Who are you always going to be rude to and why?

I’m rude to debt collectors who call me trying to collect debts from people who happen to once have had the same phone number as I once did. Like, I’m not who you’re trying to collect from, fuck off.

I’m also rude to generally any scam caller, they’re some of the few people I take great pleasure in telling off because I can get away with it. They’re scammy assholes, what’re they gonna do? Cry to the authorities? Knowing that they’re pieces of shit who scam people out of money? Good fucking luck.

RanchOnPancakes,
@RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world avatar

Who? Religious people at my doorstep.

Reason? They came to MY doorstep with their BS.

FoundTheVegan, (edited )
FoundTheVegan avatar

The audacity of thinking you have such an important view on life that random people need to hear it. They also need to come to your clubhouse reguarly and give you money.

WrittenWeird,

Religion in a nutshell, right there.

AdminWorker,

Devils advocate (tee hee), if you believe that you have the answer to all sadness, are you an asshole if you are not sharing it (especially if sharing is low cost)?

WrittenWeird,

I’ll share with you this answer for the low, low price of buying my book! Only $49.99!

0110010001100010,

For me it's anyone that comes to my doorstep trying to sell something (including religion). To get to that point you have to walk past TWO "no soliciting" signs. That makes the person blind, incompetent, or both.

Art3sian,
@Art3sian@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not rude to these guys. They believe in fairytales but I’m polite. I just tell them I’m a firm atheist and there’s nothing they can say to sway me. They usually thank me and leave.

I like to show them that atheists are good people instead of devil-possessed or whatever they think we are.

AngrilyEatingMuffins,
AngrilyEatingMuffins avatar

I like to throw up devil horns and stick my tongue out and go “ughablughablugh FUCK JESUS HAIL SATAN” but to each their own

Squids,

On one hand yeah they’re stupid annoying

On the other hand, I’m pretty sure for like Mormons and JWs where they’re sending over like kids barely out of highschool for missionary work in another country that’s the entire point. They’re not there to convert anyone, they’re there to instil a sense of fear into these kids by showing them that everyone who isn’t apart of their church hates them even though they’re only trying to ‘help’. Being rude to them just proves their church’s point.

Or: actually the fastest way to get put on their blacklist is to be really genuinely nice (but still firm) to the missionaries because you’re proving them wrong about how mean and horrible the outside world is

0110010001100010,

I've heard that before but really wonder if it's true. My last encounter with (I believe Mormons though it's been a LOT of years ago) was while we were eating dinner. The front door was open with the glass storm door closed. They came to the door, knocked, then stared at us while we were eating dinner as a family. We stared back and they proceeded to knock another 3 times before leaving. I mean, regardless of what you are at the door for that's just rude as fuck so how would they expect a nice response?!

Fubar91,

You OP. Hope you stub your toe really hard getting out of bed in the morning.

reversebananimals,

Found the scam caller.

infyrin,

Uh, my bed is just a foam mattress and I have no box spring and I typically have a clean environment. So, never happening.

Fubar91,

I hope you still stub your toe into the foam hard enough that it hurts, and make your eyes water up.

DreamySweet,
@DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

No one. It’s too much energy to be spent on people that I dislike.

GrammatonCleric,
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

I wish I was made of stone.

Assassin4,

I’m the same. Spam caller? Just hang up. Someone cuts me up in traffic? I’ll be upset but not gonna waste any time on the ass who did it. People with dumb ideas? Tell them what you think but close the conversation or walk away.

I remember in a tech shop someone ranting after being asked for their email address when paying. Kept a few of us in the queue waiting and what did he win from it?? Did he really feel good after shouting at shop staff?

Can’t see any win from being rude to anyone. Just live and let live man.

Smoogs,

It’s not on other customers if a shop has you waiting. It’s on the shop for making it needlessly complex. It’s like blaming someone who is reading out their coupon numbers: they are the user. Not the dev team. Take your complaint to the right people who can make the difference to the business model. Long queues isn’t the customer’s fault. It’s on how that business is managed. you could hold your breath if you ever think your happiness is a prerogative by another customer’s responsibility.

