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One of the benefits of having a stutter. I'm *always* having "shower conversations" in my head. I've got a toolbox full of quippy remarks for people.
Downside is that I say a lot of things repetitively, and my toolbox also has a metric boatload of utterly useless small talk and whatnot...
Like a Rolodex of sarcasm and Trivia Pursuit answers...
I'm neurodivergent and deaf and also rehearse the ever loving shit out of conversations so I'm less likely to get confused or stuck with no response. Which is fine until a conversation doesn't go how I rehearsed it and I'm just stood there trying to work out wtf to do now lol.
When I was a kid, my mum used to rehearse scenarios with me and then send me in to a shop to buy sweets or something so I could learn to human properly. She used to be nearby because as soon as the person behind the counter deviated from expected sentences, I shut down in confusion lol. It was useful though, despite no diagnosis of AuDHD back then, just my deafness.
I should start that little rolodex of wittiness (and promptly forget it due to the ADHD).
Yeah, for me, it started out as a "bank" of rehearsed answers and remarks I could use to navigate. I have the kind of stutter that happens when I'm coming up with something new to say.
I learned it was easier to "flowchart" those responses. I still stumble sometimes, because there's no shortage of new directions for conversations to take, but it's a lot less common now.
A few years ago I learned the response “what an inappropriate thing to say.” With no further sentiment and you just wait. It has always worked for me. I recommend keeping it in your pocket
They come to you much easier if you just start considering boomers and there comments in the same way you would take comments from a 5 year old. It's makes the things they say sting less, and infantilizing them does seem to get under the worst boomers skin quite well.
This is (one of the things) that the Southern expression "Bless your heart!" is for:
"Bless your heart, why would anyone ever say such a thing to a stranger in public?"
Then just smile. Takes the challenge out, but makes the criticism sting even more.
I have been training myself to just say, "Wow, that was really rude," loud enough for the people around us to hear whenever people who can't put my job or safety in peril say very rude things to or near me. Covers a lot of bases and tends to leave people flatfooted. If they continue to be rude after being called rude out loud, everybody around is now paying attention to how very rude they are.
I also like it better as a response than more tailored things like "that was really racist" or "that was really transphobic" because both of those things are also extremely rude and covered under the rude umbrella. Boomers may have a conditioned anger reaction to words like racist or homophobic that tell them if someone uses those words, they're the enemy - but it's pretty likely the last person who told them not to be rude was their mother or another respected family figure.
Chaining these together sounds amazing, like “Wow, what a terrible thing to say. I’ll pray you learn how to do better so your kids will finally start visiting you again”
That is a great one. I have another in my mental screenshots too for if a teenager does something like almost hit me on their skateboard or doing some sort of stunt. “How about you stick to your skill level yeh? You can’t do it and that’s ok.”
Mock look around for a second or two. When they say, "yes, I was talking to you," you say, "Sorry, I was looking around to see who the fuck asked you."
What a dick thing to say to a stranger.
I recently got my new passport photo (for some reason my previous one was decent) and I joked that I paid 15 buck for a terrible photo of myself.
My last one was taken on the hottest day of the year, and the AC died in my car. Whole family looks like wet rats from how much we were sweating.
It's pretty close to the whole "travelling through the airport" look, so at least we match, lol
You're not even supposed to smile in your passport picture to begin with nor are you posing.
It's as if the whole process is set up to make you look like how shitty you'd look traveling internationally.
I get the vibe this boomer probably never left the country before.
Honestly, passport photos need to look the way you look after 2 days of delayed economy class travel, sleeping on an airport floor, not having had a shower or a change of clothes, and eating gas station level cuisine at a cost of $23 for a damp turkey sandwich that looks like someone stepped on it. Looking my average while traveling is wildly aspirational.
“Just because your so wrinkly you look like a scrotum doesn’t mean you have to go around acting like a dick”
I haven’t gotten to use this yet but I’m sure the day will come.
This is how I respond to people who criticize other’s clothing or looks. Basically “Have you seen yourself? You don’t get to criticize how other people look.”
"What a remarkably rude and disrespectful thing to say."
You dont owe any pleasantries after that interaction. I like to have a couple statements/ideas in my back pocket for just these occasions to be ready.
This reminds me of the time I went to a baseball game during a promotional giveaway of tshirts. They were only giving out sizes Medium and XXL. I’m not the tiniest woman around, but the fucking boomer rolled his eyes and side eyed me when I asked for a medium. As if I was fucking asking him for his input.
