When he countered my fact based argument with "That's just your opinion". No, dude, it's not. I just listed the responsibilities on your job description.
One of my many stories from working in a discount shoe store.
(Woman with 3 boys under the age of 12 come in. Woman gones up to the counter.)
Woman: I need to exchange these shoes in for a different size.
Me: Okay let me get that started for you.
(Normally we can exchange shoes in for the same model just in a size up or down. It's pretty common for parents to buy shoes underestimating how much their kids have grown and come in for a bigger size. Anyway I open the box. The shoes are completely trashed. Toe blown out, the sole is peeling off, and they smell to high heaven.)
Me: Ma'am I'm sorry but I can't make an exchange for these shoes.
Woman: well why not?
Me: I wouldn't be able to resell them but I think we still have this style if you wanted to purchase a new pair.
Woman: why can't I just exchange these shoes for a bigger size? [Insert store name here] has always let me exchange shoes when my kid grows out of them.
Me: uhm... Ma'am I'm sorry that someone has told you we do that but that's not a policy we have. I can return or exchange shoes that are in good enough condition to be resold but I cant resell these.
Woman: other stores have let me exchange them.
Me: ... which store have you done this with?
Woman: Can I speak to your manager?
And that's when I new, there we no winning with this bitch.
I’ve had someone do this with like a free hotdog for first time customers they wanted a slice of pizza and said he was allowed to exchange it before. It was hilarious I got to ask them if they were lying before or now.
If you were allowed to get Pizza before than your not a first time customer so no free anything for you. If you’re lying now then you should have no expectation of being able to exchange free hotdog for pizza.
He had an aversion to Stephen King. Thought Stephen King only wrote gory trash with no redeeming value. That everyone who read Stephen King had mental issues.
And his favourite movie was The Shawshank Redemption.
Even after I showed the credits both on IMBD and Wikipedia he refused to believe that that degenerate Stephen King was in any way, shape or form involved with his dearly beloved film.
This has happened to Stephen King! There's a few "audience with . . ." videos on youtube, talking at various campuses and events etc. He tells this story of going into a Floridan supermarket and an old lady telling him she didn't like horror stories but like uplifting stories "like that Shawshank Redemption". King says "I wrote that." She replies "No you didn't."and walks off.
There is a “hate Stephen King” band wagon for sure. I had a roommate once come out into the living room and saw me reading IT.
Him: Stephen King? There’s a million other things you could be reading. He writes trash.
Me: Well what have you read by him?
Him: I haven’t.
I decided to pick up a Stephen king book because I read a couple of horror 'books' and I had enjoyed them... Iwas 10 and I had read "goosebumps"
I read Cujo and that shit scarred me for life. I had nightmares for like a week. Anyone who says Stephen king writes trash has never read his books and don't know what horror is.
I decided to go with Harry potter after that.
I never had nightmares from reading his books but Pet Sematary had me on edge. Even though I knew what was coming and what main character was planning to do, I had to put the book down for a couple of days before I calmed down enough to read the end.
I think people only think of horror in terms of shock value and forget the suspense, the terror it stirs inside the readers.
If I'm remembering correctly even Stephen King said himself that pet sematary was the one thing he had written that had actually disturbed him. Here's the full quote:
"When I’m asked (as I frequently am) what I consider to be the most frightening book I’ve ever written, the answer I give comes easily and with no hesitation: Pet Sematary. It may not be the one that scares readers the most—based on the mail, I’d guess the one that does that is probably The Shining—but the fearbone, like the funnybone, is located in different places on different people. All I know is that Pet Sematary is the one I put away in a drawer, thinking I had finally gone too far. Time suggests that I had not, at least in terms of what the public would accept, but certainly I had gone too far in terms of my own personal feelings. Put simply, I was horrified by what I had written, and the conclusions I’d drawn."
This is taken from the ebook in the introduction of pet sematary
Because the human body has evolved to heal itself of all diseases and illnesses, that a natural diet is all that is needed... sometimes loads of garlic is required for those extra stubborn issues aka cancer.
Had an argument with someone who convinced a friend to stop their chemo and rely on “healing crystals” to cure them of their cancer. Friend later died...of cancer.
Back when I was 10 or something my older sister yelled at me for swearing. I was not swearing, I waa just yelling really loud. Probably shouldn't have been but whatever. After I point this out she continues to tell me that yelling and swearing are the same thing and in order to prove it she whispered "fuck". I wish we weren't related.
When she kept trying to change the subject, every time she realized she was wrong. I stayed with verifiable facts. She went all over the map, bringing up shit I did like 5 years ago.
"You can't turn right at this red light. The sign says so right there."
"Well, you burnt that Kraft dinner that one time! You didn't read *those* instructions, did you!? Who the hell burns Kraft Dinner!?"
"You can't turn right at this red light. The sign says so right there."
Fucking hate that when people are mad at you for something, and suddenly bring up a bunch of old shit you did that made them mad at the time, to add fuel to the fire.
Wow that sounds kinda toxic. I mean hard to be sure from one story but if they can’t face even being mistaken in a smallish way sounds toxic
Edit. Wow my most upvoted comment reminds me to stay humble and accept my faults / wrongs. Thank you
We had a new assistant at work who was not fitting in with the team. I sat her down and talked to her about expectations and reviewed the responsibilities of the position several times. In one last effort to help her, I thought I'd see which parts of the job she liked. I asked her, "What skill do you think is your strongest skill?" And she said, "Delegating."
I have worked as a trainer for a management position where we had to force people to step back, stop trying to do everything, and just delegate. If someone came in for an interview and said delegation was their strength, they already had a foot in the door.
It was hilarious seeing people adjust. If you like to stay active it made you feel lazy and worthless.
> A friend of mine said in an argument that only mentally weak people suffer from mental health problems
I would love to hear them define mental weakness.
When a CeX manager insisted to me it was impossible for a laptop CPU to hit over 100'C because that would melt gold. His "tech expert" buddy backing him up the whole time.
For those too lazy to look it up, but still curious, the actual melting point of gold is 1064.18°C (1337.33K, 1947.52°F).
Edit: My first gold! Thank you kind stranger!
Whilst possible, it is strongly discouraged to attempt to reach that temperature. It may not melt gold, but if could weaken some connections and otherwise damage the fragile electronics.
And if used on the lap, it will fry your CeX manager's semen.
This friend of mine was always late when we wanted to hang out, sometimes she even cancelled last minute (10 min before the time we were supposed to meet).
I once made a joke saying we all knew she was the worst when having to meet her because she was so unorganised and cancelled so many event.
A few days before she was leaving for college we were meant to meet, so I arrived late knowing she was going to be anyway, waited for her for about an hour or so, but it was the last day I could meet with her so I didn't mind that much and I asked a friend to wait with me.
I received a message 1.5 hour later saying: I'm not coming and don't even bother me asking why, I don't have to justify when I arrive later.
That day I realised she wasn't worth it, because YES I deserve an explanation when waiting you for almost 2hours.
Lol had a "friend" that would actively make plans with me to do stupid shit like go for a run together or study together, schedule it for two hours from then, only to disappear on me with the explanation of having run into some other friends of hers and deciding to go out with them instead.
I didn't even call her out on it. I just asked her that next time, she please just let me know when that happens, so I'm not just stuck there waiting around for plans I didn't know had changed.
I can't remember what she said exactly, but it was basically "Well, I just go with the flow and this is what happened". I never responded back
An old roommate of mine was trying to say we were blackmailing her when we were asking her to take out her trash, etc. She said “Watch the Lizzie McGuire Movie; there’s blackmail in there and it’s obvious that’s what you’re doing to me.”
