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TlalocW

(15,668 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:10 PM Sep 22

So this just happened

I was at the little restaurant in my grocery store eating abd scrolling when a man in his 60s came up to me.

Him: Reading the news?
Me (assuming he's normal): Some. Looking at messages, etc.
Him: Saw where they took Biden to the hospital?
Me (once again assuming he's normal): Oh? I knew his cancer numbers weren't good. Did something happen?
Him: No, he just couldn't stop Putin (pootin')
Me (taking a second to try and get the joke as it's just a bad play on words): Why don't you fuck off?
Him: You've got a nasty mouth.
Me: Aw, widdle MAGA bitchboy don't wike it? (pretending to rub my eyes)

He just stares at me angry then walks away.

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So this just happened (Original Post) TlalocW Sep 22 OP
Ha! FalloutShelter Sep 22 #1
😂 CentralMass Sep 22 #2
Too soon old. Too late smart. Totally Tunsie Sep 22 #3
I carry pepper spray. I use the "Uncle Leo" excuse --- "I'm old" usonian Sep 22 #4
Have two or more witnesses when you spray MrWowWow Sep 22 #5
For plausible deniability TommyT139 Sep 22 #8
Fur den magats. usonian Sep 22 #15
"Kinda new, kinda wow, Charlie!" wolfie001 Sep 22 #33
Tune is still rattling around my brain. usonian Sep 22 #35
That means we still "Have it!" wolfie001 Sep 22 #38
Music keeps you young!! usonian Sep 22 #39
I cried after 'Amadeus' in 1984 wolfie001 Sep 22 #42
Wait until I find F. Murray Abraham. usonian Sep 22 #43
Ah yes! Wolfie was his nickname! wolfie001 Sep 22 #46
Elizabeth Berridge usonian Sep 22 #47
Yes! Stanzie! wolfie001 Sep 22 #48
Too. Funny. TommyT139 Sep 22 #40
I keep the bear spray at home. usonian Sep 22 #12
Just So You Know.. ProfessorGAC Sep 22 #20
Sporting goods store sells them in pairs. usonian Sep 22 #23
I've seen those, must be 100 years ago.. mountain grammy Sep 22 #24
Da fuq? Reader Rabbit Sep 22 #6
Exactly right. GoCubsGo Sep 22 #21
Or are you okay? Can I call someone for you? littlemissmartypants Sep 22 #37
You dealt with him FHRRK Sep 22 #7
Actually I'm disappointed in myself TlalocW Sep 22 #10
Here's one to use FoxNewsSucks Sep 22 #14
Print out this doppelganger picture usonian Sep 22 #17
lololol blubunyip Sep 23 #64
We could hang out together, GMTA! SheilaAnn Sep 22 #9
I'll never understand why conservatives PatSeg Sep 22 #11
It happened to me constantly when Clinton was president. LisaM Sep 22 #13
Yeah, I can't recall a Democrat or liberal PatSeg Sep 22 #29
It happens to black people also Keepthesoulalive Sep 22 #26
I guess it is a certain type of person PatSeg Sep 22 #30
Well, to be fair to the MAGA guy Bluetus Sep 22 #36
Aha, so he was probably just pushing buttons then PatSeg Sep 22 #50
Indeed thats the reason. drray23 Sep 22 #44
Such limited thinking is mind blowing PatSeg Sep 22 #51
Thst has occasionally happened to me as a white person, too. I always counter them in sone way. electric_blue68 Sep 22 #52
It still amazes me PatSeg Sep 22 #53
Hmmm... not sure when I learned that. Occasionally I still do but I usually catch myself and stop. electric_blue68 Sep 22 #55
Yes, it is human nature to make assumptions PatSeg Sep 22 #56
👍 electric_blue68 Sep 22 #57
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 22 #16
Maga Idiot asked for it.. coming up to you like that. Cha Sep 22 #18
I went to the dentist today LilElf70 Sep 22 #19
I tend to do the ame as you, LilElf. Lay out our position on the table directly. Magats have round heels. erronis Sep 22 #22
I don't take medical advice from a man who got a brain worm eating roadkill tanyev Sep 22 #31
Good grief. Maybe report what she told you to your dentist. SunSeeker Sep 23 #59
I wish I could, but LilElf70 Sep 23 #61
Some suggestions for next time . . . because there will be a next time. AverageOldGuy Sep 22 #25
I applaud your self control BidenRocks Sep 22 #27
Bless your heart . 💜💜💜 1WorldHope Sep 22 #28
I'm glad you didn't get stabbed in the neck JoseBalow Sep 22 #32
Good on you!............N/T Upthevibe Sep 22 #34
Wow. MorbidButterflyTat Sep 22 #41
Red or blue state? stollen Sep 22 #45
Kansas TlalocW Sep 22 #49
The most obnoxious a-holes always think they're the life of the party Grokenstein Sep 22 #54
Irony lost on who can't/won't stop Putin. czarjak Sep 23 #58
"widdle MAGA bitchboy " Jack Valentino Sep 23 #60
i'd have said biden didn't suck putin's ass. pansypoo53219 Sep 23 #62
MAGA Bitchboy! I love it. Native Sep 23 #63
Good job! Martin68 Sep 23 #65
MAGAts are good at nasty stares. red dog 1 Sep 23 #66
I would never assume someone is telling a whopper. somsai Sep 23 #67

usonian

(22,009 posts)
4. I carry pepper spray. I use the "Uncle Leo" excuse --- "I'm old"
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:30 PM
Sep 22

The threat should be enough.
Like your attitude!!