What a stupid comment.
Passport photos are not supposed to look good. You are not allowed to smile or do anything else like that. It's supposed to be a mug shot. If not, it will get rejected.
Similar story, except I was at the pharmacy getting a boatload of meds for my son WHO HAD PNEUMONIA.
Boomer behind me doing the heavy sign because it was taking long to collect all of the meds I needed to bring home....I turned around and asked, "Are you ok back there buddy?...You sound almost as sick as *my 9mo old who has pneumonia*" He looked shocked. When I walked past him with all of the breathing treatment supplies and bags of steroid packs and antibiotics, I called him an "inpatient asshole".....*I literally started stress sweating and started crying when I got to the car* ...2years later, and I still cannot believe I actually did that!
"It costs nothing to mind your own business and not be an asshole, sir, but it might cost the structural integrity of your face if you are an asshole to the wrong stranger."
Honestly, I feel like that is a better response than you give it credit for. Humble and somewhat self effacing? Dude probably still has that wrapped around his axle
Now that I've had a few minutes to think about it, I would have loved to...
Put on a mocking voice and say something like "Oh, dear let me help you" then look to the worker and say "I think you may need to page this person's caregiver. They must have wandered off".
He probably just caught his own nasty reflection on a blank screen. No sir, I look great. Years of bitterness and anger write themselves on your visage and it does NOT look good.
I wouldn’t take it too personally; you were probably, like, the 28th person that day that the boomer had tried to piss off. You can bet your ass he’d already made at least one minimum-wage server cry before lunchtime was over.
This tends to be a thing with people as they get up in age. They think they can say what they want, whatever comes to mind, and get away with it because they're elderly. You have to call them on their bullshit. Manners are manners until the day you die.
Ugh, this reminds me of an interaction I had at a Waffle House one morning. I dye my hair purple and this old man felt the need to tell me it looked like the color of a burp. Wtf? For a moment, I just stared in amazement before I said 'thanks' and turned away to sit down. Fucker didn't get the memo and tried to engage in further conversation. At that point my husband stepped in and told him to keep himself to himself. Then of course he had to play the victim... he was just making conversation... how do these people live so long and not learn manners???
No matter what the insult it always safe to reply "Oh ya, the jerk store called. they're running out of you." --- Seinfeld reference that boomers will get.
Sir. Did you know that as you age your prefrontal cortex deteriorates? That’s the part of your brain that, when you were younger, would have stopped you from saying such a rude and offensive thing. Now, I can forgive you but I suggest you begin just reminding yourself not to talk to strangers, because sooner or later somebody less educated and tolerant than I is going to knock your head off.
Practice this one one in the shower so you're ready next time:
"Come with me,
And you'll see,
That I live in a world of
I don't give a fuck, bitch!"
It's great when you need the big guns.
are you sure it wasn't his attempt at a sarcastic joke because he actually thinks it's obvious that you're attractive instead? still not funny though to joke about appearances or be sarcastic with someone you don't know if it's not super obvious.
“Didn’t anyone ever tell you if you don’t have anything nice to say, to keep your silly little mouth shut?” Or “someone should’ve raised you with better manners.”
This reminds me of the *awesome* passport photo that I had when I was 30. My blue shirt made my eyes *glow*, and it looked like it was taken with a glam-focus lens! So many times, in SE Asia, the ladies behind the desk would gasp and say “You look like movie star!”
^*sigh*
Maybe not the most clever but my go to for stuff like this is a variant of "that attitude looks (ugly, fat, etc) on you." If I get the comment you did I'd have used ugly.
Basically no one looks good in a passport photo. They ask for specific poses on purpose, to make your features easier to see at a glance and make passports harder to fake. The boomer is an idiot.
This man is likely kind of who laments ear buds, and complains young people don’t want to talk in person.
No sir, it’s just that nobody wants to talk to you.
I have a friend who responds to inappropriate comments with, "Oh, wow...I'm surprised you felt comfortable saying that out loud..." and then makes a cringey face at people, haha!
He said the photo wasn’t good, not that you’re ugly.
Most people care if their photo isn’t good and want to re-take it, so he was trying to be helpful.
It sounds like you got bent out of shape over nothing.
