xebi
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Post by xebi on Feb 25, 2015 22:01:51 GMT
I think a lot of these things can easily be justified!
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Post by gardengirl13 on Feb 26, 2015 1:44:26 GMT
Russia is seriously not a good place for disabled people. It's worse if you are in a wheelchair of course. I honestly would never recommend that a disabled person went there on holiday, same as I wouldn't recommend it to a non white person or a camp acting gay man. London isn't very good for wheelchair access either, that is much better here in Germany where I live now. I guess healthy people park in disabled spots everywhere unfortunately, it often doesn't seem to be policed at all so they figure they will get away with it. My husband always grumbles when he sees someone doing it but it really never seems to be policed here and in this part of Germany (Frankfurt area) people are bigger dickheads than in other parts (you guessed it, my husband is from another part of Germany ). I don't think they give out the disabled permits so much to elderly people here though, think you really have to prove you are disabled. yeah you're really supposed to prove it here too. The Dr can lose their license, but that part is never enforced I don't think. People will lie a lot to get what they think they deserve instead of really need. On my better days I will park in a regular spot so someone who needs it more then me that day can park there. But I don't see many others doing that. I see people leaving the handicapped person in the car taking up the space and run in themselves. sigh. Last month while going into a B&N someone was walking ahead of me, my husband had run back to the car quick, the doors there are heavy so he normally opens the doors for me, most days someone ahead of me will turn and see me and hold the door nicely, this person turned saw me and I swear he shut the door, not even just let it close, he pulled it!!!! I couldn't believe it! I was only maybe 2-3 feet behind him. This is why I don't leave the house much any more. I'm not expecting people to do anything for me. To go out of their way, or even be anything more then considerate. But being outwardly rude like this? Why? When you deal with horrible bad pain 24 hours a day your skin loses it's thickness. you can't deal with people much, and when they act like this it makes me want to never leave my house again. Pain fucks with your head like you can't believe until it's chronic and unrelenting. Sorry. This is getting off topic of unjustifiable and just getting sad. ha ha!!
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annie
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Post by annie on Feb 26, 2015 6:36:10 GMT
I used to be one of the fast walkers annoyed by the slow walkers. I'm a 6ft tall woman, walking fast is just natural when your legs are significantly longer than most people's (especially as I live in an area where the average height is shorter than the national average). But some years ago I had an injury to several locations on my spine and because of it I have a lot of trouble with balance, chronic pain and don't have as much range of motion in my hip/femur joint as I once did. So, now I'm a slow walker. I'm physically incapable of walking fast. When I first started having these issues I'd get so, so frustrated by people walking right up behind me even when I'm trying to get out of the way so they can go around me. (I also have social anxiety disorder and deal with claustrophobia, so those situations already upset me, but when I'm terrified that they're going to step on my heels and make me fall or run in to me it makes it that much worse) I had a walking cane and started using it even when I didn't need it hoping it would tip off the folks in a hurry that I'm not going slow to be a bitch, and maybe tell them to be a little easy around me. No such luck. I even had people go around me, but so closely that they'd end up kicking the cane out from under me. Imagine how scary/enraging that is. I'd also have cars in parking lots stop and wave me ahead to walk in front of them, then they'd honk or revv their engines when it turns out I'm crossing their path too slow. Dude! I had the freaking cane in my hand when you waved me ahead! It's not like I pulled a bait and switch on you or something! So, in a last-ditch effort to rectify these things I spray painted my black cane neon-freaking-purple. It has helped a lot. I still get the side eye and (thankfully, increasingly occasional) comments because apparently anyone under the age of 70 that uses a cane is just faking a disability so they can live high on the hog off the government's teat *rolls eyes*, but by-and-large it has helped a lot. I'm actually thinking about painting it some kind of super bright teal or lime green because that might be easier to see than purple. So, heed my cautionary tale, fast-walkers. Sometimes fate comes round to bite you in the ass. Changing gears, the thing I'm annoyed by right now is the sound of snoring. Oh my god. It's not necessarily that I can't justify being annoyed by my husband's snores, it's the level of annoyance that's irrational. My husband snores loudly and near constantly and it makes me irate. Absolutely irate. By 3 am I'm usually crying rage-tears, yelling at him and threatening to divorce him. All over snoring. And as things stand right now our health insurance won't cover a sleep study and the doctor claims he can't help until my husband has one. Ain't the American health care system grand?
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Post by rhiannon on Feb 26, 2015 9:46:19 GMT
Oh dear, I am really sorry to hear that your husband can't even get help for his snoring, I am lucky that even though mine is overweight he really doesn't snore unless he has a cold and even then he isn't loud. another thing that annoys me...my husband works in retail in a quite multicultural area. The number of times he has been called a Nazi because he's tried to stop a foreign origin person from shoplifting, or because the bank has refused to give them credit to buy something. Really, the Nazi thing is getting pretty old. If he was a Nazi he wouldn't have married a Jew (me!) and try telling that to the Ethopian customer who came in the other day and told my husband he was the first person in the city who had treated him like a human being....
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Post by A. Noyd on Feb 27, 2015 2:31:15 GMT
So, heed my cautionary tale, fast-walkers. Sometimes fate comes round to bite you in the ass. Just to clarify, I'm not annoyed with slow people. I'm annoyed with slow people who take up all the room without needing it. The worst is 99.9% of people who try to text while they walk. They're not just slow but walk in the middle of the aisle/sidewalk/hallway and lurch about randomly, which makes trying to pass them (in either direction) dangerous.
