[Misc] The race to the bottom has been won - do you just get onboard with?

[Justice]

I’m really passed caring what other people do life is to short. I don’t like many people tbh. I tolerate customers to get money apart from that f*** the rest of you

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I’m really passed caring what other people do life is to short. I don’t like many people tbh. I tolerate customers to get money apart from that f*** the rest of you

To quote Jean-Paul Sartre: “l’enfer, c’est Les autres”, which translates as Hell is other people.
Not a philosophy that I would totally subscribe to, but I appreciate the sentiment.

 

[heathgate]

TBF you easily say much of that for the last 60 years.

Not really,...last 10 maybe

 

[razer]

eeek. I have to admit to doing that yesterday. I wouldn’t/don‘t normally doing this but i had parked up, gone into garden centre to buy a few bags of rotten horse shite and when lifting the last sack i pulled my back badly. Twinges, spasms etc. it was as much as I could do to get my arris on the seat let alone walk 100 metres there and 100 metres back in order to return my trolley. Can I ever be forgiven for such a deed?

No. You're a twat.

 

[Chicken Run]

eeek. I have to admit to doing that yesterday. I wouldn’t/don‘t normally doing this but i had parked up, gone into garden centre to buy a few bags of rotten horse shite and when lifting the last sack i pulled my back badly. Twinges, spasms etc. it was as much as I could do to get my arris on the seat let alone walk 100 metres there and 100 metres back in order to return my trolley. Can I ever be forgiven for such a deed?

i’ll assume the horseshit is still rotting in your car?

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

https://www.theguardian.com/food/20...e-for-difficult-diners?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I read this in the Guardian the other day and it genuinely shocked me - how naive am I?
but people going to all sorts of lengths to get a free meal.
and that’s quite apart from those who just get up and go blatantly without paying.

Quote at end of article “Essentially, it’s way better to be optimistic and occasionally wrong than to be pessimistic and sometimes correct.”

 

[MattBackHome]

Genuinely confused by the 'abandoning my car to go and get a coffee' one. I've never seen this.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

I’m really passed caring what other people do life is to short. I don’t like many people tbh. I tolerate customers to get money apart from that f*** the rest of you

This post and the first one are all this thread needs.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Not really,...last 10 maybe

That list reminded me of the 70’s

 

[A mex eyecan]

i’ll assume the horseshit is still rotting in your car?

no thanks heavens. My son in law happened by and he put it in the garden for me.

 

[Miximate]

Traveller handbook??

 

[A mex eyecan]

So you’re physically incapable of walking 200 metres yet you decide you’re okay to drive a car.

Brilliant.

Reprimand accepted, stupid of me.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

I’m really passed caring what other people do life is to short. I don’t like many people tbh. I tolerate customers to get money apart from that f*** the rest of you

You laugh but actually this is it isn't it. How have we gone from a mostly together, where we looked out for each other kind of society, to a "fu** you" culture? That's what we have now. What can we do about it?

 

[Chicken Run]

Quote at end of article “Essentially, it’s way better to be optimistic and occasionally wrong than to be pessimistic and sometimes correct.”

Expect the very worse, hope for the best

 

[Chicken Run]

no thanks heavens. My son in law happened by and he put it in the garden for me.

Course he did

 

[Springal]

2 things which have got a lot worse;

1) driving - people parking in stupid places or insisting on queueing right behind each other while blocking traffic flow in the other direction.

A woman in the road leading into our cul-de-sac has a drive way but insists on parking on the road in the same spot right outside her house. Even if there is a car opposite thus making it very difficult for an ambulance or fire engine or any larger car she still does it.

Second example every day on the school run a car waits to pick someone up outside a house where cars are parked the other side again making it difficult for cars to get through. She could easily park round the corner a 30 second walk away but no….

And finally cars queueing up each others arse in stupid places sticking out around cars parked up again blocking traffic flow in the other direction. Just wait until there’s a clear gap to move in to

2) Also vaping, it doesn’t look cool, it’s pointless, no one wants to smell your stupid flavours and somehow it’s become acceptable in more social & work environments where smoking isn’t !

 

[kevo]

I think a lot of this stuff is due to the breakdown of 'community'. Tempted to say this started with Thatch's 'There's no such thing as society' and the 80s 'greed is good' culture, but in reality it's probably more to do with technological and social change. Life has changed so much since, say, the 60s, which was probably the last decade when people could supposedly 'leave their front doors unlocked' and would know everyone who lived on their street. People move around much more and live in their own bubbles and the population is so much more diverse. But I'm not as down on society as the OP - I work with a lot of younger people and they are great, aware, respectful and lovely people. There are a lot of twats out there and it's tempting to think life was so much better years ago, but was it really? In many ways, it has improved massively.

 

[London Irish]

I think a lot of this stuff is due to the breakdown of 'community'. Tempted to say this started with Thatch's 'There's no such thing as society' and the 80s 'greed is good' culture, but in reality it's probably more to do with technological and social change. Life has changed so much since, say, the 60s, which was probably the last decade when people could supposedly 'leave their front doors unlocked' and would know everyone who lived on their street. People move around much more and live in their own bubbles and the population is so much more diverse. But I'm not as down on society as the OP - I work with a lot of younger people and they are great, aware, respectful and lovely people. There are a lot of twats out there and it's tempting to think life was so much better years ago, but was it really? In many ways, it has improved massively.

It's tempting because it's true, if you don't invest in public infrastructure, then everything becomes a meaner rat race where you compete for lesser public resources like diminishing transport options - and then end up hating your neighbour because of how harder everything seems. Then out of spite you vote for rightwing politicians like latest flavour of the month Reform who will make public resources even more shit. The dumb British cycle of self-harm going round and round

 

[A mex eyecan]

Course he did

what are you implying?

 

[Berty23]

If you get more people working from home and ordering more stuff online you're going to get more delivery drivers, so more parking incidents.

There is also more traffic, same space so parking issues bound to be getting worse.

Littering has always been a problem, indeed it was arguably worse in the 70s and 80s when fagbutts and dogshit were everywhere, and it was commonplace to see people luzzing rubbish out of car windows.

That said, even allowing for my growing intolerance of people as I age, there seems to be more evidence that selfishness in society is on the increase.

My son told me he thought he was going to die on Friday afternoon when he was in a queue of stationery traffic at some temporary lights on the A272, looked in his rear view mirror and saw a woman heading straight for him at 50mph. By the grace of God she turned her wheel at the last split second, so fortunately my son's car simply bounced off the van in front before ploughing into a tree. A total write-off, road shut both ways for a couple of hours, but he escaped with cuts, bruises and minor whiplash.

Whether she was on her phone or checking on her two toddlers strapped into the back of her car we will never know, but clearly something was more important to her than looking at the straight road ahead of her.

On the point about delivery drivers meaning more people on the road due to people working at home. Isn’t it the other way? If there is one van delivering to 20 people who are at home then that is one van vs 20 different cars going about their business.

Re the distracted driver - while driving up the m1 to Newcastle I was almost hit by a woman doing her effing make up.

My annoyances many have been listed but these are two big ones for me.
1. Music or calls on loud speaker in public. Eff off.

2. Dogs not on leads jumping on me. Years ago I was off to meet a minister about something and a dog jumped up at me and covered my suit in mud. I like dogs. Some people hate them. I would never assume everyone wants to be jumped on by my dog as I would not let my kid cover people in crap either.

3. People being late and thinking a text message two mins before saying “sorry running ten mins late” as if that makes it okay.