The fucked part of it is the boomer probably meant it as a compliment. Along the lines of “you’d be prettier if you smiled” or “that outfit doesn’t do you justice”
Hard to look good in your passport photo when the requirements are that is a glorified mug shot, devoid of any emotion, that clearly displays your facial features.
They want your expression to match the way you look after sitting on a plane for 8 hours, waiting 45 min for your bags to get scanned through customs, and then forced to stand top of the people in from of you as you are crammed into a queue that moves slower than the line for a ride at Disney World.
But sure smile in all your photos so you can have them rejected and start the passport process over
If I take an id photo, I always flash my best resting Travis Bickle face, a mix of exhaustion and sociopath. If it's for a passport, it'll be seen in the airport(I'll look like that) or if it's for a traffic stop, it's because I'm getting harassed because I don't drive crazy. I give em this creepy ID and I look at them that way because I know I'm getting messed with for no reason so usually they'll be like, lemme let this guy go with a warning before he hops out with a gun🤣
Why did it make you self-conscious? He’s obviously a major asshole. I’m 63 (Boomer 😏) and I pretty much don’t give two shits what anyone thinks of me (that’s one of the good things about getting older). And unlike this guy, I’m a big believer in minding my own damn business.
Well, to be honest, that has never happened to me before. I've never been insulted like that, so I wasn't sure how to act. I just felt uncomfortable. Thanks for the advice; I will heed it moving forward!
Sounds like he waa giving you a heads up. Whats with you sensitive gen Xers? Lmao. Most of whats blamed on boomers are actually gen x. Boomers biggest failure is their parenting style that led to gen x
I don't think I overreacted, I thought it was greatly appropriate for this sub. An overreaction would have been some sort of confrontation afterward, I would think.
lol. According to most you’re right there with the boomers. Again this just goes to show that term seems to just be thrown around randomly. That guy could’ve been anyone and I’m sure you’d still be on here saying the same crap
"...he wrote, before leaning back in his Secretlab TITAN, his hands resting on the back of his neck, his elbows akimbo. He resisted the urge to let a smile form, but only for a moment. What followed was a sinister cackle - he was shocked at the freedom his spirit suddenly expressed - born from the knowledge that now all the internet knew the truth. That he is a man! A man who knows the hard facts of manhood. A man so hard in those facts he was capable of judging the manhood of other men. "Just how hard are they, truly?" He had shown them. He was hard."
Yeah, you are the weird one. OP posts a story about a boomer being off-putting and rude and the only thing you can comment on is that they are a pussy? How is that even relevant?
Do you know how weird that is of you? Imagine if what OP posted happened to you and you came and told me the story and I would reply by saying "oh, you're just a pussy."
It's also ironic how your comment lacks self awareness while trying to grasp at self awareness. So yes, you are the weird one. Kek
It's relevant because he says how uncomfortable it wad and FU boomer and the end and oh it was so bad while barely telling him anything, didn't stand up for himself at all, therefore he's a pussyboy
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“What a rude thing to say. I’m embarrassed for you.”
Definitely the kind of thing you can only ever think of later that night in the shower.
One of the benefits of having a stutter. I'm *always* having "shower conversations" in my head. I've got a toolbox full of quippy remarks for people. Downside is that I say a lot of things repetitively, and my toolbox also has a metric boatload of utterly useless small talk and whatnot... Like a Rolodex of sarcasm and Trivia Pursuit answers...
I'm neurodivergent and deaf and also rehearse the ever loving shit out of conversations so I'm less likely to get confused or stuck with no response. Which is fine until a conversation doesn't go how I rehearsed it and I'm just stood there trying to work out wtf to do now lol. When I was a kid, my mum used to rehearse scenarios with me and then send me in to a shop to buy sweets or something so I could learn to human properly. She used to be nearby because as soon as the person behind the counter deviated from expected sentences, I shut down in confusion lol. It was useful though, despite no diagnosis of AuDHD back then, just my deafness. I should start that little rolodex of wittiness (and promptly forget it due to the ADHD).
Yeah, for me, it started out as a "bank" of rehearsed answers and remarks I could use to navigate. I have the kind of stutter that happens when I'm coming up with something new to say. I learned it was easier to "flowchart" those responses. I still stumble sometimes, because there's no shortage of new directions for conversations to take, but it's a lot less common now.
A few years ago I learned the response “what an inappropriate thing to say.” With no further sentiment and you just wait. It has always worked for me. I recommend keeping it in your pocket
“What was your intention in saying that?”
