# Things You Shouldn't Need To Tell People **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 4, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674 "2021-07-04T19:29:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/404 "2021-08-24T18:45:56Z")
New one When I’m having lunch at the work break room and people randomly ask me what I’m eating while I’m currently eating, ESPECIALLY if what I’m eating is literally a McDonald’s burger in a McDonald’s wrapper with a McDonald’s bag all clearly labeled next to me. Then we get the world’s most boring conversation. “What are you eating?” “… McDonald’s Big Mac…” “Oh I haven’t eaten a Big Mac in years! The last time I went to McDonald’s was 2 years ago to use the restroom” Like what am I supposed to do with that? And this happens almost every day by different people. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/405 "2021-08-24T19:25:08Z")
I wonder if this is the food equivalent of going to a thread about a TV show to tell everyone about how you don’t watch TV. Like these people want to steer the conversation towards the fast food you’re eating just so they’ll have the opportunity to brag about how they don’t eat fast food. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/406 "2021-08-26T00:59:09Z")
That has always been my impression when I’ve had it happen. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/407 "2021-08-26T01:18:17Z")
I don’t eat fast food, or watch the commercials on the television I don’t have, or post in threads about it because I never go on social media or read messageboards on the computer that I would never buy. And, really, I’m way too busy improving myself, physically and intellectually. And volunteering to make meaningful societal change, basically righting the wrongs of the modern world. I can see how I might sound full of myself but hey _[shrug],_ what can I say? ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/408 "2021-08-26T19:17:28Z")
Another new one If you’re over the age of 25 you should never EVER say “It’s not fair” at work as an argument. You’re a 55 year old person literally yelling and screaming at work about how “It’s not fair” you have to actually do the duties on the job description you signed up for. Just because you have high seniority that prevented you from doing those duties for the longest time but now we’re low staffed and you have to do them again, don’t complain about how “It’s not fair I have to stand all day when others are sitting!” ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/409 "2021-08-27T18:44:01Z")
While “it’s not fair”, especially if that exact phrase is uttered sounds childish, contexts must be considered. In the past, I’ve seen plenty of examples of slackers getting away with slacking/goldbricking/shirking and the ( extra ) work being given to everybody else. Said managers damn well knows what’s going on but finds it personally easier for themselves to just stick the workers with the extra work rather than crack down on the slackers. It’s enough to make some people’s righteous indignation manifest itself by undermining the boss via passive aggression to redress the balance. Another thing someone shouldn’t need to tell people. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Sponge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dark_sponge/32/121_2.png) [@Dark\_Sponge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Sponge)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/410 "2021-08-27T19:48:26Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > When I’m having lunch at the work break room and people randomly ask me what I’m eating while I’m currently eating, ESPECIALLY if what I’m eating is literally a McDonald’s burger in a McDonald’s wrapper with a McDonald’s bag all clearly labeled next to me… > …Like what am I supposed to do with that? And this happens almost every day by different people. Things like this used to annoy me. I’ve figured out the person asking the extremely stupid question almost always just wants an excuse to talk me to me because they think I am interesting/attractive/cool. It’s not so bad if you think of it as a complement. ---
**Author:** ![PozhanPop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pozhanpop/32/8022_2.png) [@PozhanPop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PozhanPop)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/411 "2021-08-27T21:19:05Z")
I heard an American tourist on the haunted house tour in Jamaica ask her guide if they have skunks in Jamaica. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/412 "2021-08-28T00:16:58Z")
I’m not sure why that’s a stupid question. I certainly wouldn’t know if the range of skunks does or does not extend to Caribbean Islands. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/413 "2021-08-28T00:25:48Z")
Yeah, I had to look it up. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/414 "2021-08-28T01:23:58Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > Woman at U-pick farm, in a row of flowers, calling out to worker: “Can these bees, like, sting us?” > > Farm worker (after a deep breath, smiling): Yes. So be careful. (Then, under her breath:) _No, we’ve specially trained them to be kind and never sting…_ ) (I realize this is a very late reply to this, but): Not all bees have a sting: > **[Stingless bee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingless_bee)** > > Stingless bees, sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (about 550 described species), comprising the tribe Meliponini (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors). They belong in the family Apidae, and are closely related to common honey bees, carpenter bees, orchid bees, and bumblebees. Meliponines have stingers, but they are highly reduced and cannot be used for defense, though these bees exhibit other defensive behaviors and Stingless be... This particular farm may well have been outside the range of stingless bee species, but it’s not necessarily a stupid question. ---
**Author:** ![PozhanPop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pozhanpop/32/8022_2.png) [@PozhanPop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PozhanPop)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/415 "2021-08-28T04:01:12Z")
The fact was that many people in line were smoking weed. Jamaica , remember 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/416 "2021-08-28T14:31:23Z")
To be fair, not all weed smells like skunk and it’s entirely possible for a person not to know that some of it does. Until a couple of years ago, it was not common to smell weed walking down the street in NYC and there were probably many people who hadn’t knowingly smelled it since the 80s when different , non-skunk smelling strains must have been common. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/417 "2021-08-28T14:46:00Z")
Sounds like the “Are there turkeys in India?” conversation we had at work one time. ---
**Author:** ![PozhanPop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pozhanpop/32/8022_2.png) [@PozhanPop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PozhanPop)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/418 "2021-08-28T15:05:42Z")
I did not mean that in a derogatory way at all. It just brought a smile to everyone’s place. It was a purely innocent question on the part of the tourist. The guy behind me had a cheech and chong sized fatty going if I remember right. : ) ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/419 "2021-08-28T15:30:49Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Sounds like the “Are there turkeys in India?” conversation we had at work one time. That doesn’t seem like an obviously silly question to ask either. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/420 "2021-08-28T15:38:21Z")
My guess is that the question was related to the traditional American Thanksgiving menu - which has nothing to do with India. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/421 "2021-08-28T15:43:59Z")
Then I’m even more confused as to what the problem with the question is. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/422 "2021-08-28T15:48:58Z")
The story of the first Thanksgiving that children learn ( or learned) was that it was a feast involving Native Americans ( who used to be referred to as “Indians” ) and colonists at Plymouth. The question seems to have come from someone who thought the “Indians” referred to were people from India. Turkey is the centerpiece of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/423 "2021-08-28T15:52:27Z")
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