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Proof that chivalry really is dead.


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Proof that chivalry really is dead.

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  1. DeathWyrmNexus says:

    I died a little inside. I feel sorry for the little old lady.

    • republicanpsycho says:

      I dunno, I’d hesitate to help anyone ever if every person I spoke to that wasn’t wearing fatigues had the potential to have sixty pounds of c-4 strapped on or about their person.

      • ccliffe says:

        I’d hesitate to help someone.

      • Rico says:

        Yeah, but this isn’t in Iraq or Afghanistan; this definitely looks like the US.
        Look at the building in the background, the parking lot, the plants and even the way the old woman is dressed plus the fact that the soldiers aren’t in combat gear. And I don’t think she could carry 10 lbs of anything let alone 60 of C-4.

        • Maria says:

          You must be an idiot. They DO have parking lots and buildings in other countries, you know. I’ll grant you, the way the woman is dressed does not look Middle Eastern, but this isn’t necessarily in America. If it’s not a war zone, they wouldn’t be wearing combat gear all the time. It could be a country in Europe. If you weren’t there, you don’t know if one of those soldiers already asked for help and she refused. Maybe she’s the one who’s against them and not the other way around.

      • Philip says:

        Look at her! Does she look like she could carry sixty pounds of anything? She can barely lift a single box.

        And ccliffe has a point: the vegitation doesn’t look like it’s from Afghanistan or Iraq, it looks like a colder, wetter climate. Also, there is an iron fence on the background (a gray haze, with intermittent vertical stripes of more gray. The building also looks more like your average American building than a middle-eastern building.

        Besides, it’s on a parking lot. Since when does Afghanistan/Iraq have parking lots? Rectangular open areas meant for cars, perhaps even made of asphalt, but I think it’s pretty hard to find a parking lot in Afghanistan or Iraq in such a good condition as this one.

        But still, the woman has a brown skin color, so it’s still possible she’s carrying half her weight in explosives. (/sarcasm)

        • Danny says:

          Since when have you gone to Iraq/Afganistan? I’ve been there. There are most definitely parking lots there. And the green vegitation, that’s there too. It’s not a barren desert that we all like to think it is. Iraq looks like southern California and I would say that Afganistan looks similar to Nevada.

          To the caption maker, chivalry isn’t dead because some soldiers aren’t helping some old lady dragging some suitcase. Who knows what it might contain, or whether or not she refused help.

          • AFP says:

            I’d also point out that it’s possible that they were given orders along the lines of “Stay here and don’t wander off”.

      • Shipoopie says:

        Even if she could lift that much, you think 60 lbs of C4 wouldn’t hurt them at that distance with no protective gear on anyway?

    • skan says:

      dude ive cuaght old ladys like that looking for stuff to steal out of my car when i left my windows down screw chivalry

    • Joey says:

      Do you think a group of 20 year old girls would help out a 60 year old man? I highly doubt it.

  2. Uncle Fester says:

    Problem with a snapshot is that it is just that… the only context is the caption. Did one try to help and get cursed a blue streak that would have had Teamsters diving for cover, blocking their ears, or are they uniformed sociopaths who’d not help an old lady to anything save 10 inches of steel?

    One really can’t tell

    Take as teh funneh, and move on…

  3. Uncle Fester says:

    Damn you Johnny Z, I was posting the same thing, just with more tact…

    Considered joining the Diplomatic Corp?

  4. Captin lol says:

    You know you’re on the internet, right?

  5. lolbukkit says:

    Maybe she’s an insurgent. YOU DON’T KNOW. It could be a RUSE.

  6. Roxtar says:

    chivalry is dead… thanks feminism. you wanted equality, carry your own bag. that said, i would have tried to help the old lady.

    • Seth says:

      While I agree that equality means you can’t EXPECT anyone to carry bags or open doors for you based on your sex, equality does not mean that a woman must refuse such help, or that a man may not offer. Personally, I hold open doors for anyone, it doesn’t take much time, and it makes people smile. (Yeah, I’m nicer in person than on the Internet. Who isn’t?)

      I think beyond her being a woman, she is old, and looks to be in pain. That is enough reason to help anyone carry a heavy package, if you really need a reason to be nice.

    • Jackie says:

      I’ll just say that everyone should have equality and I am happy that I consider I do have equality. That being said, anyone that seems to be needing help should be helped, an old man in pain trying to move a package needs help too. I hold doors for whoever I see behind me. Why because it’s common courtesy.

      I do agree that we don’t know if someone did try to help her at some time.

    • Jocasta says:

      Someone needs a book on feminism not written by Rush Limbaugh.

