what is wrong with people?

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this is a serious question. i spend my life in a near-constant state of frustration and disbelief at how myopic, ill-informed, selfish, inconsiderate and all-round bloody stupid people are. now i know many of you think i'm a miserable bastard anyway and i'm fully aware of ilx's "let's all hold hands and sing kum by yah round the campfire" tendency, but plenty of you spend a lot of time unloading on groups you don't like (the poor, the uneducated etc), so, this is the thread where you stop pretending to be nice and let it all out.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

You really are a complete and utter cunt, aren't you Dave?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't really mean that. Shit, I'm not very good at this, am I?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

that's a start

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

this is a serious answer. there's nothing wrong with people. it's one of my favourite show tunes. barbra streisand's is the definitive version but the tymes did a good soul cover.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

you just need to work at it

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Every person I have dealt with recently has ignored my requests. Banks, agents etc etc. I have seriously phoned about 10 ppl in the last 3 weeks to arrange stuff or amend details & not one of them has managed to do what I ask. The world is full of incompetents & unfortunately it is making me think why the fupp do I bother with anything.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

and i'm fully aware of ilx's "let's all hold hands and sing kum by yah round the campfire" tendency

bwahahahaaaaa, what?

anyway i know what you mean Dave but i sense that your annoyance has once again been provoked by something written on this board and i don't think you should let it get to you like that when it can just be taken as words on a screen (actions annoy more).

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

They're too intolerant of other people's failings. God, how I hate people like that.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a feeling anything I add to this thread might be superfluous.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

what is wrong with groovin'?
(i love that song tho i can never write or pronounce the name of the woman who sings it - i also laugh when she sings 'what is wrong with wailin?' cos i hear it as 'whalin')

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

They shouldn't punch me in the nose for absolutely no reason at all when I am on vacation. Fuck that.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Awareness

Awareness that you are not the only person in the room and that the views and moods and requirements of the others may differ from yours for whatever reason, the only person who needs to get somewhere, the only person who might feel a certain way about a certain someone, the only person 'this' has happened to...

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

They shouldn't punch me in the nose for absolutely no reason at all when I am on vacation. Fuck that.

stay outta Riverdale

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

well it's mainly the way the bnp thread descended into another "hey let's laugh at proles" fiasco (the unloading), yet still most people were having a go at calum for being prejudiced (the kum by yah tendency). still, this could just be fun anyway.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, wot's RIGHT with people?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

they are capable of not being coonts

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

people are OK.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Up with people.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, mostly people are OK.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You beat me to it Liz, are you telepathic or sumthin?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Just a mental-keen Lambchop fan.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Liz *is* telepathic. Ppl only have to think "I could really do with some cake right now" and she bakes a cake! Amazing!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Hooray for everything. There should be a board about that.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"that" meaning what exactly?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

it's this thing.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

try people more

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

stop being so pedantic. that's one of the things that's wrong with people.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Why does it matter if other people are myopic, ill-informed, selfish, inconsiderate and all-round bloody stupid?

What if you are myopic, ill-informed, selfish, inconsiderate and all-round bloody stupid? (and people are, so unless you are from some superevolved space race, you are too)

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

do you mean the being pedantic? or the stopping?

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

you wrote that's twice dave (sorry)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I have 20-20 vision, thus am not myopic. Ahem.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

like i see A Nairn 'awareness' or lack of is the real problem

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

really liz?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm generous and loving and amazing.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The incompetence thing has been a really problem for me lately. Before I moved, I arranged to have my phone number changed. (I was told I had too, in order to have voice-mail; which probably wasn't even true, since the person I talked to screwed up on every other point.) I was told I could not get a DSL connection in my new apartment, so I signed up for (more expensive, and so far, less satisfactory) cable internet. A few days ago, I received a package from Verizon (my phone company): "Thank you for choosing Verizon DSL as your. . ." etc. I called Verizon to let them know that I had not ordered DSL service, but also that when I originally inquired about it, I had been told it was unavailable in my new location. (I haven't mentioned that my phone service was shut off a month or two before it was scheduled to be, thanks to a mistake the person I talked with must have made while keying in the shut-off date.)

Meanwhile, the cable TV I decided to get (since I was already paying for cable internet) has not been working. I haven't found the time yet to call the cable company about that.

