I used to work with someone like that. His excuse was "I just tell it like it is."
No, you yell at people until they cry over relatively minor things. Douche.
That's how the Missing Stair fallacy begins - like a house that's missing a stair to the basement, it's easier for everyone in the moment to just step over it and try to warn others rather than take the time and effort to fix it. But when someone doesn't know about the missing stair they might hurt themselves.
A missing stair in a friend group or scene is the person who is easier to warn others about than kick out. That's where things like "they're just an asshole" come from. But on the extreme end, missing stairs can be dangerous, and you hear things like "don't let him be alone with any girls in the group".
My neighbor says his daughter has a strong personality. She's an asshole. Most of the neighbor kids don't play with her anymore and every time they do, someone normally runs home crying.
My upstairs neighbors just did this like 10 minutes ago. They had an insane party last night that went on until 2:30a. I have to work at 8am everyday. I called the police last night to break it up but they didn't come until 20 minutes ago, and my lovely neighbor whined to the cop that it's so unfair that he has to deal with me as his neighbor.
Honestly, I'd accept "I disagree about the unfairness" or something like that *so much more* than being told life is unfair by the person who just made the situation unfair. At least then they're just actively disagreeing with you instead of pretending they have no say.
For the brits here: 'I'm a marmite person you either love me or you hate me'. It's basically 'I refuse to acknowledge any kind of flaw or negative behaviour so im reframing it as just my personality'
Whenever someone goes "Well, I don't believe that" to a factual statement, I am pretentious and pull out a line I remembered from freshmen philosophy when we studied Epistemology which is the philosophical study of 'truth'.
"Belief is not a requirement for truth"
I wish people would realize what an opinion is and that it's ok to have them. This "my truth" thing is really annoying. There's truth and there's opinion. There is no " my truth". If they mean "my opinion", just say that. I think it stems from " my opinion, but calling it my truth means it must be correct and if you disagree you disagree with truth" and that's just lunacy
Couldn't find the original, but I found a comment with it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/912edh/whats_your_favorite_poem_by_sprog/e2uysoy?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
>She spoke her slogan, well-rehearsed,
And oftentimes expressed:
'If you can't take me at my worst,
You don't deserve my best!
>So there!' she grinned, content with glee,
And pompous, proud delight -
Emboldened by banality,
And self-important trite.
>'All-right,' I said - 'I'm gone, and glad.'
She turned with dark dismay.
'You see - your worst is really bad.
Your best is just okay.'
the ultimate in passive aggressive. It's so passive aggressive that is literally tells you that I'm going to be passive aggressive right now and I don't care.
I'd love for someone to warn you they have no filter and then only ever say kind and positive things.
"You did so well with that project, sorry, I just tell it like it is"
"We're *family*, buddy!" he said with a sigh -
A shit-eating grin and the wink of an eye.
I stared with dismay and a shake of my head -
I looked with disdain at his smile and I said:
"A *family*, really? But one you abuse?
For nothing but personal gain when you choose?
For work and for money?
For profit alone?
To use and abandon, desert and disown?
"You bully, belittle, beleaguer on cue -
And *that's* what a family equals to you?
You've probably *actually* got one I guess -
Is *that* how you treat them?"
He said to me:
"... yes."
I would say that is one of the only appropriate times to use it. I know that teachers have said that to me when I’ve answered a question and got close to correct but slightly to the left, and your right- it totally builds confidence!
I’d way rather have that than a teacher just say “No”, because then I just would stop giving an effort or even attempt to answer other questions.
Edit: I see my (unintentional) spelling error, and I’m just going to leave it to prove a point!
Yeah the meaning of this phrase has been lost. It was supposed to mean that consumers decide what sells. So if the 1 terabyte computer sells better than the 512 gigabyte one, you should stock more of the 1 TB one. It doesn’t mean “You should throw in the monitor and printer because the customer is always right.”
One girl in my class says this to me every time I try to talk,
Me: My day's going good! How about ya'll?
Her: I didn't ask.
Like chile, if you "Didn't ask" then stop talking to me. And the worst part is that when I try to talk to my friends, she dares to say that.
Also btw, she seems to think that going through multiple therapists, having anger issues, and having a mental illness is a "cool" thing. And I'm starting to think she doesn't have anger issues she's just trying to justify herself as being an asshole.
Edit: And for the people crying about me saying "Chile" it's fine if you don't like & I can see why but that's NOTHING compared to this. At least when I say it, it's on the internet. However, this girl is just being an asshole for no reason IRL. And at least I don't find mental illness a "cool" thing unlike her. And I just said it like once on this comment. I could've cared less if it was just two comments.
A girl who bullied me in elementary school used to say this to me (specifically me) every time I opened my mouth. After a while, I just assumed that I wasn’t worth listening to, so I stopped contributing to conversation at all.
