(September 21, 2015 at 2:36 pm)MTL Wrote:(September 21, 2015 at 2:18 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: - Anyone older than 5 who still manages to get food around their mouth while eating... gross!
- People who walk way too slow. When I have somewhere to be, I pound that pavement like a model on a runway. I don't need your slow ass walking at 2mph in front of me, with no way around you, when I have places to be.
- Litterers.
- People who don't wash. I keep chopping people on this but I can't say it enough, people, in the morning... shower + brush your teeth + deodorant + clean clothes. It's really not that hard.
I despise litterers, but what is worse are litterers with attitude, who think they have every right to litter,
and think that you have ZERO right to resent it.
There was a big flap in Toronto in 2006, over a litterbug.
A female bike courier was passing through a quaint, pedestrian-only, vintage-clothes-shopping district of Toronto,
called "Kensington Market".
As she was leaving the area, she saw a huge SUV roll down a window, and an empty McDonald's bag hurled unapologetically to the ground, outside, in plain view of everyone.
Outraged, the bike courier picked up the bag and chucked it back into the still-open window of the SUV.
The driver of the SUV, a young man much larger than the bike courier, emerged, seething, and this ensued:
(scroll down for all pics)
http://www.citynoise.org/article/2770
Remember, this is over littering.
The story made the news, much public opinion siding with the bike courier,
but a surprising amount sided with the litterbug;
the main reason seemingly that she "took the law into her own hands"
by electing to toss his garbage right back into his truck.
Same here, I always keep my garbage in my car until I get to a trash can. And, if I'm walking or hiking on a trail somewhere, I put the trash in my backpack or pocket.
This one is sort of common too: people that have really messy cars. I do get used to it after a little bit, but it's always a shock when there is garbage all over the car. I don't see how people can drive like that, or how they can invite people in the car without any shame when it's completely trashed.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
