sweeperbravo posted:

that's the exact part, IMO, that turns the message from "i'd like to genuinely thank you and pay you back in a meaningful way" to "i used to be more racist against your people, but you still have holes right he he"

Leavemywife posted:

More like oldcashless.

Kajeesus posted:

That's not the message at all and it's kind of weird you'd jump to that conclusion.

Non Serviam posted:

I didn't feel that it was a sexual innuendo.
Still stdh

sweeperbravo posted:

idk, "i'm sure you won't let me" seems to me to imply some sort of touching because she was visibly religious :shrugs: and for all the stdh there is, "racist guy retains some racism and misogyny after a positive encounter with someone from the intersection of such groups" is pretty believable IMO like you have this dudebro making what could have been a poignant post undercutting it by making a joke at the end just to remind you, naw man, he didn't go soft, he's still a tough guy


eh, even if we disagree on the meaning of that last turn of phrase, i think we can agree it is a dumb stdh

The Final One Word On The Matter posted:

(My boss is wonderful. As a result of far too many stories like the ones on this site, he directs his staff to use one word responses when a customer gets unreasonable, and to hit the ‘panic’ button — a monitor that pipes the conversation through to him. Conversations like this still happen, but at least it’s all handled.)

Customer: “This is ridiculous! I had to wait in line for 15 minutes! Why couldn’t you serve me earlier?”

Me: *hit the button* “Sorry, sir. There were other people in front of you. How can I help you?”

Customer: “Give me a [Product], and I want a 20% discount!”

Me: “Sorry, sir, I can’t do that, and there is no reason to; this is normal business. Waiting in line is an everyday matter.”

Customer: “Yes, you can. Give it to me or I’ll have your job!”

Me: *going into DefCon mode* “Can’t.”

(This is where my boss’s one-word strategy works so well. Irate customers can easily ignore a sentence, but it’s hard to mis-hear a single word.)

Customer: “Can’t? Of course you can! What do you mean, can’t?”

Me: “Can’t.”

Customer: “Why not?”

Me: “Orders.”

Customer: “Whose orders?”

Me: “Boss.”

Customer: “Well, get me your boss then!”

Me: “Okay.”

(My boss comes out.)

Customer: “This employee was being extremely rude to me! I demand my purchase for free, or at least with a big discount!”

Boss: “No.”

Customer: “No? What do you mean, no? She was being rude!”

Boss: “Not rude.” *okay, sometimes you have to use two words*

Customer: “Yes, she was!”

Boss: *points to monitor* “Monitor.”

Customer: “What?”

Boss: “Heard you.”

Customer: “So?”

Boss: “Not rude. No discount.”

Customer: “The customer is always right! Why not?”

(Once we get to this point, my boss has a standard spiel.)

Boss: “Five good reasons.”

Customer: “Huh?”

Boss: “Five good reasons why you’re not getting a discount.”

Customer: “What? What are they?”

Boss: “One: I don’t have to. Two: I don’t want to. Three: There’s no reason I should. Four: You can’t make me. Five: I’m not going to.”

Customer: “I’m never coming here again!”

Boss: “You should have said that before. If you’d have said that if I gave you a discount, you would promise to never come back, I might have given it to you.”

(The customer left. Case closed.)

curious lump posted:

No one gives a gently caress, and no one gives a gently caress about transsexuals. Here's some poo poo that didn't happen: someone cared. Shut the gently caress up.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Furia posted:

I need something to read so sure, but I don't have pm's since I am a filthy poor so uhhhh... Can you hook me up nonetheless? I always like to know more about everything.

I'm also interested in figuring out how it works out when everyone has a different goal and the goals contradict each other. I mean, I'm sure with time things will be figured out but I'm interested.

Captain Monkey posted:

I'd actually like to read your thoughts on drag and cis/trans women, I have very little experience with drag outside of the media and it sounds interesting. I have pms, but I'm sure the thread could also support a little derail.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

One of the things I enjoy about PYF is the educational derails that form from some posts, I'd like to hear more too.

ibntumart posted:

And on the off chance I'm not the only Muslim who enjoys perusing this thread,
Eid mubarak! May we all get to guzzle our body weights in coffee to make up for a month of morning commutes without coffee.

quote:

I was perusing my favorite website forum today, minding my own business, when all of a sudden, someone posted some weird moslem stuff.

As a white male who isn't afriad he LOVES his country, I have to say I am offended.

OFFENDED.

I immediately posted "GO BACK TO ISLAMASTAN YOU FILTHY MUSTLEM!" and my post instantly got shared in twitter and facebook for three hundred thousand likes and shares.

how dare the people that run the site let this anti american s*** happen unpunished?!?! I WORK for a living and they just come over to blow us up.

They dont pay taxes or anything. I was so mad when i saw what was obviously muslin HATE SPEECH that my protective side took over and i immediately called homeland security. They said they saw it and that "eid mubarak" means "death to america" and that they were glad i told them.

I just got a call from the homeland security guy about it and he said they caught the musselm and had him deported back to wherever he came from. His last words as he got on the boat were "i am so sorry god bless america"

Afterwords I was given the contressional metal of honor, a million dollars, and they let me pick a celebrity to go on an all expenses date with. I get to go pick up bernadette peters at six tonight and we are going to cracker barrel and i swear to god if there isnt enough sausage in the SAUSAGE gravy like last time i will call border patrol and have them DEPORTED>

GOD BLESS AMERICA

oldpainless posted:

This is egregious

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Eid mubarak to you, friend.

edit: Here's a fresh STDH

Nyarai posted:

Eid mubarak, ibntumart! Thanks to you, I learned some stuff about Ramadan. (I think it's cool that there are a bunch of reasonable exceptions for the fast.)

