40 Things People Said That Indicated They Don’t Realize How The World Really Works, As Shared In This Online Community
People have the best knowledge of what they have experienced and to be more aware of what is going on outside their life’s bubble, they have to interact with people who are different from them and to actively search for that information.
Otherwise, they might make themselves oblivious and out of touch with reality, which could make them look stupid in front of others. Ignorance is not bad in itself as it is impossible to know everything, but sometimes it is hard to believe how certain knowledge has not reached a person.
Not realizing that there are people who can’t afford a house or having gaps in general education are some things Redditors considered to be common knowledge that doesn’t belong just to a single society group, but they were wrong and told some funny and frustrating stories answering the question “What did somebody say that made you think: ‘This person is out of touch with reality?’”
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I’m a nanny and I’ve worked for some rich clients. Old money. These people know nothing about reality.
The best one I heard was this family I was working 12 hour days for. Good pay, terrible schedule. At one point I was bouncing their baby on my knee and the Mom goes “Being a mom isn’t that hard. I don’t know why other women complain about it so much”.
While her nanny is literally caring for the baby.
Pretty much any time I see someone yelling at a Starbucks or other service employee. They come into a crowded shop, wave their big $5 bill around like a high roller, then yell at a 16 year old for making their coffee incorrectly. Lame. If you find yourself to be one of the people yelling at service workers, fix your own problems before telling other people what to do.
Why should they? That kind of attitude has always worked, so why change now? When I became a manager in retail at a theme park, I was finally able to get revenge on those assholes. And I will take up for any service worker getting abused.
There are a lot of older fugly apartment buildings near the house I grew up in.
My friend at the time that lived a very privileged lifestyle, $200-300+ weekly weekend dinners with the family, timeshares over the place, skiing and snowboarding trips, etc. She was like why would anyone want to live in these apartments? I would never
I was like, people that live there don't have a choice...
Showed a parent the security footage of her 8th grader hitting a teacher. She claimed the footage had been edited. Sigh…..
My sister taught 6th grade English. More than one parent was required to sit in on their kid's classes. The kids still acted up because their parents refused to hold them accountable. The most common comment from the parents, and I use that word lightly, "We can't control him/her." When it came to the report cards, and the kids failed, they would storm in yelling that it just had to be the teacher's fault. Sure it is. No homework was turned in, every test failed. Yep, it's definitely the teacher's fault.
Me: telling someone I’m a type 1 diabetic
Rando: “you shouldn’t have eaten so much sugar as a child”
Also:
“Are you still diabetic” - P.A. At a checkup
Plus the limitless amount of “cures” people have for this incurable disease.
once got in an argument with a girl that people would rather die of starvation than eat something that's carcinogenic. I asked if she was seriously saying people would choose to starve to death over the course of a month than risk potentially developing cancer in a few years and she said yes.
I asked if she'd ever gone an entire day without eating before or knew what that felt like. she hadn't.
Billionaires and multimillionaires singing 'Imagine' while sitting in their gigantic mansions largely unaffected by the pandemic.
Had someone today tell me they are anti vaxx because 2 days after thier daughter got the covid shot she turned gay
Went to a super rich girls house, she had had a baby 2 months prior, she had nannies coming in and out maids and a literal house manager plus PAs etc. and she was bragging about how she was back at work so soon and how she doesn’t know how people can stand doing ‘nothing’ for so long.
And when the baby says "mama" for the first time, it's for the nanny.
"I'm entitled to my opinion" when presented with facts showing they were wrong.
This bothers me sooooooo much. Opinions are not facts. Facts are not opinions. You are entitled to the opinion that Nickelback is a good band. You are even entitled to the opinion that certain Presidents/Prime Ministers are good/bad at their jobs because you can narrow your opinion down to very slim frames of reference (BoJo *was* the right guy to get Brexit done (unfortunately)). But you do NOT get to opine on whether the Earth is flat or whether vaccines work effectively.
"Nobody has ever died from rationing their insulin, nobody" - My FIL. That was an odd take of his, I'm still kinda puzzled over it. People have died doing almost anything. He didn't think they died from rationing something that costs hundreds of dollars per week though.
Sophomore year of high school, in my biology class, this one girl got into a conversation about what causes the winter season with the teacher.
And she goes, “winter happens because the sun turns cold, right?”
