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GET SOME FUCKING MANNERS

BDx13 - 7-7-2005 at 12:43 AM

Maybe I'm old fashioned. Maybe I'm just a bitch. Either way, I'm having a harder and harder time dealing with the GP (general public), and I really don't think it's my fault. My wife and I were out at a reasonably nice restaurant tonight, and at every other table in the place, someone was doing something that was driving me crazy.

Here are three simple suggestions that I believe will bring some civility back to our overly selfish society:

1. Take off your crooked mesh baseball hat when you're indoors.
2. Do not talk on your cell phone while in a restaurant.
3. Use your "indoor voice" whenever you are, in fact, indoors.

I mean really, is it that hard? Are manners just completely out the fucking window anymore?

BDx13 - 7-7-2005 at 12:48 AM

I should have known it was going to be that kind of day. This morning I got into a shouting match with a 70 year old man in a cafe. Good thing I wasn't listening to Starkweather.

JawnDiablo - 7-7-2005 at 11:07 AM

right with you on that stuff there duane
i was in camden at the aquarium yesterday with my son. that are is a plethora of bad manners.
and not to stereotype, but every black person i pass in the car on the way to work is on the damn phone...what is there to talk about all the fuckin time?
i hate it when people are on the phone in line at a store, and when it is time to pay they're just talking away oblivious to all around them.
i hate the cell phone, but have one anyway.
oh, and the drivers i encounter in and around philly are by far the worst anywhere...no wonder the insurance premiums are through the roof here.

JawnDiablo - 7-7-2005 at 11:08 AM

i also hate the big assed bucket iverson looking hats with a flat brim cocked to the side. they'd make a nice toilet

SAAAAARS - 7-7-2005 at 12:27 PM

bad manners are such a pet peeve. i hate when people sneeze and i say bless you, and they don't say thank you. i also don't like when i meet someone and they don't shake my hand, or they do, but their hand is limp. last example i can think of, i hate when i stay with people and their hospitality is lacking and/or nonexistant. when guests are in my home, they get treated good.

Discipline - 7-7-2005 at 12:33 PM

People with bad manners need a beating to show them the error of their ways. Seriously.

JawnDiablo - 7-7-2005 at 01:35 PM

it pisses me off when i hold a door for someone at say wawa and no thanks,
red light runners

BL - 7-7-2005 at 06:57 PM

I HATE WHEN I SEE BITCHES AND BASTARDS IN THE STREETS MAKIN OUT... I MEAN, COME ON! ITS DIFFERENT WHEN YOU SEE TWO KIDS, JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST GETTING INTO SHIT LIKE THAT. I JUST HATE WHEN I SEE ADULTS DOING THAT KIND OF SHIT, THEY SHOULD KNOW BETTER. OR WHEN YOU SEE TWO DUDES KISSING AND SHIT ON THE STREETS, THATS JUST STR8 UP GAY MOTHERFUCKERS... TOO BAD CHARLES BRONSON NEVER FUCKED ANYONE UP ABOUT BAD MANNERS, THAT WOULD BE PRETTY COOL!

CHEERS
BL

moron - 7-7-2005 at 07:43 PM

two dudes kissing? gay? nah!!!


I try to have good manners wherever I go. Im probably the nicest person in NYC. I even give money to homeless people!

newbreedbrian - 7-7-2005 at 07:49 PM

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Originally posted by moron
two dudes kissing? gay? nah!!!


I try to have good manners wherever I go. Im probably the nicest person in NYC. I even give money to homeless people!


as long as you're not givin any money to those moochin war widows ;)

JawnDiablo - 7-7-2005 at 08:09 PM

there was this dude in 69th street terminal for years by the booths for the el. always sayin he lost his bus pass, bummin change...dumbasses still gave him $$$..one night i was going ito the dive bar across the street to get 40s and this clown is walkin out and is like "yo yo yo my man" ...my buddy is like " hey lemme guess, you losy your bus pass?"...he was like "aw shit you got me"...fuckin ass

BDx13 - 7-8-2005 at 02:01 AM

oh yeah, i'm always sure to offer a resounding "you're welcome" to the people that don't say thank you for holding te door.

