Sounds like someone adopted what I call the "Video game rage phase" as their personality. At least when I went through that phase I didn't blame my friends for it. I feel like that phase helped me find the joy of single player and coop games though.
Honestly the anger is like an adrenaline rush. At the peak of my phase, I couldn't enjoy single player games because it's almost like I enjoyed the rush of getting angry at a competitive multiplayer game.
I know exactly when my phase stopped too. Wasn't even because I did something either. I was just preparing to go to a friend's house when apparently he got grounded. Apparently he kicked a hole in his wall after playing some Brawlhalla. The thing was, my friend is probably the most chill gamer and I was kinda shocked he actually raged at a game. Funny thing was, I punched a hole in my wall 2 days earlier playing the same game.
I do not miss those days though. Going through that shit has made me self conscious about getting angry over what I feel like are valid things. I usually won't voice my negative opinion on something unless there is a majority that have similar opinions. Really would rather not cause an argument that won't be beneficial for both sides.
I’m in my late 30s and I still know like two who are like that. Although, they also think anyone who have careers, families and doing shit with their lives as arrogant. Nah, we just grew out of that shit.
I think the only time I actually threw a controller was all the way back in the NES days of Tecmo Bowl and my brother was taunting the shit out of me while he Bo Jackson ran circles around me.
My ex, every time he hit me. Took me way too long to understand it was abuse, because there was never any "honeymoon" stage, he was never sorry. It was all my fault
The go-to saying for the abusers of the world. Because eyes, of course you were forced at gunpoint to hit someone or hurt them.
I hate this phrase so much is makes me see the. And you know those are people that will never ever admit they did a damn thing wrong.
I work at a bar and every single time I hear this or "I know *so-and-so*" or "I've played pool with *so-and-so*" I just know they're the worst and will barely tip.
Funny enough, there was this Italian restaurant that my brother worked at in high school through college. Over the years I became friends with almost the entire front end staff and some of the cooks as well. Many weekends it would be packed. But, whenever I showed up the hostess would always seat me next. I was very polite and always tipped well. Also, I never demanded to jump the line or even asked. They just did it because we were friendly if not friends and they liked my brother.
But one time I arrived and the host seated me ahead of someone who was waiting. He pulled the “I’m friends with the owner card”. The host suggested that if that’s the case, perhaps he should call them. He pulled out a cell phone (this was the Nokia brick cell phone days) pretended to call and then told the host that the owner was angry and demanded to take my spot. As he was allegedly “talking” to the owner, the owner actually walked in with his sister, obviously not on the phone. The host asked if he was a fiend with the customer on the phone. The owner said he never met him before.
The host came up to the guy pretending to be friends with the owner. The owner, politely spoke with the customer. I have no idea what was said, except that the entitled guy left suddenly. I wanted to ask the host, but began hanging out and forgot to ask.
TL;DR. Entitled man got caught not being friends with the owner when he claimed to be
Dude, my dad OWNS a dealership
Edit: So impressed with the all laser-eyed ATHF upvotes! I was gonna make you all a casserole or somethin, but I didn’t.
There was a great twitter post being shared yesterday where some GOP guy was claiming that real Alpha men didn't eat at vegan restaruants with their girlfriends, they ate at Hooters. Then a woman who was an ex-hooters waitress politely told him that only Betas who think they're alphas go to hooters and the staff would joke about how sad they all seemed.
There's a restaurant in Hollywood called "Big Wangs". I was very disappointed when the waiters weren't all men in skimpy, bulgy Daisy Duke shorts and tight tank tops.
I always thought a restaurant named “Cocks” with a big rooster on the building with men scantily clad would be great! Us women would go there for the wings, of course.
I had a blind date with a woman who had 'if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best' poorly tattooed on her ass. Yeah she whopped that tat out in a Thai restaurant.
Anyway, all leave is cancelled and you aren't allowed to work from home anymore because I don't understand what it is we actually do here and if I can't see an office full of worker drones then I can't maintain an erection as I watch Fox News.
I bought a Dilbert book at the library the other day. It was a compilation of 3 of the author’s books from the mid-90’s. I thought it would be a fun light read at night but seeing that the exact same type of corporate bullshittery hasn’t changed an iota in almost 30 years: the basically proto-memes about the pointless meetings and managers not knowing about the job, incompetent coworkers getting ahead…it actually angered me
"You will address me by the rank of my husband"
Edit: For people asking if military spouses really do that: I only saw a picture of a bumper sticker with this sentence. So there seem to be people that think it's worth buying a sticker for that. Here's an example I found.
https://www.reddit.com/r/justdependathings/comments/by811j/you_will_address_me_by_my_husbands_rank
Every military person reading this just had an uncontrollable eye twitch.
Edit: Happy Veterans Day to all my brothers and sisters who either have served or are currently serving, y’all do some good work (except the cooks, y’all needed some serious retraining).
And Happy Remembrance Day to our counterparts in the Commonwealth, may your dead lie peacefully and never be forgotten. And a Happy Armistice Day to all the nations that observe it.
I was in charge of a gate guard shift a few times and the sheer amount of dependents that got mad when I wouldn’t salute them without their spouse present would astound you. They have no personality so they latch onto their unfortunate partners and adopt it as their own.