In celebration, have this lengthy NAR post! Truly a feast for the eyes of terrible customer service.


"Give me a [Product]!"

Nyarai posted:

In celebration, have this lengthy NAR post! Truly a feast for the eyes of terrible customer service.

hogmartin posted:

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Weatherman I'll pay you three internet dollars to follow oldpainless around for a day and post 'oldpainless more like old____less' every time he says something

Weatherman posted:

I already do it for free

CannonFodder posted:

You Messicans come over here stealing all the convenience store jobs. Yo quireo uno [ producto ]
Uno Producto? I got you fam:

Wait, you speak English?
Yes, I've been in America for 30 years after leaving Chile.

Non Serviam posted:

I didn't feel that it was a sexual innuendo.
Still stdh

goose fleet posted:

quote:

In light of some actual, sincere moments worthy of the moniker of Awesome, I'm going to respectfully tone this one down to a Crowning Moment of Timing - I was in Disney World on a marching band trip in high school, walking around with a buddy of mine, looking for other friends. I decided to hop up onto a cement embankment to get a better look; and, at that precise moment, the ubiquitous background music they have playing constantly in those theme parks swelled dramatically. The best part? I was wearing my recently-purchased Indiana Jones-branded fedora.

quote:

This troper's brother had his crowning moment of awesome (in this troper's opinion) when he was in 5th year in secondary school. This troper was 12 at the time, had just started secondary school and was being bullied mercilessly by a guy in her class for being a loner/nerd/freak/four-eyes/fatty/swot/teacher's pet (This troper has the unfortunate combination of book smarts, a slight weight problem and glasses.) One day while my class waiting outside the P.E hall for the teacher to come, said bully began verbally abusing me. Nobody said anything to him about it, I'd given up telling him to leave me alone, a complaint to several teachers hadn't made him stop. I was just about to resign myself to 5 years of hearing this jerk insult me everytime I turned around. And then some 5th year students passed by on their way to another class. One was my brother. At home, we never stop fighting but upon seeing this jerk making his little sister upset, my brother (who is 6'4) picked the jerk up by his shirt collar, held him more than a foot off the ground for a full minute, leaned in real close and said quietly through bared teeth "Leave my sister alone." (For extra effect everyone else hade gone quiet, so that my brother's whispered ultimatum echoed throughout the hallway. Plus my brother has two extra canine teeth. They look like actual vampire fangs. He refuses to get them removed.) The jerk was suitably freaked out. He never dared bother me again.

quote:

THIS has to be one of the BEST crowning moments of awesome EVER. When I was in junior school, sixth year, some guy completly high on drugs tries to break into the school (to steal pencils to 'defend himself from zombies'). While the head was trying to phone the police, the other teachers where trying to keep the kids in the classrooms, my class bursts out through the back exit of the classroom and round the back stairs to see what's going on. Led by me, my friend Georgia, a boy called Dave and my best friend Chloe, we plotted the best way to drive this guy out. We snuck down the stairs and, with me at the front, the rest of the class went into a V shape and charged this guy. We pounced on him, dragged him to the floor, kicked him into submission and stood gaurd. At one point the guy got up and grabbed a smallish girl in my class. I wasn't taking any poo poo from some wierdo, so I pounced on him and sunk my teeth (yes, I broke skin) into his ear and dragged him onto the ground. We then chased him into the stationery cupbord and guarded the door until the police arivved. He thought he'd been attacked by evil anthropomorphic animals (of whom I was the ring-leader) and was completly terrified of us. Especially me. I was 'the evil purple panther girl' who had ripped a chunk out of his ear. And I'm normally the shy one who hides in the background.
And do you know what's really crap about it? We were sworn to secrecy by the police so that people wouldn't think that a bunch of 10-11 year olds could do a better job than the police.

quote:

This troper had a CMOA (in his opinion) when... well the story goes like this:
After being expelled from several schools I was sent to some "richy" school. On the bus some rear end in a top hat taunted me about having huggy wipes. (I couldn't properly well....ya) So after about 10 or so minutes of it I couldn't take his poo poo anymore. He said as a last line "Your some kind of baby right?" I simply gave him a blank stare. He retorted to it with "don't just sit there do something!" Having the huggy wipes box in my hands, I proceded to beat the living crap out of him with it via bashing his skull with it. The best part is he pleaded for me to stop. Screaming "STOP STOP! SOMEONE GET THIS KID AWAY FROM ME!"

quote:

my brother (who is 6'4) picked the jerk up by his shirt collar, held him more than a foot off the ground for a full minute

Tatum Girlparts posted:

the best part was when I bashed a guy's skull in and he was begging for mercy, hi I'm a serial killer.

YeahTubaMike posted:

This troper doesn't know how long a minute is.

Ytlaya posted:

Wait, is it implied that the troper couldn't wipe their own rear end because of their size? Confused about the need for the wipes.

Tatum Girlparts posted:

Why would you do that? We all know these are lies, why would you make up a story where you're such a psychopath?

Huggy Wipes posted:

After being expelled from several schools I was sent to some "rich" school. On the bus some rear end in a top hat taunted me about having huggy wipes. (I couldn't properly well....ya)

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I always enjoy stories about drugs, drug dealers, drug addicts, etc where it's obvious about three sentences in that the person is just reciting stories from DARE.

The guy was on DRUGS because he wanted PENCILS to defend himself from MONSTERS and that's why I BIT HIS EAR OFF

Khazar-khum posted:

Huggy Wipes

Furia posted:

Because in their animes sociopathy is lighthearted and accepted and a trait of genius or something

I'll never quite grasp when or why being a broken person became/is cool