Comments on: When Stupidity Sits at Your Table and Courtesy is Required http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/ How to Maintain Sanity over Everyday Stupidity Fri, 18 May 2012 03:47:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Dan http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-5039 Dan Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:41:20 +0000 http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-5039 I sometimes marvel at your composure, considering the amount of stupers that you come across in your daily life. I very much doubt I can keep my cool when someone passed idiotic comments about our children choices of colleges especially when they are qualified by racist comments like : "You don’t want him at a school filled with Asians.” Incidentally, her "intelligent assessment" reminded me of two outstanding books that I had read recently - A Free Life by Hai Jin and Sweet & Sour by Timothy Mo - that touches on the prejudices and rascism that immigrants to America and England faced in their search for a better life. You might want to recommend them to the "graceful" Kimmie :) Take care and a Merry Christmas and wonderful New Year to you! I sometimes marvel at your composure, considering the amount of stupers that you come across in your daily life. I very much doubt I can keep my cool when someone passed idiotic comments about our children choices of colleges especially when they are qualified by racist comments like : “You don’t want him at a school filled with Asians.”

Incidentally, her “intelligent assessment” reminded me of two outstanding books that I had read recently - A Free Life by Hai Jin and Sweet & Sour by Timothy Mo - that touches on the prejudices and rascism that immigrants to America and England faced in their search for a better life. You might want to recommend them to the “graceful” Kimmie :)

Take care and a Merry Christmas and wonderful New Year to you!

]]> By: Keli http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4955 Keli Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:09:29 +0000 http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4955 Elaine: Thanks very much Elaine! My blood used to boil at such comments, but I believe I've developed a certain immunity due to my constant contact with stupers. Not unlike beekeepers who develop an immunity to stings(; Ferd: My sentiments exactly! The quickest way to guarantee an enemy is to insult one's children. No doubt she was a "shitty" counselor. She was quite self-righteous as well. But I really did enjoy the silent hour when she finally quit yakking. Thanks, Ferd! Jenny: Why do these people always appear on our doorsteps! I have stuper experience like that also. They sure love to hear themselves speak, don't they? Wouldn't you just love to slam the door, just once and string the lights just a little higher off the ground directly beneath her feet... You didn't hear that from me! Elaine:
Thanks very much Elaine! My blood used to boil at such comments, but I believe I’ve developed a certain immunity due to my constant contact with stupers. Not unlike beekeepers who develop an immunity to stings(;
Ferd:
My sentiments exactly! The quickest way to guarantee an enemy is to insult one’s children. No doubt she was a “shitty” counselor. She was quite self-righteous as well. But I really did enjoy the silent hour when she finally quit yakking.
Thanks, Ferd!
Jenny:
Why do these people always appear on our doorsteps! I have stuper experience like that also. They sure love to hear themselves speak, don’t they? Wouldn’t you just love to slam the door, just once and string the lights just a little higher off the ground directly beneath her feet… You didn’t hear that from me!

]]> By: Keli http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4954 Keli Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:04:00 +0000 http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4954 Annie: "Ghastly" is the perfect word to describe Kimmie. I considered unleashing my tongue, but what good would it have done? Ruined by cool, calm and collected reputation (which I might remind myself, Othello never regained), and would certainly have not caused any much needed change in Kimmie! MC: Stupers can be bitches. Bitchiness does not always require intent. Sarah: I thought the same thing about her daughter. I used it to try to muster up some sympathy. It didn't work. Suzie: Those "some people" you refer to are stupers. That's why. Annie:
“Ghastly” is the perfect word to describe Kimmie. I considered unleashing my tongue, but what good would it have done? Ruined by cool, calm and collected reputation (which I might remind myself, Othello never regained), and would certainly have not caused any much needed change in Kimmie!
MC:
Stupers can be bitches. Bitchiness does not always require intent.
Sarah:
I thought the same thing about her daughter. I used it to try to muster up some sympathy. It didn’t work.
Suzie:
Those “some people” you refer to are stupers. That’s why.

]]> By: Jenny http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4953 Jenny Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:24:09 +0000 http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4953 Kimmie and her ilk are the reason I attended ZERO Christmas parties this year ... and will NOT attend any for the remainder of the season! I just haven't the patience. However, a stuper arrived AT MY DOOR a few nights ago to deliver a fundraiser item that TG had purchased from her child. She "regaled" Erica and me with a combination of a lengthy sermon about God's faithfulness (which is never in question at our house) and a crow-fest about her perfect children (who, trust me, are far from perfect ... in fact they are almost not children), until we finally managed to shoo her out into the rain, at which time she managed to step on some of my Christmas lights which were only just marginally (and I thought very discreetly) in her path. Sheesh. Sounds like you shut Kimmie up but good, Keli. Way to go. Kimmie and her ilk are the reason I attended ZERO Christmas parties this year … and will NOT attend any for the remainder of the season! I just haven’t the patience.