Despite the screw-ups with Verizon, I am thinking of switching to them for DSL, to save money. (If I make them my long-distance carrier, I will save additional money. Goodbye Working Assets. I hardly ever make long-distance calls anyway.)

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

does your mind's eye have 20-20?

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave this thread is sort of ill advised. You've been very sanctimonious since returning here. I realise you were pissed off when you left but still.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave, I don't suppose for a moment you thought about sympathising with Rumpy before launching into her for abhorring the people who are making her life a misery BECAUSE OF THE WORDS SHE USED???

Maybe that's what's wrong with people.

You're right about pedantry, though.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i think this thread is okay (so far). there have been too many stupid threads lately. i often revel in stupid posts, but not stupid threads, that's the line.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually this fucks me off all the time, Dave. But HOPEFULLY you know a few good people, and besides even tho I barely post there's clearly a lot of pretty likeable people on ILX, right? They exist! More might be nice (in real life, I mean), but then you'd have to like PHONE them and that sort of shit, that'd get annoying.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Stupid posts kinda rule

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

People I cannot understand :

Huntingdon Labs protesters
People who work at Huntingdon Labs
The BNP
Class fascists (I note one or two around here)

Everyone else is alright

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

What is wrong with "people" that I deal with at the moment is that they don't deliver stuff when they say they are going to, or they send something not quite like the part that they ordered so the object I was going to repair remains unrepaired, and the person who I am supposed to be repairing it for gets pissed off with me, or the big japanese cycle part manufacturer manages to fuck up its stock levels or wtfe, and I wind up getting quoted 190 day lead times on commonplace items wtf.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Huntingdon Labs?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

as this is the tread where you don't have to make any apologies, i'm going to ask you very politely to please stop being such a self-righteous twat, markelby

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

being too loud and never listening is one thing that's wrong with people

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm remeinded of a Depeche Mode song.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"people are people so why should it be/you and i should get along so aw-ful-ly". that one? CLASSIC.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

what is wrong with stevem?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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we let criminals away with it

― darraghmac, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 13:11 (seventeen years ago)

too many arts students

― darraghmac, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 13:11 (seventeen years ago)

paninis

― darraghmac, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 13:11 (seventeen years ago)

martin jol

― darraghmac, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 13:11 (seventeen years ago)

have you given up on the rest of the human race? if so, when did it happen? was there a specific incident that triggered it?

― i've never been so insulated (Roberto Spiralli), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 13:20 (seventeen years ago)

The Church

― darraghmac, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

Wow, that tautology works both ways. What is wrong with The Church? people!

― Sweaty and Cowbelled (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 13:33 (seventeen years ago)

Hasn't been the same since it stopped being Ask Chaki.

― aldo, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)

If they wanted to commandeer a disused board for The Church, I'd have been perfectly happy for it to have been IDME. Sigh.

― Sweaty and Cowbelled (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 13:48 (seventeen years ago)

maybe the failure to answer this question is an answer in itself? i'm just thinking out loud here.

― i've never been so insulated (Roberto Spiralli), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 13:58 (seventeen years ago)

I have given this question a lot of thought. My conclusion is: people are born with intractable design flaws that require endless, clumsy patches and workarounds. Much like MS Windows(tm).

― Aimless, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

we should spend more time teaching people to be people, and less time moulding them into socio-economic units. you didn't think i was gonna go there but i did.

― i've never been so insulated (Roberto Spiralli), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

what happened to stelfox??

― homosexual II, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

I killed him and ate his heart to gain his courage.

― Trayce, Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:20 (seventeen years ago)

What is wrong with people is that they are born with a god-sized hole only god can fill it up and make them whole.

― Traycer Hand (libcrypt), Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:58 (seventeen years ago)

i'm fully aware of ilx's "let's all hold hands and sing kum by yah round the campfire" tendency
what?

― Bright Future (sunny successor), Thursday, 18 September 2008 02:01 (seventeen years ago)

"Sometimes posting to ILX feels a bit like lining up all your stuffed animals and having a pretend dinner party with them."

― Lovenasium (electricsound), Thursday, 18 September 2008 02:05 (seventeen years ago)

Ned Raggett is the only current ilxor who can recall the original ILE Kum By Yah Day. Dan Perry was out sick that day.

― Aimless, Thursday, 18 September 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

A reality-shaped vacuum.

― Laurel, Thursday, 18 September 2008 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

we should spend more time teaching people to be people, and less time moulding them into socio-economic units. you didn't think i was gonna go there but i did.

