What do you secretly judge people for?

stopping in the middle of the road without indicating, while: looking for your destination, or having a conversation, or deciding what day it is

That's my new pet peeve. The thing is I don't remember seeing people do this in the past and certainly not frequently, but now I see it all the time. Mind-boggling selfishness. I think Covid rotted everyone's brains way more than we realize.

I can't find a source right now, because I just woke up and I don't want to, so (Trust Me Bro, et al, 2024) but there's a chance that quote is actually about Nazis!

A lot of French people referred to them as "the others" and would often speak sort of semi-codedly about them in writing and such so as not to piss off their new overlords. So that line may well not have been "I'm such an introvert that being around other humans is like being in hell" but instead "hell has delivered itself to my doorstep in the form of goose-stepping bastards"

Or as Daria said: "On second thought, hell is myself."

Or stepping off an escalator and just stopping right there to get their bearings.

• riding your delivery bike down the footpath at high speed weaving between pedestrians

Gotta include the ones riding at night in black/dark clothes with no reflectors or lights; be it using the crosswalk, against a 'do not cross' or in the middle of the [car] lane, ignoring the bike lane.

Aka inconsiderate people

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Or guns.

There are people who have a genuine problem breathing fully through their nose though.

There's a word for not being able to handle this: misophonia

It seems that for some people (myself included) it generates a primal urge.

Or use cutlery properly.

I agree, but the one person I knew who did this was a rich asshole. He had zero fucks to give.

Drag is never going to stop putting food that's way too hot in drag's mouth. Simpler solution is to just make it a faux pas to eat food in front of others. Like the aliens in Enterprise.

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But being loud about it just contributes to the problem!

I had this talk with a member of my family. Water is a chemical, salt is a chemical. Just because you don't immediately know what it is, doesn't mean its bad.

If I know anyone who drives one, I always refer to it jokingly as their 'emotional support vehicle".

I'm not sure about everyone else, but in my case you assume correctly. The only reason I'd want a monster truck is to act like an overgrown child who wants to show off his big vroom vroom. Also, with a mandatory funny honk.

Is a minivan not allowed?

I'll go a step further and assume they are...speaking loudly while carrying a small stick.

Do you have a 401k?

I get about 30 dollars a month in Interest in my savings account. Is that not passive?

What if I did a bunch of work in the past and I am still getting income from that work, even though I do almost nothing to keep that income coming in now?

FIRE these dipshits straight into the fucking sun.

I make about $1k a month absolutely, completely passively from Amazon. I've put in maybe 30 minutes in three years. When I tell people this, they see that passive income is real.

Then I tell them about the years before that, where I spent every second I had making shirt and book designs. I had made a single sale early on and I saw the potential, so I sunk every godforsaken hour I had to spare (I also worked full time) designing and uploading, researching, networking, and pushing. I gambled, grafted, and earned it.

It's absolutely worth the investment, but I only know that now. Back then it was an insane gamble - hundreds of hours of proper work for ?????. I stop telling people about my 'passive' income now because no one wants to ruin the dream of freeeee money.

You're heart is in the right place, but your conclusion is wrong. It's entirely possible to build a passive income without involving anyone else's labor. Without even getting into things like investment income, which I'm assuming you'll still attribute to someone else's labor in the most abstract sense, there are still plenty of ways to do this. I personally lived off mostly passive income for several years when blogging was big. I created a bunch of blogs myself, did all of the development and design myself, managed the servers myself, and wrote all of the content myself. Then I put a few non-intrusive ads on the sites. When they started generating pretty good money, I mostly stopped working on them. They continued generating decent money until social media killed blogging. I still have one of them, and I receive around $60 per month from it despite the fact that I haven't touched it in over a decade. So, how exactly was/am I stealing someone else's labor?

How is interest labour?

Ahhh, dude. For real. Have your fucking ID or ticket out before you get to the front of the line.

I'm sometimes super slow at the start of self checkout. If the bags are stuck together, not open, and if I didn't bring my own, sometimes it takes me 2 minutes just to open a plastic bag. I'm trying my hardest!

Or the people who are determined to discuss bullshit at length that is completely unrelated while there is an extended line behind them. I'm empathetic if you're lonely, but this isn't the time or place. Take your ass to a bar (you can order food/non-alcoholic drinks if you like), and you can run your mouth to the patrons there. You can also go to parks, live sports, live music, hobbie/enthusiast events, etc. All these events have people you can mingle with, but fucking lines with captive employees and other people tattooed behind you trying to conduct business isn't the place.

I remember a story of a guy talking about how the store reeked and smelled terrible. After doing tons of searching at the epicenter of the smell, turns out some guy hid a 5 pound beef brisket on the bottom shelf, hidden behind a bunch of breakfast cereal.

Shopping cart theory also seems relevant to this.

I think there's some misconceptions about this that need to be cleared up. If you don't want it and you've already moved away from the section, the best thing to do is take it to the register and say you don't want it. Then what typically happens is it gets put in a take-back cart and the employees take care of it

These are all reasonable. Add people that let others in, in potentially dangerous situations.

It's just the natural evolution of language. Rules become loser over time

It's been happening a lot longer than that, that's a classic misspelling.

Shit’s been happening a lot

Butthole must be loose.

I know of a multi-million dollar company that was about to launch a new marketing campaign. We are talking ads, dozens of trucks getting rewrapped, marketing materials, catalogs featuring the tagline; the whole nine. It would have been tens of thousands of dollars spent.

They used "loose" instead of "lose" in the tag. The error was caught by the CEO's secretary without a degree.

It had gotten past upper management and the marketing department without being noticed.

