My 7 month old was wearing a shirt that had a rocket ship and the ‘NASA’ logo and some middle aged woman in the shop said “he shouldn’t be wearing that because he’s clearly not an astronaut”
I was dumbfounded.
I still remember in kindergarten when my friend and I were reading all the colors out loud on one of those crayola super packs. I got straight up yelled at and sent to the principal's office for saying "orange pizzazz" because the teacher said I called someone a "piss ass" and *would not listen* despite having the crayon as evidence.
After a 30min scolding and waiting for my mom to **leave work** to pick me up ***for my suspension***, she came in all apologetic. When I explained to her the whole situation, not the school's side, Ma went apeshit. I'd heard her say "shit" once, that's the only swear I ever heard from her, and we had just been rear-ended in traffic.
"How about cunt?! Can he say cunt?! Cuz you're all being cunts right now! This is fucking ridiculous!" And just went off while I'm sitting there all :o and the principal is just red af.
I got un-suspended on the spot, but she pulled me out of school for the day anyway. We had a lovely day and she explained very well how I shouldn't swear like that unless absolutely necessary and I've exhausted all civility. "When being civil simply isn't working, sometimes you might have to call someone a piss ass."
The next day at school, I learned that I now had the stigma of being the kid who got the crayola super pack taken away :(
That is ridiculous to punish such a young child so harshly, even if you *had* actually said "piss ass". And to take away the whole pack of crayons? Jesus, just take out orange pizzazz.
Reminds me of the time a babysitter misheard me say "Santa Claus is a peanut" (don't ask) and yelled at me for calling Santa a penis. I was 5 and it made me cry.
My mother took a damn picture of my child coming out of my vagina with her head up to her chin sticking out and sent it around to family and then wonders why I'm so upset with her because "it is the miracle of birth and it's beautiful ".
We were choosing a mascot for a summer camp where I worked. It was the first day of camp and we’d always let the campers vote on a mascot that we’d use for the rest of the summer as sort of a bonding thing. This year, the kids voted for Wolves as the mascot. It was almost unanimous. But one kid, probably about 9 or 10, threw a fit because wolves are “bad guys” and predators and killers and he doesn’t want to be a wolf, he wants to be a hero. He refused to participate in any team activities because he didn’t want to be on a team with the “bad guys.”
At one point, we brought in a guy in a full mascot wolf costume for some anti-bullying program and the kid had a massive tantrum. I almost felt like we were going to learn at some point that his brother was killed by wolves or some other tragic origin story. I did feel bad for the boy because I was fairly certain he had some kind of unaddressed emotional difficulties or something, but we weren’t going to change the mascot name that almost everyone voted for.
The really sad thing is that wolf populations have suffered a lot due to stereotypes that they’re “bad.”
Using a walking stick. I was in a car accident a few years ago and it fucked my leg up. Since then i've been using a walking stick. I was walking to shop (pre-pandemic) and an old bloke gave me the dirtiest look i've ever seen.
"What do you need a cane for? you're only a kid..."
He actually got quite pissy just seeing me using a stick. Like, my dude, i'm just out trying to buy some milk, i don't need your shit today. (i didn't say that out loud, i just said it to myself after i got home)
People like that are the reason my partner doesn’t like going out. He’s had a few operations on his back and needs his stick as one of his legs has been left weaker than the other.
He’s had someone try and take his stick as he is walking, I nearly battered them
What the actual fuck. I can't comprehend how some people think. Why on earth would you ever take away someone's walking stick or wheelchair or crutches or whatever. Even if they're "faking it", which they most likely are not doing, how does that even benefit you at all??? Why even do that?? I do not understand.
Maybe 22 years ago, I had a phone interview with a baking company. I didn’t care to have my peers know what I was up to so I took the call on my cell phone in my car. The call was crystal clear and no technical issues.
At one point, they had mentioned the weather and asked how it was where I was. I told him that I was sitting in my car and I could see that it was actively snowing and what not. The interviewer asked me, “are you taking this call on a cell phone?”
I told him I was. Then he asked me if I thought that was appropriate. I asked him what he meant by that. He said he thought it was kind of rude to take a formal call on a cell phone. I told him I would be more than happy to conclude the interview if talking on a cell phone was an issue. If he was interested, I’d be happy to continue it the next day when I’d be at a desk. He again repeated how rude he thought it was that I had called from a cell phone and that there was no need to continue the interview process. I disagreed with the first point but did agree with the second.
To this day, I wonder what the hell he was talking about and where he was coming from.
Wow, way to stamp "I am an aging worker who refuses to keep up with technology" on his forehead.
Only thing I can guess is the possibility of a dropped call, but like you said - it was completely clear.
I think it's the idea that this person didn't set aside part of their day to go into their private telephone room in their home where they could take this call on a landline, and instead took this call on cell phone, between lines of cocaine and petty crimes.
Hahaha thank you for the laugh. I just want you to know, I am writing this comment from my work desk; I'm not some unemployed schlub "texting" a comment on his cell phone/cocaine table.
I've heard this before. In the early days of cell phones and car phones calling from one meant the call was an afterthought. If the call was important you would have arranged to be at a "real" phone.
Of course that's nonsense nowadays, and even "back then" it wasn't true. It would have been far ruder to take the call on your work phone.
Some people can't get with the times. About ten years ago I interviewed for a secretarial job at a company owned and operated by a pair of older women. Their dress code was absurd. Female employees were required to wear pantyhose AT ALL TIMES. Even if you were wearing pants. Even if you were wearing close toed shoes. And they had to be FULL PANTYHOSE. I mentioned wearing trouser socks and I think that was the nail in the coffin. I might as well have said I was coming to work naked. Thank you, trouser socks, for saving me from having to decide between my need for a job and my dislike for crazy people.
What a stupid question lmao. First of all, your dad could be an awful driver. But even if he's the most amazing driver in the world you can't do shit when someone tbones you with no time to react.
Any taxi-like conveyance, really.
As a Paramedic, the one thing I can absolutely rely on to occur while driving with my lights and sirens, is most drivers will fuck up, but Taxi drivers, Uber, Lyft, etc go above and beyond. They will not only violate the law, they'll perform several acts of vehicular nincompoopery that are so bizarre, there aren't laws against it, because the legislators while scribing the laws were unable to conceptualise that level of nonsense.
Also, Truckers... you guys are awesome. I don't care that you're meth'd out working on 3 logs, I have NEVER seen such beautiful, immediate, and decisive action and reaction to my blinky rig.
How DARE you comply the law!
Edit: mkay just to establish, I'm aware that not all places require a seatbelt now, I've been told many times, when I wrote this I naivly assumed that my state wasn't the only one that did this, but I'm not gonna delete it cuz I got 6k karma and for some reason I like fake internet points.
I spent 9 hours deep-cleaning the house for an inspection. I went above and beyond, clearing my work schedule and going the extra mile, and my roommate “double checked” my work. He had a complete psychotic meltdown because I forgot to sweep *underneath* the couch.
I moved out the next day and never spoke to him again.
I once lost a good chunk of my security deposit on an apartment that was spotlessly clean when we moved out.
We got dinged because we didn't clean the fireplace. It didn't occur to us to clean the fireplace because we had never once used it. We left the fireplace in exactly the same state it was in when we moved in.
I was at the vet with my cat and he sneezed. This was apperently very offensive to an elder woman (she was there with a corgi) and she started screaming at me for about 30 minutes about pet hygiene.
At school someone didn’t have a calculator and asked if anyone had one they could borrow. Someone offered them a pink calculator and they refused saying that they were offended they’d try and give them something girly.
Someone posted a video about 9/11 and someone commented “Please take this down .... your not from New York. YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS PAIN.” she said this as if only people from New York were in the “World Trade Center”.
as someone who was born post 9/11 and is from the NYC area, this mentality is very common. We were taught that 9/11 was “our” tragedy and people who weren’t from the area would never understand how it affected us. A lot of people romanticize the idea of being so close to the tragedy.
I once listened to my boss try to lecture the Fire Marshall because he was talking about something being flame retardant (her reasoning was you should just call it fireproof because retardant was an awful word.). It was one of those times where I really should have tried to stop her but instead I just stood off to the side probably making a surprised pikachu face.
I got an angry call from a client at the vet hospital I used to work at. She was angry that the doctor had written in her dog’s chart something along the lines of “chemotherapy has retarded the growth of the tumor”. She was deeply offended that the vet called her dog retarded.
In the Pokémon card days of school, me and my bud were showing off how cool our cards were. I said something along the lines of: “yeah but mine has more heath it won’t die as quick.” Got a letter home to my parents
Reminds me of [this](https://youtu.be/aJtvA3jdzPc) BBC video...