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Post by gardengirl13 on Feb 27, 2015 2:44:24 GMT
No such luck. I even had people go around me, but so closely that they'd end up kicking the cane out from under me. Imagine how scary/enraging that is. I'd also have cars in parking lots stop and wave me ahead to walk in front of them, then they'd honk or revv their engines when it turns out I'm crossing their path too slow. Dude! I had the freaking cane in my hand when you waved me ahead! It's not like I pulled a bait and switch on you or something! Yeah I've had my cane kicked out from under me twice now. Scared the shit out of me!!! I totally feel your pain with that one! And the guys in cars who wave you on!! Wow. Jackasses! I've had people wave us on, then get frustrated and when I just get by far enough they squeak by. Don't wave people on with canes if you don't want to wait! But then I get some really nice people too. They will go out of their way to help me, or just be nice. The cane I have is black but has flames on it. So that makes a lot of people ask what is wrong with me. I love telling people as most people haven't heard of what I have. I like interacting with nice people! I really am outgoing if you're nice! Sorry you have to use a cane now.
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Post by sortilegio on Feb 27, 2015 8:35:21 GMT
Here is something that pisses me off, even though it has nothing to do with me. I watch Korean dramas. Fans, especially female fans of Korean “idols” are something else. They love their “oppas” and excuse pretty much everything. Now a pretty beloved guy admitted some month ago, that he had abused his girlfriend (after she pressed charges). Apparently they broke up, got back together for a little while and now she is pregnant. His PR company broke the news and immediately said that Kim Hyun Joon (the guy) would take responsibility and marry said girl. Also, to do some damage control they lied about her refusing to prove said pregnancy. After fans smeared her and called her gold digger and pretty much every other name under the sun, the girlfriend came out, said that there would be no marriage. She also provided proves of KHJ threatening her per text message and refused to have a in utero DNA test done, explaining that she is worried that it might end in miscarriage. That story, as unpleasant as it is, was of no interest to me until a friend told me about the fan reaction. The bashing that goes on is unbelieveable and pisses me of to no end. Girls and women in all ages and of all nations, accuse her of planning everything to ruin HIS career. That, if she didn’t want to marry him, she should have never told him about the pregnancy. That SHE is shady and maybe deserved to be hit by him. I know how stupid it is to get riled up about internet comments. I don’t know the women. I don’t know what is true and what false. But that after everything that happened HE is golden and SHE is shady and a bitch-gold digger who deserves abuse. I just can’t. And seriously. He is right now in my: That guy. That fucking guy corner.
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Post by A. Noyd on Feb 27, 2015 22:49:03 GMT
Here's a good one: People who suck at pouring ketchup out of a glass bottle. They drive me up the fucking wall with their futile shaking and patting.
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Post by jennytrout on Feb 27, 2015 23:12:29 GMT
Here's a good one: People who suck at pouring ketchup out of a glass bottle. They drive me up the fucking wall with their futile shaking and patting. My uncle used to yell, "JENNY! This isn't a Heinz commercial!"
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Post by A. Noyd on Feb 28, 2015 6:23:55 GMT
My uncle used to yell, "JENNY! This isn't a Heinz commercial!" Sounds like something my dad would say.
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Post by A. Noyd on Feb 28, 2015 6:25:12 GMT
Warning: Minor body horror ahead.
How about when a single taste bud right on the tip of your tongue gets inflamed and sore and starts snagging on your teeth? I find that so irrationally annoying that I'll actually try to snip them off with nail clippers.
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annie
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Post by annie on Feb 28, 2015 7:10:32 GMT
Here's a good one: People who suck at pouring ketchup out of a glass bottle. They drive me up the fucking wall with their futile shaking and patting. My uncle used to yell, "JENNY! This isn't a Heinz commercial!" Do they even sell ketchup in glass bottles any more? I can't remember the last time I saw one. (tangent) In ASL the sign for ketchup is to hold your non-dominant hand in a c-shape with the side of your thumb and forefinger pointing up. Then, holding your dominant hand as if you were indicating the number 5 to someone, you basically smack the side of your non-dominant hand that's pointing up with your dominant palm. It's as if you're holding a bottle in your non-dominant hand and smacking the end of the bottle with your dominant hand to make the ketchup come out. When I taught an ASL class for hearing elementary-school-aged kids they had absolutely no idea why that would be the sign for ketchup. I had to sketch out the shape of a ketchup bottle on the whiteboard and explain why it was common for people to shake or smack the end of one. It was incredibly surreal. Skip ahead a few years and my 5-year-old has decided that the sign for ketchup is to make a motion with both hands like you're squeezing one of the new bottles (well, more the way he would do it. With both hands holding and squeezing the imaginary bottle and with his hands being spaced fairly far apart.). He can't remember the true sign for ketchup at all. It just won't stick in his brain.
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Post by A. Noyd on Feb 28, 2015 7:28:42 GMT
Do they even sell ketchup in glass bottles any more? I can't remember the last time I saw one. Restaurants still seem to be able to get them from somewhere.
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annie
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Post by annie on Feb 28, 2015 7:32:33 GMT
Huh. I can't even remember the last time I saw one in a restaurant. I've only seen squeeze bottles for years now. Maybe it's regional? Some areas mostly have the squeeze-bottles and some stuck with the glass ones?
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Post by muskratthemink on Feb 28, 2015 9:57:55 GMT
I've seen glass ketchup bottles once in a while and the only way I was able to get some out was by shaking them. :/
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