[quote]WhiteSturgeon wrote:
people with a sense of entitlement;
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It has always been my personal belief that inflated self entitlement is the root of all bad things. If you think about it enough you can trace every shitty thing in our society back to people thinking they deserve something they haven’t earned. [/quote]
So true! [/quote]
How do you create a standard to judge whether or not someone has “earned” something?
**People who are unaware of their surroundings. Whether it’s that dude in the narrow hallway walking at the speed of an 80 year old, groups on escalators that take up both sides so nobody can pass their idling asses, people snailing through ticket gates, bad drivers etc.
**This mother and daughter who came to the bar I work at. They come in at 11pm as the last customers (we close at 12am, primarily a live music house not a get wasted bar), order the base requirement of one drink and food, then proceed to sit down with their smartphones and not speak one fucking word to each other until they leave when we close. I am somewhat forgiving because they probably didn’t think we close at 12am.
**Friends/group of people who hang out but act super cool and don’t really chat much at all. Like those people who need someone’s company because they can’t be alone but they’re not really doing much together. It doesn’t really piss me off, but it’s something I can’t really get.
**Likewise, girls who fall in love with a guy because he’s distant and doesn’t show interest so that makes him mysterious. You look like a fucking four year old who wants something only because it’s being withheld.
[quote]csulli wrote:
Tolkien
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Why csulli, why?!
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Because the sonofabitch was infatuated with elves and halflings. Elves are hyper-effeminate and make extensive use of cowardly magic and bows. Hobbits are exceedingly weak and pathetic and make extensive use of cowardly stealth and trickery.
He even makes stupid hobbits like the focal point of the stories and main heroes somehow. The appeals to weak little children who want to feel like they can be important to by making use of weak cowardly tactics despite the fact that they would really be almost totally useless.
Fine, whatever. It didn’t appeal to me though. He made dwarves a laughing stock. They were like fucking comic relief the whole goddamn time. Dwarves! The guys who are strong and tough and heavily built and so stout and barrel chested as to be almost as broad as they are tall. Who grow epic beards even the most manly man couldn’t hope to match. I mean they’re almost literally powerlifters.
Who make the best and strongest beer and can out drink an entire village of a lesser race. Who wield the weapons of a true warrior, massive axes and hammers! Who have a grim, stoic demeanor and aren’t afraid of a good doom and never forget a grudge.
But no Tolkien preferred to portray them as inferior to the Elven Abercrombie and Fitch boys for whom he had a massive hard-on.[/quote]
[quote]bdocksaints75 wrote:
Don’t know if its been said but when someone drives around a parking lot for 10 minutes or waits for someone to move blocking you in just to get a parking space 10 feet close to the door.[/quote]
I love parking spot stalkers. I always fuck with them and walk insanely slow and stop multiple times. And I’m also normally parked at the far end of any lot[/quote]
Haha! I’m nuts about this. With some of the hard core aggressive stalkers I’ll reset the clock in the car, fiddle with every button that can be pushed, fix the babies car seat, what ever.
[quote]Sutebun wrote:
**This mother and daughter who came to the bar I work at. They come in at 11pm as the last customers (we close at 12am, primarily a live music house not a get wasted bar), order the base requirement of one drink and food, then proceed to sit down with their smartphones and not speak one fucking word to each other until they leave when we close. I am somewhat forgiving because they probably didn’t think we close at 12am.
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Curious as to how this ground your gears:
Was it late for the kitchen to make the food they ordered and still have to clean up afterwards?
Do people coming in during the last hour make it harder to get home at a reasonable time because cleanup gets delayed, with little or no increase in (the bar workers’) income for the night?
Was it because they took up space in the bar too long relative to the amount of revenue they gave for the bar?
Was it because they took up space in the bar too long relative to the amount of tips they gave?
Was it because they looked at their smartphones and didn’t speak the whole time?
Was it because you get job satisfaction out of watching bar customers have a good time, and they didn’t seem to be?
If the answers to #1 and #2 are both “no”, then I am also curious as to why coming in an hour before you close is something that needs to be forgiven. (If the answer to #1 or #2 is “yes”, then I get it.)
Hypocritical parents who actively defend their children’s bad behavior yet hate the same behavior when displayed by others. For instance: do not chastise me for being upset your 10 y.o. deliberately knocked over my grocery cart, and then get upset when I in turn knock over yours. If knocking over strangers’ carts is an acceptable “form of expression”, then it should be acceptable for everyone.
