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Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :

So, there we were this morning, visiting the buffet breakfast bar at the hotel at which we had spent the previous night, much as we had done at hotels in various states and provinces over the past three weeks.
The concept is a simple one; simply choose breakfast items, place them on a plate, and take them to a vacant table. One guest, though, apparently did not "get" the concept. Instead, he stood leaning against the food bar, loudly slurping on an apple. He also had a plate with peanut butter and jam on a toasted English muffin, which he also munched from time to time. I suppose I should have been relieved that he wasn't eating biscuits and gravy, splattering all and sundry.
When a woman attempted to reach past him to retrieve a breakfast item, he said loudly, "Oh, am I in your way?" as if not understanding that blocking the buffet with his enormous ass might inconvenience others. There were several empty tables available for him to have used, had he chosen to do so.

So, if you have ever behaved like a swine is space many people must share, this rant is about you.
Have you ever met a jackass such as this one, in a buffet line, on a bus train, public swimming pool, etc. then this rant is for you to share your tales of humanity's fucked up foibles.
Personally, in this case, I did not choose any items from the buffet bar; I returned to my room to eat my stash of granola bars and cherries purchased at a fruit stand earlier in the day.

[ 15. July 2012, 02:44: Message edited by: Silver Faux ]

Posted by no_prophet (# 15560) on :

If you don't like people, stay home.

If you do like people, get a little helpful and provide information.

Grow your tolerance.

Posted by art dunce (# 9258) on :

Free breakfast buffets are fucking disgusting. Get off your arse and find local place to eat. If no locals will talk to you yelp is your friend.

Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :

quote:
Originally posted by art dunce:
Free breakfast buffets are fucking disgusting.

Breakfast buffet bars are far from free, you precious pissant. They are part of the price of the room.

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

SF,

Sorry about the truly unhelpful responses to date. It is so much easier to make a "judgment" and not have to deal with things than to be helpful.

Since you started off with stating you were on the road, it is more than apparent you have some limitations on eating arrangements. For instance, it is a little hard to find and go to the local vegan organic health food store. Additionally, given that the breakfast buffet is included in the price of the room in many situations, it is hard to economically justify eating elsewhere. That being said, nutritionally, the choices are between bad and worse. As you can see the nutritional value of that breakfast buffet staple, cream cheese and a bagel, is um . . . OTOH, an Egg McMuffin is umm as well.

So, now that we have dealt with the concerns of our betters, let's deal with your OP.

The person standing at the buffet is acting as though he is narcissistic. Or, it might be that he was thinking he could just "grab a bite" and get going; not contemplating what his actions mean to others.

Either way, he is being a jackass. I have been there, done that, at hotel breakfast bars. People want to get whatever semi palatable food they can find, drink a lot of coffee, and get on with whatever brought them to the area. Having someone stand in their way is at best an annoyance. At worst, it is a thing that can start the whole day off on a sour note.

The trick is, I think, to treat such things as an opportunity to practice patience and compassion for those who may not deserve much compassion. That way, you can feel superior to the idiot causing the problem, and still think you might somehow be practicing Christianity.*

As to the guy. Just imagine the many nights he spends with just him and his un-circumcised peter whiling away the lonely hours in a hotel away from home watching porn on the pay for view.

_________________
*You are not, you see. Jesus would have loved the jerk without reservation. That is why Jesus is one with God and we are, well . . .

Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Silver Faux:
When a woman attempted to reach past him to retrieve a breakfast item, he said loudly, "Oh, am I in your way?"

Which is the only appropriate thing that anyone did or said in this whole scenario.

The woman simply reached over the gentleman without so much as an "Excuse me, please?" I think I would have reacted as the gentleman did if someone pulled that on me.

What is more surprising, though, is that no one, especially not the attendant who was surely on duty keeping the buffet tidy and well stocked, thought to suggest to the gentleman that he might want to take his selections to a table.

This doesn't sound like the kind of hotel Miss Amanda would want to favor with her patronage.

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

Amanda dear heart,

These places do not actually pay someone to walk and chew gum at the same time.

