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Rude?

  • 05-03-2010 2:28pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok so quick question, if you were having some banter with someone, say in a social setting, they were ribbing you etc, and you responded with a humerous cheeky flick of the finger...would you be insulted or merely see the funny side? If you knew it was meant only as a cheeky retaliation?


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  • #2
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    It all depends if the other person knows that you're doing it in jest.

    You know what you're doing - but do they know?

    Even if they did know it was in jest, some people just wouldn't like it anyway, so personally, I wouldn't do it.


  • #3
    petethebrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭petethebrick


    It depends on the person. Would you give your mother the finger if she was jokingly slagging you?


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,714 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    petethebrick wrote: »
    It depends on the person. Would you give your mother the finger if she was jokingly slagging you?

    I would! :D and she has been known to do the same back!!

    This is a very common thing among my friends we sometimes even do it as a greeting in the morning as a joke. Anyone taking it serious is being a bit childish imo.


  • #5
    tenchi-fan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭tenchi-fan


    I'd take it as a joke. Actually, the universal gesture of sticking up your finger versus making comments of a personal nature.. the latter is more offensive in my opinion.

    If someone doesn't know you well enough that they get insulted by a "rude" gesture, they definitely shouldn't be slagging you!!


  • #6
    DigiGal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭DigiGal


    I wouldn't but some people well, you have to walk on eggshells with them.

    For example, I sent a text to a friend which read "i'm testing a new font which only knobheads can read, hows it working for you" and he went bonkers, thought I was actually insulting him, everyone else just thought it was hilarious


    Some people are super sensitive and take everything personally


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  • #7
    tenchi-fan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭tenchi-fan


    DigiGal wrote: »
    I wouldn't but some people well, you have to walk on eggshells with them.

    For example, I sent a text to a friend which read "i'm testing a new font which only knobheads can read, hows it working for you" and he went bonkers, thought I was actually insulting him, everyone else just thought it was hilarious


    Some people are super sensitive and take everything personally

    I gave someone a sign saying "how to keep an idiot interested for hours PTO" on both sides..... she tore it up and said she was "never so insulted in all her life."

    She's a daft ***** though. She goes around telling people she's an accountant. She worked part-time as a self-employed book-keeper/receptionist for 3 different companies, and they all let her go because she tried to take them to court for holiday pay.


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