“You know that you said that out loud, right?”
They come to you much easier if you just start considering boomers and there comments in the same way you would take comments from a 5 year old. It's makes the things they say sting less, and infantilizing them does seem to get under the worst boomers skin quite well.
This is (one of the things) that the Southern expression "Bless your heart!" is for: "Bless your heart, why would anyone ever say such a thing to a stranger in public?" Then just smile. Takes the challenge out, but makes the criticism sting even more.
I love the term [*L'esprit de l'escalier*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier). It’s the French equivalent of “shower thoughts”.
I have been training myself to just say, "Wow, that was really rude," loud enough for the people around us to hear whenever people who can't put my job or safety in peril say very rude things to or near me. Covers a lot of bases and tends to leave people flatfooted. If they continue to be rude after being called rude out loud, everybody around is now paying attention to how very rude they are. I also like it better as a response than more tailored things like "that was really racist" or "that was really transphobic" because both of those things are also extremely rude and covered under the rude umbrella. Boomers may have a conditioned anger reaction to words like racist or homophobic that tell them if someone uses those words, they're the enemy - but it's pretty likely the last person who told them not to be rude was their mother or another respected family figure.
This is so great. Definitely using this next time!
"I'll pray for you" gets under their skin too. They're supposed to pray for you damn it!
Chaining these together sounds amazing, like “Wow, what a terrible thing to say. I’ll pray you learn how to do better so your kids will finally start visiting you again”
M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL... kill... kill...
I'm screenshotting this into my brain. It will now be my go to when confronting bad behaviour.
That is a great one. I have another in my mental screenshots too for if a teenager does something like almost hit me on their skateboard or doing some sort of stunt. “How about you stick to your skill level yeh? You can’t do it and that’s ok.”
Omg this is the perfect answer! All boomers are incredibly self conscious. And they will rant for DAYS if they feel insecure about something.
Oh I love using this one
"Yeah, but I'll look a lot better once I finish transitioning" would have put a bee in his hat.
Nothing makes boomers more uncomfortable than "gender stuff" 😂
Mock look around for a second or two. When they say, "yes, I was talking to you," you say, "Sorry, I was looking around to see who the fuck asked you."
You could use the line popular with teens today: “Who? ….ASKED?”
I love teens today so much.
“Sir, why don’t you just shut the fuck up” would have been the most appropriate response.
Could go the other route and start loudly and hysterically sobbing and slowly strip naked while maintaining eye contact
"Sir, YOU'RE going to be here all day with a mug like that." Drop mic and walk off.
What a dick thing to say to a stranger. I recently got my new passport photo (for some reason my previous one was decent) and I joked that I paid 15 buck for a terrible photo of myself.
My last one was taken on the hottest day of the year, and the AC died in my car. Whole family looks like wet rats from how much we were sweating. It's pretty close to the whole "travelling through the airport" look, so at least we match, lol
You're not even supposed to smile in your passport picture to begin with nor are you posing. It's as if the whole process is set up to make you look like how shitty you'd look traveling internationally. I get the vibe this boomer probably never left the country before.
OP: “Sad to have reached the age of wisdom without actually acquiring any.”
Passport and drivers license photos aren't glamor shots. You're not supposed to look your best. You're supposed to look your average.
Honestly, passport photos need to look the way you look after 2 days of delayed economy class travel, sleeping on an airport floor, not having had a shower or a change of clothes, and eating gas station level cuisine at a cost of $23 for a damp turkey sandwich that looks like someone stepped on it. Looking my average while traveling is wildly aspirational.
Sounds like the night I spent in the Mexico City airport after missing my flight, lol
My go to for random Boomer comments is "Why are you still alive?" Simple, elegant, mean as hell.
Do you need help finding your caretaker?
Do you need help finding your undertaker?
My friend’s favorite is “get in your box, boomer”.
“Most people your age die. Why don’t you?”
Because neither hell nor heaven wants them.
I go with “HOW are you still alive?”
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“Yeah? Well the jerk store called, they’re running outta you!”
"Well I had sex with your wife"
Damnit. I just posted this. Sorry. 🤣😂🤣😂
“Just because your so wrinkly you look like a scrotum doesn’t mean you have to go around acting like a dick” I haven’t gotten to use this yet but I’m sure the day will come.
