Whether it’s foot in mouth, a sudden heavy subject, or some utter nonsense that you don’t know how to process, what’s something that’s come up in an otherwise alright conversation that’s stopped it dead in its track for both of you?
I was hitting it off with my new neighbor and he said something like I’m glad you’re cool like one of us [40 something white heterosexual cis men] because we’re under attack nudge nudge wink wink. I’m good, later man.
I always hate that assumption that I must be racist because I share the same skin tone as a racist.
I worked with a guy that seemed pretty laid back and alright. He was my supervisor at the time and just out of the blue after knowing him a couple months just the most racist shit said and I was speechless.
I was hanging with a girl that was pretty chill. We had hung a few times over the few months we had met, and had a nice platonic thing going.
She came over and we started to watch some documentary, and in it, there was an abusive man of African descent. She straight up said, “I think there’s something genetic with them that causes them to have a short temper and behave like that”.
Yeah, we never hung out again.
“I think there’s something genetic with them that causes them to have a short temper and behave like that”
I wonder if it’s the same genetic trait shared by police officers… 🤔
Nah, that’s just tiny peepee anger. They finally can be the asshole bully they always were.
then ppl wonder why it’s hard for men to make friends…
I reconnected with an old friend I hadn’t seen in years. He was a bit of a conspiracy nut and was telling me about a new crazy one he had just heard about. I ended up jokingly asking him if he thought vaccines caused autism too. He just kind of deflated and walked away. We haven’t spoken since. I later learned that his son had just been diagnosed as severely autistic. Oops.
Sooo … did they think it was the vaccines do you think? Obviously a touch situation for a parent, depending on the severity of the autism though, and a sensitive topic … but it seems like they may actually have thought their vaccines did it to their child, felt a lot of pain over it, and figured you’d not be able to understand …?
Yeah, I’m sure of it.
That’s one of the more insidious parts of that whole “conspiracy” (more like grift, but that’s splitting hairs…)
It’s got to be hard enough raising a severely autistic kid without piling on the guilt that you may have caused it through well-intentioned actions. Even if you don’t really believe it, it’s pretty fucked to have to live with a shred of “what if…?” all because of one lying asshole and a bunch of easily-manipulated idiots.
Yea … I hadn’t thought about that aspect of the conspiracy theory before (which in hindsight feels dumb). Thanks!
Just to be clear, I wasn’t implying you were in the wrong necessarily, so hopefully it didn’t come across that way!
Not at all! No worries!
He 100% believes his kid is autistic because of the government vaccines.
We were celebrating my birthday at a nice restaurant. My cousin, who had just had her first child 2 months before, was there.
I asked when he was eligible to be vaccinated (this was pre-Covid, so just talking routine infant vaccinations).
She said she wasn’t sure if she was because she read on FB that….
I had had some good wine. I had heard enough. It was my birthday and I regret nothing, but we didn’t speak for a very long while after I went into “are you fucking kidding me” mode.
When the Covid vaccines came out, my wife and I immediately got them. A couple of weeks later, our kids had a patch of various sicknesses, nothing major just some mild infections. I told our kindergarten teacher that I was annoyed about that and she tells, she read, that we are shedding the vaccine and that’s why our kids are sick now. I went full “are you fucking kidding me” mode and felt really bad for a long time after that.
It was on a wedding. I was talking to a dude who got seated at our table. Somehow he managed to change the subject to gender and such, him not understanding why we need these new pronouns and such. I could already tell, that this conversation was heading in a bad direction. Then he said something like “I don’t care if people are gay, but at least some years ago, they would hide at home and be embarrassed about it!” That was the point when I turned around without another word and simply walked away. He didn’t understand what he did wrong. But I didn’t want to make a scene at the wedding. Also I am certain that it has no use discussing anything with people like that.
Damn. I’d ALMOST respect his honesty. Most of those assholes come up with some “legitimate reason” as to why only people like themselves deserve freedom.
What honesty? I’m not seeing it. “I’m not homophobic but they should ‘at least’ be embarrassed and in hiding at home for it” is… not very honest: making that judgment isn’t “not caring”.
As opposed to hiding behind religion or quoting that one passage in the bible, the dude straight up said that he thinks gay people are icky. That level of honesty is rarely found in these discussions.
I have family members who are covered in tattoos, wearing blended fabrics, worship football, and will quote that passage as to why being gay is wrong. It infuriates me to no end.
Did they say they weren’t homophobic?
The “I don’t care if people are gay” has to be intended that way. It’s like “I’m not racist, but…”
I was working at a gas station. Aside from a few long term employees, the turnaround was fairly high. Mostly kids from the local school trying to earn some money during vacations. One time they hired this dude who was usually working construction but needed something during the winter. Super nice dude, always helpful and already had experience with cash registers. But given I’ve grown up around sociopaths, there was this tingle in the back of my head that there was something off about this guy.
During your shift you have to keep copies of all receipts and separate trucks from regular cars. At the end, you comb through them and make sure none of the truck receipts slipped into the regular pile, wrap a paper around them and put date and your signature on it.
One day a bit of work piled up and I was stuck with other duties before finishing my shift. As I was finally about to finish, I noticed my reciepts were gone. I asked them whether he placed them somewhere else. He said he already did my receipts for me (wasn’t uncommon and like I said super nice guy).
I go to the breakroom and see the pile of receipts with paper wrapped around and my signature on them???
I ask him if he signed it with my signature. He casually responds with, “Yeah, I know how to do all the signatures from all the coworkers here.”, and I think to myself “Yep, there it is”. I coumbed through the receipts again, clocked out and went home. And coincidentally never worked a shift with the guy again. And a few weeks later he got fired. He got caught refunding customer money to his own bank account (he had experience with registers).Anytime I’m talking to my music teacher and he brings up Donald Trump. Happens at least 3x a week during the school year.
I don’t know why porygon is in need of justice, but I agree, I fuckin love porygon 😤
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennō_Senshi_Porygon
AFAIK, Porygon was never shown in the anime again because of this episode, and it wasn’t even Prygon who caused the issues.
I’m so glad I read this article
I love Wikipedia so damn much.
Ooooh, I think I was aware of that at one point, but didn’t make the connection.
I’m joining your picket line, that shits fucked up. Justice for my boi porygon 😤
Talking to a former coworker who was a bit older, but always pretty friendly and cool in a refreshing way. He brings up the new young girl they just hired, and her “perky little tits and tight ass”. I guess it’s not crazy to say you find a girl attractive, but it just felt particularly creepy how he said it. I also just hate when I start becoming friends with a new person and I find out they’re a little pervy, and then they feel like they can start making pervy comments around me because now we’re bros.
Edit: wanted to add the inevitable “she hot?” that appears whenever any female ever comes up in discussion about anything. I can’t fucking stand that question.
Edit: wanted to add the inevitable “she hot?” that appears whenever any female ever comes up in discussion about anything. I can’t fucking stand that question.
Ever go complete dad-joke on them and respond with, “Couldn’t tell ya, I didn’t have a thermometer on me!”?
Really though, this is why I try to practice obfuscating gender when talking about others, as it makes stuff like that come up less often. A hidden perk of using they/them more.
Holy crap, dad-joking a response is brilliant. I am going to try that!
gross, regardless of age
deleted by creator
A lady I went on a date with said that she thought that The Joe Rogan Experience was funny
Yeah, as some people have mentioned, when you get people doing the nudge nudge testing the racist/sexist/homophobic waters.
Was talking to a guy at work about upcoming holidays off, and he launches into: “Why do we have a Martin Luther King day anyways?!”. Nope.
Fart humor. I’m out once that starts.
Sports.