Jason the Magnificent - 7-8-2005 at 04:17 PM

all this started happening when parents started giving their kids time outs instead of karate chopping them in the throat.

JawnDiablo - 7-8-2005 at 07:13 PM

my pop didn't know karate but could easily hit me from across the room with a shoe...

KyleOz - 7-8-2005 at 08:23 PM

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Originally posted by Jason the Magnificent
all this started happening when parents started giving their kids time outs instead of karate chopping them in the throat.


Sometimes I look back and thank my dad I didn't get timeouts. I deserved most of the thrashings I got.

Also this fucking bum at one of the parks I clean up every year bugs our workers about wanting a pick stick to volunuteer for a church. Last time I checked he stole from the donation basket and a coworker was there to see it. Guy is fucking clueless.

Also people who bump into you and don't make an effort to avoid you even though you did for them. Fucking nimrods.

SAAAAARS - 7-9-2005 at 12:35 AM

it's weird, i was a really well behaved child. i don't ever remember getting time outs or being spanked, anything. i remember one time, my parents told me they were going to "Get the belt" but nothing happened haha

Todd - 7-9-2005 at 01:54 AM

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Originally posted by Jason the Magnificent
all this started happening when parents started giving their kids time outs instead of karate chopping them in the throat.


It's 1:54 in the fucking morning and I almost exploded when I saw this. Jason, you are magnificent. Absolutely priceless.

Killthehumans - 7-10-2005 at 12:08 AM

yar, i can defintly agree to not talking on cell phones indoors

gavin - 7-10-2005 at 10:06 PM

for the record i would sooner shoot myself in the face then lay a hand on any of my kids

RomanticViolence - 7-10-2005 at 10:59 PM

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Originally posted by MrBadVibes
for the record i would sooner shoot myself in the face then lay a hand on any of my kids


Dude, i hear what your saying. My dad used to beat the hell outta me when i was a kid.... it didn't teach me NOT to do bad shit ...it taught me how to do it better without getting caught.

JawnDiablo - 7-10-2005 at 11:06 PM

my kid is turning out great and i havent ever done half of the terrible backwards crap my parents pulled on me and my brother....something was terribly wrong with that last generation , something like not seeing what their parents did was wrong...but there is something terribly wrong out there with the younger peoplew, i dont know where to start on that one

ok back to bad manners, i hate driving through the city and encountering some ass hole stopped in traffic with his blinkers on or maybe not on blocking the flow, to the point where i have to drive around them into the oposing lane of traffic ( lets say spruce street somewhere between 63rd and 40th st in west philly) and when you get around them, you see there are plenty of places to park the peice of shit so it is out of the way ...its just that they are too fucking inconsiderate and or lazy to do so!

Ungodly - 7-11-2005 at 12:10 PM

OH WORD. Manners are definitely deteriorating. I won't get into driving b/c I live in Boston and that's a separate, 10-page thread.

Simple little things like not letting a door slam in the face of someone behind you or making introductions when you are with friends who don't know each other. It's not about doing these things because of a prescriptive obligation, but because it shows you aren't walking around in your own little bubble of self-absorption. And for every person who is blatantly rude because they are "too cool," I know at least one person who is adored by everyone because they are kind and polite.

John Kenneth Galbraith had theorized that as the economy grew and grew, people would have more wealth and free time and feel more at ease and thus be increasingly kind and generous to each other. He came out not long ago and acknowleged that that isn't happening.

Anyone see Nanny 911 at all? I don't have the patience or time to watch it a lot, but I saw the first one becuase I was curious about why some kids act the way they do lately. In that episode, at least, it was pretty obvious- the dad acted more immaturely than the kids and the parents showed no respect for one another.

Ungodly - 7-11-2005 at 12:20 PM

Awesome, just as I was typing that the CEO's daughter, whom I have never met and uncannily has the same nepotism-dependent, vacant homeliness as Tori Spelling, busted right in here and asked me "Where my mom" is and was the biggest snot about it and did not say thank you.