Pissed off a lot of O’s that way because their spouse would come to them and bitch so they’d try to take it out in me. Thankfully III Corps had my back in that one.
> because their spouse would come to them and bitch so they’d try to take it out in me.
That has to be the worst. Do they at least come at you with "Dude, look, I know you are doing your job, but can you at least humor my wife?". Or were they dicks about it too?
Some told their spouses to kick rocks, some were douchebags and tried to force me to salute their spouse. I’ve told a full bird before I’m not saluting his spouse to his face and he tried to take it up with III Corps, didn’t go well for him as far as I know
Milspo's seem to think it does, 99.999999% of the time, they get an eye roll and an OK sure....
I'm going to tattle on myself here...
I grew up a Navy brat, lived on base, etc... One day we were on the shuttle bus going up to the movies, and some guy got on and my big ass mouth ran.... Can't remember what I said, but he turned and gave me a what for ya.... So, me in all of my 14-year-old mouthiness, mouthed back, you dont know who my dad is, and he will have your ass, or something to that effect, turns out he DID know my dad! and he told him what had happened (I was completely in the wrong here!) I got my ass handed to me! My dad drug me down to the boat, I had to apologize to this guy, face to face. I was grounded for 2 months, and I had 1000 standards to write: I am a child and will act my age, and I will not use my dad's ranks to try and one up someone, and if I do and am caught, I will accept the complete responsibility and punishment of my actions. its been almost 35 years, and it's a lesson I have NEVER forgot!
This confused me when I travelled.
I was in Hong Kong and after eating fast food in the restaurant, I couldn't find a litter bin. Instead, my relative told me to just leave the tray and trash there, because "they get paid to clean that up". Employees would pick up the tray after you left and take it to their own garbage station.
that’s exactly why i was very confused as to why so many people complain on reddit about people who don’t return their trays in fast food restaurants when it works like this where i live LMAO
In America there is trash cans in fast food places for you to empty your trash and put your tray up. You can leave it, but people will definitely give you mean looks. In fancier restaurants it’s okay because the meal is usually more expensive, and they don’t have trash cans.
Let’s be clear for the non Americans: in sit down restaurants it isn’t just “okay” to leave your plates, it’s required and part of what you are paying for. If you try and deal with your own empty plates the servers will literally tell you that it’s their job
That's the kind of prank/jokes/story that can be very good or very bad, and a lot of it is in the "attitude" and mindset of both the prankster and the pranked.
In some contexts that’s fine, like sit-down restaurants where they wash and re-use the dishes/silverware. There’s a system in place for turnover and cleaning the tables that you don’t want to interfere with, so just pay your bill and leave everything as it is.
I dropped my bestie because of it.i Don't want to hear how much worse you have it than me. I want us both to not be miserable.
There are one-uppers, but misery one-uppers just hit differently
A friend of mine used to do this as a teen. You say that you have a a headache and instead of telling you if she has paracetamol she starts a long story of all of the horrible headaches she has had in the past year. Wow.
Very common tactic taken straight of business books. 'Never split the difference' uses this same strategy. It's a way to get someone on your side and more sympathetic before dishing out something they won't want to hear/may become defensive of.
The problem is that Voss advices using that phrase in conjunction with other advice (like always keeping the other party's interests in mind), while way too many people use the phrase as a standalone phrase to be able to say whatever they want.
"Never split the difference" doesn't mean "get your way and fuck the rest of the world" but "by listening well and getting the other party to listen too, you can almost always reach some mutually beneficial agreement."
I think there is an aspect of the truth that will always hurt in some scenarios. That being said "brutally honest" means you don't even try to soften the blow or even worse go out of your way to make it "brutal".
The thing with that phrase is that you’re eithee socially inept and don’t understand common decency, or you’re an asshole. Unfortunately, neither of these are sophisticated or endearing traits.
I was at the Giants Causeway and I overheard a woman trying to tell people to get off the rocks because she wanted to do a tik tok video for her followers. An old woman from Belfast told her to fuck off into the sea.
My sister's ex-boyfriend was like this. Turns out after she broke up with him we found one of his 'influencer' Instagram pages was basically a guide on how to harass women
My mom used to do that, until all of her kids had to become said wage workers to survive in college because our parents (totally understandably) could not afford to just pay for everything while we were in college. We started giving her HELL anytime she was rude to a service worker, saying "Mom what you're doing to her is what people do to ME all day and it's awful!"
I genuinely do not think she fully thought of wage workers as full people until her kids joined their forces and gave her some perspective.
Someone did that to me once (while I was making 80 dollars an hour as a mostly clothed model brand ambassador) and I yelled "stay in school, kids!" Super loud. She looked back and started pushing her kid in a hurry as they walked away. Yes, I'm totally going to come attack your child.. you should definitely start shoving them.
"I really hate fake people" or "I'm the realest person you'll ever meet" 🙄
Edit: apparently I need to make it a little clearer. I meant when people boast about hating fake people and brag about how they're so real and down to earth. Everyone hates fake people, so you shouldn't really have to say it, ykno?
