where's your manners?

[BlindHelperMonkey]

name an everyday act of rudeness that gets right up your nose


mine..? inconsiderate folk on public transport. if you must cough, the token, placing-your-hand-infront-of-your-mouth gesture greatly appreciated. perhaps im just being hysterical, but id rather not have your germ-laden phlegm literally catapulted in all directions, given the choice.

 

[coollemon]

People that use the cash machine twice with seperate cards. Pure cunts

 

[coollemon]

Lol maybe that doesnt come under rude. What about drivers that dont acknowledge you when you have let them out of junctions.

 

[Cornishman]

The cough thing really grinds my gears.

 

[badandwicked]

if you must cough, the token, placing-your-hand-infront-of-your-mouth gesture greatly appreciated.

In schools now they're taught to cough/sneeze into the crook of their elbow, makes more sense really.

Mines old people who think the fact they're over 70 means they can be rude/push in/not say thank you. I try to have respect for the elderly but rude's rude regardless of age, and as soon as you're rude you've lost my respect.

 

[Shambles]

^ Ha! Was an ol' geezer in front of me in the Co-Op queue the other day - a vicar, no less - who looked like yer classic sweet old boy. Woman on the till had no fivers so apologised for giving him pound coins. You have never heard such a string of obscenities in your life - he was not a happy bunny. He fought The Hun for this nation to have enough bloody fivers in the till :D

 

[rickaloo]

In schools now they're taught to cough/sneeze into the crook of their elbow, makes more sense really.

Mines old people who think the fact they're over 70 means they can be rude/push in/not say thank you. I try to have respect for the elderly but rude's rude regardless of age, and as soon as you're rude you've lost my respect.

Old people in general. But mainly when they have those shite trolly on wheels and I go out my way to hold/open the door open for them, and they think they have the right to shoot me a luck of disgust?

The last old fart that did that I let go of the door and it banged into her trolly. This took her by surprise, so when she gave me a glare, I kindly told her "manners cost nothing" .. And went about my day.

 

[scrooloose]

Being TOLD what to do as opposed to being ASKED really grates on me.

Also,i once pushed a disabled man struggling in a wheelchair a good half mile up to a doctors surgery and the fucking cunt never even said thank you.

I kick myself to this very day that i never pickpocketed him.

Basic manners go a long way.

 

[knock]

Pavement behaviour.

People that just stop right in front of you without a by-your-leave to check their phone or some other trivia.

People that walk out of a doorway onto the pavement right in front of you without looking and expect you to just give way.

People who walk four abreast and are incapable of separating to allow one person through.

Parents with fucking buggies!

 

[RLP]

Holding the door for people who not only don't say thankyou but refuse to even look at you.

 

[Shambles]

^^ Totally agreed, Knockando. As a confirmed pedestrian I hate them all but would specify "Parents with massively oversized buggies that could take out a Land Rover" - standard buggies are just about acceptable to me cos they are kinda necessary. Related to that, the classic parents screaming at and/or slapping the shit out of their kids in shops (well, anywhere really but shops are the hotspots).

Incidentally, as a child of the 70s I was pushed around in a pram the size of a small caravan so probably should be a bit more understanding :D

 

[knock]

Crowds at bus stops who block the pavement.

And OK I'll agree normal buggies are acceptable if they're operated considerately! But sometimes parents just have this aura of "I'm a parent and therefore I am more important than anyone else on the pavement/planet", well you're not so you can fuck off!

I was in a perambulator too! But I think it was rarely used. Imagine if everyone had prams nowadays, you wouldn't be able to move for the behemoths.

 

[missing old pills]

I drive a 42 tonne articulated lorry. When you car drivers try to shoot up on our left handside(our blindside) please don't complain when we smash you to pieces. We don't do it on purpose we just can't see you there especialy in this weather.
Trucks from other countries however just stay the fuck away from them no matter what side you are going to try a gain an extra minute off your journey!

 

[rickaloo]

My pa told me a yarn once. He was coming back from an interview on the train, and said train was packed. He trudged the train to find an empty seat, and there was one, but it had this guys brief case, my pa says to the guy, "Can you move your case so I can sit down?"