I'm an editor, not a concierge, ho.

BDx13 - 7-11-2005 at 04:40 PM

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Originally posted by Ungodly
Awesome, just as I was typing that the CEO's daughter, whom I have never met and uncannily has the same nepotism-dependent, vacant homeliness as Tori Spelling, busted right in here and asked me "Where my mom" is and was the biggest snot about it and did not say thank you.

I'm an editor, not a concierge, ho.


hahaha... that's awesome.

SAAAAARS - 7-11-2005 at 07:06 PM

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Originally posted by Ungodly

making introductions when you are with friends who don't know each other


YES, people not doing this annoys me on a daily basis

hollymaconmovies - 7-11-2005 at 11:24 PM

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Originally posted by BIG DUANE
oh yeah, i'm always sure to offer a resounding "you're welcome" to the people that don't say thank you for holding te door.


Me too. And another one I use is 'excuse you' when someone walks in front of me without excusing themselves.

JawnDiablo - 7-11-2005 at 11:41 PM

a friend of mine just started saying fuck you when he received silence for the door hold....
funny, i thought it was just me who this shit pissed off....
oh and when fuckers constantly bump into you repeatedly in a crowded bar...you know i should just stay home, because i just cant stand people anymore...

Ungodly - 7-12-2005 at 10:33 AM

Wow, I didn't think as many people cared about the door thing either. I never say anything b/c I thought it was pointless, but maybe I should. I used to have pain in my wrist too from a fall skating and if I caught a swinging door with that hand... ouch.

Ungodly - 7-12-2005 at 10:36 AM

Oh I just remembered, last year at Posi#s Pauly Edge from Syracuse/Providence was behind me carrying this huge unweildy box of zines and I didn't realize and totally let a door go on him. I turned around and was like oh man I am so terribly sorry and now we are friends, ha ha.

godabandonedme - 8-12-2005 at 02:16 PM

Ah cell phones when your eating out, can't fucking stand it. That and yelling inside. I grew up in a house where everyone yelled all the time. If the phone was for someone instead of just getting up and walking maybe halfway up the stairs it was just screaming I couldn't fucking stand it.

upyerbum - 10-19-2005 at 11:36 AM

Bad manners require heavy manners.
Everytime I try to meet people outside of "my world" I am constantly reminded of why I'm a skinhead. The trivial pursuits of the modern world frustatrate me to point of violent rage. I don't care how big your phone is. I don't have one, I don't want one, and I certainly don't need one. Why would I want to put myself at the world's disposal 24/7. If you want to talk to me come talk to me, if you don't have time for that then fuck off.
(the next time you see someone talking loudly in public on a cellphone go stand right next to them and carry on an equally loud discussion, this requires two people or one schizophrenic).

Terror Aesthetic - 10-20-2005 at 09:32 AM

this requires two people or one schizophrenic


at your service. really though. i didnt know other people my age gave a shit about the fact that people have the most pathetic amnners imaginable. people look at me and assume im going to rob them or sacrifice their kids but im the fucking guy that holds the door for you and dsaya thank you and excuse me and shit. fucking yuppie culture.. maybe we enjoy too much luxury as a whole. too much comfort has turned us into a bunch of rude lazy cows? im not saying growing up poor gave me better manners than those fuckers in gated communities...theirs are shit too. i guess i just dont know what it is but it makes me want to use my fist and i dont like that. one of the manyt reasons i dont go out much. they say people in the south are so much friendlier than elsewhere.. that isnt saying much. theyre a bunch of cocksuckers here.

Voodoobillyman - 11-22-2005 at 03:41 PM

My wife says she is constantly battling with doors while trying to get my daughters stroller through them when she goes out and perfectly capapble people will just walk right by and not even glance a second time. How do you not hold open a door for someone like that? Fuckin pathetic, people are so fucking self absorbed these days. We really have lost touch with societal graciousness. Sad.