People in your own personal Gulag

[83wuzme]

For me, it’s bad drivers :
- people who treat “ Yield “ signs like it’s the Law of the Sea - - I’ve got a bigger vehicle, so everybody has to get outta my way.
- texting drivers. The light changed ten seconds ago, why aren’t you moving ?
- people who cut across lanes in parking lots, especially while on their phones.
- people who speed up when you try to pass them only to slow down after you give up on the effort, like it’s some kind of d-ck measuring contest.

 

[nittanyfan333]

OH, I almost forgot. People with gas cars that fill up at the ONLY diesel pump at a gas station when almost every other pump is open, then leave their car there and walk inside for 10 minutes getting their hot dog and coffee. I can't tell you how many times I've had to sit and wait....

 

[83wuzme]

You've waited 10 minutes with just 2-3 items in the checkout line of a grocery store. Just as someone lines up behind you with a full cart, the next register over opens up. The person who just arrived rushes over to the newly opened register, leaving you and your 2-3 items still waiting.

If this involves the “ Express “ lane, these people are referred to as “ Expressholes “.

 

[MrDibbs]

Several excellent candidates. My job for them would be carrying around large rocks in an endless circle

While I like the carrying of rocks in an endless circle, I have a preference to "what is your dirt doing in my hole?"

 

[wbcincy]

Not a fan of Austin Powers, huh?

Here, intolerance will not be tolerated.

 

[wbcincy]

Physically able men who don't get up for women/children/elderly on public transit.
People who decry hunters but eat meat.
People who drive slowly in the passing lane, and their cousin, people who drive 0.5 mph faster than the car they're passing with a line 30 cars deep behind them.
People who think there are only a few cities in the country where there's anything fun to do and the rest are boring, cultureless, inbred cesspools of ignorant rednecks.
People who condescend gambling.
People who think marijuana should be illegal.
People born on third base that think they hit a triple.

 

[Gnat91]

I don't get irritated easily but this one sets me off to where I wanna smash someone in the face... People that don't say thanks when I hold a door open. Like it's my f'n job.
Also people that think putting their blinker on gives them a free pass to switch lanes no matter what's in their way. People that fly by in the fast lane at 80 only to pull in front of you and drop down to 5 mph under the speed limit. And the last one , people that do 90, hit rain, drop down to 40 and when it clears up, go back to 90. If you drive a lot with cruise you know what I mean.

 

[BudatPSU]

trump and his entire cadre of baby snatchers.
sessions and his religious liberty task force.

 

[Victor E. Bell]

People older than age two at hotels who arrive for the free continental breakfast in their pajamas. Saw an elderly nana one time collecting baskets of yesteryear's bagels to take back to her spider hole in her nighty. Good grief woman, nobody wants to see you smearing bagels with a pound of cream cheese in your nightgown. Have some respect for yourself and others. Then five kids in their jammies running amok and leaving the place a milk-soaked, Froot Looptopia of garbage and swill. Those in loco parentis in bare feet, pajamas, slippers just lettin' it be. Slumber party at the Econo Lodge.

 

[LionJim]

People who deny painful historical truths (the Holocaust or Sandy Hook, for example) and their enablers and apologists.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

My pet peeves...
1. While shopping. People who leave their freaking shopping carts in the middle of the aisle while they go to graze on the shelves. My reaction: slam the shopping cart into theirs and say, "Excuse you." The reaction is priceless.
2. People who exit parking lots right in the middle so you cannot turn in.
3. People who whip pass you only to slam on the brakes a few feet ahead at the traffic light.

This is all about being aware of your surroundings and unfortunately, many people are in a coma.

#2 is on point. They act as if their car has the turning radius of an 18 wheeler.

 

[ThePennsyOracle]

Starbucks coffee.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

People older than age two at hotels who arrive for the free continental breakfast in their pajamas. Saw an elderly nana one time collecting baskets of yesteryear's bagels to take back to her spider hole in her nighty. Good grief woman, nobody wants to see you smearing bagels with a pound of cream cheese in your nightgown. Have some respect for yourself and others. Then five kids in their jammies running amok and leaving the place a milk-soaked, Froot Looptopia of garbage and swill. Those in loco parentis in bare feet, pajamas, slippers just lettin' it be. Slumber party at the Econo Lodge.

