Cower in fear at how one monster opens a loaf of bread

For some reason, this really hits a nerve.
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Sarah Spigelman Richter
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Living with roomates is always an adventure. You can find a new best friend. You can find the worst person you ever met. And sometimes, you can find a person who is a perfectly nice bloke who opens a package of bread like a savage beast starving for fuel.

Observe Alasdair Mckay's roomie's bread opening habit:

When Mckay posted this photo on twitter, he couldn't have imagined it would take on a life of its own with over 40,000 likes and 13,500 retweets at the time of this writing.

But people are serious about both bread and roommate behavior.

Some defend the roommate:

But most clearly think this is a sign of worse and scary things to come:

Though the tweets are in jest (we think), the fact that bread could likely go stale has apparently convinced the roomie to, "never open his bread like this again."

Be that as it may, let's not forget a final egregious sin:

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Sarah Spigelman Richter

Sarah Spigelman Richter is a contributor to Mashable's Food channel. Sarah covers everything edible, from the food industry to D.I.Y. recipes. She was previously the community manager for Tastemade NYC and her writing has been seen on The Today Show's food blog, Refinery 29, the Food Network, and Gothamist. She has also developed recipes for Tabasco and other nationally recognized brands and has blogged for 5 years at "Fritos and Foie Gras." Sarah is obsessed with "Orphan Black" and chili-cheese Fritos and is still depressed that Loehmann's closed.

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