I would assume someone of your taste and refinement would not stay at such a place.

Posted by Sine Nomine (# 66) on :

How do you 'slurp' on an apple?

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
How do you 'slurp' on an apple?

It's a bit unlikely but it can happen if the apple is exceptionally juicy, and someone's very hungry and trying to stuff as much as they can in their mouth with each rapid bite while trying to prevent the juice running down their chin.

There aren't many kinds of eating apple that this could be done with, so either he had one of the few especially juicy kinds (unlikely) or more likely else he was just a slurping slob who could probably get the same effect from a packet of crisps/potato chips. SF doesn't say whether he did this or not with the muffin.

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

Aren't Other People™ such an inconvenience.

SF, you have illustrated why people have RV's and caravans. Get one yourself.

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

SF

Take a chill pill -

Please

[Disappointed]

Posted by Spike (# 36) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Silver Faux:
One guest, though, apparently did not "get" the concept.

Dear oh dear, how awful for you. Someone who's probably not stayed there before and doesn't know the "rules" is sitting in the wrong place. He should be executed immediately otherwise, before you know it, he'll start turning up at church and embarrass & annoy everybody by his ignorance of correct procedure.

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

I sympathize with SF. The guy was a jerk, and it wouldn't be a great way to begin the day. I hope SF enjoyed his granola bars and cherries (fresh Washington cherries! Yum!) and restarted the day on a better note.

But since he's still PO'ed, probably not. [Frown]

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

SF's life is a continual martyrdom to the presence of other people. They are loud and fat and wear distressing clothes (or lack of them); they are disgusting and uncouth and moronic and worst of all, he is professionally obliged to be nice to them and appear to care about their tedious and self-induced problems.

OTOH, we have to put up with him.

Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :

Why do people stand and chat in doorways?

AtB, Pyx_e

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

For the same reason that:

The more isle space a group takes up, the slower they walk.

Posted by Anselmina (# 3032) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
Why do people stand and chat in doorways?

AtB, Pyx_e

Either they're earthquake phobic. Or vicars.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

But... God Almighty, other people... don't they just get in your fucking way?

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
Why do people stand and chat in doorways?

AtB, Pyx_e

Be fair Pxy_e, they only do it when you want to get past. Maybe it's that Elven Cloak of Invisibility you wear that deceives them?

(my pet theory is that, in Wales at any rate, their mam used to stand in the doorway chattin' an' chopsin' see, and they caught it from them.)

[ 15. July 2012, 13:31: Message edited by: Sioni Sais ]

Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Spike:

quote:
Originally posted by Silver Faux:
One guest, though, apparently did not "get" the concept.
Dear oh dear, how awful for you. Someone who's probably not stayed there before and doesn't know the "rules" is sitting in the wrong place. He should be executed immediately otherwise, before you know it, he'll start turning up at church and embarrass & annoy everybody by his ignorance of correct procedure.

He did NOT sit in the wrong place, he stood beside the food and ate there, thereby rendering it unfit for consumption by other humans, who had already paid for it.
And he was blocking a small, confined area needlessly, while making disgusting sounds with his chomping and slurping.
Maybe some of you would have been quite comfortable around him. I wasn't.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Maybe I've missed something and life is short, so I can't be arsed to scroll back, did you at any point say 'Excuse me, sir'? And if not, jumping forward here cos life is short an' all, why not try this normal way of letting another know that maybe, without realising, they're impeding you in the execution of their needs? So that maybe they can say 'Sorry!' and get out of your way? Now if you tried all this and got no response, I will die for your right to be offended. Otherwise, you're being a prick.

Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :

Again, the fact that he obstructed traffic was less a faux pas then the fact that he ate beside the food supply.
People who make toast or waffles at times stand there while they cook; they do not usually pick up the freshly cooked waffle and gobble it down, perhaps dripping with syrup, in the location where food is displayed for the consumption of others.
I would feel the same way if someone stood at a salad bar and ate from the salad containers with their fingers.
Surely you can see what an unsanitary outrage this was?

