''It's frowned upon.''

[albinoterrorist]

That's a strange sense of humor you have there.

We all knew it was gonna crop up eventually.

I'm just beating everyone else to the gun.

 

[Vampire cat]

That is really awful, haven't they ever heard the saying, "Its the thought that counts"?

Meh. You'll be happy to hear I have reconsidered who is my friends and who are not. I have a few less friends than before, but I also have some new ones. At least they try and do for me what I do for them. I like when what I do for people is "rewarded" with them being nice to me, isn't that part of friendship? All give and take? I'm sick of giving and never getting anything back >>.

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

Really, it seems that anytime I smile or try to be cheerful around people, I get either accused of being behind something (like I was a supervillain), or being a dick, when in reality my mind kind of runs slow so I can never come up with any good comebacks.

Funny, but short story was that I was being accused of sleeping with one of my best friends when I was opening the door for her. The accuser knew her better than I did and she had already dropped the bomb that I was going to be in the friend zone when we spoke to each other on the second time we met with each other.

Sadly, it seems that when not showing any happiness, I get good things. I look like the angry guy behind a deli case, but then hand them some chicken that just came out of the fryer, etc., and even make weird faces to the children, which every time gets them to giggle, and ever since then, people don't treat me like crap at all..

 

[vaderaider]

There was an old lady who lives at the bottom of my street, I saw her struggling to carry her shopping home so I politely offered to help her carry them. She told me to go away, so I just left her alone. About 2 hours later I had a visit from the police, She had accused me off trying to steal her shopping.

 

[Marik2]

That is really awful, haven't they ever heard the saying, "Its the thought that counts"?

Meh. You'll be happy to hear I have reconsidered who is my friends and who are not. I have a few less friends than before, but I also have some new ones. At least they try and do for me what I do for them. I like when what I do for people is "rewarded" with them being nice to me, isn't that part of friendship? All give and take? I'm sick of giving and never getting anything back >>.

Yup in order for a friendship to work both people have to have kindness for each other and help one another whenever they need help.

 

[ninjapenguin981]

Not like I condone abusing the animals pre-kill. i think its silly because nature is real, and nature has animals eating other animals. When lions start feeling compassion for gazelles, then I may reconsider.

Nature is one thing, but farming animals for slaughter is entirely unnatural. Hunting for meat I am 100% fine with. You cannot possibly imagine that the battery chicken has a fantastic time living its whole life in a cage barely bigger than it is...? Or that farmed mammals enjoy the experience of the abattoir?

I am not a moron, I am fully aware that nature is cruel. The idea, though, of being a poultry bird (there are few to no welfare regulations for such animals) on almost any farm is too horrendous.

A lot of farm animals would have probably become extinct by now if us humans had not kept them. Take the pig for example. I'd like to see that try and live in the wild, it just wouldn't. I know people might say how it's because in history we've bred pigs that way from boars or something, but the fact is that we can't change history and freeing all the pigs would be ridiculous. I do agree with the whole battery chicken thing, which is why I eat organic, free range chicken, but I don't see it as a reason to stop eating it.

 

[Hawkeye16]

Being an atheist... in a Christian household. That's my reality.

I know your pain friend.

 

[Strategia]

Well I'm a meat eater. In fact, it's more often the other way around - I used to be a vegetarian and would constantly have morons asking deliberately irritating questions and making fun of me for not eating meat. On the other hand, no vegan has ever tried persuading me to stop eating animal products, unless I have already expressed interest.

Oh tell me about it. I've been a vegetarian all my life, and I'm not about to change that - you wouldn't want to hear how many times I've had to endure the exact same line of questioning about "where I get my nutrients" and how "humans need meat" and "that can't be good for you", and best of all, "it tastes so good, you're missing out". Sometimes I just want to use a Renegade interrupt and punch them in the face. But I'm too much of a wuss to actually do that.

 

[Woodsey]

Fuck, I had the exact same thing as you.

I had the foil from a piece of chewing gum that I threw into a regular bin outside this woman's house, and she came outside and had a go at me - she even saw what I was putting in (I guess she was coming outside anyway).

I wish I'd of just thrown it in her garden.

 

[Pyotr Romanov]

Being nice to people doesn't pay off. Because the world is so full of pricks, everyone expects you to be one too, and treat you like one, even if you try to be nice.

What a positive way of life.

I know, but everywhere I go, it seems to be true. In Holland, there's even a commercial which roughly translates to "how to deal with nice people".

How come I haven't seen that? It sounds funny.
I really should watch tv more often.