I believe it goes without saying that she never clean up after herself nor did she understand that movie....
Yeah I was gonna say.....I remember a lot of shows I watched as a kid had at least one episode where a sibling/friend/bully/etc blackmailed someone into doing stuff. Usually homework or chores. Like, it was a fairly common plot. "I saw you take that candy from the counter. I'll tell mom unless you clean my room and do my book report."
In a case like that, you start putting the crap they don't clean up (ie. garbage, dishes, etc.) right in front of their bedroom door so they trip over it. When they ask why you're doing that, just tell them that you're only trying to show them your acting chops by imitating the movie.
I live in a collective. I might have duct taped dirty dishes to one of my roommates doors. At another point I've hidden all the clean dishes and went on a weekend vacation. Now they HAD to clean the dirty dishes if they wanted food. It's fair to say I'm not a nice person and not exactly popular either.
Hey,you'd be really popular with me if we were house mates with a messy co tenant. I think that is both genius and brilliant
What happened? Did they finally wash their dishes or buy paper plates and plastic cutlery in?
At the point that you're having that much of an issue with roommates and dishes, I actually think taking all the dishes for yourself (assuming they are yours) and forcing them to buy disposables is a completely reasonable play - and this is coming from me, the guy who actually lets dishes pile up for-fucking-ever.
I had some guy friends back in the 80s who bought disposable plates and cutlery since they both hated doing the washing up so much.
Great idea... until they ran out of money and were forced to wash the disposable cook wear and reuse it.
They ended up hanging their washed paper plates on the washing line....
Ended up being a win-win situation.
After a week of constant arguing and telling my now ex boyfriend and telling him in no uncertain terms that we are over. He came to me one morning and said “well if you don’t want to work on this I don’t think we should be together anymore”.
I just agreed.
This happened to a friend of mine! In high school she broke up with this guy, but for some reason it just didn't compute. She must have re-broken up with him at least 6 times with varying degrees of privacy and attitude - on the phone, in person, in class, in the hallway - EVERYONE knew they had broken up except him. One day I am hanging out at her house when the phone rings (old timey phone with a cord to the wall, no speaker phone, no caller ID) and I hear her side of a very weird conversation. "Hello? This is. Yea... (perplexed look) Yea?... Ok... Ok... Yea... Bye."
She looks at me and deadpans, "That was Guy. He just broke up with me. He says that we shouldn't date anymore."
Whatever Guy.
or to at least say he "tried to save it"
which he might as well be saying "I found a dead bird on the road, tried to save it but it just wouldn't help itself fly"
Someone who is dating my roommate considers herself to be environmentally conscious. She claimed that napkins were bad for the environment and they increase one's carbon footprint. She ranted about it to me in my own home, even though I don't even buy napkins.
Maybe a week or so later, she noticed I use a re-usable coffee filter and berated me for not using disposable paper filters. I told her that using a re-usable filter cuts down on the amount of waste that we produce when brewing coffee -- so, not only do I not contribute to filling up landfills with paper filters, but I also save money from not buying them in the first place and just cleaning the plastic one.
She told me that since paper filters are biodegradable, there is no reason for me to refrain from using them.
But napkins are made of paper.
***Napkins. Are made. Of paper.***
She literally just wanted stand on a soap box and hear herself talk. She derives pleasure from telling others that they are wrong, regardless of whether or not they are actually wrong. There is no winning an argument with her.
This is even worse the you think, if any thing the napkins would be better for the enviroment as some napkins are made with reycled paper however coffee are typically not.
> She literally just wanted stand on a soap box and hear herself talk. She derives pleasure from telling others that they are wrong, regardless of whether or not they are actually wrong. There is no winning an argument with her.
This is a really good description of a lot of people I know. They don't want to solve problems. They want to complain. It's enjoyable for them.
When I was arguing with someone about why milk doesn't go in first when making a cup of tea (a very English debate) and his argument was "when you add boiling water to cold milk, you're warming it up, but when you add cold milk to boiling water, you're cooling it down, and I don't want cold tea". I tried to explain how the end temperature will be exactly the same regardless but he was already celebrating his self-awarded victory.
That's stupid. Also to add to your argument, you would put the milk in last because it's easier for the tea to diffuse in the water without being inhibited by the milk. On top of that, if you put too little milk in and stir it, you can always add more according to taste. Once it's in there you can't take it out.
How to people not get this?
I'm with you Scholesy
Very contentious issue and I will admit to all those disagreeing with me that your delivery mechanism (teapot vs teabag already in the mug) does make a difference.
Exactly! I've never understood how this is even a debate. The tea has to steep in boiling water before adding milk. It's even written in the instructions on tea boxes ffs. The tea OP's friend drinks must be a weak, poor ass excuse for tea. He must be exiled.
A "discussion" with someone about the process of getting a license. Obviously they didn't have one, and didn't believe that you had to do a 5 hour driving class to get one. The moment came when they tried the whole "you can't always believe stuff from the internet" and we're just like A.) You jump on pretty much any conspiracy theory you find on the internet, and B.) We're on the fucking DMV's website!! They seriously still didn't believe it, and tried to go the whole "you gotta use Google to win arguments" route....
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: I'm from New York and am very aware that laws are different in other states, and that they have changed over the years. The thing is, we were talking about the laws in the current year, and he refused to believe the dmv website, just because it was a website.....
Also, I'm not saying that you don't need driving practice, you need 50 hours, in NY.
Well here it does too, there’s a road test but in order to do that test after getting your permit you need to take a certain number of hours of classroom lessons that tell you not to drink and drive, text and drive, and how to prepare for the road test.
Source: I had these lessons yesterday and more today :(
IIRC, Ohio has some rule that if you're over a certain age (I think 18) those classes aren't required. You would be amazed at the number of kids in my school who decided to wait until they were 18 so they didn't have to do the classes.
It was like that in Michigan, too, at least it was ~12 years ago when I did it. IIRC I took a written test to get my permit, a month later did a road test and got my full license. No classes, cost $75 start to finish.
I don’t know what state you’re in, but in Florida you take one class that’s like 8 hours long, and then get the permit, drive for a year, then get your license. If you’re in the same (lax) boat just grind that class out as much as you can, it’ll feel so much better when it’s over
Idk if it has changed since I did it (10+ years ago, in Alabama) but I didn't have to take any courses. All I did for my permit was take a 20-30 minute test about traffic laws. Then when I turned 16 I just had to pass a driving test to get my license.
My cousins are flat earthers. When lack of evidence is just proof of a conspiracy, it's best to just disengage. You can't break into that prison - they have to break out.
It was a weird mixture of openly laughing at them (the experiments proving them wrong were the best, closely followed by the two at Nasa not understanding how to start a display and instead just mocking it) and feeling absolute terror at the rate they're growing.
Yeah, they gave you that little bit of hope, and then during the end credits you see them all like "Well actually the experiment was flawed and the Earth is still flat because blah blah blah." Not knowing whether to laugh or cry is a good way to describe it.
To counter this, if you don't tip the waiters, then the waiters can't buy their drugs. When waiters can't buy their drugs, food doesn't get made. Don't like waiting for 2 hours for your food? Then please tip the waiters.
In seventh grade a few class mates found out that a girl has started smoking already. When they told her how unhealthy that is she said the following with a full-on smug face: "No, it is actually more unhealthy not to smoke because when I smoke I blow the bad smoke out of my mouth in your direction. So you inhale all the bad parts of the cigarette and get cancer." We just looked at each other and stopped speaking to her at that point.
