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AIBU?

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to have bollocked three strangers

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GoringBit · 14/11/2015 15:27

I probably was, but I am so angry. Background, we were in Paris with family/friends last week, came back to London this afternoon. We were a way from the terror attacks, but not far.

In a pub, a woman near us is on a skype call with a man. Her two friends join her and she tells the other guy to repeat the joke he just told her; it was about the terrorist attacks in Paris. No fucking way am I reoedting it, but it was horrible.

I've just said - fairly forcibly - that god forbid they should have someone close to them involved in something like that. They said it wasn't funny, and they hadn't laughed and that basically I was overreacting. I said that they shouldn't have tolerated it and that they should have pulled him up on it. I was shaking, but whether with anger or some other worry for loved ones still there, I don't know, maybe both.

I hadn't realised how much last night had shaken me up, so WIBU? I'm not normally a previous snowflake, but maybe I should have accepted that people make bad jokes about horrible things and just silently judged them.

Do I just need need to have a word with myself?

OP posts:
sarahquilt · 15/11/2015 21:17

I think YABU. They were having a private conversation. It was none of your business what they were talking about.

EastMidsMummy · 15/11/2015 22:26

Public skyping is unreasonable.

GruntledOne · 15/11/2015 23:08

If you use your right to free speech to talk loud enough for other people to hear you then they have the right to use theirs to point out you are being offensive.

And they have the right to tell you to butt out of their conversation. These people actually sound rather forbearing.

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