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I work in an open floor office. The lady who works at the desk next to mine came just in. She sat down, started up her computer, took a bottle of deodorant out of her bag and started spraying under her arms.
Is it just me or is that kind of odd? I know I would go to the bathroom to do that...

I was sitting on the bus the other day when a lady (in the losest sense of the word) took the seat right behind me. For the whole 30 minutes I was sitting there, she was chewing gum - with her mouth open! She never closed her mouth for 30 minutes straight.

And I come across many more examples of odd, disgusting or simply impolite behaviour each week.
Now, am I just fussy or are these people disgusting?

On numerous occasions I have peed on the street. Several times in broad daylight. I never took number two, but I had the misfortune of witnessing people do it (not in our capital city, though).
Two special features of the Bucharest metro in winter are these young men who will go through the trains begging. They are both virtually naked, and one of them - who has no legs - drags himself on a newspaper sheet the makes most disturbing sound when rubbing against the floor. Both have a thick layer of all sorts of dirt and filth over much of their bodies.

The deodorant thing is just not right. Go to the ladies room for Pets sake. I have had people pick their noses in front of me while they are having a conversation with me and it makes me want to crawl away. Who does that????

On numerous occasions I have peed on the street. Several times in broad daylight. I never took number two, but I had the misfortune of witnessing people do it (not in our capital city, though).
Two special features of the Bucharest metro in winter are these young men who will go through the trains begging. They are both virtually naked, and one of them - who has no legs - drags himself on a newspaper sheet the makes most disturbing sound when rubbing against the floor. Both have a thick layer of all sorts of dirt and filth over much of their bodies.


:eek:

If I leave a chicken parm calzone or some other food besides beef for around 30 hours, sometimes more, I'll usually still eat it. I dunno if that is gross or what but I rarely ever get sick and I'd say I owe it alot to not babying my immune system. Not like I eat blatently rotten things but I know a lot of people will throw something out that they've left on the counter for like 5 hours.

I work in an open floor office. The lady who works at the desk next to mine came just in. She sat down, started up her computer, took a bottle of deodorant out of her bag and started spraying under her arms.
Is it just me or is that kind of odd? I know I would go to the bathroom to do that...

I was sitting on the bus the other day when a lady (in the losest sense of the word) took the seat right behind me. For the whole 30 minutes I was sitting there, she was chewing gum - with her mouth open! She never closed her mouth for 30 minutes straight.

And I come across many more examples of odd, disgusting or simply impolite behaviour each week.
Now, am I just fussy or are these people disgusting?
Oh, this is INDEED a Pandora's Box for this forum ...

For the first example ... she might also have thought the office needed to smell more like her, which would make her selfish and inconsiderate as well as odd.
For the second, she might have a palatal issue that makes it hard for her to breathe and chew at the same time, and maybe her skin reacts to the patch. I know a few people like that.
Of course, both of them could be like many, many other people, who simply don't think much of the rest of the world actually exists sometimes.
Even, they like to piss people off. I know people from every example i've given.

The deodorant thing is just not right. Go to the ladies room for Pets sake. I have had people pick their noses in front of me while they are having a conversation with me and it makes me want to crawl away. Who does that????
"Booger" from Revenge of the Nerds did.

Oh, this is INDEED a Pandora's Box for this forum ...

For the first example ... she might also have thought the office needed to smell more like her, which would make her selfish and inconsiderate as well as odd.
For the second, she might have a palatal issue that makes it hard for her to breathe and chew at the same time, and maybe her skin reacts to the patch. I know a few people like that.
Of course, both of them could be like many, many other people, who simply don't think much of the rest of the world actually exists sometimes.
Even, they like to piss people off. I know people from every example i've given.

I didn't have much of a problem with seeing her chew, after all she was in the seat behind me. My problem was that I had to hear it... and it sounded really, really disgusting. Imagine somebody making smacking and bubbly sounds right in your ear for half an hour.... *shudders

"Booger" from Revenge of the Nerds did.


If I remember, he wasnt very popular with the ladies.

Disgusting behavoir? We post on NS! ttttthhhhbbbbppppt! ;)

I'm the arsehole who will lacker on some deodorant in public and if anyone says anything I'll just say "Social Darwinism bi*atch! Asthma that.". Seriously though, when you smoke and your friend smoke, you need a lot of deodorant with you want to be scoring.