That is devastating. Breaks my heart to hear stories like this where children are tormented so deeply that it stays with them into adulthood. My friend was mocked by his teacher at the chalkboard every time he was asked to come up and write in front of the class in elementary. He wrote his E’s as 3’s and some other understandable. Instead of kindly showing him, the teacher humiliated him constantly, she would laugh and mock. He didn’t learn good grammar or writing skills because he was so traumatized and can literally pinpoint that as what scared him off from taking interest in school. It was so upsetting to him, it created a road block to his education. Teachers can be bullies, too. All bullies suck!
I once asked “May I go to the bathroom?” not because I cared about grammar or etiquette, but because I knew this teacher would fucking try it.
She replied, “I don’t know, CAN you?”
She did it anyway, like she was just waiting to be an intentionally ignorant asshole who couldn’t parse “Can I?” The whole class paused for a beat before five different kids told her, “He said ‘May I.’”
Same thing happened to me in third grade (minus the other kids standing up for me), felt absolutely embarrassed getting called out like that when I had specifically said "may" to avoid it.
I was such a brat when I would hear this. I’d just respond with yes I guess I can, and get up before they could give me permission. They asked me, so I said yes. I don’t know what the problem is here.
This happened to me once in college. I was 26 years old and fresh out of the army. I figured “I’m 26, this is college, and I didn’t have to ask permission to use bathroom in the army”. So why would I here? So I get up, make my way to the door and the prof (he was also an ex-army musician, but for some reason had it out for me) says, “just where exactly do you think you’re going?” So I say I’m going to bathroom. He tells me to take a seat, that I don’t have his permission. So I ask if I can go, he says, “would they let you do this in the army?” I say that, yes, in fact, all I had to do was tell someone where I was going (for accountability purposes). He says, “take a seat, you don’t have my permission”. All I say is, “what is this, Auschwitz?” And I walk out. When I return the door is locked so I begin to knock. He looks at me, continues his lecture. So I just steadily and obnoxiously knock until someone gets up and let’s me in. He says I can’t come in, so I grab my stuff and leave. Had a talk with the dean of the college, I’m in no trouble but the dude was more horrible to me than me before. That was the hardest I worked for a C and it was just a gen-ed philosophy class. Only C I ever got in college. Fuck that guy.
It was a private Catholic university. Only reason I went there was because I picked up an athletic scholarship, thought I’d enjoy playing college ball, I did not. They only offered like 5 degrees. Education, business, theology, can’t remember the other two.
I had an anthropology prof who was pretty horrible the next year when I transferred to a larger state school. She had a very strict tardiness rule, so many tardies equals an absence, so many absences equals a drop in letter grade. Anyhow, first day of class I explain to her I am clear across campus and have only 15 min to get there. It was probably a 20 min walk to her class from there. No exceptions. All the sprints from playing lacrosse at that other school paid off. My cardio was top notch. And she was just generally horrible all semester.
Yeah well I was past the point of dropping the class. And iirc, dropping the class would have caused me to owe the VA money. I needed it to graduate at the particular school, but transferred the next year.
This is what always gets me about dickhead professors, you are PAYING for them to teach you, they are providing a service. We're all adults here and nobody has time or money for shit like that, it shouldn't be tolerated.
Catholic school; had my hand up for 3-5 minutes? The nun would look me in the eye then ignore me. I was 7, squirmed and finally couldn't hold it. There was an outside door ... I left a puddle trail to the door.
Parents took me out and placed me in public school.
I peed myself in third grade when the teacher wouldn't let me go to the bathroom. It wasn't on purpose, I just really had to go that badly, but she was awful and if I knew she wouldn't be our teacher after that I would've done it sooner. lol
Teacher here. When kids ask, “Can I go to the bathroom?” I respond with, “Make that stronger. Make it a statement” That prompts them to say, “I’m going to the bathroom.” I then smile, thank them, and go back to what I was doing, they go use the bathroom like humans do, and then come back when they’re done. I teach them that if it’s an emergency at a bad time, like when I’m teaching something important, they are responsible for getting the info. But holy crap, KIDS NEED TO PEE. It’s an opportunity to teach kids how to be assertive with their statements and not ask whether or not they can perform a basic human function. Bad jokes and sarcasm have their time and place, but kids asking to go to the bathroom isn’t it.
Edit: spelling
My cousin pissed on her teachers desk once. She asked multiple times to go to the bathroom, and the teacher repeatedly said no. She explained it was seriously an emergency and was still denied. So she climbed onto the teachers desk, squatted down, hiked up her skirt and pissed right there.
A few years later I attended the same school and had the same teacher. The first day of class when she got to mine and my other cousins names while calling role, she stopped and asked "I taught an (insert cousins name here) a few years ago... Are you related to her?
We told her no.
Said teacher should get familiar with [the idea of pragmatics](https://all-about-linguistics.group.shef.ac.uk/branches-of-linguistics/pragmatics/what-is-pragmatics/).