Honestly, I’m still having trouble processing that one, and it’s been eight years.
Wharton students were interviewed asking what they though the average income was. 25% said 6 figures. The same question was asked at a local community college and the collective agreement was $15k
My aunt was bragging that her knee surgery cost her zero dollars because of Medicare. I said “yeah, that kind of socialized medicine is nice”. She the threatened to “take me out back and beat my a**” for saying that.
Your aunt is mentally weak, sorry. She's like the Spongebob of brainpower.
Whenever a disabled person shares their experience and a non-disabled person tells them how they can "fix" all of those problems.
I could write an entire dissertation on this. My best friend is visually impaired but has tunnel vision. She has no peripheral vision, and people tell her to get glasses, which she has, and tell her she doesn't look blind, so she must be lying. There is so much more I can say, but I am too angry just thinking about this.
Working for a super wealthy client who lived in the most expensive gated neighbourhood in the country... A Walled community, filled with old money and old political families, and he was complaining about "the elites" who the f**k do you think you are ? Joe F*****g 6 pack?
When liberals complain about 'the elite', they are often referring to the rich/super-rich. When conservatives b***h about 'the elite', they generally mean the educated. Stupid, rich, and conservative is the worst combo.
my sister, who traveled from the US to europe for the first time when she was 15 and has now lived there for over 5 years. We were talking about reasons people join the military and I mentioned a friend of mine who grew up on a reservation with very little and joined because he wanted to travel and get out of the rez. She looked at me and said “why can’t he just save up if he wants to travel?”
I’m 27 years old, grew up with most of the same privileges as her, and have never had the time or resources to leave the country. But she thought it was reasonable for a historically disenfranchised community member, growing up with nothing, to save up his money in order to leave home and travel.
When my boss said “My word is better than getting it in writing.” I can think of several instances where they’ve promised something or given their word on only to later renege on the deal.
I'm a 911 operator and had a man call 911 because the internet at the hotel he was staying at got disconnected. I told him it was not a police issue and he would have to talk to the hotel staff and/or just wait for it to reboot. He responded, "Not a police issue? This is criminal. If I unplugged someone's life support, isn't that a crime?"
Misuse of the 9-1-1 system. Let's see how you feel in a jail cell. Wishful thinking on my part.
Me, homeless at the time and working my way out of it.
Coworker: I don't know why people go on game shows for money, winning 100,000 dollars wouldn't be life-changing, anyway.
Had a coworker that noticed an item’s tag said Made in Vietnam. She’s said “ Made in Vietnam? That’s a place? I thought it was a war !! “
My husband's friend insisted on taking us to the 'best, most authentic' Chinese restaurant in town.
I'm Chinese. He's a Jewish guy who has never been to any Chinese speaking country.
The food wasn't good, nor was it authentic.
He had the most smug look on his face when he sat back and quirked his eyebrow at me as if expecting me to heap praise onto him. Anyway, I didn't.
Best part is that they aren't friends anymore (I had nothing to do with that, I promise), so now I don't have to pretend that crab rangoons are the peak of Chinese cuisine.
American "Chinese" food is good.. some places are better than others. But nothing compares to real Chinese food. My brothers fiancé is from China and her family always has big dinner parties and OMFG... I never knew that American Chinese food wasn't actual Chinese food until I ate at their house. I'm just angry that there aren't any authentic places in the US because it's so much better than what is being sold here. I don't really remember some of the dishes they made. I just remember her mother lecturing us about how Americans ruined Asian cuisines and how she's on a mission to correct this atrocity! Oh and her red bean cakes and moon cakes were amazing! I had never had Chinese desserts before. I think she made some kind of mango pudding too one time that ruined all pudding for me. Nothing compares now.
I agree the severely Americanized Chinese cuisine is quite good but I would never turn down the opportunity to try authentic Chinese cuisine
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I mean I love American Chinese food but there's no way I think it's anywhere close to authentic.
What's weird though is when I look up Chinese food recipes to cook at home, it almost always turns out very close to what I get at restaurants. I mean I get all the crazy stuff like fish and oyster sauce too. Seems to me like the internets consensus is that Americanized Chinese food is more broadly accepted than traditional.