    • Mark says:

      I think the unspoken thing that has caused all this confusion is that women wanted equal RIGHTS, but not equal RESPONSIBILITIES.

      Chivalry is dead, and it was killed by feminism.

  7. Mary says:

    I wouldn’t want them to help her. They are probably over seas for the whole Iraq thing and that could be a ploy to hand deliver a bomb and blow them up. I hope they come home safe and sound very soon.

  8. Jim says:

    She’s lucky she didn’t find a couple of frag-grenades lobbed at her. Look at the squinty eyes and the deceivingly crippled look!! Take out the Tango now!!!! Even if that is downtown Nebraska City!

  9. Mrs. Hooah says:

    First of all – I’m trying to figure out why an elderly Korean (I think) lady is pulling a box through a parking lot on an active military installation. Secondly, these guys do crap all day long that pansy pencil pushers choose to look down their noses at, just because they’re not brave enough to do it themselves. Thirdly – Soldiers are the biggest bunch of vulgar mofo’s I’ve ever come across. BUT, they’re also some of the most polite. They open doors, “yes ma’am”, “no ma’am”. I should know, I’ve seen these guys at their best and worst. And, after a two week field problem – if my husband is sitting in a parking lot – tired, dirty, and smelling like B-A&F, and just wants to sit there. Then, by God – I think he has that right.

    Side note: This doesn’t really anger me, because anyone who is military knows. Just like they’ll know what B A & F is ;) (I wish I didn’t know what it was, lol). I just think it’s stupid to flippantly caption something that portrays American Soldiers as anything less than brave. Yet another right, afforded by the guys in the pic.

    ~Don’t hide your military pride~

    • Mom (USA) says:

      That Korean looks conspicuously not Korean. She doesn’t even look East Asian.
      The closest to Korean that I could see her realistically being, is Sri Lankan, or possibly from southern India. African decent is more likely.

    • It’s funny. Relax, no one is taking potshots at soldiers. And soldiers are real people, they aren’t cartoon Canadian Mounties.

    • yeah right says:

      having been in the military myself, instead of just married to someone in the military, i feel like i have every right to tell the world what masogynistic a-holes MOST military men are. there are certainly exceptions, and there are plenty of them who will cover their sexist attitude with a well placed “ma’am” or two, but until you are actually a woman in the military… you will never see them at their absolute worst. even if you did marry one.

      • I agree says:

        I worked at a grocery store on a military base once. Believe me, military guys are definitely NOT the most well mannered or chivalrous group of people.I have never in my life faced such sexual harassment at any job, ever. If a day went by that I wasn’t hit on, and then called a lesbian when I turned them down or showed them my wedding ring (which doesn’t even make sense) then I considered it a good day, and that’s not even close to the worst thing that ever happened. So just because you married a good one, doesn’t mean that they’re all good, and if I want to make “flippant” comments, based on my own personal experiences, then I will. Not every man in the military is a hero.

  10. OldJokesNeverDieOfAids says:

    I think she’s a terrorist — I’ll bet she’s knitting an Afghan somewhere in secret.

  11. erihoney81 says:

    If you are told to sit there, not wander off, you sit there. And look like a lazy ass.

    • PortlandMark says:

      Just what I was thinking. “Can I help you with this? Where are you going?” “To the next village twenty miles away!” “Oh! Umm… err…”

  12. Tessie says:

    Helpin Granma… yr doin it rong.

  13. SGAStorm says:

    We don’t know what’s going on just out of frame. The uniforms they’re wearing haven’t been in use for that long so it’s not from the Katrina aftermath. Not to mention nothing there looks flooded or tore up, so it’s not likely to be Hanna or Ike.

    The building in the background does look like your standard issue brown Army or Air Force building. Since those are Army insignia and not Air Force on the ABU’s I’m going to go with Army base.

    She could be an evacuee, but there’s really no way for us to know what’s going on unless the original submitter wishes to fess up. There’s also no way for us to know what’s in that box, how she got it, or how heavy it is, so before people whip themselves up into a self-righteous frenzy we should just keep that in mind.

  14. Emilah says:

    That’s what you get for a bunch of army boys.
    If those were Marines, this would be a different picture entirely.

    (Just playin, but I agree with the other commenters, it really depends on what was going on in this picture.)

    • AFP says:

      They’d… be sitting around smoking and drinking? :-D

      (I jest, I jest, used to hang out with some Marines at my previous base)

  15. Too Good For You says:

    That’ not even a BAG, it’s a freaking sheet of cardboard or something, anyone notice it’s only like an INCH across?? God people are always so quick to insult they don’t take to time to pay attention to what’s going on first. It’s always Pass Judgement, *then* maybe an Oops later. Bunch of losers. Whoever admins this page is a loser.

