How have you mistakenly offended people recently?

how old she was rather

I am wondering if there are people who go around saying "THANKS, SLUT!"

this is reminding me that I recently saw what had to be, like, 15-year-old girls drinking in my neighborhood the other night. I don't know how these bars are running their business, but seriously, if a girl's still got braces, maybe try carding her

Hey, my wife had braces at 21 and so did one of her college roommates!

Also the Trapper Keeper was "ironic"

did she also weigh 90 pounds, have a wardrobe mostly from Hot Topic, and do lots of bouncing and giggling?

haha foiled by xpost

she probably didn't bring the Trapper Keeper to a bar, though ...

also, i would be offended by someone tsking me for something silly like accidentally dropping a grapefruit rind down a drain. but then again i don't generally like busybodies.

once some crazed middle-aged woman pursued me in her car down sunset blvd, i think because of an anti-war sticker i had on the bumper. she tried to spit at me but the spit was a little, uh, "thick" and it just kinda flopped out and stuck to her mouth and dribbled down onto her car door.

oh, it wasn't an accident, I tossed that rind on purpose

I may or may not have also shouted TAKE THAT, RIND

THANKS, SLUT

could have maybe been interpreted as "Think, slut!"

I learned that "oh hai, thank you for my awesome ticket which I will treasure all week, there is a guy running for this bus [still stopped but doors closed] but I'm sure you saw him, by the way thanks again" might be less likely than "could you open the doors" to make the driver shout at you for telling him what to do, but possibly not, as bus drivers are crotchety types, for largely understandable reasons

also I guess it is 3 years too late to say, "Thanks, slut. Thlut," so, yeah.

There probably are slutty grapefruit out there somewhere.

well, grapefruits ARE tart ...

also I guess it is 3 years too late to say, "Thanks, slut. Thlut," so, yeah.

― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 6 July 2009 19:46 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

lol it is never 3 years too late for this

Ruby Breakfast would be quite a good porn actress name imo

wait a minute, tomatoes and grapefruit now?!

also grapefruits are soft, pink and wet and explode in your mouth when eaten.

rind tossing

offended by how lame this thread is

Eisbaer I would feel better about both grapefruit and women if you'd used a word other than "explode" there

'fructify'

"go off"

I don't think it's any longer a mistake what you people are up to.

"enjuicify"

By "grapefruit rind" were you perhaps indicating the outer peel? That stuff doesn't decay very easily - it's too full of citrus oils - so that leaving pieces of it about is usually a bad idea. Not at all like apples or pears.

yeah, but it sounds like something birds or rats would eat along the way.

not something to get mistakenly offended by, either way.

If it's usually a bad idea, under what circumstances is it a good idea?

mass outbreak of scurvy amongst sewer mutants

xp Hi Dere: if you're secretly working for Chris Hansen.

littering is a srs pet peeve of mine. i have been known to yell at people on the street for it. sure, a grapefruit rind is easily biodegradable, but so is dog shit, and no one wants that lying around. a friend of mine "had to" yell at a dude last week, cuz after he picked up & bagged his dog's shit he just left it in the gutter. dude copped a serious attitude about their "not being a trash can" (when the next one was uh, two blocks away.) so imho, don't be lazy, just put your waste where it belongs.

their e_e there.

if dog shit smelled like grapefruit and didn't stick to your shoes i wouldn't give a rind where you left it.

I admit I have copped attitude about not being a trash can so I sort of see where dude was coming from.

i prefer to think of myself as a garbage disposal.

Carrying the dog shit bag is not a pleasant task, but I wouldn't just leave it in a gutter.

that's why the baggies exist, so you can transport the poop to the receptacle

Just to be clear, I dropped it down the drain, so it wasn't sitting out on the street. But yeah, I realize it's not an optimal situation.

