# What "innocent" group of people can you simply not stand? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 28, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982 "2015-10-28T16:27:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/181 "2015-11-01T14:37:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > As to apartments and condos … > > Under USPS addressing rules, the only correct address for a dwelling inside a larger building is something like > > 123 N Main St Apt 1234 > Some City, ST, 12345 > > It doesn’t matter whether unit 1234 in the building at 123 N Main St. is owned or rented or what. The \*only \*correct address is “Apt 1234”. Not Suite or Unit or any other higher-class word than Apt. > > So even the US government says “Apartment” != “rented”. Ehhh… There are 23 other abbreviations for ‘Secondary address’ besides Apt. Including Unit and Ste. From USPS publication 28 - [http://pe.usps.gov/text/pub28/28apc\_003.htm](http://pe.usps.gov/text/pub28/28apc_003.htm) Building BLDG Department DEPT Floor FL Front FRNT\*\* Hanger HNGR Key KEY Lobby LBBY\*\* Lot LOT Lower LOWR\*\* Office OFC\*\* Penthouse PH\*\* Pier PIER Rear REAR\*\* Room RM Side SIDE\*\* Slip SLIP Space SPC Stop STOP Suite STE Trailer TRLR Unit UNIT Upper ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/182 "2015-11-01T15:22:11Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > My MIL has often said that any nurse who quits after less than 5 years to become a housewife/stay-at-home parent (happens far too often even in 2015) should be required to pay for the educational costs of her replacement. Your mother in law has a messiah complex. Tell her to go fuck herself. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/183 "2015-11-01T15:47:23Z")
Guys who jump up on the go-go bar stage, try to dance, and then drop their drawers. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/184 "2015-11-01T16:00:58Z")
Yankees live in apartments. Southerners live in condos. People out west live in town houses. Hope that clears it all up. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/185 "2015-11-01T16:06:29Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > People with high in-demand skill sets that insist on becoming “stay-at-home” parents. I’m not sure if I would define them as “innocent” though. My mother-in-law regularly has difficulty filling her nursing slots because too many people decide they would rather change diapers than save lives. If they didn’t plan on making a real career out of it their spot in the classes could have been used by somebody who did. > [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > My problem is they often take up places in academic and training programs that could go to the more deserving (you know people who are actually going to do their jobs for a while). My MIL has often said that any nurse who quits after less than 5 years to become a housewife/stay-at-home parent (happens far too often even in 2015) should be required to pay for the educational costs of her replacement. You and your MIL sound like you think nursing is a religious vocation. Nurses don’t have to take vows of poverty, chastity and eternal obedience to their jobs. People’s circumstances can and do change in life. Nursing is a tough and demanding occupation, and sometimes people change their minds and take a different path, when they didn’t even see it coming. It used to be that if a female nursing student got married she had to quit school. That surely, at the time, kept a lot of women out of nursing. Hell, my mother was the first woman in her nursing school who was allowed to remain, after marrying my father. If she had not had the choice, I might not be here. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/186 "2015-11-01T16:23:44Z")
Adults who tell us we must do something “for the sake of the children”. I have been getting a flyer in the mail just about every day for the past week, urging me to vote for a tax assessment to fix the roads in our township. This is the same assessment I’ve been supporting for years, and which gets voted down regularly by crabby stay-at-home anti-tax farts. This time out the emphasis from pro-assessment forces is Keep Our Families Safe, and the flyers show an attentive Mom gazing watchfully in the rear-view mirror at widdle child in the back seat (hopefully Mom is sparing a moment or two to look at the road in front of her). I’m tempted to vote No this time just to watch Mom hit a giant pothole and have Junior bounce through the roof. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/187 "2015-11-01T16:38:58Z")
My nephew was killed by pothole. Its no laughing matter. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/188 "2015-11-01T17:11:08Z")
My nephew was killed by slipping on a banana peel and drowning in a cream-pie factory’s vat. It was no laughing matter. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/189 "2015-11-01T18:25:30Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > So will a human. It’s not like it hasn’t happened. There’s practically no imaginable horrible thing that one human has not at some time done to another. Cannibalism is practically the least of it. > > And at other times, dogs have sacrificed themselves for the humans that they worship. > > Let’s not confuse any of this with claiming equivalence between humans and [other] animals. What you seem to be objecting to is really something more like a tendency to support the downtrodden. There’s no shortage of support for the rights and preeminence of humans, as you’ve just proved. There’s a great shortage of support for the rights of non-human sentient beings, most of whom are far less inclined to gratuitous violence than we are. In many cases, these are the true innocents. If there was a “like” button I would use it for this post. Since there isn’t I’ll just say “I like this post” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/190 "2015-11-01T19:40:49Z")
People in stores and restaurants that are overly talkative. Gab, gab, gab. People who chew gum. Mentally, the sound I hear is GUM GUM GUM! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/191 "2015-11-01T20:56:45Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Whiny men. Can’t stand whiners, but when it’s a guy doing it, brings my teeth on edge. For me, male whining sounds even worse in a [Canadian](http://youtu.be/tSILbSzvgnY) accent. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/192 "2015-11-01T21:06:34Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > For me, male whining sounds even worse in a [Canadian](http://youtu.be/tSILbSzvgnY) accent. It was July 1. He’s from Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/193 "2015-11-01T21:26:04Z")
Ignorance fought. All upper Midwest and more north sounds worse, then. ---
**Author:** ![HowSoonIsThen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@HowSoonIsThen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HowSoonIsThen)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/194 "2015-11-01T21:49:46Z")
> [@stolatt](#): > > People who chew gum. Mentally, the sound I hear is GUM GUM GUM! But if we don’t chew gum, Singapore wins. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/195 "2015-11-02T00:03:27Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Ignorance fought. No, Slithy. My Michigan remark was a snarkish WAG. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/196 "2015-11-02T02:39:57Z")
People at work who Can’t. Stop. Asking. Questions. You know the type: every damn time somebody gives a presentation, this perky, overachieving person has “just a quick question.” Which morphs into them asking more questions when the answer isn’t what they were looking for (or even when it is sometimes). The worst is when the meeting is scheduled to end at a particular time (say, 10 a.m.) At 9:55, the presenter asks if there are any questions, everybody else prays there aren’t, and Mr./Ms. “just one more question” has–you guessed it–one more question. And the meeting doesn’t get out until 10:15, or longer. For whatever strange reason, almost all these people I’ve encountered have been software QA engineers. There must be a gene that selects for annoying question-asking in some subset of their number. ---
**Author:** ![Oddball\_92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b3f665/32.png) [@Oddball\_92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oddball_92)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/197 "2015-11-02T03:45:02Z")
Those who practice political correctness. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/198 "2015-11-02T04:27:00Z")
People who use their cell phone in lines at stores. Cell phones in inappropriate places, like bookstores, or in the bathroom. People who stare at their phones while at restaurants instead of paying attention to the people they are out with. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/199 "2015-11-02T04:33:29Z")
Men who use the handicap-accessible restroom stall for no reason other than they like it. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/200 "2015-11-02T12:47:05Z")
Supermarket check outs; those fucking halfwits who take an age to pack up their pathetic purchases, standing around for a minute trying to remember what they’ve forgotten, turns out they have to pay, then they don’t know what pocket their purse is in, then they can’t find the right card, then they take another minute to remember the PIN, then they can’t find their glasses so they can enter the PIN before they forget it … and so it goes, on and fucking on and fucking on. The woman this morning almost get a 4 pack of tinned tuna right up her estuary. Maybe it’s HRT or something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982.md?page=11)