Comments on: Age vs Tactfulness

By: CamashRed

CamashRed — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:28:23 +0000

Wow. Synchronised stroke. Nice.

By: CamashRed

CamashRed — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:25:30 +0000

Someone just got told.

By: John Curd

John Curd — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:32:56 +0000

holy mother of god!!!! your comma button must be destroyed!!!!! Can you still see the the symbol in the button???

By: Technofraptr Monkey

Technofraptr Monkey — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:44:56 +0000

Flarts?

By: Grev

Grev — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:33:57 +0000

I think he means “SAttractive and successful African-Americaning”

By: here'n'now

here'n'now — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:55:16 +0000

I said input not the past learn to read reject

By: Melody

Melody — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:12:18 +0000

I thought this site had moderation so silly, irrelevant comments such as this don’t get through?
Also, tactless Grannies for the win. I feckin love my Granny. She told the guy sitting next to her in the bus that he looked like “A fat version of Mick Jagger”
He laughed really hard.

By: Somepartsareme

Somepartsareme — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:52:34 +0000

*no

Jeez, that was a bad one.

By: Somepartsareme

Somepartsareme — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:51:39 +0000

I see know reason, why you should talk, like this.

By: Neinna

Neinna — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:16:15 +0000

We see what he/she did thar. Accident, I hope.

By: Whatever

Whatever — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:14:17 +0000

Yes, particularly since most of the things that really matter don’t change.

Sadly, not even when they SHOULD.

By: LEZLIE

LEZLIE — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:00:53 +0000

i like waffles.

By: Velpine

Velpine — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:10:31 +0000

And usually, she’s dead on too! Go Grandma, Go!

By: Velpine

Velpine — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:09:48 +0000

Haha, awesome. Do yourself a favor. Save that statement til you’re 73. In a box. Then pull out your box of ‘When I was Young’s’ and read it.

You’ll have your entire retirement home rolling! The PAST IS IRRELEVANT. I love that.

By: Whatever

Whatever — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:19:08 +0000

That’s exactly what I meant. Little kids who say “Look how fat that guy is!” are usually just curious and amazed at seeing someone unusual. It isn’t until they get older that they begin to be taught that unusual people should be hated and ridiculed. Little kids have zero tact, and zero hatefulness.

I heard a story once, told by a woman in a wheelchair, of a child that walked right up to her and asked her, “Why don’t you have any legs?” whereas adults always whispered “tactfully” to one another, or “tactfully” walked by her, pretending not to see her at all. Guess which one she said hurt her more?

By: soul_grafitti

soul_grafitti — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:13:14 +0000

i think my grandmars laking in tact is awesome! she can get away with saying stuff that i wouldnt even think of saying and she totaly takes advantage of it.

By: here'n'now

here'n'now — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:21:01 +0000

from my experience the elderly have no clue about Modern life only about the past, therefore there input is usually irrelevant.

By: Velpine

Velpine — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:55:42 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with ‘Elderly’ people speaking their minds. They lived long enough to earn it.

And generally speaking, they don’t bother. It’s not like young people listen to their elders anyway. They’ll figure it out eventually (right or wrong, hard or easy), is what ‘the Elderly’ think.

By: Jes

Jes — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:11:45 +0000

I don’t think children really hate others, that’s more of a pre-teen thing… at least in my experience.

By: llc

llc — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:51:41 +0000

there’s no way this is anything but a european study.

By: MNM

MNM — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:48:02 +0000

Clearly this study did not take place in walmart. O_o

All answered would have been horrified screams with a few mixed in heart attacks.

By: Mathry

Mathry — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:44:09 +0000

This graph reminds me of the time my elderly grandmother was looking at a scarf in a store and loudly asked ‘isn’t this a lovely (expletive deleted)-brown scarf?’

By: Whatever

Whatever — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:25:08 +0000

Yeah, and the line for “How much actual hateful judgment is being passed” probably pretty much tracks alongside the tact line there.

By: i need beer

i need beer — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:54:22 +0000

Farts?

By: STatingtheobvious

STatingtheobvious — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:36:16 +0000

It really should be tact, not tactfulness.

By: eddy

eddy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:22:49 +0000

I’m pretty sure that graph could be re-labeled for just about everything having to do with aging. Wetting yourself? Amount of sleep needed? Pretty much anything (though I imagine college would cause another downward spike, though maybe it should here as well.)

By: first

first — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:21:42 +0000

FIRTS

By: A

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:14:21 +0000

Actually, it more depends on the person, and how they’re raised. Small children usually don’t have any shame, about being loudmouthed, about what they think of others, but usually once they hit middle-school, they’ll only badmouth, when the person they’re talking about, isn’t around, or at least well out of earshot.