# Public behavior that just \*pisses you off\* (not ranty enough for The Pit) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052 "2010-10-22T23:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/241 "2010-10-31T13:15:49Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Also, people who hear you say “Oh, God” or “goddamn” and then tell you not to take the Lord’s name in vain. Actually, this doesn’t bother me. I recognize that many people are offended by this. Should they mind their own goddamn business? Maybe. But hey, if I’m saying it loudly enough for them to hear, then I guess I’m interfering with them. I feel the same about this as I feel about asking people who are using terrible language not to use it around my daughter, as I prefer she hear as little of that as possible. Of course, I’m in no way implying that _you_ don’t have a right to be pissed off by it. Everyone’s got their things, right? ---
**Author:** ![aerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@aerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerie)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/242 "2010-10-31T15:15:59Z")
Old men who loudly hock up huge wads of sputum in a restaurant, store, etc. They hock & sputter & cough until that nictoned-chunk of lung gets up in their mouth. Absolutely no regard for anyone but themselves. It doesn’t even occur to them that it might be offensive. It reeks of male privilege & their inflated sense of entitlement. Polite society should not be forced endure the sight of such a shameless expulsion of their filty bodily excretions. Lawd jaysus, I have to restrain myself sometimes. Only slightly less disgusting are the sputum mucus gobs that I have to looke at & avoid stepping in parking lots, building & stores entrances, sidewalks and worse. Old redneck men are vile, disgusting pigs who spit their loogies wherevever it’s convenient. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/243 "2010-10-31T15:52:08Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > Actually, this doesn’t bother me. I recognize that many people are offended by this. Should they mind their own goddamn business? Maybe. But hey, if I’m saying it loudly enough for them to hear, then I guess I’m interfering with them. In what way are you interfering with them? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/244 "2010-10-31T16:06:28Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > Actually, this doesn’t bother me. I recognize that many people are offended by this. I just take it as an opportunity to remind them “Oh God, this cheesecake is awesome” doesn’t begin to quality as “taking the lord’s name in vain” as the authors intended, and that it harms no-one. If you want to attend to the spirt of the commandment, save your bitching for people who wield The Name to further their own agenda - there’s a perfectly good reason _they_ are lumped in with murderers, thieves, adulterers, perjurers, etc., – because they wreak a massive amount of social harm. Of course, the sort of busybody who is likely to receive this sermon from me is probably a serial breaker of this commandment. They can go to hell, as far as I’m concerned. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/245 "2010-10-31T23:08:24Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > In what way are you interfering with them? If I’m saying things loudly enough to upset them, I’m bothering them as much as the people who play their car stereos way too loudly are bothering me. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/246 "2010-11-01T00:00:51Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > If I’m saying things loudly enough to upset them, I’m bothering them as much as the people who play their car stereos way too loudly are bothering me. I would tend to agree, if you’re talking about a loud string of obscenity, but the use of “God” or “Jesus” as a mild intensifier is well within community standards for casual conversation. If you’re standing in line at Burger King and you remark to your friend (in normal conversational tones,) “Jesus, I’m hungry,” then it isn’t really reasonable for someone to impose their unusually strict sense of propriety on you, is it? Would you make similar concessions for someone who felt that “Belgium” was the most offensive word in the English language? What’s the difference? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/247 "2010-11-01T00:07:43Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > If I’m saying things loudly enough to upset them, I’m bothering them as much as the people who play their car stereos way too loudly are bothering me. I disagree. Ifd being loud is the problem, then it doesn’t nmatter what the content of the speech is. They do not have a right to not be offended, though, nor is the rest of the world obliged to observe their superstitions regarding speech. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/248 "2010-11-01T00:09:02Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > I would tend to agree, if you’re talking about a loud string of obscenity, but the use of “God” or “Jesus” as a mild intensifier is well within community standards for casual conversation. If you’re standing in line at Burger King and you remark to your friend (in normal conversational tones,) “Jesus, I’m hungry,” then it isn’t really reasonable for someone to impose their unusually strict sense of propriety on you, is it? Would you make similar concessions for someone who felt that “Belgium” was the most offensive word in the English language? What’s the difference? Or what if you were eating a McRib right in front of a table of Muslims? ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/249 "2010-11-01T01:11:45Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I disagree. Ifd being loud is the problem, then it doesn’t nmatter what the content of the speech is. They do not have a right to not be offended, though, nor is the rest of the world obliged to observe their superstitions regarding speech. Well, I would disagree about them having the right to be offended. Anyone has the right to be offended by anything they choose. I could choose to be offended by people with blond hair. However, if these people are offended by the content of my speech, not the decibel level, then they have the right to either say something or not. If they choose to say something, I can choose how to respond. I like to be polite, so if someone politely said to me “Excuse me, but your use of the word ‘G-D’ (you know they’d never say it) offends me; would you mind watching it a bit?” I’d probably agree to watch it a bit. However, if they approached me with a lecture about how that’s wrong, and a sin, and I’m going to hell, well, they can go first. I would be offended by the use of the word ‘nigger’, even in conversational tones. I don’t think I’d say anything unless maybe my daughter was with me, but only then, I’d first choose to remove myself, if possible, from their vicinity. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/250 "2010-11-01T01:28:13Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > I won’t do it to a stranger on first try, but when one of my relatives blocks the way and I’m behind them, I push them. Hard. “But I wasn’t stopping, I was only slowing down!” is not an acceptable excuse. > > As I grow older and more shameless, I expect I will eventually become a Little Murderous Old Lady pushing other folk out of the way whether they have the misfortune to be related to me or not. Do you have a Kung Fu Handbag Strike Manoeuvre? All the best Crotchety Old Ladies do, I’m told. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/251 "2010-11-01T08:06:29Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Or what if you were eating a McRib right in front of a table of Muslims? Ok…here’s a more interesting and real world scenario. You live in a condo. There are families of Muslems living in the condo. Is it offensive to let your dog swim in the pool? ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/252 "2010-11-01T08:18:04Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Ok…here’s a more interesting and real world scenario. > > You live in a condo. There are families of Muslems living in the condo. > > Is it offensive to let your dog swim in the pool? I’m not Muslim but I’d still be offended if someone habitually let their dog swim in the swimming pool everyone shares. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/253 "2010-11-01T08:37:00Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > I don’t think this one has been mentioned yet… People who put their kids on the phone! I don’t want to talk to your kid. I really don’t. My own son did this to me with my granddaughter even; and he KNOWS how I feel about it. I’m hoping your granddaughter is under 3. Because if not…:eek: Your not willing to say hi to your granddaughter for a couple of seconds? ---
**Author:** ![Kilmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kilmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilmore)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/254 "2010-11-01T09:41:54Z")
Talking on the phone while on the potty. I’ve had my boss call me about something important while I was in such a situation, but at least I puckered up and didn’t flush until we were done. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/255 "2010-11-01T10:52:52Z")
> [@Kilmore](#): > > Talking on the phone while on the potty. I’ve had my boss call me about something important while I was in such a situation, but at least I puckered up and didn’t flush until we were done. This Public restrooms (I seem to notice it most in airports), if a Salesman called me from the Pooper I would be MAD at him! So being the helpful-guy that I am I make LOUD, embarrasing noises. Vince ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052/256 "2010-11-01T13:23:42Z")
People wo use the handicap stall when there is a handicapped persn waiting for it. This ony happened once when I had the full cast on my arm. Good thing I couldn’t hit the inconsiderate asshold with it. Yeah, you were before me, but really. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-behavior-that-just-pisses-you-off-not-ranty-enough-for-the-pit/558052.md?page=12)