PSAs (add your own)

[cville]

PSA: Stop telling vegetarians "I could be a vegetarian except for [meat you love too much/vegetables you hate too much]".

We don't care. We've never cared. Eat what you want. Whatever.

I hear this at least 50% of the time when the fact that I'm a vegetarian comes up. It's been 20 years. I can't even muster up the semblance of giving half a rat's ass anymore.

Stop the madness.

[kath16]

i'll flip that and say that i do NOT CARE about every detail of my coworkers veganism and it's still a constant topic of conversation.

[sapphireblue]

Feb 14, 2020 14:33:24 GMT -5 spearmintleaf said:

Feb 14, 2020 14:17:27 GMT -5 kath16 said:

i'll flip that and say that i do NOT CARE about every detail of my coworkers veganism and it's still a constant topic of conversation.

I could never be vegan, because of cheese!

Ends MEAT.

Best use of "Ends meat" ever!!!

[litskispeciality]

Yeah I really don't give a rat's behind about any diet or food lifestyle choice vegan or not. Don't "explain" to me the 500 benefits of Keto or how you're "so much healthier" because you gave up x, y and z.

[Wallflower]

My PSA: Stop telling cat owners that you hate cats. I don't fucking care but the fact that you felt the need to say that tells me all I need to know about you, and it isn't good.

[litskispeciality]

Also not to bring every thread back to kids, but stop telling people "do it before you have kids" or "once you have kids you won't have time"...not everyone is having kids, and adults without kids, or those with older/grown kids are really freakin' busy too.

[Patsy Baloney]

Feb 14, 2020 14:40:25 GMT -5 Wallflower said:

My PSA: Stop telling cat owners that you hate cats. I don't fucking care but the fact that you felt the need to say that tells me all I need to know about you, and it isn't good.

As a cat owner, when people say, "I hate cats," I always respond with, "I do, too. I have two."

[wanderingback]

Feb 14, 2020 14:33:24 GMT -5 spearmintleaf said:

Feb 14, 2020 14:17:27 GMT -5 kath16 said:

i'll flip that and say that i do NOT CARE about every detail of my coworkers veganism and it's still a constant topic of conversation.

I could never be vegan, because of cheese!

Ends MEAT.

Did you respond to your weird post in the Kobe thread?
I've been waiting for follow up!

[fryjack2]

PSA: Just because its fashun doesn't mean it looks good.

PSA: Stop longingly staring off into the distance in your IG selfies. You look like you are in a zombie trance. Also, no one cares about your selfies.

[steph96]

If I have headphones in, it most likely means that I don’t want to make small talk with you, random stranger.

[litskispeciality]

Feb 14, 2020 15:05:43 GMT -5 steph96 said:

If I have headphones in, it most likely means that I don’t want to make small talk with you, random stranger.

Yes, also if I have them in at work, I don't want to talk to you, or listen to other people's small talk. 

One more, along the lines of skin care, if you're an esthetician basic Becky with perfect skin don't make comments to someone with bad skin when giving a facial like "what are you using on your skin?" They say it with an attitude like you don't use anything, not probing to figure out what products to use or not use. People who've suffered have a much better way of dealing with it.

[icedcoffee]

PSA: If someone is in a stall at work and you walk in...pick a nonadjacent stall.

Background: My work bathroom has 8 stalls in the women's room for only like 40 women. Total overkill as there's generally only 0-3 people in there at a time. Sometimes I'll be in there and it's empty. Someone walks in and goes into the stall RIGHT next to me. Dude...there's like a million other options and now I can't do my business. Move over.

[waverly]

Feb 14, 2020 14:40:25 GMT -5 Wallflower said:

My PSA: Stop telling cat owners that you hate cats. I don't fucking care but the fact that you felt the need to say that tells me all I need to know about you, and it isn't good.

Someone said to me once that I was a bad / untrustworthy/ unlikeable person because I didn’t own a dog (all people are that don’t own dogs and that own cats).

Not that it is any of their business, but the reason we didn’t own a dog is that we didn’t have the time to care for it properly, and it would have been neglected. But go ahead and judge my character for not wanting to neglect an animal.

[waverly]

Oops sorry I did tell my vegan friend about my love for cheese. I tell everyone in all fairness, but I won’t mention it to her again.

[VillainV]

PSA: not everyone in the military is a 2A gun-obsessed Republican

[foundmylazybum]

Feb 14, 2020 14:04:26 GMT -5 spearmintleaf said:

Ooo I’ll build on that. “I could never be a vegetarian because I need protein to maintain all my muscle mass.” Know who are vegetarians? Gorillas. Elephants. Rhinos. Hippos. You’ll be fine, Greg.

Lol, I heard this bad science quote in "the game changers" too.

[cville]

Feb 14, 2020 18:10:50 GMT -5 VillainV said:

PSA: not everyone in the military is a 2A gun-obsessed Republican

YES.

