Zero Situational Awareness

I dont see the word trans there one. But this is derailing the thread

I think years ago we were more patient and tolerant of many of the examples given here, but since the improvement in technology and life speeding up, we have less forgiveness for muppets who haven't moved with the times.

I have some sympathy for elderly people in supermarkets who engage cashiers in conversation. They might be the only person they speak to that day.

But I have zero tolerance for anyone (elderly or otherwise) who pick their bags at the tills in Aldi/Lidl!

Someone posted a valid point: that the vast majority of the people who do X, in their experience, are women.

You jumped straight in with both feet, playing both the misogyny card and the "how do you know they were women, sometimes men wear heels too" card. You tried to de-legitimse his point, instead of actually responding to it.

You're telling him that those women he saw may in fact not have been women, but men. How in the everloving fcuk do you think someone would confuse a man in heels with a woman unless they are trans?

You're getting the hump because you don't like the reality of the situation. You're attempting to downplay this person's lived experience by telling them there's a chance they were mistaken. It is both dismissive and based entirely on an assumption that is almost certainly untrue. You've zero idea if any of the women that poster described were actually men, it's just a sad attempt at cheapening his argument because you have zero in the way of an actual counterpoint.

Every single traveller I've ever had the misfortune to meet was a grifter and a snake. Every one. That doesn't mean every single traveller in the country is like that, it's just my experience of the ones I've met. That isn't discriminatory towards our 'nomadic' ethnic minority, it's just a fact. Your comment about men in heels is the equivalent to saying "well how do you know it wasn't a settled person wearing tracksuit bottoms and leather slip on shoes". It ignores the crux of the point completely.

Similarly, there is a difference between "Every Israeli I've ever met has been certifiably crazy" and "Every Israeli is certifiably crazy". It's not anti-Semitic to share one's experience. It is intellectually dishonest, however, to discount someone's experience because it pokes holes in your white knight argument. Just accept that he knew they were women and move on, instead of attempting to discredit his point by pretending he, the one common denominator in each of these interactions, was mistaken, as if you, who was never present in even one single interaction, would know better. It's desperate stuff altogether.

Your refusal, BTW, to even acknowledge the part of my post about you removing the agency of 50% of the country, speaks volumes. You're getting offended on behalf of a demographic of people that may not even take the slightest offence. You're infantilising them, which is nearly as bad as painting them all with the same brush

Packing your bags is slower than putting items directly into trolley for later packing.

Despite what you might say/think. This thread is about you.

If you're doing a basket shop, you're not allowed to take the basket through so packing a bag (one in my case) is the only real option and it takes no time.

If a trolly shop, I pack at the car.

Not if the car in front slows to zero suddenly for no reason.