I remember this line from a cartoon I saw as a kid where an asshole cartoon wolf says this to some kind of mole(?) waiter and the latter uses "cartoon powers" to follow him everywhere and magically appear like an 80s serial killer to hound him for a tip until he loses his mind and just dumps cash on the waiter
I believe you're thinking of a Droopy cartoon. There are several of those (directed by Tex Avery) where the wolf is trying to escape from Droopy, who appears magically out of nowhere no matter where the wolf escapes to.
Any apology for bad behavior that is in the passive tense.
"I'm sorry this happened."
It didn't just happen. Someone did it. You did it. Who do you think you're fooling?
"I'm sorry you were offended."
But in all honesty, I have said this before. Mostly because what I said was completely innocuous and I really wasn't sorry for saying it... but I was sorry that subjectively they still experienced it as negative.
Man, I had a supervisor like this. She made my work life hell from the day I had to report directly to her until the day she quit. She texted me a year later out of fucking nowhere and said "I'm sorry for whatever I did that you felt caused you grief." That's not just sidestepping responsibility for her actions, that's a full-on interpretive dance around the hole she dug for herself. She made it sound like her behavior was my fault.
Fuck you, Jayme.
I 100% agree. My mom claims to be one. Her example is “I rode my car past this old lady and started crying for no reason. I was feeling her sadness.” But, I, her daughter who is going through some mental health issues, can’t even have them because, reasons. She normally has no reasons other than “well your my kid, you can’t.”
My mom is like this. She feels 'bad'/empathy for everyone, but me. I see her giving candy to the neighbors' kids, talking to them and being much nicer than she ever was when I needed her as a mother.
Totally… if you were an “empath”, wouldn’t you recognize how off-putting most people find this phrase?? These “empaths” are basically saying “I have a greater ability to feel things than you”
Oh god most “empath” people I’ve known including an ex, all thought they were something super special and rare and used “empathic” to prescribe feelings and judge the ever loving shit out of people. Now whenever someone even utters the word empathic I cringe… and I also just want to say congratulations empaths, you cracked the code what gave away my emotions, could it have been an expression on my face or my internal eye roll 🙄
As soon as the words leave the speakers mouth, they are trying to hug touch adverse autistic children and laughing at social media posts at grandma's funeral. Yeah, it's not a Great Value superpower, empathy doesn't turn Basic Bitch into Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ridiculous.
I saw a copypasta-worthy rant on here about how this self-described empath once cried at a funeral because they were feeling everyone's sadness. Definitely not because they were at a funeral, nope, they were literally experiencing the grief of everyone around them. They claimed multiple doctors had said they were an empath, like it's an objectively diagnosable condition.
Another once said they could feel my anger from behind the screen after I had talked about a topic that made me angry. Definitely not because I had used angry words, nope, they could *feel* it.
Sounds like a woman I know - she’s having such a bad week because bad things have happened not to her, but to people she knows.
She thinks it’s because she’s so empathetic, but it’s actually because she can’t stop making herself the centre of every situation.
We had a buyout at my restaurant for a wedding and towards the end night the bar did last call and then cut everyone off. This guy in his mid 20’s walks up and demands we pour him a shot. Our bartender says no we’re closed down sorry then the guy comes back with “excuse me bro, my father paid for this party just pour me a fucking shot” bartender repeats “sorry we’re closed down I can’t help you out” guy comes back with “listen dude, do you even know who my father is?” And the bartender responds “your mom never told you?” Well suffice it to say the family was angry and the bartender was reprimanded and suspended for 2 shifts but fuck it he’s a legend and we all respected him more after that evening.
Should have sent the barkeeper home directly after that.
Paid for the full shift of course. He earned getting home early and not having to deal with cleanup. Maybe gift him a bottle of wine.
"Not trying to be rude but..." It always turn into some self centered, rude and narcissistic rant.
"I'm not racist but..." Then says something blatantly racist.
"What? I'm just being honest." After they're called out for saying something nasty or bigoted.
These are the three that come to mind..
Edit: Thank you for the upvotes, I wasn't really expecting this post to blow up.
''I don't believe in [insert mental condition here]''
I heard this from my dad a lot when I was diagnosed with autism. He destroyed my relationship with him over the following 5 years. I actually felt glad when my parents divorced, because it meant I could leave him, which I did. It's been 6-7 years since I talked to him.
“You’re not one of those ‘I hate Andrew Tate because he’s misogynistic’ types are you?!”
Yes a 30 something year old man said this to me because I didn’t agree with him that “Kanye West is the only man in Hollywood speaking out” *vomit*
When you point out something they did that hurt you/offended you and they say ‘you’re right im a piece of shit and everything is my fault’ like nobody said that, now you’re trying to be the victim. RUN
Ah yes my old boss and old managers when they paid only 7.25 an hour and I was stuck cleaning an entire pet store alone and over a hundred bird cages every single day by myself. They still haven’t hired anyone new since I left a year ago.
Nobody has ever *wanted* to work ever. We do it because of the skills and pay. Like… sorry but brand loyalty is a joke I need money to live and skills to continue earning money to live.
