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Well, of course, that's a very salient point....

  • 23-04-2014 3:45pm
    #1
    AskMyChocolate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭


    So, AHers,

    How do you deal with moronic, condescending pricks ?

    "Salient" is a top word.

    Salient! :pac:


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  • #2
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,656 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    AskMyChocolate wrote: »
    So, AHers,

    How do you deal with moronic, condescending pricks ?

    Sink to their level, usually...


  • #3
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    AskMyChocolate wrote: »
    How do you deal with moronic, condescending pricks ?

    Once you say "I'll definitely vote for you" they move on.


  • #4
    WinnyThePoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    Let them make fools of themselves. If you how they act other people will as well.


  • #5
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    I'd need to know who was actually right or correct first.


  • #6
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    The phrase "I take your point".


    What does that even mean? It's just filler and makes up 40% of Joe Duffy. The rest is "Y'know" and "Sure look".


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  • #7
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,696 ✭✭✭Lisha


    I just nod, smile a bit and then leave their company and forget all about them.

    Life is too short to be wound up by muppets.


  • #8
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    donvito99 wrote: »
    The phrase "I take your point".

    What does that even mean? It's just filler and makes up 40% of Joe Duffy. The rest is "Y'know" and "Sure look".

    It is no small thing said that you have said and if it is true for you then it is no lie you have told, but the truth.

    (Flann O'Brien, An Béal Bocht)


  • #9
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    Lisha wrote: »
    I just nod, smile a bit and then leave their company and forget all about them.

    Life is too short to be wound up by muppets.

    I see.


  • #10
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,081 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    What do you have against the word salient? It's perfectly cromulent


  • #11
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,696 ✭✭✭Lisha


    I Heart Internet wrote: »
    I see.




    Oouch


    I see......what you did there!


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  • #12
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    Lisha wrote: »
    Oouch


    I see......what you did there!

    Indeed.


  • #13
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    I Heart Internet wrote: »
    Indeed.

    Hmm.


  • #14
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    I use big words to confuse them. Big words like marmalade.


  • #15
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    I use big words to confuse them. Big words like marmalade.

    I concur


  • #16
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Using slightly less common words needn't be condescending....





    ...unless of course the poor little cherub reading your carefully constructed prose hasn't quite understood it and you have to help them out. Bless


  • #17
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    "Withdraw your statement" with dramatic effect or glove slap.


  • #18
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Salient? What a perfectly cromulent word!


  • #19
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    how congruent and insoucient


  • #20
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    When confronted by irritating, condescending people at work, I launch into "technical", which I do very well. Technical tends to shut up 99% of people pdq. I have proudly sent people e-mails that contained not a single word of BS but that were utterly incomprehensible to someone not grasping a dictionary and a users manual. I do good technical. I also do fast technical due to a motor-mouth. This is an asset.


  • #21
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,986 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I hear you.


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