Because phonetically, it's "loos" vs "looz". And people don't care enough to know or apply the difference.

If someone is cleaning a floor and I have to walk over it, they're getting several sorrys and at least 2 thank yous, while I do that shrink my body to the side and putting my palms out towards them like a peasant not trying to be whipped by a landed gentry.

I've mopped professionally. It sucks.

Oh my God my fucking in laws... Literally any amount of poor service or delay and they're taking a passive aggressive tone with service workers. It's absolutely insane. Like, no, I do not think this person has personally slighted you, it's just rush hour and everybody else is also ordering food right now.

Smoking...what?

It's the most disgusting smell. I'd rather stick my nose in a dirty diaper than stand next to someone smoking.

I don’t understand how people don’t indicate in general. It’s just so automatic for me, I’d need to make a conscious effort not to.

Sometimes I accidentally indicate because I’m going around a sharp bend that my brain registers as a corner 😂

Not only this annoyance you mentioned, but my personal little saying is that turn signals aren't just for the benefit of who you see, but more importantly for anyone you don't see!

You should have already made sure you're clear of everyone before you think about leaving your current path. Using the indicator is a preventative measure for the sake of yourself and anyone in a blind spot or that you failed to notice.

Just not using turn signals in general and lack of road etiquette is enough for me to judge people pretty verbally in my car, though nobody else ever hears it, so I guess it counts as a secret. You're driving a machine that can kill people out of negligence, the least you can fucking do is show some common courtesy and signal what you're intending to do with it and what direction you're going to move. People have more common courtesy when they're walking on the street and no danger to others, yet they moment they're behind a wheel and much more dangerous, it's like they have nothing but middle fingers for everybody else around them.

I was at the Secretary of State and this guy was playing a Switch with the volume on full blast.

Curiosity is a sign of intelligence, so you're not wrong.

Nah I'm depressed but still curious af

I live in Florida and a coworker asked on which side is the Atlantic, and on which side was the Gulf. My judgement was not very secret because I was completely in shock. I'm still not over it.

Nothing depresses me more then leaving my basement and traveling far across the globe, and seeing the same people doing the same shit just like at home.

Desperate people trying to afford necessities, the exploiters lording over them, the corporations running things.

I was young and dumb when I went, but I will never again make the mistake of searching for something that just isn't there.

I'd rather stay in my basement and pretend there is a better place in the world. But you can only play pretend for so long.

Bonus: every time i struggle to make it, I get to think about the thousands wasted on that trip. I used to be a dumb ass. I still am, but I used to too.

Now playing - Every day is exactly the same by the Nine Inch Nails

Oh yeah, I'll quickly shut that down when they wanna do that "kids these days with the technology" nonsense, usually as some excuse for why these older folks who've had 40+ years to figure out computers still can't check their own email.

No, Timmy isn't "so smart with technology" because he can consoom on a device designed for infinite low-friction consumption.

I agree, I shouldn't be on the road. I try to be as safe as I can but I hate driving.

Yes! It's barely spitting outside, why are your windscreen wipers trying to break the sound barrier?

Semi colons are for winks only.

I got you’re back, bro

/s for the Americans

I can relate.

Everytime I see some Gucci stuff on someone, I feel hard sad for them or sometimes cringe, because all the money they once had, was spent on something worthless in my eyes. They also look more unsympathic by having those brand stuff on them, so its a lot that plays in.

But if they don't look entirely iced out, then I mostly don't even notice that the person has Expensive brand clothes or generally popular brands. I mostly see the overall design or the colors besides the Human and the face. I have my energy somehwere else to invest than thinking on ehat brands someone is wearing. A sometimes I secretly judge if they are trying very hard to be something like iced out. (With iced out I mean, trying to look rich with Gucci clothes or something similar)

Difference is between buying a brand for style and buying it for quality.

Some companies have quietly admitted that the only difference between their stuff and cheap knockoffs is the brand name and it's fine for them because their customers don't care.

Rich people don't wear brands. Visible brands are for working class people who want to be rich. It's the sign of a class traitor.

I understand where you're coming from, but it might just have been a simple accident and they're too poor or don't have the time to get it fixed. I went around with a shattered screen for about six months.

I have the same theory. Anytime I see someone having a phone call on speakerphone it's almost 100% because their screen is shattered and they just walk around screaming into their phone.

Makes sense that these are also the type of people walking around just raw dogging life with out a cell phone case.

How dare you accurately describe me 😤

Using "decimate" to mean "completely destroy" is not a misuse of the word. The word's meaning has simply changed.

When I read it, I agree with you - but when I say decimate, it sure sounds like it should mean near total destruction.

Makes me RED with anger!

Or people who are so "weary" of danger.

I see that alot.

^ ^ ^ ^ that's my trigger

Defiantly agree 🙃

or tounge

I love cats. Other peoples' cats.

I will never own my own cat because I don't want to accept the burden of responsibility that responsible pet ownership demands.

Huh, I kinda feel the opposite. You need (or at least SHOULD) be very attentive to a pup. Dogs, in general, tend to crave/require more attention. Cats are more hands-off, so they often attract the kinda people who want a pet for the sake of having a pet - which tend to be narcissistic types.*

*not true of all cat people

I don't like cats, mainly for two reasons:

1. I am allergic and they just make me feel bad on a physical level
2. Cats, as any animals, require care, and responsible owners add it to the list of their burdens. It's like constantly having a baby that never grows up - cats can wake you up in the middle of the night, force you to remove feces, etc.

I, however, love people, and am far from being selfish or narcissistic. People around me often find me warm, comforting, and supportive.