Shut the fuck up

[Filbert]

I go a juggling club every Monday night, which ends up transferring to the same room in the same pub, and has done for years.

It’s generally empty- Monday night is quiz night, which you can’t hear in the room we’re in- which suits us, there’s no music in there, and we can turn the TV off, and talk crap in peace.

Then, about a month ago, this other group of 6 or so people showed up in there. We joke about it being ‘ours’ but it’s a pub, people come in fairly often, even on a quiet Monday night- fine. These guys though, they don’t talk, they SHOUT, CONSTANTLY, ALL OF THEM SHOUTING OVER EACH OTHER!

They’re substantially louder than the whole main room of the pub, with about 40 people in there, plus a quiz over the tannoy system. And the laugh, dear god, the laugh… It’s like a horse crossed with a jet engine taking off right next to your ear, and none of the jokes that trigger it are in any way funny, and can be pretty pointlessly offensive. Sitting at the other end of the room when they’re in full swing, we genuinely cannot hear each other at all.

They’ve shown up most weeks since, about half an hour after us, so just after we got comfortable. Sure, we can move, but with someone halfway through a pizza, and everyone else mid-pint…? Bit annoying, to say the least.

I guess I could try asking them to keep the noise down, but it’s a perfectly appropriate place to talk, its just not an appropriate place to yell.

[Maserschmidt]

@Urbanredneck

in my poor Spanish, pointed to another part of the store which had cheaper tools. I got gracious, gracious.

I imagine them wringing their hands worriedly as they say this.

[GrumpyBunny]

@madmonk28

For some reason, our desire to sit quietly and maybe read a book is always trumped by someone else’s desire to engage in pointless chit-chat.

Yup. Because you “aren’t doing anything”.

One day when that happens, I’ll remember to try doing some faux Mormon witnessing. But I never think of it at the time.

[Peanuthead]

Try these.

[Clarisse_McClellan]

@JKellyMap

That is bizarre. Did she pass the hat afterwards? This would be typical in a New York subway car, but in a waiting room? Weird. Was this a psych ward, may I ask?

Nope, it was the office of a group of vascular surgeons.

[3trew]

@Urbanredneck

Occasionally I’m at Home Depot and see someone trying to figure something out like a project or understand some tools and I’ll take it on myself to drop some points in.

In my younger days when I was actually tech savvy I used to do this when I would see confused older people in the consumer electronics section near Christmas. It was often a revelation that dvd’s and cd’s were different things. I figure I still have some karma to burn off of that project.

[flatlined]

@Peanuthead

Try these.

I am so going to print some of those. I’ll use them for bookmarks so I’ll always have them handy!

[DummyGladHands]

I fully support this pitting. OMG people, if you can’t STFU, could you please use your indoor voice to natter on endlessly.

[Smeghead]

@flatlined

I am so going to print some of those. I’ll use them for bookmarks so I’ll always have them handy!

I think I’ll print up a letter-sized page and stick it on my wall here.

[wonky]

The talking can definitely be annoying. In a doctor’s office, some people, no matter how often they’ve been there or how routine it may be, are extremely nervous and may be talking out of nerves. That doesn’t make it less annoying, but try to show compassion when you can.

[Drunky_Smurf]

Had it happen to me again over the weekend. Here I am minding my own business having to deal with the tards that make up society and being herded along like the other sheeple and this annoying bitch won’t shut up. I’m trying to ignore her the best I can so I can just hurry up and get home and get away from these diseased filled rodents. Finaly I couldn’t take it anymore and I told that annoying bitch if she didn’t shut up I was going to come over there and slap her mouth right off of her face. And then I told her, “Yes, I would like fries with that.”

[Cubsfan]

@kayaker

I love my earbuds. I was walking on a local trail. Someone tapped my arm to get my attention. I took one bud out and she asked the time. I told her I didn’t know and replaced the bud. She tapped me again and pointed toward my pocket, asking if my device had the time. I told her the battery had died, replaced the bud and walked off. Awkward.

Wow. You sound like a real fucking dickhead.

Whatever makes you feel powerful though…

[Macca26]

@Cubsfan

Wow. You sound like a real fucking dickhead.

Whatever makes you feel powerful though…

If he didn’t have the time, he didn’t have the time.

1. What, she thinks he’s lying? That’s rather rude of her.
2. Some people keep earbuds in even when a device’s battery has died so as to deter people from talking to them.
3. Even if he was lying about the battery being dead, not all MP3 players have a clock anyway.

If keeping track of time was so important to her, she should be carrying her own watch.

Who goes for a walk in the woods alone looking to talk to someone anyway? The whole point is to get away from people. First time was an unwelcome if normal interruption. Second time is “I told you the first time so stop bothering me”

[kayaker]

@Macca26

2. Some people keep earbuds in even when a device’s battery has died so as to deter people from talking to them.

This. I was in a quiet mood, a touch depressed, just wanted to walk a bit. My iPod battery was dead from the start, but I wear the buds to deter interruptions.

That all aside, I may be a dickhead, but I don’t think it’s due to being ignorant of the time.