People who spit, when they walk down the street and just spit on the ground..ewwwwww

People who pick their noses whilst they are driving, like being in your car makes you invisible or something.

I recently was in the supermarket with my daughter and we saw a woman who was VERY overweight, and she was wearing the teeniest micro-skirt and no tights/nylons and I have to say it was not a good thing to be behind...then a few days later we saw her again and she was STILL in the same outfit. (it's not because she was overweight that I have a problem, it was the fact that I could see her underwear and no-one needs that in Morrisons) I just kept thinking how terrible it would be to be on an escalator behind her.

I work in an open floor office. The lady who works at the desk next to mine came just in. She sat down, started up her computer, took a bottle of deodorant out of her bag and started spraying under her arms.
Is it just me or is that kind of odd? I know I would go to the bathroom to do that...
Doesn't seem that odd to me. Then again, when I was at school people did that kind of thing all the time. No-one really minded, except after lunchbreak when the room would be so full of deodorant that that air tasted strange...

So much blech behavior....

The worst thing is when you are in a resteraunt and the person a table away chews with their mouth open, and talks to the people at their table 5x louder then they need to be.

So you hear this chewy, spitty, gross, mass type movement while they are talking. :(

People who smoke and still smell of their habit inside the office for the next few hours.

Masturbation in public.

I was sitting on the bus the other day when a lady (in the losest sense of the word) took the seat right behind me. For the whole 30 minutes I was sitting there, she was chewing gum - with her mouth open! She never closed her mouth for 30 minutes straight.

I would have lost it after thirty seconds. Kudos on not throwing a punch.

Cantonese are the ultimate for disgusting behaviour, imo.
I've sat opposite middle-aged guys on the train who have had their finger wedged up their noses. I mean to the second joint! They rummage about in their snozzles, retract the digit, peer closely at it to see if any pearls or golddust attached and if not ram it back up for another prospect.
This can go on for several minutes. Most of the time they then roll their finds between their fingers and flick it onto the carriage floor, but I have seen ppl eat them. And I'm not talking kids here - I'm talking middle-aged ppl, some in suits!

Then there's the ear cleaning. They love cleaning their ears, especially in public. Funniest one I've seen was on the train a couple of weeks back. A middle-aged woman near me was reading a Watchtower. For several minutes she stood next to me, side on, and had her hand up near her ear giving me the finger! I was totally taken back wondering what the hell was going on here. Did she just really dislike foreigners, or did she not know?
I soon found out the reason. After a few minutes she checked her finger, licked it and rummaged about in her ear, checked it again, licked it again and stuck it straight up at me again. Waiting, it seems, for it to dry a bit before going thru the whole process again.

I've sat at a restaurant table while a guy opposite me clipped his nails onto said table.

Speaking of restaurants, the accepted thing to do with bones is to spit them onto the table. I embarrassed my ex-g/f in front of her family once by trying to discreetly pick them out of my mouth and put them to the side of my plate. Using your fingers is, apparently, disgusting. Spitting isn't. Go figure.
Also under the non-disgusting section in the Cantonese manners handbook is talking while eating. I've had ppl try to talk to me with their mouths full of food. Yet, paradoxically, using a toothpick in public is highly disgusting. They turn away, hide their faces behind one hand and pick at their teeth that way.

As to spitting, if you ever come to HK you'll notice signs everywhere warning ppl that spitting in public is a serious offence, with a $1500HK (~$190US) fine if caught. Why so many signs, you ask?
Well, spitting in the Cantonese culture is not only acceptable, it seems (to me at least) to be encouraged and is a sign of pride. Going into Southern China, one sees spitting everywhere. And we're not talking a little side-spit into the gutter. Nope. They put alot of effort into their hauwks. I was once on the 4th floor of a shopping mall and heard a huge long hauwk, as someone reached deep down to catch every bit of fluid in their bodies with view of expelling it. I looked around in time to see a guy lean out of his shop and practically vomit a large lump of mucus onto the floor nearby. This was on the 4th floor!

Yep, Cantonese are pretty comfortable about preening themselves in public.

I'm not.