MrWowWow

(1,461 posts)
5. Have two or more witnesses when you spray
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:43 PM
Sep 22

-Just in case the incident goes to court. Bear spray works better.

TommyT139

(2,031 posts)
8. For plausible deniability
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:50 PM
Sep 22

...cheap strong perfume, in a spray bottle that happens to be slightly broken.

wolfie001

(6,375 posts)
33. "Kinda new, kinda wow, Charlie!"
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:19 PM
Sep 22

Sorry, this commercial was everywhere when I was a TV addict in the early 1970s

usonian

(22,009 posts)
43. Wait until I find F. Murray Abraham.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:54 PM
Sep 22

That said, it might have been a neurological disease.

Mozart by Tom Hulce

Larry Kroger, "Pinto" in Animal House.



I think that THAT Wolfie would have approved. He was a comedian extraordinaire.

wolfie001

(6,375 posts)
46. Ah yes! Wolfie was his nickname!
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:02 PM
Sep 22

I had a crush on his movie wife. She was adorable. What a movie! The intro as they're taking Abraham in to see the doctor: Symphony #25!!! Momentous! And the film's just starting!

usonian

(22,009 posts)
47. Elizabeth Berridge
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:17 PM
Sep 22

Hadn't heard of her.

Stanzie?

Portrait of the real one.



https://www.historyhit.com/culture/who-was-constanze-mozart/

Catch a rebroadcast of Figaro. Great cast.
Ingvar Wixwll, Jessye Norman and Mirella Freni
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10316300

wolfie001

(6,375 posts)
48. Yes! Stanzie!
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:22 PM
Sep 22

I remember that name. Also, the scene when Salieri drops the portfolio filled with Mozart's music. I think she said, "Do you not like it?" I might have to rewatch it. Probably my fourth time if I do. Cheers! And thanks!

usonian

(22,009 posts)
12. I keep the bear spray at home.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:12 PM
Sep 22

Would just the threat work?

Neighbor spotted real bears the other day.



Uninvited shit is rude and abusive. I only make pleasant comments, if any, in public.

I world probably take the "Fuck off" route. That asshole should know that you get what you give. But Fox .......

I'll go look up a squirting lapel flower. From the 50's and 60's. For the shock value.



Might need a time machine.

ProfessorGAC

(75,020 posts)
20. Just So You Know..
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:28 PM
Sep 22

...bear spray has the same active ingredient as pepper spray.
But, pepper spray intended for defense has around 10% capsaicin.
Bear spray is only around 2%, but the aerosol mechanism creates a wider & longer pattern, making it harder for an animal to evade. One wouldn't want to close enough to a bear to use human intended spray.
Pepper spray is, therefore, actually stronger that bear spray, but less effective on bears.
But, it's way more effective on humans.

usonian

(22,009 posts)
23. Sporting goods store sells them in pairs.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:41 PM
Sep 22

With belt loops.

I figure that the little one on my keyring is like "open carry for pacifists" Hope never to need it.

Reader Rabbit

(2,735 posts)
6. Da fuq?
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:46 PM
Sep 22

Who walks up to a complete stranger and says something like that? Why is that kind of crazy normalized in our society?

TlalocW

(15,668 posts)
10. Actually I'm disappointed in myself
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:00 PM
Sep 22

If I had been thinking, I would have told a Trump joke (I have a few), or I would have critiqued his joke 12 ways to Sunday and followed him when he left, continuing to critique it.

FoxNewsSucks

(11,388 posts)
14. Here's one to use
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:17 PM
Sep 22

What's the difference between a garbanzo bean and a chickpea?










Donald tRump never had a garbanzo bean on his face.

PatSeg

(51,358 posts)
11. I'll never understand why conservatives
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:06 PM
Sep 22

make assumptions about people they don't even know. I've had total strangers say crude or racist things to me with a "wink-wink" like they think I'll agree with them....because I'm white?

And that was a really bad joke.

LisaM

(29,392 posts)
13. It happened to me constantly when Clinton was president.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:14 PM
Sep 22

Totally normal seeming people were always making cracks about Clinton. It was unnerving (and they were always Republicans).

PatSeg

(51,358 posts)
29. Yeah, I can't recall a Democrat or liberal
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:51 PM
Sep 22

making assumptions like that. I suppose sometimes they may not be making assumptions and possibly might be trying to push some buttons, but most of the time, they clearly seem to think I will agree with them. They often get an earful that they wouldn't forget very soon.

Keepthesoulalive

(1,986 posts)
26. It happens to black people also
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:45 PM
Sep 22

If I take the train I eat in my room , they tend to want the whole world to hear them and agree with them.