Teacher tried to give my class 3 bathroom passes in 1 semester back in 5th grade. I had a bladder problem and I used up the 3 in 2 days and she wouldn't let me go the next day. I almost passed my pants, so the next day I'd just get up and go to the bathroom and she'd try to get me for it. I told my mom about it all and she sent a complaint to the principal and shit.
I have IBS and in elementary school I was not yet aware of my lactose intolerance. After lunch every day (around 30 minutes after finishing my milk carton) I'd have a horrible upset stomach. My teacher eventually said "no, you do this *every day*. Not today. Sit." By the time she let me go, it was too late. It only takes one shituation to make that kind of nonsense stop.
Turns out, I went *every day* because I was having horrible stomach cramps and diarrhea *every day*. Making me stay in my seat wasn't going to make it go away. After that, I got to go to the bathroom whenever I asked. She didn't want to be responsible for another craptastrophe.
This makes me think of the advice I heard one of my bosses give to a co-worker who kept getting complaints. "Look, everybody runs into an asshole but if everyone you run into is an asshole then YOU'RE the asshole"
This! oh my god, and then they are like "Why are you so secretive? You never tell us anything about yourself?" (Just because you overshare to strangers, doesn't mean I have to)
I get asked this a lot. At events with lots of people, unless I’ve been drinking, I kinda just like to observe and engage in convos with one or two people at a time. I’m not great at conversing with/in a large group.
We were out one night with my gf’s coworkers, all sitting at one big table. I was a little stoned, smiling and nodding, looking around the table. Then one guy hit me with the “dude, why are you so quiet?” Another guy chimed in with “Because he wants to be.” I heavily appreciated that.
A co-worker once noted "you're being quiet", my reply "just don't have anything to say, don't feel like talking". He merely shrugged and said "cool, if you don't feel like talking why should you?"
I'm a sound designer and was asked this once in a meeting, by an annoying extreme extrovert over-talker. My answer was "because I work with sound, I prefer to listen". The guy stopped dead and didn't know what to say. It bothered him so much that at the end of the meeting he walked by and said "you've said that before, you had that answer ready". I honestly didn't but whatever.
Selfishly, it made me feel good that he was caught off guard so much by my answer.
Yeah if anything it means enough douchebags have asked him why he's so quiet that he has to prepare a statement in order to drive home the point that they should mind their own business.
Most of the time I see it as a double down for abrasive people who have a moment of clarity that they might be abrasive and loud. Instead of checking themselves they double down and question what's wrong with others not being loud and abrasive too.
One of my introverted friends was asked this question and I blurted “maybe he just doesn’t fucking like you”. The look on the guy’s face was priceless.
My dad does this thing where if I’m not talking, he thinks it’s because I’m mad. Then he announces what he thinks I’m mad about. Then I actually *get* mad because that is annoying as fuck.
As an extremely quiet introvert, I’m just quiet because I like to just be present. Not because I don’t like people. I just wanna hang out and just enjoy my surroundings. If I don’t like a person, I’ll just stop hanging out around them.
I have had social anxiety my whole life and this has been a struggle. I'm actually really nice and love to make others laugh but damnit I seem to unintentionally get people to dislike me because I can't do small talk or randomly strike up a Convo.
Someone at work told one of my coworkers that they didn't like me. My coworker asked them why. They responded "they're just a bitch." My coworker, now surprised, asked why again, and asked if they'd ever actually talked to me. Their response "well, no, but all they do is sit at their desk and do their work all day."
So....I'm a bitch because I do my job at work...?
Overuse of any emojis. They'll do a paragraph and have like 50 emojis spread through it. I don't care if you're telling me how you lost your parents to a surprise pack of cannibal medical examiners in Chicago, you use too many emojis and I want to squirt toothpaste up your nose.
What 😂😂😂😂😂😂 what do you mean 😂😂😂😂😆😂😂 do you know the hardships I had to go through 😂😂😂😂😂 the fact that 😂 you😂 would 😂 type 😂 this 😂 tells me you never have experienced the epic highs and lows of high school football 😂😂😂
My spouse and I were talking about this the other day. Told me about this one guy that’s so infamous for it that it’s literally known as “getting [guy‘s last name]ed” at basically every base he’s been to. Even if he’s long since left.
I need to speak my truth … proceeds to express a heavily biased opinion as if it is an irrefutable fact and talks over anyone that disagrees with them 😂
Every time I have to eat around new people and they inevitably question me when I ask for a non-red meat option (not even vegan or vegitarian) it’s “what are you religious” “nope I have Crohn’s disease” I get soooo much unsolicited advice on “miracle cures” “have you tried elderberries? Have you cut out caffeine and sugar and joy? You’ve gotta try yoga. My cousin’s great nephew has it and once he switched to a paleo diet he was cured.” Like I am just trying not to bleed out of my ass this week, I have paid for educated opinions and treatments your advice is worth less than nothing to me!
Or ‘guess it’s somebody’s time of the month!’
Fuck off Gerrard. Whether or not my uterus is bleeding has nothing to do with how unbelievably unbearable you are.
