:anxious: I used it pelean...if i spelt it correctly that is... as "fight"

 

^pelar also means to shave or something like that :lol:

 

Uh, I see, peleamos over el grande loco, qui tu don't regard to be así loco

at all, pero qui esta tan loco como un chango twistado, if you'd only ask me. :/

I googled "Lady Gargoyle" and the first result was this.

how irrelevant. :snobby:

 

Oh crap, I just made this thread even less on-topic. :uhoh:

I googled "Lady Gargoyle" and the first result was this.

how irrelevant. :snobby:

 

Oh crap, I just made this thread even less on-topic. :uhoh:

 

I don't think anyone actually cares any more!:laugh3:

I care. :P

I care. :P

 

:rolleyes:

Don't use that tone of voice with me mister. :snobby:

Uh, I see, peleamos over el grande loco, qui tu don't regard to be así loco

at all, pero qui esta tan loco como un chango twistado, if you'd only ask me. :/

 

:lol: I love you, Valerie :lol:

 

 

<3

Some people are just pricks. Like if Mark actually left his house i'm sure he'd be one of those people who wouldn't smile back and look straight through you. Maybe he'd say the smile was abusive and he isn't going to interact with you unless you stop looking so abusively at him and starting agreeing that everything he says is right and anything you say is wrong and stupid.

 

In jobs i've had the majority of people who've been really nice and if I smile at them or say hello they do the same right back. I've had more than enough people actually smile and say hello first. People in the countryside tend to be more friendly and forthcoming than city folk. However there's always exceptions and some people are just dicks, some are having a bad day, some are just socially retarded and there's loads more random shite like that.

If someone is rude to me in my shop i'll loudly be overly nice to them in a highly sarcastic manner. To balance out the universe. There's enough bastards out there, it's better not to be one of them and to at least attempt to be nice and pleasant, it generally carries a feel-good factor with it in some small way.

I'm sitting here at work (I'm a security guard so I am at the exit to the building), as people leave I smile at them and if they say goodnight, I'll wish them the same thing. But the vast majority of people when I smile at them, rather than sharing a few seconds of pleasantness with another person choose to stare at me for a few seconds like I am a piece of shit, while walking out of the building and completely forget I was even there as they walk through the door. This genuinely annoys me so much, I could easily sit there with a face like an arse ignoring them as they walk out, but no I actually try to be nice to people and they don't even give a shit. I dunno if it's me that has an old style mentality or what but I get actual joy from people being polite (not because they feel like they have to but because they want to) to each each other, does that just not happen for most people, if we can't even connect with each other on such a basic level then what the fuck is the point?

 

I'm not saying you should go round saying hi to everyone, that would make you a lunatic...but it's little bits of niceness and tiny acts of selflessness that make me smile. Am I really in a minority here? Are most people really as self obsessed as they seem to be?

 

I must say that for the majority of people who are like this there are still a handful of genuinely nice people who are friendly etc, but they really do get lost in a sea of shit, it's lucky those people exist or I'd just lose faith in humanity completely.

 

I don't even know why I made this a thread, I just need to get it off my chest before I snap and punch the next person in the face who walks past.

I can understand so well how you feel.

I encounter what you describe a lot and it saddens me as well.

At work we always try to be friendly to customers of course.

Some make it very hard though.

 

To me it's less a phenomenon of age but their backgrounds, a bit of what Valerie said.

I won't go into that nationality discussion as it's totally wrong in my opinion, this is human behaviour, not specific to countries.

 

I think everyone who ever worked in the services sector sees people different than how ppl perceive their environment who never worked in the services sector.

 

That may be an old or a young person.

It bothers me a lot when people don't reply to a friendly "hello", don't even look up but just say what they want. This even happened to people I know who only looked up to me when I didn't start fetching their order!

 

Some just can't see that every person having a certain position is a human being as well.

They just see the salesperson behind the counter who should please do as they want and ASAP.

Or in your case a "guy sitting at the entrance".

Or they complain in a bar why it took so long until their order arrived and don't give a tip because of that... instead of seeing that the place is packed and the staff is trying to handle the situation as good as possible.

 

 

 

I'm happy for every single customer who comes out of the cinema and brings back his bottle or says hi and bye. :heart:

 

A few days ago a repeat customer (do you call that a person who comes regularly??) tipped us 5€ and said she is sorry that so many people treat us like shit and that she knows we can't say "fuck off" when they're annoying but that she can! :lol:

She was referring to a day when a customer was insisting on being right about movie performance times when he read it wrong in the display case... some just can't admit that they were wrong but get aggressive instead.

