You know the feeling. You get into an argument with someone, the two of you are going at each other back and forth, and they get you so riled up that you suddenly can't think of a good comeback until long after the fight is over.
There's actually a French term for this called l'esprit de l'escalier. It describes the feeling you get when you come up with the perfect reply after the fact.
We've all been there. It's devastating.
So let's take a moment and pay our respects to and celebrate the really good comebacks—the ultimate expressions of wit and cleverness. Taken from the appropriately titled subreddit r/MurderedByWords, here are some of the best ways people have ended their disagreements.
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A Very Important Point
Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism
"Educate Your Self"
Say it louder for the ones in the back. Not that they listen to sense.
That’s A Stupid Reason To Ban Transgender People
What does being transgender have to do with trust. Makes no sense to me.
Anti Vaxxer Pretends To Be Educated
And polio, measles, pneumonia, diptheria, influenza? Oh and that pesky Bubonic Plague. A healthy gut sure worked there.
Don't forget typhoid. Mary Mallon may have had a strong enough immune system to not ever have symptoms, but she killed enough people to earn the title "Typhoid Mary".
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How do these dipshits still not get it? How did education fail to teach them the basic fact that vaccines are exercise for our immune systems?? It’s like war games. It’s training! It makes the immune system stronger! THATS HOW IT F*****G WORKS, people!
Jup only studies show these vaccins are less effective in people with auto immune diseases. I'm really curious about that. My immune system is allways in overdrive.
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How do vaccines "lower your immune system"? That's like saying working out at the gym lowers your muscular system; It makes no sense.
They say that because with the vaccine they insert to you an inactive part of the virus! I really don't understand how they manage to read only one thing of how a vaccine works and they mess so much the rest.... makes no sense! But i guess there is no logic in stupidity!
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Commenter #1 started out with some great advice. But they just couldn’t stop while they were ahead, and had to round out their statement with total unfounded, untreated sewage-quality bullshit. Commenter #2 totally slayed them with verified historical fact. Kudos to Commenter #2.
Medicine and medical knowledge is something that has lowered the mortality rate massively in the last 100 years. Simple.
Vaccines literally boost your immune system. That is the entire point. They create antibodies without actually having the disease.
To be fair, not everyone died of smallpox. If that was the case, we would not be here today. However everybody had the potential of dying of smallpox, and we have reduced that risc profoundly by vacines.
The people who survived often had some pretty horrible effects for the rest of their lives. Ever seen a smallpox vaccination scar on the upper arm of an older person? (I have one!) Imagine hundreds of those scars covering the entire body and face. Imagine someone being blind because the same pustules that caused the skin scars have erupted on their eyeballs. That was smallpox.
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Baby boomers were vaccinated for polio at school. We lined up like troops going to war. No one in their right mind would have told the doctors not to vaccinate their kids.
Past: got a fever? Possibly dead. Now: got a fever? That sucks, get well soon.
People like this tool need to be taken on a field trip to the cemetery so they can see all the sad little tombstones on the graves of children who died of smallpox and diphtheria, measles and polio back in pre-vaccination times. Next stop after that: Six mandatory hours spent living in an iron lung. It's the sheer arrogant complacency that really gets to me. You didn't personally grow up watching half your siblings succumb to preventable diseases so therefore it was never a problem? Seriously??
some of those things are true tho (to an extent): washing your hands with soap and water is better at dealing with covid (if you dont have it already), you should drink the purest water you can get by filtering tap water (you dont want lead poisoning, and it tastes better when filtered), and you need to go outside once in a while to get vitamin D.
If anyone is dumb enough to take a vax that has been proven not to work , then they are way to stupid to give any advise to anyone.
It’s only half true. True, the food was organic and there wasn’t hand sanitizer but they didn’t wash their hands (or anything else). They often didn’t eat properly (too much or too little). And often their clothing wasn’t appropriate for the season. Not saying all vacines are wrong but lets get the facts right folks.
Being all different there are unknowns. Now they're pushing vaccination. I got mine, you haven't? Talk to you later.
Oh, but surely that nutjob on the internet knows more than all the doctors on the planet.
All the OP mentioned are good things, but......so are vaccines. Do them all!!
Antivaxxer's have no science on their side. Their world view is based on one quack doctor who lied about his research, then published it in a credible medical journal where peer review exposed his fraud. But antivaxxers have such a burning desire to think they have the answers to their kids' autism, they live on wishful thinking.
Everyone died of smallpox? It's a wonder there are any people left in the world!
If one doen't trust vaccines, then one should never you contraception. Let the babies die AFTER they ae born!
It's a shame that organic food doesn't seem to increase life expectancy.
In an alternate reality, everyone died because of people like this one.
Just Try Not Being Straight For Awhile
I remember this from a few weeks ago! After all, ii did say I wanted to, given its a brilliant comeback :D
The Best Putdowns Come From The Truth
This Comeback Belongs In The Hall Of Fame
In The Interests Of Public Safety
I'd Expect No Less At Dollar General
Bye Bye Trash!!
He himself is both a boob and an ass. If he can find a like minded friend they'd make an interesting pair 😂
Waddaya Say, Then?
