Originally Posted by
squatch
this is the dumbest thing i have read this week. i hope that some day that i sit next to you in F in the seat I PAID FOR wearing my sandals, wrinkled t-shirt and frayed shorts. it will give me tremendous pleasure to ruin your day with my comfortable, casual appearance.
uh huh...
Anyone ever read Dickens? There's a great character in Martin Chuzzlewit, an American Senator, Elijah Pogram, who makes a point to be disgusting and rude because as an american it's PART OF OUR INSTITUTIONS AND WE HAS NO TIME FOR FORMS AND POLITE NICENESS.
Ridiculous.
Martin warns that if you ignore the little decencies as a matter of course, you'll ignore the larger ones as well out of stubbornness.