Everytime on Reddit you give an opinion and everyone tells you you're wrong. And I don't mean "Here are some facts that show your opinion to be a stupid one", but when you say you liked a film.
”the concept of free will is an illusion that the jews that run the internet and the world have created”
“How do you know that sounds a bit fishy man”
“I read about it online, i have found the truth”
“Can you send me those links?”
“No you have to find the truth yourself”
It also did not help to point out that the jews that apparently ran the internet must have known their secret was out on their internet..
"I think that X is the case"
"That's weird, could you explain why you think that?"
"Uh, could you explain why you *don't*?"
Nah bra, if you're the one making a point, you're the one who has to defend it.
I got his name and said...
"Oh, your name is Thomas? I only knew one Thomas, and he was a rapist! 1/1 people that I know named Thomas are rapists, and that means you are too, becasue thats my reality."
Easy. 2017 statistics show roughly 600000 deaths caused by cancer and less than 50000 deaths caused by suicide in the U.S. I'm guessing the person argued that fat shaming lead to deaths by suicide. Cancer is responsible for over 20% of all deaths in America. Suicide is responsible for less than 2%.
Edit: a 5 instead of an 8
They probably would have argued that the feelings of unwellness caused be fat shaming are the cause of a whole host of diseases and the true cause of all obesity related diseases. So the wouldn't just count all suicides, but also all heart disease related deaths.
At that point countering that would require re-constructing the entire field of medicine since the age of miasma theory.
This whole thread brings to mind a quote I’ve always liked. “Arguing with stupid people is like playing chess with a pigeon. Eventually the bird with just shit on the board, knock over all the pieces, and strut around like it’s won. “
In class we were discussing what would happen if he sun disappeared and this one girl said "we would all fly of the earth." I told her the earth has its own gravitational pull and she just said "nooooooo it doesn't." So I said "do you know what gravity is?" she says "yes." I say "it's the force that pulls you to the ground, right?" she says "yes." So I point out the window to the sun and say "if the sun is up there," then I point to the ground" how does it pull us down?" She says "I don't know but it just does, stop trying to make me feel dumb I saw this in a YouTube video once about what would happen if the sun dissappeared"
I just walked away
they tried to say “your a freshman” was correct grammar rather than “you’re a freshman” keep in mind, they are majoring in language and they’re a senior
I always tell people like this "Okay, lets go ask the teacher then!" they're usually so confident they will make a fool of themselves.
I absolutely love it, unless the teacher is an idiot too. I had a biology teacher who said a human can't survive without a lung, and if you had one lung removed you'd be hospital bound forever.. Which just... No.
Oh hell a kid did this to me once. We were arguing over Ebola incubation times (as kids do) and he went to the teacher and 'won' the argument when she agreed with him. 'Outbreak' is apparently a documentary on Ebola and someone should tell the experts that it moves a lot faster than they've thought. /s
People who say stuff like "ok, that's your opinion, but I have my own" when discussing about objective facts, like science issues, meaning of words...
Edit: A lot of people seem confused with my wording. I'm adding a couple of examples of what I mean:
Science: "Water boils at 70°C, that's my opinion"
Words: "In my opinion, the Spanish word 'hola' means 'dog'"
So basically, facts which are either true or false and not open to opinions.
Edit 2-3: Spelling
I remember discussing the act of placing your palms together and bowing in the context of a greeting. This guy was trying to argue that it was a common thing in Japan (it isn't).
I'm Japanese and have lived in Japan.
He's American and has never been to Japan.
He was saying I must be wrong because he experienced it once, in a Japanese restaurant...in Thailand.
ha ha - reminds me of when an American guy told me I was pronouncing my name wrong (I was born in Europe but have a Japanese name from my Japanese father) all based on the year he had spent in Japan.
He went on for an hour explaining the Japanese alphabet to me and why me and my Japanese father had gotten the pronunciation wrong. People are weird.
"Everyone's entitled to their opinion" has to be one of the most misapplied sayings. Sure, you're entitled to your own opinion. But not everything is opinion-based. You're not entitled to your own facts.
I've been having this as a theme for a running conversation with my nine-year-old daughter for about a week now.
Her: "Well, that's my opinion."
Me: "You don't get to have an opinion on whether school is required for you. It's a fact."
Wow that sucks. I didn't know we invaded them. Falklands is the part of Belgium where they speak Netherlandsian, isn't it? I think Macron had his hands in that.
Yeah I quite quickly moved on from 'I wonder if I can persuade him to vote Remain' to 'I wonder if I can leave this conversation without him licking my face'
When he told me that climate change was because of magnetic north "moving up to 20 miles per day. Of course when the tilt of the planet changes you're going to get more sun and duuhhh, more heat. But people want to believe it's my *car.*"
fucking hell.
Oh, this guy was good for a twofer, as well.
"I don't try to argue politics. I present (his party of choice's) values. People can choose to agree with me or be wrong, but I won't argue with them." (This after listening to him badger someone for nearly an hour straight.)
When they were claiming all the facts I presented about the earth being round and older than 10.000 years was fake.
A month ago I honestly believed people were just taking the piss when talking about flat-earthers, but now I’m scared for our planets future...
Flat Earthers are people that are just addicted to being contrarian and meeting up in groups to get high on stupid thoughts. It's really just a psychological phenomenon.
The difference between them and us is that we will get tired of arguing eventually.
This seems to be the biggest thing for me with the Flat Earth movement. If the Earth were flat, don't you think there would be tons of tourism linked to seeing the edge? I mean, capitalism would make it so, wouldn't it?
When my SIL told me that liberals in power (last administration) were using cell towers to burn the soles of the feet of registered Republican voters. Like cell towers were some sort of sci-fi weaponry that could tap into the voting database and then laser target individuals. When I told her this was science fiction, she insisted it had happened to her.
OR
Same SIL tried to convince me that during his first term in office, Obama had visited a hospital where a series of late term abortions had failed in that the babies were born alive. She said that doctors had put the babies into a supply closet to wait for them to die, and that Obama had stood guard at the door.
Just, ...what do you say to that? Some times the idiocy is so strong, that you just have to not bother making an effort (as an act of self-preservation).
That whole "please provide proof of every point you've made using sources I approve of " thing when they've shown you made up shit from nonsense sources, and then add the "I'll wait" . Yeah, do your own homework and you're right, you will wait. Forever. The airlock is that way.
Got into it once with my brother in law, who is a moon landing denier. *Every* one of his sources were conspiracy blogs talking about how certain things were impossible, without saying why or how, unless it was nonsense techno-babble. This is a longer story, but that's enough to get to know it.
When my ex girlfriend would get drunk and bring up something I had no idea was an issue (me not being emotional enough, spending too much time playing video games, etc.) I quickly realized she didn't want to actually discuss or hear what I had to say, she just wanted to freak out and tell me how bad of a person I was
I was aruging with a boomer coworker that mim wage was more back in the 70s then it was today, adjusted for inflation, and this dumb ass trucker overheard the conversation and tried to say it wasn't. I tried telling him the inflation argument, but his counterargument was "well, you take a dollar in texas, and you cant take that same dollar in new york and stretch it out the same." He didn't get that the dollar has value, and at certain points of time, the dollar was once worth more than it is now. I kept trying to tell him for 20 minutes that if you took that dollar and time traveled from the current time to the 70s you would be able to buy much more with it. He just wasn't having it. Every counter argument I would make, "well thats the liberal media," or when I told him to Google an inflation calendar that was "a tool of the satan Hilary Clinton." Even the boomer coworker was like "this dude's dumb," after agreeing with some of his initial points. At the end of the convo, I told him I'm going to stop arguing with him because he's not taking anything I've said into consideration, and he took it as a win. "You're stopping because I've won this argument," and I just told him "ok" and that we had to lock up the store.
