Why are people jerks????

[brettdale]

Having a slow day, came across some youtube videos, apparently the current craze is called, coneing. Its when people drive up to a fast food restaurant, order a ice cream and grab it from the ice cream so the fastfood worker gets ice cream splattered all over themselves and the resturant wall.

Anit funny, and I feel sorry for the worker, so why are people jerks?

[jillan]

1. Why would anyone even think that was funny?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. None of your fuckin business!

Just kidding

[Skip Intro]

3. Why are people willingly mindless drones?

[Cleita]

4. Entitled rich kids do stuff like this to poor kids and others they feel superior to.

It get's their rocks off. I guess more of this will happen as the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. Trouble is you can't even call them jerks because they don't understand the word.

[Initech]

5. I certainly hope they're not repeat customers...

Or else they'll find things in their food that shouldn't be there. Don't be a dick to food service workers.

[mac56]

21. That was the first thing I thought of.

"A very special Blizzard for you, sir..." (hoch.. spit..)

[Yo_Mama]

6. Because they're people

Yes, this is adolescent jerkiness at its worst, but it is hardly outside the known realm of human behavior.

[Speck Tater]

7. I'm not really a jerk. I just play one on DU. nt

[MADem]

8. Why do these idiots think they won't be arrested and charged with some halfassed misdemeanor?

I hope the workers are getting the money first, and not giving the change until after the person has taken the ice cream.

This guy just grabs the ice cream with his hands--he doesn't mess w/the workers...

[SteveABG]

12. most of the ones I just watched

Appear to be the same. They just grab the ice cream and leave the cone in the worker's hand.

Pretty dumb, but it doesn't look mean.

[freshwest]

9. It's part of the increase of bullying behavior due to fascist tendencies, which are not solely

Acted out in the realm of politics and economics, but in how people treat each other. The prison guards in Nazi Germany didn't just do what they did as their job. They had to learn that they could feel powerful by practice. IMHO, we're being conditioned to do these things.

[EFerrari]

11. ^^^This.^^^

[RZM]

13. Uhh, this is one moron on youtube

Have you been to youtube? It's full of people doing stupid shit.

People acted like asses long before anybody here decided that it meant we are moving towards fascism. The difference is now these yahoos can record their idiocy and let the whole world see it.

I wouldn't read too much into it.

[Egalitarian Thug]

16. Voltaire had this to say about that;

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

And what could be more absurd than the things we believe today? True over 200 years ago, still true today.

[woo me with science]

24. Saw a TV cooking show the other day, Surveillance Fascist Restaurant

or something like that....

I hate the trend in reality shows where some panel of abusive experts scathingly critiques quivering underlings, but this one had a whole new twist.

It's a guy who goes around reforming poorly performing restaurants (a la Gordon Ramsey) by working with the owner to secretly surveil the employees with hidden cameras before humiliating and blasting them with the incriminating results.

We are being indoctrinated into fascist, punitive mindsets, where owners must be abusive and the employees must be watched, trained, and controlled. Gone is any sense that a business can or should be a common effort, where the boss and the employees work together to give the best possible service and benefit everyone.

[Nye Bevan]

26. Whoa. Granted, this behavior is stupid and immature.

But I think the "Nazi concentration camp guard" analogy might be a slight exaggeration.

[bluestateguy]

10. Fire in the hole is worse

I've seen many of the coneing videos, and while immature, it seems that many of the workers don't get doused at all.

[JFN1]

14. Because despite our technology, and shopping malls, and music, and art, and science,

we are only about one step beyond "cave man."

The mammalian part of our brains are afraid of everything (because everything can eat us) and the reptillian part of our brains (which wants to eat everything) are trying to dominate our immediate environment.

We're a very young species (the dinosaurs were around for a couple hundred million years - we're barely over a million), we're still at our beginning, and if humans survive our "childhood," we may finally grow into something more than frightened, angry savages...but personally, I think we're going to need quite a bit more time to do this, on the order of 25,000 to 100,000 more years, before we've matured beyond...this...

[brettdale]

15. Just a bit more research

Shows, that coneing has now progressed to "Fire in the Hole" thats when you throw water food or anything messy at the fast food worker, working the drive thru.

These videos are cruel in nature to see young female fast food workers, get orange jucie/ milk shakes thrown in their face, by these jackass males is terrible.

[Major Nikon]

17. The latest trend in assholery is to perform extreme stunts and put it on youtube

The reason they do it is because there is an audience for it.

[Shankapotomus]

18. From videos of coneing

it looks pretty harmless to me and it probably makes the worker's boring day a little more interesting.

[HopeHoops]

19. I can't speak for everyone, but I seem to have been born that way.

[snooper2]

20. OP Fail, as you can see by responses below- OP should post said video

of Ice Cream attack

[Javaman]

22. because we live in a society of bored people who thrive on instant gratification...

and instant gratification takes many forms.

if the person is an asshole then their form of instant gratification usually comes at the cost of others.

[JHB]

23. Because ice cream vendors don't have bazookas

I know in real life this will cause problems, but cartoons have taught me the most effective and satisfying solution is a big-ass bazooka.

[dont h8--appreciate]

25. Good forum to pose this question

And site!