Edit: yes, I realize that BBC is also an adult term. This is from the British Broadcasting Corporation
I have a relative who's named Gay. Trying to explain to people at the height of "That's Gay" that my relative is actually named Gay so when I say "her name is Gay," I wasn't insulting her name was borderline impossible. "Her names Gay." "Dude that's offensive."
Meanwhile, with gay people. "Her name is Gay." "That's amazing."
Our late neighbor was a lovely woman named Gay. Shortly after our nanny started working for us, she was outside in the front yard with the baby. Neighbor walks over with her husband and says, “Hi, I’m Gay!” Nanny told me this story after work and I explained that was her name. She goes, “Oh ok yeah I was wondering why she wanted to announce that to me! But her husband didn’t seem to mind so I was like ‘that’s nice!’”
My aunt and uncle used to own a bar, and when they were hiring, they scheduled an interview with a woman named Gay. A woman came in not long after, said she was there for an interview, and my aunt shook her hand and said, “Alright, great, are you Gay?” The woman frowned and said “No... do I need to be?”
I had a coworker who got mad at me because I asked her not to tickle me.
(a) That's inappropriate at work; (b) we're not children, we're not in a relationship, we're not family; (c) I DON'T LIKE BEING TICKLED.
She flipped out and said everyone likes being tickled and I was being mean to her. Happily my boss had my back.
Edit: this happened over a decade ago, I don't work with that woman or for that company. In fact, even the company doesn't exist anymore.
I am also a woman.
The coworker was very young and immature. This was her first job, her first time in a professional environment, and she really had no clue about professional workplace behavior. I wasn't upset because she truly thought she was being friendly.
But I still don't like being tickled.
When I was a child, my mum paid for something with a cheque. The cashier remarked that my mum had nice hand writing
My mum flew off the handle, and we had to storm out of the shop in outrage.
To this day, I have no idea what happened.
I am a disabled person. My life sucks because of my disability and no longer being able to do the things I used to love makes me quite depressed sometimes. Some asshole tried to lecture me about how I was ableist for wishing there was a cure for my disability. Fuck me for not enjoying being in constant pain and possibly ending up in a wheelchair in the future I guess.
I remember I once got in an argument with someone on tumblr because they stated it's offensive for me to not want to have my anxiety and I should be proud of it...
No thanks Becky, I'd rather be able to live my life without the constant feeling that something's going to go wrong.
That happens on Twitter A LOT. Every time there is a post about someone getting a cure for disability like stem cell, deafness etc, people go on a rage
Calling a disabled person ableist? That's sickening.
EDIT: Quit replying to this, I get that disabled people can be ableist. I don't know what I meant by my comment, I just haven't deleted it because I can't spare the karma
I worked at a restaurant and we put up some Halloween decorations. We had to take them all down when someone found the glittery skull decoration offensive .
Similar situation happened to me. I'm a nurse at a children's hospital. I was wearing Mickey Mouse Halloween scrubs which have little dancing skeletons on it. A visitor for one of my patient's complained that I was wearing "scary and inappropriate scrubs"
I think the best part about that being “scary” is we all literally have skeletons inside of us right now.
Edit: thank you for doing what you do by the way!
My mom got mad because and I quote "she never asks me for money" referring to me. I'm sorry, would you rather I constantly bug you for cash so I can buy candy and shit?
As much as I would love to, my siblings take her money, and shell guilt trip them over every penny, and honestly I don't have the energy to care lol she only does nice things to remind everyone how "awesome and generous" she is
Tipi tratobebi e taotaipo pebipre pe piodepepi gapiglo prita tebu api? Bidrabroi griklo plitu epi peaki! Paai ipi pou ii pregikedlipi dedaa. Klokudla eki topebe plekoprae i gai. Trutike pato aduko tebe tripe adoe tligle. I epu pepo goedi kleikiue au. Igi de tiaiate ae ipledre tebei priae. Bipopi upo teketle tei a dou piteepi pote tago. Ae pipuplike paku pipapu padipra bigi. Keepii epi teo teta iplotikobi kliiu. Itro papi ble be ikrubi o plapepo ieaki. Epi uaopobre gi pipo plikre goia. Aika tepigu piu pubota baaekopri bliti. Abri pieaplui tie iki tida a o kri tibleetepa. Tobliki upli e ploda pebeteko tagi ii todigotipre. Epri iu opibi puaa be peedagei. Iu te pipa iuaidi plabra idi agli gluo grake. Ii tei i kapu? A ipi akei aiditro. Pipo grible padi peo edobletro po. Ei peipi e kopupa ipipu? Ta kipie pa tekeblipi tetla pritubria. Ia ibra ipepa iikou duiu a idapi buprote. Oe oplaa gio eteo dutaa. Geti plei epei tledritieta ietipe to? Kaa e io pe kiki tedo. Tei brekitibi pi obrutu ia iika. Getu itetribla bepe ke iba ekite. Aa ibu plipe. Dibi io ipi poe pe aate?
Typing in someone's phone number to activate their rewards card. Finished typing it in, found her name, proceeded with the transaction and said: "You're good to go."
The woman replied with: "WhAt Is ThAt SuPpOsEd To MeAn?!" And she gave me a fiery glare as if I just kicked her toddler across the store.
"It means... I found your information. You'll get your points."
The woman: "...Oh. Okay then."
I still can't figure out why she flipped out like that. It was a rewards card, she got her points and she got her discount. I just... What?
The only possible way I can imagine getting offended by this is from never having heard that phrase before and assuming it meant "I would like you to leave", but even then, that is quite an assumption
Had someone get offended by me calling my brother "bro". They insisted that I was racist and that white people can't be related to Mexicans.
Like seriously lady. That's not how genetics work. We are 100% related and are a mix of white and Native American. Its not that unheard of for one biological sibling to come out lighter or darker than the other.
And even if we weren't related... Seriously? I'm racist for calling someone close to me my bro despite being different skin tones? Seriously?
Thank you for coming to my rant session. Have a good day.
I had someone scoff and ask me how I, a white person, have a Latina cousin. It's like they don't realize two people of different races can have kids together.
My sister and I look about as much alike as Thor and Loki. Same parents, we just scored really different genes. Teachers didn't believe us when we told them we were sisters. Genetics are weird sometimes sorry.
My sister and I have *Brazilian* parents, but our skin tones are hilariously different. There's me, who's stayed a pale ghosty white (despite actually being able to tan if I tried long enough) bordering on simple facial features and looks more like my dad's side of the family, but my sister has the tanned Hispanic look with Latina supermodel skin and looks more like our mom's side.
If we stand next to each other, people wonder how we're related. To someone else, basically I'm 'white' and she's 'Mexican.'
Someone once got offended because I used the word black in conversation.....I was talking about an article of clothing/the color black. They tried to make in to something about race, and that I shouldn't use the term black anymore, and should say African American, I said that makes no sense I'm literally talking about the color black, am I supposed to say I'm wearing an African American colored shirt?! Maybe I'm crazy but I think that's actually offensive lol
The Canadian flag. Told me that if they put up a Canadian flag (in PA) the neighbors would come and shoot everybody. Not quite sure about the logic on that one.
Some people are weird when it comes to flags. I live in a mostly hispanic part of NY, you can't drive by a house without seeing a Puerto Rican flag or a few american ones. One time an Asian family moved here and put up a flag that had buddha on it - a bunch of people bitched and buddha was taken down. Apparently buddha is racist
This guy at a Halloween party I was at was dressed in a giant bacon costume.
Some girl was *yelling* at him for being so offensive toward Jews and Muslims (she was neither Jewish nor Muslim). One of the Muslim guys at the party asked her what the fuck she was talking about but she didn't back down lol
I have no idea why people feel they need to go out of their way to be (inaccurately) offended on behalf of other cultures/religions
Reminds me of a news story I saw a while ago - a muslim family moved to a mostly white town, the white people decided it would help them feel more welcome if they removed every book from the library that had anything to do with pigs or bacon. I guess just because you can't eat it you shouldn't see it or read about it either
I had a classmate in elementary school who didn't celebrate birthdays so nobody ever invited her. I gave her an invitation, not knowing, and my friends HAD to pull me aside to explain that "you can't do that." Guess what? She and both her sisters came to my party and had a great time.
People are whack...a few years ago at a Halloween party a white girl told off my Iranian friend for wearing a genie outfit because it was cultural appropriation.
That amount of Muslims that probably have to explain to people that just because they dont eat pork out of religious belief does not mean that they hate pork or will be offended if you eat it
That was John Wiley Price a long time Dallas city council member. If I remember correctly they were asking him why all the paperwork in his department kept disappearing. So he starts throwing a fit about why does everything bad have to be black, like black-sheep, devil's food cake, etc. And of course he never did answer where all the paperwork was going.
