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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo 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.
FalloutShelter
(13,949 posts)Good on ya.
Totally Tunsie
(11,387 posts)usonian
(22,009 posts)The threat should be enough.
Like your attitude!!
MrWowWow
(1,461 posts)-Just in case the incident goes to court. Bear spray works better.
TommyT139
(2,031 posts)...cheap strong perfume, in a spray bottle that happens to be slightly broken.
usonian
(22,009 posts)
Say it's from:

New maga faves.
wolfie001
(6,375 posts)Sorry, this commercial was everywhere when I was a TV addict in the early 1970s

usonian
(22,009 posts)There's a ton of music up there.
wolfie001
(6,375 posts)Cheers
usonian
(22,009 posts)Except for poor Mozart.
wolfie001
(6,375 posts)I had to wait a couple minutes to exit the theater.
usonian
(22,009 posts)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)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)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)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!
TommyT139
(2,031 posts)usonian
(22,009 posts)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)...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)With belt loops.
I figure that the little one on my keyring is like "open carry for pacifists" Hope never to need it.
mountain grammy
(28,381 posts)Oh how I wish.. I'm looking online..
Reader Rabbit
(2,735 posts)Who walks up to a complete stranger and says something like that? Why is that kind of crazy normalized in our society?
GoCubsGo
(34,506 posts)My response would be, "None of your godamn business."
littlemissmartypants
(30,721 posts)FHRRK
(1,240 posts)In the only logical manner.
TlalocW
(15,668 posts)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)What's the difference between a garbanzo bean and a chickpea?
Donald tRump never had a garbanzo bean on his face.
usonian
(22,009 posts)For the wallet.

Nice joke! Real, too.
SheilaAnn
(10,566 posts)PatSeg
(51,358 posts)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)Totally normal seeming people were always making cracks about Clinton. It was unnerving (and they were always Republicans).
PatSeg
(51,358 posts)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)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)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)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.
PatSeg
(51,358 posts)Just trying to provoke a fight.
drray23
(8,472 posts)I am a middle age white guy living in the south. They implicitly assume I am one of them.
PatSeg
(51,358 posts)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)PatSeg
(51,358 posts)I learned at a young age to never make assumptions about people I don't know.
electric_blue68
(24,650 posts)PatSeg
(51,358 posts)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.
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Cha
(315,377 posts)LilElf70
(1,182 posts)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)They topple over quickly if pushed.
(Used to used in a different way, but I'm PC!)
tanyev
(48,179 posts)and appears to be cooking his face like a 7-11 hot dog rolling in the heat lamp all day.
SunSeeker
(57,082 posts)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)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)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)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!
1WorldHope
(1,745 posts)In the streets people!
JoseBalow
(8,863 posts)Upthevibe
(9,853 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(3,844 posts)"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)"
stollen
(990 posts)Overland Park, suburb of Kansas City
Grokenstein
(6,187 posts)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.
czarjak
(13,267 posts)Jack Valentino
(3,812 posts)BRAVO!!!!!!