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yeah I eat rear end posted:In my experience they try to at least on some airlines and board the disabled people/people with young kids on before first class and then generally have at least two groups based on row. The problem is a lot of people either miss their group and end up screwing the flow up by being late, or people cheat and try and board when they aren't supposed to and hope the attendant doesn't care enough to make a fuss (they almost never do). I had a long train trip a little while ago and took my shoes off and curled up and fell asleep and when I woke up a dude was next to me and my feet were on his lap. The rest of the train car was mostly empty but hours had gone by and to this day I'm not sure who was the weirdo out of the two of us. He was in his early-mid 20s probably and didn't seem like he was getting off on it but it was still confusing. I apologized and he said he didn't care and didn't want to wake me up but I'm pretty sure there were like a ton of open seats he could've taken
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Aesop Poprock posted:I had a long train trip a little while ago and took my shoes off and curled up and fell asleep and when I woke up a dude was next to me and my feet were on his lap. The rest of the train car was mostly empty but hours had gone by and to this day I'm not sure who was the weirdo out of the two of us. He was in his early-mid 20s probably and didn't seem like he was getting off on it but it was still confusing. I apologized and he said he didn't care and didn't want to wake me up but I'm pretty sure there were like a ton of open seats he could've taken You let your soulmate get away you fool.
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Solice Kirsk posted:You let your soulmate get away you fool. I don't know where he got on but he got off in Boston and I was headed to New Hampshire we clearly had different schedules going on
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Speaking of airlines, if you pick a seat next to someone when there is a similar seat next to an empty spot, you're the worst kind of rear end in a top hat. I mean, generally you're not going to have an empty seat next to you considering how overbooked most flights are, but at least leave me some hope while there are still seats available.
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I think I'm one of the few people that doesn't get annoyed with crying babies/young children on planes. I suspect the parents are panicking internally and it'd be cruel to add to their ordeal. I just feel terrible for them. 
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Nah, I feel the same way - at least (or just maybe especially) when the parents are doing their best to make sure their kids aren't unnecessarily dickish. This obviously doesn't apply to babies. Babies just want a boob and sometimes even when they have one adjusting to life outside the womb is trying.
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Crying babies are straight up the most unpleasant and annoying thing I can think of, but people that take it out on the parents (unless its a situation where a baby has no business being like a movie theater) are morons.
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Yeah I take it out on the kid. I make ugly faces and then vote to underfund education.
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You're not weird if you hate the sound of babies crying. That's the sound of evolution working
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For the record, I never said I didn't hate the sound. Annoyance is a different thing in my brain. Here is a different yet related thing: The first six months, as a dad, are the worst. Being alone with a baby sucks when said baby will not take a drat bottle ever at all ever for any reason. Bonus anecdote: With my youngest, this period of time coincided with living near the local high school, the marching band of which practised on our street. That year, they were playing the Imperial March from Star Wars. I could hear it coming half a mile away, quiet at first. Buh buh buh buh BUH buh-buh buh-BUH. I listened, shaking. Every day. For a month. Knowing that it would get louder and louder as the bastards approached. The crescendo was, oddly, not helped by the wails of a newly-woken infant. I guess my phuo is that sometimes it's okay to hate marching bands. burial has a new favorite as of 09:06 on Sep 25, 2017 |
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lemon-lyme disease posted:I guess my phuo is that sometimes it's okay to hate marching bands.
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Tiggum posted:Sure, if by "sometimes" you mean "always". When does a marching band ever improve anything? Sometimes you could maybe use them to evade police pursuit? e: Any pursuit, really. You could steal a jewel! e2: Wait, that might still be police pursuit. burial has a new favorite as of 09:09 on Sep 25, 2017 |
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Tiggum posted:This but trains/trams/busses. And if it's crowded at the start but a bunch of people get off and leave empty seats, if you're sitting next to someone on the aisle side you should move. It's awkward for the window-side person to move past you, so you should do it. On a related note, pricks who sit in the aisle seat on a crowded bus/train/whatever, and refuse to move to allow others to sit on the other side and/or stick their legs across the seats. If it happens to me one more time, I will climb over the top of you, and make it my business to stomp on your legs while doing so.
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In my experience, most large airlines would invite customers with young children or who require assistance boarding to come to the front of the queue. Maybe it varies from airline to airline. This isn't the pet peeves thread but one of the most aggravating things as far as public transport goes is people occupying the seats in trains that are set aside for elderly or disabled passengers then don't move when an elderly or disabled passenger comes aboard.
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Unpopular bus/train opinion - you shouldn't be expected as a man to give up your seat for a perfectly able-bodied woman. It was more commom in college buses but if a girl was in the aisle in front of you you would get stared/tutted at until you got uncomfortable enough to give it up. If you aren't elderly or disabled and want to sit, get to the stop earlier like everyone else.
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I never see anyone get up for women on the bus.
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How do you know she is able-bodied? She might be suffering from hysteria or desertion by husband.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Unpopular bus/train opinion - you shouldn't be expected as a man to give up your seat for a perfectly able-bodied woman. It was more commom in college buses but if a girl was in the aisle in front of you you would get stared/tutted at until you got uncomfortable enough to give it up. Where is this common at? Just curious since it isn't a thing here. Possible PHUO on public transportation: I don't feel as if you are expected to give up your seat to someone who is severely over-weight or obese, even though they may have as great trouble as some handicapped people with mobility - but it is a nice thing to do, and you should do it for the same reason as you'd give up a seat to someone not able-bodied or someone pregnant, I feel. It is also the proper thing to do, to give up or switch seats, so that parents with pre-school aged kids can sit next to them imo. It isn't on the level of the other stuff, though.
