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    11/16/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    I always find that liveblogging or live-tweeting the offender's offensiveness, along with their name or physical description and location, is quite satisfying. I mean, I'm only sharing it with a few thousand people... #manners
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    11/16/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    I have always dreamed of having enough spare cash on me at all times that I could just grab someone cellphone from them and smash it to bits on the floor, followed by flicking off a couple of c-notes on the floor and walking away, a la Joe Pesci in Casino after he stabs that guy with the pen for being an asshole. #manners
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    Image of Mrs. Beeton Mrs. Beeton
    11/16/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    The problem is people are immune to shame. I'm not saying we need to bring back the stocks (I am) or that everyone needs to spend 15 minutes with my grandmother (they do), but a little embarrassment over doing stupid shit does work wonders. #manners
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    11/16/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    Some people just need to know that you mean business.

    I was sitting on the Metro in DC next to a guy who kept his copy of the Post wide open across both seats, even after I sat down. Drove his elbow into my arm and everything. I put my bag down, arm-wrestled with him for a minute, and finally just looked at him. he kept staring at the Post.

    I said, "Are you kidding?"

    And he folded it into fourths, like a normal human being, and we went on our way.

    Even yesterday, on our own fair subway, some dickhead had his lunch bag in the seat cattycorner from him (old 2 train) and didn't move it when I asked. So I sat on it, and he yanked it out from under me.

    People know when they're being assholes. It doesn't hurt that I'm 6' tall and 2oo lbs., but they generally understand when their mothers would smack them for doing what they're doing. #manners
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    11/16/09

    @Perhaps Not: No, it really helps that you're 6' 200. I have a friend who is 6'4 220 and I swear that the world is different when I'm out with him. I'm an average size dude, so it never ceases to amaze me how differently people treat him--they're rarely rude, and often just get out of his way instinctively. #manners
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    11/16/09

    @merc6point9: Yeah, I hear you. Talking to my wife about a particular part of town, I'll say, "Oh, sure, they're rough-looking, but they don't do anything to you," and she'll say, "Maybe not to you." #manners
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    Image of billybobnyc billybobnyc
    11/16/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    I don't believe for a second that Amy the advice columnist actually called the stranger to chastise him . It sounds like one of those cocktail party stories people tell other to try impress them with their bravado.
    Also, I have lived in lots of places and while "killing people with kindness" may work in some places, some of the time, it doesn't work in New York, where I feel the biggest problem is people yelling and screaming and acting like a fool, right outside your apartment door. Many times, only STFU will do, 95 percent of those times, it doesn't work, either. It took me four years to learn that. #manners
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    Image of HereComesMyBaby HereComesMyBaby
    11/16/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    Hah, you think you know rude, wait til you move to Tel Aviv! Israelis take rudeness to a whole new level. Spitting, yelling, picking their nose, mouth breathing, smacking gum, ALL OF IT.

    And everyone is talking on the phone at all times, including in the middle of business meetings (which is kind of awesome, actually). There is no time in which it is not okay to answer your phone here.

    It's really kind of disgusting. #manners
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    11/16/09

    @HereComesMyBaby:
    When I was a student in France I once saw a (I'm guessing) 35 or 40-year-old man berate a little old lady for taking too long at the ATM. I mean, she was a bit slow... but still. #manners
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    11/16/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Yeah, here it's totally like that too. You get yelled at for doing ANYTHING. This is why I always have my headphones on. #manners
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    11/16/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    For loud talkers in public places, try taking out your newspaper or book and reading aloud VERY aloud. When phone blabber objects, say "Those of us who CAN read enjoy doing so". #manners
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    11/16/09

    @SarahHeartburn: Simple and brilliant. #manners
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    11/16/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    Eternal Questions

    Why must these assholes talk through the movie that I have paid $12 for? Don't they understand this is not TiVo?There is no effing rewind. [Infrequently -- I can't stand movie theaters for this reason.]

    Why is this self-satisfied upper-middle-class mom showing zero compunction that her 10-year-old almost flattened me with his scooter? [Last week.]