Honestly, You're Not Important Enough To Be Microchipped
"I Don’t Understand Marches"
Your Bigotry Is Showing
Stuff like this also shows how mentally stuck in the past conservatives are. They honestly think scenes like this will actually scare people as much it scares them.
America, F**k Yeah!
It's sad that someone let alone a child needs to do this. This is a government and school funding issue.
Babies Are Not A Plaything
Girls Have Ankles Too
$10 To Clean The Bathroom?!
7 out of ten dollars? Smh is that really what they think? I pay around 19-21% and get a lot of it back in tax credits. Do you think it's the 'ism' that makes ppl think socialism is communism? We could always try calling it socialocracy
Let's Blame Children's Knees For Making Men Uncomfortable
Do they not filter out the weirdos who apply to be teachers? Or are they just good at hiding it?
God Is A White Man
Funny, I've read the Bible many times, and have yet to come across the chapter and verse where God mandates that white men be in the majority. Anyone?
America Was Not Started By Protestors!
Who Knows What They Put In "Food" Anyway?
I heard he apparently was breathing air in those two weeks, so hold ur breath and I'll get back to u asap....
So Cold It Burns
Jeepers Creepers
This, right? Taking strangers pics is not very subtle! Especially this well framed, poor dude. Now I wonder about genders reversed: guy taking picture of young woman with such inference? Well if I find that creepy (which I do), then by all logic this is equally as creepy (which it is)
There's No Vaccination For That
What's sad is that her children have to suffer for her to be proven an idiot.
I'll Bet They Do, At Least The Senior Ncos
Gas Pump (Doesn't) Go Brrrrr
When I was a kid working at a gas station, if the power failed, you cranked it by hand. Lot of years ago, mind
Something About Bootstraps
Not Sure You Are Doing It Right
Exercise By Jumping Into Conclusion
“We Follow Biblical Rules”
The word “homosexual” wasn’t added into the Bible until 1942. Can we not hide behind religion to excuse our homophobia, thank you.
And This Is The Truth
That'll Show Them!
No Second Chances For Her!
Can't Say Much, Can We?
Why Even Publish This Story?
Nice Try
Complete Slam Dunk From This Dude
That Went Over Like A Lead Balloon
That’s A Lotta Damage
Inconvenient At Worst
Wait until they find the truth about the nation wide conspiracy you call Santa Claus
My Dad Hasn’t Paid Child Support In Years And Posted This. I Had To Respond
Murdered By Logic, As Well
When it's cold it's coz the big ball in the sky is angered! If we harass our enemies perhaps it shall return! I think we angered it with the panels! *sob*
Anti-Vax Logic
Please Stop Calling People You Disagree With That
Probably Not Even The Full 30 Minutes
Xena Slays Hercules! (Lucy Lawless vs. Kevin Sorbo)
Why Are People Still On The Side Of The Billionaires?
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Personally Replies To A Hater
Thank you! Lol I love Jacinda, she reacts as any other person, repeat that again person, would. Ppl pigeonhole her by gender can go shove themselves, as they bounce off her like water off a duck's back. Great role model for young women :)
Peon's Don't Deserve Dignity
Meanwhile Jeff Bezos makes $2,489 per second while his warehouse workers rely on food stamps.
Tinder Convo. Murdered By Two Letters. New Record? Likely Can't Ever Be Beaten
Twitter Used Guillotine! It’s A One Hit Ko!
He’s Definitely Not Making Into Smash Now
Amazing Observation
Anti-Masker vs. A Hedge
To be fair to the tweeter, in the UK (don't know about other countries) you do not have to wear a mask outside. Walking in the countryside less so. I've had a jogger almost fall into a ditch trying to avoid me on a country lane, and this was after I'd moved right to the side to allow him to pass. Some people just like extremes I guess.
They Have To, It's The Law
I’m gonna get downvoted into oblivion but i think that decriminalizing ALL drugs is a terrible idea.
I Use Capital Letters To Sound Smarter
The Difference Between Appropriation And Appreciation
When Did They Start Calling Us Doomers?
But antimaskers and antivaxxers don't believe in math or science because they flunked it in school.
Nike Tried To Disown The Shoes Funnily Enough
Pick Me, Pick Me!
Space Ned Flanders Responds To A Comment On A Post About A Plaque On The Moon.
Orbit??! But, but that implies spherical! Stop talking madness you crazy dude
I Used My Argument To Destroy My Argument
Omg!!! Not a bad idea at all! A logic test, of which they clearly lack!
Did Not Know That About The First Computer Virus
Brandy Is Not Having It
Why Is Tucker Carlson?
Wine Is Thicker Than Blood
Being in a bad place yourself is no excuse to hurt others, especially those who depend on you. If you're a parent falling into a toxic spiral, don't be afraid to get help for yourself & your kids before it's too late. Neither of you deserve to be in pain & there are people out there who want to help.
"In His Samarra Hometown, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Was Known As The Local Cleric. To The FBI, He's The Militant Leader Who Was An Iraqi Terrorist And Headed Isis."
Seriously, Read Or Be Read.
I Can't Make Titles
It's That Simple
Much Ado About Something
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Poor Washed-Up Has-Been Whining About Back In The Day
Bored Panda has enough material to make a whole post on Tomi Lahren's ramblings
Bored Panda has enough material to make a whole post on Tomi Lahren's ramblings