Both are examples of ignorance. There are a lot of people with disgusting habits-you wonder if they werent taught any better or if they were, but are indifferent.
There are a million examples, but one that comes to mind is witnessing the nose pickers while driving. Many people get this private time as they drive, but forget other people can actually see them as they dig. And hand a hand out the window as they try to roll and flick it.
And while on the subject of driving, I still see people throw their finished cigarette butts out the car window, as if thats acceptable behavior.

And I come across many more examples of odd, disgusting or simply impolite behaviour each week.
Now, am I just fussy or are these people disgusting?
People tend to be disgusting.

One of my co workers sprays everything down with Lysol, Her Phone, Computer, Keyboard, Desktop...

usually, our users are eating when talking to us... :rolleyes:

Women who deodorize themselves in public is kinda gross. Also women who stare at themselves in the rear view mirror, fixing their hair, brushing on some type of racoon-piss-based warpaint, puckering their outdoor industrial-grade painted lips.

Public-nosepicking is funny. Male masturbation is not. Female masturbation (in public) is a welcome wagon for every airborne disease floating around with a 50ft. radius.

Driving behind a weaving car for 36.5 mi. on a long highway at 2am, just waiting for it to drive off the road and produce a spectacular accident, only to find out that some guy is getting his honker oiled by some other guy...
Then have the nerve to see both heads look over and say 'sorry about that....'
Thanks- could you please do that at home instead of almost killing me for your homotendencies?

People who block grocery store aisles with thier shopping carts to chat with people they haven't seen in two weeks, and talk like it's some 20-year high school reuinion. Then look at you like you're some kind of an idiot for saying 'exuse me' cause you'd like to get by... Now, I just 'accidentally' crash into their cart and say 'oh, I'm sorry, I didn't see you blocking the aisle.'

Stupid TV ads that say if you smoke pot, you're going to do something stupid like shove your fist in your mouth, or go to the nearest fast food drive thru and run over some kid on his bicycle, after seeing him the first two times you went...

If smoking cigarettes is so bad for you, and every state is banning smoking everywhere, why do we still sell cigarettes?

Why does this country insist on giving ALL of our jobs to everyone BUT people who live in this country?

Why do people in government not required to take a drug test?

Why can't people decide where their tax money goes? This woulod eliminate useless organizations siphoning money that could be better spent.

Why do people in America insist on feeding homeless people 15,000 miles away, when the homeless in America continue to be homeless. Ex. Massachusetts has 20,000 homeless and hungry children. Where's the help? Screw sending cargo planes filled with food and medicine to other countries. It's time America helps its own. Nobody else is going to.

Are cartoons more violent than video games? I haven't heard about the worldwide riots caused by crazed Grand Theft Auto finatics...............

Should cartoons now be rated? Or banned? Hell, everything else is getting banned. Can't say this. Can't say that. Can't say anything. Freedom? Yes, It's ringing in my ear.

It's the all-too familiar sound I hear walking the street of this once great nation.

Ding-dong. Ding-dong.

Millions of ding-dongs.

Odd behavior?

It's worldwide.

It's everywhere.

Everyone should be required to smoke pakalolo within 25 minutes of waking up. Every single person on this planet. And must smoke pakalolo every two hours or so thereafter.

Then- everyone would be happy and mellow. People would put the guns and bombs down. Eventually, people will gather around and talk and laugh. They will see how foolish standing around in the streets screaming and yelling all day, burning flags, singing songs, breaking stuff.

Forget it... Get a professional wrestling show going, and use all channel all the energy into something constructive.

So- people are chill, having a good time, and at some point down the road, everyone who once pointed a gun at each other because someone else said so because someone told him that another person told that person, and he heard from some big guy that it was said by someone above him....... all will be put in the past, and they'll sit down and play a friendly game of poker....

Even curling seems like a cool pakalolo game. It's a thinking man's game.

So- everyone will, finally, think. And realize all the killing and fighting and everything else is a complete waste of time.
But-until then, I will think the world is odd for not getting along at all... And it's governments that's ruining it, not people... :headbang:

Wedgie-pullers anyone ?

If I leave a chicken parm calzone or some other food besides beef for around 30 hours, sometimes more, I'll usually still eat it. I dunno if that is gross or what but I rarely ever get sick and I'd say I owe it alot to not babying my immune system. Not like I eat blatently rotten things but I know a lot of people will throw something out that they've left on the counter for like 5 hours.
You're flirting with salmonella. You'll know if you've contracted it.

