I'm definately a sexist .....

[gasbanni]

Coming out of a shop after reaching the door first I stood back to allow two girls to enter before I exited,

I had the absolute gaul to stand back and say " Ladies first" oddly enough they seemed to like the sexist comment, smiled and said" thank you"
Two french girls I believe ( judging by their accents ).

Some of this old school sexist stuff is really unacceptable behaviour.

 

[noseall]

Coming out of a shop after reaching the door first I stood back to allow two girls to enter before I exited,

I had the absolute gaul to stand back and say " Ladies first" oddly enough they seemed to like the sexist comment, smiled and said" thank you"
Two french girls I believe ( judging by their accents ).

Some of this old school sexist stuff is really unacceptable behaviour.

Funny but I did the same thing for an elderly gentleman in One Stop a week or so ago and he muttered a thank you too. Perhaps people just like you being polite and nowt to do with an 'ism'.

 

[transam]

tis a funny old world

as a bloke u can be accused of rape & sexual assault and get your name plastered all over the news papers irrespective as to if its true

speak to a child & u may be accused of being a paedophile ?


woman wrote into our local newsapaper expressing her total disgust.

A mother went into a department store , she had a 4 year old with her , who broke away or became lost / seperated from her mother.

The child in panic and crying looking for her mother ran out of the shop heading straight for the high street , the woman in question stopped the child running onto the busy road.

she expressed her disgust because the child ran past several men who did nothing and made no attempt to stop the child ???????? what if they had stopped the child ? picked the crying child up ? hmmmm down the cop shop for attempted abduction ? an irate mother accusing u of abduction ?

 

[EddieM]

Funny but I did the same thing for an elderly gentleman in One Stop a week or so ago and he muttered a thank you too. Perhaps people just like you being polite and nowt to do with an 'ism'.

exactly so. I hold doors open for old young male & female alike. Ticks me off a bit when it's not acknowledged though.

 

[Doggit]

But they's send you a text saying thanks if you gave them your number. It's not that they're rude, so much as not knowing how to be polite, or to make small talk.

 

[EFLImpudence]

It's not that they're rude,

Yes it is. Not acknowledging is bad-mannered - i.e. rude.

so much as not knowing how to be polite, or to make small talk.

So, bad-mannered - i.e. rude. Stop being so understanding.

 

[Doggit]

And I'm sure you're parents moaned at you when you didn't act the same way that they did, and I can guarantee that you felt they were getting het up over nothing.

But I know where you're coming from, a lot of them are damned rude, because you can see the sneer on their face when you hold the door for them. And you can tell the ones that were dragged up when they throw their sweet wrapper on the floor.

 

[EFLImpudence]

I should have said tolerant instead of understanding.

 

[Brigadier]

My mom was telling us today about a lost child in a shopping centre.

My (pensioner) mom saw this little girl, clearly wandering alone. So, concerned, she and my step-dad (who's in his eighties), followed her, to make sure nothing untoward happened.
No announcements, no screaming-with-worry parents......

A full fifteen minutes of wandering later, the little girl found herself in McDonald's, where she was "greeted" by a unconcerned, but abusive mother.

When my mom told this waste of breath what had happened for a quarter of an hour, she was given a stream of abuse.

Which sadly, is commonly the way of the world nowadays.

 

[Doggit]

I should have said tolerant instead of understanding.

Nope, you were right first time. I try and be understanding simply because I'm so intolerant.

 

[EddieM]

woe betide you for admonishing someone for littering. I hate litter. ughh autocorwrong.

 

[noseall]

I hate litter.

Me twice.
My kids were taught not to throw litter. My eldest still puts wrappers in his pockets even when he is stood near a waste bin. Drives his Ma mad at laundry time.

 

[Brigadier]

Drives his Ma mad at laundry time.

I earned some OT yesterday.
Washing machine went bang yesterday evening.
New washing machine = OT.
Such is life......

 

[^woody^]

I know there is a bit of a ooh arr at the moment about this feminism stuff, but there is nothing wrong with opening a door for a lady and complimenting her on the size of her tits. Nothing at all.

 

[Doggit]

No Woody, you're not allowed to do that any more; only if you do it with such a degree of sincerity, that she knows it's genuine compliment, rather than just a normal blokes leer. And there's an art to doing it that way, believe me.