[quote]fncj wrote:
Hypocritical parents who actively defend their children’s bad behavior yet hate the same behavior when displayed by others. For instance: do not chastise me for being upset your 10 y.o. deliberately knocked over my grocery cart, and then get upset when I in turn knock over yours. If knocking over strangers’ carts is an acceptable “form of expression”, then it should be acceptable for everyone.[/quote]
My mom was a school teacher and she had stories like this. There was one kid in particular who was just a huge bully and used to beat kids up, and his dumbass mom literally said something to the effect of “Oh that’s just how he expresses himself.”
[quote]WhiteSturgeon wrote:
people with a sense of entitlement;
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It has always been my personal belief that inflated self entitlement is the root of all bad things. If you think about it enough you can trace every shitty thing in our society back to people thinking they deserve something they haven’t earned. [/quote]
So true! [/quote]
How do you create a standard to judge whether or not someone has “earned” something?
**People who are unaware of their surroundings. Whether it’s that dude in the narrow hallway walking at the speed of an 80 year old, groups on escalators that take up both sides so nobody can pass their idling asses, people snailing through ticket gates, bad drivers etc.
**This mother and daughter who came to the bar I work at. They come in at 11pm as the last customers (we close at 12am, primarily a live music house not a get wasted bar), order the base requirement of one drink and food, then proceed to sit down with their smartphones and not speak one fucking word to each other until they leave when we close. I am somewhat forgiving because they probably didn’t think we close at 12am.
**Friends/group of people who hang out but act super cool and don’t really chat much at all. Like those people who need someone’s company because they can’t be alone but they’re not really doing much together. It doesn’t really piss me off, but it’s something I can’t really get.
**Likewise, girls who fall in love with a guy because he’s distant and doesn’t show interest so that makes him mysterious. You look like a fucking four year old who wants something only because it’s being withheld.[/quote]
Clearly, I must have inexplicable sense of entitlement myself that validates and/or reinforces my judgmental opinions of what exactly makes someone self-entitled (in my eyes). There are of course “objective” exceptions here, like needing to pass classes in order to “earn” a degree but I don’t think you were referring to those.
[quote]fncj wrote:
Hypocritical parents who actively defend their children’s bad behavior yet hate the same behavior when displayed by others. For instance: do not chastise me for being upset your 10 y.o. deliberately knocked over my grocery cart, and then get upset when I in turn knock over yours. If knocking over strangers’ carts is an acceptable “form of expression”, then it should be acceptable for everyone.[/quote]
My mom was a school teacher and she had stories like this. There was one kid in particular who was just a huge bully and used to beat kids up, and his dumbass mom literally said something to the effect of “Oh that’s just how he expresses himself.”[/quote]
I’ve never come across that before - it would drive me nuts haha!
I have to agree with the earlier post about self-entitlement, I really think that is the number one thing that “grinds my gears” - people that think they deserve things that they haven’t earned or worked for.
[quote]Sutebun wrote:
**This mother and daughter who came to the bar I work at. They come in at 11pm as the last customers (we close at 12am, primarily a live music house not a get wasted bar), order the base requirement of one drink and food, then proceed to sit down with their smartphones and not speak one fucking word to each other until they leave when we close. I am somewhat forgiving because they probably didn’t think we close at 12am.
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Curious as to how this ground your gears:
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Yeah I forgot to make it clear in my post!
Since we are primarily a live house, if it’s not busy after the music ends we can clean up and leave. This isn’t often, but the earliest I’ve gotten out is 10:30. So if those two didn’t come in we would have cleaned up the toilet and vacuumed the floors and been out. But since they were until 12 we had to stand around with nothing to do and wait until AFTER they leave to clean up, so I ended up getting out of the place at close to 12:30.
If a big a group comes in and they’re ordering a lot of drinks and having fun…awesome, I don’t mind. But the mom and daughter’s bill didn’t even cover the extra time me and the other guy had to be there lol. And it’s just rather depressing as they buried their faces in their phones for an entire hour.
[quote]WhiteSturgeon wrote:
people with a sense of entitlement;
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It has always been my personal belief that inflated self entitlement is the root of all bad things. If you think about it enough you can trace every shitty thing in our society back to people thinking they deserve something they haven’t earned. [/quote]
So true! [/quote]
How do you create a standard to judge whether or not someone has “earned” something?
