There’s a new bloke working in our office; as far as I can tell, nobody likes him very much; he has annoying personal habits (‘adjusting his dress’ and picking his nose), he habitually talks way beyond the natural end of conversations, he is just generally odd.
But, because of his experience and knowledge, his presence is essential at this precise moment in the company’s business, fair do’s.
But I mean, FUCK!
There’s absolutely no reason or justification to call him a paedophile behind his back! - Without a doubt, he’s an odd, anal-retentive social misfit, that doesn’t make him a sexual deviant!
Paedophile, honestly, that’s a horrible thing to say about someone.
Oh my gosh. Why would someone be so mean-spirited as to say such a thing? I think that the obvious truth (that this guy is an oddball) would be enough of a subject to discuss, without having to make stuff up out of whole cloth.
I find “cite please” to be a wonderful argument winner in real life. Or at least I assume that I won the argument. That’s what happens when people stop speaking to you, right? You win all arguments by default?
I write “Cite” on papers when I am grading. Does that count? Unfortunately, I do find that some students plagiarize directly from the internet.
Sometimes I have even written in the URL for a cite on someones paper, handed it back to them and said do a little more research…they hate that. :rolleyes: oh well…
I have a friend who subscribes solely to “conjecture and half-truths” in nearly any conversation. Works pretty well if you know not to take him seriously.
I would agree, accept I get called an “asshole” a lot. See, in my circle of friends, I’m known as the one who doesn’t believe squat. This is because, in the circle of friends i have, a lot of them exaggerate and flat out lie (not all, and certianly not my close friends), so I of course call them on their bullshit all the time. This frusterates them and the result is, I’m an “asshole”. To which I snear and say “prove it”. I get a few chuckles and tension is resolved.
This past weekend I was at a gathering with some folks I had just met and during lunch one lady went on about the dangers of rat urine on soda cans, and how we should all wash our cans first. I don’t know this lady from a hole in the ground, so I just smiled and continued sipping from my coke can.
It’s not that often I see ignorance happen in a real life environment, and it was amazing how the rest of the party just lapped up the “fact” and repeated it throughout the day. A well-placed “CITE PLEASE” could have stopped this dead in it’s tracks, but I lacked the courage.
I think you have been spending far to much time on the internet to be calling someone else a social misfit.
Cite? You’ve posted 7603 times to this bulletin board alone. Holy Cow! Why do I get a picture of Homer when he got pirated cable in my head when I think about you getting up from your chair at your computer.
I’m talking ‘social misfit’ in the sense that his manner of conversation (as I said, he just talks and talks, long after the conversation is dead) and body language (he won’t talk to you from any further away than six inches from your face) tends to annoy people, he reaches inside his trousers to scratch his bollocks in full view of everyone, he follows people around.
[hijack] Anonymous Coward: If it was in the market where the rat can thing took place I might have to agree… it is close to Parliament Hll after all… [/hijack]
[continuing the rat can hijack]I don’t wash my cans for rat urine, but I do clean the top of a can of soda before opening it. They’re just dirty, ya know? Dusty, mostly, but some get pretty gross.[/hijack, I hope]
{makes a note}Odd, anal-retentive social misfit is a bad thing - right! Got it now.