  16. Biff says:

    Chivalry didn’t die, feminists killed it.

    • PiMan says:

      Truly chivalrous people help both men and women,

      • froofrou says:

        I have actually seen a “feminist” cuss out a man who opened a door for her. It’s a crap shoot as to whether you’re going to get a lady who wants nothing more than to be treated with common courtesy, a woman who doesn’t care either way, or a total feminist wacko who would rather die than let a man help her. Most guys will hedge their bets in a situation like that and just not help rather than be abused by a female.
        Then there’s my husband, who would probably pick up the rampant feminist like a two year old throwing a tantrum and gently place her inside the door he just opened before leaving her there to gnash her teeth :-) He’s been known to make me get back inside my vehicle when I get out on my own just so he can act like a man and open the door for me :-)

        • Eric says:

          If your husband would actually touch an angry woman don’t be surprised if he comes home with a face full of mace.

          • froofrou says:

            Believe it or not, the reason she’s angry would bother me more than him coming home with a facefull of mace *sigh* This country has really gone into the crapper if a man gets castigated for trying to be nice.

            • Eric says:

              There are so many bigger reasons why this country is going in the crapper instead of extreme feminism.

            • Tim says:

              then there was the fella who got maced cause the lady was simply freaking out that she was walking to her car in the parking lot … she figured he had to be after her, not simply walking to his car that happened to be next to hers. Sigh, at least it was only mace … lead is a more permanent problem

        • Tessie says:

          I once had a guy in a wheelchair cuss me out for holding the door for him, e.g., “I am NOT helpless!”, etc. I responded with a shrug instead of saying, “Fine, I’ll slam the door in your face, then”, because life only lasts so long and it doesn’t help me to get aggravated because ONE person is a rude jerk. Some men are rude jerks. Some women are rude jerks. Some children, old people, handicapped people, etc. etc. are rude jerks. I choose to hold doors for anyone who looks like they need it (wheelchair, stroller with kids, arms full of packages), let other cars merge in traffic, etc. If the other person doesn’t fall down groveling with gratitude for my saintly behavior [smirk], then so be it.

        • CaitStClair says:

          And I got cussed out recently for calling a man “sir”. That doesn’t mean I’m going to stop using it.
          Haven’t gotten cussed for holding doors open though, usually just a thanks. Although, guys, for future reference? If a gal’s holding a door open for you, just go through. It really just makes things more awkward if you try and insist on holding it so that she can go through first.

        • AFP says:

          Heh, if someone is close enough that the door will swing shut in their face, or if I’m just standing around near the door when they walk up, I’ll usually hold the door for anybody. Haven’t had anybody get mad at me yet, but then, I don’t make a production of it. Usually I just open the door and stand out of the way.

          Then there was my buddy in college, who was 10x MORE likely to hold a door open for someone who he knew would take offense at it.

      • Beth Johnson says:

        exactly

    • myboocat says:

      she is old- not just female. age deserves respect, i think. and some assistance from those more able. to blame feminisim for rudness is evidence of testosterone poising yr brain!

  17. YDFOC says:

    Get yo ass up and help yo Mama now!

  18. Uncle Fester says:

    Maybe if she’s flashed some leg….

    Ok

    No

    Not even I want that image…

  19. Ana Pires says:

    Chivalry? I would consider it more of a common courtesy thing, etiquette, whatever you want to call it. It doesn’t matter if it’s a woman or a man, young or old. You see someone struggling with something heavy, you get off our ass and go help them. :|

  20. Bindie says:

    Sure guessing as to what is really going on in this picture is up for debate, but I want to know why they are outside with out their hats on. No matter what, if you are outside in uniform then you must have a hat on unless on a flight line. Since they aren’t on a flight line, then I must wonder, if this picture is, in fact, real at all, and not staged.

    • Katie says:

      ooh nice observation.

    • johnnynascar says:

      this is a really really good observation-

    • LT_Longknife says:

      /sigh. We never wear hats in uniform. We take our covers off all the time. It is a perfectly legitimate command that is documented in AR670-1, the Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia Regulation, that soldiers which have recently performed a physical task may be instructed to remove items of clothing including cover, blouse, and boots. They may also be instructed to loosen their belts on an individual basis.

      As a cavalry soldier and officer, I have removed my cover and blouse both before, during, and after physical tasks. I have often lounged in a parking lot by my vehicle or somebody else’s, or an empty lot, waiting for a vehicle. Given that a salute to a senior officer does not require a complete and proper uniform, it would be easy for all of these soldiers to come to their feet, a proper position of attention, and conduct the ONLY courtesy REQUIRED of a military individual.