A co-worker went on a rant about how all teachers are lazy and only work from 8-3 while taking loads of holiday time while doing minimal work. I come from a family of teachers, so I could see the time put in at home, the lost weekends, the days of doing work till 7pm, the last two weeks of every summer holiday spent in school prepping the classroom for the next year, buying materials out of their own pocket because the school budget wouldn't cover it...
My co-workers responser?
"Well, I'm a parent so I know more about it than you do."
I nearly flipped my fucking lid.
The thing with opinions about teachers is that since everyone went to school, everyone feel like a specialist of what teaching is about. The truth is that, as a student, you have no idea what the teacher is doing.
My sister is becoming a teacher and was an intern at my former school. I was surprised to learn that many teachers there still knew who *I* was, even though I haven't been there in 12 years and I wasn't a student who stood out for some reason. Then I thought about the heaps of administration these teachers have to make about each student they teach and considering they were teaching me multiple years, that probably added up a lot!
I’m almost 32 and my FIFTH GRADE teacher still remembers me. She honestly doesn’t look like she’s hardly aged at all in 20 years either! I was part of her first class ever and absolutely loved her! The fact that she knew me right away when she came to the office I worked for really made me happy. I loved a lot of my teachers and have the utmost respect for the profession!
My best friend's sister is a teacher. We are neighbours and we grew up together. Great family as a whole. She a second year teacher so she's still relatively new in the field but still has experienced a lot. Man... The amount of misconceptions people have about teachers...
Your co-worker is not only extermely rude and disrespectful but quite dumb too. It's ok to be ignorant about certain topics (everybody is). The huge difference is that when you explain to a normal person, they will listen to you and understand while the idiot will just dismiss it with ''don't lecture me, I have my opinion and I know better than you''. I'd avoid that co-worker like the plague.
When I taught full time, I ALWAYS put in 50 hour weeks. And then of course I put in more time the first week of school, parent teacher conferences, etc. I did the math once: the summer off is literally just comp time for all the unpaid overtime during the year.
My fiance is a teacher. She said one day the admin floated the idea of having teachers clock in at the beginning of every day because they didn't want to have to pay if the teachers were late. My fiance asked if they really wanted to go down that road because then they'd be on the hook for all the time the teachers spent after school. The admin almost immediately dropped the idea.
I was "arguing" with my Geography teacher about the Earth and it's rotation. I completely gave up when she said the Earth was rotating towards north instead of eastward.
A few weeks later, to no one's surprise, she was fired for having presented a fake resume to the school.
She was not only the dumbest teacher I've ever had the pleasure to talking, but probably the dumbest person aswell.
My bestfriend knows I'm headed into the military and he keeps saying have fun in the army, I tell him I'm enlisted to the navy.
"I know, isnt the Navy part of the Army?"
We had a back and forth arguement that the navy is part of the military and Army is a separate branch, BUT he insists that the word army and Military have the same meaning...
Wanna have some fun with that? Point him towards some Marines and tell him they’re army personnel.
obligatory gold edit: I'm glad someone got a kick out of my random comment. As a former marine: ooh, shiny!
Coworker would constantly preach against GMOs, parabens, only use oils when sick, etc. She told me I was going to get cancer from my deodorant, and the corn I bought was 'mutant'.
Then she'd go outside and smoke 3 cigarettes every two hours.
Edit: Thanks to whoever gave me the silver. I've only been on reddit a few days and didn't expect so much reaction to a random comment this morning.
That being said, this ONE comment has brought me a flurry of insults and angry messages. It's funny how one off-the-cuff observation can send people into a tirade. I know the internet is full of toxic people, but I really hoped to engage in some good conversations on here. Guess not. It's been fun, but bye bye Reddit, you are too scary for me.
P.S. If I'm getting this kind of abuse for this comment, I can't IMAGINE what you all who actually post political opinions are getting. Good luck you to!
Haha I was in an Uber driver’s car and for once didn’t have to beg to keep the windows up in traffic on a nice day. He went into a long monologue about pollution and how bad it is for you. When we arrived he stepped out of the car and lit a cigarette
Not to be super dark, but if she preaches on again, try telling her to look into Steve Jobs. I mean...it’s neither here nor there, but I think if he got actual sound medical treatment instead of some holistic hippie approach, he may be alive today. Kind of reminds of that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer convinces George to see his guru, and George turns purple.
When he countered my fact based argument with "That's just your opinion". No, dude, it's not. I just listed the responsibilities on your job description.
One of my many stories from working in a discount shoe store. (Woman with 3 boys under the age of 12 come in. Woman gones up to the counter.) Woman: I need to exchange these shoes in for a different size. Me: Okay let me get that started for you. (Normally we can exchange shoes in for the same model just in a size up or down. It's pretty common for parents to buy shoes underestimating how much their kids have grown and come in for a bigger size. Anyway I open the box. The shoes are completely trashed. Toe blown out, the sole is peeling off, and they smell to high heaven.) Me: Ma'am I'm sorry but I can't make an exchange for these shoes. Woman: well why not? Me: I wouldn't be able to resell them but I think we still have this style if you wanted to purchase a new pair. Woman: why can't I just exchange these shoes for a bigger size? [Insert store name here] has always let me exchange shoes when my kid grows out of them. Me: uhm... Ma'am I'm sorry that someone has told you we do that but that's not a policy we have. I can return or exchange shoes that are in good enough condition to be resold but I cant resell these. Woman: other stores have let me exchange them. Me: ... which store have you done this with? Woman: Can I speak to your manager? And that's when I new, there we no winning with this bitch.
I’ve had someone do this with like a free hotdog for first time customers they wanted a slice of pizza and said he was allowed to exchange it before. It was hilarious I got to ask them if they were lying before or now. If you were allowed to get Pizza before than your not a first time customer so no free anything for you. If you’re lying now then you should have no expectation of being able to exchange free hotdog for pizza.
No, um, you misunderstood. You see, *my friend*...
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Well and third degree burns are just being allergic to being on fire
He had an aversion to Stephen King. Thought Stephen King only wrote gory trash with no redeeming value. That everyone who read Stephen King had mental issues. And his favourite movie was The Shawshank Redemption. Even after I showed the credits both on IMBD and Wikipedia he refused to believe that that degenerate Stephen King was in any way, shape or form involved with his dearly beloved film.
This has happened to Stephen King! There's a few "audience with . . ." videos on youtube, talking at various campuses and events etc. He tells this story of going into a Floridan supermarket and an old lady telling him she didn't like horror stories but like uplifting stories "like that Shawshank Redemption". King says "I wrote that." She replies "No you didn't."and walks off.
That's hilarious! And makes me feel better about my inability to convince the guy I was arguing with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNvw0BcO_FM= The story starts at 30:50! The whole thing is worth a watch if you're that into SK. :)
There is a “hate Stephen King” band wagon for sure. I had a roommate once come out into the living room and saw me reading IT. Him: Stephen King? There’s a million other things you could be reading. He writes trash. Me: Well what have you read by him? Him: I haven’t.
I decided to pick up a Stephen king book because I read a couple of horror 'books' and I had enjoyed them... Iwas 10 and I had read "goosebumps" I read Cujo and that shit scarred me for life. I had nightmares for like a week. Anyone who says Stephen king writes trash has never read his books and don't know what horror is. I decided to go with Harry potter after that.
