People who piss you off

[dar512]

Originally Posted by jaguar

Babies should not be allowed on planes. If they are, they should be in small soundproof boxes with their parents. I've done a couple of 20+ hour flights with screaming kids, it shouldn't be allowed under the human rights act.

Interesting pov, jag. PM me when you have kids of your own. We'll see if you still feel this way.

BTW, where do you fly that takes 20+ hours? Do you personally have to flap your wings?

[breakingnews]

Funny - you'd think pedestrians would win here in NYC, but I'll be damned if any cab or truck driver ever stopped to let a woman with a baby stroller cross the street.

Other people who piss me off - folks who insist on doing dumb things in crowded, tightly packed spaces. Here in NYC, I just want to scream when I see things like ... someone riding a bike outside of the bike/run lane in Central Park during rush-hour traffic (extremely crowded) not wearing a helmet and using one hand to TALK ON A FUCKING CELL PHONE. During the summer, I was riding in a fast-moving paceline (about 20 mph) along the edge of the bike lane/in the left-hand car lane, when I saw a girl doing this. Of course she hit a rut, swerved and nearly took out a whole mess of riders/runners with cabs flying past at 50 mph.

And of course this happened again a few weeks later, except this guy was riding IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. I moved over and headed straight at him, and gave him the finger before swerving out of the way; he lost control and dropped his cell phone to grab the handlebars. His phone was crushed by another biker. The end justifies the means, eh?

Other instances include: a guy on a bike using one arm to tow a girl on rollerblades (who clearly was not very good at skating), taking up a sizeable portion of a very crowded West Side walkway on Sunday afternoon; a guy with a baby stroller running outside of the running lane (in the car lane) IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION during rush-hour traffic.

[flippant]

I saw a guy the other day that was too hip to carry his baby with 2 arms. He looked like he was carrying a sack lunch. When does "cool" cease to be cool anyway? This brings me to my point. Some people are just too hip and need to examine reality a little more closely. I don't like people completely immersed in pop culture and this (so called) modern age. Making cool look ridiculously stupid. I think most of the above statements apply to this message.

[perth]

Originally Posted by flippant

I saw a guy the other day that was too hip to carry his baby with 2 arms. He looked like he was carrying a sack lunch.

Wait. What? I don't think I'm understanding this statement. I carry my kid with one arm all the time, but there's no way that could appear to be carrying a sack lunch. How exactly does that work?

[plthijinx]

Originally Posted by flippant

I saw a guy the other day that was too hip to carry his baby with 2 arms. He looked like he was carrying a sack lunch.

oh yeah, that reminds me, the other day i saw a mother carrying her infant under arm. the kid was in obvious pain by the way she was holding him. oh, yeah, she was talking on her cell phone too and talking to a friend walking with her.

[crossfire]

THAT WOULD MOST CERTAINLY PISS ME OFF!!!

[jaguar]

London-Melbourne, usually with a 1 hour stopover in Dubai or Singapore (or both) is 22 hours or so. Sometimes you can get off in the stopovers, sometimes not, depends on route and airlines. Emirates are usually reasonable, Singapore are fairly good, others vary. I've done that flight a lot of times.

You'll be waiting a very long time for that PM, the sun will expand and swallow the earth in a firey demise first to be exact. If you can't keep your offspring under control you shouldn't be allowed to inflict them on innocent bystanders.

[dar512]

Originally Posted by jaguar

If you can't keep your offspring under control you shouldn't be allowed to inflict them on innocent bystanders.

I agree on that one -- and said so earlier. But you can't reason with babies that haven't learned to talk yet.

[crossfire]

While crying babies will piss people off, they've got to deal with it, maybe by earphones or something.

[flippant]

I really don't want to have to explain that metaphor. I think you know the difference between complete carelessness and an appropriate (painless) method. (perth)

[perth]

Originally Posted by flippant

I really don't want to have to explain that metaphor. I think you know the difference between complete carelessness and an appropriate (painless) method. (perth)

I hope so. I just sort of had this image of a guy walking along carrying a kid by their belt.

[flippant]

Woa! Slow down! You may be catching on!

[FloridaDragon]

This might also apply to some of you and if it does then shame on you.

How about smokers who throw their butts everywhere like it is NOT littering. Smokers I cut some slack (I don't smoke) as I know it is their choice and their lungs (and my parents, and my sister, and my brother) but I hate it when they act like the world is their ashtray.

[wolf]

If not in proximity of an ashtray, I twist the remaining fire and tobacco out the end, make sure that the butt is cool enough that I won't be setting fire to myself (or anything else) and discard that bit in a trash recepticle if available, or stick it in my watch pocket for later disposal if not.

Others here have seen me do this, or at least have been around me when I have done it. The process itself is pretty low key, not very noticable.

I did have a dancer at a pow-wow notice and compliment me on it a couple years ago.

[404Error]

Originally Posted by wolf

If not in proximity of an ashtray, I twist the remaining fire and tobacco out the end, make sure that the butt is cool enough that I won't be setting fire to myself (or anything else) and discard that bit in a trash recepticle if available, or stick it in my watch pocket for later disposal if not...

I was taught this procedure in the military, it's called *field stripping* the cigarette. So as to not to leave evidence of your presence for the enemy to find.