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

Bean Sidhe,

What SF said was

quote:
When a woman attempted to reach past him to retrieve a breakfast item, he said loudly, "Oh, am I in your way?"

You can't be arsed to read the thread; as you say.

Who looks like a prick?

SF may be a pain in the ass from time to time. He may even be a pain in the ass a lot of the time. He also has truly good moments.

There is some juvenile behavior in this thread. It is not coming from SF.

I sort of expect more from adults.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Tortuf, I was being reticent there, I remembered pretty much what SF had posted, including that.

I s'pose it's because I've spent my life working with autsistic people, and other learning disabled. That exchange with the woman sounds very autisitic to me. On the part of the guy blocking the way.

Which makes it tough for the autistic. And you might want to say it makes it tough for those who encounter them, except that most encounters between autistic and non-autistic people would be substantially unproblematic if people just showed them what would, once, have been normal courtesy and consideration. Everything is so rush, rush, gimme gimme now. You're in my way for breakfast? Move on pronto or take my ire!

And those who can't handle that, can't handle it.

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

Uh huh.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Really, Tortuf or anyone else, what do you think about this? Life for those with any kind of cognitive difficulty, autism or anything else, has always been difficult to cope with, but in - what seems to me - the brutalised, confrontational and competitive world we have today, it seems so much more threatening to them. Services are withdrawn... what do we do? Ignore the problem and jail them when they screw up?

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Uh uh. Yeah, ok. Well if that really, really is all you have to say Tortuf, fuck you.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Unless you want to engage a neuron or two and think, of course. Then I might be interested.

Posted by OliviaG (# 9881) on :

Stupid Fox, if that's the worst thing that happens to you today, you should drop to your knees and thank the universe for all your blessings. And guess what? I observed the same behaviour when I was in hospital last year. Nobody died, and the nurses eventually trained him to take his tray to the table. So go to Home Depot, buy a big ladder, and get over yourself. OliviaG

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Tortuf:
Bean Sidhe,

What SF said was
quote:
When a woman attempted to reach past him to retrieve a breakfast item, he said loudly, "Oh, am I in your way?"
You can't be arsed to read the thread; as you say.

Who looks like a prick?

SF may be a pain in the ass from time to time. He may even be a pain in the ass a lot of the time. He also has truly good moments.

There is some juvenile behavior in this thread. It is not coming from SF.

I sort of expect more from adults.

Tortuf, had SF wanted to put matters right he could have gone up to the counter, tried to get some food from where the guy was standing and politely let him in on the secret of How Things Are Done at the hotel buffet.

Maybe there is some juvenile behaviour coming from the peanut gallery, but that is what the peanut gallery is for. SF could have cured the problem at source.

Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :

Why do people keep saying that SF could have solved the problem by talking to the man? He has repeatedly said that his problem is that eating by the food is getting germs etc. on the food. Once he had seen the man eating messily next to the food, he didn't want any food himself. Whatever would be the point in saying excuse me so I can get some food if one didn't plan to eat the food there?

Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Gwai:
Whatever would be the point in saying excuse me so I can get some food if one didn't plan to eat the food there?

To make a point?

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

In which case he can call the problem to the attention of staff, suggest they dump that food and replace it. Show some insight into what's happening, and cope with it.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

It's really not rocket science, just a bit of thought outside one's own perimeter.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Sinoi, are you seeing me in a peanut gallery? I'm furious about how the learning-disabled are made to struggle in the world we're making, and then made to pay for failing.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Silver Faux, seriously, promise I won't bite, any thoughts?

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bean Sidhe:
Sinoi, are you seeing me in a peanut gallery? I'm furious about how the learning-disabled are made to struggle in the world we're making, and then made to pay for failing.

Calm down, the gallery's crowded. Have a peanut.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

See my previous post and don't patronise, I'd just like to hear some sense about what might have been the reality in that hotel. And, no intimidation, I'd like to hear from SF about that.

Posted by Spike (# 36) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Silver Faux:

Maybe some of you would have been quite comfortable around him. I wasn't.