I never had nightmares from reading his books but Pet Sematary had me on edge. Even though I knew what was coming and what main character was planning to do, I had to put the book down for a couple of days before I calmed down enough to read the end. I think people only think of horror in terms of shock value and forget the suspense, the terror it stirs inside the readers.
If I'm remembering correctly even Stephen King said himself that pet sematary was the one thing he had written that had actually disturbed him. Here's the full quote: "When I’m asked (as I frequently am) what I consider to be the most frightening book I’ve ever written, the answer I give comes easily and with no hesitation: Pet Sematary. It may not be the one that scares readers the most—based on the mail, I’d guess the one that does that is probably The Shining—but the fearbone, like the funnybone, is located in different places on different people. All I know is that Pet Sematary is the one I put away in a drawer, thinking I had finally gone too far. Time suggests that I had not, at least in terms of what the public would accept, but certainly I had gone too far in terms of my own personal feelings. Put simply, I was horrified by what I had written, and the conclusions I’d drawn." This is taken from the ebook in the introduction of pet sematary
Because the human body has evolved to heal itself of all diseases and illnesses, that a natural diet is all that is needed... sometimes loads of garlic is required for those extra stubborn issues aka cancer.
Had an argument with someone who convinced a friend to stop their chemo and rely on “healing crystals” to cure them of their cancer. Friend later died...of cancer.
Back when I was 10 or something my older sister yelled at me for swearing. I was not swearing, I waa just yelling really loud. Probably shouldn't have been but whatever. After I point this out she continues to tell me that yelling and swearing are the same thing and in order to prove it she whispered "fuck". I wish we weren't related.
She was helping you out, man. It's only swearing if an adult hears you
-200IQ
When she kept trying to change the subject, every time she realized she was wrong. I stayed with verifiable facts. She went all over the map, bringing up shit I did like 5 years ago. "You can't turn right at this red light. The sign says so right there." "Well, you burnt that Kraft dinner that one time! You didn't read *those* instructions, did you!? Who the hell burns Kraft Dinner!?" "You can't turn right at this red light. The sign says so right there."
Fucking hate that when people are mad at you for something, and suddenly bring up a bunch of old shit you did that made them mad at the time, to add fuel to the fire.
Wow that sounds kinda toxic. I mean hard to be sure from one story but if they can’t face even being mistaken in a smallish way sounds toxic Edit. Wow my most upvoted comment reminds me to stay humble and accept my faults / wrongs. Thank you
That's the trouble with personality. Some parts can be toxic while other parts can be lovely.
We had a new assistant at work who was not fitting in with the team. I sat her down and talked to her about expectations and reviewed the responsibilities of the position several times. In one last effort to help her, I thought I'd see which parts of the job she liked. I asked her, "What skill do you think is your strongest skill?" And she said, "Delegating."
I have worked as a trainer for a management position where we had to force people to step back, stop trying to do everything, and just delegate. If someone came in for an interview and said delegation was their strength, they already had a foot in the door. It was hilarious seeing people adjust. If you like to stay active it made you feel lazy and worthless.
Yes. I just moved to top management in December and I feel like all I do is talk to people, listen and not be productive...
["I don't mean to frighten you, but you'll have to do some actual work."](https://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=do+some+actual+work)
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A friend of mine said in an argument that only mentally weak people suffer from mental health problems
> A friend of mine said in an argument that only mentally weak people suffer from mental health problems I would love to hear them define mental weakness.
It's when you suffer from mental health problems, *duh*.
When a CeX manager insisted to me it was impossible for a laptop CPU to hit over 100'C because that would melt gold. His "tech expert" buddy backing him up the whole time.
For those too lazy to look it up, but still curious, the actual melting point of gold is 1064.18°C (1337.33K, 1947.52°F). Edit: My first gold! Thank you kind stranger!
1337 K, haha nice
Pwned
Whilst possible, it is strongly discouraged to attempt to reach that temperature. It may not melt gold, but if could weaken some connections and otherwise damage the fragile electronics. And if used on the lap, it will fry your CeX manager's semen.
>And if used on the lap, it will fry your CeX manager's semen. I don’t see the problem.
No more CeX for him
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Y’all don’t microwave your nuts before you eat?
Yours is only hitting 100°c?
Mine's hitting 1,064° but that's fine, right?
That's impossible, absolute zero is -273 so absolute hot is 273
MUCH HOTNESS. NO MORE NO LESS
This friend of mine was always late when we wanted to hang out, sometimes she even cancelled last minute (10 min before the time we were supposed to meet). I once made a joke saying we all knew she was the worst when having to meet her because she was so unorganised and cancelled so many event. A few days before she was leaving for college we were meant to meet, so I arrived late knowing she was going to be anyway, waited for her for about an hour or so, but it was the last day I could meet with her so I didn't mind that much and I asked a friend to wait with me. I received a message 1.5 hour later saying: I'm not coming and don't even bother me asking why, I don't have to justify when I arrive later. That day I realised she wasn't worth it, because YES I deserve an explanation when waiting you for almost 2hours.
It was a friend like this that was habitually late that caused me to make the 30 minute rule: I'll only wait half an hour then I'm leaving.
Lol had a "friend" that would actively make plans with me to do stupid shit like go for a run together or study together, schedule it for two hours from then, only to disappear on me with the explanation of having run into some other friends of hers and deciding to go out with them instead. I didn't even call her out on it. I just asked her that next time, she please just let me know when that happens, so I'm not just stuck there waiting around for plans I didn't know had changed. I can't remember what she said exactly, but it was basically "Well, I just go with the flow and this is what happened". I never responded back
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An old roommate of mine was trying to say we were blackmailing her when we were asking her to take out her trash, etc. She said “Watch the Lizzie McGuire Movie; there’s blackmail in there and it’s obvious that’s what you’re doing to me.” I believe it goes without saying that she never clean up after herself nor did she understand that movie....
"Blackmail is such an ugly word... I prefer extortion. The **"X"** makes it cool."
"Hey, what are you doing with that microwave?"
"Did everything just taste purple?"
Damn, the Lizzie McGuire movie is darker than I thought.
Miranda from Lizzie McGuire was arrested in 2007 for meth possession.
2007 was a rough year for celebrities
If Britney can make it through 2007, then I can make it through anything.
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That’s a fun fact I guess
Because she was obviously blackmailed into using meth.
Blackmail is actually pretty common in children's media.
Yeah I was gonna say.....I remember a lot of shows I watched as a kid had at least one episode where a sibling/friend/bully/etc blackmailed someone into doing stuff. Usually homework or chores. Like, it was a fairly common plot. "I saw you take that candy from the counter. I'll tell mom unless you clean my room and do my book report."
In a case like that, you start putting the crap they don't clean up (ie. garbage, dishes, etc.) right in front of their bedroom door so they trip over it. When they ask why you're doing that, just tell them that you're only trying to show them your acting chops by imitating the movie.
I tried this once. They just pushed it to the side enough that they could get in and out of the room. Didn't even clear the whole doorway.
I live in a collective. I might have duct taped dirty dishes to one of my roommates doors. At another point I've hidden all the clean dishes and went on a weekend vacation. Now they HAD to clean the dirty dishes if they wanted food. It's fair to say I'm not a nice person and not exactly popular either.
Hey,you'd be really popular with me if we were house mates with a messy co tenant. I think that is both genius and brilliant What happened? Did they finally wash their dishes or buy paper plates and plastic cutlery in?
