This thread isn't about the kind of guys who get the Darwin awards, this is about completely moronic behaviour that is reasonably common. What are examples of idiocy that you see or hear about on a farly regualr basis? ( For the purposes of keeping this light, let's avoid any political or religious activities, and let's not point fingers at BBS begaviour.) My nomination for Everyday Idiots: You'll often see television polls, where it costs $4.99 or whatever to phone in and give your opinion on a particular issue. Now I'm not against people being passionate about their beliefs, and I suppose to many 5 bucks is a small price to pay to be heard on an issue, but what gets me every time is that you always see about 10-15% of the people who call in under the " I don't know/undecided" category. !?!?!?!? How desperate do you have to be to pay someone 5 bucks and then tell them.." Well, on this particular issue, I have no idea." !?!? Blows my mind... ...what are yours?
I was sitting at a red light. The lane to my left merges 100 ft after the light...and everybody knows this so nobody gets in this lane...except for...idiots. So this guy comes up behind me and then changes lanes. So we're both sitting at the red light. At this point, he can plainly see that his lane ends. Light turns green. I gun it. He guns it. But he doesn't have time to overtake me in 100 ft. So he slows down and gets back to the same position where he started...right behind me. Then I can see his arms flailing as he is obviously pissed of at me...because I didn't let him cut me off. Thats an everyday idiot. (of course I'm an idiot for taking him on but I sure had fun doing it.)
Well.....I know this will piss off a lot of people, but..... .... smokers .... I don't really mind that they're killing themselves with this expensive habit. That's their business. And I don't really mind that they drive up the cost of health care for everyone else. I mean....I do mind that.....but I can easily live with it. What I hate--pure and simple--is the smell of a burning cigarette. I can't stand it. I loath it. I HATE IT!! The fact that it does these other things (shortens lives, cost a lot of money, raises everyone's health care costs, produces the litter of those nasty-ass butts all over the place) just seems to rub salt in the wound for me.
That's a great one, but I'd like to add toit; To me the people who let those idiots cut in, which happens a lot of the time, are also idiots. You'll often see a car pull out of a busy lane, pass 10 or so cars, and then try and cut back into the same lane...which is incredibly selfish. But about half the time the 1st or 2nd car will let them in. My attitude is, " Screw you. Who the hell made your time more imprtant than mine?"
well, seeing as how you wasted just as much gas as he did in "gunning it" just to prove a worthless point that he has no right to overtake you... who's the everyday idiot now?
Yeah. I can't type. Believe I've admitted this, oh, 20 times or more. You keep focusing on it, for well over 2 years now...one of us is an idiot, sure.
no way man... that guy needed to be taught a lesson. he should have also then slowed down, waited until the guy was parallel, flipped him off, and then sped up and passed him again.
I will never understand why people take being passed up so personally. It ain't a freakin' race. One guy just needs to get to where he is going faster than you do. Big freakin' deal
Since we're talking about lane merging and the such.... What about the idiot who's in the lane that ends, and decides he has to cut into the other lane early...even though traffic's already alternating up ahead!!! And how come everyone who drives slower than me is an idiot...and those who drive faster than me are maniacs???
Idiots that need some really important information so they ask their "friends" about this subject (which could be cooking, pottery, or fighting ) and then have no balls to follow up with a reasonably scripted reply. Jeesh............what were we talking about again?
I got one for you. On my way home from work, there is a SUV in front of me on a residential road doing 25 in a 30 mph . I am approximately 2 to 2 1/2 car lengths behind this person and nowhere near tail-gating. All of a sudden....they pull off the side of the road to the right and stop. It just so happens my turn is to the right just ahead of where they pulled over. So, given their pulled over, I pass on the left and then I make my turn. Then, this SOB in the SUV proceeds to honk their horn after I've already turned and proceeded down the other road. Man, did that piss me off bad. At that moment in time, I was ready to flip. I WAS F-ING PISSED OFF! You want to talk about road rage. I'll show you some road rage cause I didn't do a freaking thing to warrant that. My interpretation of this is that person thought I was tail-gating them when I wasn't even close to tail-gating. Plus, they were driving like old people drive. When your driving that slow, it takes an effort to not tail-gate which I definitely made. I was rewarded with a late honk. I'll tell you...if I had the chance to respond, then it wouldn't have been pretty. I'm not going to take that crap. So, there's my idiot of the day story. Some people man...
Hey...someone wants to be belligerent with me...than right back at ya! It's not like I was going to shoot the person. I had my middle finger ready, though. It was aimed and loaded. You can keep your prozac for yourself(assuming you were sharing your cookies with me). LOL.
Well, if you finished reading my post you would have noticed that I already self idioted myself. Geesh, your such an idiot. And if you question my use of the word "idioted"...then your an idiot too. If fact, if you don't praise me for my use of the word "idioted"...then you must be an idiot...because that was pure genius. I now revoke my self idioted designation and elevate myself back to mediocre since my own idiotness and genius cancelled each other out.
Well, I'm glad your rage would only have been expressed in finger form. However, your previous statements gave the impression that you were considering tearing the guy's guts out and strangling him with his own intestine. Man, did that piss me off bad. At that moment in time, I was ready to flip. I WAS F-ING PISSED OFF! You want to talk about road rage. I'll show you some road rage I'll tell you...if I had the chance to respond, then it wouldn't have been pretty. I have prozac-laced bran muffins too, if you don't like cookies. Mmmm... prozac.
also, when you are driving in a parking lot there are always those people on foot who are trying to cross your path. instead of just walking straight across and letting you stop for them, they walk in a slow diagonal line so that it takes them 5 times as long to cross as it should. and every 2 feet or so they stop and look back to make sure you arent going to run them over. do these people have no concept of geometry? shortest distance between two points is a straight line. this is a great thread. i could go on forever with these.