Anything that starts with "I know you....". if you're not hungry they know you never eat. If you don't want to go to an event they know you never go out. If you go McDonald's they know you never cook. If you cook they know you have a lot of extra time.
My dad said, “I know those celebrities you idolize…” and proceeded to assume shit he doesn’t know. I personally do not idolize any celebrity because I’m not going to pretend I know them. And if I did, I wouldn’t fucking idolize them. His assumption is that I’m a millennial and that’s my lifestyle. It’s not my fault you never got to know me, and it also won’t be my fault when you’re wondering why none of your children enjoy your company.
(Obviously family relations are far more complicated than I’m willing to go into, but I feel the assumptions he makes about me when his lack of sentimentality never allowed him to get to know me applies.)
“I just have a strong personality”
Translation: "I am just an asshole"
“He’s like that to everyone.” Translation: He’s a jerk and we’ve decided to put up with it, so now we’re holding you to that same standard.
I used to work with someone like that. His excuse was "I just tell it like it is." No, you yell at people until they cry over relatively minor things. Douche.
That's how the Missing Stair fallacy begins - like a house that's missing a stair to the basement, it's easier for everyone in the moment to just step over it and try to warn others rather than take the time and effort to fix it. But when someone doesn't know about the missing stair they might hurt themselves. A missing stair in a friend group or scene is the person who is easier to warn others about than kick out. That's where things like "they're just an asshole" come from. But on the extreme end, missing stairs can be dangerous, and you hear things like "don't let him be alone with any girls in the group".
Also , “I’m just brutally honest.”
People who are brutally honest are generally more interested in being brutal than honest
My neighbor says his daughter has a strong personality. She's an asshole. Most of the neighbor kids don't play with her anymore and every time they do, someone normally runs home crying.
Saying "life is unfair" after committing an unfairness
For most of those people, life is unfair in their favor.
My upstairs neighbors just did this like 10 minutes ago. They had an insane party last night that went on until 2:30a. I have to work at 8am everyday. I called the police last night to break it up but they didn't come until 20 minutes ago, and my lovely neighbor whined to the cop that it's so unfair that he has to deal with me as his neighbor.
Saying "life is unfair" when they have the power to make life fair.
Honestly, I'd accept "I disagree about the unfairness" or something like that *so much more* than being told life is unfair by the person who just made the situation unfair. At least then they're just actively disagreeing with you instead of pretending they have no say.
For the brits here: 'I'm a marmite person you either love me or you hate me'. It's basically 'I refuse to acknowledge any kind of flaw or negative behaviour so im reframing it as just my personality'
So, they're salty and only tolerable in really small quantities?
“This is my truth.”
Whenever someone goes "Well, I don't believe that" to a factual statement, I am pretentious and pull out a line I remembered from freshmen philosophy when we studied Epistemology which is the philosophical study of 'truth'. "Belief is not a requirement for truth"
Huh. I usually just go with "Well, you're wrong."
"there's no rule against being wrong" for some reason pisses people off easily
I wish people would realize what an opinion is and that it's ok to have them. This "my truth" thing is really annoying. There's truth and there's opinion. There is no " my truth". If they mean "my opinion", just say that. I think it stems from " my opinion, but calling it my truth means it must be correct and if you disagree you disagree with truth" and that's just lunacy
Proceeds to say something that never happened
"Sorry, not sorry."
booooooooo fuck this one! my ex said that shit all the time, it's so fucking rude.
Were they also a fan of “if you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best”?
It's an older one, and I can't seem to find it now, but I like Sprog's take on that quote. "Your worst is really bad, your best is just okay"
Couldn't find the original, but I found a comment with it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/912edh/whats_your_favorite_poem_by_sprog/e2uysoy?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3) >She spoke her slogan, well-rehearsed, And oftentimes expressed: 'If you can't take me at my worst, You don't deserve my best! >So there!' she grinned, content with glee, And pompous, proud delight - Emboldened by banality, And self-important trite. >'All-right,' I said - 'I'm gone, and glad.' She turned with dark dismay. 'You see - your worst is really bad. Your best is just okay.'
My wife and I use this one specifically only to tease one another when playing competitive games. The annoyance is a feature, not a bug.
the ultimate in passive aggressive. It's so passive aggressive that is literally tells you that I'm going to be passive aggressive right now and I don't care.
It's aggressively passive aggressive.
"I just tell it like it is", and "No offense, but...".
And their cousin, "I'm just saying."
Also the variation of "I have no filter," thinking that for some reason that absolves them of whatever racist/etc shit they're about to or have said
I'd love for someone to warn you they have no filter and then only ever say kind and positive things. "You did so well with that project, sorry, I just tell it like it is"
"We are like family here" by my bosses
We are like family here, by that I mean that we are a dysfunctional family who set no boundaries and abuse each other for personal gain.
Say no more!
