• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’m a female-passing (afab agender but that’s beside the point) physicist. I do this when men (honest to god it’s always been men so far) explain something to me that i obviously know better. Like for example they’ll know I’m a physicist but explain to me that water boils at a lower temperature in the mountains or something like that. I’ll just play a game to see just how dumb i can get them to think i am. Pretty dumb is usually the answer.

  • radix@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    They reenact the “crying woman yelling at stubborn cat” meme perfectly.

  • Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Did you know that the Octopus (pluralized as octi) is the only species of amphibian to change its gender over the course of its lifepan?

  • Technus@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    So glad I grew out of being a know-it-all. Now I just do it when I want to be an asshole.

  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    I tend to adopt the view that my words aren’t just distracting sounds that come from a hole in my face and try to extend the trust and courtesy to others.

    I don’t think it’s generally very nice to say things we don’t mean to wind people up. you can just say “I think you’re being a wanker, pull your head in” instead of whatever this is.

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    8 months ago

    I have fixed this by becoming arrogant in the reverse way, unless I am the dumbest person in the room, I want to leave.

    “Oh you want me teach you about what I know? Fuck you? You want to teach me everything you know about shellfish? Sign me the fuck up.”

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    8 months ago

    Wow, so yeah, you obviously enrage people when you say something ridiculously dumb and behave like you know it better. That’s just called being an asshole.

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        8 months ago

        Everyone thinks ikea is swedish but its actually the dutch doing research and development for new lego but they pretend they are swedish so noone steals their designs