To think random man got his just deserts to his unsolicited comments today?

Matsukaze · 10/03/2025 20:56

MasterBeth · 22/02/2025 15:30

What noise does a dinosaur make?

Nowadays - silence

Devianinc · 10/03/2025 17:37

PurpleFlower1983 · 22/02/2025 15:26

It’s desserts not deserts.

Nope

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/03/2025 17:30

'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Dr-Livingstone/

Dr Livingstone I presume? - Historic UK

Linguist, doctor, missionary and explorer, Dr Livingstone is a legend among travellers and adventurers...

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Dr-Livingstone/

JollyHolly30 · 10/03/2025 17:27

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 23/02/2025 13:26

My brother was telling me recently about taking my Mum to the local hospital where she had been checked over by a Dr Livingstone. As soon as he said her name, he added 'Don't say it, apparently everybody does ...' I imagine this means he may have done it himself, either that or she got in first to prevent him. Poor woman.

What? 🤨

Stigolini · 24/02/2025 11:17

OP spelled 'deserts' correctly. Desserts are sweets.

Snakebite61 · 24/02/2025 09:04

Weartherose · 22/02/2025 15:21

I'm wearing a sports top today to indicate support for a match later today.

Was at the supermarket today and this man, clocked my shirt rolled his eyes and riffed off the Name Three Songs comment and said "I bet you can't name 3 players". So I asked him if he was at the stadium (200 miles away) for momentous match a fortnight ago when X Y and Z scored?

He had the grace to look a bit abashed.

Why do some folk assume you are not fans when you wear band/location/ten shirts? Is it just to show off their superior knowledge?

Some people are just a holes. What a child!!

HouseAshamed · 24/02/2025 07:15

@Peaceandquietandacuppa , but OP didn't use that spelling.

schtompy · 23/02/2025 20:50

Is this important in your life?!!!

RaveToTheGrave1 · 23/02/2025 20:50

I'm in the dnb/psytrance scene and we get a LOT of guys asking oh well do you even know this type of music, do you know this or that dj/mc, like bugger off mate I'm about 15 years older than you 😂

Mere1 · 23/02/2025 20:39

NotTheDebtDoctorWithTheHungryScalpel · 22/02/2025 15:29

My teenage dd wears a lot of band tshirts, she's very into music and can reel off songs and facts like nobody's business.

She's had the 'three songs' comment quite a few times by middle age men, but she can't be arsed so she usually makes a dinosaur noise at them and walks away.

Far more effective than engaging with them.

I’m not old enough to know what noises dinosaurs made.

Peaceandquietandacuppa · 23/02/2025 20:27

NotTheDebtDoctorWithTheHungryScalpel · 22/02/2025 15:29

My teenage dd wears a lot of band tshirts, she's very into music and can reel off songs and facts like nobody's business.

She's had the 'three songs' comment quite a few times by middle age men, but she can't be arsed so she usually makes a dinosaur noise at them and walks away.

Far more effective than engaging with them.

😂😂

Well done OP, I love to hear it!

Hope all the people thinking they’re clever correcting your spelling of “just desserts” p off now.

DuchessofSuffolk · 23/02/2025 19:57

NotTheDebtDoctorWithTheHungryScalpel · 22/02/2025 15:29

My teenage dd wears a lot of band tshirts, she's very into music and can reel off songs and facts like nobody's business.

She's had the 'three songs' comment quite a few times by middle age men, but she can't be arsed so she usually makes a dinosaur noise at them and walks away.

Far more effective than engaging with them.

Love that.

Lovemeapickledgherkin · 23/02/2025 19:52

NotTheDebtDoctorWithTheHungryScalpel · 22/02/2025 15:29

My teenage dd wears a lot of band tshirts, she's very into music and can reel off songs and facts like nobody's business.

She's had the 'three songs' comment quite a few times by middle age men, but she can't be arsed so she usually makes a dinosaur noise at them and walks away.

Far more effective than engaging with them.

Your daughter is my new spirit animal

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 23/02/2025 19:26

How about "Oooh, is it a new game? You go first."