Maybe, maybe not. I certainly wouldn't have started a Hell thread about it though. Surely there are more important things to get worked up about!

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bean Sidhe:
See my previous post and don't patronise,

Boo-fucking-hoo. This is Hell, not All Saints.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

I'm still pondering this obsession with eating in the presence of food which other people might eat. A horror which happens in our house on a regular basis. I'll tell you something which should, D.V., keep SF from my door - I have been known to taste food which I am preparing for other people to eat.

The chap was not interacting with food other than that he had selected. After a cheery 'Shift yer arse and lemme at the vittles', I wouldn't have had a problem with the buffet. Nor would I have given any detailed thought to the hygiene of the waitstaff who placed it, the kitchen staff who prepared it, the delivery chain who handled it, the producers or the farmers or the manufacturers.

Contamination is as much about perception as reality. The mother who scrapes dribbling goo off her baby's face and, often as not, ends up eating some herself, doesn't think of herself or her child as revolting (though I might). The uncleaness is something vested in our feelings about and relation to the people involved - and SF loathes most people.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:

quote:
Originally posted by Bean Sidhe:
See my previous post and don't patronise,
Boo-fucking-hoo. This is Hell, not All Saints.

Exactly, so suck up my complaint. You want to get into an infinite regress here?

Posted by art dunce (# 9258) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Silver Faux:

quote:
Originally posted by art dunce:
Free breakfast buffets are fucking disgusting.
Breakfast buffet bars are far from free, you precious pissant. They are part of the price of the room.

If you line up at a trough you cannot complain about being fed slop.

Posted by Anselmina (# 3032) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Silver Faux:
Surely you can see what an unsanitary outrage this was?

I can see that for those of us privileged with good hygiene as the standard, it would certainly be a bit gross. Perhaps, I'm too much of a wide-arsed (that was one of your important points, wasn't it, that he also had a weight problem?) slob to get too worried about the oppression of your human rights by this guy. But I'd save a straight-faced use of the phrase 'insanitary outrage' for the fact that millions of people every day drink water with mud and raw sewage in it. Not some lard-butt chomping fruit in the vicinity of an over-provisioned food outlet for comfortably-off people who have choices.

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Anselmina:
But I'd save a straight-faced use of the phrase 'insanitary outrage' for the fact that millions of people every day drink water with mud and raw sewage in it. Not some lard-butt chomping fruit in the vicinity of an over-provisioned food outlet for comfortably-off people who have choices.

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
Why do people stand and chat in doorways?

AtB, Pyx_e

That's one of my huge pet peeves. Also when a group of people insists on walking 4 or 5 abreast down a sidewalk and run you into the street or on the lawn (or into a pole) as you pass them/they pass you. Minor inconvenience, but it's the disregard for other people that bugs me. I try to be happy for them that they're enjoying each other's company.

I think it's partly due to lessening public interaction. Everyone's in their own little world.

Posted by Spiffy (# 5267) on :

I'm confused, is said gentleman a member of this board?

Or is SF just whinging because he couldn't find the courage sack up and confront the man himself?

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
SF's life is a continual martyrdom to the presence of other people. They are loud and fat and wear distressing clothes (or lack of them); they are disgusting and uncouth and moronic and worst of all, he is professionally obliged to be nice to them and appear to care about their tedious and self-induced problems.

OTOH, we have to put up with him.

Not really we don't. This is precisely why we interact on the internet.

Posted by Sine Nomine (# 66) on :

quote:
Originally posted by churchgeek:
That's one of my huge pet peeves.

I'm sorry. Could you go post that on Facebook instead? We're not allowed to have pet peeves on the ship of fools anymore. it's disrespectful to the downtrodden and dispossessed.

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

And they eat too much and poop all over the place.

Posted by Sine Nomine (# 66) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Tortuf:
And they eat too much and poop all over the place.

I had toys spaniels once who were bad about that. One can only imagine if they'd had access to a breakfast bar.

Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bean Sidhe:
Silver Faux, seriously, promise I won't bite, any thoughts?