However, a stuper arrived AT MY DOOR a few nights ago to deliver a fundraiser item that TG had purchased from her child. She “regaled” Erica and me with a combination of a lengthy sermon about God’s faithfulness (which is never in question at our house) and a crow-fest about her perfect children (who, trust me, are far from perfect … in fact they are almost not children), until we finally managed to shoo her out into the rain, at which time she managed to step on some of my Christmas lights which were only just marginally (and I thought very discreetly) in her path. Sheesh.

Sounds like you shut Kimmie up but good, Keli. Way to go.

]]> By: Ferd http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4951 Ferd Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:51:55 +0000 http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4951 Oooh! Never talk stupid trash about children to their mom! You REALLY have to be a stuper to not know THAT rule! I can see a guy saying something like that, but not another mom! And she's a counselor!?! Gotta be a monumentally SHITTY one!!! I would have paid big money to see that face with the dazzling smile and the murderous eyes. Ha! I can just picture the heat of your threat from here! She came pretty close to a girl fight, huh? Congrats for keeping your cool. I bow to your consistent example! You teach me good stuff! Oooh! Never talk stupid trash about children to their mom! You REALLY have to be a stuper to not know THAT rule! I can see a guy saying something like that, but not another mom! And she’s a counselor!?! Gotta be a monumentally SHITTY one!!!

I would have paid big money to see that face with the dazzling smile and the murderous eyes. Ha! I can just picture the heat of your threat from here! She came pretty close to a girl fight, huh?

Congrats for keeping your cool. I bow to your consistent example! You teach me good stuff!

]]> By: Elaine http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4949 Elaine Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:22:11 +0000 http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4949 I don't know why this topic brings this out in people. I too have been on the receiving end, "you're sending Sarah to ...?" (east coast school) with mouth hanging open. I've been at dinner parties during college ap time when the discussion was nothing but SAT scores and tons of unwanted and unsolicited advice. What is about this topic that makes some people such an expert all of a sudden? I'm sorry you had to sit through this Keli, I imagine your BP was going up a few points listening to this twit. True to your style you handled it with grace and class. Good luck to your sons! I don’t know why this topic brings this out in people. I too have been on the receiving end, “you’re sending Sarah to …?” (east coast school) with mouth hanging open. I’ve been at dinner parties during college ap time when the discussion was nothing but SAT scores and tons of unwanted and unsolicited advice. What is about this topic that makes some people such an expert all of a sudden?

I’m sorry you had to sit through this Keli, I imagine your BP was going up a few points listening to this twit. True to your style you handled it with grace and class. Good luck to your sons!

]]> By: Suzie http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4946 Suzie Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:05:26 +0000 http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4946 <p>I admire you for keeping your cool. I wouldn't be able to.<br /> Why do some people think it is their business to interfere with<br /> others lives and lifestyle?</p> I admire you for keeping your cool. I wouldn’t be able to.
Why do some people think it is their business to interfere with
others lives and lifestyle?

]]> By: Sarah http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4942 Sarah Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:06:51 +0000 http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4942 I don't know how you kept your self control. I would have clobbered her! No wonder her daughter never returned home. I don’t know how you kept your self control. I would have clobbered her! No wonder her daughter never returned home.

]]> By: MC http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4937 MC Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:06:19 +0000 http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4937 What an absolute bitch! Are bitches stupers or do they have too much intent? You should have pulled out her hair. What an absolute bitch! Are bitches stupers or do they have too much intent? You should have pulled out her hair.

]]> By: Annie T http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4927 Annie T Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:08:40 +0000 http://counterfeithumans.com/2008/12/09/when-stupidity-sits-at-your-table-and-courtesy-is-required/#comment-4927 I am almost speechless! What an irritating woman. I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to hold my tongue around a woman like that who dares to denegrate my children's educational choices. Perhaps she is the one who attended a third-rate college? Certainly, her own standards of education are sorely lacking. And the only Finishing School she should attend is one which does simply that... How utterly ghastly! I am almost speechless! What an irritating woman. I’m afraid I wouldn’t have been able to hold my tongue around a woman like that who dares to denegrate my children’s educational choices. Perhaps she is the one who attended a third-rate college? Certainly, her own standards of education are sorely lacking. And the only Finishing School she should attend is one which does simply that…

How utterly ghastly!

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