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That's how I feel whenever my friend wants to eat "German" food. She dragged me to two or three "German" restaurants and it wasn't even remotely close to German food. Sometimes she still says she craves German food and I remind her that "That's not German food. That's like saying Taco Bell is Mexican food."
Wait, so real Gemans don't use snuff and take shots of some sort of apple liquor off a long board and say "TICKY, TICKY, TICKY OIE, OIE,OIE" ???
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Crab Rangoons aren't Chinese cuisine at all. It was invented by an American guy who worked at Trader Vic's in San Francisco in the '50s.
I live in China, and I always tell my family and friends back home (Houston) that the food they're eating at the Golden Dragon (or whatever name) buffet isn't real Chinese food, but rather what Americans THINK Chinese food is. I went home for a visit, and we went to one of the local Chinese food joints. I told the manager I lived in China and asked if he had any real Chinese dishes. He just laughed, shook his head and said, "No, no..." At another place, my sister's favorite, I did the same and the guy looked at me and asked, "Where do you live?" in Chinese. I answered, also in Chinese, "I've lived in Qingdao for 10 years." He retrieved a paper menu from the kitchen, the stealth menu with real Chinese dishes, and handed it to me. But similarly, American food here in China is not really American food. It's what the Chinese think American food is.
But when Chinese people came over here they brought their food with them and when they opened restaurants. They edited recipes because they didn't have the same ingredients as back home. It's still Chinese cultured food. To say it isn't Chinese just because they were serving a different demographic seems mildly racist.
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some people will call anything with soy sauce Chinese food, and anything with coco milk thai. basically put anything in a wok and is "Asian"...we have an "Asian restaurant" nearby (not the US) it serves Thai, mongolian BBQ, sushi aanndd Lasagna. cheap lunch Buffé though
We have one like that near me! Japanese, Korean BBQ and pizza! I have never been there but it sounds like it wouldn't be great.
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I wish more Asian food restaurants would step away from calling it "Chinese" and actually let more people know what they're really serving. If it's truly a Chinese dish, from what area? Traditional or modern take? A lot of Hispanic restaurants sell themselves short this way too, unfortunately. I loved this one "Mexican grill" and was bummed when the same dish tasted totally different at a different one. Turns out the staff was Puerto Rican at the one I loved.
I think it's important to note, China is a large place with a variety of cuisine that is wildly different from one area to another. Words like "authentic" and "real" only hold as much weight as you give them.
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I, the white friend, introduced my Indian friend to the best Indian food in our city. She thought it was hilarious and always mentions it to other friends when recommending it. But I never said it was the best or most authentic Indian restaurant, I just said it was good and took her there.
I have always found it interesting how different cultures alter their food to fit in with the countries in which they are living. What you can be absolutely sure of is that the non-indigenous food that you are buying in your country is NOT a good example of what that nationality of people eat themselves.
Sweet and sour chicken is very popular in Australia but my Chinese MIL thought I was joking when I told her. Chinese would never put it on chicken.
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A chinese snack bar in Germany I used to favour had two menus - one in Chinese and one in German and English. If you looked closer, the chinese version listed about ten dishes more. Unfortunately I never dared to ask for one of them - I am sure it would have been much more interesting than the generic "Chinese Food" they usually offered.
I will say this-the "Chinese food in Germany tasted a lot better to me that that served in the US
Load More Replies... I have to laugh because everyone is complaining that American Chinese isn't authentic enough as if it's white or black or Jewish people's fault. But who owns the Chinese restaurants here?! Asian people! Although, I do have to agree, 99.5% of Chinese buffets are dirt.
😄😄😄😄😄 Yeah, NO Chinese Restaurant in the USA serves authentic Chinese food because it's not sanitary (rat and dog are often on the menu in China, or spoiled food dating back 2,000 years) what Americans are eating is actually "holiday food" with recipes from the Manchu Dynasty and Ming Dynasty.
“Actually…” crab Rangoons are far superior to any *actual* Chinese cuisine - and the same goes for Americanized versions of Mexican food, Italian food , etc - stop the hate and drop your pretentious act
When ppl try to please ppl from another cultural background by offering them food from "their culture" it always goes wrong in my experience. Just don't even try that.
Or just stop using someone's skin color as a litmus test for what they like and just ask if they want some Indian food. Just because somebody's Indian doesn't mean they like their food. I had an Italian friend who hated pasta.