So very sorry, old Bean, I am travelling, hence my presence at a hotel in the first place; today, I drove in three time zones, from Pacific to Mountain to Central where I am now, so did not have time or Internet access to note your urgent need for a reply from me.
As to the man at the counter, in spite of your apparent choice of pet issues, I believe that he probably was not autistic - just an asshole.

It may also be that my comment on his enormous ass has made some responders identify with him.
Really, you shouldn't.
His ass did, indeed, appear to be enormous, but probably nothing to compare with your own.
Anyone I have missed responding to? I would hate to seem impolite.

[ 16. July 2012, 02:16: Message edited by: Silver Faux ]

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bean Sidhe:
I'm furious about how the learning-disabled are made to struggle in the world we're making, and then made to pay for failing.

That's nice. What the hell has it got to do with this thread?

Posted by Spike (# 36) on :

SF - As this guy has made you very angry, did it not occur to you to ask him to move out of the way? Or would that have been too simple?

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

Or find a member of staff and say "I'm really not comfortable eating anything from the buffet with that guy standing there. Would it be possible for you to get me .... from the kitchen, please?" if your sense of hygiene is so finely tuned. Just don't listen to any chefs or wait staff talking, ever.

Posted by 205 (# 206) on :

quote:
Originally posted by churchgeek:
Also when a group of people insists on walking 4 or 5 abreast down a sidewalk and run you into the street or on the lawn (or into a pole) as you pass them/they pass you. Minor inconvenience, but it's the disregard for other people that bugs me.

Perhaps it's only because I'm 6'1" and 190# I enjoy these opportunities to help others consider other's needs entertaining but I suspect smaller people could, too.

You merely maintain your direct route which will require them to demonstrate some courtesy or collide and IMNSHE they move, sometimes quite comically at the last moment, out of your way 100% of the time.

Even better, often their more attentive companions will smirk at them.

All in all it makes for a better walking experience.

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:

quote:
Originally posted by Bean Sidhe:
I'm furious about how the learning-disabled are made to struggle in the world we're making, and then made to pay for failing.
That's nice. What the hell has it got to do with this thread?

As this is Hell, let's throw this in and see if it gets a response:
If you're OK to be out on your own, you behave within the broad spectrum of normal acceptable conduct.
If you're not fit to be out on your own, there should be someone keeping an eye on your behaviour.

Posted by Jonah the Whale (# 1244) on :

Albertus said

quote:
If you're OK to be out on your own, you behave within the broad spectrum of normal acceptable conduct.
If you're not fit to be out on your own, there should be someone keeping an eye on your behaviour.

Are you suggesting that SF is not fit to be out on his own because he gets into such a tizz at the sight of someone eating near food?

Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :

Bean Sidhe's implied suggestion that anyone who behaves in an obnoxious manner in public should automatically be considered autistic or learning disabled is, in and of itself, IMO, a great and needless insult to all who actually are autistic and learning disabled.

As to why I did not choose to confront said slurping slob and teach him the social nicities, or ask hotel staff to do it for me - this was a social situation, not a classroom, and I no longer wanted that food after having observed his actions. I simply turned to my own food supply, and then took solace by telling his story to 15,000-plus shipmates.
Some of whom have enormous asses and poor manners themselves, apparently.
Still, community is a wonderful thing, and his and my tale have now been told, which is a good thing, at least from my POV.
Today, I plan to drive across North Dakota in the fog.

Perhaps, though, there is a message from above to reinforce the concerns of Bean Sidhe and others; two nights ago, after posting my rant here, there was a sudden and massive thunder storm outside our hotel room, and last night, after posting a somewhat sharp response to some of the above comments, I turned on the weather channel to hear a local tornado warning.

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

I have a small arse and excellent manners - and I do think you are over-reacting hugely here SF. Are you sure you haven't got a problem yourself? Over anxiety over food hygiene?

Try sitting with our kids at school dinners, you'd soon overcome it!