And while I agree about the energy thing with scammers, I do not agree with calling it a waste of time if someone else is going to stand up to it.

Scammers take advantage of the vulnerable elderly. So good on the ones who slow them down. No need to minimize their effort by calling it a waste of time. Like you said : live and let live.

Presi300,
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

Pedophiles and people who defend pedophilia, those people deserve a death sentence, the least I can do is be rude to them

Hazdaz,

Salespeople.

Any kind of pushy religious people.

Republican politicians.

Lorindol,

Anyone pushing their religion to others.

I’ve had parents come to me and demand that their child would be excluded from classes involving sex education or something else they think is “wrong”. Simple but strict “no” usually infuriates them.

I will teach every student according to the national curriculum and the matter will not be discussed further. Then the parents threaten to take this to the principal and see me reprimanded. Good luck with that, our principal is much stricter than me about going by the book.

kava,

I’m not really rude by default to anyone. If I’m in a bad mood I guess I can sometimes get rude when irritated. But I feel like all humans deserve some base level of respect and courtesy.

If it’s someone horrible like a serial killer or child rapist or something I wouldn’t even be rude, just not interact at all with them.

But generally speaking, people are all humans. Scam callers are third worlders from poor countries. If I lived in Nigeria making less than $800 a month in salary, I wouldn’t feel bad about scamming rich westerners. We live in prosperity and luxury whereas they get the shit end of the stick. I don’t blame them.

Debt collectors are just doing their job. They have a family to feed, have hopes and dreams, probably hate their job, etc.

I don’t like Trumpers generally but I try to be polite and friendly. I like planting seeds of doubt into their mind. Criticize Republicans in ways they can understand.

“Man Trump is such a shithead, he doesn’t believe in free market capitalism”

They hear the phrase “free market capitalism” and know it’s something they’re supposed to support, so they ask for clarification

“Well he put taxes on imports on foreign goods so now steel is more expensive for regular Americans. It’s anti-free market”

They sometimes just shrug and look a bit concerned. Republicans have a lot of little inconsistencies. “Fiscal conservatives” but they balloon the national debt everytime. “Freedom and liberty” but they try banning books, drag shows, abortions, trans surgeries, etc. Reagan is an idol but he supported getting rid of guns, gave amnesty to illegals, his economic advisor Friedman supported open borders, etc.

It’s really not that hard to throw a little cognitive dissonance their way. It only works if they see you as a friend though. If they think of you as an enemy or threat, they will immediately get defensive and you’ll probably just make them more set in their beliefs.

Anamnesis,

People that litter.

Wobs,

Lady at my office dumped a McDonalds coke out of her car door in our own company parking lot, splashing her own car and mine in the process. Shows zero respect - so she gets zero respect.

alp,

Sound like a badass

TwoGems,
@TwoGems@lemmy.world avatar

Republicans, Trump supporters, and family that still support the current Republican party. They have to know to a large degree what they’re supporting and deserve no tolerance or excuse for their support of it.

Smoogs,

Religious fundamentalists attacking others, tunnel vision marketers who talk over people in need just so they can try and say their spiel at them on the street, assholes who try to distract only the people who are clearly in an emergency. Markelon muskerberg, anything trump, Martin shkrelli, brock Turner and Aaron perskey and Alan Turner, anything Scientology, the sacklers, mark forkner, big pharma, anyone DuPont, Coca Cola, Koch brothers, spez, rooshv,

deadbeef79000,

The convicted rapist Brock Turner? That Brock Turner, the rapist?

russjr08,

The whole telemarketer / debt collector thing is one of the top reasons why I wouldn’t want to move away from the Pixel series of phones. The Call Screen feature just automatically declines their calls for me.

