Americans are rude

Tom Sawyer · Jul 23, 2011

I don't know about the rest of the world, maybe it takes time for them to catch up with us but yes, rudeness, lack of manners, disrespect, arrogance and all those other social graces seem to have gone the way of the Dodo. I blame a lot of it on parents but entertainment, the media and the internet also play a big part here. We are raising a generation of entitled, self important ill mannered and ill behaved people. Sean Hannity's radio show opens with the line " we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way " and he's supposed to be a "great American" So we've had better than 30 years of political correctness shoved down our throats, has anyone seen an improvement?

BobL43 · Jul 23, 2011

DonL said:
Around here if you say "Excuse me please" you get a reply "What did you call me ?"

Then they kick your butt down the road.

That's not rude, People here don't like to be called Please.

or Shirley, as Leslie Nielson said.

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Terry · Jul 23, 2011

I was waiting for an elevator in Manhatten once, there were six there. I heard a voice behind me say

"What's the matter, that one not good enuf for you?

It was someone letting me know that the door behind us was ready.
It sounded pretty gruff, but it got the job done.

I thought the people in Manhatten were in a constant hurry, but they also seemed pretty nice.

I like the drivers in Los Angeles,
The drivers in Seattle swing between being too nice and too agressive.

People are nice in the stores where I shop, and at sporting events in the city.
My customers are great. I have the best.

LLigetfa · Jul 23, 2011

Terry said:
What's the matter, that one not good enuf for you?

Whenever someone sits day dreaming at a green light, I ask if they're waiting for a different shade of green.

One time, an irate driver reamed me out for stopping on an amber light. He figured we could have both made it through before it turned red. Sometimes I wonder if maybe I tipped the light too close only to see someone behind me follow through. I had a truck rear end me once when I stopped on an amber.

When my son was around 10, he proclaimed from the back seat that he knew how to drive a car. He had been watching my wife drive and he described in detail the operation of the clutch, brake, and gas pedals. When I challenged his knowledge of road signs, he was spot on too. Then I asked him about street lights to which he said, "oh, that's easy... red is stop, green is go, and yellow is go fast". Obviusly, he learned from his mother.

LLigetfa · Jul 23, 2011

DonL said:
People here don't like to be called Please.

Some in this area have a strange vernacular and refer to me (us) in a plural form of "You" (Yous). There is no such word in the English language, the nearest homonym being "Ewes" (female Sheep), and I certainly dislike being called a female Sheep.

"Hey" (and "Hey Yous") is another common term to which I respond that "hay is for horses".

DonL · Jul 23, 2011

LLigetfa said:
Some in this area have a strange vernacular and refer to me (us) in a plural form of "You" (Yous). There is no such word in the English language, the nearest homonym being "Ewes" (female Sheep), and I certainly dislike being called a female Sheep.

"Hey" (and "Hey Yous") is another common term to which I respond that "hay is for horses".

Around here if you make fun of someones English you get shot.
Because know one here knows proper English.

BobL43 · Jul 23, 2011

As Danny deVito said in My cousin Vinny, "deese two yutes" are innocent. Yous guys in Canada always call a house a Howsse. As far as somebody waiting to long to move when the light turns green: wadda ya waitin' for, a wtitten invitation?

LLigetfa · Jul 23, 2011

BobL43 said:
Yous guys in Canada always call a house a Howsse.

Ja, and the plural form is howzzez. And the top is called roof, as in "too" not as in "look". Like y'all would say, "speak proper American".

DonL · Jul 23, 2011

At least 50% of the Population here pack heat.

So Yall have to be very careful what Yall say.

Jimbo · Jul 23, 2011

Kiss my grits.~!

Ian Gills · Jul 23, 2011

None of you can speak proper English. Heat packing or not.

I speak the Queen's.

Ballvalve · Jul 24, 2011

BobL43 said:
Ian, excuse me please, but I think you're full of crap. You haven't been around much here. I'm from NYC. I always say excuse me please, and so do most of the people I've pushed out of my way.

Cuse me pleeze, but in New york, and especially Astoria, auto horns are used constantly, at least 500 to one in California.

It amazed me to watch, and not see a shoot out in NYC. Here, with a gun in evey car, every third driver would have a hole in his palms.

BobL43 · Jul 24, 2011

ballvalve said:
Cuse me pleeze, but in New york, and especially Astoria, auto horns are used constantly, at least 500 to one in California.

It amazed me to watch, and not see a shoot out in NYC. Here, with a gun in evey car, every third driver would have a hole in his palms.

Yep, NYC is a noisy place. I moved into the suburbs (50 miles out) over 40 years ago. Now traffic here is awful too, but the horn blowing, not bad at all.

BobL43 · Jul 24, 2011

Ian Gills said:
None of you can speak proper English. Heat packing or not.

I speak the Queen's.

That's why you stick out like a sore thumb when you talk. People just hear you speak and assume you are a pompous ass (or as you may say arse) as soon as you say a few words.

DonL · Jul 24, 2011

You very rarely hear a car horn blowing around here.

But on weekends you hear a lot of gun shots from people practicing for their drive to work on Monday.

LLigetfa · Jul 24, 2011

DonL said:
You very rarely hear a car horn blowing around here...

I'm not sure if my horn even works. With the airbag, one cannot just go for the centre. By the time I find the right place to push, whatever reason I may have had to sound the horn, will have passed.

BobL43 · Jul 24, 2011

Same here LL

Terry · Jul 24, 2011

11 wounded as gunfire erupts at Kent car show

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015711094_kentshooting24m.html

At least 11 people were shot at a crowded lowrider car show in Kent on Saturday, creating chaos as cars sped from the scene and frightened spectators ran for the safety of nearby shops.
Patrons and employees in the stores and restaurants locked the doors and crouched in backrooms to escape the gunfire.

Tom Sawyer · Jul 24, 2011

Washington seems to be in the headlines a lot lately, is there something in the water? I think I would be looking to make a move.

Ian Gills · Jul 24, 2011

That Washington is, of course, not the real Washington.

I live in the real Washington and I would like to see taxpayers create more jobs here.

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