      If you want courtesy to individuals regardless of requirement, raise your children more properly.

      I make no comment on this particular image. I don’t know the context at all. I couldn’t refrain from correcting a misapprehension. Sorry, Bindie.

    • AFP says:

      More importantly, where are their reflective belts? Do these guys want to get hit by a car?!

  21. Katie says:

    Maybe they didn’t speak the same language, and they didn’t want her to think they were trying to rob her, or maybe they had asked if she needed help, and she said no.

    • Jane St.Clair says:

      I salvaged this plywood/cardboard box/whatever all by myself, damned if I’m gonna let some uppity US soliders rob me!

    • CaitStClair says:

      Ever travel to a country where you don’t know the language? You can still get your point across. I wouldn’t buy that as an excuse.

  22. Rach says:

    Sad image but I disagree with the statement. I ride the Boston subway on a regular basis, and I see people give up their seats for the elderly or pregnant people all the time, and I’ve also seen strangers help ladies with heavy items.

    • wundawomun says:

      That’s nice people are helpful in your area, because in parts of California older, preg, or crippled, etc. people need the front seats on the busses & people try to ignore them or not give up their seats.

      Also at one of the trolley stations an old man was crippled. He walked bent way over and had a rolling bag. We had to step down from the platform and back up & nobody paid attention to him at first so I had my son go help him with his bag. I felt so bad seeing him like that & we walked with him to find a bench. I just thought it was really lame that no men tried to help. One guy saw my son with the older man & gave him $2 for being a little gentleman. But it sucks seeing people in a need & others not even acknowledging them.

      • Silver Turtle says:

        Here in Central IL, we have smug a**hole students that think just because mommy and daddy are paying for their four years of drunken debauchery that they can sit in the front of the bus and not give up their seats to anyone.

        When I see a person who needs those seats, I’m always torn as to whether to give up my seat [I'm disabled] or to just throw those fools under the bus [the only thing they're good for -- greasing the wheels]

      • Nunya Biniss says:

        It also sucks you couldn’t get off your lazy ass and help him, but sent your son instead.

  23. Johnny Z says:

    Ok, in reality, you want to know what those troops are thinking? They’re thinking, “yeah, I’d hit that!”

    Don’t believe me? You’ve obviously never spent a whole lot of time around the military ;)

    • Beth Johnson says:

      yes an old, tired woman who can’t handle the burden she has. If this person was a man they should have helped him too…..it’s not about being a woman, it’s about being a person in need.

  24. Dan M says:

    A feminist’s dream come true; a woman being allowed to do things by herself rather than having to depend on a man.

  25. sarah says:

    Because they are in uniform… are they even allowed to help out the civilian? If you look close two of the guys have their over shirts on, I think they are on break. You would have to ask one of the guys who happened to be there.

  26. yayhooray says:

    NO ONE CARES ABOUT ANY OF YOUR BELIEFS
    AND FIGHTING FOR HOURS ON END ON A LOLPICTURE WONT CHANGE ANYONE’S MIND
    CHRIST
    CAPS LOCK FTW

  27. Beth Johnson says:

    it sucks how many of these men are really around–in the military, in the police and fire departments. What happened to every-day-heroes?

  28. laura in TX says:

    I can tell everyone the background of the picture. This was in Houston POD’s right after Ike hit. I know because I live down here and saw this same picture in an article about the storm. While I do agree that I wish someone there would have helped the elderly lady, I want to also put in that the soldiers are in actuality National guard troops who worked non stop so we could have power restored-and the troops in the picture were taking a well deserved break.

    Since I have the nations attention-I’d like to add that sadly those troops were sent home, it’s now over 4 weeks since Ike, we still have over 100 people missing, mainly in the Galveston/Boliver-an area 80 MILE LONG debris field with NO help from our state OR federal government in body recovery OR debris removal. We have several towns down here 95+ percent destroyed with no more media coverage or help. WHY??????

    • Isengrim says:

      Because …. everyone’s too busy rebuilding Afghanistan and helping people in Africa to care about a few fatcat Americans?

      Sorry, there’s no proper emoticon for this to express the irony and dripping sarcasm I am trying to get across.

      I notice that when disasters happen in third-world countries, there’s oodles of help. When disasters happen in say, North America, one gets only band-aids.

      Katrina is almost forgotten in the media. But even the boxing-day tsunami still pops up from time to time. Why?