[/quote]
Clearly, I must have inexplicable sense of entitlement myself that validates and/or reinforces my judgmental opinions of what exactly makes someone self-entitled (in my eyes). There are of course “objective” exceptions here, like needing to pass classes in order to “earn” a degree but I don’t think you were referring to those. [/quote]
I think this a HUGE topic we could dive into – what entitles you to something, and when does it cross the line and become over indulgent self-entitlement.
The interesting part to me is that while I agree self-entitled people are in general asses, I also think such character traits along with greed has some positives as well.
On the opposite side of the spectrum we have settling for less. Either are poor character traits when taken to the extreme.
[quote]fncj wrote:
Hypocritical parents who actively defend their children’s bad behavior yet hate the same behavior when displayed by others. For instance: do not chastise me for being upset your 10 y.o. deliberately knocked over my grocery cart, and then get upset when I in turn knock over yours. If knocking over strangers’ carts is an acceptable “form of expression”, then it should be acceptable for everyone.[/quote]
My mom was a school teacher and she had stories like this. There was one kid in particular who was just a huge bully and used to beat kids up, and his dumbass mom literally said something to the effect of “Oh that’s just how he expresses himself.”[/quote]
I’ve never come across that before - it would drive me nuts haha!
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I work with children in Japan, even from tiny ones 2-3 years old.
Kids will be completely out of control even in front of their parents, and there will be these just useless and pathetic parents who sit and watch their kid wreck havoc while they just lightly apologize and kind of laugh everything off. They don’t even lift a finger to discipline the kid.
Yeah, I wonder why your child does as he pleases in front of you…
[quote]fncj wrote:
Hypocritical parents who actively defend their children’s bad behavior yet hate the same behavior when displayed by others. For instance: do not chastise me for being upset your 10 y.o. deliberately knocked over my grocery cart, and then get upset when I in turn knock over yours. If knocking over strangers’ carts is an acceptable “form of expression”, then it should be acceptable for everyone.[/quote]
My mom was a school teacher and she had stories like this. There was one kid in particular who was just a huge bully and used to beat kids up, and his dumbass mom literally said something to the effect of “Oh that’s just how he expresses himself.”[/quote]
At our kindergarten Christmas party a few years ago one student won a gingerbread house and one jerk kid smashed it and later the jerk kid’s mother was heard telling another parent that she didn’t really see what the problem is since the kid will have to break it later anyway when he eats it.
That mother is raising a kid that everyone will hate. Fucking tool.
People whose right eyes are lazy. That’s the eye I automatically look at when I’m talking to someone. I don’t want to have to look at your shitty eye. Fuck you.
[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
People whose right eyes are lazy. That’s the eye I automatically look at when I’m talking to someone. I don’t want to have to look at your shitty eye. Fuck you.
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E-bikes, and the asses who shouldn’t even ride a bicycle. They are everywhere, on the streets, on the sidewalks, on cycling paths.
They don’t even need a license or insurance, so if you get hit your SOL.
Scooters for people who don’t need them. My neighbour uses theirs to get groceries, and transport her kids. She does not need it to walk her dog and has no restrictions. II have also seen people riding scooters in Walmart, only to get off and walk around to a different aisle because the aisle they just left is too crowded with scooters to get around. Why not just get a fucking cart.
They should need a Doctors note, or a card allowing for use, just like when people get a Disabled sticker.
I hate it when you’re watching porn and the little loading icon pops up and halts the video…like WTF!?! Can’t a man enjoy a steady smreamed porno these days?
I get the dipshits in my family who will text me about some family matter, because they don’t have the balls to call me on my house phone and say it to my face. So I let them know that unless they are members of my very immediate under-my-roof family, all of their texts will be deleted without being read.
The same asswipes had a habit of emailing me at work as well. I put all of them on my junk mail/ blocked sender list. In the last few months, my work email has changed. Sure as shit, none of them have the new address. My cell phone is turned off most of the time anyway.
[quote]ryanbCXG wrote:
People that drive at or below the speed limit.
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Sometimes people driving at or slightly under the speed limit grind my gears, in a certain sense, if I am in a hurry. But not in the sense that I think they are wrong. I think they are exercising their rights. It’s just that sometimes I wish they would exercise their rights a little faster.
There are of course “objective” exceptions here, like needing to pass classes in order to “earn” a degree but I don’t think you were referring to those.