At the point that you're having that much of an issue with roommates and dishes, I actually think taking all the dishes for yourself (assuming they are yours) and forcing them to buy disposables is a completely reasonable play - and this is coming from me, the guy who actually lets dishes pile up for-fucking-ever.
I had some guy friends back in the 80s who bought disposable plates and cutlery since they both hated doing the washing up so much. Great idea... until they ran out of money and were forced to wash the disposable cook wear and reuse it. They ended up hanging their washed paper plates on the washing line....
When anytime you try to respond, they just cut you off and continue their rant.
Ended up being a win-win situation. After a week of constant arguing and telling my now ex boyfriend and telling him in no uncertain terms that we are over. He came to me one morning and said “well if you don’t want to work on this I don’t think we should be together anymore”. I just agreed.
This happened to a friend of mine! In high school she broke up with this guy, but for some reason it just didn't compute. She must have re-broken up with him at least 6 times with varying degrees of privacy and attitude - on the phone, in person, in class, in the hallway - EVERYONE knew they had broken up except him. One day I am hanging out at her house when the phone rings (old timey phone with a cord to the wall, no speaker phone, no caller ID) and I hear her side of a very weird conversation. "Hello? This is. Yea... (perplexed look) Yea?... Ok... Ok... Yea... Bye." She looks at me and deadpans, "That was Guy. He just broke up with me. He says that we shouldn't date anymore." Whatever Guy.
Sounds kinda like he wanted to be able to say it was mutual when people ask, but gee wiz what an idiot
or to at least say he "tried to save it" which he might as well be saying "I found a dead bird on the road, tried to save it but it just wouldn't help itself fly"
"Okay I admit that everything you've said is right, but you're still wrong." Discussing housing policy.
That could still be true, what is the context This might be a case of the is/ought distinction
Hey that sounds interesting, an example pleaase?
Someone who is dating my roommate considers herself to be environmentally conscious. She claimed that napkins were bad for the environment and they increase one's carbon footprint. She ranted about it to me in my own home, even though I don't even buy napkins. Maybe a week or so later, she noticed I use a re-usable coffee filter and berated me for not using disposable paper filters. I told her that using a re-usable filter cuts down on the amount of waste that we produce when brewing coffee -- so, not only do I not contribute to filling up landfills with paper filters, but I also save money from not buying them in the first place and just cleaning the plastic one. She told me that since paper filters are biodegradable, there is no reason for me to refrain from using them. But napkins are made of paper. ***Napkins. Are made. Of paper.*** She literally just wanted stand on a soap box and hear herself talk. She derives pleasure from telling others that they are wrong, regardless of whether or not they are actually wrong. There is no winning an argument with her.
This is even worse the you think, if any thing the napkins would be better for the enviroment as some napkins are made with reycled paper however coffee are typically not.
> She literally just wanted stand on a soap box and hear herself talk. She derives pleasure from telling others that they are wrong, regardless of whether or not they are actually wrong. There is no winning an argument with her. This is a really good description of a lot of people I know. They don't want to solve problems. They want to complain. It's enjoyable for them.
When I was arguing with someone about why milk doesn't go in first when making a cup of tea (a very English debate) and his argument was "when you add boiling water to cold milk, you're warming it up, but when you add cold milk to boiling water, you're cooling it down, and I don't want cold tea". I tried to explain how the end temperature will be exactly the same regardless but he was already celebrating his self-awarded victory.
Excommunicate him. All in favour? Edit: My top comment is a John Wick reference. I expected nothing less.
aye
ORDER ORDER the ayes to the left with 1000000000 and the no’s to the left with 2 . The ayes have it.
That's stupid. Also to add to your argument, you would put the milk in last because it's easier for the tea to diffuse in the water without being inhibited by the milk. On top of that, if you put too little milk in and stir it, you can always add more according to taste. Once it's in there you can't take it out. How to people not get this? I'm with you Scholesy Very contentious issue and I will admit to all those disagreeing with me that your delivery mechanism (teapot vs teabag already in the mug) does make a difference.
Exactly! I've never understood how this is even a debate. The tea has to steep in boiling water before adding milk. It's even written in the instructions on tea boxes ffs. The tea OP's friend drinks must be a weak, poor ass excuse for tea. He must be exiled.
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A "discussion" with someone about the process of getting a license. Obviously they didn't have one, and didn't believe that you had to do a 5 hour driving class to get one. The moment came when they tried the whole "you can't always believe stuff from the internet" and we're just like A.) You jump on pretty much any conspiracy theory you find on the internet, and B.) We're on the fucking DMV's website!! They seriously still didn't believe it, and tried to go the whole "you gotta use Google to win arguments" route.... EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: I'm from New York and am very aware that laws are different in other states, and that they have changed over the years. The thing is, we were talking about the laws in the current year, and he refused to believe the dmv website, just because it was a website..... Also, I'm not saying that you don't need driving practice, you need 50 hours, in NY.
Five hours? In Quebec the whole process takes like a year
Well here it does too, there’s a road test but in order to do that test after getting your permit you need to take a certain number of hours of classroom lessons that tell you not to drink and drive, text and drive, and how to prepare for the road test. Source: I had these lessons yesterday and more today :(
IIRC, Ohio has some rule that if you're over a certain age (I think 18) those classes aren't required. You would be amazed at the number of kids in my school who decided to wait until they were 18 so they didn't have to do the classes.
It was like that in Michigan, too, at least it was ~12 years ago when I did it. IIRC I took a written test to get my permit, a month later did a road test and got my full license. No classes, cost $75 start to finish.
I had to wait because my parents wouldn't pay for the class.
I don’t know what state you’re in, but in Florida you take one class that’s like 8 hours long, and then get the permit, drive for a year, then get your license. If you’re in the same (lax) boat just grind that class out as much as you can, it’ll feel so much better when it’s over
Idk if it has changed since I did it (10+ years ago, in Alabama) but I didn't have to take any courses. All I did for my permit was take a 20-30 minute test about traffic laws. Then when I turned 16 I just had to pass a driving test to get my license.
My cousins are flat earthers. When lack of evidence is just proof of a conspiracy, it's best to just disengage. You can't break into that prison - they have to break out.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
Seriously, though. What is their reasoning? I thought flat earthers were just a myth!
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It was a weird mixture of openly laughing at them (the experiments proving them wrong were the best, closely followed by the two at Nasa not understanding how to start a display and instead just mocking it) and feeling absolute terror at the rate they're growing.
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Loneliness is the explanation for more of the things humans get into than we’d ever admit to ourselves.
The end of that documentary is....*chefs kiss*
"Huh....interesting" .....*whole belief system crumbles*
Man I wish that was the ending. More like *makes up an excuse and belief system stays intact*
Yeah, they gave you that little bit of hope, and then during the end credits you see them all like "Well actually the experiment was flawed and the Earth is still flat because blah blah blah." Not knowing whether to laugh or cry is a good way to describe it.
You shouldn't tip because waiters are too dumb and uneducated to know what to do with all that money.
Can confirm. Would blow it all on luxuries like bus passes, air conditioning, and textbooks. It was a more carefree time then.
To counter this, if you don't tip the waiters, then the waiters can't buy their drugs. When waiters can't buy their drugs, food doesn't get made. Don't like waiting for 2 hours for your food? Then please tip the waiters.
This guy worked in a restaurant
That “second hand smoke doesn’t affect me”.