[ 16. July 2012, 12:56: Message edited by: Boogie ]

Posted by Amorya (# 2652) on :

I can't get my head round the food hygiene angle to this. Was he licking his fingers then picking up more food? Spitting over the buffet? Taking a bite of something then putting it back? If not, how is it unhygienic? Germs don't magically pour out of your mouth and contaminate something just because you happen to be eating near it.

That he was in the way is more worth getting pissed off over.

Posted by Sine Nomine (# 66) on :

I'm actually kind of with you on this one, Silver Faux. It does sound unpleasant. And no, I wouldn't have said anything either. I would have just stood there and fumed.

The real problem with you OP however is that it makes no mention of the Roman Catholic church. I think you would have gotten a better response had you been able to work in something about Catholics worshipping the Virgin Mary and molesting children. You might try keeping that in mind for next time. If there is a next time.

Posted by Anselmina (# 3032) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Silver Faux:
Anyone I have missed responding to? I would hate to seem impolite.

Well, I think that boat has sailed. [Big Grin]

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
I'm actually kind of with you on this one, Silver Faux. It does sound unpleasant. And no, I wouldn't have said anything either. I would have just stood there and fumed.

The real problem with you OP however is that it makes no mention of the Roman Catholic church. I think you would have gotten a better response had you been able to work in something about Catholics worshipping the Virgin Mary and molesting children. You might try keeping that in mind for next time. If there is a next time.

Mustn't forget that famous Catholic guilt. I'm sure it played a part.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Silver Faux:
As to the man at the counter, in spite of your apparent choice of pet issues, I believe that he probably was not autistic - just an asshole.

And I'd only suggest that his behaviour was compatible with autism, a position more tentative than your own it seems. If you're so intuitive in these things, you'd be God's gift to my profession. Do think about training.

As for my arse, its dimensions are between me and the staffroom copier.

Posted by Sine Nomine (# 66) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Mustn't forget that famous Catholic guilt. I'm sure it played a part.

I was just thinking that had Silver Faux said how awful the man at the breakfast bar was AND how awful the Roman Catholic church was too in the same OP, at least Justinian, if no one else, would have jumped in on his side.

Posted by Janine (# 3337) on :

{Thinking subterranian thoughts about all the times sloppy slurpy slobbering simpletons sprinkling sputum spritzes surreptitiously salivate on Silver's shredded wheat...}

The Episdode of the Enlarged Gluteal Equipment just shows that all the other breakfast buffets SF has eaten from could have been similarly blessed by a fellow of the Large Butt Clan bare minutes before SF turned up for The Continental.

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

The thought had crossed my mind that maybe he was someone who got off on displays of breakfast. Standing there eyeing the sausages, or possibly the fried eggs quivering sensuously on the hot plate, unable to tear himself away from this mesmerizing sight. Or possibly that stack of golden pieces of toast, reclining voluptuously in the rack, just waiting to have butter spread across them. You never can tell.

quote:

I was just thinking that had Silver Faux said how awful the man at the breakfast bar was AND how awful the Roman Catholic church was too in the same OP, at least Justinian, if no one else, would have jumped in on his side.

Ah. Right, quick rethink. Maybe he was seeing a holy vision scorched into the toast, which only he could see, or a voice was coming from the area of the waffles, waffling on.

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Silver Faux:
Bean Sidhe's implied suggestion that anyone who behaves in an obnoxious manner in public should automatically be considered autistic or learning disabled is, in and of itself, IMO, a great and needless insult to all who actually are autistic and learning disabled.

Seconded.

Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
I'm actually kind of with you on this one, Silver Faux. It does sound unpleasant. And no, I wouldn't have said anything either. I would have just stood there and fumed.

The real problem with you OP however is that it makes no mention of the Roman Catholic church. I think you would have gotten a better response had you been able to work in something about Catholics worshipping the Virgin Mary and molesting children. You might try keeping that in mind for next time. If there is a next time.

