It’s a simple feeling of unfairness, compounded by the feeling that others’ irresponsibility is lengthening the pandemic, and even a personal hurt if they’ve personally lost friends and family.

The “scolds” are suffering because irresponsible people are exacerbating the situation, which is leading to a longer epidemic and more deaths. This is literally life and death. It’s not scolding people for cutting the line, or talking in a movie theater. The risk/reward factor here does not compute. Someone’s “need”…

“that forcing a virus to be an individual responsibility instead of a community one”

“You’re most likely mad at yourself for denying yourself the pleasures that someone else enjoyed.”

You’re most likely mad at yourself for denying yourself the pleasures that someone else enjoyed.

The scolds are often simply reacting to the same vacuum of information by clinging to a type of superstition: As long as I forcefully denounce the risk-takers then I myself will be made safe.

I thought she did pretty well with her acting on an action driven show, her character was charming, she actually knows how to fight, and she represented a female body type that is not found in any media. Not even the super hero genre has muscular female heroes or villains, they cast mostly petite women with no martial…

Great analogy, though I think she stands to lose even more, opportunity-wise, than Wallen. Her character was a fan favorite and she was almost certainly going to lead a new spinoff show on D+. From there, who knows?

He took on Jerry Falwell ... gotta give him credit for that.

Mid 90's, working as a computer field service tech which had me carrying a fancy new product called the “cellular telephone”. I was looking at a used car and the dealer needed to take a copy of my license for financing. After I decided we couldn’t make a deal, they somehow couldn’t find my license.

In my short time selling cars I remember the sales manager wanting to pull this shit.

An AUDI dealer NORTH of MIAMI pulled this shit on me a while back. But they went beyond hiding my keys.

When I was 22 I had a dealership take my keys once, and they wouldn’t give them back until the cops were called, *by them*.

I took my car in for a warranty repair, which included a rental car. After 2 days, I brought the rental back. The service guy told me I had to pay for the rental, but I informed him it was…

I basically dealt with this when I bought my truck last summer. The last vehicle I’d purchased had been a relatively painless process outside of the haggling. I thought I had a grip on the standard tactics that dealerships used, having purchased 3 cars over the last 10 or so years. This time around, I couldn’t leave…

Only time I have ever bought a new car was after my beater got rear ended and totaled. Went to a ford dealership to look at a pre-owned and they refused to let me see it, instead trying to push a new car on me. Since I legitimately had zero interest in buying a new car because I couldn’t afford the payment, it was…

This makes me feel lucky with how my only new car buying transaction went. The price the dealer listed on Autotrader was excellent so I called them and asked them to provide me a quote in writing of that price without any bs that I could act on. They emailed me one in 15 minutes. I bought the car.

An ex girlfriend was at a dealer and a perk was they would wash your car while you were looking- they did it off site and she was stuck there for 4 hours waiting for her car to be returned she finally went apeshit on them and the car returned very quickly

I almost had this happen at an Infinity showroom. After driving the car and realizing that it was a heavy, outdated POS, I told them I wasn’t interested. Was forced to talk to several managers who refused to give keys back until I threatened calling the police. 

Brings back unwanted memories. Back in 1998 I was buying a new T-Bird, trading in my ‘94. To say I was visibly excited about the car would be a serious understatement - loved my T-Birds. Anyhow, after the lengthy negotiations and eventual paper signing, I felt I got railroaded with added mystery charges, lowered value…

All because they probably wanted to make a quick thousand or two. What a great deal!