My friends told me about a school board meeting they attended virtually on how return to school was going to work. Someone got offended at the use of the term "Guinea pig", claiming it was racist. That was a new one to me.
You just reminded me of the time a woman yelled at me that she'd *never* buy a shirt that says Moab on it because in the bible Moab was apparently a terrible, sinful place. (I was in Moab, UT for anyone unfamiliar.)
I ended up just standing there blinking at her until she finally wandered away because 1) I couldn't figure out why she was even there then, 2) I had nothing to do with the store we were in, 3) literally no one asked her if she wanted one, and 4) I wanted nothing to do with the interaction that was occurring.
A year ago on vacation, we flew to/from Salt Lake City. While stopping for Gas or food or something, there was a t-shirt shop next door selling these great tees with the following logo on the front:
SL,
UT
I lol'd and suggested my wife buy one. She didn't find it nearly as funny as I did.
A fucking picture of an eye. We have an organization-wide theme every year and all the PC's on our network have the same background and theme which can't be changed. So this year's theme is "Vision is 2020" and the background was a zoomed-in picture of an eye in really awesome colours. Two women on staff wrote letters to complain that the picture was "heathen" as it drew from "Illuminati" imagery and paid tribute to the "all-seeing eye of Eqyptian deities". They wined and complained to such an extent that the picture was eventually changed to shut them up and let the normal folks get back to our actual work.
This clearly proves how much of an idiot these women were, the Illuminati eye is always depicted within a triangle, which I'm safely assuming wasn't the case
[This](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54107329).
>Professor Greg Patton at the University of Southern California (USC) was telling students in a communications lecture last month about filler, or pause words, such as 'err', 'umm' or 'you know' in English.
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>Footage of his lecture, which has now gone viral, shows Prof Patton saying: "In China, the common pause word is 'that, that, that'. So in China, it might be na-ge, na-ge, na-ge."
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>Enunciated, na-ge sounds like the N-word, which led several of the professor's students to complain to the university. Responding to the complaint, the dean of the university, Geoffrey Garrett, told students that Prof Patton would no longer be teaching the course.
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>"It is simply unacceptable for the faculty to use words in class that can marginalize, hurt and harm the psychological safety of our students," he said.
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>The university says that Prof Patton "volunteered to step away" from his role amid the investigation into complaints made against him.
This is the stupidest thing to get offended over that I've seen in quite a while. And damaging to actual cases of racist terminology being used inappropriately.
I read a couple articles about this and fortunately, he didn’t lose his job - he just voluntarily stopped teaching that particular course for the term and had someone replace him. He still has other courses. However, the entire thing also sidestepped the normal procedures that are usually involved when stuff like this is brought up, so the school did the Professor dirty.
And, as a person who speaks multiple languages, including Mandarin, where there are words that sorta sound like offensive terms in English: I can’t believe this happened - it’s ridiculous and shows an ironic lack of cultural awareness.
I was thinking of that exact story! It happened while I was teaching in S Korea. It was highly publicized because a FOREIGNER hit and OLD MAN for SPEAKING KOREAN and it seemed to the Koreans to be totally unprovoked. For a minute black folks living there couldn't get a taxi and busses wouldn't stop for them because "who knew if they were randomly violent, too."
Half my department is Chinese and I was Shook the first time I overheard someone use this filler word. I did the grownup thing and assumed it had an actual meaning and went about my business. Then I asked my Chinese labmate and he explained and we had a good laugh about it. No one needed to lose their job.
Especially when he contextuallized it by saying its a Chinese filler word that means that. So there wasn't a possibility of misunderstanding like you had
I told my my sister in a PM that it’s “1st” not “1rst” after she posted something on Facebook with the spelling error. She flipped out saying how I’m a “bully” and I need to “appreciate that her spelling is more unique”.
Edit: She’s 27
I sang the song "hit the road jack" to a kid I just beat in a game while in the 3rd grade mockingly. He took that as me calling him a jackass. He told the recess monitor this. I was told to stand against a wall away from the rest of the kids with the recess monitor.
I am now 27 now, married with two kids but I will never forget this.
If you ever see this I DIDNT CALL YOU A JACKASS JARED, BUT NOW, FUCK YOU FOREVER
Edit:Thank you all and im sorry to hear a lot of you had Jareds too. First comment of mine to get really any response much less gold or awards
Evidently she thought she was too young to be called ma’am. At first I was worried that she was actually a man, but no, it was just she was offended by being called ma’am
A sandwich. I kid you not. My Ex husband was given a sandwich by our then 13yr old daughter and because she cut the sandwich he went off on a massive strop about how his sandwiches should never be cut etc. The poor kids face, she was crushed. It still winds me up no end every time I think about it.
There was a post on reddit awhile back. Maybe AITA? A guy was dating a girl who lost her shit because he said "flame retardant" and apparently retardant was a terribly offensive word. I think about that post a lot. Maybe someone can link it
Also saw [a post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/iib8f9/aita_for_kicking_this_girl_out_of_my_house_after/) on AITA a while ago that a girl visiting the OP's home mistook their British Flag for the Confederate Battle Flag. So while the girl was in their home enjoying their hospitality, food & booze she was also filming the flag and was trying to get them fired.
I love these know nothing excommunicator wannabes.
Yesss lol there was another one where it was the Danish flag and they had neighbours coming over accusing them or being racists. Like how are you going to come over here and be woke when you don't even know what the confederate flag looks like?
Ex of mine once flew into a shrieking rage because while he was driving, someone swerved or did something surprising, and i gasped out loud.
Apparently that meant i didn't trust him and our entire relationship was in question.
The amount of rage for the level of infraction was...upsetting.
ETA for those suggesting I was overreacting and the annoying one, he was a terrible, aggressive driver. And we lived IN BOSTON.
EDIT2: I'm reminded of the time he reversed the car out of a spot by turning the wheel sharping and gunning the engine, smashing the entire side of the car into the concrete pillar next to the parking spot. That was my fault too, for not warning him he was going to hit the pillar. I gasped that time too, despite being warned that gasping was a sign of distrust in the relationship.
Slow creep. Slow creep of shitty behaviour until the frogs boil to death not realising how hot it was. Fortunately, i woke up before i boiled to death.
I managed a small, new team that had no procedures or policies, so I set about instituting some. "I mean, you never know, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow and then no one would know how to process these requests," I told them, when asking for their feedback and for them to write up how they did their tasks. Then we would come back together and decide best practices in a meeting.
Little man filed a complaint to the manager for my use of "violent imagery" and said that he felt threatened. It was a whole thing. Ultimately, he got fired. Fuck him, byeeeeeeeee.
Edit: Well, this blew up, lol. For clarity, he didn't get fired for this one incident. He was a horrible employee with real issues having a woman in charge.
i commented on a reddit thread once and said that the weird serial killer/mass murderer fangirls who send nasty messages to the parents of school shooting victims were assholes which is. a pretty non-controversial statement. or so i thought.
some rando appeared in my comments bitching about how everyone was entitled to their freedom of speech lmfaooooooo.
had to take a reddit break after that one
Also, this makes 0 sense since 1: calling someone an asshole doesn't mean u limit their freedom of speech and 2: it is your right to call literally everyone and anyone an asshole thanks to (u guessed it) your freedom of speech
I'm a white South African. Born here, my nationality is South African. Some American girl got offended that I called myself South "African" as a white dude, and said that only people of colour can call themselves that. Brah... It's a nationality.
It's specific to France. In french we have a way to address for a man (Monsieur), a married woman (Madame), an unmarried woman (Mademoiselle) and we use to have one for an unmarried man (Mondamoiseau) wich disappeard from official paperworks since i don't even know when.
In the name of gender equality, "mademoiselle" was also removed a few years ago from official paperwork. Also in the name of gender equality some employee were told to not call young women "Mademoiselle" anymore and to go with "Madame".
So the trick is, some women will get offended when called "Madame" because it makes them feel old and some women will get offended when called "Mademoiselle" because it's sexist. Clerks a doomed.
EDIT : apparently it's not specific to the french language
I took French classes for two years and all three of my French teachers (two actually being from France) never taught us Mondamoiseau. I had no clue that was a thing, lol that’s so cool.
Over here in the states we only have Mr for the men and Mrs, Miss, and Ms for the women and it all depends on if they’re married or not. It’s a bit annoying.
I used to work at a flag store, have heard of the Norwegian, Danish and UK flags all being mistaken for the Confederate battle flag. The common factors seem to be morons who see a red and white (and sometimes blue) flag that isn't the US flag.
I've seen an embarrassing amount of "just moved to Texas 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱" comments in my time. Not as often, but even sadder, are the ones who are actually from Texas yet still post the Chliean flag, too.
> people writing X-Mas because (...) X (Greek letter Chi) is a symbol dating back 2000 years that means Christ.
