Who does DISSSSSSSSS

[Professor Smarmiarty]

So as you know I have to steal internet from various places, the most useful being the uni because it is very fast. So I sit in the library or student commons or do so. I have my suitcase with me its not term time so this never causes a problem. UNTIL TODAY.
I'm in the library where desks are in alternate facing rows of 2 so each area is like a block of 4. There is one other person I can see in the library so I took up a whole block but not too close to the toilets/drinking fountains/stairwells/bookshelves so this seat won't be in demand. Now despite from my desk being able to see 50 empty desks and me being only being able to see a small fraction of the librarys desk some dick face comes over and demands to sit at the desks behind me in the same block.
WHO DOES DIS.

[Revising Ocelot]

Spies. Perverts. Assholes. Choose up to -3- options.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Spies. Perverts. Assholes. Choose up to -3- options.

Sometimes all of the above.

Probably all of thee above in your situation.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

BUT IT'S NEVER ALL OF THE ABOVE. WE PUT THAT IN TO MAKE STUDENTS FAIL.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Not this time. Because it's not a test. It most likely really is all of the above.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

It's like when you're sitting on a beach, and there's nobody else on the beach for 2 miles in either direction, but sooner or later some fucker will turn up and set up camp 20 feet from you. Probably with screaming kids in tow.

Or when you park in a car park that can accomodate 100 cars but only 20 of them are currently in use, so you pick a spot with 4 spaces either side or whatever only to come back an hour later to find 2 fucking tank sized SUV things on either side of you, despite the fact there's still a ton of spaces everywhere else.

Fuckers just like gettin up in yo grill.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Happens to me in the half-empty movie theater all the time.

There are a thousand places you could sit and have space in every direction! Please do not sit directly in front/behind/next to me!

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

I make sure to wear really tall hats when i do that!

[Magus]

I sometimes think people THINK I want to be near them in the theater, but really I just want to sit in the center.

People who sit on the edges in an empty theater make little sense to me. As little sense as people who sit next to you for no reason.

Anyway, I've always followed the "at least one seat" buffer rule, unless there is absolutely no space in the thing at all as that has happened a few times, then you just have to take whatever seat there is.

This whole discussion also brings to mind the various unspoken urinal rules everyone is supposed to know: don't take the urinal next to someone else if there is another one free, don't look at them as you go to the bathroom, stare straight down or ahead, etc.

[CABAL49]

Smarty is just mad cause I keep stealing his seat.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Nobody likes you Cabal

[POS Industries]

Extroverts do this sort of thing subconsciously because they're naturally compelled to seek human contact.

It's for this reason that extroverts are a blight upon the earth.

[Sithdarth]

Funny story. So I know I'm an extrovert by nature because from stories and what little I can remember from early childhood I loved being the center of attention. Then I entered school and got bullied mercilessly by basically my entire class because I had the bad habit of flying into fits of basically uncontrollable rage which also usually came with a bout of crying out of frustration. These tapered off slowly but were an issue far into middle school. Anyway after years of getting emotionally smacked down every time I tried to reach out I eventually just developed an innate fear of basically any group of people and turned myself into an extreme introvert. Which is totally awesome because every time I miss out on hanging out and having fun with a group of people because I can't be in the room with them without having an anxiety attack that little bit of me deep down inside that is still an extrovert dies a little bit more.

On a side note alcohol is awesome for getting me relaxed enough to tolerate crowds and have some fun. Bit inconvenient though. But basically we could probably rid the world of extroverts be being really rude to them. They'll get the hint eventually.

Slightly more on topic, social conventions are weird sometimes and they never seem to be the same everywhere.

[Osterbaum]

I consider myself an extrovert, but I'm also Finnish after all.

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[pochercoaster]

I consider myself an extrovert, but I'm also Finnish after all.

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When I moved to Las Vegas I kind of freaked out at how friendly people are. Like, cashiers saying hello and stuff took some getting used to, I'm accustomed to everyone glaring at everyone else. It was unexpected because I don't consider Ontario substantially culturally different than the US (or at least parts of the US) but welp. Sorry but some Americans are kind of loud! I have some stories about American customers coming in to my work too and other customers giving them strange looks because of how loud they were...