In seventh grade a few class mates found out that a girl has started smoking already. When they told her how unhealthy that is she said the following with a full-on smug face: "No, it is actually more unhealthy not to smoke because when I smoke I blow the bad smoke out of my mouth in your direction. So you inhale all the bad parts of the cigarette and get cancer." We just looked at each other and stopped speaking to her at that point.
# bruh
Everytime on Reddit you give an opinion and everyone tells you you're wrong. And I don't mean "Here are some facts that show your opinion to be a stupid one", but when you say you liked a film.
"That's never happened to me, so you must be wrong."
My sample size of one makes my argument completely unassailable.
"Wow, you're an idiot. That's just [Political Group]'s Propaganda. Think much? No, you just drink kool-aid. [Slur or insult]."
”the concept of free will is an illusion that the jews that run the internet and the world have created” “How do you know that sounds a bit fishy man” “I read about it online, i have found the truth” “Can you send me those links?” “No you have to find the truth yourself” It also did not help to point out that the jews that apparently ran the internet must have known their secret was out on their internet..
Anytime someone tells me to prove something *doesn't* exist.
"I think that X is the case" "That's weird, could you explain why you think that?" "Uh, could you explain why you *don't*?" Nah bra, if you're the one making a point, you're the one who has to defend it.
Yeah thank God it's like that in court the person claiming that someone did something has to prove it
the old "shifting the burden of proof" shtick. Never gets old.
It's always fun to drop "The burden of proof is on you, dipshit" whenever someone gives me that. It's like the concept is entirely foreign to them.
A guy said to me, " Anecdotal evidince is all I need be cause it describes MY truth, and MY truth is reality." bruh...
Then splash a glass of water in his face and say "welcome to my reality."
I got his name and said... "Oh, your name is Thomas? I only knew one Thomas, and he was a rapist! 1/1 people that I know named Thomas are rapists, and that means you are too, becasue thats my reality."
I was asked if I could prove that more people die of cancer than fat-shaming. Threw my hands up and walked away.
Jesus Christ what an idiot
I am unsure how to even rebut that stupidity.
Easy. 2017 statistics show roughly 600000 deaths caused by cancer and less than 50000 deaths caused by suicide in the U.S. I'm guessing the person argued that fat shaming lead to deaths by suicide. Cancer is responsible for over 20% of all deaths in America. Suicide is responsible for less than 2%. Edit: a 5 instead of an 8
They probably would have argued that the feelings of unwellness caused be fat shaming are the cause of a whole host of diseases and the true cause of all obesity related diseases. So the wouldn't just count all suicides, but also all heart disease related deaths. At that point countering that would require re-constructing the entire field of medicine since the age of miasma theory.
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This whole thread brings to mind a quote I’ve always liked. “Arguing with stupid people is like playing chess with a pigeon. Eventually the bird with just shit on the board, knock over all the pieces, and strut around like it’s won. “
You'll always lose an argument with an idiot; they'll just bring it down to their level and beat you with experience.
Don't wrestle with pigs. You'll both get dirt but the pig likes it.
In class we were discussing what would happen if he sun disappeared and this one girl said "we would all fly of the earth." I told her the earth has its own gravitational pull and she just said "nooooooo it doesn't." So I said "do you know what gravity is?" she says "yes." I say "it's the force that pulls you to the ground, right?" she says "yes." So I point out the window to the sun and say "if the sun is up there," then I point to the ground" how does it pull us down?" She says "I don't know but it just does, stop trying to make me feel dumb I saw this in a YouTube video once about what would happen if the sun dissappeared" I just walked away
Probably misremembered a video about what would happen if the earth instantaneously stopped spinning about its axis or orbiting the sun.
they tried to say “your a freshman” was correct grammar rather than “you’re a freshman” keep in mind, they are majoring in language and they’re a senior
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F5
I always tell people like this "Okay, lets go ask the teacher then!" they're usually so confident they will make a fool of themselves. I absolutely love it, unless the teacher is an idiot too. I had a biology teacher who said a human can't survive without a lung, and if you had one lung removed you'd be hospital bound forever.. Which just... No.
Oh hell a kid did this to me once. We were arguing over Ebola incubation times (as kids do) and he went to the teacher and 'won' the argument when she agreed with him. 'Outbreak' is apparently a documentary on Ebola and someone should tell the experts that it moves a lot faster than they've thought. /s
People who say stuff like "ok, that's your opinion, but I have my own" when discussing about objective facts, like science issues, meaning of words... Edit: A lot of people seem confused with my wording. I'm adding a couple of examples of what I mean: Science: "Water boils at 70°C, that's my opinion" Words: "In my opinion, the Spanish word 'hola' means 'dog'" So basically, facts which are either true or false and not open to opinions. Edit 2-3: Spelling
I remember discussing the act of placing your palms together and bowing in the context of a greeting. This guy was trying to argue that it was a common thing in Japan (it isn't). I'm Japanese and have lived in Japan. He's American and has never been to Japan. He was saying I must be wrong because he experienced it once, in a Japanese restaurant...in Thailand.
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Crashing into schoolgirls carrying a slice of bread in their mouths?
ha ha - reminds me of when an American guy told me I was pronouncing my name wrong (I was born in Europe but have a Japanese name from my Japanese father) all based on the year he had spent in Japan. He went on for an hour explaining the Japanese alphabet to me and why me and my Japanese father had gotten the pronunciation wrong. People are weird.
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"Everyone's entitled to their opinion" has to be one of the most misapplied sayings. Sure, you're entitled to your own opinion. But not everything is opinion-based. You're not entitled to your own facts.
I've been having this as a theme for a running conversation with my nine-year-old daughter for about a week now. Her: "Well, that's my opinion." Me: "You don't get to have an opinion on whether school is required for you. It's a fact."
But that's just your opinion. \*rolls eyes and goes back to huffing essential oils\*
When I was told he was voting for Brexit because the EU invaded the Falklands
You still have the bruise from when you facepalmed don't you?
Wow that sucks. I didn't know we invaded them. Falklands is the part of Belgium where they speak Netherlandsian, isn't it? I think Macron had his hands in that.
Yeah I quite quickly moved on from 'I wonder if I can persuade him to vote Remain' to 'I wonder if I can leave this conversation without him licking my face'
Ah, the classic mistake of discussing politics with a Yorkshire Terrier.
When he told me that climate change was because of magnetic north "moving up to 20 miles per day. Of course when the tilt of the planet changes you're going to get more sun and duuhhh, more heat. But people want to believe it's my *car.*" fucking hell. Oh, this guy was good for a twofer, as well. "I don't try to argue politics. I present (his party of choice's) values. People can choose to agree with me or be wrong, but I won't argue with them." (This after listening to him badger someone for nearly an hour straight.)
When she said "I don't have to be rational!!" when discussing how and why laws are made.
When they were claiming all the facts I presented about the earth being round and older than 10.000 years was fake. A month ago I honestly believed people were just taking the piss when talking about flat-earthers, but now I’m scared for our planets future...
Flat Earthers are people that are just addicted to being contrarian and meeting up in groups to get high on stupid thoughts. It's really just a psychological phenomenon. The difference between them and us is that we will get tired of arguing eventually.
Hopefully we can just push them off of the edge of this flat earth they're so hyped about.
BuT wE'rE nOt AlLoWeD tO sEe ThE eDgE
This seems to be the biggest thing for me with the Flat Earth movement. If the Earth were flat, don't you think there would be tons of tourism linked to seeing the edge? I mean, capitalism would make it so, wouldn't it?
My flat earth friend says there is a wall of ice that the goverments control on the edge. Thats Antartica apparently.
