# sensetive much? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 4, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833 "2013-04-04T16:30:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/41 "2013-04-05T03:31:59Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > The “cuteness” (marital status?) of your co-workers or their relatives is not an appropriate topic of conversation with your co-workers while you are at work. A thousand times yes. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/42 "2013-04-05T04:17:20Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Here’s something interesting. At least, it’s interesting to me. I took the OP’s, let’s call it a missive and plugged it into [this nifty writing tester](http://www.writingtester.com/tester/grade_level.php). The tester’s verdict is 59 for readability and 6 for grade level. Now, if one is well into their twenties and can only muster a 6th grade writing level, then perhaps one shouldn’t be concentrating on the love life of another person. Oh, Sweet Jesus, we need a link to that site as a sticky in the Pit! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/43 "2013-04-05T04:36:58Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Now, if one is well into their twenties and can only muster a 6th grade writing level, then perhaps one shouldn’t be concentrating on the love life of another person. But he’s a _supervisor!_#cakewalk ---
**Author:** ![sundog66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@sundog66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sundog66)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/44 "2013-04-05T04:43:31Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Here’s something interesting. At least, it’s interesting to me. I took the OP’s, let’s call it a missive and plugged it into [this nifty writing tester](http://www.writingtester.com/tester/grade_level.php). The tester’s verdict is 59 for readability and 6 for grade level. Now, if one is well into their twenties and can only muster a 6th grade writing level, then perhaps one shouldn’t be concentrating on the love life of another person. You’re one to talk…according to that same tester, your contribution here clocks in at only 53 for readability and 7 for grade level.\* \*Then again, my passage here gets 50 for readability and 7 for grade level. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/45 "2013-04-05T04:48:17Z")
One must know one’s audience. 😃 Wait. That can’t be right. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/46 "2013-04-05T04:55:57Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Is there a version of the OP that comes with a decoder ring? I used mine, according to the decoded version of the post either he found the location of Blackbeard’s lost treasure, or he’s a chimpanzee trapped in the body of an elephant. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/47 "2013-04-05T05:05:42Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > It wasn’t your words that were the problem, it was your obvious erection. Well, they \*said \*hold the pickle! ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/48 "2013-04-05T10:25:03Z")
> [@sundog66](#): > > You’re one to talk…according to that same tester, your contribution here clocks in at only 53 for readability and 7 for grade level.\* > > \*Then again, my passage here gets 50 for readability and 7 for grade level. The ellipsis was your downfall. ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/49 "2013-04-05T11:43:17Z")
So, there is a thread now, about a fucktarded stupid idiotic non-problem that is kind off hard to understand in the first place. However, my sympathy is with you. Dude, just shut the fuck up at work, if they are all Jesus loving virgins and get upset when you say something. Also a hint, the Mexican in the kitchen must not be as creepy as you, when he’s allowed to full frontal chat her up. However, it could also be, that if you had made that particular comment before he chatted her up – he would be now the creepy offender – or you are just a creep and freak her out. Fuck knows, there might be rumours that you are known as a paedophile, true or false doesn’t really matter. \* This post is Grade 7 with a readable Score of 57….\* ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/50 "2013-04-05T12:06:50Z")
_These are not the replies you were looking for._ ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/51 "2013-04-05T12:14:21Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > I see your point. Really? Even this bit? > [@pope\_hentai](#): > > ""well person a’s father came in earlier today and told me that apparently the other night you were talking to them and person b(16m). person b kept referring to person a as persona instead so person A(18f) asked “so, like what, is your mother named persona or something” to which you replied “and is she cute?” and person b just said no shes not and laughed This must be what being foreign feels like. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/52 "2013-04-05T12:37:06Z")
Setting aside the fact that your hovercraft is full of eels, I’m sensing these were exchanges with a very thinly veiled subtext of, “Oh, you mentioned a person who has a vagina? I might want to fuck it - can you give me some more data so I can determine the fuckability of your mom/sister?” Also, having this conversation with a 16-month-old was particularly bad judgment. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/53 "2013-04-05T12:39:03Z")
So does person a get any special status at Chick Fil A ? And quite frankly I don’t think I’d want to be a supervisor there. Nor would I want to be person a or person b. Being the Mexican in the kitchen sounds kind of sexy though. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/54 "2013-04-05T12:40:54Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > Also, having this conversation with a 16- **month** -old was particularly bad judgment. [Bolding mine] Month!?!?!? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/55 "2013-04-05T12:45:18Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Really? Even this bit? No actually. None of it. Not one bit. I thought I was following along until I got to the point about repeatedly referring to person a as persona. What is persona? If it was supposed to be “person a”, what is confusing about person a being referred to as person a? A friend of mine perfected the art of using a deadpanned “I see your point” as a means of defusing any illogical, nonsensical or unnecessarily emotional line of argument from his then girlfriend. I like it a great deal, but I don’t wield it nearly as effectively as he did. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/56 "2013-04-05T12:49:47Z")
I see your point. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/57 "2013-04-05T12:50:25Z")
> [@Doughbag](#): > > So, there is a thread now, about a fucktarded stupid idiotic non-problem that is kind off hard to understand in the first place. However, my sympathy is with you. > Dude, just shut the fuck up at work, if they are all Jesus loving virgins and get upset when you say something. > > Also a hint, the Mexican in the kitchen must not be as creepy as you, when he’s allowed to full frontal chat her up. However, it could also be, that if you had made that particular comment before he chatted her up – he would be now the creepy offender – or you are just a creep and freak her out. > > Fuck knows, there might be rumours that you are known as a paedophile, true or false doesn’t really matter. > \* > This post is Grade 7 with a readable Score of 57….\* Needs more comma, ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/58 "2013-04-05T13:20:30Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I see your point. Oh no you didn’t! Nobody "I see your point"s me! I “I see your point” you! I do not… you… who… what? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/59 "2013-04-05T13:28:16Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > A friend of mine perfected the art of using a deadpanned “I see your point” as a means of defusing any illogical, nonsensical or unnecessarily emotional line of argument from his then girlfriend. I like it a great deal, but I don’t wield it nearly as effectively as he did. You should try a different font. Maybe Helvetica Ironic. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833/60 "2013-04-05T13:50:12Z")
Every CFA that I’ve ever been to looks like it’s been staffed by holding a job fair at a local Christian summer camp, so I’m not surprised that your co-workers would be sensitive to these kinds of things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sensetive-much/654833.md?page=4)