Odd Behavior From People Lately?

[sharon1]

when you MERGE onto the freeway it is up to YOU to match the flow of traffic.

please stop flipping me off when i won't stomp on my brakes to let you in. i'm pulling a trailer and your gas pedal works fine. use it.

Oh dude my husband and I are so with you on this one.

We live and drive in southern Ca, (our f'd up frwys are legendary) AND we sometimes pull a 10,000lb, 40' 5th wheel.

 

[ColoradoLove]

Anyone with the space and ability to grow their own food should do so.

Got a garden in the back bro!

Oh dude my husband and I are so with you on this one.

We live and drive in southern Ca, (our f'd up frwys are legendary) AND we sometimes pull a 10,000lb, 40' 5th wheel.

I can remember in drivers ed the instructor yelling "build your speed! build your speed" then pushing your leg down so you had to hit the gas pedal.

 

[RetiredToker76]

Yes, people do seem to be very rude lately. The economy the way it is is the reason for most of the poor behavior. Stress will play havoc with a person's personality.

I can't fully agree with this. If that were the case then people would have been first rate a-holes during the great depression, but all reports I can find is that most people took people 'hard on their luck' in and fed them, clothed them, and if possible got them at least temporary work.

I think the main reason people are rude is because sometime between the 60's and today, having manners became elite and 'uncool.' It's much more socially acceptable to fart, drop your pants to your knees, be a judgmental asshole, and then top off the cake with a bit of snide rudeness. Two years ago I had a now former friend tell me that he felt that being nice as a matter of courtesy was not relevant in our society. There's a reason he's a 'former friend,' about the fifth time he decided to be a dick because it wasn't 'relevant to be friendly' I told him where he could shove his society and walked away.

The OP's post is why I've become a hermit. I've literally had it with people in general. It's much more mentally gratifying to stay in the house with my wife and kid, smoke some herb, and maybe once or twice a year go see my hippy friends at a drum circle. I won't go to the polls because it's a pointless activity of electing the smallest of the two biggest assholes this country could find. Unless legalization is on the ballot, the rest the world can deal with their own fricken mess. Unlike most civilization I learned to eat with silverware, hold it right, and even know what the fucked up little forks are for. I infinitely prefer to be nice to just about everyone, however the opportunity is often derailed by the people I'm trying to be nice to.

I simply won't play in the sand box anymore, it just isn't worth it.

 

[Padawanbater2]

I can't fully agree with this. If that were the case then people would have been first rate a-holes during the great depression, but all reports I can find is that most people took people 'hard on their luck' in and fed them, clothed them, and if possible got them at least temporary work.

I think the main reason people are rude is because sometime between the 60's and today, having manners became elite and 'uncool.' It's much more socially acceptable to fart, drop your pants to your knees, be a judgmental asshole, and then top off the cake with a bit of snide rudeness. Two years ago I had a now former friend tell me that he felt that being nice as a matter of courtesy was not relevant in our society. There's a reason he's a 'former friend,' about the fifth time he decided to be a dick because it wasn't 'relevant to be friendly' I told him where he could shove his society and walked away.

The OP's post is why I've become a hermit. I've literally had it with people in general. It's much more mentally gratifying to stay in the house with my wife and kid, smoke some herb, and maybe once or twice a year go see my hippy friends at a drum circle. I won't go to the polls because it's a pointless activity of electing the smallest of the two biggest assholes this country could find. Unless legalization is on the ballot, the rest the world can deal with their own fricken mess. Unlike most civilization I learned to eat with silverware, hold it right, and even know what the fucked up little forks are for. I infinitely prefer to be nice to just about everyone, however the opportunity is often derailed by the people I'm trying to be nice to.

I simply won't play in the sand box anymore, it just isn't worth it.

omfg you used my body like a goddamn hand puppet! This is spot on.

People don't smile as you walk past, it's weird or creepy to say hi or make conversation with people you don't know, the word 'friend' has become almost meaningless to me. You're either someone so close I would consider family or nothing to me, just another unreliable person who can't be trusted or counted on for anything. Some of my actual family goes in that latter category.

 

[Heisenberg]

I don't want to live like this
All pissed off and all stressed
From the everyday bullshit
I don't want to die like this
Some kind of angry fit
Heart will seize up and quit

But I'm...
Never gonna understand the office lingo
The cornball Christians that play bingo
The fast food rejects. The white collar snobs
The quota seeking pigs and the brain dead jocks
No. Never gonna be an American Idol
Not with this gut, no. Not with this smile
Never gonna be a rich celebrity
It seems wealth was never in the cards for me

I don't want to be like this
But nothing seems to fit
So I got used to it
I can't see the sunshine
Too many dark clouds are in it's way

I hate everyone I work with
A bunch of miserable pricks
Cuz of the chances they missed
Everyone I meet is a rude selfish asshole
Apparently please and thank you is a hassle
Nobody's bothered by the state of the world
Or the late night commercial child porn girls

I should really deal with it
Become a hypocrite
Somehow buy into it
But it's the only way I know how to live
I can't shut it out
I can't take this shit

I lost all hope that I could last
In this land of the walking dead
It's such a waste, what I could do
But I'm stuck here with you

If let the stress go to my head
I know someday soon I will be dead
It's not a waste. It gets me through
Being stuck here with you



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[Louis541]

So a couple weeks ago I was at with 2 other coworkers, one says to the other "hey, guess who texted me?.. if you know, say the first letter of the first name." ...work, working

Then I know my friend is having issues with her boyfriend... I'm like "so what happened?" she mentions she just broke up with him and she regrets it, so I asked "why?" and she replies "what, 20 questions?" kinda bitchy..

