• A boar doesn't feel pity , or remorse , or fear ,
  and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. {my journal}
  MT all-round Member of the Year 2005
  word.
  
  (in reply to daKensta)

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ORIGINAL: boar

people are rude because we lack empathy.

we chastise people for doing things and then get angry when someone chastises us for doing the same thing

-not giving way
-using mobile in car
-queue jumping

we are just a bunch of animals really.

i try my very best to put myself in other position ,but occasionally i act befor i think

animal !!

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ORIGINAL: rightyho

Just a few examples from the last few days, which have got me thinking people are getting ruder and more wound up than ever. I hate humans sometimes.

Last night in Tesco petrol station, while next in line at the queue to pay .... a late 20s woman comes in, pushes in front of me then asks the cashier "are there are fcuking public houses round here?"

Cashier says: "Excuse me, what?"

She says: "Are you fcuking deaf, public houses."

He looks at me, a bit worried.

I say: "Pubs" back to him.

She butts in with with "What the fcuk's it got to do with you, you cheeky sh1t?"

I feel obliged to shove her out the door as she raises her hands, presumably to slap or grab at me.


Next example:

Woman cuts me up on the dual carriageway, forcing me onto the grass.
30 seconds later, she does the same to a Kangoo van driver.
She then pulls off into the city centre, cuts two more cars up on a roundabout then gets to another roundabout, gets in the left lane but goes right, cutting up the bloke in the correct lane. They have a wee crash. She doesn't stop and continues driving into a shopping centre car park, followed by me, Kangoo man, the bloke with a dented wing and two others.

She parks in a disabled space when she isn't, tells us all to "fcuk off" then goes into the shop. Plod is called, who waits for her to return to breathalyse her. She kicks off with him and is promptly arrested.


Final example:

Shopping the other night with the missus, a bloke tw4ts her with his trolley - he's walking toward her, then veers into her path.
All the missus says is "ow", then holds her leg.
The bloke says "well move your fcuking ar5e next time", not realising the red-faced, about-to-explode bloke coming up the aisle is her husband (me).
A few stern words and a wee threat turn him from an aggressive ar5e to a coward, but what a bully in the first place.

These kind of things seem to be happening on an every-few-days basis.

Is it the area or Britain in general these days?

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ORIGINAL: AWG

I'm quite suprised that you didnt smash any of they in Righty.

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ORIGINAL: matt_1972

In a word 'Narcissism'.

Unfortunately we live in the 'me' generation where people only care about themselves to the exclusion of all others. I believe celebrity culture has significantly contributed to this.

Just my 2p.

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ORIGINAL: rightyho

Here's another one from today.
There's an ice rink near my gym and the caretaker is in his late 70s.

He asked three 14 year olds to put their cigarettes out and got a load of abuse.

I was having a chat with him a while later outside the front of the ice rink - he was measuring up a vandalised fence for fixing - and these three scrotes sauntered towards him, then gave him a load of quite shocking abuse.

The worst bit was they are "problem kids" from a home and were with their "carer" - a bloke in his early 30s, who said absolutely nothing to them, didn't apologise to the old man, or anything.

By doing that, he condoned their behaviour or, at the very least, gave them the nod to behave like that.

I tried to have a word with him but he walked quickly to his car and drove off with the three scrotes hurling obsceneties from it.

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ORIGINAL: rightyho

Here's another one from today.
There's an ice rink near my gym and the caretaker is in his late 70s.

He asked three 14 year olds to put their cigarettes out and got a load of abuse.

I was having a chat with him a while later outside the front of the ice rink - he was measuring up a vandalised fence for fixing - and these three scrotes sauntered towards him, then gave him a load of quite shocking abuse.

The worst bit was they are "problem kids" from a home and were with their "carer" - a bloke in his early 30s, who said absolutely nothing to them, didn't apologise to the old man, or anything.

By doing that, he condoned their behaviour or, at the very least, gave them the nod to behave like that.

I tried to have a word with him but he walked quickly to his car and drove off with the three scrotes hurling obsceneties from it.