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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Given:

You lack the capacity to experience imposter syndrome.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

In early 1980s, driving to the mall right before Christmas with girlfriend and her mom in their ancient huge Caddilac. It's a zoo. Girlfriend's mom consipates the whole parking garage by driving poorly and gridlocking the place. People are honking and yelling at her. She hangs out the window and yells, in a strong Fran Drescher accent: "YOU DON'T HAVE THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

“He always was a bit of a… reader when he was young.” said with such utter contempt and disgust; like it was a terrible thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Not me but: “I was showing the new system to anons father. Have more luck teaching a rock how to float.”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"YOU DRIVE VERY FAST". Screamed at me out her minivan window by a middle aged Indian woman making a left across traffic in front of me. Still cracks me up.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I called out man in his fifties being sleezy around women who didn't have any company.

I roasted him , to which he responded "you are bad" (in my native language that word would specifically mean bad at something).

Bad at WHAT bro?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Assuming you are finnish and google translate did my right, olet huono

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's correct.

What I said to him among other things, "mee muualle siitä setämieheilemään" =" why don't you go be 'uncle man' elsewhere."

Uncle man would be something used to call out middle aged men who are being nasty, usually for women much younger than them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

"Go lick a dead camel jackass!"

Shouted by a friend at a high school bully from a moving car. 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I have heard having autism being used as an insult

The strange part is that, even though i have autism and the person saying that insult knows that i have, i have never been called that, even avoiding to tell other people if asked

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

McDonald head. A little girl, maybe 4, called me McDonald head while laughing hysterically and pointing, for like 10 min straight. This was more than 20 years ago and I can still hear her laughter.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I was walking from the corner store when there was this guy freestyling. I was wearing a white shirt with red stripes all over it. He pointed at me and says where's Waldo, where's Waldo, he too bald to hide. So yeah.

I still have the shirt and I wear it as junk clothes. I always think Waldo when I put it on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How old were you back then?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Grown ass man

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I used to be over 350 lbs. with long, thin, greasy hair and a very pale complexion. My nose isn't long, but it's a bit pointy. Probably had dark eye sockets if I'm being honest about my health at the time. Anyway, my friend's brother stood in front of me when we were sitting around drunk, and said "No offense, but you look like the Penguin (from Batman) right now." Then went on to try to make that sound less offensive by suggesting it was just the lighting or the angle or something. But I knew what he was talking about. He was absolutely right. I never felt worse about myself.

Thankfully I lost all that weight over a decade ago. Shaved my head, got healthier, grew a beard, and had what my wife calls a tremendous glow-up. But I used to be the Penguin... So you should watch out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You're suggesting the Penguin is now a reformed man?

THE SYSTEM WORKS !!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"You look like a lifeguard" made my friend spit his drink out with that one

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"You're too hard to hug."

I'm a muscular dude. This was a complaint from a woman I knew. It was not a compliment, she genuinely refused to hug me when we greeted each other.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

"You look like Ramsey Bolton"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"You're not good for much, but you do a damn good vacuum."

-60yo lady to 20yo me, bookshop job.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"You know enough to be dangerous"

It can be used as either an insult or a compliment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That I'm a gay n word. Like, I am neither so what's up with that? He quickly biked off and I couldn't get him to clarify.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That might have been a reference to a very old Slashdot meme, ca. 2002. Sometimes those words were combined; there was a movie with the words + "from outer space"; and there was a trolling group GNAA.

Now, is that what they were going for? Only you can answer that. It's a pretty deep cut into a pretty nerdy corner of the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

A random little kid at the park called me “gummy face”, and I definitely did not cry about later that night.

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