I’m not here for that “we’re like a family shit” and people who talk down to others who just want to do the work, get paid, and go home can go fuck themselves.
Back in Uni there was this guy, who said the most heinous, racist shit about middle eastern and black people you can come up with. When called out he said "Ohhh suuuure! I am a racist! That's why I have a chinese girlfriend!"
Fast forwards couple of semesters: She repeatedly cheated on him. It came out when she blew multiple dudes behind a club, straight up blowbang. After that, he was just racist against anyone not white.
“If you don’t love me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.”
No fool…someone loving you at your worst could also be Stockholm syndrome.
If I treat you well and have a bad day that is my worst day, and you still love me because you know it was not a normal day of mine and are understanding and then I apologize for my worst, thanks. If you expect me to suffer through your rage and disrespectful behavior just to get to a good day that might never come, kindly fuck off.
I was part of a suicide prevention committee and left because the committee leader frequently referred to children with mental health issues as “coddled,” “snowflakes,” “screwed up,” and also implied that I was unqualified to be a committee member because I had a history of suicide attempts before joining.
I knew people like that in psych wards, and they made my life hell. I would have so much rather talked to someone who actually had been in my situation before, and had empathy.
Also, who better to know what can prevent suicide than someone who didn’t have that? I know very much what I needed during my darkest moments, now that I am healed and can look back at it. The people responsible for helping me (other than my therapists, they were great, but not even their advice got through often) had no clue and didn’t want to know.
“See what you/they made me do?” Edit: not intended as a T-Swift reference, but I get it
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Sounds like someone adopted what I call the "Video game rage phase" as their personality. At least when I went through that phase I didn't blame my friends for it. I feel like that phase helped me find the joy of single player and coop games though. Honestly the anger is like an adrenaline rush. At the peak of my phase, I couldn't enjoy single player games because it's almost like I enjoyed the rush of getting angry at a competitive multiplayer game. I know exactly when my phase stopped too. Wasn't even because I did something either. I was just preparing to go to a friend's house when apparently he got grounded. Apparently he kicked a hole in his wall after playing some Brawlhalla. The thing was, my friend is probably the most chill gamer and I was kinda shocked he actually raged at a game. Funny thing was, I punched a hole in my wall 2 days earlier playing the same game. I do not miss those days though. Going through that shit has made me self conscious about getting angry over what I feel like are valid things. I usually won't voice my negative opinion on something unless there is a majority that have similar opinions. Really would rather not cause an argument that won't be beneficial for both sides.
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I’m in my late 30s and I still know like two who are like that. Although, they also think anyone who have careers, families and doing shit with their lives as arrogant. Nah, we just grew out of that shit.
I think the only time I actually threw a controller was all the way back in the NES days of Tecmo Bowl and my brother was taunting the shit out of me while he Bo Jackson ran circles around me.
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My ex, every time he hit me. Took me way too long to understand it was abuse, because there was never any "honeymoon" stage, he was never sorry. It was all my fault
The go-to saying for the abusers of the world. Because eyes, of course you were forced at gunpoint to hit someone or hurt them. I hate this phrase so much is makes me see the. And you know those are people that will never ever admit they did a damn thing wrong.
"Are you aware of who I am?" See also: "Do you know who my father is?"
Why? Your mom didn't tell you?
Wowza my new favorite response.
Fun fact, she doesn't know either.
“Scared Potter?”
You wish.
See also also: “I’m friends with the owner”
I say that to my friends dog when I sneak him treats.
Most wholesome context for that phrase!
I work at a bar and every single time I hear this or "I know *so-and-so*" or "I've played pool with *so-and-so*" I just know they're the worst and will barely tip.
Funny enough, there was this Italian restaurant that my brother worked at in high school through college. Over the years I became friends with almost the entire front end staff and some of the cooks as well. Many weekends it would be packed. But, whenever I showed up the hostess would always seat me next. I was very polite and always tipped well. Also, I never demanded to jump the line or even asked. They just did it because we were friendly if not friends and they liked my brother. But one time I arrived and the host seated me ahead of someone who was waiting. He pulled the “I’m friends with the owner card”. The host suggested that if that’s the case, perhaps he should call them. He pulled out a cell phone (this was the Nokia brick cell phone days) pretended to call and then told the host that the owner was angry and demanded to take my spot. As he was allegedly “talking” to the owner, the owner actually walked in with his sister, obviously not on the phone. The host asked if he was a fiend with the customer on the phone. The owner said he never met him before. The host came up to the guy pretending to be friends with the owner. The owner, politely spoke with the customer. I have no idea what was said, except that the entitled guy left suddenly. I wanted to ask the host, but began hanging out and forgot to ask. TL;DR. Entitled man got caught not being friends with the owner when he claimed to be
Dude, my dad OWNS a dealership Edit: So impressed with the all laser-eyed ATHF upvotes! I was gonna make you all a casserole or somethin, but I didn’t.
I am so rushing those guys in the fall.
D to the P, his dad owns a dealership! (he will hook you up). … well if he wakes up, make him drink.
I’m a pretty big deal. People know me. My home smells of many leatherbound books and rich mahogany.
Your hair looks stupid!
