Had a coworker blandly tell me that Obama had abolished term limits. When I asked “how?”, he said: “with a signing statement, like he does everything else”. Now everything that comes out of his mouth is suspect.
I’m known in my office for not owning a cell phone.
One day, two colleagues were discussing a trivia question they’d heard. When I answered it for them, one of the colleagues expressed surprise:
“How did you know that? You haven’t even got a phone!”
Yes, moron, people were able to learn things before mobile phones existed.
I make pretty decent money for what I do and as such I live in a nice neighborhood. There was this guy who lived across the street who was a college professor and I could tell he had the attitude that he should be better off than me and he couldnt stand it that my house was good as or better than his because he had a phd and all.
PHd does NOT equal god.
One of my coworkers talks ALL THE TIME about two things: money problems and the staggering amount of animals he owns and the damage they do to his house and belongings because they’re not well trained. Several months back I loaned him money to euthanize his elderly dog, but his roommate talked him out of it at literally the last minute. To date I’ve seen half of the money returned, which is frustrating but I can live with it.
Last week he started talking about the puppy he’s going to adopt from one of those organizations that brings dogs over from the Middle East because the US troops get attached to them and can’t leave them behind to get eaten by the locals. And just like that I’m done.
Ooh, an even better one from a coworker; she’d been married to a career military guy for over 20 years, and could NOT understand why military spouses would ever report domestic abuse. She firmly believed that if her husband ever beat her she would keep her mouth shut until he retired, because she and the kids DESERVED the portion of the retirement benefits that they would get.
She ended up divorced pre-retirement after catching him banging some attaché (I guess getting beaten is ok, but infidelity is RIGHT OUT), and she’ll still get a portion of his retirement. Her attitude toward fellow military spouses, particularly those in abusive situations, just disgusted me.
There are rumors that you’re interested in this woman’s husband . . . and you choose to discuss it with her in an email!?!?! I don’t think her use of “idk” is the problem here.
“It’s just a cat.” Said by a co-worker when I was grieving about having to put my cat down.
The other day a different co-worker was bitching about how her ex-husband let the kids go hungry when it was his turn to have them. “Says he offered them food and they turned it down because it wasn’t McDonald’s, so he guessed they weren’t hungry. Would it have* killed* him to go get them a Happy Meal?” :dubious:
- Woo, “the Bible says”, and “I don’t read”, also very good answers!
My neighbor started talking about Southern Pride and flying the Confederate flag “heritage not hate”. My already low-ish opinion of her, bottomed.
Have you lost respect for the mom, or the dad?
The mom!
"God used me.
I think this says more about the kids’ pickiness and mother’s parenting.
This is an old story, but the still the standard I judge by.
I was working for a company that had recently hired a new employee. I saw her eating alone in the break room, so good HR lady that I am, I sat down with her to make nice and be friendly. We had a nice chat and actually had lunch together the two following days. At the end of that third day eating together, she looked me in the eye and said “Have you been saved?” I wasn’t familiar with that expression at that time, so I innocently replied “From what?” She gave me a cold look and said “It’s too bad you are going straight to hell. I was starting to like you.” Then she stood up and walked away.
I was clueless and actually had to ask someone to explain that exchange to me. I’m Catholic and the ‘being saved’ idea isn’t something we embrace, believing that baptism at the time of birth covers one’s saving needs. When I finally understood what the woman was saying, I could only think, wow, what a judgemental shmuck.
How inappropriate at work, and with an HR person. :smack:
I’m still waiting to run into a neighbor who I know asks you if you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior. I have, but it’s not like I need to discuss this with a neighbor I don’t know. I hope to politely say yes and be able to move on.
You could tell from that time he came outside, looked at his house, then at yours, then back at his, then shook his head sadly, then unfurled his diploma, pointed at it, pointed at his house, then shook his fist angrily at yours?
Anybody? Ever?
I’m OK with that if they’re talking about the Bible, or if it’s a Biblical quote that is just plain common sense. Otherwise, no.
I had a friend who told me he didn’t think gays should marry, but that his reasoning totally wasn’t a religious thing, but he was against it because the Bible says it’s bad, but again, it had nothing to do with religion. After that he became just some guy I know.
Once you lie to me for no reason it’s pretty much the death knell for our relationship.
Also, whiners.
Wow. It’s like you were there.
I’m going to cautiously interject here that I’ve more often seen the opposite… that is, someone says X. I say something along the lines of “wait, are you saying Y?”, where Y is (in my brain at least), either an implication of X, or a restating of X, or a clarification of X, or something. And then someone goes off about “how DARE you tell me what I’m thinking, that’s so rude”.
Thing is, I’ve been posting on the SDMB and arguing with approximately the same rhetorical style for over a decade, and much longer if we count previous online fora, and I’ve encountered this behavior only a few times; but it was so startling and odd that it really stuck out.
I mean, it’s not like they tried to clarify and then I said “no, wait, too late, I know what you meant, I refuse to have my initial impression of your position changed”, or anything of that sort.
I guess it’s the difference between arguing with an intellectually honest person, who might say “wait, are you saying X?”, and actually be willing to listen to an explanation of why the initial speaker is not in fact saying X, vs someone who fixates on the idea that the initial speaker is saying X, and then attempts to use haha-you’re-saying-X-you-X-sayer to bludgeon his or her way to rhetorical victory.