PatSeg

(51,358 posts)
30. I guess it is a certain type of person
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:58 PM
Sep 22

who wasn't raised to behave appropriately around strangers. I've always been taught to keep my politics and religion to myself around people I don't know. Until you actually know them, stick to generic topics like weather or sports.

Bluetus

(1,783 posts)
36. Well, to be fair to the MAGA guy
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:31 PM
Sep 22

The poster was using a computer. ANd he was reading.

How many MAGA people do you know who are capable of either of those things?

So MAGA-man wasn't actually being very presumptuous.

I mean, if a person was wearing an AR-15 and was not in a real military uniform on real military duty, we'd assume it was a MAGA person? If we see somebody reading, and it is not a court restraining order or parole report, we can safely assume it is NOT a MAGA person.

drray23

(8,472 posts)
44. Indeed thats the reason.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:56 PM
Sep 22

I am a middle age white guy living in the south. They implicitly assume I am one of them.

PatSeg

(51,358 posts)
51. Such limited thinking is mind blowing
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:29 PM
Sep 22

I've seen it happen in blue states as well. I remember a store manager in California who was very white with red hair. A middle age white customer made a racist comment about a couple of black customers, expecting Wayne to agree with him. Little did the customer realize that Wayne was married to a black woman and had two bi-racial daughters.

It is never a good idea to make assumptions about people you don't know.

electric_blue68

(24,650 posts)
52. Thst has occasionally happened to me as a white person, too. I always counter them in sone way.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:40 PM
Sep 22

PatSeg

(51,358 posts)
53. It still amazes me
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:06 PM
Sep 22

I learned at a young age to never make assumptions about people I don't know.

electric_blue68

(24,650 posts)
55. Hmmm... not sure when I learned that. Occasionally I still do but I usually catch myself and stop.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:10 PM
Sep 22

PatSeg

(51,358 posts)
56. Yes, it is human nature to make assumptions
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:17 PM
Sep 22

about people based on external characteristics. Okay, I can't really say I "never" make assumptions about people, but I have learned not to act on them....I think.

Response to TlalocW (Original post)

LilElf70

(1,182 posts)
19. I went to the dentist today
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:27 PM
Sep 22

and the dentist assistant starts talking about Tylenol and Ibuprofen. I immediately put two and two together and i knew she was a maga kook. I said to her, if you believe RFK, the man with no evidence, then good luck. I told her I don't believe anything Trump says, as his lies while in office are probably close to 10K, and RFK is in the same boat with him trying to go against the current, with 1 paddle. It's sickening.

erronis

(21,787 posts)
22. I tend to do the ame as you, LilElf. Lay out our position on the table directly. Magats have round heels.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:38 PM
Sep 22

They topple over quickly if pushed.

(Used to used in a different way, but I'm PC!)

tanyev

(48,179 posts)
31. I don't take medical advice from a man who got a brain worm eating roadkill
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:05 PM
Sep 22

and appears to be cooking his face like a 7-11 hot dog rolling in the heat lamp all day.

SunSeeker

(57,082 posts)
59. Good grief. Maybe report what she told you to your dentist.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:43 AM
Sep 23

He or she should know they have an uneducated kook who doesn't believe in science or truth responsible for caring for their patients.

LilElf70

(1,182 posts)
61. I wish I could, but
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 01:58 AM
Sep 23

he's a magat too. He's a very good dentist. I've been with him for the past 25 years, but didn't know about his magat status until recently. He had just jacked me up on Novocaine, and left the area for my 10-15 minute waiting period, leaving us two together. I'll stick with the him until he retires, which should be any day now. Life goes on.

Someone smarter than me, recently has taken the following attitude against all the shit going on. Let if go!!!! I now say it on a daily basis.

AverageOldGuy

(3,116 posts)
25. Some suggestions for next time . . . because there will be a next time.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:43 PM
Sep 22

Here are some responses. Look the asshole directly in the eye when you say any these, then, turn and walk away.

-- You made C's and D's in high school and the girls wouldn't talk to you, right?

-- Go piss up a rope.

-- I have shoes that are smarter than you.

-- Come back when you pull your head out of your ass.

BidenRocks

(2,466 posts)
27. I applaud your self control
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:50 PM
Sep 22

I am so fed up with this garbage that I would reach out and grab his throat until he squeaked.

I would say he assaulted me, which he did by invading 'your' space!

I am done. Every trumper is a threat and I will deal with it accordingly.

Jail be damned. This is ANARCHY!

"All enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC!"

You don't want to be an enemy of 'our' America!

MorbidButterflyTat

(3,844 posts)
41. Wow.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:44 PM
Sep 22

"Me (taking a second to try and get the joke as it's just a bad play on words): Why don't you fuck off?

Him: You've got a nasty mouth.

Me: Aw, widdle MAGA bitchboy don't wike it? (pretending to rub my eyes)"

Grokenstein

(6,187 posts)
54. The most obnoxious a-holes always think they're the life of the party
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:08 PM
Sep 22

and that everyone's just dying to hear the next idiotic nonsense they're going to fart out their yap.

When you make it clear you aren't interested--whether it's telling them to eat shit, or just pointedly ignoring them--they're shocked. And furious. MOMMA SED I SPESHUL.

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