    Why are people, unencumbered, able, and apparently not English, unable to keep to the right on a narrow stairway? [Frequently.]

    Why do men occupying two seats on the subway glare at me when I try to sit down, requiring them to close their legs? Do their balls need a separate seat? [Daily.]

    Why did that bike messenger who almost killed me while barreling the wrong way on a one-way street curse me out and keep riding? [Last month.]

    Why when I complain am I always the bitch?
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    Edited by Seeräuber Jenny at 11/16/09 1:11 AM Seeräuber Jenny was starred Seeräuber Jenny was unstarred
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    11/16/09

    @Seeräuber Jenny: Why do you think you're the bitch?

    We who read your contributions here know that you're not. And just FYI, it's our opinions that count, right? #manners
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    11/16/09

    @Seeräuber Jenny: I don't think you're a bitch. Some man-sized scrotum on a bike nearly killed my wife a couple of months ago screaming down THE SIDEWALK at what must have been thirty miles an hour. He yelled in her ear as he passed her, gave us a big grin as he zipped around the corner, and was gone. And I if I ever see him again, I will shove him off his bike and beat him with it. #manners
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    11/16/09

    @skahammer: @Perhaps Not:

    Thanks. I was being sarcastic. I'm not a bitch, I'm just trying to stay alive.

    I have a true terror of being killed by a bike messenger. I have had numerous close shaves. #manners
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    11/16/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    I'd like to add something I haven't seen mentioned yet. I'm a frequent flyer (110 flights so far this year, in and out of LaGuardia), and people have simply forgotten or choose to ignore the "rules" of traveling via airplane.

    It is probably a VERY good thing I can;t carry a concealed weapon on an airplane, because I'm damn sure I would have used it by now... #manners
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    11/16/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    I'm behind the idea of telling an asshole to shut the fuck up completely. The only drawback is the potential for getting stabbed/smashed in the face. #manners
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    11/16/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    I politely asked some people behind me at a concert tonight to stop talking-- they reacted as though I'd called them all cunts and insulted their mothers. If you're going to talk during the musicy portion of a show, go the fuck somewhere else. #manners
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    11/15/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    I think this might be an LA-centric complaint, but people who drive at night with their brights on in the near proximity of other drivers are a-holes who deserve to roast in a special circle of hell.

    I used to live on Mount Washington in L.A., which is a hilly residential neighborhood only accessible by extremely narrow two-way roads running along the lip of deep canyons. Going up or down the hill at night, I'd inevitably come across at least 10 a-holes coming at me with the brights on full blast, fucking blinding me in the immediate vicinity of gaping chasms.I've honestly considered flipping a U turn and chasing them to their destination, just to bitch them out. #manners
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    11/15/09

    @snugbug: I think that's something that happens everywhere. Newer cars have those xenon bulbs which are crazy bright (even without the high beams.) People who tailgate to stop signs and red lights drive me nuts.

    Or, being Mt. Washington, they could just be shining their brights to scare away the Avenidas members from carjacking them.

    (Highland park represent! Send me a message if you're around and I'll take you out for a drink) #manners
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    11/16/09

    @snugbug: I had someone one do that to me last night while on the interstate, only because I passed him/her + I'm in the middle of nowhere western PA. But it happens more frequently on the country roads here. No one wants to turn the high beams down just because one car is approaching, only to turn them back on after the car has passed. It's people being not only rude, but lazy. #manners
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    11/16/09

    @bens: Heh, OK. Drinks at the York? PM-ed you. #manners
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    11/16/09

    @afterabe: Isn't this shit ILLEGAL, though?

    Speaking of which, I recall a nite-time driving marathon to Las Vegas from LA on that godforsaken Interstate I-15 highway. Desert on the right, desert on the left. No lights whatsoever. Gas stops are 45 miles in between, or more. It's like driving on Mars. It's enormously difficult to negotiate that 4-hour stretch in the dark as it is, but bitch-ass bitches tailgating you on the highway with the high beams on adds to the stress like nobody's business. I admit that I was sincerely praying for my life during those whole 4 hours it took me to drive from LA to Vegas.

