I was just sitting here, reading GQ, when the phone rings. I pick it up. “Hello?” “Is Rachel (my sister) there?” “No she’s not.” click
Stupid cunt. You’re 15. You should know how to work this phone thingy. You say hello. You ask for the person. If she’s not there, you say “Okay, thank you. Goodbye.” or something similar. You DON’T just hang up upon hearing the answer. Biznatch.
I’m afraid now I’m going to have to find you and cut you.
–Tim
Oh, fuck. And I spelled ettiquite wrong. Shit shit shit.
–Tim
Easy Homer. Tis’ the way of the 15 year old world. They only really communicate about pizza and the opposite sex and even then the lines ain’t too clear.
Homer, yes, she was a bitch to be so rude and small minded.\
Aha-Glad to see that you are keeping that powerfully stereotypical, shallow, and insignificant mind of yours going strong. Keep up with the mindless drivel, way to go!
It may suprise you to learn that many, if not most 15 year olds do have the potential to be polite, thoughtful, and civil human beings, something that I am guessing that you have yet to master based upon your broad and baseless reference to an entire age group in a condescending way.
BEATCH!
Etiquette, I believe, is how it’s spelled.
And Homer, for her age group, that’s mostly how they answer the phone unless they’re like my sisters’ friends, who happen to (mostly) be polite and at least indicate they’ll call back later.
threemae, you should notice that homer does metion that “You’re 15. You should know how to work this phone thingy” which would seem to be an agreement with you that "many, if not most 15 year olds do have the potential to be polite, thoughtful, and civil human beings. Is your arqument with aha then, because, well, I don’t think random generalization is such a bad thing. Would you rather he went of into a lengthy discussion of the habits of modern teens? Their apparent inability to find clothes that fit (or at least fit in the normal manner, that is around the waist, as opposed to half-way down their ass), their blatant disregard for authority (compare teen violence, vandalism and similar factors to 15 or 10 years ago) or their general malaise (obesity in todays youth is at an all time high, leading to unknown future health risks).
Yes, sure, todays teen probably know how the phone thing works; sure, aha probably seemed a bit narrow-minded; but you were awful quick to chime in your critique…this isthe Pit, after all.
Biznitch.
Homer, that happened to me all the time when I lived with my family. However, the calls were usually for my brothers who are 4 and 2 years older than me. So it isn’t just 15 years olds. It’s rude people. Anyway, I then got into the habit of these phone conversations:
::ring! ring!::
Me: Hello?
Caller: Is <insert brother’s name here> home?
Me: Nope.
Me: click
I tried that for a few weeks. After a while, they stopped hanging up on me.
::pinky to mouth::
Silver_Fire, that’s so deliciously… eeevil.
–Dr. Evil
Happy to help.
Second phone etiquette rant:
RRRRRRIIINNNNNGG
Me: Hello?
Caller: Who’s this?
Me: Who’s this?
Caller: Is [insert roommate’s name] there?
Me: click
You are calling MY home, shit for brains. I don’t need to identify myself, YOU, who are interrupting MY life, need to identify yourself.
I’m not a Nazi about this … if they immediately ask if my roommate is there, I get my roomie and don’t care about who it is. But, if you raise the issue, you damn well better tell me who you are.
I think the Germans got this right. There, when you call someone, the first thing you say is, “Hello, SuaSponte here.” (In German, of course).
Third rant – I have no obligation to take your call. If I’m on the line, and the call waiting beeps, I have committed no crime if I don’t switch over to your call. Deal with it, moron.
Sua
threemae:
Well I do believe I have been flamed.
Feel like a big deal now that you’ve fired off insults in the pit? Gettin a little self-esteem by pouncing on a rather non-offensive post?
Let me tell you something there sparky I have raised two boys and taught high school for 22 years and I know exactly how many 15 year olds think and their minds aren’t on phone skills. That is what any centered common sensical person would have gleaned from my post. If you thought otherwise you could have just said so with out stooping to blatant insults but that wouldn’t have been near as cool or fun would it?
If you were so interested in showing everyone what a shallow mind I have why not call me out on the subject and ask me if I have any experience dealing with teenagers? Why not ask me why I assume I know how teens think or talk on the phone? Why not ask me if I have ever raised any teens? I can tell you why you didn’t because you decided that a flame would be way cool.
I have mastered plenty, I would be willing to bet more than you have. I have mastered enough to know not to insult posters out of the clear blue unless and until they have insulted me personally. YOU decided to interpret my relatively harmless off hand post in this thread as condescending. Fine.