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The best place to go for authentic Chinese food is a restaurant that Chinese people go to. (Same for any restaurant actually.) I live in Johannesburg and have been to some fantastic places where the staff didn't even speak English (only Cantonese, usually) and the food has been next-level. And don't get me started on the AMAZING Indian food you can get here (again, find a restaurant that Indian people go to.) A tip from a friend of mine who lived in Paris for years: if you want authentic Japanese food in Paris, you MUST go to a place where they have plastic sushi on display. Only authentic Japanese restaurants are allowed to have those.
But cream cheese Rangoons, tho? Peak of whatever culture. Hell, prolly of humanity as a whole.
If I understand correctly, lactose intolerance is more common among Asian people than among Caucasians, which is why cheese is not a common thing in a lot of Asian cooking in general.
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If he paid for the meal, I hope that you at least thanked him for the kind gesture.
I've been to China, h.k. etc , I honestly like USA Chinese better .
Um, yeah. Panda Express isn't "real" Chinese food. It's yummy, just not authentic.
Peru has a cuisine called "Chifa," it is descended from the food prepared by Chinese immigrants there. They gave it a name because the same ingredients were not easily available in Peru as in China, named it to differentiate between their version & actual Chinese food.
It’s the same with Indian food, if you read the history about the British and butter chicken. The Chinese changed there dishes to appeal to their audience the customer. Now we are more aware of culture we probably would be more open to their traditional dishes.
Omg! Thank the Lord you got away from him! What a horrifying thing to do to somebody else. You take you to any Mexican restaurants? Lord God only knows if you got authentic food or not! BTW, I know plenty of Irishmen that have had to eat Americanized fish and chips. Of course they think it's hilarious and I doubt you'll find any of them posting their terrible traumas on this particular forum.
I was blessed with a Chinese restaurant that has a hidden menu. You have to ask for it. If you don't, then you get American Chinese. It is fine dining but I grew up there, since I was 11 and I am 36 now. Black bean sauce is something you don't find in Chinese places, and I miss it when people take me to "the best Chinese in town". So I never stopped going and never will stop going. Helped that the owner was(gave business to his friend since he opened a Asian Mexican place) man was a Mandarin living in Korea so he understood my mom when she spoke to him. He made a specialty menu that was requested by my mom written in English, Mandarin, and Korean. Now, I tell everyone I know to go try their specialty menu if you want the real stuff. They truly are a culture that uses every part of the animal
Long as he paid, who cares? Let him be smug, it's free food, lol.
My boyfriend doesn't understand why I cringe everytime he wants to order Chinese food. We live in Colorado Springs - it's hard to find decent AMERICAN food here. And from the perspective of an American who has had real Chinese/Korean/Japanese food, I can safely say that Americans only think crab Rangoons are the height of Chinese cuisine because... That's all that's usually ever edible from standard Americanized Chinese places. From my experience. Because usually even if those are bad, they're fried dough and cheese and that's pretty hard to screw up. I always tell him to get me wantons because it's usually all I can ever eat without feeling like I'm eating grease soup and grease noodles with grease chicken.
While I do enjoy the American version of Chinese food, I go to Chinatown for authenticity.
Had that happen with Mexican food but I told him out right when he asked.
Glad I don't know the wife in this one she sounds like a nasty person.
Crab Rangoons are one of the best foods on this planet. You're telling me that's American?! Well then you're welcome.
Most American Chinese food is too greasy. Only once have I had well done American Chinese food and that was years ago.
What's the ex-friend's religion got to do with anything? Clueless is clueless. 😉
What was the purpose of mentioning he is Jewish? Some Jews know good Chinese food. You dissed him for thinking he knew something he didn't, but spout backhanded antisemitism.
We have Chinese restaurants in our town owned and operated by Chinese Americans.I've traveled in China and the food is great in both places. Moral: Look around your town for cooks who know how to prepare the food you want,
I've tried Australian Chinese and sometimes it's ok, but oh boy REAL Chinese (and authentic Asian food in general) is soooo much better than what is commonly available in most Western Countries.... I lived with Asian people (Malaysian, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Indonesian mostly) for several years while at Uni. I literally feel like I'm missing something now if I don't have rice and noodles almost every day! (Oh and so t get me started on the old Aussie way of literally bookend then draining rice!)
