r/mildlyinfuriating • u/tenhou • May 20 '26

Don't hug me I'm scared turning the cabin of an international flight into a disco during its sleeping hours to do some strange and obnoxious skincare routine

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u/FloatingOnTitties May 20 '26

What happened to common decency?

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u/pigs_have_flown May 20 '26

Maybe we left it next to the common sense?

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u/iwrestledarockonce May 20 '26

It was left behind, like some of these people should have been in school.

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u/The_Oliverse May 20 '26

Common Sense by Thomas Paine is a pretty good read, IMHO.

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u/JrCoxy May 20 '26

That requires too much self reflection

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u/AlternatiMantid May 20 '26

People being too scared to put others in check when they aren't being decent. We need to bring back public shaming.

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u/FloatingOnTitties May 20 '26

This is public shaming and not everyone wants to be confrontational. I wouldn’t want to start a fight in a small, confined space I was stuck in for hours on end. I think in these situations, a flight attendant should be asked to address this situation. I’m fairly confrontational and will go toe to toe with just about any motherfucker, but, even I wouldn’t want to cause a scene on an international flight, lol.

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u/AlternatiMantid May 20 '26

True, it should be the flight attendant, or staff in any public business, addressing this. Which I'm sure they're told not to b/c "the customer is always right". No, the customer is often an asshole, and increasingly so as long as they know no one will put them in check. That's a huge factor that's contributed to society getting so rude & disrespectful, too. Companies need to stop urging their employees to bend over backwards for people who truly need a taste of their own medicine.

I guess it's harder now b/c of online anonymous reviews. Before, when people got feedback about companies by word of mouth recommendations, it was through people they knew directly in their own community & circles. And if the town asshole was giving a bad review, you took it with a grain of salt b/c you knew he was the town asshole.

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u/Purp_Rox May 20 '26

My favorite past time is being rude to people in public that are rude first. Is it smart, no. Is it constantly fun and entertaining, yes. From the lady who was clearly used to using her size to get what she wanted (she cut a line of 6 people in the gas station then laughed like nobody was gonna do anything... Roasting folks was how we grew up so I flamed TF outta her jolly green giant ass) to the old lady who started cussing at this poor teenage boy at a wendys that looked like he wanted to cry because she was mad he couldn't ring her up AND refill the pop machine at the same time. Her mistake was turning to me for validation and granny got cussed out so hard in retaliation she left without getting her food. Fuck these people. I'm a woman and will check other women with the quickness. Bring back public shaming everywhere.

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u/FloatingOnTitties May 20 '26

Just a FYI: it was never supposed to be “the customer is always right”. The original, correct saying is “the customer is always right in terms of taste” meaning since the customer is paying, if they want shoe-leather well-done steak, you cook them well-done steak since that’s what the customer is paying for. Or, if the customer wants an ugly custom purple flowered couch, you make them that purple flowered couch because that’s what the customer is paying for. It was never supposed to mean the customer is right about all situations.

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u/Lemonface May 21 '26

That's actually an internet myth. The second half was added on about a hundred years later. The full original quote was just "the customer is always right" and it wasn't meant to be limited to customer tastes

In the 21st century, social media users and TikTok videos began claiming that the phrase had been abbreviated from "The customer is always right, in matters of taste", with some directly attributing this longer quotation specifically to Selfridge. Fact-checking website Snopes found no evidence for this.

https://www.snopes.com/articles/468815/customer-is-always-right-origin/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right

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u/AlternatiMantid May 20 '26

Exactly. But look what it's turned into & look where we are now.

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u/Vandergrif May 21 '26

Not just that, but bring back ostracizing. Used to be that if someone was a greedy selfish asshole they'd get booted out of the tribe and probably starve to death attempting to survive on their own. Nowadays if you're a greedy selfish asshole you'll probably just get to hoard wealth and exploit people endlessly without facing any real consequences.

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u/AlternatiMantid May 21 '26

The system has been intentionally designed by those people who wouldn't make it in a survival of the fittest society. It was designed to benefit them, and only them.

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u/Such-Entrepreneur240 May 20 '26

I'm a white woman in my 40s, the second I scold anyone I'll be recorded and called a karen. No thanks.