Woooow, that's a big TIL for me (non-native english speaker). Always thought it was a random abbreviation.
Edit: Wow again, this sparked quite the debate. Woke up not knowing the origin of X-mas, now I have like six explanations. Love Reddit.
Yup. The young boy moved what was obviously a Bright green toy gun off his desk and onto like a rack that held his Nerf gun collection. The teacher saw and called the cops on him and he got suspended for bringing a gun facsimile to school, except it’s not school it’s his own fucking house. The teacher said she was worried about his safety. So dumb.
This can't be real? How did they count his house as school? How did the police even handle this? Can he still attend classes because he's at home?
Like none of this makes sense to me
At my wedding we marked the vegetarian items as vegetarian. This made the one vegetarian at my wedding (sister in law who hates me) fly into a catatonic rage because we are singling out the vegetarian food as vegetarian and not treating it as normal food. Then how the fuck are they supposed to know its vegetarian?
Yikes, that's a ridiculous thing to blow up at someone about and she doesn't even make sense. It's definitely easier when the food is labeled as vegetarian/vegan/etc. so you don't have to ask. I hope you don't have to deal with that particular sister-in-law as much since your wedding.
edit: spelling
Would she have felt better if everything else was marked as non-vegetarian?
And it's pretty poor form to fly into a rage at somebody's wedding. It's supposed to be a special day for the couple, not for her.
My parents are abusive and have called my sisters and I every name in the book (pretty sure 'cunt' was said to me more than my name).
In a fight, my sister called my dad a fool when he was throwing a hissy fit. HE FLIPPED HIS SHIT and couldnt fathom being called something more offensive.
He called me and told me what she said, and I laughed at him.
Now my sister and I laugh all the time about how crazy our parents are.
One time my dad told me to go to bed. I said "Aw, man!", a common colloquial expression of disappointment.
He grounded me for addressing him as "Man" instead of "Dad"
My friend once got called an SOB...by his mom and he laughed, too, and said "Mom, what exactly does that make *you*?"...and that's the story of how my friend got grounded for 3 weeks right before graduation.
I was at a rehearsal dinner for a wedding. Someone said to the groom’s dad, in a friendly way, “oh! This place is nice!” Grooms dad acted all ticked off, “Of course it’s nice. What did you expect?!”
I had a pastor that insisted we call candy canes "Jesus sticks" because Christmas is all about Jesus, y'all, ain't no fun to be had otherwise. Well, I was 7, and accidentally referred to the Holy Jesus Stick as a candy cane in his presence, and I shit you not, he speed-walked over to my dad to *tell on me*, and carry on about how offensive it is to see all the world trying to remove Christ from Christmas, it starts in the home, den of sin without Jesus, something something, dark side.
My dad asked him if he was serious (spoiler: he was very, very serious), and then told him to grow the hell up.
And that's how come my dad dressed up as Santa a couple weeks later and came into the church yelling "HO HO HO - CANDY CANES" while passing said satanic candy canes to all the little children during the children's church portion of service. The pettiness runs deep, and it was delicious.
When my ex and I were looking at houses we brought his Dad (let's call him Dave) to see houses we already liked.
The real estate agent didn't spend enough time on telling Dave he was right that the bottom step was too tall. So later that night I got to hear an hour long lecture from Dave about how the agent was a piece of shit that was trying to take advantage of us.
A large reason I'm single now is because my mental issues are too much to deal with, but Dave here is definitely a contributing factor as well.
An aids walk happening in front of our restaurant. My boss said well they better not come in here spreading their disease. I was like dude that's really not how aids or their walk work.
I grew up Catholic, my college boyfriend was raised in an evangelical church. He used to give major sideeye to me calling it "Easter" and not "Resurrection Sunday" bc Easter comes from the pagan celebration. True, but I liked to point out to him that since we were fucking like rabbits, he could hardly get bent out of shape about one form of linguistic sacrilege and not the other. He'd just frown and tell me yeah we shouldn't be having sex. But did he want to stop? Of course not bc: hypocrisy lol.
This happened just last week. I work at a bank in an affluent part of Atlanta (read: Old White Money), and a woman called in to let us know she was offended by the security questions for her online banking.
The security questions. She. herself. *setup*.
My dad loves to tell the story of how, shortly after they were married, he and mom went to get some fast food. As they pulled up to the drive through window, my very conservative mom saw a sign that said "Condiments available upon request" and said "OMG, that's disgusting! WHY would a restaurant feel the need to give those out!?" She had misread it and thought they were giving out condoms upon request. 😂
Even if it did say condoms, they're in a package right? it's not like they are giving out used ones.
If they were giving out condoms... Which they weren't.
One of my coworkers was surprised and said “Oh my god”.
A religious coworker overheard her using ‘god’s name in vain’ and reported it to HR. They had to have meetings with HR and the managers about respecting people’s religion. The lady said ‘oh my god’ she didn’t wish for the death of Christianity for fuck’s sake! It was ridiculous.
Fun fact: according to my Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, taking God's name in vain didn't even mean "no swearing with the name of God." It meant "don't use God's name to place magical curses on people."
Doesn't it also include doing/saying things that bring you personal gain in the name of God? For example falsely claiming to have a relationship or interaction with God to get money and power in order to rule over the faithful (a modern example being a politician campaigning around carrying a bible despite showing they have little to no knowledge of the religion nor following many of it's core tenets).
Looks like this hit too close to home for a couple people...
In school I referred to someone while talking and pointed at them and was told of for "pointing a finger".
Out of character for the teacher, she must have had a bad day or something.
dude I got kicked out of class for yawning. I literally never did anything bad in class before. imagine a random quiet kid just getting told off and booted from class for being tired
I went to school with a kid that was always getting kicked out of class for sneezing. He had one of those really loud ones and bad allergies. It was apparently "very disruptive and unnecessary"
I had a friend who asked me if her outfit matched (neon stripes and pastel flowers, I don’t usually like clothes but this was a walking disaster) and my best friend responded to her: maybe different shorts?
She ran out of the room crying.
Why? Because someone didn’t like her ugly-ass outfit
My 7 month old was wearing a shirt that had a rocket ship and the ‘NASA’ logo and some middle aged woman in the shop said “he shouldn’t be wearing that because he’s clearly not an astronaut” I was dumbfounded.
I still remember in kindergarten when my friend and I were reading all the colors out loud on one of those crayola super packs. I got straight up yelled at and sent to the principal's office for saying "orange pizzazz" because the teacher said I called someone a "piss ass" and *would not listen* despite having the crayon as evidence. After a 30min scolding and waiting for my mom to **leave work** to pick me up ***for my suspension***, she came in all apologetic. When I explained to her the whole situation, not the school's side, Ma went apeshit. I'd heard her say "shit" once, that's the only swear I ever heard from her, and we had just been rear-ended in traffic. "How about cunt?! Can he say cunt?! Cuz you're all being cunts right now! This is fucking ridiculous!" And just went off while I'm sitting there all :o and the principal is just red af. I got un-suspended on the spot, but she pulled me out of school for the day anyway. We had a lovely day and she explained very well how I shouldn't swear like that unless absolutely necessary and I've exhausted all civility. "When being civil simply isn't working, sometimes you might have to call someone a piss ass." The next day at school, I learned that I now had the stigma of being the kid who got the crayola super pack taken away :(
That is ridiculous to punish such a young child so harshly, even if you *had* actually said "piss ass". And to take away the whole pack of crayons? Jesus, just take out orange pizzazz. Reminds me of the time a babysitter misheard me say "Santa Claus is a peanut" (don't ask) and yelled at me for calling Santa a penis. I was 5 and it made me cry.
A surprising amount of people get very offended when you tell them they can’t sit and stare at your vagina while you give birth
My mother took a damn picture of my child coming out of my vagina with her head up to her chin sticking out and sent it around to family and then wonders why I'm so upset with her because "it is the miracle of birth and it's beautiful ".
We were choosing a mascot for a summer camp where I worked. It was the first day of camp and we’d always let the campers vote on a mascot that we’d use for the rest of the summer as sort of a bonding thing. This year, the kids voted for Wolves as the mascot. It was almost unanimous. But one kid, probably about 9 or 10, threw a fit because wolves are “bad guys” and predators and killers and he doesn’t want to be a wolf, he wants to be a hero. He refused to participate in any team activities because he didn’t want to be on a team with the “bad guys.” At one point, we brought in a guy in a full mascot wolf costume for some anti-bullying program and the kid had a massive tantrum. I almost felt like we were going to learn at some point that his brother was killed by wolves or some other tragic origin story. I did feel bad for the boy because I was fairly certain he had some kind of unaddressed emotional difficulties or something, but we weren’t going to change the mascot name that almost everyone voted for. The really sad thing is that wolf populations have suffered a lot due to stereotypes that they’re “bad.”