I can't begin to thank you for your advice and support. So I won't. If you have the time, however, please be kind enough to reply to this poll.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:

quote:
Originally posted by Silver Faux:
Bean Sidhe's implied suggestion that anyone who behaves in an obnoxious manner in public should automatically be considered autistic or learning disabled is, in and of itself, IMO, a great and needless insult to all who actually are autistic and learning disabled.
Seconded.

If that was what I had implied, you would be quite correct. It wasn't.

My comment explicitly related to the exchange, as SF described it, between the 'asshole' and a woman who tried to reach past him. I said that sounded autistic to me. Not that it was. Just grounds for considering the possiblity. Let me spell out what strikes me. The 'asshole' said to her: 'Oh, am I in your way?' A direct question, apparently showing understanding and empathy, but leading to no appropriate action. I recognised that, though also recognise that after doing this job a mere quarter century, my experience might be considered limited. Interpretation has to be contextual. If the man and woman were together, one would suspect they'd had a row, that he was being deliberately pissy. But as strangers at a breakfast bar? He might still be drunk from the night before, though SF says nothing else to suggest this. He might indeed be a sarky shit who winds up anyone he's standing next to a matter of course, though in that case I'm surprised he hasn't been hospitalised often enough to mend his ways. Or he might have some form of cognitive disability. That's all I could say, I'm a teacher not a psychologist.

Posted by George Spigot (# 253) on :

If this truly is as hellish as Silver Faux's life gets then I sure wish I had their problems.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Confess I've not come across SF much on the boards I haunt, but word seems to be he sees 'assholes' everywhere. Poor guy, it must be like living in 'Dawn of the Dead'. Or 'Shaun of the Dead'?

Posted by Erroneous Monk (# 10858) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:

The real problem with you OP however is that it makes no mention of the Roman Catholic church. I think you would have gotten a better response had you been able to work in something about Catholics worshipping the Virgin Mary and molesting children. You might try keeping that in mind for next time. If there is a next time.

You know at Mass when the celebrant consumes the first consecrated host, and he leans forward over the altar as he does it, so that any consecrated crumbs land on the hosts beneath....

Posted by Yorick (# 12169) on :

Last night, I was eating the vulva of my lover who had begun to menstruate. It was okay, but don't tell SF- he'll just die of icky.

Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Yorick:
Last night, I was eating the vulva of my lover who had begun to menstruate. It was okay, but don't tell SF- he'll just die of icky.

And the rest of us aren't going to vomit chunks upon hearing this?! Jesus, Yorick...

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Ok, I'm off back to the Circus. Jesus fuck...

Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :

I'm thinking that as long as a)no one involved had an enormous ass and b) neither of you were blocking access to the breakfast buffet at the local Econo-lodge, you might be OK. Kind of TMI but falling outside the parameters of the OP [Devil]

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

Yorick, that'd only be a problem if you were blocking SF's access to something he wants to eat.

Which may, of course, be the case. But that would be your own problem to sort out between you, as we don't like people using the boards to continue real-life fights [Big Grin]

Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Yorick, that'd only be a problem if you were blocking SF's access to something he wants to eat.

Which may, of course, be the case. But that would be your own problem to sort out between you, as we don't like people using the boards to continue real-life fights

The two of them can get together and have authentic vulva bloody Mary's. Mmmmmmmmm, iron-rich goodness.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Could we possibly manage a bloodless coup here?

Posted by Erroneous Monk (# 10858) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Yorick, that'd only be a problem if you were blocking SF's access to something he wants to eat.

Are you implying that Yorick's lover's vulva's is an eat-as-much-as-you-like buffet?

That's a whole new yo mamma insult.

Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bean Sidhe:
Could we possibly manage a bloodless coup here?

Why? Is there no autistry in vulva blood? Perhaps the man at the buffet was a starving autist.

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Erroneous Monk:
Are you implying that Yorick's lover's vulva's is an eat-as-much-as-you-like buffet?

That's a whole new yo mamma insult.

Are you implying that his lover is also his momma? [Eek!]

Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :

Thank you Paddy O'Furniture (and Yippy Yorkie for starting this tangent).

It gives me an excuse to close this thread before it evolves into another party for the sick of mind.

PeteC
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