What I really need to do is purge whatever remaining delusional fantasy I have that I’ll be able to understand you people. That’s real point I’ve gleamed from this conversation.
In this instance, sure. But I don’t know if he’s a total dick. He probably is, but who cares? Everyone else is too.
It seems like you care quite a bit actually.
I care about the hypocrisy of people’s reaction to this ludicrous story. That doesn’t mean I care about the people in the story.
In this instance, sure. But I don’t know if he’s a total dick. He probably is, but who cares? Everyone else is too.
It definitely makes him a dick. If I’ve ever made a similar joke that makes me a dick too, especially if I did it to someone’s face.
I don’t understand the desire to judge a person based entirely on one relatively small offense.
Yes, of course you can.
so, i guess my attempt to avoid pages of this by agreeing that sometimes i find mean things funny, did not work.
i’ll take that into consideration in the future. MFM, please, continue to vent.
I’ll not be taking your inability to scroll past some posts into consideration in the future.
Writing a person’s name in “stutter” is clever? What world am I even living in?
But yeah just sounds like you are bitter.
I don’t understand why you would refuse to acknowledge that there’s a tiny bit of humor in this story. Even if you don’t think it’s funny, I don’t get why it’s so shocking to you that this pointless, waste-of-time story might make someone chuckle a little bit in spite of the fact that it’s about a mean barista. But yeah, sure, I’m bitter. I don’t like it when people pretend to care about other people. I’d rather just admit that they don’t care, because I always respect honesty more than moralizing bullshit.
Just because the barista was trying to make a joke doesn’t make it funny, it just makes him a dick.
Well, funny is subjective.
Yet you seem to be really worked up that Frink won’t admit there’s some “humor” to the joke.
I’m worked up that he’s acting as though it’s unreasonable or immoral that I saw some humor in the situation.
And just because you don’t care about anyone else doesn’t mean everyone else feels the same way.
I do care about some other people. I didn’t say that you people don’t care about anyone. I don’t believe any of you really care about the people in this story, though.
There are levels to caring. I care insofar as the barista’s a dick and I feel kinda bad for the stutter guy. It’s not a big tragedy or whatever, but it still sucks. Don’t see what’s unbelievable about that.
Sure. I can relate to the stutter guy. I also chuckled a little bit. It’s also kind of funny when a kid falls off his bike. That doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s sucks that he scraped his knee.
Writing a person’s name in “stutter” is clever? What world am I even living in?
But yeah just sounds like you are bitter.
I don’t understand why you would refuse to acknowledge that there’s a tiny bit of humor in this story. Even if you don’t think it’s funny, I don’t get why it’s so shocking to you that this pointless, waste-of-time story might make someone chuckle a little bit in spite of the fact that it’s about a mean barista. But yeah, sure, I’m bitter. I don’t like it when people pretend to care about other people. I’d rather just admit that they don’t care, because I always respect honesty more than moralizing bullshit.
Just because the barista was trying to make a joke doesn’t make it funny, it just makes him a dick.
Does it really make him a dick? Are you really going to tell me that you’ve never once in your life been mean to someone else? Are you a dick? Are you a “terrible person” as Frink put it? (Speaking of Frink, I’ve seen him be pretty mean to people on this forum. I don’t think he’s a terrible person because of it.) For all we know, which is nothing other than that some guy got made fun of at Starbucks, this barista is a totally fucking pleasant person that maybe just made a poor joke because he was miserable at his shitty, degrading customer-service job. Maybe he’s a really mean dude, but perhaps he’s really charitable and spends his time volunteering at homeless shelters and helping people. Would he be a terrible person or a dick then? Maybe he really is just a giant pile of sub-human shit that no one would miss if he died tomorrow. We don’t fucking know. Maybe Sam, the customer, was really mean to the barista. Or maybe he’s the nicest guy in the world. We don’t fucking know. It’s not like the barista poured dish soap in the guy’s drink. It’s not like I’m laughing at someone for getting run over. I’m not even laughing at anyone, really. I just thought it was a kind of funny story. This is one of the reasons why I avoid other people. You can’t even chuckle at some distant, inconsequential event anymore without people finding it upsetting.
I mean everyone else on the planet.
Writing a person’s name in “stutter” is clever? What world am I even living in?
