# Rude questions you wish you could ask. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 24, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226 "2013-05-24T14:39:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/41 "2013-05-27T18:51:36Z")
My question is to a lot of people I know - how could you possibly be “broke”? I’d love to review their bank statements and W2s and their spending habits, and see how they could possibly be pissing their money away so poorly, without a thought of retirement or savings or even not going paycheck to paycheck. And I’d love to hear their justification for buying so much crap. Really - you make $88k a year, and you’re “broke”? But all that new flooring and plasticine dish set must have nothing to do with it, right? But, since I couldn’t punch them for being stupid, it would just frustrate me. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/42 "2013-05-27T19:20:28Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I wonder if dogs are intelligent enough to wonder how humans lick their balls. That’s not funny. I had a cousin who broke his neck trying that. Two Rude questions I’d like to ask. Not that I want an answer actually but I would like to ask it in public. You know when your out and about and somebody (or sometimes a lot of somebodies) piss you off so much you want to beat them to death with a 2 by 4? I want to “ask” ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID!!! and WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!! ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/43 "2013-05-27T21:43:46Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > My question is to a lot of people I know - how could you possibly be “broke”? I’d love to review their bank statements and W2s and their spending habits, and see how they could possibly be pissing their money away so poorly, without a thought of retirement or savings or even not going paycheck to paycheck. And I’d love to hear their justification for buying so much crap. Really - you make $88k a year, and you’re “broke”? But all that new flooring and plasticine dish set must have nothing to do with it, right? > > But, since I couldn’t punch them for being stupid, it would just frustrate me. This. I know a couple that clears $100k per year together and always bitch about how they can’t afford this, can’t afford that, and SWEAR that if they took a 3% pay cut that they would be bankrupt. I understand that people naturally adjust their lifestyles to income, but not being able to take a modest step back, at least in my mind, shows that the person is automatically increasing their lifestyle to the max with each increase in income. Boat payments are not necessities. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/44 "2013-05-27T22:34:35Z")
> [@Tequila\_Party](#): > > Unless they were all born at the same time, I’d think that after two with the same condition, you might consider the possibility that more will also have it and stop having kids. Except that with some conditions, you can have three or four kids before one is diagnosed when the oldest is six or eight or ten. Genetic conditions are not all apparent at birth. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/45 "2013-05-27T23:08:47Z")
Not really a NOYB question, but I found out a few days ago that the person who was most likely responsible for the demise of my career is going through a seriously ugly divorce, and it appears that even though they have 3 very young children, EVERYONE is totally siding with her husband. I’m personally wondering not so much what took him so long, but what might have been wrong with him in the first place that he was willing to spend enough time with her to find out if she would have sex with him. Seriously, this woman showed up and singlehandedly turned a 60-person department upside down, all the while treating the rest of us like something you’d scrape off the bottom of your shoe. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/46 "2013-05-27T23:36:23Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > Except that with some conditions, you can have three or four kids before one is diagnosed when the oldest is six or eight or ten. Genetic conditions are not all apparent at birth. I used to work with a middle-aged woman whose elderly father was believed to have Alzheimer’s, although his symptoms were a little unusual, until she herself experienced a steep mental decline and she was diagnosed with Huntington’s. ☹ He was re-tested and got a correct diagnosis himself. Horrible thing that nobody deserves. Fortunately, she did not have children of her own so nobody is at risk because of her. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/47 "2013-05-27T23:38:42Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Not really a NOYB question, but I found out a few days ago that the person who was most likely responsible for the demise of my career is going through a seriously ugly divorce, and it appears that even though they have 3 very young children, EVERYONE is totally siding with her husband. > > I’m personally wondering not so much what took him so long, but what might have been wrong with him in the first place that he was willing to spend enough time with her to find out if she would have sex with him. Seriously, this woman showed up and singlehandedly turned a 60-person department upside down, all the while treating the rest of us like something you’d scrape off the bottom of your shoe. I forgot to mention earlier that she’s the type of person who’s probably hoping that at least one of her kids is autistic, so people will, like, worship her or something. :dubious: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/48 "2013-05-27T23:43:17Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I forgot to mention earlier that she’s the type of person who’s probably hoping that at least one of her kids is autistic, so people will, like, worship her or something. Uh. What? ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/49 "2013-05-27T23:45:14Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > Except that with some conditions, you can have three or four kids before one is diagnosed when the oldest is six or eight or ten. Genetic conditions are not all apparent at birth. I’m betting something like this happened with this [family](http://press.discovery.com/uk/dhh/programs/six-autistic-kids-my-unique-family/)–who have six autistic children. The older three kids have Asperger’s Syndrome, while the younger kids have classical autism. I imagine if the more severely handicapped children had born first, then their family would have been smaller. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/50 "2013-05-28T02:35:16Z")
> [@colander](#): > > Uh. What? Munchausen by proxy, maybe? Some people get off on having bad things happen to them/people close to them. It sounds like possibly this person perceives that she’ll get attention if she has a sick kid. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/51 "2013-05-28T03:30:27Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > **That’s not funny. I had a cousin who broke his neck trying that.** I’m sorry but…ROFL. ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/52 "2013-05-28T06:41:44Z")
> [@Silver\_Fire](#): > > Munchausen by proxy, maybe? Some people get off on having bad things happen to them/people close to them. It sounds like possibly this person perceives that she’ll get attention if she has a sick kid. Perhaps, but I’m banking on a considerably [simpler explanation.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator) ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/53 "2013-05-28T11:06:28Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > Except that with some conditions, you can have three or four kids before one is diagnosed when the oldest is six or eight or ten. Genetic conditions are not all apparent at birth. Oh yeah, this is what happens. I know a family with three autistic kids at various places on the spectrum. The oldest hit that three year regression just as Mom was pregnant with twins. By the time there was a diagnosis, she was damn near full term with them. She fully admits that had she known earlier about the eldest’s autism she would have terminated and not had more natural children. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/54 "2013-05-28T11:40:27Z")
There are lots of times I want to ask someone, “How do you manage to feed yourself, you’re so stupid?” But I just walk away and try to avoid them. I’m a really bad actress, so the question is written all over my face even though I never actually ask it. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/55 "2013-05-28T12:40:00Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I’d really like to know how that no-armed girl on Tosh wipes. Does she just have a special toilet paper set-up on the wall and just backs into it like bears do on trees to scratch their backs? Foot-operated bidet. I don’t have any inside information, but that is the simplest, most logical explanation. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/56 "2013-05-28T13:09:09Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > I’m sorry but…ROFL. It did not actually happen you know? But glad you gotta a laugh 🙂 Actually I stole it from a similar scene from the movie Clerks, which IMO is a odd funny little movie. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/57 "2013-05-28T16:59:46Z")
My rude questions: Can a Chinese person identify on sight someone who is Asian but not Chinese? Can they tell just by looking if that person is Korean, Japanese, Thai, etc.? And vice versa? Does every movie have a gag reel? Even _Schindler’s List_? ---
**Author:** ![Jamie\_Gillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@Jamie\_Gillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamie_Gillis)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/58 "2013-05-28T17:47:36Z")
I’ve always wanted to ask a hot woman if I could tongue her anus. ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/59 "2013-05-28T18:29:45Z")
> [@Jamie\_Gillis](#): > > I’ve always wanted to ask a hot woman if I could tongue her anus. Make sure you reassure her that you’ve been diligently practicing your technique on slow-moving stray pets. That way she’ll know you’re a contender! ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226/60 "2013-05-28T18:51:59Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > My rude questions: > Can a Chinese person identify on sight someone who is Asian but not Chinese? Can they tell just by looking if that person is Korean, Japanese, Thai, etc.? And vice versa? > > Does every movie have a gag reel? Even _Schindler’s List_? I used to work in an office with many Asian workers from various countries. One of them told me that it was very obvious to them that X was from Japan, Y was Chinese, Z was Vietnamese, etc. However, he said, all the non-Asian people looked alike. I found that astounding, that he found it difficult to distinguish the stereotypical Irish gal from the stereotypical Italian one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rude-questions-you-wish-you-could-ask/659226.md?page=4)