What? Did he choose Royal Panda? I've had some authentic something...not sure what part of China it's from. I think it's Cantonese? I wouldn't say it's that good, though. Dad disagrees...
You sound like a snob. What a wasted opportunity to offer to take them to your favorite restaurant. It sounds like you had a chip on your shoulder about this guy before you even got there.
Someone tell this guy to watch Flavorful Origins on Netflix. It might just blow his mind and smug face away.
Mmm...the yuk seems to with you. You describe him in such a condescending way that I wonder why you even go to dinner with someone you clearly don't like? Then....if he were your friend you would let him know before hand that it's a fake restaurant but YOU will show him authentic Chinese food. But he is not your friend. And you waste his time just going and thinking hes a fool. You seem like a creep.
If you are Chinese, and he was expecting you to take him to a Good one. What is wrong in it with him?
That wasn't what he was trying to do. He was trying to show her how much he knew...when he was really clueless.
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I guess it’s good nobody appears to be familiar with the stereotype of Jewish people being extremely familiar with Chinese food.
i mean, he at least tried to do something he thought was nice, even if it was misguided. if it's insulting by accident treating it as an insult without at least making it known that you do is heinously passive-aggressive.
Be careful what you ask for. The average Chinese person does not eat so well.
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The author could have simply said he wasn't Chinese - she did not have to say he was Jewish. There is enough anti-Semitism in the world.
It is so sad that this is all you got out of it..it wasn't about anti-semitism. Just as she pointed out she is Chinese, she pointed out the singular identifying characteristic of the antagonist. It is what makes this hilarious. It would be the same as her, a Chinese person, telling her Jewish friend where to get the best bagels and lox, gefilte fish, kugeln, or matzoh ball soup.
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I heard someone yesterday suggest that children should operate heavy machinery to address supply shortages.
Turns out that guy happened to be the fricken prime minister.
Not that it's a good solution (or that they would have the aptitude for it), but what small child WOULDN'T want to operate an excavator?
People wonder why there isn't more eyewitness accounts of 9/11 because surely everyone just pulled out their phones?
B***h please. Back in 2001 most people were still using 35mm film cameras, camcorders were usually VHS and digital ones were not cheap in the slightest, and the US was behind the curve on cellular technology anyway. I was in the US a few months before 9/11 and even in New York people didn't understand what SMS was let alone had a phone compatible or were using it.
How is there an amount of eyewitnesses of 9/11 that makes people wonder why there isn't more? I mean, i'm a stupid alt-left radical commie anti-America extremist, but i think that if the tallest buildings in the city had a passenger jet aircraft fly into them and turn into a dust cloud of smoke and non-melting steel beams, i'd notice it.
A friend of mine in college was absolutely shocked when I and several other friends pulled out our childhood/hometown public library cards at dinner one night. She could not fathom that all of our families went to the library regularly when we were growing up and that this is an extremely common experience for a lot of people. When I asked her what she did when she wanted to read books growing up, she said "My family just bought them all."
One of my dreams. Own books. I have been able to acquire books and will keep those that I want to re-read. All others go to the library.
Former roommate declared, "I'm an only child, that means I don't have to be nice if I don't want to."
I was 16 years old, in Driver's Ed, and the teacher asks us an extra credit question. "Why are there interstates in Hawaii? You can't drive there from any other state."
A girl in my class raised her hand and asked, "Was it because they were built before Hawaii broke off?"....This girl thought it was a possibility that Hawaii broke off, and drifted to the middle of the Pacific ocean, all in the last 50 years.
Also, Hawaii has interstates because, if a highway is funded by the federal government, it's simply called an interstate.
My old boss was railing on me for placing an order late and getting charged more after missing the ‘early bird special’, when I had been reminding her consistently for at least two months (gradually increasing my urgency that she needed to make up her mind). She was yelling at me and then said, “$$$ might not seem like a lot to you but it is to me!”
This coming from the person who set my wage, signed my checks, owned 4 substantial homes, had MILLIONS of dollars worth of artwork, designer everything, etc… While I was living in a 250sq foot garden studio apartment with my partner, which flooded when it rained longer than two days, making her hundreds of thousands of dollars from sales, with no commission.