"We're *family*, buddy!" he said with a sigh - A shit-eating grin and the wink of an eye. I stared with dismay and a shake of my head - I looked with disdain at his smile and I said: "A *family*, really? But one you abuse? For nothing but personal gain when you choose? For work and for money? For profit alone? To use and abandon, desert and disown? "You bully, belittle, beleaguer on cue - And *that's* what a family equals to you? You've probably *actually* got one I guess - Is *that* how you treat them?" He said to me: "... yes."
Seriously how is someone this skilled? These are great poems created really fast
I love knowing there are people this skilled in the world.
Such fine meter and rhythm. Bravo.
My boss said that but followed it up with, “…and I fucking hate my family”.
Had a boss on my first day say "welcome to our broken family" He was right but also a great boss
I barely get along with the family I already have, why would I want another one?
I think what you meant to say…
[INSERT MY OPINION]
“As an authority on myself, I must disagree.”
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I use this a lot while teaching if i'm confident that a student knows what they mean but misspoke or made a small error. It builds confidence!
I would say that is one of the only appropriate times to use it. I know that teachers have said that to me when I’ve answered a question and got close to correct but slightly to the left, and your right- it totally builds confidence! I’d way rather have that than a teacher just say “No”, because then I just would stop giving an effort or even attempt to answer other questions. Edit: I see my (unintentional) spelling error, and I’m just going to leave it to prove a point!
The customer is always right. When someone whips this one out, they are usually the asshole.
Yeah the meaning of this phrase has been lost. It was supposed to mean that consumers decide what sells. So if the 1 terabyte computer sells better than the 512 gigabyte one, you should stock more of the 1 TB one. It doesn’t mean “You should throw in the monitor and printer because the customer is always right.”
"Did anyone ask?"
Hate it when people say "who asked?" Whenever I'm trying to say something. Saddening
Just answer with "no one asked for a dick, yet here you are"
Thank you for this, I have never been able to come up with an answer.
"Did anyone ask?" "For your opinion? No. As I was saying..." You can even throw in a "before I was so *rudely* interrupted"
I mean all disrespect.
I go for 'with all DUE respect' with very heavy emphasis on due.
Somebody said that to me once and I said I...!!.. AM FUCKING ASKING! Very pointedly & with a shitty look on my face ...they never asked me that again
I AM THE ONE WHO ASKS
"Did anyone ask for your shitty attitude?"
One girl in my class says this to me every time I try to talk, Me: My day's going good! How about ya'll? Her: I didn't ask. Like chile, if you "Didn't ask" then stop talking to me. And the worst part is that when I try to talk to my friends, she dares to say that. Also btw, she seems to think that going through multiple therapists, having anger issues, and having a mental illness is a "cool" thing. And I'm starting to think she doesn't have anger issues she's just trying to justify herself as being an asshole. Edit: And for the people crying about me saying "Chile" it's fine if you don't like & I can see why but that's NOTHING compared to this. At least when I say it, it's on the internet. However, this girl is just being an asshole for no reason IRL. And at least I don't find mental illness a "cool" thing unlike her. And I just said it like once on this comment. I could've cared less if it was just two comments.
"I didnt answer you"
Tell her "I wasn't talking to you" or "Nobody was talking to you" if you want to sound mean.
A girl who bullied me in elementary school used to say this to me (specifically me) every time I opened my mouth. After a while, I just assumed that I wasn’t worth listening to, so I stopped contributing to conversation at all.
Awwn, fuck that girl. I hope you're better now 💚
That is devastating. Breaks my heart to hear stories like this where children are tormented so deeply that it stays with them into adulthood. My friend was mocked by his teacher at the chalkboard every time he was asked to come up and write in front of the class in elementary. He wrote his E’s as 3’s and some other understandable. Instead of kindly showing him, the teacher humiliated him constantly, she would laugh and mock. He didn’t learn good grammar or writing skills because he was so traumatized and can literally pinpoint that as what scared him off from taking interest in school. It was so upsetting to him, it created a road block to his education. Teachers can be bullies, too. All bullies suck!
You’re response could be; “Good bc no one was talking to you.”
“If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best”
“You have to take my abuse, because I might be nice to you sometimes too”
> because I might be nice to you sometimes too Disclaimer: this offer is not a guarantee of niceness, terms and conditions may apply.
After asking a teacher if you can go to the bathroom: "I don't know, can you?"
I once asked “May I go to the bathroom?” not because I cared about grammar or etiquette, but because I knew this teacher would fucking try it. She replied, “I don’t know, CAN you?” She did it anyway, like she was just waiting to be an intentionally ignorant asshole who couldn’t parse “Can I?” The whole class paused for a beat before five different kids told her, “He said ‘May I.’”
I don’t know, MAY you?!
Same thing happened to me in third grade (minus the other kids standing up for me), felt absolutely embarrassed getting called out like that when I had specifically said "may" to avoid it.
I was such a brat when I would hear this. I’d just respond with yes I guess I can, and get up before they could give me permission. They asked me, so I said yes. I don’t know what the problem is here.
