Things people keep saying you do that you don't.

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Er work hard I have found that if I just do the bare minimum people are much more pleased and praise me for my hard work ethic more than if I actually do work hard which is nice I suppose.

I tend to get a lot of contradictions as well like I dont ever go out and im going out all the time or that I look miserable and should smile more then get told im smiling too much. Generally I ignore what most people say unless I think they have a valid point.

 

[targren]

Well actually in both cases its just people making assumptions based on extremely small but very vocal fringe groups. I guess going by your post its safe for me to assume you are a virgin, live in your parents basement and havnt showered in three weeks because well you are a gamer. You took the name so its not my fault I assumed to ran from the same playbook.

Except it's not the same. Not remotely.

There are no gamers saying "We're gamers, and we're all 35, virgins, and we live in our parents' basements!" That stereotype came from OUTSIDE the group. (For the record, I also never identified as a gamer.)

There ARE "feminists" saying "We're feminists and unequal laws are okay as long as they're tilted in our favor"[footnote]See child support, fathers' rights, no-fault divorce, domestic violence...[/footnote] and THOSE are the ones, "small but vocal though they may be" that are actually talking to the idiots who make the laws.

So no, it's not unreasonable to think that someone who proclaims "I'm a feminist" to be with the above group, since they are the public face of the label, unless they say "but not one of those feminists." If they continue to make that assumption AFTER you specifically say (and demonstrate) otherwise, on the other hand, then yes, they're being fuckwits.

 

[bliebblob]

"Unwilling to help around the house."

Facts:
If I refuse to help, I'm an ass. (even if I have a good reason to)
If I don't refuse, Im still an ass because they shouldn't have to ask in the fist place, I should help spontaneously.
If I do help spontaneously I'm STILL an ass because I'm "making a face" while helping...

This has been the pattern for years now, despite me pointing it out several times (all that ever got me was more bile). It has come to a point where my teeth start gritting the second I realize I'm about to be asked to mow the lawn (or whatever) because I already know I'm bile-bound either way. But ofcourse I can't let them notice because that would drop me straight into the "making a face" zone, awarding me an extra bucket of bile.

It also doesn't help that there's no official assignment of tasks around the house, enabling my parents to at any time, point at any random pile of dishes or whatever and go "Omg! why has this not been cleaned?? You should have washed this you lazy bastard!" Even if I had no way of knowing it was even there as I had not been in the kitchen all day.

Oh and since I'm a gamer I naturally get called an addict every other day. But that doesn't really bug me because it's always by people who know as much about gaming as whoever wrote this scene:

 

[Nikolaz72]

I quietly believe there is a god - specifically Christianity's take on it, therefore I am opposed to scientific progress, homosexuals, video games and new media, am a bible-bashing fundamentalist and probably have a boring, uneventful life.

I get that there will always be a vocal section of religious people who's ways of thinking are just backwards; same with people of political parties and agnostics, atheists, and human beings in general. And for that, I apologise on behalf of them, sincerely I do. But it feels like the whole world resents you for unobtrusively believing something they don't.

Take heart, almost half the world has just about the same branch of belief as you do. You should know though that while you have to deal with the extremists of a rather small group in the world, those in the small group has to deal with the extremists of a rather large group in the world. And even if all extremists are just the worst each group has to offer, the latter is quite a larger ammount of people. As such they tend to create more extremists of the other ilk that bashes the larger group out of self-defense.

Also Internet. Very normal people can turn into beasts on the internet. I have yet to meet anyone bashing religion, and only a very few bashing non-religion in real life. So if its the internet you are worried about, you shouldnt be. Because very few of the people bashing religion over the internet actively hates religious people, they just hate religion and those who claims to represent them.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

I apparently make a face when told what to do even though I know for fact I don't since I can y'know, control my face.

And people say I don't like anything. They get this idea because they don't understand you can criticize something you like or have no real standing with, just because I have a problem with something doesn't mean I hate it.

 

[AnarchistFish]

I'm French therefore I eat frogs legs, snails etc. This doesn't really bother me though, it's just a bit of banter. I think the stuff I tell my Lebanese friend sometimes is probably worse...

I have actually eaten snails once though and they were quite nice. They're pretty bland, it's just the garlic sauce all over them that gives them the taste. And to be fair, you go into French supermarkets and the stuff they have available there you'd never see in a supermarket in the UK. Pigs hooves, that kinda stuff. Everywhere.


Cos my internet is crap, I get blamed and called selfish for the whole system slowing down cos two people being on it in this house at the same time can slow it down, therefore I have shitloads of pages open and am intentionally slowing everyone else down.


I listen to metal therefore I listen ONLY TO METAL. People get surprised when they find out I listen to Sigur Ros, Burial etc.