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Extroverts do this sort of thing subconsciously because they're naturally compelled to seek human contact.

It's for this reason that extroverts are a blight upon the earth.

I'm the biggest extrovert around, I always start up conversations with strangers and am the centre of things and even I don't sit near people.

[POS Industries]

I'm the biggest extrovert around, I always start up conversations with strangers and am the centre of things and even I don't sit near people.
So you just yell at people from across the room?

[Krylo]

I'm the biggest extrovert around
It's for this reason that extroverts are a blight upon the earth.
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[RickZarber]

Like, cashiers saying hello and stuff took some getting used to, I'm accustomed to everyone glaring at everyone else.
This is pretty funny, since our stereotype for Canadians is "super friendly / polite".
Sorry but some Americans are kind of loud! I have some stories about American customers coming in to my work too and other customers giving them strange looks because of how loud they were...
Hm. As a quiet American who always gets flak at work for not being loud enough, where could I go where people don't feel the need to small talk, but also will smile / acknowledge your presence? Like, I like saying hello, but unless I know you, I do not care how you are doing today. And I am uncomfortable with the American idea that unless I pretend to care, I am being rude.

[Ecks]

the mitten. seriously, people here just sort of nod and smile and go about their business. If you can stomach our dickhead governor spending tax dollars on a bridge we aren't allowed to vote on whether or not we want (thanks for shooting down all the good props, conservafucks) snow, shitty job market, and lots of older people imposing their values and beliefs on whoever will listen/can't escape from them, MI is fucking fantastic.

[POS Industries]

Sorry but some Americans are kind of loud! I have some stories about American customers coming in to my work too and other customers giving them strange looks because of how loud they were...
We're sorry, but we can't hear you over the sound of how awesome we are. :smug:

[Kyanbu The Legend]

the mitten. seriously, people here just sort of nod and smile and go about their business. If you can stomach our dickhead governor spending tax dollars on a bridge we aren't allowed to vote on whether or not we want (thanks for shooting down all the good props, conservafucks) snow, shitty job market, and lots of older people imposing their values and beliefs on whoever will listen/can't escape from them, MI is fucking fantastic.

So it's like 90% of America, minus the snow?

[CABAL49]

Working in restaurants taught me that if you are a big enough asshole, no one ever really messes with you. I mean, they say they take it out of your tip, but wait staff gets paid shit anyways. Just so everyone knows, when we head into the kitchen, it is to talk shit about you. Not really a secret. But it is the only way to deal with you all. Be the nicest you want to wait staff. It doesn't make the job less shitty.

[Magus]

All I learned from this topic is not to tip anyone.

Or only give a tip in exchange for acquiescence to the command, "BEND THE KNEE OR I'LL DESTROY YOU!" The customer is always right, bitches.

EDIT: Cabal's totally getting tip paid in random change from now on. Enjoy the nickels.

[CABAL49]

Man I will throw them at you. And I bet I still wouldn't be fired.

The customer is invariably wrong. Only like, 1% of all cases is the customer ever right. Customers are stupid.

[Arcanum]

the mitten. seriously, people here just sort of nod and smile and go about their business. If you can stomach our dickhead governor spending tax dollars on a bridge we aren't allowed to vote on whether or not we want (thanks for shooting down all the good props, conservafucks) snow, shitty job market, and lots of older people imposing their values and beliefs on whoever will listen/can't escape from them, MI is fucking fantastic.

I haven't been following the bridge situation from MI's perspective, but that second bridge is kind of a big deal and definitely needs to be built. All I really know is that the owner of Ambassador Bridge has been trying his darndest to not get the second bridge built, just so he can keep making a fortune off the Ambassador.

[Magus]

Yeah I was going to say next time don't have the guy who owns the bridge that is going to lose all the toll traffic to the new bridge oppose the new bridge and put up the proposition himself.

[Grimpond]

the mitten. seriously, people here just sort of nod and smile and go about their business. If you can stomach our dickhead governor spending tax dollars on a bridge we aren't allowed to vote on whether or not we want (thanks for shooting down all the good props, conservafucks) snow, shitty job market, and lots of older people imposing their values and beliefs on whoever will listen/can't escape from them, MI is fucking fantastic.

michigan is fucking terrible, never come here.