Brefugee · 23/02/2025 17:08

i don't think we should play the "name 3 songs" shit game though. The only real answer is "why the heck should i?"

GellerYeller · 23/02/2025 16:28

We often get ‘name 3 songs’. My favourite response is to reply that I’m happy to,if they can name all the band members first.
No one cheered or clapped.

Middlemarch123 · 23/02/2025 13:59

Ex English teacher here.

It’s desert’.
Nothing to do with camels or sand.
’Desert’ is an old noun for ‘Deserve’. So the phrase means, “Got what they deserved.”

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 23/02/2025 13:26

My brother was telling me recently about taking my Mum to the local hospital where she had been checked over by a Dr Livingstone. As soon as he said her name, he added 'Don't say it, apparently everybody does ...' I imagine this means he may have done it himself, either that or she got in first to prevent him. Poor woman.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 23/02/2025 12:56

It's the way that every single twerp thinks he is being original when he comes out with something you've heard a hundred (thousand) (ten thousand) times that gets me. Do they really believe nobody else got there before them?

I did once congratulate someone who actually managed to find a new joke to make about my dog... a Dalmatian. As opposed to the usual "does he have a spotty dick?" hohoho idiots. I was sincere, and he was surprised.

HouseAshamed · 23/02/2025 12:36

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime I think the jokes ended when I was about 12, but when I was in my mid 30s a colleague asked me quite seriously if my name meant something (which was what I was teased about).
It was something that common sense would have said it wasn't.

I don't want to give my real name but something along the lines of asking if Duncan meant 'brown tin'.

@viques , deserts is dIz-ERTS or DEZ-erts, desserts is dis-SERTS.

DrawerHandle · 23/02/2025 12:26

PurpleFlower1983 · 22/02/2025 15:26

It’s desserts not deserts.

I am embarrassed for you.

mrlistersgelfbride · 23/02/2025 12:24

Well done OP. I'm guessing you support a popular sports team.

When my partner and daughter wears theirs they've had people laughing in their faces saying "Haha they are shit" which is ruder than "name 3 players" I think.

Brefugee · 23/02/2025 10:33

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 22/02/2025 19:55

Servire, yes, but with different prefixes, so different verbs.

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that is literally what "same root" means tho, no?

i do love a bit of prog rock, i grew up with a mum who listened to Vangelis, Tomita and The Enid. An uncle who was into Bowie and Roxy Music and a younger brother heavily into Rush and Iron Maiden. But Pink Floyd are my absolute favourites - we go to a lot of tribute bands, and one in particular always does Set the Controls which i love. (none have done Spveral Species yet)

As for the gatekeepy fuckers about band shirts, or sports shirty: they can get in the sea. I wear NMA t-shirts a lot and mostly people smile and say "gosh i used to love them, wait, they're still around??"

I recently managed to get to a few football matches of my English team (diaries coordinated for a change) and i mentioned it on Twitter, and got a load of "plastic fans never go to the stadium". Which i hate anyway. But it was hilarious when people who know me pointed out my first visit was in the 60s and continued way into the 80s.

HoppityBun · 23/02/2025 10:13

viques · 22/02/2025 20:13

I don’t care that it is supposed to be deserts not dessert. I think deserts sounds wrong, and looks wrong, so I am sticking with dessert on the grounds that whereas people who behave properly end up with the properly made crème brûlée with an almond tuile and a generous serving of raspberry coulis (insert own dessert of choice as required) , people who behave badly should end up with the corner piece of the school jam tart with a scrape of jam and no custard thus getting their just dessert.

You’re confusing what’s written with how it’s pronounced

TimeForTeaAndG · 23/02/2025 10:07

ohyesido · 22/02/2025 17:32

It's an excuse to start a conversation rather than a micro aggression isn't it?

No. A way to start a conversation would be something like "oh, you follow X team? Did you see the game last night? Great goal by man-name player, what a way to lob it right round the goalie".

Demanding proof of knowledge is done to put someone on the spot and make the questioner feel superior in their level of fandom.