What is the most patronising thing that anyone has ever said to you?
Poppy99
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I once had my hair cut and my boss's wife said, Oh, you have had your hair cut. You look just like Victoria Principal, only not quite as good looking of course. (I was blond and looked nothing like her.) same person said, Oh clever you. That skirt you are wearing makes you look like a size 8. Very clever purchase. I was 18 at the time and did not have it in me (then) to come back with a pithy retort.
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One gentleman came in with his lady and went and sat on my row.
I went to take his order, he asked if we had any Calamari on that day, I answered no politely.
He then said to me "I bet you do not even know what it is, do you?"
That is years ago now but I remember it well.
It's good fun telling them more about PCs than they are ever likely to learn. Ownership rules, or should I say rools.
Get back to me when you know what a DLL is, how Dependency Walker works and what Side By Side assembly in Windows is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic-link_library
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_Walker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsxs
And yes. I can edit the registry without screwing up Windows.
>cmd(.exe)
>regedit(.exe)
Sans brackets
Go in there at your own risk.
Other things. Do you know what a .msc file is for.
devmgmt.msc (Device Manager)
diskmgmt.msc (Disk Management)
etc.
So, we were stood in the bottom of this muddy pit, digging around this crusty old water pipe, outside a school in Blackpool in the pouring rain, when a bunch of school-kids started peering over the edge at us.
Next thing, an adult appears, looks over the edge of the hole at us, and says "Y'see, kids. That's how you'll end up if you don't do your best at school".
>:(:(
Now that is patronising. I seem to get patronised a lot even at my advanced age. I am small, female and blonde so I have had a lifetime of stupid comments. When I was in my 20s a colleague was talking to a few of us and was saying that somebody had circumnavigated the globe, at which point he broke off, looked in my direction and said helpfully, that means he went around the world. He was only a few years older than me, it was not as if I could blame his comments on an age gap think. I wanted to circumnavigate his throat with my hands.
I was mortified for her
So you wanted to move your hands around his entire throat? That would just make him think he was getting a massage.
When I clearly haven't.
One of the guys (much older than us) started talking about mortgage deals. I simply said "We don't have one" and he felt the need to launch into a speech about how we're still young and if we work very hard we'll be able to get on the ladder someday and the different types of mortgages he advises bla bla bla.
My partners response of "Oh, we own the place, we just don't have a mortgage" shut him right up
I'll be in some kind of a meeting (either formal or informal) and somebody will come up with some obscure, vague, bullshit.
They'll say something like "We're going to leverage the current event horizon to maximise our potential for object-oriented targeted solutions".
I know the other people in the room aren't stupid and they know bullshit when they hear it so I'll look around the room, see the blank looks and say "Sorry, what'd you mean by that?"
And then somebody, who (I guess) is trying to be an arse-kisser, will pipe up with "Well, obviously, it means that we're going to maximise our potential for object-oriented targeted solutions by leveraging the current event horizon".
Yes, quite.
Enjoy your brownie-points. >:(
Her: 'How are you?'
Me: 'Not too bad'.
Her: 'You're not not too bad - you're either good or your bad; what an inane expression.'
Wagon.
Yes there was a 'Born again Christian' where I worked and as a strict Atheist we locked horns on many an occasions. I found out that he had said behind my back "Oh I do hope that 'Jesse' finds Jesus soon, it will be so much better for him when he does." - Like it was the only end result and that there was something wrong with me that would be fixed when I found Jesus.
I almost punched him! >:(
For some reason that one got to me. I have three degrees but am absolutely useless with anything practical. The world as we know it wouldn't operate without our plumbers, electricians, service workers and so on so all these smug, 'learned' types want to hush their mouths when they think of a world without their creature comforts. My dad was a wood machinist and my mum a secretary, then ward housekeeper at a local hospital. I was proud of what they did. Hope this doesn't come across as patronising!!!
I often get the pats on the head and patronising comments about being small because I'm only 4ft 7/8 but most of it goes right over my head, tbh. I'm 44 and every time someone says it, they think they're being highly original.
The most patronising thing I've heard in recent times was when a bloke did some tiling in my flat. It looked like crazy paving. When he'd 'finished', I said 'Um, is that it?' His words "Oh don't worry, love. It'll settle down!". I just burst out laughing.
Patronise them back: "Yes, dear. Very nice, dear. Now what is that in Klingon as it made F**k All sense in English!"
And over do the swearing part as that is one time where it works as an emphasise.
This, said just now in the conspiracy theory thread!
For the first few years I'd answer the phone & some builders would say things like 'I aint bein' funny love but can you put me on to one of the blokes to give me prices cos they'll know what I mean'
Drove me crazy as I was very good at my job & yes, 99.9 times out of 100 I did know what they meant.
I used to reply with 'well I can do, but they'll just have to pass you back to me for your price so shall we just try this with us first?'
By the time I left I had a huge client base who would only use me
Another thing I used to get is when customers would praise me on the phone, one of my male colleagues on being told that I was being praised for being good at my job, would comment with surprise '...really? And was he being serious?' >:(
I left because I was headhunted by a Construction Company for my knowledge & skills, and I now have my ex colleague who used to profess complete shock that I was actually good at my job as my lackey when I need pricing done, which really is the best revenge of all