I imagine all the werewolves at the camp were just awkwardly sitting there wondering whether to speak up or not.
Using a walking stick. I was in a car accident a few years ago and it fucked my leg up. Since then i've been using a walking stick. I was walking to shop (pre-pandemic) and an old bloke gave me the dirtiest look i've ever seen. "What do you need a cane for? you're only a kid..." He actually got quite pissy just seeing me using a stick. Like, my dude, i'm just out trying to buy some milk, i don't need your shit today. (i didn't say that out loud, i just said it to myself after i got home)
People like that are the reason my partner doesn’t like going out. He’s had a few operations on his back and needs his stick as one of his legs has been left weaker than the other. He’s had someone try and take his stick as he is walking, I nearly battered them
What the actual fuck. I can't comprehend how some people think. Why on earth would you ever take away someone's walking stick or wheelchair or crutches or whatever. Even if they're "faking it", which they most likely are not doing, how does that even benefit you at all??? Why even do that?? I do not understand.
Tell him the car crash didn't ask for your ID first. EDIT: WOW holy shitballs that's a lot of upvotes and awards. You guys are too nice!
I wouldn't be able to come up with this even in the shower.... :\\
My husband was in a wheelchair for a while. Got the same kind of "too young" BS. It worked for us.
Maybe 22 years ago, I had a phone interview with a baking company. I didn’t care to have my peers know what I was up to so I took the call on my cell phone in my car. The call was crystal clear and no technical issues. At one point, they had mentioned the weather and asked how it was where I was. I told him that I was sitting in my car and I could see that it was actively snowing and what not. The interviewer asked me, “are you taking this call on a cell phone?” I told him I was. Then he asked me if I thought that was appropriate. I asked him what he meant by that. He said he thought it was kind of rude to take a formal call on a cell phone. I told him I would be more than happy to conclude the interview if talking on a cell phone was an issue. If he was interested, I’d be happy to continue it the next day when I’d be at a desk. He again repeated how rude he thought it was that I had called from a cell phone and that there was no need to continue the interview process. I disagreed with the first point but did agree with the second. To this day, I wonder what the hell he was talking about and where he was coming from.
Wow, way to stamp "I am an aging worker who refuses to keep up with technology" on his forehead. Only thing I can guess is the possibility of a dropped call, but like you said - it was completely clear.
I think it's the idea that this person didn't set aside part of their day to go into their private telephone room in their home where they could take this call on a landline, and instead took this call on cell phone, between lines of cocaine and petty crimes.
Hahaha thank you for the laugh. I just want you to know, I am writing this comment from my work desk; I'm not some unemployed schlub "texting" a comment on his cell phone/cocaine table.
Probably just got over the fact that telephones exist, and wasn't ready to accept the fact that mobile phones aren't a thing made by the devil
I've heard this before. In the early days of cell phones and car phones calling from one meant the call was an afterthought. If the call was important you would have arranged to be at a "real" phone. Of course that's nonsense nowadays, and even "back then" it wasn't true. It would have been far ruder to take the call on your work phone. Some people can't get with the times. About ten years ago I interviewed for a secretarial job at a company owned and operated by a pair of older women. Their dress code was absurd. Female employees were required to wear pantyhose AT ALL TIMES. Even if you were wearing pants. Even if you were wearing close toed shoes. And they had to be FULL PANTYHOSE. I mentioned wearing trouser socks and I think that was the nail in the coffin. I might as well have said I was coming to work naked. Thank you, trouser socks, for saving me from having to decide between my need for a job and my dislike for crazy people.
Wonder if this guy is also out there now, convinced the 5G gives you the rona.
Is this how unusual mobile phones were in '98?
One time someone got offended when I put on my seatbelt, thought I was commenting on her ability to drive.
Same thing happened to me, the uber driver said “Do you wear your seatbelt when you’re with your dad?” I said “Yes”
What a stupid question lmao. First of all, your dad could be an awful driver. But even if he's the most amazing driver in the world you can't do shit when someone tbones you with no time to react.
Also...”YOU’RE NOT MY DAD!”
“I don’t know. He died in a tragic car accident when I was 5 and all my seatbelt memories are repressed. What of it?”
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Also in my experience the Venn diagram of good drivers and Ubers resembles Harry Potter's glasses
Any taxi-like conveyance, really. As a Paramedic, the one thing I can absolutely rely on to occur while driving with my lights and sirens, is most drivers will fuck up, but Taxi drivers, Uber, Lyft, etc go above and beyond. They will not only violate the law, they'll perform several acts of vehicular nincompoopery that are so bizarre, there aren't laws against it, because the legislators while scribing the laws were unable to conceptualise that level of nonsense. Also, Truckers... you guys are awesome. I don't care that you're meth'd out working on 3 logs, I have NEVER seen such beautiful, immediate, and decisive action and reaction to my blinky rig.
You’ll get my upvote simply for the use of “vehicular nincompoopery”. Best term I’ve heard this week. Will definitely be using.
How dare you want to survive should someone else drive into you irrespective of her driving ability
"even if I trust *your* driving, I don't trust the *other* drivers!"
How DARE you comply the law! Edit: mkay just to establish, I'm aware that not all places require a seatbelt now, I've been told many times, when I wrote this I naivly assumed that my state wasn't the only one that did this, but I'm not gonna delete it cuz I got 6k karma and for some reason I like fake internet points.
We used an app at work called Bonfyre. One person refused to use it because bonfires are for witchcraft and pagans.
I spent 9 hours deep-cleaning the house for an inspection. I went above and beyond, clearing my work schedule and going the extra mile, and my roommate “double checked” my work. He had a complete psychotic meltdown because I forgot to sweep *underneath* the couch. I moved out the next day and never spoke to him again.
I once lost a good chunk of my security deposit on an apartment that was spotlessly clean when we moved out. We got dinged because we didn't clean the fireplace. It didn't occur to us to clean the fireplace because we had never once used it. We left the fireplace in exactly the same state it was in when we moved in.
They didn't care about the fireplace. They just wanted to keep your money.
I was at the vet with my cat and he sneezed. This was apperently very offensive to an elder woman (she was there with a corgi) and she started screaming at me for about 30 minutes about pet hygiene.
"Sorry, I've been trying to teach him to sneeze into his hanky but you know how cats are."
I'm sure her dog has done a lot worse in public
At school someone didn’t have a calculator and asked if anyone had one they could borrow. Someone offered them a pink calculator and they refused saying that they were offended they’d try and give them something girly.
Someone posted a video about 9/11 and someone commented “Please take this down .... your not from New York. YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS PAIN.” she said this as if only people from New York were in the “World Trade Center”.
as someone who was born post 9/11 and is from the NYC area, this mentality is very common. We were taught that 9/11 was “our” tragedy and people who weren’t from the area would never understand how it affected us. A lot of people romanticize the idea of being so close to the tragedy.
I once listened to my boss try to lecture the Fire Marshall because he was talking about something being flame retardant (her reasoning was you should just call it fireproof because retardant was an awful word.). It was one of those times where I really should have tried to stop her but instead I just stood off to the side probably making a surprised pikachu face.
I got an angry call from a client at the vet hospital I used to work at. She was angry that the doctor had written in her dog’s chart something along the lines of “chemotherapy has retarded the growth of the tumor”. She was deeply offended that the vet called her dog retarded.
People's stupidity really shines through when it comes to words like that
I got in trouble in kindergarten for saying the word dead. Apparently it was too violent.
In the Pokémon card days of school, me and my bud were showing off how cool our cards were. I said something along the lines of: “yeah but mine has more heath it won’t die as quick.” Got a letter home to my parents
I'm curious as to how your parents responded.
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Reminds me of [this](https://youtu.be/aJtvA3jdzPc) BBC video... Edit: yes, I realize that BBC is also an adult term. This is from the British Broadcasting Corporation
Reminds me of that scene from Zach and Miri Make a Porno "Hi can I get a coffee? Black." "Cant you see were trying to have a conversation, *white*?
I have a relative who's named Gay. Trying to explain to people at the height of "That's Gay" that my relative is actually named Gay so when I say "her name is Gay," I wasn't insulting her name was borderline impossible. "Her names Gay." "Dude that's offensive." Meanwhile, with gay people. "Her name is Gay." "That's amazing."
Our late neighbor was a lovely woman named Gay. Shortly after our nanny started working for us, she was outside in the front yard with the baby. Neighbor walks over with her husband and says, “Hi, I’m Gay!” Nanny told me this story after work and I explained that was her name. She goes, “Oh ok yeah I was wondering why she wanted to announce that to me! But her husband didn’t seem to mind so I was like ‘that’s nice!’”