I see a few people talking about public booger picking. It has nothing to do with if you pick your nose, it's where you put the booger. I beleave that my hooked finger swirrel technique belongs to humanity. :D

Other Odd behavior?

I would typically be the asshole who nuked the elevator just before walking off of it.

I´m allowed to see to much disgusting parts of human behaviour each day professionally, I won´t even start. Yet after years funny how one still won´t get used to it

*shudders in remembrance*

I work in an open floor office. The lady who works at the desk next to mine came just in. She sat down, started up her computer, took a bottle of deodorant out of her bag and started spraying under her arms.
Is it just me or is that kind of odd? I know I would go to the bathroom to do that...

I was sitting on the bus the other day when a lady (in the losest sense of the word) took the seat right behind me. For the whole 30 minutes I was sitting there, she was chewing gum - with her mouth open! She never closed her mouth for 30 minutes straight.

And I come across many more examples of odd, disgusting or simply impolite behaviour each week.
Now, am I just fussy or are these people disgusting?
If these things are really all you have got to worry about, then life must be pretty good?

If these things are really all you have got to worry about, then life must be pretty good?

Too good, maybe. Or else I'm just a sucker for detail and etiquette :D

One other thing that never fails to piss me off is people who almost climb across your back while queueing.
Imgine you're standing in line somewhere, and the person behind you is shuffling closer and closer, until they virtually breathe down your neck. I'm always - always! - leaving at least arm length distance to the person in front of me, yet people behinde me tend to stand so close that I can smell what they had for dinner! And then they start fiddle around, and I get poked with shopping bags, umbrellas, handbags or - all time favourite - get a pram shoved in my the back of my knees.
When I'm in a really bad mood, I accidentally swing around, accidentally hitting them with something... elbow, laptop case, whatever I happen to be carrying.

Too good, maybe. Or else I'm just a sucker for detail and etiquette :D

One other thing that never fails to piss me off is people who almost climb across your back while queueing.
Imgine you're standing in line somewhere, and the person behind you is shuffling closer and closer, until they virtually breathe down your neck. I'm always - always! - leaving at least arm length distance to the person in front of me, yet people behinde me tend to stand so close that I can smell what they had for dinner! And then they start fiddle around, and I get poked with shopping bags, umbrellas, handbags or - all time favourite - get a pram shoved in my the back of my knees.
When I'm in a really bad mood, I accidentally swing around, accidentally hitting them with something... elbow, laptop case, whatever I happen to be carrying.

People dont tend to get that close to me in public. I've seen other people get a stroller run up there Achillies tendons, but not me.

Maybe all these rude, disgusting and obnoxious people are a little aware that I might bite them or their precious children.

People dont tend to get that close to me in public. I've seen other people get a stroller run up there Achillies tendons, but not me.

Maybe all these rude, disgusting and obnoxious people are a little aware that I might bite them or their precious children.

I need to get myself an aura like this... right now, I'm a person you can put practically anywhere, in any city on this globe, in any building or on any street. If there's one person who's looking for direction within a 1-mile-radius, they'll find me and ask me. It's a curse, I tell ya :(

I need to get myself an aura like this... right now, I'm a person you can put practically anywhere, in any city on this globe, in any building or on any street. If there's one person who's looking for direction within a 1-mile-radius, they'll find me and ask me. It's a curse, I tell ya :(

My wife too-she seems to attract undesireables. She was 8 months pregnant as we walked into a restaurant years ago. I'm getting our coats when I notice some old bag-who proceeds to touch my wife's stomach and declares that my wife is going to have a girl-then added she was a witch and knew these things- I said "What a coincidence- I'm the Angel of Death and if you dont keep walking, you're not going to make it to your car".
Yes-I would have put her in a chicken wing and tossed her out the door if she didnt comply.

She must have been a witch and seen lurks beneath my surface in her inner eye.

People say stupid things to one of my friends too. I guess its all in the way you carry yourself.

I didn't have much of a problem with seeing her chew, after all she was in the seat behind me. My problem was that I had to hear it... and it sounded really, really disgusting. Imagine somebody making smacking and bubbly sounds right in your ear for half an hour.... *shudders
Well, not in my ear ... ;)

Masturbation in public.
Jeez, will people quit harping on that! I tried to be considerate, what with the fern and all!

