That Moment...

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  1. minstrel

    minstrel Leader of the Insquirrelgency Supporter Contributor

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    Looks more like a television evangelist.
     
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  2. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    From the People of Walmart site...
     
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    Tenderiser Not a man or BayView

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    TMW you want to tell your massage therapist she's advertising "distressing" massage instead of "destressing" massage, but you don't know how to do it without looking like an arse.
     
  4. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    But is the advertising accurate?

     
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    big soft moose An Admoostrator Admin Staff Supporter Contributor Community Volunteer

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    I'd just tell her tbh, you'll feel like more of an arse when she eventually realises and you didnt tell her
     
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    truthbeckons Active Member

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    Just be friendly and factual. "You might be losing potential business from pedants and/or the easily confused." Need not imply judgement, or even that you care.
     
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    Imaginarily Disparu en Mer Contributor

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    That moment when local missionaries interrupt your Friday afternoon nap wanting to talk about Jesus. :wtf:
     
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    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    Oof. They leave the pamphlets in the door here. Nobody knocks on anybody's door if they know what's good for them. Too many armed locals.
     
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    Imaginarily Disparu en Mer Contributor

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    This is the first time actual missionaries have showed up at my door – used to just be pamphlets.

    That moment when you're a lil bit upset that you don't have an anti-theist tattoo yet that you can casually brandish at missionaries.
     
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    Corbyn Lost in my own head Supporter Contributor

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    When they do this to me, I tell them I'm a practicing Pagan, and that usually solves my problems pretty quickly. The funniest time I did this was at my mom's place. The look on my mom's face was priceless. She shook her head, "Those were Jehovah's Witnesses weren't they?" She then laughed at me for ten minutes.

    No offense to any Christians here, but sometimes I get tired of the way some people of faith (not just Christians but mainly them) shoving their faith down my throat without even asking WHAT my religious views are. Or worse, assuming I don't have any. Umm. No. Just no.
     
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    Imaginarily Disparu en Mer Contributor

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    @Corbyn it's honestly just rude... thou shalt not interrupt thine neighbor's nap. :wtf:

    :rofl:
     
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    An old high school friend of mine's father was a professor of theology at a well-known divinity school. He would invite them in and systematically demolish their pitch, then invite them to his church. I'm an atheist on my better days, but I always loved him for that.

    Edit: typo
     
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  13. Oscar Leigh

    Oscar Leigh Contributor Contributor

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    Are you actually pagan? That would be cool.
     
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    Tenderiser Not a man or BayView

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    That happened to me once. A guy with Christian pamphlets stopped me in the street and said, "Do you know the purpose to life?"
    I said, "Yes, thanks."
    He looked a bit confused and said, "Oh, good. Have a great day."

    So that's probably why they don't ask. And also reminds me of why we're advised not to put rhetorical questions in query letters.
     
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    See, now I'm kicking myself for not saying something like that to them. For some fuckin' reason, I was worried I'd upset them if I was mean, so I politely-as-possible told them to take a hike.
     
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    I wouldn't be mean either, though I don't think anyone has to be particularly polite to cold callers--cold calling is hardly polite.

    I think the best way to go is some bland stock phrase like, "No thank you, I'm not interested. Please don't call at this address again." Assertive but not mean.

    I've heard Jehovah's Witnesses do respect your wishes if you ask them to remove you from their to-call list, or whatever it's called.
     
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    But they were calling at my door. With their faces.
     
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    TMW you can feel someone perusing your Facebook page as they like and comment on progressively older posts in your timeline. o_O
     
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    TMW...Saturday is your Monday and you're at work hating life.

    Trying to be motivated and work on my story, but so far all I've done is write 4 sentences and play around on here.
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    I would've grabbed their collar, scream, "New sacrifice for Satan!!!!" While dragging them in. :twisted:
     
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    @TE said, actually

    Tell her your people hail from Pen Island, you understand her pain.

    ...
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    Yes, Oscar? What is it that you need?
     
  23. Oscar Leigh

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    Somebody likes you.
     
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    That moment when you wake up like :wtf: because your job is a fucking joke but you have to go because you need the money but all you really want is to go back to sleep.

    :cry:
     
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    This has happened to me twice. They were both old people. I'm guessing they don't understand the social subtleties of Facebook. :D But then again, your age can give you a free pass and you can do all kinds of weird shit, fully aware it's weird, 'cause younger people are just going to shrug it off, "oh she's just old, she doesn't know any better." :D
     
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