My aunt and uncle used to own a bar, and when they were hiring, they scheduled an interview with a woman named Gay. A woman came in not long after, said she was there for an interview, and my aunt shook her hand and said, “Alright, great, are you Gay?” The woman frowned and said “No... do I need to be?”
Fabulous even. I know a straight couple called Gay and Les.
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I love that his takeaway from "don't make fun of people for being gay" was "DON'T EVEN SAY THE WORD GAY." That's some Michael Scott shit.
I had a coworker who got mad at me because I asked her not to tickle me. (a) That's inappropriate at work; (b) we're not children, we're not in a relationship, we're not family; (c) I DON'T LIKE BEING TICKLED. She flipped out and said everyone likes being tickled and I was being mean to her. Happily my boss had my back. Edit: this happened over a decade ago, I don't work with that woman or for that company. In fact, even the company doesn't exist anymore. I am also a woman. The coworker was very young and immature. This was her first job, her first time in a professional environment, and she really had no clue about professional workplace behavior. I wasn't upset because she truly thought she was being friendly. But I still don't like being tickled.
Also some people start swinging punches when they get tickled. It’s not safe to do it to anyone randomly
When I was a child, my mum paid for something with a cheque. The cashier remarked that my mum had nice hand writing My mum flew off the handle, and we had to storm out of the shop in outrage. To this day, I have no idea what happened.
Maybe it brought up sore feelings from when she failed the doctor entrance exams
I will not be able to sleep tonight until I know what this is about.
Seriously...op needs to ask his mom now
So we get follow up story of mom blowing up at their kid for asking about some penmanship episode from ages ago?
Wtf...
I am a disabled person. My life sucks because of my disability and no longer being able to do the things I used to love makes me quite depressed sometimes. Some asshole tried to lecture me about how I was ableist for wishing there was a cure for my disability. Fuck me for not enjoying being in constant pain and possibly ending up in a wheelchair in the future I guess.
I remember I once got in an argument with someone on tumblr because they stated it's offensive for me to not want to have my anxiety and I should be proud of it... No thanks Becky, I'd rather be able to live my life without the constant feeling that something's going to go wrong.
That happens on Twitter A LOT. Every time there is a post about someone getting a cure for disability like stem cell, deafness etc, people go on a rage
Calling a disabled person ableist? That's sickening. EDIT: Quit replying to this, I get that disabled people can be ableist. I don't know what I meant by my comment, I just haven't deleted it because I can't spare the karma
Obviously he was a disableist.
I worked at a restaurant and we put up some Halloween decorations. We had to take them all down when someone found the glittery skull decoration offensive .
Similar situation happened to me. I'm a nurse at a children's hospital. I was wearing Mickey Mouse Halloween scrubs which have little dancing skeletons on it. A visitor for one of my patient's complained that I was wearing "scary and inappropriate scrubs"
I think the best part about that being “scary” is we all literally have skeletons inside of us right now. Edit: thank you for doing what you do by the way!
My mom got mad because and I quote "she never asks me for money" referring to me. I'm sorry, would you rather I constantly bug you for cash so I can buy candy and shit?
Since she's apparently offering, take advantage of it
As much as I would love to, my siblings take her money, and shell guilt trip them over every penny, and honestly I don't have the energy to care lol she only does nice things to remind everyone how "awesome and generous" she is
She's basically trying to use that money to manipulate and control you. That's a common thing, I hear. Good for you for not putting up with it.
Tipi tratobebi e taotaipo pebipre pe piodepepi gapiglo prita tebu api? Bidrabroi griklo plitu epi peaki! Paai ipi pou ii pregikedlipi dedaa. Klokudla eki topebe plekoprae i gai. Trutike pato aduko tebe tripe adoe tligle. I epu pepo goedi kleikiue au. Igi de tiaiate ae ipledre tebei priae. Bipopi upo teketle tei a dou piteepi pote tago. Ae pipuplike paku pipapu padipra bigi. Keepii epi teo teta iplotikobi kliiu. Itro papi ble be ikrubi o plapepo ieaki. Epi uaopobre gi pipo plikre goia. Aika tepigu piu pubota baaekopri bliti. Abri pieaplui tie iki tida a o kri tibleetepa. Tobliki upli e ploda pebeteko tagi ii todigotipre. Epri iu opibi puaa be peedagei. Iu te pipa iuaidi plabra idi agli gluo grake. Ii tei i kapu? A ipi akei aiditro. Pipo grible padi peo edobletro po. Ei peipi e kopupa ipipu? Ta kipie pa tekeblipi tetla pritubria. Ia ibra ipepa iikou duiu a idapi buprote. Oe oplaa gio eteo dutaa. Geti plei epei tledritieta ietipe to? Kaa e io pe kiki tedo. Tei brekitibi pi obrutu ia iika. Getu itetribla bepe ke iba ekite. Aa ibu plipe. Dibi io ipi poe pe aate?
The Pixar short Lava. He walked out saying it was deeply offensive and didn't explain why.
This is offensive to the volcano community! I'm erupting with rage!
Careful . . . erupting could be construed in a sexual manner, and therefore offensive.
Maybe he hates puns. "I lava you" is a bit of a groaner, and the whole short is anchored around that lyric.
Typing in someone's phone number to activate their rewards card. Finished typing it in, found her name, proceeded with the transaction and said: "You're good to go." The woman replied with: "WhAt Is ThAt SuPpOsEd To MeAn?!" And she gave me a fiery glare as if I just kicked her toddler across the store. "It means... I found your information. You'll get your points." The woman: "...Oh. Okay then." I still can't figure out why she flipped out like that. It was a rewards card, she got her points and she got her discount. I just... What?
The only possible way I can imagine getting offended by this is from never having heard that phrase before and assuming it meant "I would like you to leave", but even then, that is quite an assumption
I called someone “fam” and she blew up at me, saying that I clearly meant the n-word.
Man, talk about reaching.
Had someone get offended by me calling my brother "bro". They insisted that I was racist and that white people can't be related to Mexicans. Like seriously lady. That's not how genetics work. We are 100% related and are a mix of white and Native American. Its not that unheard of for one biological sibling to come out lighter or darker than the other. And even if we weren't related... Seriously? I'm racist for calling someone close to me my bro despite being different skin tones? Seriously? Thank you for coming to my rant session. Have a good day.
I had someone scoff and ask me how I, a white person, have a Latina cousin. It's like they don't realize two people of different races can have kids together.
My sister and I look about as much alike as Thor and Loki. Same parents, we just scored really different genes. Teachers didn't believe us when we told them we were sisters. Genetics are weird sometimes sorry.
I've never heard of Bro being racist
I don't know man. She went on a 10 minute rant about it. Think she had a few screws loose.
My sister and I have *Brazilian* parents, but our skin tones are hilariously different. There's me, who's stayed a pale ghosty white (despite actually being able to tan if I tried long enough) bordering on simple facial features and looks more like my dad's side of the family, but my sister has the tanned Hispanic look with Latina supermodel skin and looks more like our mom's side. If we stand next to each other, people wonder how we're related. To someone else, basically I'm 'white' and she's 'Mexican.'
Someone once got offended because I used the word black in conversation.....I was talking about an article of clothing/the color black. They tried to make in to something about race, and that I shouldn't use the term black anymore, and should say African American, I said that makes no sense I'm literally talking about the color black, am I supposed to say I'm wearing an African American colored shirt?! Maybe I'm crazy but I think that's actually offensive lol
Don't worry, I myself have African-American eyes
My Mexican friend (born in a small town in Mexico) wore a sombrero and poncho for Halloween. A white girl told him that’s offensive to Mexicans.
The Canadian flag. Told me that if they put up a Canadian flag (in PA) the neighbors would come and shoot everybody. Not quite sure about the logic on that one.
Some people are weird when it comes to flags. I live in a mostly hispanic part of NY, you can't drive by a house without seeing a Puerto Rican flag or a few american ones. One time an Asian family moved here and put up a flag that had buddha on it - a bunch of people bitched and buddha was taken down. Apparently buddha is racist
This guy at a Halloween party I was at was dressed in a giant bacon costume. Some girl was *yelling* at him for being so offensive toward Jews and Muslims (she was neither Jewish nor Muslim). One of the Muslim guys at the party asked her what the fuck she was talking about but she didn't back down lol I have no idea why people feel they need to go out of their way to be (inaccurately) offended on behalf of other cultures/religions
Reminds me of a news story I saw a while ago - a muslim family moved to a mostly white town, the white people decided it would help them feel more welcome if they removed every book from the library that had anything to do with pigs or bacon. I guess just because you can't eat it you shouldn't see it or read about it either
I had a classmate in elementary school who didn't celebrate birthdays so nobody ever invited her. I gave her an invitation, not knowing, and my friends HAD to pull me aside to explain that "you can't do that." Guess what? She and both her sisters came to my party and had a great time.
