Heard a guy respond to another guy calling him a motherfucker with ‘yeah, but your mom didn’t complain much’, so it got me thinking. What are your best comebacks for the common insults you hear from time to time?
I think in general, sometimes a glittering beautiful so sharp it cuts to the bone comeback just comes to mind, and sometimes it doesn’t, so it’s good to remember that what people say, says more about them personally than the person they are talking about.
Yeah I had a chiropractor (the woo woo kind, not the ‘have you been in a car accident’ kind) who could twist my head and make something crack and then I’d get no migraines for a year or more. So I would go back once every year or two when they came back, and he’d do it again. Nothing else has ever worked like that. $40 a year to prevent migraines?
He was older and is retired and I have not ever been able to trust any other chiropractor to be able to do that.
And one time my mom had shoulder pain and her doctor sent her to a chiropractor and they fixed that.
I don’t think it’s magic but also don’t think it’s nothing. Like massage or other physical manipulations it can do some things.
I am not good at watching TV. I like it once a week or so but reading is so much more enjoyable for me than videos.
I’m not antisocial but quite socially lazy, I have never lived alone and grew up in a large family so not good at going out and partying, getting together, keeping up with friends. Reasonably good at hosting parties but that’s different, it’s like a puzzle to solve and is fun.
No, a correlation between being black and being arrested for weed. In my city, they made the legal status of the drug indeterminate and gave cops DISCRETION on whether to arrest or cite someone for having pot. Not a felony now in any event, misdemeanor or civil citation or nothing but how do you think this discretion will be used?
What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?
Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?
What? Who are you communicating with, and what shortcuts are you talking about? I text with my kids and they use more shortcuts and abbreviations than I do.
In work emails, I try to think of the recipient when writing them. Some people are chattier and prefer a nice introduction and thorough explanation, but my boss likes to just see messages like:
Posted on 13-May, thanks.
So if that’s what you are talking about maybe you just have a more social communication style.
Though I will say my husband uses the ominous ellipses too often, like…
“please give John my cell # so that he can send or re-send the travel info. He sent it when I was at urgent care house but it has disappeared—thanks”
This is a you problem. The sender communicated fine, they don’t have time to write you a formatted request like:
Hi, CrimeDad. I am in the urgent care facility having a severe medical problem and did not receive the travel information John sent. Could you please give him this cell phone number so he can send it to me? Thanks.
“Lo, as I lay upon my sickbed, it came to my mind that Old John had not told me of his travel plans ere I fell sick. My trusted employee, will you go to him and ask of his plans, then send them forthwith unto my device, that I may learn of them before I die?”
If it’s your mom, then just reply “what?” and she will read what she wrote and figure out it’s not making sense then. I don’t know what autocorrect would make “urgent care house” out of “party at your house” but T9 predictive text once decided I wanted to tell my kids I was at the “slave ring” instead of the “skate rink”. Like of all the ways it could misinterpret “skate” - plate, crate, scale, it landed on slave.
I don’t mind people calling me nerdy. Once overhead someone telling someone else at work that I was “so funny” when generally I keep it in check at work, and that felt complimentary as well.
But one time a yoga teacher told us in a class “you are bigger than you think” and I don’t even know what she meant, my stomach dropped, I felt absolutely awful. And while I am womanly as fuck, absolutely a woman, I dislike being seen as feminine. I don’t like being complimented on looking curvy, softness and squish freaks me out much more than it should. I know people mean those as compliments but they make me want to cry.
A good wife for someone, or for the person speaking? If the former, I probably agree with you. If the latter, I would mention that not all people have that image of a wife as someone defined by being housewife and executive assistant. Husband considers me a good wife because we love each other and I can handle the budget and hold down a job and cook so much better than he can (not a high bar to reach) but we are both adults, he cleans way more than I do, does the shopping at least half the time, we work together. He’d not consider a stereotype of traditional wife a good wife. I don’t know many people who do, come to think of it.
Can I trust my friends, my work, my family? And these agents can’t be everywhere at once? Then I put on running gear, sunglasses, hair in a ponytail, jog like I’m just white lady exercising, to the house of my family member and ask for help, get a car borrowed from their neighbor and get on the train north to where I have more family, hoping I can stay one step ahead until I figure out what the heck is going on and handle it somehow.
It’s been 8-5 or 8:30-5:30 or 9-6 everywhere I’ve worked an office job. But I had a friend move to NYC and she said there everyone worked hard but came in at 9, took an hour lunch and left at 5.
You would be immortal and all basic amenities essential for physical survival would be provided. You can have the age of your body according to your choosing and your mind won’t blow off by accomodating endless amount of memory....
Would choose 45 as the age to stay. I would need an option to be able to die, in case the world I was on exploded or something, and some immortal companions. That’s the main requirements. I think in terms of getting bored, it would take a really long time if we could go all around this world and watch it changing, and eventually if it’s possible to get bored we would, it seems unavoidable.
In practice, I wouldn’t take this option since I already had kids. I think you have to choose one or the other, immortal beings can’t procreate, that’s the rules, it can only be one in, one out, not an increasing population and also it would be too sad to see my kids get old and die.
I was having a cocktail of cognac, apricot liqueur, and lemon juice, and thinking we could have a game. Make a drink using one of the ingredients in the previous drink. So to start - a drink with cognac, apricot liqueur, or lemon juice....
*_Is it cheating if I use a drink I mostly got from you and posted an earlier version of here? Lol So I’ll re-use the lemon juice. 2oz of Knob Creek Bourbon (or choose your favorite, I’m not the boss of you) 1oz of Drillaud’s raspberry liquor 1oz of lemon juice 1oz of Amaro Montenegro
Shake with ice and pour, then use a smoke with a Cocktail smoker (I’ve found apple wood chips works really well with this).
It’s makes for a great spring and early summer cocktail, refreshing and a bit sweet but not overly so._*
I take the Amaro Montenegro and make an adjusted Paper Plane riff:
I would think this false but my ex MIL (my kids grandma) does do that to my husband (who doesn’t care). I can’t imagine touching anyone at work without explicit permission and probably not even then. It seems so messed up.
I got two suggestions from another site, including them here, not as entries but for anyone looking for a suggestion. The consensus on that cooking community was Barbancourt Haitian rum, on its own, is not sweet and is good enough to just sip. Their suggestions were:
Figs. Fresh figs are only occasionally available here and I never remember when so miss them half the years. I also wish my citrus trees had fruit all year, that would be awesome.
And the afternoon thunderstorms. It’s so hot already and they haven’t started yet, and last year failed entirely because of el Nino. I wouldn’t mind them being all year.
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Heard a guy respond to another guy calling him a motherfucker with ‘yeah, but your mom didn’t complain much’, so it got me thinking. What are your best comebacks for the common insults you hear from time to time?
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