    I know peeps are like, "Oh, we'll beat the traffic and drive to Vegas at nite!" Do yourself a favor and don't.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/16/09

    @bens: Those headlights are PURE EVIL. They should be banned. #manners
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    11/16/09

    @snugbug: I wondered that myself, but these new lights are basically high beams. I have yet to hear of anyone getting a ticket for having them, but there is a God and she will reveal herself soon. #manners
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    11/16/09

    @snugbug: Here's a solution. KC HiLites made a high output halogen light bar that mounts on the top of vehicles. They were all the rage in the late 80s/early 90s - pickup trucks mounted them on the top of the cab or a chrome rollover bar. You know the types - off-road meant they took an exit south of 123 on the Garden State Parkway or below 6 on the NJT. Get a set; mount it on your vehicle; and give the next oncoming &^%$# a flash. Nothing says turn off the high beams like six 300Watt halogen bulbs.

    p.s., nothing says reckless [depraved] indifference to human life flashing six 300 Watt halogen bulbs into oncoming traffic on a long and winding road overlooking the bluffs of LA.

    pps in NJ, the motor vehicle code mandates you leave them covered while "on road" #manners
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    11/16/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: I disagree. I think they're helpful. Also, I find that I can look directly into xenon lights without hurting my eyes but regular white lights burn my eyesight away.

    That said, maybe we need three degrees of lights at this point: city, highway, and country. #manners
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    11/16/09

    @snugbug: LA to LV trip enormously difficult? You are one enormous whiner. It is a quite peaceful drive pretty much anytime.

    I've meet girls who land at LAX from London, rent a car (opposite side traffic), drive to LV, arrive around midnight and report: No, I'm not that tired, the last part of the trip was pure serenity. Let's have drink.

    If you get tailgated there you probably are one of the "55 mph on the leftmost lane no matter what's the traffic" ass-wizards. #manners
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    11/16/09

    @Spy from the Land of Rainpeople: What can I say? Cocaine is a helluva drug, but it has its practical uses. #manners
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    Image of MelitaPolyhymnia MelitaPolyhymnia
    11/15/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    Well, what do you expect? It's all so dehumanizing now. Everyone, en masse, is so beaten down by life that they just don't care. Doesn't anyone see the hatred of others in all of this. The just simmering under the skin seething anger that we all have for eachother?

    The subway, the bus, on the road, the elevator, the local Starbucks, etc.
    When so many are facing foreclosure, living on $430 a week, and being beaten down by all of the fees every entity around us is trying to impose on us (overdraft fees, red light cameras, once late on yor Shell bill, parking tickets, inside wire maintenance, excise taxes, a whole bunch of up your ass taxes) how can youexpect anyone walking around our mean streets to show some decorum? I mean really.

    The taxi's aim for the pedestrians as if the roads exist solely for them, everyone has an attitude, a nasty expression on their face (just check out some of the expressions as they go by) and a "f-ck you" is never fsr from being uttered to a total stranger. It is all out savagery, and it's here to stay. Everyone is angry at life, everyone else, their situations in life, the government, the boss, their neighbor, etc. It's a hate fest and you know it!!!
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    11/16/09

    @MelitaPolyhymnia:

    Get over it; act like an adult and show some manners. Your problems are no excuse to be rude to anyone else.

    I dread the next generation. The selfish people who grew-up in the 80s and 90s are going top breed the "Rudest Generation." #manners
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    11/15/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    I was once on the M4 and a woman was sitting across from the back door eating cherries. She would spit the pits into her hand and then when someone opened the back door to exit she would throw her handful of pits out the door after the departing passenger.

    I use this story often as an example of why I should never be allowed to carry a gun. #manners
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    11/15/09

    In reply to The STFU Manners Mafia: We're One Step Short of Beating You with Your Cell Phone
    Solving the problem on the subway should be easy. Just divide the cars into 1st class, 2nd class & steerage.

    My guess is that it will also at least temporarily solve financial problems at NY transport authority. #manners
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