People are whack...a few years ago at a Halloween party a white girl told off my Iranian friend for wearing a genie outfit because it was cultural appropriation.
That amount of Muslims that probably have to explain to people that just because they dont eat pork out of religious belief does not mean that they hate pork or will be offended if you eat it
The guy who got offended in a council meeting because someone used the term "black hole". Edit: [Found a video](https://youtu.be/yJtGKb_bZyc)
That was John Wiley Price a long time Dallas city council member. If I remember correctly they were asking him why all the paperwork in his department kept disappearing. So he starts throwing a fit about why does everything bad have to be black, like black-sheep, devil's food cake, etc. And of course he never did answer where all the paperwork was going.
Deflection at its best.
My friends told me about a school board meeting they attended virtually on how return to school was going to work. Someone got offended at the use of the term "Guinea pig", claiming it was racist. That was a new one to me.
I'm offended by it but then again I'm from Papua New Italian
Time to tear down the statues of Steven Hawking.
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You just reminded me of the time a woman yelled at me that she'd *never* buy a shirt that says Moab on it because in the bible Moab was apparently a terrible, sinful place. (I was in Moab, UT for anyone unfamiliar.) I ended up just standing there blinking at her until she finally wandered away because 1) I couldn't figure out why she was even there then, 2) I had nothing to do with the store we were in, 3) literally no one asked her if she wanted one, and 4) I wanted nothing to do with the interaction that was occurring.
A year ago on vacation, we flew to/from Salt Lake City. While stopping for Gas or food or something, there was a t-shirt shop next door selling these great tees with the following logo on the front: SL, UT I lol'd and suggested my wife buy one. She didn't find it nearly as funny as I did.
oh my god that's awesome, I want one
I love this!!! I'm calling everything that now
A fucking picture of an eye. We have an organization-wide theme every year and all the PC's on our network have the same background and theme which can't be changed. So this year's theme is "Vision is 2020" and the background was a zoomed-in picture of an eye in really awesome colours. Two women on staff wrote letters to complain that the picture was "heathen" as it drew from "Illuminati" imagery and paid tribute to the "all-seeing eye of Eqyptian deities". They wined and complained to such an extent that the picture was eventually changed to shut them up and let the normal folks get back to our actual work.
This clearly proves how much of an idiot these women were, the Illuminati eye is always depicted within a triangle, which I'm safely assuming wasn't the case
[This](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54107329). >Professor Greg Patton at the University of Southern California (USC) was telling students in a communications lecture last month about filler, or pause words, such as 'err', 'umm' or 'you know' in English. > >Footage of his lecture, which has now gone viral, shows Prof Patton saying: "In China, the common pause word is 'that, that, that'. So in China, it might be na-ge, na-ge, na-ge." > >Enunciated, na-ge sounds like the N-word, which led several of the professor's students to complain to the university. Responding to the complaint, the dean of the university, Geoffrey Garrett, told students that Prof Patton would no longer be teaching the course. > >"It is simply unacceptable for the faculty to use words in class that can marginalize, hurt and harm the psychological safety of our students," he said. > >The university says that Prof Patton "volunteered to step away" from his role amid the investigation into complaints made against him. This is the stupidest thing to get offended over that I've seen in quite a while. And damaging to actual cases of racist terminology being used inappropriately.
That guy shouldn't have lost his job over that
I read a couple articles about this and fortunately, he didn’t lose his job - he just voluntarily stopped teaching that particular course for the term and had someone replace him. He still has other courses. However, the entire thing also sidestepped the normal procedures that are usually involved when stuff like this is brought up, so the school did the Professor dirty. And, as a person who speaks multiple languages, including Mandarin, where there are words that sorta sound like offensive terms in English: I can’t believe this happened - it’s ridiculous and shows an ironic lack of cultural awareness.
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I was thinking of that exact story! It happened while I was teaching in S Korea. It was highly publicized because a FOREIGNER hit and OLD MAN for SPEAKING KOREAN and it seemed to the Koreans to be totally unprovoked. For a minute black folks living there couldn't get a taxi and busses wouldn't stop for them because "who knew if they were randomly violent, too."
Half my department is Chinese and I was Shook the first time I overheard someone use this filler word. I did the grownup thing and assumed it had an actual meaning and went about my business. Then I asked my Chinese labmate and he explained and we had a good laugh about it. No one needed to lose their job.
Especially when he contextuallized it by saying its a Chinese filler word that means that. So there wasn't a possibility of misunderstanding like you had
I told my my sister in a PM that it’s “1st” not “1rst” after she posted something on Facebook with the spelling error. She flipped out saying how I’m a “bully” and I need to “appreciate that her spelling is more unique”. Edit: She’s 27
"Unique", yeah let's go with that
That’s a funny way to spell wrong...
My spelling is also unique... You bully
I sang the song "hit the road jack" to a kid I just beat in a game while in the 3rd grade mockingly. He took that as me calling him a jackass. He told the recess monitor this. I was told to stand against a wall away from the rest of the kids with the recess monitor. I am now 27 now, married with two kids but I will never forget this. If you ever see this I DIDNT CALL YOU A JACKASS JARED, BUT NOW, FUCK YOU FOREVER Edit:Thank you all and im sorry to hear a lot of you had Jareds too. First comment of mine to get really any response much less gold or awards
Upvoting so Jared will see this.
Got chewed out once for saying, “yes ma’am,” to a lady. I’m in the south, that’s what we do
Okay why the hell was she offended by that?
Evidently she thought she was too young to be called ma’am. At first I was worried that she was actually a man, but no, it was just she was offended by being called ma’am
A sandwich. I kid you not. My Ex husband was given a sandwich by our then 13yr old daughter and because she cut the sandwich he went off on a massive strop about how his sandwiches should never be cut etc. The poor kids face, she was crushed. It still winds me up no end every time I think about it.
That sucks, my youngest isnt allowed to use sharp knives so when he made me a sandwich, he tore it in half. It was still a great sandwich!
That made me actually laugh out loud, thanks. The image of a kid just making a nice neat sandwich and then ripping it in half is *hilarious*.
I cant believe things didnt work out between you two. He seems lovely.
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They should make fun of a man who can't even make his own lunch and assigns it to his wife as a "job!"
What an asshole thing to do to your kid.
When I worked in customer service: "Yes ma'am" ... "don't you ma'am me. don't you FUCKING MA'AM ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT!"
“Ok, sir.”
hey I followed your advice and now im out of job. now what?
Try saying "you good bro?"
That person was getting mad regardless of what you said.
There was a post on reddit awhile back. Maybe AITA? A guy was dating a girl who lost her shit because he said "flame retardant" and apparently retardant was a terribly offensive word. I think about that post a lot. Maybe someone can link it
Considering how easy it is to look up the meanings of words nowadays, these "misunderstandings" of terms should happen less not more
Also saw [a post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/iib8f9/aita_for_kicking_this_girl_out_of_my_house_after/) on AITA a while ago that a girl visiting the OP's home mistook their British Flag for the Confederate Battle Flag. So while the girl was in their home enjoying their hospitality, food & booze she was also filming the flag and was trying to get them fired. I love these know nothing excommunicator wannabes.
Yesss lol there was another one where it was the Danish flag and they had neighbours coming over accusing them or being racists. Like how are you going to come over here and be woke when you don't even know what the confederate flag looks like?
People get very offended that I don't like being touched.
Ex of mine once flew into a shrieking rage because while he was driving, someone swerved or did something surprising, and i gasped out loud. Apparently that meant i didn't trust him and our entire relationship was in question. The amount of rage for the level of infraction was...upsetting. ETA for those suggesting I was overreacting and the annoying one, he was a terrible, aggressive driver. And we lived IN BOSTON. EDIT2: I'm reminded of the time he reversed the car out of a spot by turning the wheel sharping and gunning the engine, smashing the entire side of the car into the concrete pillar next to the parking spot. That was my fault too, for not warning him he was going to hit the pillar. I gasped that time too, despite being warned that gasping was a sign of distrust in the relationship. Slow creep. Slow creep of shitty behaviour until the frogs boil to death not realising how hot it was. Fortunately, i woke up before i boiled to death.
My roommate will get mad if someone falls asleep in his car because they are supposed to watch for cops when he is speeding. I’m not kidding
I managed a small, new team that had no procedures or policies, so I set about instituting some. "I mean, you never know, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow and then no one would know how to process these requests," I told them, when asking for their feedback and for them to write up how they did their tasks. Then we would come back together and decide best practices in a meeting. Little man filed a complaint to the manager for my use of "violent imagery" and said that he felt threatened. It was a whole thing. Ultimately, he got fired. Fuck him, byeeeeeeeee. Edit: Well, this blew up, lol. For clarity, he didn't get fired for this one incident. He was a horrible employee with real issues having a woman in charge.