Also yes, totally aware of the longevity of the outer peel, cause I have a piece of one from high school (long story) -- but this was like the inner rindy junk, peeled off the back of the section I'd just eaten. (I know there's a word for that, but I don't know what it is -- that's not "pith," is it?)

ooh tell us a story

Hahah btw I realize now that I had dog-poop baggies in my back pocket, so I suppose I could have technically used one of those to store it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithing

Wikipedia, you are a crepe

I think I angered this woman on Saturday when I applauded her and walked away after she mentioned that she doesn't own a television.

^^ I am applauding you and not going anywhere

was it rousing applause or a golf clap? Maybe you didn't applaud properly.

Was yr applause genuine or sarcastic?

Oh it was definitely sarcastic.

In my defense, I was just going inside to get a beer.

But I did stand up and take a step in her direction before I started applauding, so maybe that seemed confrontational.

lol

- being a touch too visibly astonished that a normal-sized adult could walk into a McDonald's, ask for "the usual," and be handed a large-size Big Mac meal

This reminds me. The waiter at our local Italian restaurant started laughing when I ordered the same thing yet again. :-(

Witnessed this in local Starbutts coffee shop last week. They have a daily trivia question and you get a free shot or whatever if you answer correctly. Question was 'How much did a hamburger cost at the very first McDonalds in 1940'...and there were like 4 options.
SB employee asks me if I want to guess when I place my order. I guessed wrongly. So she asks the next person in line, who is an older woman, maybe in her 50's. SB girl says, and I quote: "Do you want to have a guess? I'm sure you know the answer." And the woman was all, "Excuse me? How old do you think I am?"...and the SB girl did the craziest amount of backpedalling I've ever seen. I laughed and told the SB girl she better give the woman her free shot regardless, to make up for that. LOL!

xpost I stopped going to a place I really liked when they made too much of a deal about my regular order (which through very complicated, Seinfeldian circumstances, they consistently got wrong).

here is the thing: a LOT of people work at a full-scale urban McDonald's. and there's a lot of turnover. and they serve a whole lot of people. per hour. it's almost unimaginable, the number of Big Macs you'd have to eat to just walk up to anyone and ask for the usual. the only way I can wrap my head around this is to imagine that something memorable happened between this guy and the staff that turned him into the Big Mac guy.

Maybe they gave the special sauce.

My husband recently went to the bakery for a roll. An hour or so later he goes back cause he wants to buy another roll.
The woman:"Are you coming to complain or WHAT?" in a rrrrreally aggressive tone.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I mean, WTF what is she on? All the women working there are really unfriendly but this one just tops it. When my husband asked for a sandwich with ham, she replied she didn't have it "Do you want one with cheese?" This isn't so strange except they usually make the sandwich on the spot. She was too lazy to do it. hahaahah

nabs I worked at fast food on & off over and you do recognize the regulars. There is a lot of turnover but the manager or person who's worked there years for whatever reason'll tell you on the first day, 'this guy always orders a whopper cut in half w/extra mustard & onions.' It only takes a week or two of a customer showing up the same time every day before you can tell they'll have a 'usual' thing. I realized I was this customer once at a McDonald's and that was the last time I went there. ;_;

I knew there's hella customers too but you still get a feel for people who show up every day.

They're in the minority so they're memorable.

I used to buy tons of red bean paste. The owner of the shop (annex restaurant) said to me:"You do know you get fat from that cause it has tons of sugar?" Last time I bought it. Positive outcome: I dropped weight. The woman at the fruit/veg shop asked me if I ate all the fruit I bought there. I said yeah. "Well, you can't really tell, cause you are not THAT skinny." (I was about 57 kgs, which is pretty darn skinny.)

People are fucking retarded when I comes to making comments about people's weight. They say things that they think are innocuous but are actually pretty painful insults.

Apparently while trying to help my girlfriend up today I ~made a face~ suggesting great strain.

lol

People are fucking retarded when I comes to making comments about people's weight. They say things that they think are innocuous but are actually pretty painful insults.

Haha. In Japan, it's entirely acceptable to be simply say, "you got fat." When I see my wife's family, like the first thing out of everyone's mouth is an assessment of weight gain or loss since the last meeting. This is totally normal. People seem fine with this kind of talk, but it often makes me cringe.