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Taking people's questions literally

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  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    Okay well leaving the past behind, basing my entire opinion on this thread alone I would say you are overly aggressive with people for no reason
    You can't tell that based on written words. I don't think aggressive is the word you're looking for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,091 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Colser wrote: »
    Does my bum look big in this?

    In this what? In this room?

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,383 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Esel wrote: »
    Colser wrote: »
    Does my bum look big in this?

    In this what? In this room?

    This reality


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


    Birneybau wrote: »
    This reality

    The answer is always always "no!".....



















    Or "I'm eating my breakfast Kate"


  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Or "I'm eating my breakfast Kate"
    Oh for goodness sake. That's it, I'm changing her name!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


    paralysed wrote: »
    Oh for goodness sake. That's it, I'm changing her name!

    Who pissed in your all bran!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Is this a quiz?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Birneybau wrote: »
    What's going on here then?

    I'm eating my breakfast Kate


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,965 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    Water John wrote: »
    Bran was Setanta's dog.

    And they ate him? :eek:

    That bit was cut out of the story when I learnt it at school.



    At least once a month I get a text from my best friend: "How are are things ...?" I've never answered because I thought it'd be impolite to butt in before he finished his question. :rolleyes:


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  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Shannon757 wrote: »
    I'm eating my breakfast Kate
    yer all so immature... really annoying.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    paralysed wrote: »
    yer all so immature... really annoying.

    Ah leave it out, we're only young


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭DanMurphy


    paralysed wrote: »
    yer all so immature... really annoying.

    Apologies Paralysed, guess I'm the worst culprit.
    I should have went back to bed.
    ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    ''please, can you stop, put the knife dow-''

    ''I'm brutally killing you for disturbing my breakfast kate''


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,899 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    I quite fancy that Kate one off Food Unwrapped.


  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    indioblack wrote: »
    My post was not to be taken literally - as per the op!
    ah yeah


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  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    I can't believe I forgot - the most annoying ones:

    "do you drink?"
    "why don't you drink?"
    "what's your star sign?"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    paralysed wrote: »
    I can't believe I forgot - the most annoying one: "do you drink?" or "why don't you drink?"

    "Why dont you drink?"

    "Jaysis, because I'm having my breakfast Kate!!!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    How did Kate get into the house btw?


  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Ted111 wrote: »
    How did Kate get into the house btw?
    get lost


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  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    "Would you ever consider getting married?" - "I hope this isn't the first of many times u'll ask me that"

    "are you excited?" - 'I don't think of it that way'

    "Did you steal it?" - 'your question makes it seem like it's a possibility'


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 171 ✭✭Gavinz


    Kate sounds like great craic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    She's no Helen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    paralysed wrote: »
    Isn't it amazing how stupid you can look if you take a silly or patronising question at face value? Do you think it's often best to answer a question with a question? or else address the reason you think they're asking it.

    For example, years ago when I'd no place to park and I moved some cones outside a house on the street that were blocking a space. The house owner obviously wanted that space for himself. When I came back that night, he came out and said "what do you think I put those cones there for?" Know what I mean? I'd of looked pretty stupid if I answered the question. I replied "what da ya think I moved them for?"

    Another example I've come across... in front of everyone this arrogant woman asked "are you happy to see your sister (who I don't get on with) back from Australia again?" I managed to reply "ohh happy isn't the word!" But gee, the fcuking b1tch had the nerve to put me on the spot like that!

    I recently I had an neighbour (Helen) come in the door when I was eating all bran for breakfast. She asked "are you on the all bran John?" Instead of just saying 'yes', I replied "I'm eating my breakfast Helen" as if to make her question seem annoying and redundant. I'm not a bloody zoo animal after all! And there's nothing more annoying than being asked a question when you know they've their mind made up as to what the answer is. To this I often just say "which answer will shut you up faster?"

    Another one I certainly hate is "are you excited?" It's a bit of a double edged sword. Isn't that a question that girls ask each other? Can't think of many such questions now, but ones such as these below (some which I found my way out of) can be just bloody well annoying:

    "And what was your job in preparing the xmas dinner?" with the family listening - "to sit back and give them the pleasure of serving me!"

    When in a noisy bar, a fella asks "so tell me what would you do at work on a daily basis" - "as little as possible" that shut him up!

    "Why did you decide to wear that?" - "is it making you uncomfortable?"

    When the salesman was making his pitch "you'd be happy to save money, right?"

    After making my pitch as a salesman, the lady asked "and then will I be satisfied?"

    "Did you get your father a present for his birthday?"

    "Will you miss me?"

    "How old are you?"

    "You're a smart young man right?"

    Urgh, how do I reply to this post to make it seem annoying and redundant?

    I'M EATING MY BREAKFAST PARALYSED!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    I think Katherine Zappone might just be paralyzed.