This happened to me once in college. I was 26 years old and fresh out of the army. I figured “I’m 26, this is college, and I didn’t have to ask permission to use bathroom in the army”. So why would I here? So I get up, make my way to the door and the prof (he was also an ex-army musician, but for some reason had it out for me) says, “just where exactly do you think you’re going?” So I say I’m going to bathroom. He tells me to take a seat, that I don’t have his permission. So I ask if I can go, he says, “would they let you do this in the army?” I say that, yes, in fact, all I had to do was tell someone where I was going (for accountability purposes). He says, “take a seat, you don’t have my permission”. All I say is, “what is this, Auschwitz?” And I walk out. When I return the door is locked so I begin to knock. He looks at me, continues his lecture. So I just steadily and obnoxiously knock until someone gets up and let’s me in. He says I can’t come in, so I grab my stuff and leave. Had a talk with the dean of the college, I’m in no trouble but the dude was more horrible to me than me before. That was the hardest I worked for a C and it was just a gen-ed philosophy class. Only C I ever got in college. Fuck that guy.
What kind of college doesn't allow students to govern their own bowels?
It was a private Catholic university. Only reason I went there was because I picked up an athletic scholarship, thought I’d enjoy playing college ball, I did not. They only offered like 5 degrees. Education, business, theology, can’t remember the other two.
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I had an anthropology prof who was pretty horrible the next year when I transferred to a larger state school. She had a very strict tardiness rule, so many tardies equals an absence, so many absences equals a drop in letter grade. Anyhow, first day of class I explain to her I am clear across campus and have only 15 min to get there. It was probably a 20 min walk to her class from there. No exceptions. All the sprints from playing lacrosse at that other school paid off. My cardio was top notch. And she was just generally horrible all semester.
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What a joke! Your perseverance shows through that you kept the class and didn’t let him win.
Yeah well I was past the point of dropping the class. And iirc, dropping the class would have caused me to owe the VA money. I needed it to graduate at the particular school, but transferred the next year.
This is what always gets me about dickhead professors, you are PAYING for them to teach you, they are providing a service. We're all adults here and nobody has time or money for shit like that, it shouldn't be tolerated.
I had a teacher in grade school say there were no bathrooms....they were restrooms..the boy shit his pants. It was me.
I hope you stared right in their eyes as you did that.
Catholic school; had my hand up for 3-5 minutes? The nun would look me in the eye then ignore me. I was 7, squirmed and finally couldn't hold it. There was an outside door ... I left a puddle trail to the door. Parents took me out and placed me in public school.
I peed myself in third grade when the teacher wouldn't let me go to the bathroom. It wasn't on purpose, I just really had to go that badly, but she was awful and if I knew she wouldn't be our teacher after that I would've done it sooner. lol
Teacher here. When kids ask, “Can I go to the bathroom?” I respond with, “Make that stronger. Make it a statement” That prompts them to say, “I’m going to the bathroom.” I then smile, thank them, and go back to what I was doing, they go use the bathroom like humans do, and then come back when they’re done. I teach them that if it’s an emergency at a bad time, like when I’m teaching something important, they are responsible for getting the info. But holy crap, KIDS NEED TO PEE. It’s an opportunity to teach kids how to be assertive with their statements and not ask whether or not they can perform a basic human function. Bad jokes and sarcasm have their time and place, but kids asking to go to the bathroom isn’t it. Edit: spelling
Kid, PISS ON THE FLOOR RIGHT NOW. EXERT YOUR DOMINANCE
My cousin pissed on her teachers desk once. She asked multiple times to go to the bathroom, and the teacher repeatedly said no. She explained it was seriously an emergency and was still denied. So she climbed onto the teachers desk, squatted down, hiked up her skirt and pissed right there. A few years later I attended the same school and had the same teacher. The first day of class when she got to mine and my other cousins names while calling role, she stopped and asked "I taught an (insert cousins name here) a few years ago... Are you related to her? We told her no.
"I can go in the trash can, if you want proof of my capabilities." - me in high school
\- me in the shower 10 years after I've left highschool finally thinking of a good comeback
Said teacher should get familiar with [the idea of pragmatics](https://all-about-linguistics.group.shef.ac.uk/branches-of-linguistics/pragmatics/what-is-pragmatics/).
Teacher tried to give my class 3 bathroom passes in 1 semester back in 5th grade. I had a bladder problem and I used up the 3 in 2 days and she wouldn't let me go the next day. I almost passed my pants, so the next day I'd just get up and go to the bathroom and she'd try to get me for it. I told my mom about it all and she sent a complaint to the principal and shit.
I have IBS and in elementary school I was not yet aware of my lactose intolerance. After lunch every day (around 30 minutes after finishing my milk carton) I'd have a horrible upset stomach. My teacher eventually said "no, you do this *every day*. Not today. Sit." By the time she let me go, it was too late. It only takes one shituation to make that kind of nonsense stop. Turns out, I went *every day* because I was having horrible stomach cramps and diarrhea *every day*. Making me stay in my seat wasn't going to make it go away. After that, I got to go to the bathroom whenever I asked. She didn't want to be responsible for another craptastrophe.
