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Why are people so rude/angry these days? It seems that with each passing day, more and more civility goes out the window to be replaced with rudeness and anger.
It’s like the rage virus in 28 Days Later or somehow the monsters that eat human flesh are slowly coming to be. —Sick of angry people
This article appears in Sep 9-15, 2010.
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Read World War Z by Max Brooks for a glimpse of what our present world is going to become in a very short time.
Here is a brief list as to why I am rude and angry these days:
1. My puppy died
2. I live in a terrible place where horrible people roam the streets and innocent creatures suffer needlessly
3. I work 40 hours a week and make “good money” yet I am constantly poor.
4. People walk too close to me when there is plenty of room to NOT do that.
5. People come here from the most horrible palces on earth, take advantage of our social security system, my tax dollars etc and act like they are entitled to it and can’t stop preaching about the “home country”. If its that good go home.
6. I’ll leave it at 5 for today.
welcome to the “new world” and all the happy happy people who inhabit it 🙁
We live in a society of instant gratification and, because of this, people have a sense of entitlement that is simply unbelievable. These spoiled shits need a hornet’s nest tied to their naughty bits.
Maybe they met NiceGoinFat.
ustewess…sorry to hear about your puppy.
And George Carlin says it best:
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers,
wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more,
but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment,
more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
Even NGF holds doors for little old ladies, folks with children, lovely young lasses and the occasional dude if I go to HMV. My personal favourite is slapping fives with the Oasis Chicken on SGR. Its hard to be rude or in a bad mood when a 6′ tall chicken is trying to shake your hand, y’all.
I do miss the giant poulet…..
sadly, never ’round those parts anymore.
I hold the door for the lovely young lasses…so I can admire the view of their perky young asses !
I usually howl quite loudly: ‘THANKS FOR THAT!!’ when I’m assaulted by a dose of unnecessary rudeness. I just like to see how many people actually flinch. My kids used to cringe when I did that but as adults they understand why.
things move way to fast in this part of the world. People need to go South for a while and actually live. Put your feet up and live.
thank you, i take that as a very good compliment, now back to pulling wings of of butterflies.
I echo what Realchick said, plus a bit of TTFN. We’re all living in this “me” world. What “I” want is all that matters, so being rude to others is okay, because “they” are irrelevant because they’re not “me” . I blame a lot of it on the internet. Not completely, but it’s certainly added to it in a big way. Narcissistic sites like FB, Youtube and Twitter, mixed with the anonymity of other sites to say whatever you want, it’s just killed all social consciousness of being polite.
Fuck, it sound like you’re all turning into a bunch of existential postmodernist.
Take a break, take a walk.
Ah Phurst, what do you suggest we do?
Methinks the latest and vilest example of how low we as a society have sunk is the video of a girl being gang raped after being given date rape drugs, and yes, it’s Canadian!!
The little scamps who were involved in this should have their “meat and 2 veg” removed – cock and balls offed.