― i've never been so insulated (Roberto Spiralli), Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

obviously you manage to escape the moulding process you fucking internet-dwelling parasite.

― *plop* (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 18 September 2008 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

i'm a victim too :(

― I'm reading Shakespeare at my place downtown (Roberto Spiralli), Thursday, 18 September 2008 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

I hate people who hate people because they are "uninformed".

I also hate people who ask me not to smoke in their homes.

― rejected FDR screen name, Thursday, 18 September 2008 20:00 (seventeen years ago)

I only ask you to please refrain from clamping your lips over my nose and blowing smoke up my nostrils.

― Aimless, Thursday, 18 September 2008 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7944919.stm

:-O
;_;
>:O

― POLLonius (country matters), Monday, 16 March 2009 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

seriously this is one of the worst news stories i've ever seen

― POLLonius (country matters), Monday, 16 March 2009 00:25 (seventeen years ago)

probably just too awful to contemplate tbh

― POLLonius (country matters), Monday, 16 March 2009 11:28 (seventeen years ago)

Standards are slipping in Iraq. Didn't Saddam's boys regular shoot entire teams?

― Blancmange Is Playing At My House (King Boy Pato), Monday, 16 March 2009 11:29 (seventeen years ago)

not when they were JUST ABOUT TO SCORE

― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Monday, 16 March 2009 11:32 (seventeen years ago)

I think it's a lesser crime than sitting in a executive box and being indifferent towards the game while eating Thai food.

― Blancmange Is Playing At My House (King Boy Pato), Monday, 16 March 2009 11:36 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2ARRee35c

― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Saturday, 17 April 2010 15:00 (sixteen years ago)

GAH i had to stop watching after 1:00

― harbl, Saturday, 17 April 2010 15:30 (sixteen years ago)

jesus

― WHO HE AND THE I DON'T KNOW FISH (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 17 April 2010 16:28 (sixteen years ago)

amazing

― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Saturday, 17 April 2010 18:06 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://gawker.com/5609931/marinated-cat-rescued-from-car-trunk-before-becoming-owners-meal

― BLACK METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:40 (fifteen years ago)

what is wrong with that guy is that he eats meat, basically. he's just not as impersonal about it as most.

― "It's far from 'loi' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:49 (fifteen years ago)

as a hypocritical non-vegetarian, the wildly contingent morality of Western eating (Western values!!) is something I guess I basically accept. So therefore, wtf this guy.

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:54 (fifteen years ago)

what is wrong is that guy apparently marinades his meat alive, with fur on. i've more of a problem with him as a chef than anything else.

― joe, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)

^^^ an insult to any self respecting gourmand

― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:03 (fifteen years ago)

i'm fully aware of ilx's "let's all hold hands and sing kum by yah round the campfire" tendency

Haha, what?

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)

yes, this man had issues

― painini (admrl), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:05 (fifteen years ago)

what is wrong is that guy apparently marinades his meat alive, with fur on. i've more of a problem with him as a chef than anything else.

Yeah, it just doesn't make any sort of culinary sense? I was bewildered by this.

― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:07 (fifteen years ago)

like his only sense of how to marinade something comes from looney tunes cartoons

― bodily fuiuds (c sharp major), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)

I shouldn't laugh at this but joe is really killing me

― people are for loving (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:15 (fifteen years ago)

what offends me most is how you could name a cat after a member of Jane's Addiction and expect it to be anything OTHER than "possessive, greedy and wasteful" tbh

― BLACK METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:15 (fifteen years ago)

Placing him awkwardly and ill-advisedly in the middle of a bunch of chili peppers was fairly in keeping though

― Melodic Man - I Need Geir (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:24 (fifteen years ago)

ahahahahahahaaaaaa

― BLACK METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:26 (fifteen years ago)

clean kill imo

― "It's far from 'loi' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:26 (fifteen years ago)

lock thread.

― oreo speed wiggum (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:33 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Family sentenced in plot to kill grandfather for early inheritance

Police analysis of computers seized from the family home in revealed Google searches including "1,000 ways to die", "how to kill someone" and "10 easy ways to kill someone with no trace".

And after all that they went with bricks wrapped in plastic bags...

― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 30 September 2011 16:06 (fourteen years ago)

Almost posted that story here yesterday. Absolutely shocking.

― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Friday, 30 September 2011 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

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