Doesn't seem that odd to me. Then again, when I was at school people did that kind of thing all the time. No-one really minded, except after lunchbreak when the room would be so full of deodorant that that air tasted strange...
Marijauna strange? or sex strange?

Anyways, as a highschool student I have no problem with the deoderant thing. We get seven minutes to get from one class to the next and the line for the bathroom is ten minutes long. You either put it on in the middle of the hall, or go to class smelly for an hour and seventeen minutes.

Being in highschool right now, my standards for acceptable behaviour are pretty low.

People who smoke and still smell of their habit inside the office for the next few hours.
Weirdly enough I like the smell of ciggirettes. They've hooked me that bug companies! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH:headbang:

Humans are disgusting bags of goo with many holes and orifices that leak or collect other more extravagant forms of goo. It's really quite interesting how nasty we really are. It's only social etiquette that keeps us from distributing or otherwise exposing our more extravagant goos to eachother.

And some people have never heard of Miss Manners. :p

Here's a very common one that really ticks me off. I simply can't understand this:

Pissing on the toilet seat. My god, do these people do this at home?!? Did they grow up doing this? Did thes people not have mothers, sisters or hell, even roommates to beat their asses when they pissed all over the freakin' place? Then there's flushing the toilet. Holy Christ! Have these people suffered severe head wounds( which reminds me, I got a story to share...) and forgotten their whole freakin' childhood?!?

It's such a simple fucking thing!!! :mad:

People who smoke and still smell of their habit inside the office for the next few hours.
This one gets me. At my tuition group only two people don't smoke. And insist on bitching about the other 40 people smelling of smoke. Dickheads. I hope I give them cancer through my passive smoke

This one gets me. At my tuition group only two people don't smoke. And insist on bitching about the other 40 people smelling of smoke. Dickheads. I hope I give them cancer through my passive smoke

The funny thing here is, not everybody smells of it equally strong.
A friend of mine hardly smells of it at all, not even on very, very close contact.
My brother on the other hand... when he comes within a meter of me after smoking a cigarette, I feel like throwing up. Virtually.

Two words.... Rectal Archeology

This one gets me. At my tuition group only two people don't smoke. And insist on bitching about the other 40 people smelling of smoke. Dickheads. I hope I give them cancer through my passive smoke

I hate folks who smell like bushfires. The cigarette smoke seems to have invade their clothing. It probably does come down to what they smoke too.

Jeez, will people quit harping on that! I tried to be considerate, what with the fern and all!
If only you'd stop being so audible! That slapping sound and the moaning is arousing me, just quit the marathon with Handgila and get on with the climax!

i bite my toenails...i think that's quite gross....i don't do it in public..but still, i just thought i'd share :)

My wife too-she seems to attract undesireables. She was 8 months pregnant as we walked into a restaurant years ago. I'm getting our coats when I notice some old bag-who proceeds to touch my wife's stomach and declares that my wife is going to have a girl-then added she was a witch and knew....

Heh, did you end up having a girl?

Two words.... Rectal Archeology
Can you say "coprolites," boys and girls? :D

We once followed a middle aged guy across the car park and he put his hand down the back of his trousers, had a good root about and then took it out again and SNIFFED his finger....Ewwww ewwwwwwwww

i bite my toenails...i think that's quite gross....i don't do it in public..but still, i just thought i'd share :)
Can I watch?

Pleeeeease.

I know a lot of people will throw something out that they've left on the counter for like 5 hours.

Depends what it is.

We once followed a middle aged guy across the car park and he put his hand down the back of his trousers, had a good root about and then took it out again and SNIFFED his finger....Ewwww ewwwwwwwww
Probably misplaced something. Either that, and/or he's got a different smell for different fingers (different orifi), and lost track of which one went where.

If only you'd stop being so audible! That slapping sound and the moaning is arousing me, just quit the marathon with Handgila and get on with the climax!
It's like tasting wines! You don't want to blow your pistil on the wrong stamen. Learned that one once with a pitcher plant *nods emphatically*
Normally, a bunch of flies would be a positive indicator, just ask my prior gf's! Whoa!