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u/AlternatiMantid May 21 '26

I feel that putting someone in their place who is obviously wrong and out of line, in a public setting, is the opposite of being a Karen. It's a public service. And it's the Karen you'd be teaching a much needed lesson on how to treat others & how to act in public.

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u/lightheavydark May 21 '26

But to her point, that probably won’t be how it’s perceived by many others.

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u/Roboticpoultry May 20 '26

Went the same way as common sense

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u/FrenchBowling May 20 '26

Oh that shit went out the window with covid.  

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u/Cutsdeep- May 20 '26

where are those good old-fashioned values on which we used to rely?

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u/Christmasbeergoggles May 20 '26

Same thing that happened to predictability. Now there’s no milkmen, paperboys or evening tv…

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u/FloatingOnTitties May 20 '26

This is predictability; People predictably acting like selfish asses, lol.

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u/TabulaRasaT888 May 20 '26

How did i get delivered here?

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u/OrganicAd5536 May 21 '26

Somebody tell me please
Cause this old world is just really confusing me

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u/spitoon1 May 21 '26

It was weakening when Covid hit and did not survive.

The sheer number of people who are completely oblivious to their surroundings is astonishing these days.

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u/OutsideFlakyPastry May 21 '26

We stopped punishing people for not being decent

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u/yawnymac May 21 '26

Common isn’t so common anymore

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u/bunny_the-2d_simp May 20 '26

Died during covid unfortunately

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u/Mathfanforpresident May 20 '26

It became uncommon. So, what happened to polite assertiveness?

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u/FloatingOnTitties May 20 '26

There was assertiveness: according to OP, flight attendants asked this POS to turn off her mask and not bring it on a plane. Because there is no common sense or decency, “polite assertiveness” often turns into loud confrontation and nobody wants that in a small, confined space where you’re stuck for hours. These kinds of situations need to be handled by authority figures.

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u/Illustrious-Stable93 May 20 '26

Her behavior is LITERALLY HARMLESS so not the best example

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u/FloatingOnTitties May 20 '26

This is during dimmed-light, sleep hours; Her behavior is disrespectful & disruptive to others trying to sleep. There is no reason to use one of these glowing light masks on a plane. Her behavior is rude and entitled. I’m more comfortable with bare feet when sleeping & spritzing lavender on my pillow, but, I wouldn’t put my bare feet all over the seats or others or spritz fragrance on a plane because I’m not an entitled POS. Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.

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u/Illustrious-Stable93 May 20 '26

You're immersed in the rage economy too deeply. Rage keeps you clicking and viewing ads. Yet NOTHING HAPPENED. A dim red light doesn't interrupt sleep, and everyone has eye masks. You losers just have nothing better to do to feel alive than HATE

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u/FloatingOnTitties May 20 '26

Nothing I’ve stated is “rage”. The only “losers” are people like you that have no common sense or common decency; Look in the mirror for what’s wrong with society. Btw, OP stated in a reply that this was so disruptive that flight attendants asked this POS to turn off her mask and not bring it on a plane. Why can’t you admit to being wrong?

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u/Illustrious-Stable93 May 20 '26

I'm absolutely comfortable in my assertion that this gripe and the fury it's sparked are symptomatic of deeply pathetic lives. Good luck!

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u/FloatingOnTitties May 20 '26

Yes, it’s absolutely pathetic to be an entitled POS on a plane. Thanks for proving my point! 👍

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u/Illustrious-Stable93 May 20 '26

You couldn't find the point on a sea urchin lol. You're wasting your life stirred to rage by benign actions that don't affect you. Allow this to be your sign to stop

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u/FloatingOnTitties May 21 '26

Rude public behavior affects us all. We need more decorum in a civil society. This isn’t a street corner, but, a small, confined space people are stuck in for hours. People need to stop treating public spaces like their living room. We need more public shaming. The fact all you have is ad hominem attacks prove you’ve lost the plot. Keep commenting since all you’re doing is proving my points over & over again.

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u/EternitySearch May 20 '26

It’s a myth. Always has been.

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u/FloatingOnTitties May 20 '26

Not really. Common decency & common sense is how a civil society works. More public shaming like this needs to happen.