So let me get this straight. Based on your quote above, this 15 year old that you don’t even know is a small minded rude bitch right? And that is ok for you to say right? But I can’t say that their her mind is on pizza and the opposite sex without you insulting me and calling me mindless and shallow. Is that your position?
You want to trade just plain old insults? How about fuck you. How about you sticking your opinions up your ass and rotating them.
Sounds like Homer needs a nap.
aha - reoow…saucer of milk, table two…
Aww man, I thought this would be about phone ettiquette for whores.
And so I suppose that you think you can go ahead and say the same thing about ethnic groups and still call it a “non-offensive post?”
I AM a 15 year old and I always try to be courteous when I meet new-people that judge me on the basis of their own two sons who happen to be incapable of treating others with courtesy, not thinking about chicks, etc. Although I appreciate that you now state that many 15 year olds are discourteous rather than all, your first post was certainly nothing of that nature. I fail to see how anyone can take,
“Easy Homer. Tis’ the way of the 15 year old world. They only really communicate about pizza and the opposite sex and even then the lines ain’t too clear.” to mean that many if not most 15 year olds are incapable of communicating beyond pizza or the opposite sex.
Again, gong back to the case of the ethnic comments; can you show me a thread in which somebody has lambasted an ethnic group and no one has responded in anger? I would dare venture to say that if somebody made a joke about your ethnic/racial group being incapable of communicating or thinking about things beyond food and reproduction, my guess here is that you just might take that “personally”.
First of all, I said that she was a bitch in a temporary manner. More importantly, I did not observe this behavior and assume that all fifteen year olds are rude whenever talking on the phone.
All right, let’s go ahead and do that. I tried to find data for violent crime committed by teens; however, I could not find data going back 15 years. I am sure it is there, so if you really truly feel like supporting this claim at all, I invite you to go ahead and provide some hard cites.
Your attempt to insult an entire generation on the basis of something as intrinsically subjective as fashion is utterly laughable.
Additionally, those shotgun-toting, sign-shooting racist hick racists use similar arguments against minorities. I’ll elaborate and provide examples if you wish on this if you want me to.
P.S. Aha, what do you teach? I hope to god it is something that is not important like science, especially after your quest for “absolute, irrefutable proof,” in the lung cancer thread.
You suppose???Theres your problem right there. Your suppositions are inane. Are you calling me racist? Got any links or facts to back that up? No…? Then shut up.
Your sure do.
Going back to the case of ethnic comments??? What case is that? Do you have a link or site for that???
Racial? Ethnic? what the fuck are you talking about?
Then you would be guilty of being incapable of reading human character beyond the printed word alone and should not be posting on this board until you can.
Yes you did. Your statement was a judgement about a girl you have never met. She could be any girl or all girls. Much like the judgement you are trying impose on me for making the same casual statement that you did. Only difference is I didn’t show my ass and insult you about your statement as you chose to do.
Now if you are going to quote someone much like you did with thinksnow you need to tag it so others will know who you are talking about and can follow along.
You said to thinksnow:
YOUR the one that needs to provide some links and hard *sites * not cites by the way. That’s right the links are there you are just too lazy to find them. You would rather just shoot your mouth off. It took me 3 minutes to find this one and it addresses “colors” as fashion in regards to teen violence.
http://members.aol.com/rscottlcsw/violence.htm
That’s right, when you can’t think of anything intelligent to say just go for cheap insults. People really respect that. It’s what you have been doing since you joined this thread. And btw God should always be capitolized.
Aha:
Great response.
I’ve rarely met one that does. Can you tell me how many?
Sorry, that’s the first thing that came to mind when reading your flame response.
My error barker. That should have been written to read that I know how many ( as in some or most) 15 year olds think…not that I know how many ( numbers) are actually thinking it.
Watch calling people on errors when you make so many yourself, now.
For the record, the issue of ethnicity and such that threemae continues to bring up seems to be a comparison between two situations which cannot be changed by the person in said situation. Can’t help being a certain age, can’t help being a certain ethnicity. Not the best choice of analogies, but maybe that’ll help to clarify things a bit…
Your complaints against teens seem very iffy in spots. The number of violent crimes has gone up, but clothing not fitting “properly” is largely invalid. As far as “colors,” this is a problem primarily in the dregs of society, it’s not as though anyone is forced into it… I’m not defending teenagers, just suggesting you widen the spectrum of your hatred and learn how to more properly apply it.
Well at least we know that you are still monitoring the thread if not responding to it.