How are you a jerk, and how do you justify it?

[Zelig]

See thread title for instructions, if you can't figure it out, please refrain from posting.

Whenever I'm at the gym alone, I take the lat pull-down attachment off the cable and hide it in a corner, because lat pull-downs are a terrible exercise that have no reason to be performed.

Also, I crank the incline on the treadmills to the max, to save people time when they're running.

 

[Mise]

I guess sometimes I don't hold the elevator door open for people who are of no use for me to socialise with. The stairs are much healthier. To be honest, I don't really justify being a jerk. Most of the time I'm a jerk cos I'm tired or bored.

 

[PeteAtoms]

When the baby in the room next to me starts to cry, I turn my TV/music up louder than necessary because it gives me a petty sense of satisfaction.

 

[bathsheba666]

Jerks don't justify.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

When people irritate me, I don't tell them.

I would, but they probably irritate other people that would irritate me, so why should I try and change them?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

When the baby in the room next to me starts to cry, I turn my TV/music up louder than necessary because it gives me a petty sense of satisfaction.

I do that too. I also enjoy the petty sense of satisfaction.

On other message boards (especially one board which has very little moderation) I enjoy to annoy certain people until they blow up and do something stupid and then the moderator comes in and they get in trouble. I do that because they are my enemies.

 

[The_J]

How am i a jerk...i'm a moderator here, and i don't need any justification .

 

[Joecoolyo]

Justification is for chumps.

 

[CaptainF]

I poop on the windshields of certain individuals' cars because they are douchebags.

 

[peter grimes]

I tell people when they're wrong. It's justified because they're wrong. I know they're wrong; I know that because I'm right.

I don't do this always - mostly at work.

I'd never even consider trying that at home

 

[Smellincoffee]

If the library is featuring a book by Ann Coulter or Bill O'Reilly, I take them down, reshelve them, and put more respectable books in their place. For instance, when the library was featuring female authors, I replaced one of Coulter's screeds with a biography of Susan B. Anthony. I figure Coulter doesn't need more exposure or attention. Just consider me a marksman in the culture war.

 

[Disgustipated]

See thread title for instructions, if you can't figure it out, please refrain from posting.

Whenever I'm at the gym alone, I take the lat pull-down attachment off the cable and hide it in a corner, because lat pull-downs are a terrible exercise that have no reason to be performed.

Also, I crank the incline on the treadmills to the max, to save people time when they're running.

why is the lat pull down such a terrible exercise? I do a machine at the gym similar to a lat pull down, but it doesn't look like this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulldown_exercise

 

[Shekwan]

When talking to 90% of people I feign interest in their crap with the selfish aim of seeming like I have more empathy.

Any enthusiasm I show in someone else's life is either done to further my own self interest (ie. I want something from them so they have to like me) or in very few cases, they are actaully talking about something interesting. Or they could be in the 10% of people (probably less actually) that I care about.

On the face of it this is jerk behaviour, you could call it self centred, but I'm pretty sure everyone else is doing it. Its just some people are better actors than others.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

When talking to 90% of people I feign interest in their crap with the selfish aim of seeming like I have more empathy.

Any enthusiasm I show in someone else's life is either done to further my own self interest (ie. I want something from them so they have to like me) or in very few cases, they are actaully talking about something interesting. Or they could be in the 10% of people (probably less actually) that I care about.

On the face of it this is jerk behaviour, you could call it self centred, but I'm pretty sure everyone else is doing it. Its just some people are better actors than others.

This reminds me of the only times I've been a big ole bottle of George Dickel to someone. I was going on about some recent Chomsky statements that had occurred that day, and me and this friend usually got along well during those talks.

She listened, then after I was done says, "Did you hear about the meteor shower?"

"What does a meteor shower have to do with Noam Chomsky?"

"Uh....nothing, but I was just thinking."

"Yeah, not about Noam Chomsky."

See, that's my one biggest pet peeve. People who listen, then change the subject immediately. I at least add a bit of input, out of politeness.

 

[Zelig]

why is the lat pull down such a terrible exercise? I do a machine at the gym similar to a lat pull down, but it doesn't look like this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulldown_exercise

There is nothing it does better than pullups/chinups, and several things it does worse.

 

[BasketCase]

Wow, it's like this thread was custom-made just for me.

Pure and simple: I'm a jerk whenever being a nice guy doesn't work. As the saying goes, do unto others as you would have others do unto you. So, when people do badly unto me, of course I'm going to kick them in the kneecaps.

why is the lat pull down such a terrible exercise?

Strains the rotator cuff.

 

[azzaman333]

I'm a jerk on the internet because certain people deserve and they can't physically retaliate.

 

[Skwink]

I laugh like crazy when someone says something stupid.
ie:

History Teacher: (on America's westward expansion) Now there was one major group of people who made it difficult to do this (America move west). Who was it?

Kid: *Raises hand*

Teacher: Yes Kid.

Kid: (totally serious) Alabama right?

Me: *cracks up laughing so loud*

 

[Mise]

There is nothing it does better than pullups/chinups, and several things it does worse.

Yeah but it's a lot easier and you don't have to try to balance on those elastic band things.

 

[Zelig]

Yeah but it's a lot easier and you don't have to try to balance on those elastic band things.

Not when the attachment is hidden in a corner!