Does anyone else feel disrespected on reddit?

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Wow. Aren't you a charming ray of sunshine. At first I was a little offended by your 'fuck you', but then I realised how crappy it must be for you to feel the need to live your life spewing vitriol and bitterness, and I feel quite sorry for you.

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Just because it's the internet doesn't excuse rude or inconsiderate behaviour. I am gobsmacked by some of the blunt/tactless comments people feel they can get away with just because it's the internet. Behind the internet personas are real people with real feelings, and I don't get why people feel that common decency should be disregarded just because it's 'the internet'.

Sometimes I wonder whether the rude/tactless people are just like that on the internet because they feel like they can get away with it, or whether those people really exist and behave like arseholes in the 'real world', and I've just been fortunate enough not to have run into people like them most of the time.

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By the time I read to the end of this comment thread I'd forgotten what the OP's topic was all about.

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Didn't anyone else think 'hope you weren't the one driving while inebriated.'? My friend's 18 year old sister was killed by a drunk driver. :o(

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It reminds me of the fire and brimstone preachers from times gone by - it's amazing to think that in this day and age seemingly intelligent people can be so ignorant.

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My daughter is exactly like me, only younger and prettier of course. We used to clash a lot because we're both a pair of stubborn cows. :)

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Thanks for this thread - it's very interesting. You seem like a nice bloke. Here in Australia, I can't say we are very class conscious, but apparently in Britain it's different. Would you say your fellow 'nobles' look down their noses at the other classes? How do you feel about them - indifferent? Sorry for them? Glad you were born in your own class?

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When I won nearly $1,300 in the lotto (one more number and I would have won over half a million, dammit!). I'd been going through the toy section of the store five minutes earlier, wondering how I was going to afford Christmas. I checked my ticket at the newsagency and the screen on the lottery machine said 'big winner'. The moments while the newsagent checked what prize I'd won was surreal.

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I hate that society deems it a negative thing if you're not tall. I am 5'2" and have had to put up with various shorty jokes throughout life. I don't get it - my teen daughter is petite, pretty with a lovely figure but she is self conscious about her height because people tease her for being 'short'. What's so superior about being a tall person?

"Geez, you're getting tall, aren't you?" is considered a compliment. If someone said "geez, you're small, aren't you?" then it has negative connotations. Why the heck is this?

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I actually think having to cover oneself because you presume men are lusting after you is rather insulting to men in general - as if you're presuming none of them have the moral character to think about anything other than sex or scoring. There are millions of men around the world who manage to get through their working day successfully and productively alongside attractive women coworkers etc.

Women can appreciate and feel attracted to a hunky guy as much as a man can admire a woman, so why aren't men wearing the headscarfs and burkas too?

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By that I meant you're asking yourself 'is he or isn't he?' all through the movie as you listen to their discussion.

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The Man from Earth Is he or isn't he? Really gets you thinking and is one of the few movies I can watch more than once.

An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he is an immortal who has walked the earth for 14,000 years.

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If you're made of money or have good health insurance you could try limb lengthening using the Ilizarov method.

An Australian politician went through this because she 'wanted to be taken seriously'.

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A vision of my teenage son in tears popped into my head as I read your post.

He's a good, quiet self-sufficient kid who rarely complains, and never asks for anything. I never know what he's really thinking or feeling because he keeps things pretty much to himself. I knew then that he must have been very upset when I found him in our backyard with tears running down his face as he propped his bike up against the wall after school. Someone had stolen his bike seat and a couple of other parts from it, for the second time from the bike enclosure at school.

That bike was his pride and joy - basically the only decent thing he really owned. He rode to school on it as he has a bone disorder which makes it painful for him to walk for long, and it was a big part of his social life with his friends. His dad had bought the bike for him, and I was going through hard financial times, so couldn't afford to replace it.

So, I say, people like you suck. The misery you cause to people through your greed, laziness and dishonesty disgusts me.

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Better worded as 'you were a (nice) surprise'.

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I once dreamed that I was dead. I was thinking 'so this is it - I'm actually dead! Ohhh - SHIT!' I could hardly believe it, but the 'reality' of actually being dead, that the moment had come and that there was no going back hit me, and I had a big panic attack. Then I woke up and I've never been so relieved that it had really been just a dream.

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I was driving my two kids (a five year old daughter and an eight month old son) home one drizzly night when I noticed smoke coming out from the engine. As luck would have it, there was a petrol station nearby and I pulled in there and opened the bonnet, ready to pull my kids out of the car straight away if there was the chance of a fire.

The guy who worked the till was the only person at the petrol station, and he came out to ask what was wrong. I told him I'd seen smoke coming out of the engine. He looked at the engine and said I had a leaking fuel line. I called my husband (now ex) who was at home (about five mins drive away) and asked him to drive up and help me out. The arsehole told me to just drive home, with two kids in the back, with a leaking fuel line and smoke pouring out of the engine. I told him I wasn't about to do that, and he refused to come out and help me.

I remembered the mechanic I'd been going to for ten years lived about 2 kms down the same road I was on. He had a home based business. I phoned him and asked if he could come and help me. He refused too.

The stranger who worked at the petrol station, listening in to my phone calls, was just shaking his head when he found out no one I knew would help me. I'm not very up with motors so I'm not sure what exactly he did, but I think he grabbed some kind of tubing and made a makeshift fuel line and fixed it for me himself.

The next day I went back and gave him a box of chocolates as a 'thank you'. I couldn't believe it took a stranger to help a stranded mother with two small kids out of dangerous situation, while my husband and long time mechanic refused to help. I've since divorced arsehole husband and found a new (and better) mechanic.

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Good luck mate. :)

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But you're also male, right?

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I was discussing this the other night with friends. When my friend told me that one, she just said 'look at your nails'. I did the palm one (I'm female), and her dad did the other way, so I presumed that was what it was.

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I was just pondering why we do it - whether it's instinct or whether we're taught it socially, but I guess it's just common sense, trying not to expose yourself.

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Another one I've heard of is that if you ask a man to 'look at their fingernails', they'll hold their hand out, flat in front of them, their fingers straight, and look at their hand from the top (not the palm).

Women will usually hold their hands palm facing, with their fingers curled over so that they can see their nails.

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Why is Simon Cowell wearing a toga?

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