• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    16 minutes ago

    My cat was hiding in a bush near my front door, peeping at me when I got home from work. I call her nasty names like goblin, creature, monster, and fatso all the time because she can’t understand me. I said to my cat “Whatchu looking at bitch?” And my neighbour looks up over the fence at me.

  • Okokimup@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    “Cigarette?”

    “Sure I’ll take one.”

    “I was talking to the cigarette. Cigarette . . . Prepare to be smoked.”

  • jonline@feddit.online
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    1 day ago

    One time in college Friend A was going to drive us someplace. She started the car and said, “You ready, baby?”

    Friend B in the front seat went, “…yeah?”

    Friend A snapped, “I was talking to the car”

    Dunno why I still think about that sometimes. Lost touch with those friends years ago.

    • Billegh@lemmy.world
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      54 minutes ago

      I knew someone that named their Ford probe “Vic,” so it could’ve been worse…

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      12 hours ago

      Maybe it’s just me, but any time a friend uses a pet name for their SO in my presence, I feel obligated to respond to it, because it will never not be funny. Like saying “that’s what she said.”

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      I wouldn’t be horrified, I would just be like “Oh I thought you were talking to me, ignore me!” with a small laugh

      Some people address people weirdly, imo it would be more awkward if it was turned and they were talking to you and you didn’t respond.

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          7 hours ago

          Look, if I am challenged to a game of horny chicken in public by a stranger then I am bound by oath to accept.

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          yea, just because they call you it doesn’t make it true, if it seems someone is talking to you, it isn’t awkward to reply to it but, if someone was talking to you and you ignore them, it just makes an already awkward situation more awkward. It’s much better to then respond to the person, then once realized it wasn’t to you, saying “oh I thought you were talking to me” and lightly laugh to indicate that it was in good faith/you took no offense/that it was a silly mistake.

          By not responding at all, if it turned out they /were/ talking to you, you are ignoring them, then when you do find out they were talking to you it would be even more awkward than if you just responded normally, and whats worse from that is, it would be awkwardness that you created by not replying instead of it being awkwardness that the other person created by calling you a thirsty little boy.

          In this case it would have worked out, since they wern’t talking to you in the first place, but… if they were talking to you then it would be hella awk ignoring them. And that’s ignoring that they’ll almost certainly try to address you again louder and potentially drawing more attention onto the situation.

          I don’t know, maybe I’m just looking way too far into it but, that’s my thought process.

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    17 hours ago

    *sip beer*
    I am, now that you’re here.
    *walk away before it fully registers*

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    24 hours ago

    Why would he be horrified? You’re the weird one, and it’s very funny.

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    I’m one of those people who feel disgusted if someone else drinks from their glass and I don’t let my dog drink from those public bowls. Like do you know how many other dogs drank from that bowl? They also eat poop and puke with that mouth.

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      23 hours ago

      Yes, but your dog eats poop and puke. I think they’d rather have the water…

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      I just wouldn’t because of the few horror stories I’ve heard in the news about people poisoning it. Even if it’s 1 in a million, it’s a risk I wouldn’t take. I’d bring my own water for the dog or buy one nearby.