[Deleted]

Don’t try to give a fat person diet advice, we already know what we’re doing wrong.

[wanderingback]

Feb 14, 2020 16:43:03 GMT -5 spearmintleaf said:

Feb 14, 2020 14:45:35 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

Did you respond to your weird post in the Kobe thread?
I've been waiting for follow up!

Sometimes you gotta take the flaming and KOKO.

Ok got it. Was just wondering if there was some backstory or other inside info to your comments.

[readyin07]

Please don't ask us to support something your kid is doing and then not support us back. Last year a friend's kids did a fundraiser and H provided 2 nice auction items from his company. A few years before that neighbor's daughter was doing the same fundraiser and my H supported it as a participant (not a thing he would have done if it wasn't for the kid being involved). It's our kid's turn this year and it's crickets with the help. Asked another friend for support and she's too busy. Her kid will be doing this next year and I will respond with radio silence also.

[sadlebred]

Please don't ask me to buy overpriced gift wrap/popcorn/whatever for your child's private school or daycare. Really, a daycare doing a fundraiser? I will donate a bottle of wine or two to the local public elementary school's alcohol auction for fundraising (it's a thing in my neighborhood).

The only thing I will buy from your child is Girl Scout Cookies, and I will only buy 2 boxes. I cannot eat 20 boxes so she can go to summer camp--I know you can afford to send her; I'd rather buy a few boxes online from an underserved area GS and donate them to the military.

Doctors-Please don't tell me I should start exercising.

[AJL]

PSA: It's spelled Y-apostrophe-A-L-L, not Y-A-apostrophe-L-L.

[mrspez07]

When you are turning right on a red light or at a stop sign (even in one of those continuous lanes), look right, not just at oncoming traffic on the left. You may have missed the pedestrian that had the right of way to cross.

Technically this applies on green too for those crossing the same direction as the light.

[Nonny]

PSA: Don't ask a person with a chronic illness if they've tried XYZ treatment, or tell them how stopping/starting eating ABC cured your co-worker's MIL's cousin's BFF from elementary school from nearly the same thing. We have doctors. Lots of them. We don't need your armchair diagnosis, your unsolicited suggestions, or your essential oils. If we want your advice we'll ask, but probably we just want to vent.

[poe]

Please stop talking to me about your keto diet and how you have lost a ton of weight. I don’t care. Just like you don’t care that I’m a vegetarian.
P.S. your food looks gross.

[fivechickens]

PSA: Never ask a parent with a child with a special need ‘what is wrong with him/her?’

PSA Family: stop trying to negate my concerns about my child's struggles by telling me they are fine or telling me you don’t see anything I see when you spend 1/2 the time I spend with her. Stop with the not so subtle look/almost eye roll when I am expressing my concerns about her. It doesn’t help even a little bit. You only see the best of her. I see it all. The good, the bad and the everything in between.

PSA friend: you need bi-focals. Your 2 months away from 50 ass needs to put your big boy panties on and accept you have old eyes that can’t read small print for shit anymore.

[cville]

PSA: Eyelashes are out of control. The entire beauty industry needs to rein it in.

[CurlyQ284]

Feb 14, 2020 22:46:54 GMT -5 poe said:

Please stop talking to me about your keto diet and how you have lost a ton of weight. I don’t care. Just like you don’t care that I’m a vegetarian.
P.S. your food looks gross.

I just can't. Friends of mine made "fat bombs" and were trying to get us to eat them and I just could.not.

[Queen Dick, Hibernating Bear]

Lady, your edible lube doesn't need to be vegan, too. Get over yourself.

[wanderingback]

Feb 14, 2020 21:47:01 GMT -5 spearmintleaf said:

Feb 14, 2020 20:08:41 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

Ok got it. Was just wondering if there was some backstory or other inside info to your comments.

The ideal psychological profile for a pilot is high IQ, moderate narcissism. You want your pilots to be a little bit on the arrogant side, because flying a plane is a little bit crazy and the average person will freak the eff out up in the air. I read an article on Kobe which heavily emphasized his narcissistic traits, and it seemed to fit with the story more broadly. Kobe wasn’t the pilot but I thought he had his pilot’s license too (could be wrong on that? So much misinformation in that first day or two and I didn’t fact check before I commented that day) and I thought he might have been involved in the decision to fly that day. I didn’t really mean to insult Kobe, but I guess that’s how it came out. I didn’t follow up in that post because frankly I don’t feel that strongly about any of it and I was good to just let it fade out since so many people disagreed. I’m ok with being in the minority in my opinions sometimes. I don’t want to fall prey to groupthink. 

I was more talking about the comment in regards to the hallmark of being an artist is terrible behavior. I think that’s where most people were confused/disagreed. But thanks for answering!