I've been staring disbelievingly at this article for several minutes now.

[Burney]

The thing that's really getting to me is that I think we're actually supposed to sympathise with the author, who is clearly deranged, an awful human being or possibly both.

Remarkable.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/24/moment-change-me-lashing-out-stranger-opened-door

[Billy Goat Sverige]

The thing that's really getting to me is that I think we're actually supposed to sympathise with the author, who is clearly deranged, an awful human being or possibly both.

Remarkable.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/24/moment-change-me-lashing-out-stranger-opened-door

The thing is, people who hold the door open usually do it all the time regardless. The poor bloke probably slams it in peoples faces now :hehe:

[Tony C]

LOOOOOOOL just knew this was going to be a guardian link.

#fatpig

[Sir C]

The thing that's really getting to me is that I think we're actually supposed to sympathise with the author, who is clearly deranged, an awful human being or possibly both.

Remarkable.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/24/moment-change-me-lashing-out-stranger-opened-door

That's got to be a Godfrey Elfwick-type spoof, surely?

[Burney]

The thing is, people who hold the door open usually do it all the time regardless. The poor bloke probably slams it in peoples faces now :hehe:

Precisely. I would no more let a door slam in someone's face than I would spit on their shoe. They could be rank-looking and I'd still stand there patiently.

[IUFG]

someone ought to tell her she's still got an enormous, fat face.

[Burney]

That's got to be a Godfrey Elfwick-type spoof, surely?

I don't think so. I mean, I know she's North American and the concept of good manners is alien to most such people, but does she really think only good-looking people have doors held open for them?

[SWv2]

Sad days when you cannot hold the door for a pretty chick for fear that one day she might have been a porker.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

These discussions always seem to be "closed for comment". How democratic. Blair would be proud of them.

[Burney]

Sad days when you cannot hold the door for a pretty chick for fear that one day she might have been a porker.

I would hold it for her even were she still a lardarse, sw. That is what it means to be a gentleman.

God, I'd even hold the door open for you.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

I would hold it for her even were she still a lardarse, sw. That is what it means to be a gentleman.

God, I'd even hold the door open for you.

I open doors for anyone which is why I find the outdated feminist take on it so absurd. I still remember the long stare I gave my wife (then my girlfriend of a days standing) when she first commented on it.

[SWv2]

I would hold it for her even were she still a lardarse, sw. That is what it means to be a gentleman.

God, I'd even hold the door open for you.

I should hope so, and in turn I would offer my thanks.

It is the type of **** who sails on through showing no regard for your basic act of civility and respect that needs to be shot.

[Burney]

I should hope so, and in turn I would offer my thanks.

It is the type of **** who sails on through showing no regard for your basic act of civility and respect that needs to be shot.

I don't disagree, but one does it because it is the right thing to do, not in order to garner thanks.

[SWv2]

I don't disagree, but one does it because it is the right thing to do, not in order to garner thanks.

One should always do the right thing.

And as per my earlier comment shooting the **** who walks on past is the right thing to do.

[AFC East]

The thing that's really getting to me is that I think we're actually supposed to sympathise with the author, who is clearly deranged, an awful human being or possibly both.

Remarkable.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/24/moment-change-me-lashing-out-stranger-opened-door

Comes across as complete bull****.