OT: My story is slightly different, but still quite relevant.
One day last winter, I finally got home after cycling for an hour from school. It was snowing and F-ing cold. Well, I finally got to the flat I live in, and see a silhouette of a person on the other side of the door. Hardly feeling my fingers, I knock on the door. The silhouette takes a single step backwards and opens it for me. Then I find out the person opeing the door was a rather old lady. I politely say thank you, but instead of the expected "no problem" I get a rant about how people these days aren't polite enough, and don't respect their elders.
Then what was I supposed to do? Should I have kneeled down before her, in the snow?
Then, in the elevator, I tried to explain that, if I had actually seen she was old, I would probably have used a more polite form of speech, but before I had even spoken a sentence, she just shouted at me that she didn't want to hear my protests.

... Sometimes I hate having an elevator.
So, to summarize my slightly relevant story: Even a thank you doesn't cut it for asking someone to open a door.

 

[Hammer's Girl]

That kind of stuff is why I tend to feel smarter than most people. Sitting in english reading shakespear, it mentioned primate. I assumed everyone knew what that was. After no one answered, I did in a "duh tone" and found out the rest of the class did not know.

I love those superior moments. I read Shakespeare for pleasure when I was at school (still do actually) so I found the language a lot easier than most of my classmates. Try learning the meanings of really obscure words (tonsorial was a favourite of mine) and then if they come up you can feel that warm, knowledgeable glow.

 

[Chogg Van Helsing]

'every action has an equal and oposite reaction'

i am both lol

nah, if im nice i will get gratitude sometimes

although sometimes being nice for me is not punching the woman who just pushed me out of the que to get in front of me... i didnt get gratitude for that... *cocks shotgun* hehe

 

[Rhymenoceros]

Once when I was skiing a found a crappy phone on the floor, Even though it looked like it was 50p I decided to ring the home number to return it. The owner lived 800 miles away in a different country but fortunately she was still skiing. When I returned she (it was a woman) slapped me on the face hard and threatened to call the police.

Thanks for that lady, I gave up an 2 hours worth of skiing to return your phone and leave a bright red hand mark on my face that lasted 2 days before fading. I am never returning anything again.

 

[Denamic]

I remember once helping this guy up, he was a bit drunk and had fallen off his bar-stool. So I gave him a hand up, and he punched me in the stomach.

Why? He "Didn't need your fucking help".

Talk about pride gone wrong.

The exact same thing happened to me.
Well, it was outside and he had slipped on an ice patch.
And after he were so kind to punch me, I grabbed him and pulled him to the other side of the road.
There was a nice, long icy slope downwards there.
He made it all the way to the bottom.
I'm not a very patient person.

 

[Billion Backs]

Not like I condone abusing the animals pre-kill. i think its silly because nature is real, and nature has animals eating other animals. When lions start feeling compassion for gazelles, then I may reconsider.

Nature is one thing, but farming animals for slaughter is entirely unnatural. Hunting for meat I am 100% fine with. You cannot possibly imagine that the battery chicken has a fantastic time living its whole life in a cage barely bigger than it is...? Or that farmed mammals enjoy the experience of the abattoir?

I am not a moron, I am fully aware that nature is cruel. The idea, though, of being a poultry bird (there are few to no welfare regulations for such animals) on almost any farm is too horrendous.

This might be rather off-topic, but what exactly is your opinion about pets if your opinion about farm animals isn't exactly high?

 

[Billion Backs]

Being an atheist... in a Christian household. That's my reality.

Being an atheist on a planet with like 80% of population being delusional theists sure sucks.

 

[Nuclear Pancake]

I suggest that you readers of this thread, watch the film Dogville by watch i mean look it up on wikipedia. Its a tale of how you try to do something nice for others and they resent you for it, very interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogville

 

[DeathWyrmNexus]

Once when I was skiing a found a crappy phone on the floor, Even though it looked like it was 50p I decided to ring the home number to return it. The owner lived 800 miles away in a different country but fortunately she was still skiing. When I returned she (it was a woman) slapped me on the face hard and threatened to call the police.

Thanks for that lady, I gave up an 2 hours worth of skiing to return your phone and leave a bright red hand mark on my face that lasted 2 days before fading. I am never returning anything again.

I would have invited her to call the police and then filed assault...

 

[Casual Shinji]

Being an atheist... in a Christian household. That's my reality.

Try being a Christian on an atheist forum. *phew*

I'm rather paranoid, though, so I don't think I'm able to tell the difference whether people frown upon me or not. I just assume they all are, it makes life a lot simpler.

 

[superbatranger]

Being an atheist... in a Christian household. That's my reality.

Being an atheist on a planet with like 80% of population being delusional theists sure sucks.

It does suck. That's one conversation at the dinner table I would not want to have...trying to explain why I don't believe.