    Who did you tell Minister?
    I'm eating my breakfast.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,357 ✭✭✭✭SteelyDanJalapeno


    Has anybody got a number for Kate?

    Are you finished with that cup?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    A bunch of men chatting at the dinner table during the harvest here maybe 60 yrs ago. One of the lads lost his father in the preceeding year. Someone raises the subject.
    "You buried your father since we were here last Jim"
    Jim replies,
    "Yerrah yeah, sher we had to do something with him when he died."


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The problem is that the OP is obsessed with what he sees as people being condescending to him. It underlines all his threads.

    You spend too much time thinking about peoples motives OP.


  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    This is more the response I want
    A bunch of men chatting at the dinner table during the harvest here maybe 60 yrs ago. One of the lads lost his father in the preceeding year. Someone raises the subject.
    "You buried your father since we were here last Jim"
    Jim replies,
    "Yerrah yeah, sher we had to do something with him when he died."
    Was it made in a disrespectful way? I don't know if I could give that response about my dad.


  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Candie wrote: »
    The problem is that the OP is obsessed with what he sees as people being condescending to him. It underlines all his threads.

    You spend too much time thinking about peoples motives OP.
    You can change me. Therefore your comment is redundant.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭misstearheus


    Who the eff is Kate that's in every second bloody post?!? I need simple things! I don't understand! :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    paralysed wrote: »
    This is more the response I want
    Was it made in a disrespectful way? I don't know if I could give that response about my dad.

    I haven't the foggiest. I love it though. Some people have a different take on mortality. If he was around today he could be discussing the merits of cremation.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    paralysed wrote: »
    I recently I had an neighbour (Helen) come in the door when I was eating all bran for breakfast. She asked "are you on the all bran John?" Instead of just saying 'yes', I replied "I'm eating my breakfast Helen"

    That made me laugh. Jaysus that's funny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    OP has murdered kate and is wearing her skin most likely


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,810 ✭✭✭take everything


    Carry wrote: »
    Thanks :D But what do you do when the very same person (as it happens occasionally with one Irish neighbour) starts to tell you "ah sure, don't I know. Wasn't I meself at Murphy's and met old Pat..." You get the picture.



    Thank you, a very good wording of all the things I've had to learn.
    I still think it's a cultural thing. The nuances of symbolic gestures in Ireland is still a balancing act for foreigners, even European ones.
    I actually published a book about "How to blunder in Ireland as a German" (rough translation of the original title). Was fun to write it but still leaves me puzzled about the Irish way of communication.

    Being asked "isn't it a lovely day?" when it's actually wet and miserable gave me the evil eye when I answered it just like that:miserable. Right, now I say "not bad for this time of year". Gosh you have to tiptoe around the weather remarks.

    I trained myself to find it lovable how people ask questions just to get into a conversation. But still deep in my heart I'm more of a literal person and not shy of calling a spade a spade.

    I find this as well.
    Don't know if it's an Irish thing more so but I would be more like yourself. I'd prefer to talk about reality than say something for social currency. I can see the intention of course but i'd still like to keep things vaguely real.

    But this thing of giving you a dirty look over the weather is where things get annoying. That's where the social stuff becomes aggressive.

    But I'm improving. I feel I should have been born in Germany or something.


  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Watch here at the 1:30 mark - great example:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGC7ZhSiyNg


  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    Older stranger in a bar says to me:

    what do you plan on doing with your life? - Enjoying it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Anymore lip from Kate?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Anymore lip from Kate?

    katerimmel4.jpg


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Are you OK?

    No, Toddy's the name.


  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Anymore lip from Kate?
    I'd hardly expect sarcasm out of a mod. What's boards coming to!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    paralysed wrote: »
    I'd hardly expect sarcasm out of a mod. What's boards coming to!?

    He's eating his breakfast Kate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    When people say how are you ,its like saying hello.
    They don,t want to know how you feel right now.its just small talk.Life would be hard for someone who takes every question seriously and literally.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭floraldream


    "Get the London lo-"
    "Im eating my breakast kate"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    Guy I used to work with would answer the question "Can I ask you a question? " with... "You just did. Did you mean 'can I ask 2 questions?' ...."


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  • Site Banned Posts: 391 ✭✭paralysed


    riclad wrote: »
    When people say how are you ,its like saying hello.
    They don,t want to know how you feel right now.its just small talk.Life would be hard for someone who takes every question seriously and literally.
    Read the thread and don't mansplain to me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    The thread that keeps on giving


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭DanMurphy


    Wife...'but it's Tuesday night..an' we always ...you know Dan...we always do IT on Tuesday nights....'

    Dan...'I'm havin' my breakfast Kate...'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Why does this thread even?

    What's for breakfast?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭DanMurphy


    All Bran, apparently, but Corn Flakes or a boiled egg would suffice, but are irrelevant in the context of the question.


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