Hahahaha! So much gold in this post. Swill is not used nearly as much as it should be.

 

[artsandletters]

You.
And people who rush to get onto the elevator before they let people get off. And that is probably you. Thanks for playing.

No no no. I stand well back. I’m a courteous and well-mannered man except when it comes to the pig you’re so fond of.

 

[WDLion]

- Anyone (left or right) that doesn't have the decency to at least listen to the other side, and be open to ideas and opinions other than their own
- People who don't use turn signals
- People who drive with their high beams on at all times (somehow has become standard here in NC)
- People who smoke in the car with their kids
- Every news network show producer and creator that involves commentators yelling at eachother, and consequently those people who try to yell over each other
- People who believe that their opinion about anything is the gospel truth, and anyone that doesn't have the same opinion is wrong.

Who's left.

 

[odshowtime]

Ridiculously hypocritical, ignorant, big-mouth MSU fans.

 

[Fox Chapel Lion II]

You sound like a coffee “Nazi” ;-)

FWIW, this drives me nuts too. Doesn’t anyone order just coffee anymore!?

It's hilarious. I love going up to the counter in Starbucks or Dunkin and the person in front of me orders a soy venti half caff mocha machiatto with chocolate jimmies. Get the hell out of here with that crapola. I tell the counter person - 'Large coffee flavored coffee, please. Black.'

 

[MrDibbs]

People older than age two at hotels who arrive for the free continental breakfast in their pajamas. Saw an elderly nana one time collecting baskets of yesteryear's bagels to take back to her spider hole in her nighty. Good grief woman, nobody wants to see you smearing bagels with a pound of cream cheese in your nightgown. Have some respect for yourself and others. Then five kids in their jammies running amok and leaving the place a milk-soaked, Froot Looptopia of garbage and swill. Those in loco parentis in bare feet, pajamas, slippers just lettin' it be. Slumber party at the Econo Lodge.

My only thought when reading this ..
."did she use the tongs?"

 

[BobPSU92]

- John Tavares (though being a Toronto Maple Leaf sounds an awful lot like being in a gulag).
- Phil Collins and all members of Styx, Journey, and REO Speedwagon.
- People who refuse to go at a four-way stop, allowing me to go first when I was clearly the last to arrive.
- The lady at my local deli counter who can’t seem to understand what thin means, can’t remember that a full pound is not the same as the half pound I ordered, and takes painfully long to give me the wrong thing.
- Political “pundits” who ignorantly present one side of a situation, thus alienating their party from the bulk of Americans, who can recognize that they are just presenting talking points.
- BobPSU92, for his own sake.

I am honored to make the list.

 

[BobPSU92]

....and people who are intolerant of other people's cultures..

And their culture problems.

 

[BobPSU92]

Coffee/beverage service area hogs. You get 12 seconds. Take what you need, and finish up elsewhere. None of this plant yourself in the middle of 3 carafes of dairy, blocking napkins, sweetener, stirs, straws, lids only to add one packet, stir, sip, add another, pull out a napkin, change stirrers, reach for a lid, do a false step back, step forward again, pop off lid, search for the right dairy, add a splash, re-stir, put lid back on, grab a napkin to blot the drip down the side, turn to your partner, ask where he’s sitting, pull one last packet of sweetener for the purse, then back into me on your away from the area 3:15 later.

You obviously were behind me at a coffee shop recently.

 

[Connorpozlee]

I am honored to make the list.

I feel like a stay in a gulag might be the only way for you to raise your level or outrage and misery.

 

[BobPSU92]

It's hilarious. I love going up to the counter in Starbucks or Dunkin and the person in front of me orders a soy venti half caff mocha machiatto with chocolate jimmies. Get the hell out of here with that crapola. I tell the counter person - 'Large coffee flavored coffee, please. Black.'

You obviously were behind me at a coffee shop recently.

 

[BobPSU92]

I feel like a stay in a gulag might be the only way for you to raise your level or outrage and misery.

It would certainly help.

 

[BudatPSU]

#2 is on point. They act as if their car has the turning radius of an 18 wheeler.

