thread for misanthropes

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Derby Tup Jul 2020 8:51am, 7 Jul 2020 44,090 posts	0 Derby Tup 6 too many and ‘we’?
halfpint Jul 2020 9:12am, 7 Jul 2020 31,683 posts	0 halfpint Sadly DT I brought another human into the world. He’s one of the few I can tolerate.
Raemond Jul 2020 9:27am, 7 Jul 2020 5,730 posts	0 Raemond This social distancing thing has been a blessing in terms of giving me a great excuse to limit the times I encounter the great unwashed, but I fear it's also increasing my sensitivty to their awfulness on the unavoidable occasions where I have to encounter them. I went to the tip and had to buy some supplies on Saturday and the level of fuckwittry I encountered seemed excessive: terrible inconsiderate driving, really terrible inconvenient parking (NO! you cannot just add yourself to the end of a row of cars after the marked spaces have stopped. There isn't a space marked there for a reason, you're in the way of everybody trying to get into and out of the car park! and there are plenty of free spaces if you'd bothered to look! you lazy prick!), families of five with two trolleys blocking whole supermarket aisles and letting their awful children, who only stop picking their noses and sticking their hands down their pants to touch Every Single Thing within reach, run around completely unsupervised (there are two of you 'adults' - one could have stayed in the bloody car with the children while the other did the damn grocery shopping! What's wrong with you?!) I think all but a very few lockdown restrictions have been lifted here - cafes etc. have to observe better spacing still, and only smaller numbers allowed in to things like cinemas - but shops have taken the arrows off the floor and removed a lot of the queue wrangling physical barriers, so people think it's 'back to normal' already and have stopped giving any sort of fucks.
ITG 🇮🇸 Jul 2020 9:56am, 7 Jul 2020 9,740 posts	0 ITG 🇮🇸 I've got a cat now so you humans can all go do one.
Raemond Jul 2020 10:22am, 7 Jul 2020 5,734 posts	0 Raemond Nice. My cat is an even bigger misanthrope than I am, usually. The only humans he has any time for are me and, if I'm definitely not available, Sam.
Little Nemo Jul 2020 10:49am, 7 Jul 2020 10,764 posts	0 Little Nemo How gorgeous! My cat is also a misanthrope, if you stroke her for too long she bites!
idle_wilder Jul 2020 12:06pm, 7 Jul 2020 2,151 posts	0 idle_wilder Our cat is a dick - he'll launch an attack with no warning. But he can be nice, like now, on my lap. I could quite happily just carry on not really leaving the house, as I really don't miss dealing with most people. Especially weird strangers. Might need a job soon though - I'll have to pretend I'm a real people person then, I suppose.
Ultradunc Jul 2020 2:10pm, 7 Jul 2020 11,906 posts	0 Ultradunc Not excepting any exceptions , no more, not ever! Extinction is inevitable if only it was sooner for those I set my eyes on!
CStar Jul 2020 5:54pm, 8 Jul 2020 7,791 posts	0 CStar I have realised that if I don't commute to work and all that goes with that, I can go for days at a time without meeting any of the great British public. This is good. Sadly I do now need to see my team, who I admit I largely like, so for them I will bury my misanthropy once a week. My cat is the same Raemond, though he will break his own rules for pretty much anyone prepared to feed him in our household.
um Jul 2020 5:59pm, 8 Jul 2020 2,889 posts	0 um The neighbour’s cat very proudly brought us a rat earlier. Quoting ITG, cats can go do one as well as humans, no matter how cute they appear to look.