# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/301 "2015-11-14T02:36:28Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > You attempted to get up off a regular toilet seat with your elbow and your left hand in a cast and a sling while suffering the aftereffects of two broken bones? No, I got up with my arm bent at a 90-degree angle and hitched to my side, which IIRC is what the original post said. I was curious, really; no offense meant. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/302 "2015-11-16T08:37:21Z")
People who are proud of their religious identity, nation of birth or residence, or their ethnicity. How supremacist attitudes creep into otherwise normal people’s minds. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/303 "2015-11-16T14:11:11Z")
People who over-identify with … everything and everyone. It’s all “we” and “us”. They sound like they’re members of sports teams, EVERY local or state team of every sport. They’re apparently members of all the military services. They were among the Founding Fathers because “we” produced the constitution. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/304 "2015-11-16T19:30:39Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Actual bumper sticker I saw: > I’m not religious. > I just love the LORD! > :smack: I don’t do bumper stickers, but I would be overjoyed to see one that says: You’re in America now. We don’t HAVE Lords… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/305 "2015-11-17T08:41:03Z")
People who think that designated hitters and their teammates are actually playing baseball. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/306 "2015-11-17T12:32:55Z")
People who walk five feet into a supermarket then stop and chat, blocking the entrance with their shopping cart(s). Younger people who think they’re being original like they’re the first hippies or something. People who think they’re the only one in the world that likes the Beatles. People who hate the Beatles. People who don’t own a car due to their principals, but will bum a ride off of anyone else. People who talk all day about their bunions, foods that give them gas, hangnails and so on. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/307 "2015-11-17T23:46:47Z")
People who sneer at smart phones. I get it that people who walk and text are irritating but I don’t get why not having a smart phone is considered so superior. Mine has been incredibly useful to me on occasions (e.g. when lost in an unfamiliar city, checking appointments, weather forecast, the cricket scores 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![DoggyDunnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@DoggyDunnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoggyDunnit)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/308 "2015-11-18T00:58:29Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > People who over-identify with … everything and everyone. It’s all “we” and “us”. They sound like they’re members of sports teams, EVERY local or state team of every sport. They’re apparently members of all the military services. They were among the Founding Fathers because “we” produced the constitution. This, so much. “We won!” Uh, no, “they” won. You insist it’s “we”? Okay, then, what position do you play? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/309 "2015-11-18T01:07:52Z")
Guys that carry around gallon jugs of water when at the gym. You don’t need that much water, for one, and you aren’t even drinking what you have, you’re just carrying it around with you. Like a fashion statement. For two. ---
**Author:** ![HowSoonIsThen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@HowSoonIsThen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HowSoonIsThen)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/310 "2015-11-18T02:42:09Z")
Those people who walk through every train carriage desperate to find a seat. If you have enough energy to walk along the whole train, you can stand. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/311 "2015-11-18T04:46:06Z")
People _with_ valid placards who park in handicap parking without putting their placards up. It’s a surprisingly common phenomenon, at least around where I live, for someone to think having a placard issued for them is all that matters and taking that placard out of the glove box and displaying it is completely unnecessary. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/312 "2015-11-18T05:40:09Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > People who sneer at smart phones. > > I get it that people who walk and text are irritating but I don’t get why not having a smart phone is considered so superior. Perhaps there are people who sneer at smart phones, though I’ve never met any. Personally I love technology. However there are many people who sneer at some of the _ **owners** _ of smart phones for their rude self-absorbed anti-social behaviors, which basically consists of having their faces in their smart phones apparently 24x7 no matter what is going on around them. The thing that is considered “superior” is not the lack of ownership of a smart phone but the ability to actually exist in the real world and interact with people around you and exhibit some basic courtesy. And it’s not even the smart phone that is the genesis of this behavior – it began with the basic cell phone. The other day I encountered a woman in a grocery store who appeared, to a casual observer, to be suffering from some severe mental illness because she was standing there apparently talking to herself in a very loud voice. She was, of course, literally wired for sound with a handsfree device, but to all outward appearances was talking to thin air, and she was expounding in a loud voice about (to borrow a line from the previous poster) her bunions, foods that give her gas, hangnails, and subjects of that general nature. And she was doing it while blocking access to some grocery items that I and another person were trying to get at. When she wandered off, still screeching at the top of her lungs to her invisible friend, the other person and I exchanged eye rolls and a few comments that the woman would not have liked to hear. So it’s not the cell phone or the smart phone as such that is the problem, it’s the acute absence of self-awareness in how some people use them. The smart phone just makes it worse. ---
**Author:** ![67java89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/aeb1de/32.png) [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/313 "2015-11-18T13:13:24Z")
There is one that totally burns me. It’s people who are into a very specific obscure hobby, like cricket, medieval poetry, an obscure comic series that no one has ever heard of, etc. They talk about it using terms that are only used in that area and when you ask what something means, they get wide-eyed and incredulously say, "You don’t know what that is??? How could you not know what that is!!! :mad: I don’t care about your Appalachian beadworking group and no one else gives a crap either. We’re just listening to be polite, so don’t try to make me feel stupid because I don’t know your lingo, just to justify your very small life. ---
**Author:** ![HowSoonIsThen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@HowSoonIsThen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HowSoonIsThen)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/314 "2015-11-19T02:09:46Z")
Pretty much everyone using the public toilets except me. I hate them so much. Especially people who use the stall right next to mine. If there are others available that aren’t right next to me, use them. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/315 "2015-11-19T03:19:06Z")
> [@HowSoonIsThen](#): > > Pretty much everyone using the public toilets except me. I hate them so much. Especially people who use the stall right next to mine. If there are others available that aren’t right next to me, use them. Especially (in men’s public restrooms specifically) since so many of them just seem to pee on the floor anyway. Hey, you don’t even have to be in a stall or at a urinal to do that. You can pee on the floor anywhere. Go pee in a gutter somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/316 "2015-11-19T04:31:30Z")
Odiferous individuals. Whether it be BO, tobacco excesses, or over indulgers in perfume/cologne/coconut oil. A little of any of that? Forgiveable or even acceptable. Extremes? Stop it. Just, stop. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982.md?page=15)