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

[Weartherose]

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?

Oh God now that one is just heinous, no, I'm not that bad! Yet.

Usually a very loud screechy pterodactyl kind of sound, she has also been known to roar occassionally though 🤣

Post about an issue between MIL and myself, and everyone will know that you're very eloquent and intelligent ;)

Just out of interest, why? I’m wearing one now

I’ve been bought sport tops by my partner but now absolutely nothing of the sport

I don’t need to prove anything to anyone

I have a top with a french word on it but I’m not French. , not a fan of France can’t name French things

I always say: Set The Controls For The Heatmrt of the Sun, Several Species of Small Furry Animal Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving it With A Pict and Mother

I like to wear my AC/DC beanie in the hope that someone asks me if I can name 3 songs. Then I can dazzle them with my monologue of the band's history from inception

This type of comment is getting a bit tedious now, every time someone says they called a man out on his misogyny. In fact I find the 'did everyone cheer' comments as boring and misogynistic as the 'can you name 3 players' type of comments.
I grew up in the 70s, when exist comments were rife and sexual harrasment at ork and socially wa common place. I hope men have changed a bit since then, but obviously there are still some dinosaurs left. But thank God women feel empowered to call this kind of shit out nowadays, despite the fact that some other women want to put them down for doing so.
Of course people don;t cheer and OP isn't trying to claim she is some kind of heroine or 'stealth boasting' or whatever name the cool girls of MN are claiming is the ultimate sin these days.

I'm cheering you OP, just like in the movies, good on you !

@PurpleFlower1983 @Wavescrashingonthebeach @Cattery
NO! It's deserts, not desserts. The word "desert" in this phrase comes from the Latin word dēservīre, which means "to serve according to merit" i.e. to deserve. It has nothing to do with puddings! 🙄

Oh, dear. No, it isn't.

I was particularly fond of the post about this which suggested that the original phrase was not (as we had supposed)

"If you think that you've got another think coming"
but rather
"If you thing that you've got another thing coming".

I suppose some people must have been thinging rather than thinking since the early1900s. I wonder what such folk as HW Fowler and AP Herbert thinged about that...

(I can't find that post on that thread. Bah.)

I've also managed to find the example during the 2015 election campaign, when David Cameron used the phrase, and one news site quotes it as "another thing" and a different news site quotes it as "another think". I wonder which he actually said? (It was BBC and Mail Online respectively - I've got the links).

I am gobsmacked to learn I’ve been spelling just deserts wrong my entire life!

Did everyone stop and cheer? Like a movie??

Indeed.

This probably just indicates that people hear what they expect to hear rather than what was said, and report it that way?

ooh, Simon and Garfunkel: "still a man he hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest". Mmm.

You'd get on very well with my husband. I imagine you are also an aficionado of another prog rock band's early stages - The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) is one of his favourites from that time.

Signed,Saint Gasp0de of W0nderD0g

I had a woman tell me that I'm not a real fan of Oasis because I have never seen them live and I can still remember her stood there all smug rolling her eyes and it still bothers me years later because I have come up with some good responses haha,we were stood outside a club and I can't believe grown adults think like this never mind say it.
I hate all this fake fan bullshit it's pathetic and I hope she didn't get tickets to see them this year as punishment but I did so at least I will become a real fan at last lol

[Screams and melts like the wicked witch of the west]

Thinking that it actually matters whether they know the band or team matters in the first place is pretty twatty too.

Fun fact, dessert actually comes from the same etymological starting point. It's something you literally serve up, whereas the just deserts are what you're metaphorically served up.

I think one came from French (I guess via Norman dining) and the other is a more academic word straight from the Latin.

Sorry for the derail

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime
@PersephonePitstop
@DadDadDad

I'm feeling a bit foolish now, as it was just an attempt at a silly joke re 'desserts' being 'stressed' when spelled backwards!

I'm just as involved and fascinated as anybody else!!

Ooh, along with all of the 'clever' bores who think they're quite the first to ever show their supreme ignorance in exclaiming "What was it that he wouldn't do for love, anyway - was it put down the pies?!?!?!?!"

Errrrm, if you want to find out the explanation of the song title, why not....... erm........ actually listen to the song?!

They're the musical equivalent of the people on MN who only ever bother to read the title of the OP and then start asking clarifying questions that are very clearly covered in the OP itself!!

I don't think so. https://www.etymonline.com/word/dessert

dessert (n.)
"a service of fruits and sweets at the close of a meal," c. 1600, from French dessert (mid-16c.) "last course," literally "removal of what has been served," from desservir "clear the table," literally "un-serve," from des- "remove, undo" (see dis-) + Old French servir "to serve" (see serve (v.)). Dessert-wine is from 1733; dessert-spoon from 1776.
also from c. 1600

desert (n.2)
c. 1300, "fact of deserving a certain treatment (for good or ill) for one's behavior," from Old French deserte "merit, recompense," noun use of past participle of deservir "be worthy to have," ultimately from Latin deservire "serve well," from de- "completely" (see de-) + servire "to serve" (see serve (v.)). Meaning "suitable reward or punishment, what one deserves" (now usually plural and with just), is from late 14c.

It also irritates me intensely when people say 'restauranteur' - paying no regard whatsoever as to which part of the word is the root and which is the relevant ending, depending on the sense. It's a bit like describing somebody as a 'photographyer'.