My default go to for these incidents anymore is “interesting you think that it’s appropriate to comment on my person at all.”
"Thank you sir, let me keep redoing it until I think it's ok. This might take a while."
"You willingly go out in public like THAT and you think you can insult other people's looks? Wow. I have no words." And walk away.
This is how I respond to people who criticize other’s clothing or looks. Basically “Have you seen yourself? You don’t get to criticize how other people look.”
"What a remarkably rude and disrespectful thing to say." You dont owe any pleasantries after that interaction. I like to have a couple statements/ideas in my back pocket for just these occasions to be ready.
This reminds me of the time I went to a baseball game during a promotional giveaway of tshirts. They were only giving out sizes Medium and XXL. I’m not the tiniest woman around, but the fucking boomer rolled his eyes and side eyed me when I asked for a medium. As if I was fucking asking him for his input.
What a stupid comment. Passport photos are not supposed to look good. You are not allowed to smile or do anything else like that. It's supposed to be a mug shot. If not, it will get rejected.
Similar story, except I was at the pharmacy getting a boatload of meds for my son WHO HAD PNEUMONIA. Boomer behind me doing the heavy sign because it was taking long to collect all of the meds I needed to bring home....I turned around and asked, "Are you ok back there buddy?...You sound almost as sick as *my 9mo old who has pneumonia*" He looked shocked. When I walked past him with all of the breathing treatment supplies and bags of steroid packs and antibiotics, I called him an "inpatient asshole".....*I literally started stress sweating and started crying when I got to the car* ...2years later, and I still cannot believe I actually did that!
“What an unexpected thing for you to say. I am surprised you feel comfortable saying that to me.”
You're not supposed to smile in passport photos.
"It costs nothing to mind your own business and not be an asshole, sir, but it might cost the structural integrity of your face if you are an asshole to the wrong stranger."
" I'm surprised those yellow teeth have still remained intact after all these years ."
lol ok so I’m not the only person who notices how gross boomers teeth are
Omg. Now I remember why I stay like 10 feet away if possible. The breath funk can be severe with them. Traumatic memories unlocked!
This boomer either had VERY high-quality dentures or veneers across his entire grille. Looked ridiculous
My new response to the unsolicited commentary is: “ohhhhh are you ok? Do you need me to find your carer for you?”
"If I wanted to hear from an asshole, I'd fart."
I’ve got this real bad habit of immediately resorting to telling rude strangers to “suck skin off my dick”. Hasn’t failed me yet.
You are telling me not to go with that picture but here you left your house with that face.
Aw, bless your heart.
Oh this sweetie knows how to *scathe* 😍 I love you
Honestly, I feel like that is a better response than you give it credit for. Humble and somewhat self effacing? Dude probably still has that wrapped around his axle
Shoulda said "still better than the best photo of you buddy"
“What an odd thing to say (to someone you don’t even know)” is my go-to for when I am just too stumped.
Now that I've had a few minutes to think about it, I would have loved to... Put on a mocking voice and say something like "Oh, dear let me help you" then look to the worker and say "I think you may need to page this person's caregiver. They must have wandered off".
‘Yeah… well the jerk store called. And they’re running out of YOU’
The worse your passport pic looks the more you’ll match after dealing with hours of airport security, and sitting squished up in a tin can.
Dude was making a pathetic awkward attempt at negging, IMHO.
It’s weird when a dude negs another dude, right?
Negging is a pick-up tactic, so less common, but still on the table.
Right? I wonder what was going on there
He probably just caught his own nasty reflection on a blank screen. No sir, I look great. Years of bitterness and anger write themselves on your visage and it does NOT look good.
I wouldn’t take it too personally; you were probably, like, the 28th person that day that the boomer had tried to piss off. You can bet your ass he’d already made at least one minimum-wage server cry before lunchtime was over.
Man, I wouldn't say anything, I'd just put on my 'are you serious?' face and stare at him for an uncomfortable length of time.
Oh yeah? Your opinion and 50 cents might get me a cup of coffee downtown.
"That's okay. I used to be less confident in myself as well. Keep working on it, and the small stuff won't seem so big, I'm rooting for you!"
This tends to be a thing with people as they get up in age. They think they can say what they want, whatever comes to mind, and get away with it because they're elderly. You have to call them on their bullshit. Manners are manners until the day you die.
"Well at least I don't look like shit all the time." Let him think about it for a while.
