Question: When's the last time (if ever) you called someone a moron or an idiot to their face in a non-joking manner? Did you feel good or bad about it? Reality

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It happens in movies and TV a lot but in real life I feel like it's rare, in fact I have often thought about saying something like

"It's not adding up to 100 because you excluded lapsed subscribers, you moron!"

to somebody but I never have. Have you?

The closest I ever came was one time my sister and I were in Home Depot arguing about what to get our parents for Christmas and I can't even remember what we were arguing about but I said "you're acting like an idiot" and i felt so bad for saying it...

If you have please tell the story and the context please!
 
It’s Moran, you idiot!

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I've called myself and idiot and moron many times. I caught trouble for it.

I play several pinball tournaments per year. I'm like many competative players in that I'm my own worst critic. I curse when my luck sucks but I cuss myself if I make a dumb mistake.

A gal plays in some of these tournaments with legit emotional and learning issues. I guess she heard me and a few other players were using words obviously offensive to her. I didn't realize. Someone said she was upset because we had called her dumbass, idiot, moron, dumb mother f'r. I felt sick to my stomach. I talked to her and said I was sorry but I wasn't calling her any names. She said she knew that. Her problem was with us calling ourselves morons. She was correct., I said I would stop. She gave me a hug and all is good.

Now when bad luck strikes my game a now just say 'Fuuuuuuuuuuuuudge". When I make a mental mistake I scream dumbass or moron in my head and smile from ear to ear.


I'm sure I've called my brothers and friends idiots and morons to their face. All is good. We still talk this many years later. To be honest they were being idiots at the moment or I woudn't have said anything.
 
I can't recall ever calling someone a moron or an idiot to their face. Not online either.

I have used razor sharp wit to demean someone.
 
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Been at least 20 years and I was having a bad day. Installing vinyl in a new apartment building over the sub floor builder installed but, we had to prep. They did a good enough job on the sub floor to put vinyl siding over it but, not sheet vinyl. So, after spending way to much time salvaging the sub floor for how much I was getting paid, I was slightly agitated. Then one guy started setting the cabinets on vinyl that was laid out but, not folded back and glued yet so, I called him a fucking moron.
 
Not sure when it last was, but yeah, I’ve done it.
If it’s who I think it was, it was deserved.
I’m probably thinking it was this particular person because I still think the same now. They keep living up to the name.
 
Pretty sure it was during the military, 87 or 88. At which time I was training some noob the art of shooting someone in a proficient accurate manner and after some time of individual refresher training was still scratching my head as to why the hell the sob cannot find the target. This would have been after I would have taken said weapon and several rounds center mass. Afterward I felt very good and would have continued with son, you are beginning to fuck up my day. They would have
overcome the pressure being inflicted or find themselves in more
suitable employment outside our beloved military. I’ve mellowed in my senior years a good bit.
 
Some guy backed into my car in the parking garage at work while I was sitting in it and tried to drive away. I ran him down and “Hey, idiot” was pretty much the least mean thing I said to him.

It felt fine.
 
I don't ever intentionally demean someone for their current level of intelligence or apparent inability to learn.....


... but I have been very direct with people who are purposefully being obtuse or exhibiting Dunning-Kruger tendencies.


"Were you dropped on your head as a child?"

"How long have you been mixing lead paint into your morning coffee?"

"Can you raise both arms? Do we need to check you for a stroke?"


My hope is that thinly veiled sarcasm will make the person stop to consider the context of the "joke" instead of immediately becoming combative.... and realize their stupidity on their own accord. :helper:
 
I don’t call people moron or idiot. I stick with classic sarcasm. Example: “Way to go, genius!” Of course, this goes over the heads of truly stupid people. I see no reason to state the obvious with a chronic moron.
 
I work with 12 year olds, so I try to focus my remediation-oriented comments on the target's maturity level rather than intelligence.
 
I did once. I was at a bar talking to the lady next to me and this guy walks in. He looked out of place as I watched him in the mirror. After a while he walked up to us and honestly I felt like that horror, "I'm gonna die" moment you talked about in that other thread. His big hands were calloused, he was a big as a mountain for a moment I thought I was dead. BUUUT he started convulsing, shaking, I realized then his big heart was breaking, he turned to the woman and said. You picked a fine time to leave me you seal...four hundred children and a crop in the field. Man, I felt bad but I called him a mormon anyway
 
Honkridge said:
I did once. I was at a bar talking to the lady next to me and this guy walks in. He looked out of place as I watched him in the mirror. After a while he walked up to us and honestly I felt like that horror, "I'm gonna die" moment you talked about in that other thread. His big hands were calloused, he was a big as a mountain for a moment I thought I was dead. BUUUT he started convulsing, shaking, I realized then his big heart was breaking, he turned to the woman and said. You picked a fine time to leave me you seal...four hundred children and a crop in the field. Man, I felt bad but I called him a mormon anyway
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Did this happen in Toledo?
 
I also go with the sarcasm route. It’s the result of watching hundreds of hours of TV shows by Joss Whedon.
 
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