Funnily enough, if you bring up the screen while its active, there’s an option something along the lines of “Do not call back” (or maybe its the Report as Spam button) that gives them a very aggressive but “nice” way of telling them to kick rocks, and to remove my number from their list.

ktr41n,

Call Screen is legitimately my favorite thing about my pixel, having switched from an Edge about a year ago.

My only wish is that I could change the script on it. At one point I thought it’d be hilarious to just pipe it to chatGPT and let them talk to each other.

Anamnesis,

By automatically declines, you mean you have the assistant answer, then you select your response from that screen, right? It annoys me that I even have to screen the call at all, but I guess it’s better than what you get on most phones.

russjr08,

No, it will do so automatically - could just be the setting configuration I have, but I don’t have to actually bring it up. Even if I’m using my phone when the call comes in, I’ll get a notification that says “Screening unknown call” and it’ll decline on its own. If I click the notification it brings up the active call screen dialog and I can watch it in real time / select the options myself if I want to.

I’m not sure why yours isn’t doing so automatically, perhaps double check your settings in the phone app? I can’t remember if I had to explicitly flip the “automatic” setting in there originally.

PseudoSpock,
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People who bring a baby on a long flight for anything other than a dying or recently deceased relative.

Someonelol,

Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and generally anyone who wants to convert me to their fucked up religion when they knock on my door. Why should I be civil when they bother me at my house on my time off to dictate what I should believe in? If I’m interested I’d go to them and not the other way around.

TipRing,

I used to make sport of proselytizers, seeing how long I could string them along, but these days if someone hops my 12 foot fuck-off privacy fence and walks the 100 yards down my driveway past the no trespassing signs I will likely have already called the cops by the time they reach my door. So they would be met with hostility.

I_Fart_Glitter,

I used to answer the door naked when I lived in a town where that was not a crime. Some of them try to lock eyes and pretend it’s not happening, some just run. Either way, I was amused.

You have to trespass well onto private property to get to my house now and it’s just to far a walk so I don’t get any JWs anymore.

negativeyoda,

Their tactics are adapting: those motherfuckers started showing up at my house and they bring KIDS to ring the doorbell and give the elevator pitch. I can’t in good conscience tell a groomed/brainwashed child to eat my entire ass and I can’t even really be rude to the women standing behind them because they’ll just be like, “see how rude and awful nonbelievers are?”

Urbanfox,

It’s always fun to answer the door to JW when you’re a goth. They’re already in a state of panic before you’ve opened your mouth.

CADmonkey,

One of my prouder moments when I was younger and thinner, was answering the door for some JW’s, while naked and handcuffed to my girlfriend.

They were working their way through our apartment complex, so we came up with a stupid plan.

Copythis,

If a JW approaches, just politely tell them you’re an apostate, and they’ll leave you alone.

Those people are genuinely brain washed into believing they are going save your life if they convert you.

If you tell them you’re an apostate, you’re telling them you’re ex JW, and you’ve been exiled, so they’ll turn around and refuse to talk to you. I say be polite because they’re just humans trying to “save your life”

HelloHotel,
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It sounds like it would work, im unshure if thats the safest or least safe way of convincing them to leave you alone. depends on if they think your a lost cause, a satan warshipper or re saveable

Someonelol,

I’ve done that actually. It’s only been 2 months since that encounter but here’s hoping.

JSocial,

The apostate thing won’t always work. It requires a couple of steps. The terminology you want to use is to say “I’m DF’d” or “I’m disfellowshipped”. That means they are not actually allowed to talk to you. They won’t even say okay, they just leave. Works 100% of the time IME.

Source: I’m disfellowshipped.

electrogamerman,

Homophobic people. Don’t care if its your religion, or if im called religious phobic (which is a stupid term).

HelloHotel, (edited )
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That sounds like religious perversion. you can technically be a cristian, and also beleave the devel deserves some warship too. And that racism somehow doesnt conflict with “love thy negbor as thyself”.

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