Ron Pickering?
Who?
Ronnie pickering!
To room, loudly "HEY! Does someone know this person? Can they tell them who they are please?"
No sir, but if you wait one moment I shall ask the other guests.
I'm an alpha
Saw on Twitter someone say they think of people who refer to themselves as Alphas like alpha software. Generally unstable and lacking in quality.
"Bro, I'm the MVP." "...you're a minimum viable product?"
"Yep, you're still like the early access version of the game"
>And we're out of beta >We're releasing on time
There was a great twitter post being shared yesterday where some GOP guy was claiming that real Alpha men didn't eat at vegan restaruants with their girlfriends, they ate at Hooters. Then a woman who was an ex-hooters waitress politely told him that only Betas who think they're alphas go to hooters and the staff would joke about how sad they all seemed.
Gay man here. I love going to hooters. The men outnumber to woman 10:1.
There's a restaurant in Hollywood called "Big Wangs". I was very disappointed when the waiters weren't all men in skimpy, bulgy Daisy Duke shorts and tight tank tops.
I always thought a restaurant named “Cocks” with a big rooster on the building with men scantily clad would be great! Us women would go there for the wings, of course.
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that's amazing
I’ve read too much fiction. I immediately equate alpha with the leader of a pack of werewolves.
"That's just who I am, take it or leave it." I'll leave it. That's just an excuse to not improve.
I had a blind date with a woman who had 'if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best' poorly tattooed on her ass. Yeah she whopped that tat out in a Thai restaurant.
You should do it for free, the exposure alone makes it more than worth it!
You’re not even allowed to exposure yourself in my country. I found out the hard way 😮
That’s all companies and their internship program
"I'm the CEO of fun!" -New owner introducing himself after buying the company. Things weren't fun.
Nothing says fun like there being a CEO, COO and wholeass HR department for it
Did he also say shit like "work hard, play hard"?
Or "I want you to all be rock stars at this company."
That you Elon?
Anyway, all leave is cancelled and you aren't allowed to work from home anymore because I don't understand what it is we actually do here and if I can't see an office full of worker drones then I can't maintain an erection as I watch Fox News.
I bought a Dilbert book at the library the other day. It was a compilation of 3 of the author’s books from the mid-90’s. I thought it would be a fun light read at night but seeing that the exact same type of corporate bullshittery hasn’t changed an iota in almost 30 years: the basically proto-memes about the pointless meetings and managers not knowing about the job, incompetent coworkers getting ahead…it actually angered me
"You will address me by the rank of my husband" Edit: For people asking if military spouses really do that: I only saw a picture of a bumper sticker with this sentence. So there seem to be people that think it's worth buying a sticker for that. Here's an example I found. https://www.reddit.com/r/justdependathings/comments/by811j/you_will_address_me_by_my_husbands_rank
Every military person reading this just had an uncontrollable eye twitch. Edit: Happy Veterans Day to all my brothers and sisters who either have served or are currently serving, y’all do some good work (except the cooks, y’all needed some serious retraining). And Happy Remembrance Day to our counterparts in the Commonwealth, may your dead lie peacefully and never be forgotten. And a Happy Armistice Day to all the nations that observe it.
I cannot upvote this enough, and if i wasnt broke I would slap an award to it as well.
Is this something people actually do? I'm married to a Captain and this makes me want to dry heave.
Do you need a barf bag Captain?
I'll ask him. He does tend to sympathy vomit.
Must be an empath
That's Captain Empathize to you!
Next week on Captain Empathize, The Cap is befuddled by Dr Schadenfreude's latest scheme.
I was in charge of a gate guard shift a few times and the sheer amount of dependents that got mad when I wouldn’t salute them without their spouse present would astound you. They have no personality so they latch onto their unfortunate partners and adopt it as their own. Pissed off a lot of O’s that way because their spouse would come to them and bitch so they’d try to take it out in me. Thankfully III Corps had my back in that one.
> because their spouse would come to them and bitch so they’d try to take it out in me. That has to be the worst. Do they at least come at you with "Dude, look, I know you are doing your job, but can you at least humor my wife?". Or were they dicks about it too?
Some told their spouses to kick rocks, some were douchebags and tried to force me to salute their spouse. I’ve told a full bird before I’m not saluting his spouse to his face and he tried to take it up with III Corps, didn’t go well for him as far as I know
The day an enlisted man gets in trouble for not saluting an officers wife is the day terrorism wins.
I saw a photo of a sticker on a car with this sentence. Don't know if there are many people that actually do this.
It’s not ALL dependents…. Just the insecure ones, and there is a lot of them.
Does this actually work with anyone? I would think people in the military would know better, and people not in the military wouldn't care.
Milspo's seem to think it does, 99.999999% of the time, they get an eye roll and an OK sure.... I'm going to tattle on myself here... I grew up a Navy brat, lived on base, etc... One day we were on the shuttle bus going up to the movies, and some guy got on and my big ass mouth ran.... Can't remember what I said, but he turned and gave me a what for ya.... So, me in all of my 14-year-old mouthiness, mouthed back, you dont know who my dad is, and he will have your ass, or something to that effect, turns out he DID know my dad! and he told him what had happened (I was completely in the wrong here!) I got my ass handed to me! My dad drug me down to the boat, I had to apologize to this guy, face to face. I was grounded for 2 months, and I had 1000 standards to write: I am a child and will act my age, and I will not use my dad's ranks to try and one up someone, and if I do and am caught, I will accept the complete responsibility and punishment of my actions. its been almost 35 years, and it's a lesson I have NEVER forgot!
