01-17-2006, 09:36 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| Irony
I'm in my fencing uniform, and I walk to a vending machine, I'm short 10 cents, so I ask the nearest bystander if he has a dime. The guy replies "No, I don't" "no problem, thanks anyway" he shoots off "why the **** do you need a dime anyway? You're a fencer, so you're rich, right?"
I wanted to shoot him then and there. 
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01-17-2006, 09:42 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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| Jerk. You need to heat up your epee and give him a good rogering. | |
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01-17-2006, 09:48 PM
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#3 | | No, your mom's a lemur
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| And beat him with the massive clip of hundred dollar bills in your pocket. | |
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01-17-2006, 09:49 PM
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#4 | | Incorruptible
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| Don't you mean stab him?
You can't fault people for their own ignorance. After all, 80% of the people on the planet are dumb as rocks.
You can however blame him for his atitude which is inappropriate regardless of knowledge. Perhaps you could have replied in a measured tone:
"And you're ignorant and rude, so you must have no one that loves you, right?"
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01-17-2006, 10:18 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
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| aww... poor DFP. People can be such jerks!
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01-17-2006, 10:24 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
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| wtf!?!? *******!
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01-17-2006, 10:25 PM
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#7 | | Question Game Queen
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| Ha ha. See, the point is that we're not rich, because we went and spent all our money on fencing gear! | |
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01-17-2006, 10:30 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
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| Is there even money in fencing at all as a sport??
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- I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my every move and plotting to beat me over the head with a large steel pipe and take my shoe | |
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01-17-2006, 10:33 PM
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#9 | | Question Game Queen
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| Yes. If you're really good. Or really clever and cunning, perhaps. Or like betting. | |
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01-17-2006, 10:33 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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| enough to make a living?
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- I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my every move and plotting to beat me over the head with a large steel pipe and take my shoe | |
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01-17-2006, 10:35 PM
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#11 | | Question Game Queen
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| Yes, just insert the adjective really: Really good at it, Really clever and cunning, Really good at betting. | |
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01-17-2006, 10:36 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
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| No no. The problem here is that the kid asked a total stranger for money. The stranger just said that out of annoyance to embarrass him. Nobody is rich or poor over a dime.
The value system these days just isn't the same as before. Before if you didn't have enough money for a soda you just went without. You don't ask/beg strangers for money, you don't make people feel sorry for you and you show people that you are in a rut. you handle it with some class and dignity.
If some kid came up to me and ask me for money I would refuse too out of principle.
All the folks that have replied so far seem not to understand. | |
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01-17-2006, 11:11 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
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| correct answer: "i WAS rich. then i started fencing..." | |
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01-17-2006, 11:12 PM
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#14 | | Senior Member
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| correct answer #2: oh...well, then, can you make change for a hundred? | |
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01-17-2006, 11:13 PM
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#15 | | Boom!
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Originally Posted by ReverseLunge If some kid came up to me and ask me for money I would refuse too out of principle. | Yeah, like that poor thirsty guy in the fencing uniform that asked you for ten cents recently?
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01-17-2006, 11:13 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
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| correct answer #3: "the problem is that i'm rich AND thirsty" | |
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01-17-2006, 11:48 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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| DFP got OWNED by the irony.
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01-18-2006, 12:03 AM
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#18 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Go? Fencing? Yes, just insert the adjective really: Really good at it, Really clever and cunning, Really good at betting. | Well, Baldrick would kick some serious *** at fencing then. | |
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01-18-2006, 12:07 AM
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#19 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by cornflower Well, Baldrick would kick some serious *** at fencing then. |
Erm.... who? 
And despite my low bank account balance, I usually spare whatever I can when I can. *shrugs*
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01-18-2006, 12:09 AM
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#20 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by JackOfHearts Erm.... who? | It's a BlackAdder reference... Baldrick always says, "I have a cunning plan." | |
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