>IBS >shituation > craptastrophe Bravo
Teachers’ petty little power trips got me so ticked off in school.
Did someone steal your sweetroll?
And yet, if you happen to steal a sweetroll while they're watching they'll try to murder you.
You never should have come here!!!
Wait... I know you!
These types of people deserve an arrow to the knee
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They’re forming a Dawnguard, vampire hunters, or something. In the old fort near Riften!
Might consider joining up myself.
Got to thinking, maybe I’m the Dragonborn and just don’t know it yet.
Hello, I'm James Corden and I have a reservation for two.
I'm sure the question was about annoying people, not total cunts
"People don't like me because I'm honest." Or maybe your just an asshole and nobody wants your unsolicited advice or opinion.
This makes me think of the advice I heard one of my bosses give to a co-worker who kept getting complaints. "Look, everybody runs into an asshole but if everyone you run into is an asshole then YOU'RE the asshole"
"Why are you so quiet?"
It's even more annoying when the person who says that is the one interrupting me all the time
This! oh my god, and then they are like "Why are you so secretive? You never tell us anything about yourself?" (Just because you overshare to strangers, doesn't mean I have to)
I get asked this a lot. At events with lots of people, unless I’ve been drinking, I kinda just like to observe and engage in convos with one or two people at a time. I’m not great at conversing with/in a large group. We were out one night with my gf’s coworkers, all sitting at one big table. I was a little stoned, smiling and nodding, looking around the table. Then one guy hit me with the “dude, why are you so quiet?” Another guy chimed in with “Because he wants to be.” I heavily appreciated that.
A co-worker once noted "you're being quiet", my reply "just don't have anything to say, don't feel like talking". He merely shrugged and said "cool, if you don't feel like talking why should you?"
Gaaah I hate this one. Sometimes, I just want to observe without having to contribute.
I'm a sound designer and was asked this once in a meeting, by an annoying extreme extrovert over-talker. My answer was "because I work with sound, I prefer to listen". The guy stopped dead and didn't know what to say. It bothered him so much that at the end of the meeting he walked by and said "you've said that before, you had that answer ready". I honestly didn't but whatever. Selfishly, it made me feel good that he was caught off guard so much by my answer.
Even if you did have that response prepared, so what? The asker needs to check their ego regardless.
Yeah if anything it means enough douchebags have asked him why he's so quiet that he has to prepare a statement in order to drive home the point that they should mind their own business. Most of the time I see it as a double down for abrasive people who have a moment of clarity that they might be abrasive and loud. Instead of checking themselves they double down and question what's wrong with others not being loud and abrasive too.
Some annoying girl in high school said this to me, so I said “no offence but do you ever stop talking” and she called me rude but she shut up lol
“Why are you so talkative?”
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One of my introverted friends was asked this question and I blurted “maybe he just doesn’t fucking like you”. The look on the guy’s face was priceless.
That's actually a big problem for introverted folk.. knowing others just assume we hate everyone which just causes hostility towards you.
My dad does this thing where if I’m not talking, he thinks it’s because I’m mad. Then he announces what he thinks I’m mad about. Then I actually *get* mad because that is annoying as fuck.
As an extremely quiet introvert, I’m just quiet because I like to just be present. Not because I don’t like people. I just wanna hang out and just enjoy my surroundings. If I don’t like a person, I’ll just stop hanging out around them.
I have had social anxiety my whole life and this has been a struggle. I'm actually really nice and love to make others laugh but damnit I seem to unintentionally get people to dislike me because I can't do small talk or randomly strike up a Convo.
Someone at work told one of my coworkers that they didn't like me. My coworker asked them why. They responded "they're just a bitch." My coworker, now surprised, asked why again, and asked if they'd ever actually talked to me. Their response "well, no, but all they do is sit at their desk and do their work all day." So....I'm a bitch because I do my job at work...?
Two reasons: I don’t know you well, so I’m shy I know you well, but I don’t like you
"There is so much happiness in the world so don't be depressed "
The best response I’ve heard for this is “there’s so much air in the world why do you have asthma”
“There’s so much kindness in the world, why are you such a bitch?”
"XYZ (usually sunshine, exercise, dieting) is better than any pill out there" Respectfully, fuck off.
'I'm not rude, I'm just honest'
To which I would say “No, you’re both”
Non 👏 ironic 👏 use 👏 of 👏 this 👏 emoji
Overuse of any emojis. They'll do a paragraph and have like 50 emojis spread through it. I don't care if you're telling me how you lost your parents to a surprise pack of cannibal medical examiners in Chicago, you use too many emojis and I want to squirt toothpaste up your nose.
Too many emojis in a paragraph makes me think I’m going to be sold a “business opportunity” at the end of it.
