What Habits Do You Regard As Irredeemably Degenerate?

In My Humble Opinion
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{Warning: May Contain Irrational Prejudices}

Eating and drinking while driving is the hallmark of a pig, a beast with neither forethought nor restraint. Are you parched? Starving? No? Then either sate your gluttony and drink your fill before you leave, take some time out of your trip to dine and sup at your leisure, or wait until you’ve arrived before hooking into the trough. Stuffing your face while in traffic is irredeemably degenerate. And cupholders are the engines and devices of Satan, suggesting that the driver would install a whole banqueting table - with a fool in motley thrown in - next to the front seat but for want of space.

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Talking on a mobile phone while being served in a shop. If I ruled the world, people that do this would be dragged outside by the ear and beaten to death with a cat o’nine tails made from knotted Nokia chargers.

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Some shops in Australia have signs saying that customers will not be served if they are using a mobile phone. Not exactly the desired beating but a start. Apparently many of the “how important am I because someone has rung my mobile” set become very upset but the staff delight in telling them, “no service for you.”

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Being Type A.

If you want to be some impatient, manic workaholic, knock yourself out, but keep it to yourself, asshole. I live in my world, not yours.

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I like cupholders. I don’t do my coffee drinking in the car, but when I go to Dunkin Donuts on the way to work and get a coffee, I need a place to set it until I get into the office and can carry it inside. What am I supposed to do, balance it on my head? As long as you’re using it for transporting only I see no problem with it.

Habits I see as degenerate:
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[li]Dumping your goddamn cigarette butts on the ground after you finish smoking them. GAH.[/li][li]Littering. We all live on this planet, you know. I know you probably don’t do a damn thing to make it prettier but do you have to make it uglier?[/li][li]Getting drunk and acting like an asshole/fool/idiot.[/li][li]Spitting, not while exercising, just walking along and PTOOEY.[/li][/ul]

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Playing slots.

I’ll cut a break to other forms of casino gambling. You can sit down at a roulette table, and you’re a sucker, no doubt about it. But at least you’re sitting with other people, collecting chips, moving things around, anticipating where the ball will fall.

A slot machine? If you enjoy slots, then you are admitting that you are so dumb to be tricked by “oooh, shiny”. Because if you’re not fooled by “oooh, shiny”, then you’d just as soon have the machine show you a number, “+1.00" or "-.50”.

The slot machine is a thing of genius. How anyone can put money into one of those astounds me, and I regard it as irredeemably degenerate.

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Not cleaning up after yourself in a public space - leaving your trash on a public picnic table or on the floor of a ballpark or other public arena for someone else to clean up.

I’m sure your mother is proud of you right now, asshole.

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You’ve never had a long commute, have you?
– CalMeacham, who spent an hour and a half driving in this morning, eating a bagel on the way, thank you very much.

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I second this. Never, not once, in my life have I felt compelled to spit in public, and I will never understand people who do. If you find yourself in dire need of expelling the phlegm in your mouth, please be civil and spit into a trashcan or napkin or SOMETHING. Don’t just spew it out onto the sidewalk for people to step in, for God’s sake. Disgusting.

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I can’t have a soda when I drive? Since when is that degenerate? I routinely make a 400 mile roundtrip drive to my home town on weekends. If you expect me to sit in a car for 6hrs without something to sip on, you’re crazy.

Most of the drive is interstate. Each stop adds 15 min to my trip. You can have my cupholder when you pry it from my cold dead hands. [sub](not that that makes sense, but you know what I mean!)[/sub]

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I forgot about the long drives. I, too, need my drinks on long drives. It’s that or fall asleep, so which would you prefer?

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People who dont flush the toilets in public bathrooms should be swirlied in their own foul messes. The same goes for people who piss all over the seats.

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I have to agree. I am not a squeamish person and not to many things bother me, to each his own I say, but spitting is just one thing I can not stand.

Littering in any way, shape or form. I don’t care if it is cigarette butt, a gum wrapper or a damn toothpick. Throw the damn garbage in the trash can. If there is not one in the immediate area then hold on to the trash until you find one. You can not control the actions of others but at least take the time to clean up your own mess.

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Littering.

I drove by the local park on my way to work this morning and noticed 7 shopping bags and a cardboard box full of garbage dumped on the edge of the sidewalk. What would compel you to take your garbage and leave it in the grass? It’s ugly and dangerous.

Also, littering on public transit. Is it that difficult to hold on to your coffee cup until you reach the office/subway station/one of the million garbage cans around the city?

I hate people who litter.

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A-fucking-MEN, BROTHER! There’s about 10 guys on our floor. If I find the one that habitually leaves his yule log on display, there’s going to be blood.

BTW, I have a chafing dish in my glove compartment to keep my eggs benedict warm.

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Chewing tobacco or dipping snuff. I am not a smoker, personally, but I can at least begin to understand the reasons that one would take up such a revolting habit. At least there is a longstanding tradition of Bogarts and James Bonds and Keith Richardses to point the finger of blame at for making smoking seem “cool.” For chewing tobacco, there is nothing. You look like an idiot while you do it (looking at you, Lenny Dykstra), it’s horrible for you, and it requires that you spit a vile mess all over the place. Boooooooooo.

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Gotta agree with this one. Tobacco use in general is pretty bad, but chewing’s truly gross. I worked with a guy who was into this, and every watebasket in our place was gross, with a slimy residue of tobacco-infused spit at the bottom.

Nice guy. Rotten habit.

(I worked in another place where the use of chewing tobacco was understandable. They made explosives, and had all sorts of warnings about cigarettes and matches. Because a lot of workers smoked, and were hopeless nicotine addicts, at the safe house before you went out to the factory they had a vending machine full of chewing tobacco on the way out for the reprobates who needed their fix while at work. They also had a row of lighting stations so they could immediately light up when they came in off their shift on break or at the end of the day. I’d rather the guy didn’t chew, but I’d much rather he chew than smoke when surrounded by incendiaries.)

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:rolleyes: Like they’re even listening.

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I’ll agree with spitting, chewing tobacco (they often go hand-in-hand; yuck!) and littering. But I hope there’s a special circle of hell for a specific kind of littering: if you change your baby’s diaper on the back seat of your car in a parking lot, fine. Dirty diapers need to be changed. But for heaven’s sake, have the decency to carry some empty grocery bags with you to put the dirty diaper in and take it home with you! Of all the kinds of litter, I especially do not want to see a dirty diaper in the parking lot! :dubious:

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You live below my world.