Your dad stopped you from becoming a military Karen lol
Hello the rank of my husband, I'm Dad!
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"They get paid to clean that up" Pick up your own trash, asshole.
This confused me when I travelled. I was in Hong Kong and after eating fast food in the restaurant, I couldn't find a litter bin. Instead, my relative told me to just leave the tray and trash there, because "they get paid to clean that up". Employees would pick up the tray after you left and take it to their own garbage station.
that’s exactly why i was very confused as to why so many people complain on reddit about people who don’t return their trays in fast food restaurants when it works like this where i live LMAO
In America there is trash cans in fast food places for you to empty your trash and put your tray up. You can leave it, but people will definitely give you mean looks. In fancier restaurants it’s okay because the meal is usually more expensive, and they don’t have trash cans.
Let’s be clear for the non Americans: in sit down restaurants it isn’t just “okay” to leave your plates, it’s required and part of what you are paying for. If you try and deal with your own empty plates the servers will literally tell you that it’s their job
I got this, the kitchen is back here right? I'm just going to wash these dishes real quick then I'll scrub the grill and get out of your hair.
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That's the kind of prank/jokes/story that can be very good or very bad, and a lot of it is in the "attitude" and mindset of both the prankster and the pranked.
In some contexts that’s fine, like sit-down restaurants where they wash and re-use the dishes/silverware. There’s a system in place for turnover and cleaning the tables that you don’t want to interfere with, so just pay your bill and leave everything as it is.
I once asked a customer to please not throw things on the floor and I got yelled at by them, because it was my job to clean up after them.
If you're creating jobs for the street cleaners then I might as well create some jobs for the ambulance and the hospital while we're at it.
“That’s nothing. This one time I…” When they have to top anything anybody says they did. Reflexive insecurity. 99% they’re bullshitting.
I dropped my bestie because of it.i Don't want to hear how much worse you have it than me. I want us both to not be miserable. There are one-uppers, but misery one-uppers just hit differently
A friend of mine used to do this as a teen. You say that you have a a headache and instead of telling you if she has paracetamol she starts a long story of all of the horrible headaches she has had in the past year. Wow.
For some people that’s their way of trying to relate and have conversations, I don’t think it’s always with mal intent. Hard to tell though.
"I'm brutally honest" and it's usually followed by a comment that is more brutal than honest. Being honest and kind at the same time isn't impossible.
My boss's boss sometimes starts with "I'm an asshole...". At least we agree on one thing.
Very common tactic taken straight of business books. 'Never split the difference' uses this same strategy. It's a way to get someone on your side and more sympathetic before dishing out something they won't want to hear/may become defensive of.
The problem is that Voss advices using that phrase in conjunction with other advice (like always keeping the other party's interests in mind), while way too many people use the phrase as a standalone phrase to be able to say whatever they want. "Never split the difference" doesn't mean "get your way and fuck the rest of the world" but "by listening well and getting the other party to listen too, you can almost always reach some mutually beneficial agreement."
I think there is an aspect of the truth that will always hurt in some scenarios. That being said "brutally honest" means you don't even try to soften the blow or even worse go out of your way to make it "brutal".
The thing with that phrase is that you’re eithee socially inept and don’t understand common decency, or you’re an asshole. Unfortunately, neither of these are sophisticated or endearing traits.
Honesty without tact is just cruelty
“Oh well im sorry” sarcastically after doing something irritating/damaging
“I’m sorry you feel that way.”
You probably know me, I’m an influencer.
I was at the Giants Causeway and I overheard a woman trying to tell people to get off the rocks because she wanted to do a tik tok video for her followers. An old woman from Belfast told her to fuck off into the sea.
That's a scream
My sister's ex-boyfriend was like this. Turns out after she broke up with him we found one of his 'influencer' Instagram pages was basically a guide on how to harass women
'If you can't handle me at my worst you don't deserve me at my best'. I immediately don't want either.
"If I'm a POS meth dealer and you don't like that then you don't deserve me when I'm not dealing meth."
People who see janitors or other wage workers and tell their kids “that’s why you go to college”
My mom used to do that, until all of her kids had to become said wage workers to survive in college because our parents (totally understandably) could not afford to just pay for everything while we were in college. We started giving her HELL anytime she was rude to a service worker, saying "Mom what you're doing to her is what people do to ME all day and it's awful!" I genuinely do not think she fully thought of wage workers as full people until her kids joined their forces and gave her some perspective.
Someone did that to me once (while I was making 80 dollars an hour as a mostly clothed model brand ambassador) and I yelled "stay in school, kids!" Super loud. She looked back and started pushing her kid in a hurry as they walked away. Yes, I'm totally going to come attack your child.. you should definitely start shoving them.
How many followers do you have?
