# Never hit on anyone who can't run away screaming **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978 "2010-01-06T23:42:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/41 "2010-01-08T04:05:19Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > I figure about nine in ten of the women I hit on run away screaming. It always seems to happen after I mention my prehensile penis. But there’s the one in ten that is intrigued, and that kinda makes up for it. Until you have to produce one. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/42 "2010-01-08T04:12:44Z")
Religion, tipping and flirting; this thread almost has it all. If we could just find a way to work the issue of children in here, I believe we could delete the rest of the Pit. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/43 "2010-01-08T04:21:26Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > For future reference. You’re not an Atheist, your agnostic. > > Non believer= Atheist > Agnostic= Who knows? Somebody whose attitude is “who knows?” is by definition a nonbeliever. Belief- whether in the existence or nonexistence of a deity or deities- is the opposite attitude. An atheist and an agnostic can be the same thing, for moderate (“weak”) values of atheist. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/44 "2010-01-08T04:22:06Z")
> [@Jeff](#): > > Religion, tipping and flirting; this thread almost has it all. > > If we could just find a way to work the issue of children in here, I believe we could delete the rest of the Pit. 😛 Pfffft. You wish. There would still need to be SUVs, declawing/spaying/neutering cats, and circumcision. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/45 "2010-01-08T04:25:42Z")
You forgot fat people. Weightist! ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/46 "2010-01-08T04:31:30Z")
> [@Auntbeast](#): > > If it was 1.5 seconds each time I went by, it would be tolerable, it wasn’t. I had to pry myself away each and every time. I’m actually wondering if **melodyharmonious** wasn’t my other table right behind the preacher. I was in Spartanburg, SC - were you? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/47 "2010-01-08T04:36:22Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > You forgot fat people. Weightist! Butthurt fatty alert! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/48 "2010-01-08T04:46:21Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Somebody whose attitude is “who knows?” is by definition a nonbeliever. Belief- whether in the existence or nonexistence of a deity or deities- is the opposite attitude. > > An atheist and an agnostic can be the same thing, for moderate (“weak”) values of atheist. Living up to your user name, I see. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/49 "2010-01-08T04:51:02Z")
Oh, witty. Haven’t heard _that_ one before. Why don’t you address the content of my post if you think it’s inaccurate? ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/50 "2010-01-08T05:02:33Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > [Brickertude omitted] > > I’ve waited tables. I’ve been proselytized and propositioned while doing so. And with all due respect to the agony this crayon drawing apparently brought you, I have to say that unless there’s an aspect of the experience you haven’t fully described, I’m thinking it wasn’t a particularly onerous event to endure. I’ve been given Chick-type tracts instead of tips, and once I was offered a hotel room key and a chance to collect my “tip” there by a woman old enough to be my mother who had been on a steady diet of double Tanqueray martinis and Salem Lights since she got there. > > (Although as I write that, I realize she was probably in her late forties / early fifties, about my age now. Wow.) Wait. Are you trying to tell us that you’re a DILF? Well, I’m just going to have to ask for a picture. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/51 "2010-01-08T05:06:43Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Living up to your user name, I see. It’s really not that big of a deal. I don’t see why people keep bringing it up. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/52 "2010-01-08T05:07:32Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > Wait. Are you trying to tell us that you’re a DILF? > > Well, I’m just going to have to ask for a picture. **Bricker’s** life is starting to sound an awful lot like the plot of the film Kingpin. Do you bowl, **Bricker**? Are you Amish? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/53 "2010-01-08T08:41:41Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > An atheist and an agnostic can be the same thing, for moderate (“weak”) values of atheist. They both have to be “weak.” Agnosticism [means](http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+agnosticism) you not only believe you don’t know, but that it is impossible for you to know. Atheism [means](http://www.google.com/search?&q=define%3Aatheism) you actually believe in no God. Both of these positions, when “weakened” can imply merely being unsure about whether God exists. I just wish such a concept had it’s own word, rather than co-opting two others that shouldn’t mean the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/54 "2010-01-08T11:26:50Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > In the interest of fighting ignorance: > > Jewishness and red hair and freckles are not contraindicated. > > –Green Bean, redheaded freckly Jew Heck, it’s pretty common. My grandmother, her mother, her mother… ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/55 "2010-01-08T13:45:58Z")
> [@drm](#): > > I think the only answer I could give is, “I see myself as god.” He either finds that funny and takes the hint or he gets offended and doesn’t question you any more. Either way, problem solved! pretty funny. My thought was more combative I guess. “Draw another person in it laughing. That’s me!” You’d have to be willing to kiss your tip goodbye but it might be worth it. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/56 "2010-01-08T16:26:31Z")
Steering back to the topic of the OP, I have to admit that I once had a dentist who worked to convert me to Mormonism (this was in Salt Lake City). On another session, he gave that up, and tried to sell me a series of tapes for some boondoggle. I put up with it because he really was a very good dentist. I just ignored the babble. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheField](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@LilyoftheField](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheField)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/57 "2010-01-08T16:35:16Z")
> [@Auntbeast](#): > > He drew a picture. A picture he added to as the meal progressed. A picture of a person standing on one side of a chasm and God standing on the other. Every time I went to his table, he continued the preaching and the preaching and the preaching. He asked me where I saw myself in the picture. I responded “I don’t discuss religion or politics at work, Sir” He ended up leaving me the picture and a God pamphlet. what I want to know is - what did God look like in this picture? how could you tell that it was God? what color crayon does one use to represent the Deity? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/58 "2010-01-08T16:39:10Z")
Periwinkle blue. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/59 "2010-01-08T16:40:32Z")
I have not so heartily agreed with an OP in years. I even say this as someone who has Chatty Cathy tendencies at times, but I recognize when my chattiness would be unfairly trapping someone in a conversation. I don’t preach to the grocer about whatever it is that’s got me hot under the collar at the moment. I let him do his job, then I go home. Now then, two things: > [@fubbleskag](#): > > **Bricker** thinks having an old drunk woman offer herself to you is worse than being preached at, so his opinion in this thread is obviously worthless. Worthless indeed. > [@Tamerlane](#): > > Random presumably non-native-touristy-looking white dude to me: “Man these prices are unbelievable.” > > Me ( friendly ): “Yeah, a little ridiculous, but I guess par for the course for a museum gift shop.” > > RD: “Probably owned by Jews. I hear they are into art.” > > Me ( less friendly ): “Err…I have no idea.” > > RD: “C’mon, you know it’s probably true.” > > Me ( slipping away in a carefully controlled retreat ): _shrug_ I once had a taxi driver ask me how I felt about Iranians. Cabbie: What do you think about Iranians? Me: I, uhh, I don’t. Cabbie: How do you feel about them? Do you like them? Me: I feel the same way about them as I do everyone else. I like some. Cabbie: Wrong. They’re all bad! What the…? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978/60 "2010-01-08T16:42:39Z")
Did he prounce it EYE-rain-ee-uns or I-raaan-ee-uns? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-hit-on-anyone-who-cant-run-away-screaming/523978.md?page=4)