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    #62
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    cletus van damme wrote: »
    i don't get the hate on boards for passive-agression.

    I love it and use it all the time esp at work - people know exactly what you mean (only a fool wouldn't get the point) and it has the added bonus of infuriating them.
    It can be a nice put down to somebody.

    The person who was yapping away was a dick. end of.

    I don't like passive aggressiveness, I would rather people were just straight up blunt about things.

    It's like an argument tithering on the surface, just have the god damn argument and get over it. Don't be a sly cnut about it.


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    #63
    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,519 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Person A was somewhat ignorant/rude, but I wouldn't terribly hold it against them. Why? Because Person B could always have politely interrupted and asked them to come along. Or could have headed off somewhere else.

    Person B sat and stewed and then made a sarky, passive-aggressive comment which threw A off.

    Neither party without blame here, but B made a lot of this happen for themselves


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    #64
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    I have a friend who does this. Last time I was walking along the street with her, on a bitterly cold day, we had arranged to meet for lunch, and had loads to catch up on.
    She met someone she knows vaguely, and stopped to chat. I just said politely, look I will keep going, meet you there. Apart from anything else, the wind and rain certainly were putting me off standing there.
    In your case OP, I would have ordered a coffee or something, I wouldn't be bothered pulling the other person on what they had done.


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    #65
    kingchess
    Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭kingchess


    person B should have pouted,and stayed at the side of his friend,and pouted some more,maybe a sigh or two,maybe a not-too- discrete look at his watch. (ps,that is how rumours get started)


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    #66
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    I LIKE CAKE!


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