The guy says "Nah"

So my pa says "Move it or I will"

The guy says "Try it"

So my pa picks it up and lobs it out the window and sits down.

Cool story brah.

 

[BlindHelperMonkey]

In schools now they're taught to cough/sneeze into the crook of their elbow, makes more sense really.

old people who think the fact they're over 70 means they can be rude/push in/not say thank you.

totally with you on that. i find old people are usually ruder than the young people they admonish

 

[jancrow]

Holding the door for people who not only don't say thankyou but refuse to even look at you.

+1

I say 'thank you VERY MUCH' in what is probably an unintentionally camp tone of voice when they don't acknowledge it. I'm not Sir Walter Fucking Raleigh but if I go out of my way to help someone it'd be nice to not be looked through like a poisonous mist.

Also, staff in shops and restaurants who expect you, a PAYING CUSTOMER, to yield to them and likewise don't recognise the fact that you've subserviently stepped aside to let them bustle by. I might start carrying a blade just so I can shiv them in the back when they pass. Although I suppose that that isn't very good manners in itself.

Oh and queue jumpers. And pavement cyclists.

 

[Sadie]

Parents with fucking buggies!

Please keep in mind there is a flip side to this one. Certainly not in every case but buggy parents face a whole heap of rudeness as well. Folk slamming into your kids buggy with out so much as a look back let alone an apology or at least a look of remorse.

The worst are the ones that would tsk you, give you nasty looks, ignore you or even walk by mumbling profanities just loud enough for you to hear when you're struggling by yourself to get a buggy up bloody stairs or picking the whole thing up on your own to get on the train. All the while I'M saying I'm sorry for brushing into folk or being in the way.


I'm gonna have to stay out of this thread. I'm a manner Nazi. I'm also one of those people who believes Manners cost nothing. Sadly I'm starting to think that manners are simply dying out of society.

One of mine would be lazy self centred self important bastards who park in the disabled and parent child bays. The parent child one irritates me but taking a disabled space? That really fucks me off.

 

[knock]

And pavement cyclists.

I don't mind pavement cyclists as long as they're fully respectful of pedestrians.

Our roads are populated by psychopaths and we have insufficient and poorly designed cycle paths so I have a hard time getting angry at a cyclist using a pavement (though I never do myself).

As long as they recognise they are second-class citizens on the pavement I can't get worked up.

 

[knock]

Please keep in mind there is a flip side to this one. Certainly not in every case but buggy parents face a whole heap of rudeness as well. Folk slamming into your kids buggy with out so much as a look back let alone an apology or at least a look of remorse.

The worst are the ones that would tsk you, give you nasty looks, ignore you or even walk by mumbling profanities just loud enough for you to hear when you're struggling by yourself to get a buggy up bloody stairs or picking the whole thing up on your own to get on the train. All the while I'M saying I'm sorry for brushing into folk or being in the way.

Certainly I can see that, I had no idea people slammed into your buggy and I would never do this! And I wouldn't tsk at you either unless you have a double or triple buggy, in that case you should just slow your breeding down.

One of mine would be lazy self centred self important bastards who park in the disabled and parent child bays. The parent child one irritates me but taking a disabled space? That really fucks me off.

I have no sympathy with parent child bays sorry! You have a buggy and you can push it with ease to the shop!

 

[missing old pills]

Please keep in mind there is a flip side to this one. Certainly not in every case but buggy parents face a whole heap of rudeness as well. Folk slamming into your kids buggy with out so much as a look back let alone an apology or at least a look of remorse.

The worst are the ones that would tsk you, give you nasty looks, ignore you or even walk by mumbling profanities just loud enough for you to hear when you're struggling by yourself to get a buggy up bloody stairs or picking the whole thing up on your own to get on the train. All the while I'M saying I'm sorry for brushing into folk or being in the way.


I'm gonna have to stay out of this thread. I'm a manner Nazi. I'm also one of those people who believes Manners cost nothing. Sadly I'm starting to think that manners are simply dying out of society.

One of mine would be lazy self centred self important bastards who park in the disabled and parent child bays. The parent child one irritates me but taking a disabled space? That really fucks me off.

Sadie, try fixing revolving knives onto the wheels of your buggie and howl with laughter as potential 'buggy bumpers' hit the deck on agony