My aunt is a bit into that. She's done really well for herself but has forgotten that not all of us are retired engineers who play the stock market for funsies part time. She suggested Thanksgiving at my place one year, and I had to remind her that I lived in a 2 bedroom apartment and inviting around 15 people there wasn't going to work.
I was involved in a nonprofit for women in my last city maybe 2 years back. My ex (we were 27 at the time) was from a rich area of the state, and the mean income for this area was $31k. A teacher talked about how 500+ kids in her school were homeless, abs how seniors would pool their money together to get a hotel for days or weeks at a time.
I remember telling my ex about it, and how awful that’s gotta be to be 17 and living with 10 others in a hotel. He said “they’re stupid. If they had any brains, they’d buy a house so they could get equity; the hotel is just them throwing their money away and not getting anything from it.” He was 100% stuck that these 17 year olds, with no addresses, who are MINORS, can apply and qualify for a mortgage. I fussed at him and don’t regret it, because he is so out of touch with reality. Eventually he went on months later to say he talks down about other people and acts like he’s better than everyone because he is better than everyone.
Edit to add: to clarify, he suggested the high schoolers should all buy a house, not my organization. Household income was about 10k higher than individual. His parents were loaded, so he never had to really pay for anything until after college, and even then he didn’t have to pay for housing for the first 3 years of his career, and even still, 95% of his (nice) furniture and everything was given to him. It’s very easy to brag about your 401k when you NEVER had to allocate money towards rent, loans, etc.
He would have been an EX the first time he said something that stupid.
i’ve genuinely heard someone comment on a homeless person asking why they “don’t just get a home”…
f*ck this y'all i'm picking myself up by my bootstraps *grabs bootstraps and source engine noclips out of the atmosphere*
Some guy whose parents paid for his college tuition mentioned to a coworker who has $107,000 in student loans say he should be able to pay it off in 5 years.
Coworker makes $23 an hour on 5-8s.
Classmate in college kept throwing his Starbucks cups on the ground and other garbage.
"They pay people to pick it up"
He was the son of a guy who owned multiple resorts in South America.
A coworker believes the US Military employs the use of Lightsabers.
Older coworkers asking me why poor people keep spending/borrowing money when they know they'll never pay it back..
Lol, like to live? What's the difference in $2k or $20k in debt when you know you'll only ever be paying back $0?
It's kind of liberating when you accept that you'll always be in debt. I'm getting a MA and buying a house. I'll die in debt. Good luck collecting the money then.
One of my relatives "Joined the illuminati" on facebook.... On. Facebook. He was really serious too and excited about it.
My fiance is a doctor, I'm an engineer her and I grew up VERY blue collar. We still have tons of student debt to pay off before we can reap the benefits of a good salary.
Her friend, a doctor who was a resident when she was in med school, was talking to us about the new house she bought, and kept asking us when we planned on moving out of our s****y apartment and getting a nice big town house. She couldn't comprehend that unlike her, our parents aren't rich, and they can't buy a house for us in CASH, and let us pay them back interest free.
I love her to death, she's a sweet friend we have known for a long time. She has done so much for us in terms of friendship and emotional support. But her mom was a successful surgeon, her dad retired early after selling his successful business.
There are poor people in the world who cannot for the life of them imagine what the life of a rich person is, and there are rich people in the world who have never, ever had to be confronted with what a poor person's life is like. They are surrounded their whole lives with people like them, and they really don't have a clue that there is anything else.
Had a girl ask what happened to the Mongolians in history class. She said “there’s not like a present day Mongolia or anything”. She sat under the ten foot wide world map, Mongolia was about two feet above her head.
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When the United States legalized same-sex marriage, and Americans said they were going to emigrate to Canada. 1) Canada and Norway are the first countries to legalize same-sex marriage 2) You have to apply to emigrate to Canada. It takes years and tons of paperwork, and you still might be rejected.
Yeah, I don't remember Americans having ever been invited to Canada...just sayin'. - Sincerely, all Canadians
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That's why we have so many billionaires and rich people yet the world still suffers endlessly.
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I don’t blame wealthy people for not being constantly acutely aware of how other people live. I do blame them when, if confronted with how poorer people live, they won’t take a minute do some simple math in their head. Like the wealthy woman who told me that if I visited Europe I should be sure to stay for at least a few weeks or a month and take my time, when she knew that, at that time, I made $18,000 a year. WTF?!
yep, arrogant as hell though. At that salary, which here is considered moderately low middle-income, there's ZERO chance of overseas travel. You need to be getting ballpark $ 30 000 per annum to stand a chance.