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Grandmother of Five posted:Where is this common at? Just curious since it isn't a thing here. At the university of florida i saw it a lot, but not always. Multiple times you would see guys get up and say something like "well since HE won't get up..." etc. Also guys who would offer their seat multiple times even if she says no, sometimes leaving the seat empty. I never see it when i'm in germany etc but sometimes i still feel like people are silently judging me for sitting because of those experiences.
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Pros never sit down so we don't have to solve complex ethical calculus problems and have a mental breakdown in public from the overextention.
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Standing or sitting, I like to be as close as possible to the bus driver. Sometimes I ask a person to move so I can be next to the driver. They never refuse, because they don't dare ask why I want to be close to the driver.
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Is it a sex thing
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Yes, but not in the way you think. I'm sexually attracted to dashboards on large vehicles.
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Tiggum posted:This but trains/trams/busses. And if it's crowded at the start but a bunch of people get off and leave empty seats, if you're sitting next to someone on the aisle side you should move. It's awkward for the window-side person to move past you, so you should do it. 
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Tiggum posted:Sure, if by "sometimes" you mean "always". When does a marching band ever improve anything? At historically black colleges' football games
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Mu Zeta posted:I never see anyone get up for women on the bus. I do this. And for old people. I got a date out of it once. I just want to clarify, not from the old woman.
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I had a (male) complete stranger sneer at me for not giving up my seat for a woman once. I'll usually offer if they have a huge purse or something.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Unpopular bus/train opinion - you shouldn't be expected as a man to give up your seat for a perfectly able-bodied woman. It was more commom in college buses but if a girl was in the aisle in front of you you would get stared/tutted at until you got uncomfortable enough to give it up. Where I am from this is reserved for elderly, disabled and the pregnant.
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Every single human race is equally obnoxious and self absorbed. I think the internet has made this more obvious than anything. If you give any tribe or race of human being, however foreign to the internet they may be, access to it they will be filming themselves being obnoxious about anime on youtube or masturbating on pornhub within like a year. And I'm not like Orwell and blame technology, it's seriously just human nature and probably animal nature in general to be that self absorbed
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steinrokkan posted:Pros never sit down so we don't have to solve complex ethical calculus problems and have a mental breakdown in public from the overextention. I've injected my knees with cement so I can never give in to the temptation to pop the coward's squat on the bus
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Aesop Poprock posted:Every single human race You mean the single human race, surely?
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Jerry Cotton posted:You mean the single human race, surely? Yes. There is none more singular than the Indy 500.
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Mu Zeta posted:I don't think I laughed a single time in the last half of Master of None season 2. Really whiny and introspective though. Was the Thanksgiving episode supposed to be funny? It was just a well written dramatic episode. The dating episode was pretty funny. The mamie jar scene was  PHUO: I think Master of None is mostly funny but I assume that we're supposed to laugh at Aziz and his friends all being whiny garbage people like some kind of millenial Seinfeld
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I don't know if this is going to be an unpopular opinion or not, but: I'm sick of comic books. Pop culture is oversaturated with comic book stuff nowadays: movies (which usually accompany a wave of internet neckbeards whining and crying because a "female" has a role other than 'submissive eye candy'), CW TV series, games....even Lego is getting into the act with that "Ninjago" or whatever movie. I don't have a problem with comic books, but I'm sick of the "red pill" comic fan contingent and I'm getting tired of comic book everything.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I don't know if this is going to be an unpopular opinion or not, but: I'm sick of comic books. Pop culture is oversaturated with comic book stuff nowadays: movies (which usually accompany a wave of internet neckbeards whining and crying because a "female" has a role other than 'submissive eye candy'), CW TV series, games....even Lego is getting into the act with that "Ninjago" or whatever movie. I don't have a problem with comic books, but I'm sick of the "red pill" comic fan contingent and I'm getting tired of comic book everything. I've collected comics on and off for most of my life but the last couple years I've been so turned off on all comic book media. There is just nothing special or interesting about it anymore.
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The_Rob posted:I've collected comics on and off for most of my life but the last couple years I've been so turned off on all comic book media. There is just nothing special or interesting about it anymore. It's really obnoxious how commodified "nerd culture" has become nowadays. It used to be that people who read comics or played Magic just quietly did their thing in their own groups of like-minded fans. Now that marketers have discovered, for example, that gamer types drink a lot of Mountain Dew and Doritos, they've deliberately marketed to that demographic, making it seem like reading comics or playing games is a "lifestyle choice" in the same way as choosing to vote Democratic or living in Seattle. It's gross.
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Straight White Shark posted:The dating episode was pretty funny. The mamie jar scene was Your definitely supposed to laugh at their whininess and youthful self-absorption but they aren't sociopaths like on Seinfeld
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Seinfeld was really good, and they were all good role models.
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I prefer coffee with milk and no sugar to black. I prefer freeze dried instant Kenco coffee to any other coffee I've ever had from a coffee-maker, brewed, french press, from a big chain, or from a really independent good coffee place. The Kenco coffee I like the most is the decaf one. e: I thought it best to ease people into this one
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