The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[CleverNickName]

...I'm sorry, did you say something?
I was miles away, thinking. About anything else.

 

[Mad_Jack]

At the mall today a phone salesman approached me and was about to begin his pitch when I interrupted him by waving my hand in front of his face and saying, "Jedi Mind Trick", while walking past him. It's amazing how often this will stop people dead in their tracks long enough for you to escape...*



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(Waving your hand quickly across their field of vision breaks their train of thought, and saying "Jedi Mind Trick" refocuses their brain on recalling the Star Wars movies - you can redirect their focus again by "implanting" a new thought, such as "You can't speak" or "He went that way" (while pointing to their right while you walk past on the left)... )

 

[darjr]

“Stop you know nothing!”

Hahahaha what a maroon. I fully expected this to contain multiple typos and laughed so much harder when I realized.

 

[J.Quondam]

"Get offa my lawn!"
"Sir, this is a Wendy's."

 

[Eltab]

I don't know how to break the news to certain people, that I don't need to use the "Ignore" button to ignore them.

Using the Ignore button allows them to figure out you are capital-I Ignoring them.
Whereas if you lowercase-i ignore them, they will never know.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Using the Ignore button allows them to figure out you are capital-I Ignoring them.
Whereas if you lowercase-i ignore them, they will never know.

Well, that can be pretty passive-aggressive, too. It's certainly your right, but I wouldn't ignore someone just to tell them I'm ignoring them.

I use ignore mainly to help me keep my cool. Sometime I need a break from an individual. Maybe it's them, maybe it's me. So I put them on ignore for a while and chill out. Usually works pretty well! By the time I un-ignore them a little while later, I've usually forgotten whatever they were doing to anger my blood. There are two people I've had to keep on perma-ignore, but that's neither here nor there.

In general, if someone is so noxious that I absolutely have to keep them on ignore, then they'll probably get booted from the site sooner rather than later.

 

[Cadence]

That was the strangest misspelling of "obnoxious' I've ever seen...

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

If I am ignoring someone, I could care less about them knowing it. If it hurts their feeling... too bad?

 

[Mannahnin]

One move I use as a teacher is just to totally ignore bad behavior, but in a way that's obvious I'm ignoring it. Like I'll look completely board and out the window and give a heavy sigh. It worked surprisingly well (with 3rd graders)!

One of my college professors told a story about how he taught a freshman class about Classical Conditioning, and they proceeded to use it on him in another course, en masse.

While he was lecturing, they would look bored and unfocused, or even stare off into space, while he was standing on one side of the room, but attentive and engaged when he was standing on the other. Gradually over the semester they moved him closer and closer to the window as he spoke, finally only paying complete attention if he was standing by the window, holding/playing with the cord for the blinds in one hand.

 

[Cadence]

"#%@! Stop just reading the cover blurbs! I write novels for a reason!" ;-)