lack of quality time today’s adults recieved as their parents were busy working and/or pursuing careers and the like, a lot of people don’t have a strong foundation for interpersonal values and ethics, accountability to the next person, etc., as less time was able to be given to them to teach these values. The foundation for values starts at the very beginning, at home, with the parents and nuclear family.
Also, sorry to sound a bit jaded, but my theory is all the amphetamine-type drugs that have been epidemic to this country have fried a lot of peoples’ brains and also their sense of empathy/others, and it’s so evident now. Case in point the Craig Titus murder case and other bizarre things around the country…the crime rate is up, more people have bad psychiatric disorders because of organic or secondary reasons, domestic violence and child abuse are up, single parenthood is epidemic, substance abuse is epidemic, etc… People have a lack of a sense that we’re connected to one another. Another example of that is the divorce rate and families breaking up, neighbors fighting with one another or not even associating with each other.
I also believe it’s a sign of our materialistic culture in the land of plenty. There’s much less of a sense of COMMUNITY in a lot of American towns and cities. I feel the pain of this when I hang out with friends from second and third world countries who have emmigrated here. They naturally are community-oriented, considerate of others, will see their neighbors moving heavy items and will run over to help them, will cook extra food and bring it to their elderly neighbors’ houses and spend time with them, etc., much more than I’m used to. It reminds me of how much American society has lost in terms of Community.
I hope not to offend anyone. But the breakdown and near loss of the concept of Community of the whole of society affects everyone and I believe is one of the main causes that society has become so interpersonally selfish.
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I would have to agree with this. Dodge City of the old west was a much more peaceful place then any city of today.
[quote]chinadoll wrote:
I completely agree with you 100%. It’s a sign of the times.
The lack of quality time today’s adults recieved as their parents were busy working and/or pursuing careers and the like, a lot of people don’t have a strong foundation for interpersonal values and ethics, accountability to the next person, etc., as less time was able to be given to them to teach these values. The foundation for values starts at the very beginning, at home, with the parents and nuclear family.
Also, sorry to sound a bit jaded, but my theory is all the amphetamine-type drugs that have been epidemic to this country have fried a lot of peoples’ brains and also their sense of empathy/others, and it’s so evident now. Case in point the Craig Titus murder case and other bizarre things around the country…the crime rate is up, more people have bad psychiatric disorders because of organic or secondary reasons, domestic violence and child abuse are up, single parenthood is epidemic, substance abuse is epidemic, etc… People have a lack of a sense that we’re connected to one another. Another example of that is the divorce rate and families breaking up, neighbors fighting with one another or not even associating with each other.
I also believe it’s a sign of our materialistic culture in the land of plenty. There’s much less of a sense of COMMUNITY in a lot of American towns and cities. I feel the pain of this when I hang out with friends from second and third world countries who have emmigrated here. They naturally are community-oriented, considerate of others, will see their neighbors moving heavy items and will run over to help them, will cook extra food and bring it to their elderly neighbors’ houses and spend time with them, etc., much more than I’m used to. It reminds me of how much American society has lost in terms of Community.
I hope not to offend anyone. But the breakdown and near loss of the concept of Community of the whole of society affects everyone and I believe is one of the main causes that society has become so interpersonally selfish.
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[quote]dre wrote:
n3wb wrote:
or you could accidently missplace a couple pounds of chocolate
Listen here assh0le, it’s not the dog’s fault he’s stuck outside all the time. And your solution is to kill him? Someone should misplace a couple of pounds of chocolate in your ass!!!
Ok, was that tough guy enough? I’ve been workin’ on my internet tough guy routine. How did I do? haha
People suck. That’s all there is to it. And your situation especially sucks because what can you do? I guess I would rather just keep calling the cops on him and let them deal with it. Rather than take situations into your own hands.
But I don’t know. What are the cops gonna do? Keep coming out the next day and talk to him? Well, that really doesn’t help you that night when you are trying to get some sleep.[/quote]
[quote]Andrew Dixon wrote:
You should definetly kill the dog with chocolate.[/quote]
The LD50 of theobromine in canines is 100-200 mg/kg of body weight. Baking chocolate has 392 mg of theobromine per oz. Milk chocolate only has about 44 mg/oz. So if the dog is 25 lbs, you’d have a 50% chance of killing it with about 6 oz. of baking chocolate.
But why punish the dog for the owner’s stupidity? There’s a lot of better ways of getting back at the guy if the cop route doesn’t work.
[quote]Testy1 wrote:
Well, he can’t kill the owner now can he.
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In Iran you could handle a situation like this by getting your neighbors together and lynching the guy. Maybe they do have a few things right over there…
I had a neighbor like this in the other side of my duplex.
After asking her if she could somehow control her dogs, she acted very offended, told me to f*ck off, and had a couple of other nice comments.
So, Every Saturday and Sunday at 9:oo in the morning, before I went out for my bike ride, I would put Slayer on and turn it all the way up(700 watts), Then leave for a few hours as Seasons In the Abyss shook the dust off of my cones.
After about a month of this I asked her again, and she was a lot more cooperative.
Seems alot of people in today’s society can’t seem to see past the end of their noses to realize that theres a world out there that they aren’t the centre of, its a sin how selfish people are getting…yeah yeah you still see signs of goodness but thats unfortunately usually overshadowed by selfishness and just plain bad behaviour toward our fellow man…if for no other reason than we simply cannot take a second to consider the given situation through another person’s eyes.
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
I had a neighbor like this in the other side of my duplex.
After asking her if she could somehow control her dogs, she acted very offended, told me to f*ck off, and had a couple of other nice comments.
So, Every Saturday and Sunday at 9:oo in the morning, before I went out for my bike ride, I would put Slayer on and turn it all the way up(700 watts), Then leave for a few hours as Seasons In the Abyss shook the dust off of my cones.
After about a month of this I asked her again, and she was a lot more cooperative.
Sometimes you just have to be a bit coercive.
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I like your style.
When I lived in Pa, my old roommate and I had a couple move in above us and they would vaccuum at midnight, generally stomp while walking, and fight constantly no matter the time of day. I went upstairs and politely introduced myself, explained my problem, and got a “Fuck you, we pay are rent so we’ll do what we like” I replied “Ok, if that’s how you want to be”
Now our neighbors surrounding our appartment on our floor we’re elderly and couldn’t hear very well. But I made sure to ask them to tell me if I played my music too loud. (they couldn’t hear a thing) I proceeded to put my stereo speakers on top of my TV and bureau in my room and crank up Sandstorm by Darude and other techno, some Bass cd’s used for car audio competitions, and a little Metallica to top it off.
I played said music anywhere from 7 am to after midnight for a few days, until we suddenly stopped hearing anything upstairs. Don’t get mad, get even.