She joined the discussion and said there are other people waiting in the queue and he should leave or choose another movie but not hold up everything!! :heart:

 

It's little things like that which keep you believing in humanity.

They are far too rare.

 

And Thalia, I know what you mean. It's almost like a "class" behaviour from the last century where the "higher class" ignores the "slaves"... can't find better words but those people are far friendlier than the ones working in higher positions.

 

Wow, that was long, I'm sorry! :laugh3:

When I'm in a bad mood and people hold doors for me sometimes I don't thank them and I feel guilty about it for literally hours.

 

You can really bring a smile to people's face just by giving them a really nice grin or something, especially old people because they have no faith in teenagers. Unless they're just being dicks and you're all like :D and they're all like :blank:, that makes me really sad

When I was at an university a few weeks back, there was a cleaning lady with a giant packed cart in the hallway. There were also hundreds of students just ignoring her, and she had to go through a big metal door but didn't have a free hand. So I just held the door open for her and she looked like she was about to hug me :stunned: I mean, how can one ignore such a person?

 

OH MY GOD. When I do that it makes my fucking day. I love doing that. The look on their faces is amazing. :wacky:

 

Giving candy and crap to little kids is generally like that too

I can understand so well how you feel.

I encounter what you describe a lot and it saddens me as well.

At work we always try to be friendly to customers of course.

Some make it very hard though.

 

And some people have a habit of totally ignoring others in public for no reason whatsoever, which is every bit as impolite, IMO.

i agree. i hate it when they give that obnoxious look. or they look back and give the wondering look saying 'why the fuck did you greet me?' or 'do i know you?'. stupid fuckers. it's as if they're so great they don't need a little bit of pleasantness in their lives.

i agree. i hate it when they give that obnoxious look. or they look back and give the wondering look saying 'why the fuck did you greet me?' or 'do i know you?'. stupid fuckers. it's as if they're so great they don't need a little bit of pleasantness in their lives.

 

Exactly. Especially when you've actually spoken to them before, and then they refuse to even acknowledge your existence. Very saddening behaviour indeed.:dozey:

The worst thing is, these are very often the same people that then go around complaining about others' behaviour, which is reprehensible and hypocritical in the extreme.:angry:

I'm practically immune to people being impolite.

There were a lot of times when people bumped against me and I said sorry (eventhough I'm the one they bumped against) and they'll ended up either staring at me or ignoring me totally.

What the fuck.

 

I agree with few people in this thread, it is all about not being educated.

I felt like shouting at those rude people everytime, but I don't think it'll even change anything.

They're very used to it since they were small that they just couldn't be bothered anymore.

^ the Malaysian attitude of tu lan-ing people.

 

I agree with few people in this thread, it is all about not being educated.

 

Although there are clearly exceptions, as the person I was talking about (who deliberately ignores people) is apparently "educated".:dozey:

Although there are clearly exceptions, as the person I was talking about (who deliberately ignores people) is apparently "educated".:dozey:

 

Did you ever think that it's cos you are a massive cockend?

 

People in a lift today, could see I wanted to be out of the lift as I was the only person making an effort to go towards the door, they just stood and stared at me so I squeezed past them with effort, laughed at how ridiculous they were being, turned round and shook my head at them disapprovingly, THAT'LL TELL 'EM!

:(

Did you ever think that it's cos you are a massive cockend?

 

People in a lift today, could see I wanted to be out of the lift as I was the only person making an effort to go towards the door, they just stood and stared at me so I squeezed past them with effort, laughed at how ridiculous they were being, turned round and shook my head at them disapprovingly, THAT'LL TELL 'EM!

 

You really think it will make any difference?:dozey:

Especially when you've actually spoken to them before, and then they refuse to even acknowledge your existence.

 

It's so funny when people complain about others who they know but ignore or blank them in public, I wonder more what's wrong with the person who was ignored then the person who was ignoring them.

 

I mean you'd have to be an absolute fucking tool to not get a 'hello' from someone you've spoken to before.

 

You really think it will make any difference?

 

You're a moron.

It's so funny when people complain about others who they know but ignore or blank them in public, I wonder more what's wrong with the person who was ignored then the person who was ignoring them.

 

I mean you'd have to be an absolute fucking tool to not get a 'hello' from someone you've spoken to before.

 

whoa. i've never thought of that before. :stunned:

That's the point I was making as well.

That's the point I was making as well.

 

In which case, you might well be the reason everyone appears to ignore you, then.:rolleyes:

Works both ways.

I'd disagree there, unless you're saying Nathan is so horrible to look at that strangers wouldn't say hello to him.

 

Knowing someone who blanks you is a different thing, it means that you have acted in such an annoying manner that they can't be civil enough to say hello to you. I'm not surprised.