      It’s the same sort of mentality that will drive people to “adopt” some third-world kid from the TV, but cause them to ignore the kid whose family needs help down the street.

      • Nunya Biniss says:

        That tsunami made Katrina look like a summer breeze. About a quarter million people dead from one big wave. To put that into perspective, it killed over 80 times as many people as were killed on 9/11.

        Not to trivialize Katrina, but that tidal wave was just so far beyond any other natural disaster that I have ever heard of, it deserves special attention. And like with Katrina, a large number of those lives could have been saved if people had been more proactive. Fuggin’ wave was hours getting to southeast India and killed people at sea level because the whole goddamned nation of Indonesia (also Thailand, Philippines, etc) failed to warn them what was coming. That was 10,000 dead who could have been saved with little effort but weren’t.

        So that wave and Katrina do have that much in common, that the incompetence of responsible parties made a bad situation worse.

  29. justin says:

    that woman should be carrying the soilders bags, if not for them she might not have the freedom to walk down the street

  30. Bada says:

    I would help because I’d like to be helped when I’m too old to pull packages.
    But I really doesn’t like people and my only motivation would be to excpetc something in return.
    Humanity is awful and just because some people are old, it doesn’t mean they are good or respectabel.

  31. Kat says:

    Chivalry is NOT dead. I’m in the SCA (www.SCA.org) and the guys won’t let me carry things that look heavy and they kiss your hand. Even if you’re a fencer like me a stab them. They hold doors too. And as for feminism IMO a strong man isn’t afraid to have a strong woman by his side.

    • johnnynascar says:

      i dig your comment- big time.

      i’m definitely a strong woman who likes to do things herself, but i’d never tell a man off for opening a door for me, or carry heavy things for me.

      awesome insight girl!

  32. Samuel Hoffman says:

    anyone notice that someone took this picture to point out the fact that the soldiers weren’t helping. and in the process they didn’t do anything to help either.

  33. nalapsi says:

    This proves that american chivalry is dead not british

  34. Paula Weber says:

    Guess what, military haters? My youngest son almost got shot for opening a door for a woman in a foreign country. Is chivalry worth his life? I don’t think so.

    • haha says:

      there national guard. what do u xpect from weekend warriors. ive helped many a iraqi woman here

    • Chris says:

      in Iraq, women are 3rd class citizens. They do everything for themselves and if the military person tries to help them out, they can get shot… by muslim law…

      Yes, we have to follow their laws in their country. You can’t look at or talk to a woman in that country without the express permission of their father or brother.

  35. Chris says:

    As a military member and a chivalrous man, i’ve gone up to older ladies like that and been shoo’d away with an angry look. A lot of the time, the older person wants to do what they’re still able to do and that’s all there is to it.

    On top of that, those Army guys were more than likely told to wait on that curb and leaving the curb would have been disobeying a direct order.

  36. Seph says:

    They prolly did offer her help and she probably turned them down.

  37. Noam says:

    Like Chris, I’m a member of the military (ANG), and even if they weren’t ordered to stay at that curb, you have no idea what they might have done that day. I’ve had days in training or at drill when I was finally allowed to rest, I didn’t want to get up again.

  38. um says:

    Johnny Z,

    this is the interwebz, if you dont like it, go die of aids.

  39. BC girl- jEN says:

    Aids WIN!

  40. Shu says:

    you never die of aids actually, you die from other diseases because aids makes your imunologic sistem almost disapear :~

  41. Uncle Fester says:

    I thought Um was a great ‘Retard with a keyboard’ win… the deep, deep stupidity of ‘Go die of AIDS’ pretty much confirms the idea that first cousins shouldn’t marry.

  42. Terran says:

    This is one of the greatest comebacks ever. WIN!

  43. FiveFootTerror says:

    True dat, yo.

  44. local says:

    And apparently makes spelling impossible.

  45. Haxalotl says:

    “imunologic sistem”

    One made up word and a letter from sounding like House M.D

  46. casprd says:

    actually there is only one cause of death no matter what led to it. Everything else is just a symptom.

  47. OfCourse says:

    Yes.

  48. Rico says:

    yeah, that actually is true

  49. shonuff says:

    half right half wrong. it’s immunity system.

  50. jo says:

    wrong again, sorry. Immune system.

  51. As long as it’s not lupus.

  52. Dani says:

    It’s not cancer, either.

  53. Hannah F. says:

    It’s never lupus!

  54. Brawl says:

    Correction fail.

  55. Not only is he witty, but by saying “fail” on a year old LOL, he proves how important and timely he is too.

  56. AFP says:

    Maybe? Could you repeat the question please?


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