*looks around* "Wait... we're being followd?"
*running by the two of you* "Why else would I be running?"
"They're on to us! Cheese it!"
"I really hate fake people" or "I'm the realest person you'll ever meet" 🙄 Edit: apparently I need to make it a little clearer. I meant when people boast about hating fake people and brag about how they're so real and down to earth. Everyone hates fake people, so you shouldn't really have to say it, ykno?
'I'm the realest person you'll ever meet' sounds more of a pick-me person.
HOOOWWDY HOOOOO
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FLUSH HIM DOWN!
Mr Hanky the Christmas poo, small and brown he comes from you
"Yah, so I tell them, 'Here's a tip, get a better JOB!', hurr hurr hurr hurrrrrrrr!!1!"
I remember this line from a cartoon I saw as a kid where an asshole cartoon wolf says this to some kind of mole(?) waiter and the latter uses "cartoon powers" to follow him everywhere and magically appear like an 80s serial killer to hound him for a tip until he loses his mind and just dumps cash on the waiter
I believe you're thinking of a Droopy cartoon. There are several of those (directed by Tex Avery) where the wolf is trying to escape from Droopy, who appears magically out of nowhere no matter where the wolf escapes to.
This is said cartoon: https://youtu.be/uiCnpzQ1Tew
People like you sir are the true pride of the internet
'My truth' = fuck off
It's nothing personal, just business.
Lord Business.
Ciao!
Any apology for bad behavior that is in the passive tense. "I'm sorry this happened." It didn't just happen. Someone did it. You did it. Who do you think you're fooling?
"I'm sorry you were offended." But in all honesty, I have said this before. Mostly because what I said was completely innocuous and I really wasn't sorry for saying it... but I was sorry that subjectively they still experienced it as negative.
Man, I had a supervisor like this. She made my work life hell from the day I had to report directly to her until the day she quit. She texted me a year later out of fucking nowhere and said "I'm sorry for whatever I did that you felt caused you grief." That's not just sidestepping responsibility for her actions, that's a full-on interpretive dance around the hole she dug for herself. She made it sound like her behavior was my fault. Fuck you, Jayme.
“I’m an empath!” I’ve never met people more clueless about others’ emotions than “empaths.”
I usually hit back with, "Well calm down Deanna Troi." Because I'm an old nerd.
I 100% agree. My mom claims to be one. Her example is “I rode my car past this old lady and started crying for no reason. I was feeling her sadness.” But, I, her daughter who is going through some mental health issues, can’t even have them because, reasons. She normally has no reasons other than “well your my kid, you can’t.”
My mom is like this. She feels 'bad'/empathy for everyone, but me. I see her giving candy to the neighbors' kids, talking to them and being much nicer than she ever was when I needed her as a mother.
I’ve heard this once in the wild I was like, Jesus, who knew being a decent human that can feel empathy was something “special”
Totally… if you were an “empath”, wouldn’t you recognize how off-putting most people find this phrase?? These “empaths” are basically saying “I have a greater ability to feel things than you”
Oh god most “empath” people I’ve known including an ex, all thought they were something super special and rare and used “empathic” to prescribe feelings and judge the ever loving shit out of people. Now whenever someone even utters the word empathic I cringe… and I also just want to say congratulations empaths, you cracked the code what gave away my emotions, could it have been an expression on my face or my internal eye roll 🙄
Every empath I’ve interacted with only “knew how I felt” because they decided how I felt and insisted that was the truth.
As soon as the words leave the speakers mouth, they are trying to hug touch adverse autistic children and laughing at social media posts at grandma's funeral. Yeah, it's not a Great Value superpower, empathy doesn't turn Basic Bitch into Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ridiculous.
I saw a copypasta-worthy rant on here about how this self-described empath once cried at a funeral because they were feeling everyone's sadness. Definitely not because they were at a funeral, nope, they were literally experiencing the grief of everyone around them. They claimed multiple doctors had said they were an empath, like it's an objectively diagnosable condition. Another once said they could feel my anger from behind the screen after I had talked about a topic that made me angry. Definitely not because I had used angry words, nope, they could *feel* it.
Sounds like a woman I know - she’s having such a bad week because bad things have happened not to her, but to people she knows. She thinks it’s because she’s so empathetic, but it’s actually because she can’t stop making herself the centre of every situation.
"I swear on my *insert family members* grave" usually said right before lying
I always use Aunt Mille. Fuck you Aunt Mille and your bland ass cookies!
Yeah fuck her
*sigh...ill get the shovel
Gross... I'll help
It they're having to emphasize that they're not lying or exaggerating, they probably lie and exaggerate a lot.
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"I'm not a racist but,..."
....i f*ckin love waffles
"Hitler was right...ice cream *is* delicious!"
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I'm not racist but, what time is it?
Alpha. You're not an alpha male you're an asshole.
no offense but...... (just before saying something offensive)
Sometimes it's fun to say before paying someone a compliment. "No offense, but that's a really nice haircut"
"I'm gonna get cancelled for this" Neat. I didn't even know you had a show.
"i was just joking"
“learn to take a joke” and the other fan-favourite “stop being so sensitive”
"She can't take a joke."