Being accused of having a superiority complex. Heard this a few times actually. Probably cos I don't talk much and people assume it's cos I feel above them. My brother and I both get it from my Dad, who himself can be one of the most controlling and arrogant people ever. And my brother is the shyest and most introvert person I know. More than anything, it's just guilt tripping.

 

[Padwolf]

I'm a girl gamer, therefore I must be doing it to get guys attention! Though on a rare occasion I get told that because I'm a girl I must be terrible at games.

I've also been accused of being boring because I don't drink much, I don't do drugs, I don't smoke and I don't do nightclubbing, I don't go out partying every night like everyone else supposedly does.

Also I've heard that because I'm a girl I'm not fit to discuss F1 and football. This has happened a number of times with the neighbourhood I'm in.

Edit: also I'm antisocial or "don't get out much" because of not partying every weekend. If I sit at home with friends watching a movie or having a nerf gun battle, that's "not getting out enough"

 

[Scarim Coral]

Just because I have a small circle of friend doesn't mean I am lonely. I keep in touch with my closest friend on a daily basis and fact that I had to take a two hour train ride just to meet up and hang with my best friend for only for a few hours shows I will go to great length to stay friend with him.
Beside I prefer quality over guantity when it come to friends.

 

[Deimateos]

That since I'm black I:

Have a single parent family
Love welfare
Can't swim/snowboard
Can/Want to rap
Hate any music not Rap/RnB/Jazz
Live in the inner city
Fly into a monkey-rage when non-black people utter the n-word (or that I'm dumb enough to believe that "nigga" is "our word" [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=nigga])
Did/Will vote for Obama
That I watch or support B.E.T. [http://www.yourblackworld.com/2011/06/27/dr-boyce-bet-has-officially-become-the-new-kkk/]

That list goes on for years, so I'll end that can of worms there.


One other one:

That since I'm single and not stressing about getting a girlfriend, I must be gay. (Because as we all "know", there's no possible other reason for not wanting a girlfriend...none...It's science!)

 

[TallanKhan]

People always assume that i care about winning just because i want to beat everyone at everything. This is in fact not the case, its actually just important to me that they loose...

(This was a joke everybody)

 

[Broady Brio]

"You always get too drunk Broady Brio[footnote]No one from the outside world actually calls me Broady Brio.[/footnote], you shit yourself every party."

Spoiler: A wee bit of rage 'ere.

Yeah that's fucking true isn't it? You wasn't even there you fucking moron. Oh what's that? Are you twisting the story to all your mates because you're a boring piece of shit who only talks about weed and wanting it legal? I can't handle my drink? You can't handle smoking plants on the ground, let alone your life, you waste of space. Go back to Malaysia, so you can suffer the death penalty for possessing drugs, it's what you deserve for spreading your crap around to people who don't need to know this.

As much as it pains me to admit it, I have pooped myself in public. Once. ONCE, ya hear? I do learn from these embarrassing experiences, like never have re-heated pasta for dinner.

"You're getting aggressive Broady." *Prods
Oh. Let me show you. Fucking. Aggressive. If only I was not currently looking out for my friend at the time, I'd have gladly done so.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Spoiler

[HEADING=2]I did not have sexual relations with that woman![/HEADING]​

More seriously I was once accused of being gay in Highschool because I wasn't having sex with girls starting in grade 10 like the other guys were. I dunno, maybe I didn't want to be tied down forever with a girl I had no interest in?

I did end up getting a girlfriend for a little bit so the rumors that I had sex with my best friend kind of vanished. Hated every moment of that being the topic of discussion.

 

[Deimateos]

I dunno, maybe I didn't want to be tied down forever with a girl I had no interest in?

Don't use that "logic" bullshit, people might think you're sma...smar...have good braintimes...

 

[Nyaliva]

I went to a party once, my first one since before they were about alcohol. I didn't drink but I did discover that acting drunk around people who are drunk makes the whole situation more fun. Anyway, we were nearing the end of grade 12 at that stage and when I returned to school I was greeted by a couple of people saying I got drunk the other night. I denied it and asked who was spreading the rumour.

Turns out it was some guy who I didn't know terribly well and who wasn't even at the party. I'm sure everyone's forgotten it now but it really ticked me off because I took great pride in the fact that I don't drink and everyone knew me to be the goody-goody, and I was happy with that. I don't know why, most things generally roll off my shoulders but when people start accusing me of being this and that (mostly on the internet) I feel the need to set the record straight. Thankfully, apart from that, no-one's really spread rumours or lies about me and i haven't (yet) encountered any glaring generalisations about me.

I can't wait for the day I hold the door open for an extreme feminist and she starts yelling at me.