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lemmy.world

I used to travel all over Europe for work, one day I arrived in Munich where the passport control officer asked if I was there for Oktoberfest. I explained I don’t drink and I was just there for work.

He looked me up and down, tilted his head a little and said “Really? You, Don’t drink?

I’m a big guy, not fat fat, but big. I was so annoyed with suggestion that I must like my beer because of my stature, I stewed about it in the taxi all the way to my hotel until I caught myself in the mirror of the hotel room, where I realised I was wearing a Guinness shirt I picked up in Dublin the previous week.

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I still remember one time at a party, standing in a circle talking, and one dude just took out his phone and started scrolling Twitter. Rude as fuck.

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You know that thing people did where they look you up and down, then sneer?

That's punchable in my book.

Like, yeah dude, I'm that hairy, and yes I have a hail satan shirt on, but go fuck yourself if you don't like it. Which is communicated with simple gesture in return to the sneer. Only takes lifting a single finger

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There was a dog just sitting there next me. Almost subconsciously I reached to pet it and I got some aggressive side eye from the owner.

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lemm.ee

Have you ever had a dish washed at you?

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lemm.ee

People with poor hygiene and/or smelling like tobacco are an insult for my senses.

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Hmm I don't have a lot of conflict in my life. Probably an exaggerated eyeroll (the kind where they wanted you to see it).

But in general, I'd put a finger in the face up there. It's such a trigger. One of my coworkers and a manager almost got into a fight over this one and had to be separated lol

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Hmmm. Probably a teacher asking me to take a seat across a desk from them, ignoring me while typing something, taking a moment to look at me, and going back to ignoring me. For like, 10 minutes.

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Look me in the eyes, frowned, got up from the table and walked out of the room. I farted at the dinner table.

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I was asking a woman at a gas station for help because the pumps were glitching and when I was finished explaining the problem, she hawked a giant loogie (loudly and purely through her nose) and spat it on the ground roughly equidistant from us and to my left about a foot. We were outside, and it’s not like she spat at me, it seemed to be a mostly biological function, but I was pretty grossed out and offended.

She looked to be in her mid fifties, too, so I really wasn’t expecting it. I haven’t been back to that gas station since, even though it’s the closest one to my sister’s house and the only convenient one between it and the highway.

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If body language roughly accounts for 70%-80% of communication, what’s one of the worst nonverbal insults you’ve ever received? | Spyke