Load More Replies... No, can't say that I have. Edit: went to post the same thing again as a joke and bp outright says "hey, you already made this same comment before, so we won't post it."
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It's 'painful' to read about human arrogance, stupidity, and lack of empathy.
The amount on stuff that did not really happen in this list and the ones that were meant as jokes far out weigh the real ones... lol
Some of these were funny... But the ones making fun of teens for not knowing how the world works were kind of sad. Like... they're still kids, they're pretty new here, they only know what they've been taught and exposed to, which is a reflection of their schools and caretakers, not of their intelligence. Like, yeah, a 16 year old should know these things, because someone should have taught them. What, do you think they learn how the world is by osmosis? Just because they have access to social media doesn't mean their phones can auto download all necessary knowledge into their brains. They have to know what to look for to learn on their own, and lots of times that takes considerable life experience. Stop ragging on literal children for not knowing things.
Neighbor was complaining about our lawn. I told her we don't have a mower. She said "So fix it". I repeated "We don't have a lawnmower"
She meant fix the lawnmower problem but that's still unreasonable
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The one about borrowing money and never being able to pay it back is a fair point. Because easy credit is offered does not make it a good move to take it, in fact it is usually not. Debt does matter and a borrower with sound morals will at least make an effort to pay it back.
My mom goes by the quote "if you are letting someone borrow money, don't expect it back"
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My boss is rich. He owns a few houses to include a really nice apartment in NYC. His daughter lives there for free. She's not required to have a job and has an unlimited credit card and gets a new Macbook for Christmas every year. One night she took a private gig bartending a party thrown by a billionaire. The only thing she had to do all night was pour wine. They paid her a few grand. When she got home to her dad's apartment, he was in town for the weekend, she said to him, "Wow Dad, now I know how the other half live." Um honey, you ARE the other half. The next time he was in the office after that he told this story to every employee. He literally told the story like 20 times. Most of his employees can barely afford their rent.
Sounds like an EXTREMELY boring and uninformed life for the dad and/or daughter
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On a vacation in Italy, my wife and I were on a train to Venice. There was a woman talking, loudly. She was from Lansing, Michigan and was discussing her experiences and insights with some she had made an acquaintance with about her tour of Italy. She said she did not care for Rome. What was her grievance with this ancient city? The streets were to narrow and she would be unable to fit her SUV down them. It was just a poorly designed city...
Work customer service for a major retailer that uses gift cards, which are treated as cash. No word of a lie, when client told me that they had gotten the gift card and mailed it out, after receiving,their response to being told we wouldn't refund it was "That's like watching my mother being raped. Picture you're mother being raped. PICTURE YOUR MOTHER BEING RAPED...." Over and over til I hung up.
Growing up, we categorize these rich people into two categories. People and marks. Yeah I'm not much of an upstanding citizen growing up. You do what you can to eat and a well gamed mark can keep you and your friends fed for a while.
Anyone can be rich. Just pick the right skin color, have wealthy parents and influential friends, be good looking, attend a top notch school, pick the right country to be born in, make sure you are male ... Just don't understood why everyone does not do these simple rules for success.
I have a feeling that it was mostly about America and their situation. and it's scary. I'm happy to live in Europe. the American dream is not as sweet as people here often imagine.
You must be very lucky then. I have lived in europe all my life and I am poor as f**k. In Spain unemployment is rampant, salaries are extremely low and many kids go to school without food. In the netherlands you need to pay a extremely expensive insurance (minimum 95 euros a month) to even get any health care and not get a huge fine. Here in belgium if you are a migrant and disabled like me you get nothing, only threats and lies from the government. The only reason why I am not in the streets is because my partner has a job and cares for me.
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When the United States legalized same-sex marriage, and Americans said they were going to emigrate to Canada. 1) Canada and Norway are the first countries to legalize same-sex marriage 2) You have to apply to emigrate to Canada. It takes years and tons of paperwork, and you still might be rejected.
Yeah, I don't remember Americans having ever been invited to Canada...just sayin'. - Sincerely, all Canadians
Load More Replies... That's why we have so many billionaires and rich people yet the world still suffers endlessly.
