# We, as a society, are too damn polite. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 7, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-as-a-society-are-too-damn-polite/425555 "2007-11-07T16:18:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cattitude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Cattitude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cattitude)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-as-a-society-are-too-damn-polite/425555/41 "2007-11-08T12:56:25Z")
[QUOTE=nd\_n8] I hate “Stop Sign Hand Wavers”. They seem to be reproducing at an alarming rate. I pull up to a stop sign, some ass has been sitting there since I was back a half a block and he waves me through. I always keep an eye on him in case he decides at the last moment to change his mind and T-bone me like the homicidal sociopath that he really is. [/QUOTE] Yes! I swear they’re out to get me, and my little car too 😛 . Right of way rules don’t apply anymore so it’s getting harder to judge when to go ahead at a stop sign. The four way stops are the hardest to interpret. No matter what order I arrive, I’m always the first to go through because no one else wants to do it. It’s like a traffic version of chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-as-a-society-are-too-damn-polite/425555/42 "2007-11-08T14:06:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] In Birmingham- 40 miles from Tuscaloosa and hard core Roll Tide country- if he’d said “Alabama rooting moron” _this_ time of year- I’m not sure a Maori spear would have been sufficient. [/QUOTE] You ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie, brother. I’d’ve needed a Maori Uzi. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-as-a-society-are-too-damn-polite/425555/43 "2007-11-08T15:17:55Z")
I blame NPR for a lot of the excess politeness, and I adore NPR. Having said that, it bugs me how the show hosts continually thank the correspondent who just finished the story. Cripes, the correspondent’s voice has already been recorded and he or she isn’t there listening to the host anymore. Essentially the show host is thanking a piece of audio tape, or the modern day digital equivalent of that. It takes up 10 seconds of valuable programming time that could be better spent on just about anything else. It isn’t polite, its just damn annoying. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-as-a-society-are-too-damn-polite/425555/44 "2007-11-08T15:42:29Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] Then you might like this short story by Twain, who had roughly the same idea: [Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/7207/ram.html) [/QUOTE] I did enjoy that short story very much, thank you for suggesting it. Of course, I have always been a fan of [this](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780743230414). ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-as-a-society-are-too-damn-polite/425555/45 "2007-11-08T17:31:01Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] and I’d got some rather unpleasant music blaring out 😉 [/size] [/QUOTE] Ha! You listen to Chav rap, don’t you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-as-a-society-are-too-damn-polite/425555.md?page=2)