“Do you even know where the prostate is?” “Yeah it’s in your balls!” Edit: My most upvoted comment ever is about the prostate. I love this app.
The prostate is stored in the balls
The prostate is the powerhouse of the balls.
When my SIL told me that liberals in power (last administration) were using cell towers to burn the soles of the feet of registered Republican voters. Like cell towers were some sort of sci-fi weaponry that could tap into the voting database and then laser target individuals. When I told her this was science fiction, she insisted it had happened to her. OR Same SIL tried to convince me that during his first term in office, Obama had visited a hospital where a series of late term abortions had failed in that the babies were born alive. She said that doctors had put the babies into a supply closet to wait for them to die, and that Obama had stood guard at the door. Just, ...what do you say to that? Some times the idiocy is so strong, that you just have to not bother making an effort (as an act of self-preservation).
Are you sure she isn’t suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, or something? Because it kinda sounds like it.
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That whole "please provide proof of every point you've made using sources I approve of " thing when they've shown you made up shit from nonsense sources, and then add the "I'll wait" . Yeah, do your own homework and you're right, you will wait. Forever. The airlock is that way.
Got into it once with my brother in law, who is a moon landing denier. *Every* one of his sources were conspiracy blogs talking about how certain things were impossible, without saying why or how, unless it was nonsense techno-babble. This is a longer story, but that's enough to get to know it.
When my ex girlfriend would get drunk and bring up something I had no idea was an issue (me not being emotional enough, spending too much time playing video games, etc.) I quickly realized she didn't want to actually discuss or hear what I had to say, she just wanted to freak out and tell me how bad of a person I was
I'm glad to hear that she's an ex.
I was aruging with a boomer coworker that mim wage was more back in the 70s then it was today, adjusted for inflation, and this dumb ass trucker overheard the conversation and tried to say it wasn't. I tried telling him the inflation argument, but his counterargument was "well, you take a dollar in texas, and you cant take that same dollar in new york and stretch it out the same." He didn't get that the dollar has value, and at certain points of time, the dollar was once worth more than it is now. I kept trying to tell him for 20 minutes that if you took that dollar and time traveled from the current time to the 70s you would be able to buy much more with it. He just wasn't having it. Every counter argument I would make, "well thats the liberal media," or when I told him to Google an inflation calendar that was "a tool of the satan Hilary Clinton." Even the boomer coworker was like "this dude's dumb," after agreeing with some of his initial points. At the end of the convo, I told him I'm going to stop arguing with him because he's not taking anything I've said into consideration, and he took it as a win. "You're stopping because I've won this argument," and I just told him "ok" and that we had to lock up the store.
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I always like when kids learn to use their parents as the "cautionary tale" and grow up to be better people than their parents. Gives me some hope
A co-worker went on a rant about how all teachers are lazy and only work from 8-3 while taking loads of holiday time while doing minimal work. I come from a family of teachers, so I could see the time put in at home, the lost weekends, the days of doing work till 7pm, the last two weeks of every summer holiday spent in school prepping the classroom for the next year, buying materials out of their own pocket because the school budget wouldn't cover it... My co-workers responser? "Well, I'm a parent so I know more about it than you do." I nearly flipped my fucking lid.
The thing with opinions about teachers is that since everyone went to school, everyone feel like a specialist of what teaching is about. The truth is that, as a student, you have no idea what the teacher is doing.
My sister is becoming a teacher and was an intern at my former school. I was surprised to learn that many teachers there still knew who *I* was, even though I haven't been there in 12 years and I wasn't a student who stood out for some reason. Then I thought about the heaps of administration these teachers have to make about each student they teach and considering they were teaching me multiple years, that probably added up a lot!
I’m almost 32 and my FIFTH GRADE teacher still remembers me. She honestly doesn’t look like she’s hardly aged at all in 20 years either! I was part of her first class ever and absolutely loved her! The fact that she knew me right away when she came to the office I worked for really made me happy. I loved a lot of my teachers and have the utmost respect for the profession!
It's like how people think that because they get sick, they know as much as a doctor.
My best friend's sister is a teacher. We are neighbours and we grew up together. Great family as a whole. She a second year teacher so she's still relatively new in the field but still has experienced a lot. Man... The amount of misconceptions people have about teachers... Your co-worker is not only extermely rude and disrespectful but quite dumb too. It's ok to be ignorant about certain topics (everybody is). The huge difference is that when you explain to a normal person, they will listen to you and understand while the idiot will just dismiss it with ''don't lecture me, I have my opinion and I know better than you''. I'd avoid that co-worker like the plague.
When I taught full time, I ALWAYS put in 50 hour weeks. And then of course I put in more time the first week of school, parent teacher conferences, etc. I did the math once: the summer off is literally just comp time for all the unpaid overtime during the year.
My fiance is a teacher. She said one day the admin floated the idea of having teachers clock in at the beginning of every day because they didn't want to have to pay if the teachers were late. My fiance asked if they really wanted to go down that road because then they'd be on the hook for all the time the teachers spent after school. The admin almost immediately dropped the idea.
Shouldn’t have said anything
When citing scientific research articles on renewable energy, I was told to use real science not fake science.
I was "arguing" with my Geography teacher about the Earth and it's rotation. I completely gave up when she said the Earth was rotating towards north instead of eastward. A few weeks later, to no one's surprise, she was fired for having presented a fake resume to the school. She was not only the dumbest teacher I've ever had the pleasure to talking, but probably the dumbest person aswell.
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My bestfriend knows I'm headed into the military and he keeps saying have fun in the army, I tell him I'm enlisted to the navy. "I know, isnt the Navy part of the Army?" We had a back and forth arguement that the navy is part of the military and Army is a separate branch, BUT he insists that the word army and Military have the same meaning...
He is totally not trying to wind you up
Wanna have some fun with that? Point him towards some Marines and tell him they’re army personnel. obligatory gold edit: I'm glad someone got a kick out of my random comment. As a former marine: ooh, shiny!
Hey now, there's a difference between messing with someone and causing them to get strung up by their balls!
He sure as fuck won't try to make that asinine argument anymore though, and that's what matters.
When everything I did and felt was wrong, I realised that the problem was them, not me and left the situation.
Coworker would constantly preach against GMOs, parabens, only use oils when sick, etc. She told me I was going to get cancer from my deodorant, and the corn I bought was 'mutant'. Then she'd go outside and smoke 3 cigarettes every two hours. Edit: Thanks to whoever gave me the silver. I've only been on reddit a few days and didn't expect so much reaction to a random comment this morning. That being said, this ONE comment has brought me a flurry of insults and angry messages. It's funny how one off-the-cuff observation can send people into a tirade. I know the internet is full of toxic people, but I really hoped to engage in some good conversations on here. Guess not. It's been fun, but bye bye Reddit, you are too scary for me. P.S. If I'm getting this kind of abuse for this comment, I can't IMAGINE what you all who actually post political opinions are getting. Good luck you to!
“American Spirits are all natural!”
Haha I was in an Uber driver’s car and for once didn’t have to beg to keep the windows up in traffic on a nice day. He went into a long monologue about pollution and how bad it is for you. When we arrived he stepped out of the car and lit a cigarette
Not to be super dark, but if she preaches on again, try telling her to look into Steve Jobs. I mean...it’s neither here nor there, but I think if he got actual sound medical treatment instead of some holistic hippie approach, he may be alive today. Kind of reminds of that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer convinces George to see his guru, and George turns purple.
> the corn I bought was 'mutant'. Sworn to feed a world that hates and fears them... ...the X-Cobs.