I don’t know how she put up with that for five hours. I agree with the people saying she needs to learn to be a little more assertive. She should have asked for a seat change the first minutes she felt uncomfortable.
Regarding the posting style, with a teenage daughter at home, I didn’t notice a thing wrong with it and had to go back and look once I read the remarks here. I am very fluent in facebook.
Fucking SDMB drives me nuts sometimes. Dude relates a story about his niece being harassed by some weirdo, god help him if his niece’s post doesn’t conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Dopers will pounce like that’s the most important thing.
If that had been me…
• I would have posted that rant with correct grammar and spelling. I’d have used punctuation correctly also.
•I would have been moved far sooner than five hours into the flight because I would throat punch a stranger who tried pawing on me and kissing my cheek on a flight. After of course, I put up a big fuss and loudly hollered “STRANGER DANGER!! STRANGER DANGER!!!”
Or put her cigarette out on his forehead.
And I thought I was a bad seatmate.
Geez.
Unfortunately, a lot of [del]people[/del] assholes see that as the way to win at life: If you can’t win the argument on the facts, argue the tangents. If you can keep the discussion away from the real point and keep the other person off balance with inconsequential bullshit, you win.
The Facebook grammar was a little jarring, but all would have been forgiven had the incident actually happened to the OPer. It’s just hard for me to muster up outrage over an incident that happened to a poster’s niece…unless it was truly horrendous. I mean, the niece isn’t here to even feel supported by our shared outrage at her ill-mannered seatmate, so what really is the point?
At the risk of offending the OPer, who seems like a nice chap, but maybe the thread would have been better received had it been posted in the Mundane folder?
P.S. Canada rocks!
Do you really think anyone here doesn’t agree that the seatmate was an asshole? Everyone agrees with the OP, so there is no debate, nothing to argue about. Therefore, make fun of tween typing habits - it’s perfectly innocent fun.
Perhaps this airplane experience by the wife of a Canadian senator might be instructive for you.
I’m surprised. You’ve been around longer than I have. Have you not noticed that many pit threads are about complete strangers offending complete strangers ?
Perhaps better received in the Mundane folder however my expression of outrage does not comply with the rules in that forum.
Yes. In both official languages.
Duh, thats the motto of this place. Being pedantic is far more important than being right or having a point. Assholes here are so fucking full of themselves and their own shit that they’ll counter an argument with, “You used the wrong there their they’re. Hurpy-durpy-durp.” and then think to themselves, “Man, I pwned that loser so hard. I am so awesome.”
Fucking losers.
Also the OPs niece is obviously intelligent. She knows everyone should hate Canada and that’s an important fact to know in life.
It’s cyber bullying is what it is. People like that should go to jail. :mad:
Hey, the medium is the message, right?
I’ll just note that no one said she had no reason to be mad, and that she should have put up with it like a good Canadian girl, and dude was just exhausted/fatherly/whatever bullshit excuse. The worst anyone said besides “holy shit, txtspk lolz” is that she needs to stand up for herself. But apparently that means anyone who commented on the contrast between it and much of the rest of the board are terrible elitist assholes and deserve more attention than the jerk guy in the OP.
Or, maybe it all just means there isn’t much to say that’s on-topic other than “what a jerk.”
Right?!!
Everyone’s bitching and moaning about grammar and ellipsis overkill, and I’m like, “He kissed her on the cheek?!” :eek: Homeslice would have gotten kicked in the nuts. Not even kidding.
This place is an asshole convention, all right. Fortunately we have a few shining lights like yourself willing to set a higher standard, otherwise I can’t even imagine how much worse it would be.
Asshole convention and ‘Hurpy-durpy-durp’! I’m ROFL!
Again, I don’t think it was a good time for niece to “restrain her anger and vent later” either … I hope she learns to speak up and report the creep when the trespass takes place.
Watch it, or I’ll shake your hand.
You do that, and I swear to God I’ll take umbrage. Heck, I may even demand a retraction!
Stop roleplaying as a drunken smurf and be yourself. 