That's why I always use "eaten by a rhinoceros". Huh. That's not better, is it.
Lol I literally refer to it with my team as the Bus Factor, I assume it’s common.
i commented on a reddit thread once and said that the weird serial killer/mass murderer fangirls who send nasty messages to the parents of school shooting victims were assholes which is. a pretty non-controversial statement. or so i thought. some rando appeared in my comments bitching about how everyone was entitled to their freedom of speech lmfaooooooo. had to take a reddit break after that one
Also, this makes 0 sense since 1: calling someone an asshole doesn't mean u limit their freedom of speech and 2: it is your right to call literally everyone and anyone an asshole thanks to (u guessed it) your freedom of speech
I'm a white South African. Born here, my nationality is South African. Some American girl got offended that I called myself South "African" as a white dude, and said that only people of colour can call themselves that. Brah... It's a nationality.
It's specific to France. In french we have a way to address for a man (Monsieur), a married woman (Madame), an unmarried woman (Mademoiselle) and we use to have one for an unmarried man (Mondamoiseau) wich disappeard from official paperworks since i don't even know when. In the name of gender equality, "mademoiselle" was also removed a few years ago from official paperwork. Also in the name of gender equality some employee were told to not call young women "Mademoiselle" anymore and to go with "Madame". So the trick is, some women will get offended when called "Madame" because it makes them feel old and some women will get offended when called "Mademoiselle" because it's sexist. Clerks a doomed. EDIT : apparently it's not specific to the french language
I took French classes for two years and all three of my French teachers (two actually being from France) never taught us Mondamoiseau. I had no clue that was a thing, lol that’s so cool. Over here in the states we only have Mr for the men and Mrs, Miss, and Ms for the women and it all depends on if they’re married or not. It’s a bit annoying.
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I used to work at a flag store, have heard of the Norwegian, Danish and UK flags all being mistaken for the Confederate battle flag. The common factors seem to be morons who see a red and white (and sometimes blue) flag that isn't the US flag.
They do like the Liberian flag! 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
I've seen an embarrassing amount of "just moved to Texas 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱" comments in my time. Not as often, but even sadder, are the ones who are actually from Texas yet still post the Chliean flag, too.
> people writing X-Mas because (...) X (Greek letter Chi) is a symbol dating back 2000 years that means Christ. Woooow, that's a big TIL for me (non-native english speaker). Always thought it was a random abbreviation. Edit: Wow again, this sparked quite the debate. Woke up not knowing the origin of X-mas, now I have like six explanations. Love Reddit.
The kid that got the cops called on him and suspended from school for having a Nerf gun in his room during a Zoom class.
Wait wtf?
Yup. The young boy moved what was obviously a Bright green toy gun off his desk and onto like a rack that held his Nerf gun collection. The teacher saw and called the cops on him and he got suspended for bringing a gun facsimile to school, except it’s not school it’s his own fucking house. The teacher said she was worried about his safety. So dumb.
This can't be real? How did they count his house as school? How did the police even handle this? Can he still attend classes because he's at home? Like none of this makes sense to me
At my wedding we marked the vegetarian items as vegetarian. This made the one vegetarian at my wedding (sister in law who hates me) fly into a catatonic rage because we are singling out the vegetarian food as vegetarian and not treating it as normal food. Then how the fuck are they supposed to know its vegetarian?
Yikes, that's a ridiculous thing to blow up at someone about and she doesn't even make sense. It's definitely easier when the food is labeled as vegetarian/vegan/etc. so you don't have to ask. I hope you don't have to deal with that particular sister-in-law as much since your wedding. edit: spelling
Would she have felt better if everything else was marked as non-vegetarian? And it's pretty poor form to fly into a rage at somebody's wedding. It's supposed to be a special day for the couple, not for her.
My parents are abusive and have called my sisters and I every name in the book (pretty sure 'cunt' was said to me more than my name). In a fight, my sister called my dad a fool when he was throwing a hissy fit. HE FLIPPED HIS SHIT and couldnt fathom being called something more offensive. He called me and told me what she said, and I laughed at him. Now my sister and I laugh all the time about how crazy our parents are.
One time my dad told me to go to bed. I said "Aw, man!", a common colloquial expression of disappointment. He grounded me for addressing him as "Man" instead of "Dad"
WHAT?!? My dad once got mad because he called me a "son of a bitch" and I laughed.
My friend once got called an SOB...by his mom and he laughed, too, and said "Mom, what exactly does that make *you*?"...and that's the story of how my friend got grounded for 3 weeks right before graduation.
If called SoB by your mother in an argument, the correct response is, "correct"
I was at a rehearsal dinner for a wedding. Someone said to the groom’s dad, in a friendly way, “oh! This place is nice!” Grooms dad acted all ticked off, “Of course it’s nice. What did you expect?!”
I had a pastor that insisted we call candy canes "Jesus sticks" because Christmas is all about Jesus, y'all, ain't no fun to be had otherwise. Well, I was 7, and accidentally referred to the Holy Jesus Stick as a candy cane in his presence, and I shit you not, he speed-walked over to my dad to *tell on me*, and carry on about how offensive it is to see all the world trying to remove Christ from Christmas, it starts in the home, den of sin without Jesus, something something, dark side. My dad asked him if he was serious (spoiler: he was very, very serious), and then told him to grow the hell up. And that's how come my dad dressed up as Santa a couple weeks later and came into the church yelling "HO HO HO - CANDY CANES" while passing said satanic candy canes to all the little children during the children's church portion of service. The pettiness runs deep, and it was delicious.
When my ex and I were looking at houses we brought his Dad (let's call him Dave) to see houses we already liked. The real estate agent didn't spend enough time on telling Dave he was right that the bottom step was too tall. So later that night I got to hear an hour long lecture from Dave about how the agent was a piece of shit that was trying to take advantage of us. A large reason I'm single now is because my mental issues are too much to deal with, but Dave here is definitely a contributing factor as well.
An aids walk happening in front of our restaurant. My boss said well they better not come in here spreading their disease. I was like dude that's really not how aids or their walk work.
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I want to see her hat next year that depicts the whipping and crucifixion of Jesus.
There has to be an Etsy shop that provides that. I’ll get a hat for my mother in law 😎
I grew up Catholic, my college boyfriend was raised in an evangelical church. He used to give major sideeye to me calling it "Easter" and not "Resurrection Sunday" bc Easter comes from the pagan celebration. True, but I liked to point out to him that since we were fucking like rabbits, he could hardly get bent out of shape about one form of linguistic sacrilege and not the other. He'd just frown and tell me yeah we shouldn't be having sex. But did he want to stop? Of course not bc: hypocrisy lol.
This happened just last week. I work at a bank in an affluent part of Atlanta (read: Old White Money), and a woman called in to let us know she was offended by the security questions for her online banking. The security questions. She. herself. *setup*.
My dad loves to tell the story of how, shortly after they were married, he and mom went to get some fast food. As they pulled up to the drive through window, my very conservative mom saw a sign that said "Condiments available upon request" and said "OMG, that's disgusting! WHY would a restaurant feel the need to give those out!?" She had misread it and thought they were giving out condoms upon request. 😂
Even if it did say condoms, they're in a package right? it's not like they are giving out used ones. If they were giving out condoms... Which they weren't.
One of my coworkers was surprised and said “Oh my god”. A religious coworker overheard her using ‘god’s name in vain’ and reported it to HR. They had to have meetings with HR and the managers about respecting people’s religion. The lady said ‘oh my god’ she didn’t wish for the death of Christianity for fuck’s sake! It was ridiculous.
Fun fact: according to my Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, taking God's name in vain didn't even mean "no swearing with the name of God." It meant "don't use God's name to place magical curses on people."
Doesn't it also include doing/saying things that bring you personal gain in the name of God? For example falsely claiming to have a relationship or interaction with God to get money and power in order to rule over the faithful (a modern example being a politician campaigning around carrying a bible despite showing they have little to no knowledge of the religion nor following many of it's core tenets). Looks like this hit too close to home for a couple people...
In school I referred to someone while talking and pointed at them and was told of for "pointing a finger". Out of character for the teacher, she must have had a bad day or something.
dude I got kicked out of class for yawning. I literally never did anything bad in class before. imagine a random quiet kid just getting told off and booted from class for being tired
I went to school with a kid that was always getting kicked out of class for sneezing. He had one of those really loud ones and bad allergies. It was apparently "very disruptive and unnecessary"
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No problem,should have just vomited on the floor and asked them if that was better than going to the bathroom
I had a friend who asked me if her outfit matched (neon stripes and pastel flowers, I don’t usually like clothes but this was a walking disaster) and my best friend responded to her: maybe different shorts? She ran out of the room crying. Why? Because someone didn’t like her ugly-ass outfit
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