Ways people play dumb when you make a good point!

SpitItOut · 25-05-2017 01:38PM #1

Do you ever notice how people are inclined to play dumb all of a sudden when you make a great point. It's like it's they're only way not to acknowledge it. But of course what annoys you is that you're not completely certain of it. Watch out for it! If you're amongst a group of people and you're about to make a good observation, (but your place in the hierarchy is low) all of a sudded you may notice someone bang a door or cough!

I noticed it just recently, after my father heard about a little dispute between me and a sibling of mine. He went to speak to me. I detected that his solution was basically to appease the other sibling (she can throw massive tantrums!). He said something like "I don't want that kind of stuff happening in future - look, it's really not a bid deal now is it?"

I then called a spade a spade and said "so you're saying I should appease her?" He looked at me as if he didn't know what I meant, and said "what?" I felt like saying "I know you know what appeasement means!" Perhaps he just wasn't expecting me to say that at that moment, but he certainly acted like he didn't get the point I made. He then restated what he already said, and I sarcastically replied "appeasement, appeasement, appeasement... I get it!" It was so ironic, giving that my dad passionately read out an article in the paper last week all about how RTE are appeasing Sinn Fein.

The other thing, is that hitting the nail on the head, can involve using big words! I was debating with a cretin recently, and ended up hitting the nail on the head, by saying "that's quite a euphemism now isn't it?" But of course being a cretin, he didn't know what a euphemism was! What do you do!

Sky King · 25-05-2017 01:43PM

Buh?

Boom_Bap · 25-05-2017 01:44PM

So does your sister like peas or what?

stimpson · 25-05-2017 01:45PM

School holidays already?

Kimbot · 25-05-2017 01:47PM

Seven....

KERSPLAT! · 25-05-2017 01:47PM

I don't play dumb.

jimgoose · 25-05-2017 01:48PM

Leave your sister alone or I'll slap your arse and send you up to bed.

Gavinz · 25-05-2017 01:49PM

You sound like a pain in the arse tbh.

Kimbot · 25-05-2017 01:49PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Leave your sister alone or I'll slap your her arse and send you up to bed.

FYP

ChikiChiki · 25-05-2017 01:50PM

What are you on about?

ScumLord · 25-05-2017 01:51PM

No, when I make a good point people press my belly button and their name appears below the point I just made.

And welcome to adulthood and noticing things.

bucketybuck · 25-05-2017 01:53PM

OP learned a few big words, lets all give him a big cheer!!!

koumi · 25-05-2017 01:53PM

my daughter told me to stop using big words op, because she said people will think I'm just trying to be smart. It actually worked and I try being much dumberer when I talk now.

Harry Angstrom · 25-05-2017 01:53PM

I hate it when people use sesquipedalian words.

andekwarhola · 25-05-2017 01:57PM

SpitItOut wrote: »

What do you do!

Get a paper round for the summer?

biko · 25-05-2017 01:58PM

I play smart instead.

jimgoose · 25-05-2017 02:00PM

biko wrote: »

I play smart instead.

Hell yeah. I think Smarter, not Harder.

wakka12 · 25-05-2017 02:08PM

Thought this post was gonna be by the eating breakfast kate guy

dub_skav · 25-05-2017 02:14PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

So does your sister like peas or what?

That's not what he ment

25-05-2017 02:14PM

I love it when a smart arse buck gets his knickers in a twist over his father telling him to grow the **** up and stop rowing with his sister.

I hate when said smart arse decides his father's words of wisdom and refusal to entertain cheek from his offspring results in internet posts which show that smart arse is petty and argumentative.

You think your old man is playing dumb? Ha!

SpitItOut · 25-05-2017 02:18PM

JayZeus wrote: »

I hate when said smart arse decides his father's words of wisdom and refusal to entertain cheek from his offspring results in internet posts which show that smart arse is petty and argumentative.

it aint wisdom if I can predict every word out of his mouth

Boom_Bap · 25-05-2017 02:24PM

dub_skav wrote: »

That's not what he ment

His sister is inventing a mint pea called 'A peas mint'?

c_man · 25-05-2017 02:25PM

When I was a teenager, I once masturbated to a picture of President McAleese in the RTE Guide.

koumi · 25-05-2017 02:26PM

the one post that always makes you unsubscribe

25-05-2017 02:34PM

c_man wrote: »

When I was a teenager, I once masturbated to a picture of President McAleese in the RTE Guide.

Jesus.

osarusan · 25-05-2017 02:39PM

Did this happen in the morning and is your sister called Kate?

Nabber · 25-05-2017 02:45PM

oP, what's a big word?

I can change the font to be bigger than yours thus making you a cretin

SpitItOut · 25-05-2017 02:48PM

osarusan wrote: »

Did this happen in the morning and is your sister called Kate?

what?

MayoAreMagic · 25-05-2017 02:58PM

SpitItOut wrote: »

He then restated what he already said, and I sarcastically replied "appeasement, appeasement, appeasement... I get it!"

Right or wrong, it is actually poor form that you would talk to your father like that. Respect for your elders is a sign of character you know. In times gone by, a solid shoe up the ar*e would have been administered for that kind of attitude, and a post like that makes you wonder why that isn't the case any more.

SpitItOut wrote: »

The other thing, is that hitting the nail on the head, can involve using big words! I was debating with a cretin recently, and ended up hitting the nail on the head, by saying "that's quite a euphemism now isn't it?" But of course being a cretin, he didn't know what a euphemism was! What do you do!

So what you are saying is you lacked the ability to get your message across?
Again, this kind of attitude reflects poorly on you. It also shows how much you have to learn. Don't be surprised when such 'cretins' achieve more than you do, while you are busy hitting the nail on the head... Bottom line, nobody else give a sh*t if you are right or not, if you act like an a**h*le doing it.

Now I appreciate you didn't ask for a life lesson, but I also appreciate how sorely you need one.

SpitItOut · 25-05-2017 03:08PM

MayoAreMagic wrote: »

Right or wrong, it is actually poor form that you would talk to your father like that. Respect for your elders is a sign of character you know. In times gone by, a solid shoe up the ar*e would have been administered for that kind of attitude, and a post like that makes you wonder why that isn't the case any more.

So what you are saying is you lacked the ability to get your message across?
Again, this kind of attitude reflects poorly on you. It also shows how much you have to learn. Don't be surprised when such 'cretins' achieve more than you do, while you are busy hitting the nail on the head... Bottom line, nobody else give a sh*t if you are right or not, if you act like an a**h*le doing it.

Now I appreciate you didn't ask for a life lesson, but I also appreciate how sorely you need one.

Moraliser! The best you can do is say the things you're expected to say. As usual, I can predict every word out of your mouth.

Everyone has respect for their elders by default. It doesn't t take courage to submit. That sort of attitude played a part in why the priests abused so many children.

And you wouldn't understand the relationship me and my dad have. I'll call him out on bull****. I'm not just going to let him win because he's old. Yes, many would let him win - but would they're thoughts actually be influenced by what he said? At least he knows where he stands with me.

Now you can come by to moralise & enjoy the likes your post will get, or you can put your ego aside & admit that you've learned something from me. After all, it's all anonymous here.

cml387 · 25-05-2017 03:17PM

Is your ego cashing cheques your body can't cash, by any chance?

Ways people play dumb when you make a good point!

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