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George Hincapie

George Hincapie

George Hincapie

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When did people become so ignorant? I'm getting fed up of letting people on or off the lift or in/out of a door or the Tube before me and receiving no acknowledgement. What's wrong with saying thanks?

Perhaps I am too polite for my own good and should just go full on Silverback everywhere.
 
just shout "YOUR WELCOME!" like I do! :D

Technology hasn't helped, idiots shutting themselves away in their phones and mp3 players ignoring everyone around them. Drives me crazy. My eldest is 4 and has excellent manners and gets pulled up if she doesn't use them.
 
Agree.

Wasn't there that thread the other day which was pretty much the opposite of this thread, with people saying that being polite when there is no gain makes you look weak.
 
George Hincapie said:
When did people become so ignorant? I'm getting fed up of letting people on or off the lift or in/out of a door or the Tube before me and receiving no acknowledgement. What's wrong with saying thanks?

Perhaps I am too polite for my own good and should just go full on Silverback everywhere.
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in London especially on the tube it's every man for himself. People in london, especially those that work there simply have no time for anything or anyone. Just go for the full knee to jacobs as you get on and off the tube if anyone is in your grill
 
ughh, people seem to have forgotten how to eat properly! So many people I notice who eat really noisily, talk with food in their mouth and no one bats an eyelid. I might well be a miserable git but it winds me up and I can't seem to understand how people can just ignore it lol.
 
A lot of things have changed over the years, including lending a hand to help another in need of help.

I have lived in roughly 10 countries over the years and it's the same problem in each, so I guess times have changed for the worse.

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I've never felt particularly comfortable helping people (I'm 26). I don't think we've really had that culture since I've been alive, other than perhaps when I was really young.

I mean, I will help people more and more as I get older, but at the same time I feel I have less time to stop and help someone...I feel like people feel threatened because I'm a young man (and I know my friends feel the same). Pretty sad really.
 
AHarvey said:
Technology hasn't helped, idiots shutting themselves away in their phones and mp3 players ignoring everyone around them. Drives me crazy. My eldest is 4 and has excellent manners and gets pulled up if she doesn't use them.
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Whilst rude people have always been around, I honestly think the explosion of mobile devices has exacerbated it.

Roar87 said:
I think it's because you live in London
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This is also true in my totally anecdotal and own-world experience. People "oop norf" are nicer. Probably have to be mind, because they're "oop norf".
 
It's just ignorance. People are just in their own little world in which mobile tech hasn't helped.

It doesn't bother me tbh otherwise I'd get stressed and annoyed over someone who doesn't matter and certainly not worth loosing it for. I'm the same when driving too..
 
I spent a few days in London last week. Normally I'm very polite but after getting no thanks for this I decided to act like them.

Funny how when you don't move people actually acknowledge your presence. The shoulder charge being particularly effective.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
It doesn't bother me tbh otherwise I'd get stressed and annoyed over someone who doesn't matter and certainly not worth loosing it for. I'm the same when driving too..
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I absolutely get that. Sometimes I do shrug it off but when I am blatantly being polite and clearly waiting it's just frustrating. I'm trying to treat others how I would like to be treated and it rarely is acknowledged or reciprocated.

I've just been for coffee with a colleague in Canary Wharf and as the lift arrived at my floor two people from my own firm just tried to walk into the lift as I was trying to walk out and didn't stop forcing me to twist to avoid a collision :(

The Tube is an entire other conversation.

None of this should surprise me, I have commuted into CW for almost 7 years now.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
It doesn't bother me tbh otherwise I'd get stressed and annoyed over someone who doesn't matter and certainly not worth loosing it for. I'm the same when driving too..
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People driving whilst on the phone is more and more prevelant though, and its not just bad manners but incredibly dangerous. Honestly don't understand how people can be so stupid :(.
 
I work with someone who will order food and drink without saying any please or thank yous, it really annoys me so much.

Not as bad but I also don't like it went people order stuff by saying "I'll get...", "Get me....", or "I want....". Just feels rude to me.
 
It's a dying concept especially on London public transport, everyone is fixed in their own little world with barely any consideration of what's around them. My new bugbear are numpties with rucksacks! What on earth do they cram in there that requires such a large bag and why can't you use just one ounce of common sense and realise you're jabbing everyone behind you!? Morons.
 
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The thing that annoys me the most is when ordering things, people say can i get.

"Erm, can i get a Burger please?"

Sure mate, just walk round the counter and go get yourself one.

"Please may I have..."

Yes, you can have. Thank you for ordering.

Bloody people.
 
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