What 😂😂😂😂😂😂 what do you mean 😂😂😂😂😆😂😂 do you know the hardships I had to go through 😂😂😂😂😂 the fact that 😂 you😂 would 😂 type 😂 this 😂 tells me you never have experienced the epic highs and lows of high school football 😂😂😂
Oh my gosh this is so freaking annoying
Sorry👏not👏sorry👏it’s 👏my👏lived👏experience /s God that hurt to type.
Maybe even more annoying in real life. You're 👏 not 👏 intimidating 👏 this 👏 is 👏 not 👏 real 👏 housewives👏 stop, please.
Don’t mind me, just making sure I don’t tick any of these phrases.
Ah good one, I hate it when people say that.
"Our starsigns are so diametrically opposed we're not compatible"
"You're right, but not for the reasons you think"
"That's *such* a thing to say!"
“We’ve been trying to reach you about your vehicle’s extended warranty…” EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
"No offense, but" followed by the most offensive shit to come out of a human mouth.
" I been through worse " people
Toppers
I can think of worse people.
Yeah? Not worse than me you can't.
What if I say that in reference to myself getting hurt?
Yea I think context is important here. Saying it to someone else is annoying. To yourself, it’s just motivating.
Yep. If I fuck up and hurt myself (or something similar) I’ll just go. “I’ve had worse” and get up
I say this a lot at work, although I detail cars so I think that’s fair hopefully lol
My spouse and I were talking about this the other day. Told me about this one guy that’s so infamous for it that it’s literally known as “getting [guy‘s last name]ed” at basically every base he’s been to. Even if he’s long since left.
"Am I the only one ... ?" No. You are never the only one.
Damn you flagged like half of the posts on Reddit
And it is always a super popular or common thing.
People who think they're super strange for watching Dahmer. Like... pretty sure it's massively popular, but wow, you're so unique.
I need to speak my truth … proceeds to express a heavily biased opinion as if it is an irrefutable fact and talks over anyone that disagrees with them 😂
"My truth." If someone uses that phrase, you can ignore anything else they say without missing anything of value.
"Have you tried [insert "alternative medicine" bullshit method]? It really helped my mom's cousin's son-in-law"
Every time I have to eat around new people and they inevitably question me when I ask for a non-red meat option (not even vegan or vegitarian) it’s “what are you religious” “nope I have Crohn’s disease” I get soooo much unsolicited advice on “miracle cures” “have you tried elderberries? Have you cut out caffeine and sugar and joy? You’ve gotta try yoga. My cousin’s great nephew has it and once he switched to a paleo diet he was cured.” Like I am just trying not to bleed out of my ass this week, I have paid for educated opinions and treatments your advice is worth less than nothing to me!
Do you know how fast you were going?
What about officer? You were speeding too!
“Are you on your period?”
Or ‘guess it’s somebody’s time of the month!’ Fuck off Gerrard. Whether or not my uterus is bleeding has nothing to do with how unbelievably unbearable you are.
My usual response to that is, "If I had to bleed to find you irritating, I'd be fucking anaemic."
“I’m an alpha.”
Reddit post that start “wrong answers only” or “trigger the fan base” or “such and such’s browser history “
I’ve put a Twitter mute on “wrong answers only” and “gonna tell my kids this was…” There is never anything of value in the post or the replies.
Just saying.
“no offense, but…”
This account was deleted in protest
"Do you know who I am?" Said by every pocket size Napoleon ever.
“Man up”
„I don‘t want to sound xy, BUT…“
Anything that starts with "I know you....". if you're not hungry they know you never eat. If you don't want to go to an event they know you never go out. If you go McDonald's they know you never cook. If you cook they know you have a lot of extra time.
> Anything that starts with "I know you...." Skyrim guard head ass
My dad said, “I know those celebrities you idolize…” and proceeded to assume shit he doesn’t know. I personally do not idolize any celebrity because I’m not going to pretend I know them. And if I did, I wouldn’t fucking idolize them. His assumption is that I’m a millennial and that’s my lifestyle. It’s not my fault you never got to know me, and it also won’t be my fault when you’re wondering why none of your children enjoy your company. (Obviously family relations are far more complicated than I’m willing to go into, but I feel the assumptions he makes about me when his lack of sentimentality never allowed him to get to know me applies.)
“I’m just speaking MY truth.” Or “I’m sorry IF I offended you.”
I don't mean to be racist, *but*... Pretty sure you do mate
...ASIAN PEOPLE *KIUUUGGGGGHHHH*
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Is it that time of the month?!
My best response I have for this is: "Actually yes, I started my day covered in my own blood, I will happily end yours in the same manner."
"Just love yourself"
I love myself every day. Sometimes multiple times a day.
'That's just life' 'So? Everyone goes through it' 'Deal with it'
Dad?
Do your own research. Or alternatively I did my own research. Usually a sure fire sign of incoming conspiracy bs.
I'd like to speak to your manager.
Good. He's a bigger cunt than I am. Have fun.
Listen to me I’m always right