But yeah just sounds like you are bitter.
I don’t understand why you would refuse to acknowledge that there’s a tiny bit of humor in this story. Even if you don’t think it’s funny, I don’t get why it’s so shocking to you that this pointless, waste-of-time story might make someone chuckle a little bit in spite of the fact that it’s about a mean barista. But yeah, sure, I’m bitter. I don’t like it when people pretend to care about other people. I’d rather just admit that they don’t care, because I always respect honesty more than moralizing bullshit.
Just because the barista was trying to make a joke doesn’t make it funny, it just makes him a dick.
Well, funny is subjective.
And just because you don’t care about anyone else doesn’t mean everyone else feels the same way.
I do care about some other people. I didn’t say that you people don’t care about anyone. I don’t believe any of you really care about the people in this story, though.
Writing a person’s name in “stutter” is clever? What world am I even living in?
But yeah just sounds like you are bitter.
He just said the story gave him a slight chuckle. He didn’t say he was having schadenfreude over it. You yourself tend to not take seriously things that some people think you should.
It’s okay when he does it.
I actually kind of like this barista, to be honest. At least we all know how much of an asshole he is. Everyone else pretends to be a decent person, but at least this fucker is a proud pile of garbage unlike everyone else.
You definitely have taken a moral high-ground on this. I don’t know why, but you have.
Writing a person’s name in “stutter” is clever? What world am I even living in?
But yeah just sounds like you are bitter.
I don’t understand why you would refuse to acknowledge that there’s a tiny bit of humor in this story. Even if you don’t think it’s funny, I don’t get why it’s so shocking to you that this pointless, waste-of-time story might make someone chuckle a little bit in spite of the fact that it’s about a mean barista. But yeah, sure, I’m bitter. I don’t like it when people pretend to care about other people. I’d rather just admit that they don’t care, because I always respect honesty more than moralizing bullshit.
I wasn’t making a point. Not intentionally anyway.
Anyway, here’s a story that actually matters, unlike mean baristas. I’m not laughing at this one:
https://newrepublic.com/article/149280/military-drinking-water-crisis-white-house-tried-hide
I knew a guy who wasn’t allowed to call them “deviled eggs.” There were “angeled eggs.”
Oh my God, that’s embarrassing.
Y’all have had national healthcare for seventy years?
I mean, uhhh, I sure am glad America doesn’t have commiecare like you! Freedom is the freedom to die because I don’t have enough money!
Get to Canada mate - or ask questions of your elected official(s) as to why he/she isn’t for such a thing…
Our elected officials don’t care about what their constituencies want.
I’m not the least bit surprised. That kind of religiosity isn’t uncommon at all in the United States.
Seriously I don’t get it. Are you laughing at the barista for being a terrible person?
I chuckled because it was kind of clever and it just struck me as amusing. Mean people can say funny things sometimes too. Maybe I’m just bitter because I have a mild speech impediment and everyone made fun of me, much less creatively, and I never got a fucking news story because no one pretended to care. I just thought it was kind of amusing. I also find it kind of funny that it’s even in this thread since it has no political relevance at all.
i find things funny that i shouldn’t sometimes, because i am human.
Yes, thank you! For fuck’s sake, I’m glad someone can acknowledge that!
Satanism is awesome.
Are you really going to pretend that you’ve never once found something like this a little funny? You’re really going to pretend that you’re above chuckling a little bit at the expense of someone else? Really? Seriously? Because if so, I don’t believe you. And I said that I thought it was “kind of” funny. I said I chuckled. I didn’t say I laughed hysterically at how this guy got made fun of. I just admitted that it made me chuckle a little, because this story is so absurd and it seems like something straight out of an episode of Seinfeld.
I think it is. I really doubt that anyone is actually disgusted by this. I don’t get what’s so evil about chuckling a little at the story. I didn’t even say I condoned it. I just said I thought it was kind of funny.
I didn’t even say that I condoned making fun of some person at Starbucks, I just admitted that the story was kind of funny. And yes, it is phony. I don’t believe that anyone other than the guy that got made fun of is actually disturbed by this pointless, ludicrous story.
I thought it was funny. Sue me.
There’s no way that I’m the only person on the planet that looked at that receipt and thought it was a little funny. I’m so sick of people’s phony purity of heart.
Build that wall!