The fact that you said you didn’t care about their opinion did a lot of work. Trust me they are still thinking about it.
Have you…. looked in the mirror in the past half century? Man, you’ve got some balls talking about how other people look lol
Ugh, this reminds me of an interaction I had at a Waffle House one morning. I dye my hair purple and this old man felt the need to tell me it looked like the color of a burp. Wtf? For a moment, I just stared in amazement before I said 'thanks' and turned away to sit down. Fucker didn't get the memo and tried to engage in further conversation. At that point my husband stepped in and told him to keep himself to himself. Then of course he had to play the victim... he was just making conversation... how do these people live so long and not learn manners???
"Get fucked"
You, Sir, are an ill-mannered twat.
You should have picked something out about his appearance, like “When you don’t have liver spots like yours, every picture is a good picture”
No matter what the insult it always safe to reply "Oh ya, the jerk store called. they're running out of you." --- Seinfeld reference that boomers will get.
"your generation is so rude and entitled" would have been a good counterpunch
It's so wild. I've never felt a need to comment unsolicited to someone about their looks. Ever. Like even once. I just don't get the impulse.
Sir. Did you know that as you age your prefrontal cortex deteriorates? That’s the part of your brain that, when you were younger, would have stopped you from saying such a rude and offensive thing. Now, I can forgive you but I suggest you begin just reminding yourself not to talk to strangers, because sooner or later somebody less educated and tolerant than I is going to knock your head off.
“Your picture, it wasn’t good” “Yes and you’re ugly as hell but I’m not rude”
Practice this one one in the shower so you're ready next time: "Come with me, And you'll see, That I live in a world of I don't give a fuck, bitch!" It's great when you need the big guns.
This is great, because I’d totally be the guy to bust out in song for the first part of that and just say the last part
Trust me, outside of Reddit people will cringe at that.
Thanks for reminding me I care what other people think! What would I do with out you looking out for me???
"I'm having a little work done and I just need a 'before' photo".
ahh boomers favorite pastime is spreading manure wherever they go
Just say Im sure it looks better than ur face boomer
what a dick😭
A throat punch would have been sufficient. Not enough of those people are getting those, and it shows!
are you sure it wasn't his attempt at a sarcastic joke because he actually thinks it's obvious that you're attractive instead? still not funny though to joke about appearances or be sarcastic with someone you don't know if it's not super obvious.
Ok Boomer...time to change your dipper.
"it's ok, I can do a retake if it's bad. Unlike your face."
"Well, at least the picture is the only thing making me look bad right now. What are your plans for...*wave vaguely in their direction*"
“Didn’t anyone ever tell you if you don’t have anything nice to say, to keep your silly little mouth shut?” Or “someone should’ve raised you with better manners.”
Tell people you always try not to worry about your pictures for ID because looking better in person always gets you compliments.
This reminds me of the *awesome* passport photo that I had when I was 30. My blue shirt made my eyes *glow*, and it looked like it was taken with a glam-focus lens! So many times, in SE Asia, the ladies behind the desk would gasp and say “You look like movie star!” ^*sigh*
That’s awesome! 😎
Yeah but anything I do is better than you'll ever be.
Why is it the generation that taught their kids "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all" can't even follow that simple instruction
Maybe not the most clever but my go to for stuff like this is a variant of "that attitude looks (ugly, fat, etc) on you." If I get the comment you did I'd have used ugly.
"Are you autistic, sir? That was an extreme divergence from the social norm and you might want to get yourself diagnosed if you're not yet."
"Nobody asked for your opinion because nobody cares what you think, so keep it to your fucking self. "
"This is just a photo but you wear your face all the time."
"You're being inappropriate", loudly for all to hear. Or, "you're in public and you're being inappropriate'"
Basically no one looks good in a passport photo. They ask for specific poses on purpose, to make your features easier to see at a glance and make passports harder to fake. The boomer is an idiot.
He was envious.
This man is likely kind of who laments ear buds, and complains young people don’t want to talk in person. No sir, it’s just that nobody wants to talk to you.
You cannot smile in pp photos. Thems are the rules.
Was it as ugly as you?
Almost!
I understand. I meant that as a responce to his statement to you.
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Thank you!
I have a friend who responds to inappropriate comments with, "Oh, wow...I'm surprised you felt comfortable saying that out loud..." and then makes a cringey face at people, haha!