That's when I would say, "I know, you're right. I really don't give a shit but was trying to be polite. Sorry." (The key is to really sound apologetic. It will sting and confuse her all at the same time.

 

[Big P]

ya, best thing you can do is pls and thank you and be extra nice all the time specially in business



its true the squeeky well gets the greese but being nice comes back to you ten fold when you really need it.



"but some men, you just cant reach. so you get what we had here last week. Which is the way he wants it. well he gets it"



its all a wave, when meaness peaks people will try to be different and start being nice. then when niceness peeks people would try to be different and be mean



I think we are peeking on rudness, thugish ruggishness, and trying to be hard.


its now cool to be soft, cuz everyone is tryin to be so hard.,


lil wayne knows that, and yes i wanna suck his dick., its even cool to pretend your gay now guys, its awsome!!


u ever seen a gangsta rapper sing a love song like this>?



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my g/f thinks im a fag

 

[medicalmaryjane]

working and coworker interation is always odd and stupid. people try to be witty or snide, bitchy, selfindulgent banter. i hate that crap, that's why i haven't worked in a while. i don't really like the whole office thing.

 

[Carne Seca]

I can't fully agree with this. If that were the case then people would have been first rate a-holes during the great depression, but all reports I can find is that most people took people 'hard on their luck' in and fed them, clothed them, and if possible got them at least temporary work.

I think the main reason people are rude is because sometime between the 60's and today, having manners became elite and 'uncool.' It's much more socially acceptable to fart, drop your pants to your knees, be a judgmental asshole, and then top off the cake with a bit of snide rudeness. Two years ago I had a now former friend tell me that he felt that being nice as a matter of courtesy was not relevant in our society. There's a reason he's a 'former friend,' about the fifth time he decided to be a dick because it wasn't 'relevant to be friendly' I told him where he could shove his society and walked away.

The OP's post is why I've become a hermit. I've literally had it with people in general. It's much more mentally gratifying to stay in the house with my wife and kid, smoke some herb, and maybe once or twice a year go see my hippy friends at a drum circle. I won't go to the polls because it's a pointless activity of electing the smallest of the two biggest assholes this country could find. Unless legalization is on the ballot, the rest the world can deal with their own fricken mess. Unlike most civilization I learned to eat with silverware, hold it right, and even know what the fucked up little forks are for. I infinitely prefer to be nice to just about everyone, however the opportunity is often derailed by the people I'm trying to be nice to.

I simply won't play in the sand box anymore, it just isn't worth it.

You need to do some more studying on the Great Depression. It was every man/woman for themselves. People starved to death by the thousands. Some of the worst work ethics and conditions happened during that time period that sparked our current labor laws including CHILD labor laws. It was common for workers to be locked into their workroom and not allowed out until the shift was over (on several occasions, fires broke out and people burned to death). No lunch, no breaks, nothing. Just work. For pennies. People barely survived. The great Robber Barons gained fame during that period. My own grandmother was nearly killed when a man she agreed to feed snuck in the back door and tried to bludgeon her to death. Luckily she turned just in time to avoid the blow to her head. She fought him off and he ran off. These types of incidents were quite common.

 

[dirtsurfr]

Thats why I live here nice folks that aint afraid to give a helping hand when needed.

 

[RetiredToker76]

You need to do some more studying on the Great Depression. It was every man/woman for themselves. People starved to death by the thousands. Some of the worst work ethics and conditions happened during that time period that sparked our current labor laws including CHILD labor laws. It was common for workers to be locked into their workroom and not allowed out until the shift was over (on several occasions, fires broke out and people burned to death). No lunch, no breaks, nothing. Just work. For pennies. People barely survived. The great Robber Barons gained fame during that period. My own grandmother was nearly killed when a man she agreed to feed snuck in the back door and tried to bludgeon her to death. Luckily she turned just in time to avoid the blow to her head. She fought him off and he ran off. These types of incidents were quite common.

Sorry if I misspoke about history. My family comes from a small farm community in the mid-west, my whole life I heard nothing but stories from my grandparents and their friends of 'this drifter' and 'that hobo', who took them in, what they were like, and a story in the town usually followed by updates of how that person did after the depression. There were a few 'ungrateful vagrants' as my Grandmother would call them but the town had a special way of dealing with them, which they never told the grand-child, which had the odd effect of making them rare in town.

As for the .corp attitude at the time, I don't count 'corporations' as people. We're rapidly headed back towards those kinds of work condition. I hear about modern versions (worked 90, paid for 40 and told to go to hell when brought up to H.R.) all the time and lived one myself.

The people who practiced those labor practices were either incredibly greedy business owners or worse manager enacting corporates instructions. Either way both types of individual should be taken out back and beaten with reeds, but they've always existed. Martha Stewart was running sweat shops during economically 'good' times, people are who they are the situation usually just amplifies some more than others. I believe location had a lot to do with it, urban areas always have more strife during economically difficult times than farm areas. Reason, farm areas generally know how to get food.

Somewhere I posted about returning to farm life, but I can't remember the tread. If one truly knows how to feed them-self, charity becomes easy. If the only means of food is fiat provided by the government, the worse comes out. My grandfather used to tell me, "All you ever really need in life is some black soil, that red shit won't do, a reliable shotgun, and a few seeds and you'll live a good life."

It took a few years, but I figured out what he meant, and can't wait to get back to black soil and a few seeds. The concrete farm isn't for me.

 

[puffntuff]

People have always been dicks.