Corum1134 said:
Catchphrase said:
Corum1134 said:
JoeNightmare said:
To that you are an idiot. Unless he was really being jerkish in saying hello in some odd odd way, there was no reason to call him out of it. Fun is fun is fun, be it saying hello in a different language, which i do a lot, or doing something else stupid. being offended is for women with PMS.
Also, if he did understand it and talked to you back, would it not have been your ignorance. The meaning of jerk is not ignorance, but the lack of care for others well being, it is not the lack of consideration for a pet peeve of yours.
Ok let me lay this out better for you then. It was a Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant. No one there speaks Japanese. He YELLED the word. I'll try to show you what it sounded like. "Cow nee chee waa" It was very drawn out and obnoxious. There is a difference between fun and blatant racism. He said it to be an ass to the workers (who are all Chinese). Now I think you should go ahead and rethink your post from a different perspective.
Still. I must agree with JoeNightmares point about "being offended is for women with PMS".
Come on, man - weren't you just looking to take offense? In a bad mood? No reason to, as JoeNightmare says, call him out on it. He may just have been an idiot, in which case I don't think there is
any reason for you to act as you did.
I don't "look to take offense". I just thought it would be good to teach the guy to think before shooting his mouth off. I actually enjoy it when I am called out on my antics because it affords me a chance to learn form my mistakes. I try to do the same for others.
"Shooting his mouth off"? Did something happen that you didn't write, or did the dude just walk into a Vietnamese restaurant and said "Konichiwha" as if they were Japanese? How the hell is that "shooting his mouth off"??
Again, he may have behaved like an idiot - and as I weren't there I can't really say what his attitude was, how he looked or his general demeanor, since I don't know... But I what I can say, as that it sound like you just embarrassed him in front of his friend for no reason. If he was a "jock idiot" or something to that extent, you can be quite certain he would have taken offense at you embarrassing him. You can fucking bet your life on it.
The way you describe him sitting himself down calmly, not making more of it, I don't think he really deserved it.