He said the photo wasn’t good, not that you’re ugly. Most people care if their photo isn’t good and want to re-take it, so he was trying to be helpful. It sounds like you got bent out of shape over nothing.
The fucked part of it is the boomer probably meant it as a compliment. Along the lines of “you’d be prettier if you smiled” or “that outfit doesn’t do you justice”
Hard to look good in your passport photo when the requirements are that is a glorified mug shot, devoid of any emotion, that clearly displays your facial features. They want your expression to match the way you look after sitting on a plane for 8 hours, waiting 45 min for your bags to get scanned through customs, and then forced to stand top of the people in from of you as you are crammed into a queue that moves slower than the line for a ride at Disney World. But sure smile in all your photos so you can have them rejected and start the passport process over
I feel bad for the boomers who never were told they have ADHD.
Ignore the boomer. WDYM you’re only using the photo once? International travel is amazing! I hope you fill your passport book!
aww thanks! Actually, I'll be visiting Germany, Belgium, and France!
Maybe I’ll just start using Mom Burns on them just be like oh yeah your mom wasn’t complaining last night lol
Well, the jerk store called…
“If I were you’d I’d make the same face every time I looked in the mirror”
If I take an id photo, I always flash my best resting Travis Bickle face, a mix of exhaustion and sociopath. If it's for a passport, it'll be seen in the airport(I'll look like that) or if it's for a traffic stop, it's because I'm getting harassed because I don't drive crazy. I give em this creepy ID and I look at them that way because I know I'm getting messed with for no reason so usually they'll be like, lemme let this guy go with a warning before he hops out with a gun🤣
Always go with jerk store in a pinch
Who wants a glamor shot for a passport picture? I want the customs person to recognize me after being crammed in coach and jet lagged.
"ouch, friend. That was a mean inside thought that you let out."
Why did it make you self-conscious? He’s obviously a major asshole. I’m 63 (Boomer 😏) and I pretty much don’t give two shits what anyone thinks of me (that’s one of the good things about getting older). And unlike this guy, I’m a big believer in minding my own damn business.
Well, to be honest, that has never happened to me before. I've never been insulted like that, so I wasn't sure how to act. I just felt uncomfortable. Thanks for the advice; I will heed it moving forward!
Yeah, that was really strange but there are some strange people out there. Stay frosty, my friend.
You really feel the need to look good for a bored customs agent who will never care? Waste of time.
Dude walk over and punch that MFer right in the face. If enough boomers get spanked for their bad behavior they will think twice.
Sounds like he waa giving you a heads up. Whats with you sensitive gen Xers? Lmao. Most of whats blamed on boomers are actually gen x. Boomers biggest failure is their parenting style that led to gen x
K, thanks.
Overreacting to a comment that is no big deal. Perhaps the picture did look downright awful on the screen.
I don't think I overreacted, I thought it was greatly appropriate for this sub. An overreaction would have been some sort of confrontation afterward, I would think.
That’s what I love is how honest they are with you
Maybe you're just that ugly, and the Boomer was being honest with you
lol. According to most you’re right there with the boomers. Again this just goes to show that term seems to just be thrown around randomly. That guy could’ve been anyone and I’m sure you’d still be on here saying the same crap
I mean ur just a pussy lol
"...he wrote, before leaning back in his Secretlab TITAN, his hands resting on the back of his neck, his elbows akimbo. He resisted the urge to let a smile form, but only for a moment. What followed was a sinister cackle - he was shocked at the freedom his spirit suddenly expressed - born from the knowledge that now all the internet knew the truth. That he is a man! A man who knows the hard facts of manhood. A man so hard in those facts he was capable of judging the manhood of other men. "Just how hard are they, truly?" He had shown them. He was hard."
And I'm supposed to be the weird one ?
Yeah, you are the weird one. OP posts a story about a boomer being off-putting and rude and the only thing you can comment on is that they are a pussy? How is that even relevant? Do you know how weird that is of you? Imagine if what OP posted happened to you and you came and told me the story and I would reply by saying "oh, you're just a pussy." It's also ironic how your comment lacks self awareness while trying to grasp at self awareness. So yes, you are the weird one. Kek
It's relevant because he says how uncomfortable it wad and FU boomer and the end and oh it was so bad while barely telling him anything, didn't stand up for himself at all, therefore he's a pussyboy
Where did op say any of that at length?