Load More Replies... I don’t blame wealthy people for not being constantly acutely aware of how other people live. I do blame them when, if confronted with how poorer people live, they won’t take a minute do some simple math in their head. Like the wealthy woman who told me that if I visited Europe I should be sure to stay for at least a few weeks or a month and take my time, when she knew that, at that time, I made $18,000 a year. WTF?!
yep, arrogant as hell though. At that salary, which here is considered moderately low middle-income, there's ZERO chance of overseas travel. You need to be getting ballpark $ 30 000 per annum to stand a chance.
Load More Replies... No, can't say that I have. Edit: went to post the same thing again as a joke and bp outright says "hey, you already made this same comment before, so we won't post it."
Load More Replies... It's 'painful' to read about human arrogance, stupidity, and lack of empathy.
The amount on stuff that did not really happen in this list and the ones that were meant as jokes far out weigh the real ones... lol
Some of these were funny... But the ones making fun of teens for not knowing how the world works were kind of sad. Like... they're still kids, they're pretty new here, they only know what they've been taught and exposed to, which is a reflection of their schools and caretakers, not of their intelligence. Like, yeah, a 16 year old should know these things, because someone should have taught them. What, do you think they learn how the world is by osmosis? Just because they have access to social media doesn't mean their phones can auto download all necessary knowledge into their brains. They have to know what to look for to learn on their own, and lots of times that takes considerable life experience. Stop ragging on literal children for not knowing things.
Neighbor was complaining about our lawn. I told her we don't have a mower. She said "So fix it". I repeated "We don't have a lawnmower"
She meant fix the lawnmower problem but that's still unreasonable
Load More Replies... The one about borrowing money and never being able to pay it back is a fair point. Because easy credit is offered does not make it a good move to take it, in fact it is usually not. Debt does matter and a borrower with sound morals will at least make an effort to pay it back.
My mom goes by the quote "if you are letting someone borrow money, don't expect it back"
Load More Replies... My boss is rich. He owns a few houses to include a really nice apartment in NYC. His daughter lives there for free. She's not required to have a job and has an unlimited credit card and gets a new Macbook for Christmas every year. One night she took a private gig bartending a party thrown by a billionaire. The only thing she had to do all night was pour wine. They paid her a few grand. When she got home to her dad's apartment, he was in town for the weekend, she said to him, "Wow Dad, now I know how the other half live." Um honey, you ARE the other half. The next time he was in the office after that he told this story to every employee. He literally told the story like 20 times. Most of his employees can barely afford their rent.
Sounds like an EXTREMELY boring and uninformed life for the dad and/or daughter
Load More Replies... On a vacation in Italy, my wife and I were on a train to Venice. There was a woman talking, loudly. She was from Lansing, Michigan and was discussing her experiences and insights with some she had made an acquaintance with about her tour of Italy. She said she did not care for Rome. What was her grievance with this ancient city? The streets were to narrow and she would be unable to fit her SUV down them. It was just a poorly designed city...
Work customer service for a major retailer that uses gift cards, which are treated as cash. No word of a lie, when client told me that they had gotten the gift card and mailed it out, after receiving,their response to being told we wouldn't refund it was "That's like watching my mother being raped. Picture you're mother being raped. PICTURE YOUR MOTHER BEING RAPED...." Over and over til I hung up.
Growing up, we categorize these rich people into two categories. People and marks. Yeah I'm not much of an upstanding citizen growing up. You do what you can to eat and a well gamed mark can keep you and your friends fed for a while.
Anyone can be rich. Just pick the right skin color, have wealthy parents and influential friends, be good looking, attend a top notch school, pick the right country to be born in, make sure you are male ... Just don't understood why everyone does not do these simple rules for success.
I have a feeling that it was mostly about America and their situation. and it's scary. I'm happy to live in Europe. the American dream is not as sweet as people here often imagine.
You must be very lucky then. I have lived in europe all my life and I am poor as f**k. In Spain unemployment is rampant, salaries are extremely low and many kids go to school without food. In the netherlands you need to pay a extremely expensive insurance (minimum 95 euros a month) to even get any health care and not get a huge fine. Here in belgium if you are a migrant and disabled like me you get nothing, only threats and lies from the government. The only reason why I am not in the streets is because my partner has a job and cares for me.
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