In extending #2, anyone who is unable to make a 90 degree turn because they are driving too fast so they make two 45 degree turns and begin the turn about a half a block before the intersection and in the process cut into the lane on the other side of the road. Also, a driver who encounters a blockage in their lane and assumes they have the right to move into the other lane and hold up traffic in that lane so they can continue unimpeded. Stay in your lane, and get off my grass.

 

[BobPSU92]

trump and his entire cadre of baby snatchers.
sessions and his religious liberty task force.

FOOTBALL.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Oh, I forgot. People who say they are going to stop posting on this board due to some personal aggreivement or the like, and post this with much pomp and circumstance and rending of garments. As if the board is losing a literary lion like John Updike or something.

 

[Victor E. Bell]

My only thought when reading this ..
."did she use the tongs?"

NO!

 

[Gnat91]

People that have thousands of posts on this board.Serious.. .nothing better to do or have you been posting since the beginning of time?
People that click a Pitt thread than bitch its a Pitt thread. People that use emojis.(you're not 12 year old girls) ..

 

[Victor E. Bell]

People that have thousands of posts on this board.Serious.. .nothing better to do or have you been posting since the beginning of time?

You're posting at a 53/month clip. When you're here 17 years you'll have 11,000. Serious.

 

[Gnat91]

17 years .. .Lol

 

[wex18]

People who use multiple exclamation points at the end of sentences!!!

 

[WDLion]

Posters who say Pitt is on a role.

 

[RandyL]

These responses show me you guys are not wrathful enough.
Let me be God for a moment and I would admit I made a mistake with human beings and get rid of the whole bunch of you.

“You destroy all my other creations. You destroy this beautiful planet with your over-breeding. I gave you free will and THIS is what you did with it. Why, you spent a thousand years killing each other over whether or not you even had free will. You’re OUTA here.”

I would get rids of humans, rodents, insects, reptiles, and cats.
Dogs I would keep.
I did a pretty good job with dogs.

 

[ralphster]

•People who say "price point" instead of just "price." They think they are a Ph.D. economist or something just because they add a completely redundant word.

•Anyone who says something is a "hot mess." It's just a mess people.

•Any guy with a man bun.

•Anyone over 10 years old and not a gardener, chef, or surgeon/nurse wearing Crocs in public.

 

[wbcincy]

People who deny painful historical truths (the Holocaust or Sandy Hook, for example) and their enablers and apologists.

I take all mine back. The conspiracy theorists who torment the parents of Sandy Hook victims are the worst humans alive and should be drawn and quartered.

 

[wbcincy]

Oh, I forgot. People who say they are going to stop posting on this board due to some personal aggreivement or the like, and post this with much pomp and circumstance and rending of garments. As if the board is losing a literary lion like John Updike or something.

You know what, with this post, I'm finished. I've spent 16 years on this board, but the time has come when I must ride off into the sunset given the degeneration of the board to its current state. I long for the plotit days, but alas, you can never go home again. I should have quit when the transition was made away from thread view, but once more into the abyss I said, and I held on because of some of the good and knowledgeable posters. But now, we're left with nothing but the Chickenman Testa's of the world, with their south Texas biases, and so, I regret to say that I must bid you all adieu. Good night, and good luck.

 

[PeetzPoolBoy]

This is a rarity for me. I like every post in this thread. Does that make me grumpy and judgmental of others?

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

For me, it’s bad drivers :
- people who treat “ Yield “ signs like it’s the Law of the Sea - - I’ve got a bigger vehicle, so everybody has to get outta my way.
- texting drivers. The light changed ten seconds ago, why aren’t you moving ?
- people who cut across lanes in parking lots, especially while on their phones.
- people who speed up when you try to pass them only to slow down after you give up on the effort, like it’s some kind of d-ck measuring contest.

All of these plus the people who drive all the way up to a merge point in a construction zone (when the blinking signs have warned them of a closing lane for the past 10 miles) and then expect to just be let in ahead of everyone responsible enough to have heeded the warnings and waited patiently.

 

[RandyL]

This is a rarity for me. I like every post in this thread. Does that make me grumpy and judgmental of others?

No, it makes you a wimp. You're OUTA here.
However, Chickenman's "rending of garments" deserves some kind of acknowlegement.