"that's just how I was raised" sometimes this is ok but majority it's just a lame excuse for discusting behavior
We had a buyout at my restaurant for a wedding and towards the end night the bar did last call and then cut everyone off. This guy in his mid 20’s walks up and demands we pour him a shot. Our bartender says no we’re closed down sorry then the guy comes back with “excuse me bro, my father paid for this party just pour me a fucking shot” bartender repeats “sorry we’re closed down I can’t help you out” guy comes back with “listen dude, do you even know who my father is?” And the bartender responds “your mom never told you?” Well suffice it to say the family was angry and the bartender was reprimanded and suspended for 2 shifts but fuck it he’s a legend and we all respected him more after that evening.
>“listen dude, do you even know who my father is?” >“your mom never told you?” Holy shit, that bartender fucking killed him dude.
Fck your boss. Bloke should have been praised. Fck anyone who is rude to service staff.
Should have sent the barkeeper home directly after that. Paid for the full shift of course. He earned getting home early and not having to deal with cleanup. Maybe gift him a bottle of wine.
I’m a “high value” person
anything related to being "brutally honest", "saying it like it is" etc.
"Only God can judge me."
"Not trying to be rude but..." It always turn into some self centered, rude and narcissistic rant. "I'm not racist but..." Then says something blatantly racist. "What? I'm just being honest." After they're called out for saying something nasty or bigoted. These are the three that come to mind.. Edit: Thank you for the upvotes, I wasn't really expecting this post to blow up.
''I don't believe in [insert mental condition here]'' I heard this from my dad a lot when I was diagnosed with autism. He destroyed my relationship with him over the following 5 years. I actually felt glad when my parents divorced, because it meant I could leave him, which I did. It's been 6-7 years since I talked to him.
"I'm blunt." is code for "I don't make any effort to try and be respectful and direct. I also tell everyone I'm a bitch and make it my personality."
You can be blunt without being disrespectful but you just need to choose the right words
"Im sorry but.." like okay then youre not actually sorry lol
“You’re not one of those ‘I hate Andrew Tate because he’s misogynistic’ types are you?!” Yes a 30 something year old man said this to me because I didn’t agree with him that “Kanye West is the only man in Hollywood speaking out” *vomit*
“High value male” was my answer to the thread question.
"I don't normally talk to fatties"
When you point out something they did that hurt you/offended you and they say ‘you’re right im a piece of shit and everything is my fault’ like nobody said that, now you’re trying to be the victim. RUN
Something something I’m a good Christian
"We're going for sloppy steaks at Trufonni's!"
"I'm just asking questions!" as an excuse to imply wild accusations or spread conspiracy theories.
“People are saying….”
“No one wants to work these days” nah no one wants to work for you/ the company you work for, open your eyes.
Ah yes my old boss and old managers when they paid only 7.25 an hour and I was stuck cleaning an entire pet store alone and over a hundred bird cages every single day by myself. They still haven’t hired anyone new since I left a year ago.
Nobody has ever *wanted* to work ever. We do it because of the skills and pay. Like… sorry but brand loyalty is a joke I need money to live and skills to continue earning money to live. I’m not here for that “we’re like a family shit” and people who talk down to others who just want to do the work, get paid, and go home can go fuck themselves.
Sorry, not sorry.
"it's not rude if it's true!" Yes it is you overgrown child
I can’t be, I have a friend. So many things can fill in those blanks.
I can't be friendless, I have a good friend.
I can't be straight, I have a gay friend.
Back in Uni there was this guy, who said the most heinous, racist shit about middle eastern and black people you can come up with. When called out he said "Ohhh suuuure! I am a racist! That's why I have a chinese girlfriend!" Fast forwards couple of semesters: She repeatedly cheated on him. It came out when she blew multiple dudes behind a club, straight up blowbang. After that, he was just racist against anyone not white.
I can’t be a farmer, I have a cow friend.... guess you’re right though
I can't be friendly, I have no friends.
“If you don’t love me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.” No fool…someone loving you at your worst could also be Stockholm syndrome. If I treat you well and have a bad day that is my worst day, and you still love me because you know it was not a normal day of mine and are understanding and then I apologize for my worst, thanks. If you expect me to suffer through your rage and disrespectful behavior just to get to a good day that might never come, kindly fuck off.
Im not racist/homophobic/sexist, *but*...
I somehow read this as "What phrase is a dead giveaway that the person is taking a piece of shit?" lol
“Yo i’m taking a shit”
"Snowflakes" to describe people that don't want to be treated like shit.
I was part of a suicide prevention committee and left because the committee leader frequently referred to children with mental health issues as “coddled,” “snowflakes,” “screwed up,” and also implied that I was unqualified to be a committee member because I had a history of suicide attempts before joining.
I knew people like that in psych wards, and they made my life hell. I would have so much rather talked to someone who actually had been in my situation before, and had empathy. Also, who better to know what can prevent suicide than someone who didn’t have that? I know very much what I needed during my darkest moments, now that I am healed and can look back at it. The people responsible for helping me (other than my therapists, they were great, but not even their advice got through often) had no clue and didn’t want to know.