What are things you've done/said that look/sound worse when taken out of context?

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And if you have too many to list, just say the most recent ones or the most notable ones. Photo by "Artur Voznenko" on Unsplash

19magic · Accepted Answer

I shouted at the girl and made our friendship group split and they all hated her.

Context:
In my friendship group I was the joker, the one to make people laugh the happy go-lucky girl the one people can tell their problems to and I'd have a good answer for them. Anyway we accepted this girl into our group and as she was foreign there was the occasional jibes here and there and I always took it when she said it to me but she couldn't handle it. She had some bad shit with her ma and so did I tbh though what I dealt with was a heck of a lot worse then the things she told me. But she was always complaining about something there was always an issue, I was sat in class and she was crying our teacher asked us why, I said she's crying about her tights and people has been teasing her and everything, she screamed at me and that was it, I snapped, I don't shout but I was absolutely pissed. I did that loud threatening voice and told her to piss off, f off and yes I know about your cow of a mother but this isn't the time or place etc the whole room went absolutely silent (I'm the quiet one, no-one expected that of me). Best thing was I never got told off for it, the teacher sent me out of the room and told me to cool off as I was shaking and everything (he was my tech for four years by that point) and I spent an hour essentially skiving lol. And 4 months and two fights later, I gave her the silent treatment, I couldn't be assed with her bullshit and everyone ended up choosing my side. She had no friends left in the end.

WhatTheHeckkkk · Accepted Answer

Crashed into my sisters car.
Talked to my ex while I was dating my boyfriend.

Lol, so for context;
1. I crashed into my sisters car because I was completely exhausted, I was emotionally drained, I came back from a 12 hr shift, I had way too much on my mind regarding my personal life. I pulled into the drive way and I pulled in a little too close to my sisters car as I was turning and my front headlight scratched her car. It wasn’t much of a “crash” but yeah.
2. So, my ex was abusive. Anyway, he came in contact with me while I was dating my boyfriend. I responded to him because he had threatened to kill himself if I didn’t get back with him, tell him I loved him, etc etc. Of course, I know he was a master manipulator but he was impulsive and had a tendency to self destruct. I let my boyfriend know the situation. I didn’t tell him the details of what I said but he trusted me that I wouldn’t cheat since he knows the situation I was in.

NamerOfStars · Accepted Answer

It had been a rough day, and a friend was taking me out to dinner. To avoid dwelling on earlier unpleasantness, we started discussing other topics, but right in front of the place, a construction worker started using a jackhammer on the sidewalk, so we had to get louder and louder just to hear each other (as we were seated right next to the front wall). He finally stopped, just as I, growing ever more annoyed, banged my fist on the table and shouted into the now-silent room "I want to know: WHERE ARE ALL THE JEWS?".

And everyone turned to stare.

We'd been discussing the entertainment industry. Owing to the location and history of Hollywood, most of the major power players in movies and TV are Jewish. While it's not AS pronounced, the same is true of the music industry, and goodness knows most of the big names in comic books are Jewish, too. Presumably from some combination of "resources and reputation leveraged Hollywood's success" and "A culture that knows the value of entertainment". But video games are a different story. We've got Warren Spector, sure, and... who else? You'd think there'd be more, but there are surprisingly few.

FilmGuy93 · Accepted Answer

Oof... there are a few, but here are two:

1. I sent a girl love notes for a year straight with very little reciprocation because she told me she needed me to love her and be her boyfriend and she couldn't/didn't want to imagine a future without me in it, but that she couldn't return the love yet and needed to go to therapy while she learned how to love me back. It was all genuine, but it still makes me look super creepy if you don't know the context.

2. I used to use the word "nonsense" super casually until I mistakenly called the MeToo Movement "nonsense" in a conversation about how men can make women more comfortable in dating interactions. The woman I was talking to absolutely (and very understandably) blow up on me and blocked me over it. We weren't talking romantically or anything, it was just a super bad look.

TheorionMage · Answer

What are things you've done/said that look/sound worse when taken out of context?

Societies exist by mutual consent and agreement to certain behavioral 'norms' and procedural codecils... those with criminal intent elect to profit their appetites' by engaging in behaviors which operate OUTSIDE those norms, relying upon those who would cherish public sanction, to adhere TO those procedural 'rules'. For example, U. S. Prohibition's 'moonshiner's, ... illicit 'recreational' narcotic traffickers and their ilk.

They view their apprehension as an 'occupational hazard', ... a 'nuisance' which BECAUSE of society's legal procedural 'statutes, defines the extent of their 'risk'.

They exist in a subculture where THEIR peers obey NO limits, counting upon their counterparts TO obey 'procedure', ... the 'rules' of evidence, TO obtain a legal 'conviction'. Society's strictures are impersonal; "Hurray for society's mores" 'we' apprehended an insidious 'wolf' amidst society's sheeple, and we place them temporarily out of circulation in the "penalty box".

Rarely, for those with the 'stomach' for it, those street-level 'criminals' are euthanized either through circumstance or again, by sanctioned procedure... until such time, their personal harm continues unabated and NOT disincentivized. Such individuals form 'cartels' not unlike opportune vermin... assuming useful 'personas'. I've LIVED the underlying hollywood screenplay of Liam Neesen's 'Taken' ... save for the 'backup' of legitimate jurisdictional resources. Nobody acknowledges NIMBY (not in MY back yard) and at best, you 'conveniently' become cast a troublesome vigilante.

In the 'real world'... there exists profitable corruption to abet... or to turn a blind eye... and walk away. In operating 'deep cover' who is whom is defined by deeds; ESPECIALLY if One must do their own vetting amidst the 'good ol boy' grapevine. 'Utility' is often viewed as 'complicity' and later, chargeable as "Accessory Before the Act" enabling. Again, as defined by "the elements of a chargeable Offense" meanwhile surveillance is betrayed and precious evidence serendipitously gets 'mislain'. So One learns to 'play' the Players at their OWN scams and things can go 'extralegal' QUICKLY & TERMINALLY... if One becomes 'Pollyanna' naive. 'Accidents' happen--- BUT, EVERYONE CAN bleed. In criminal enterprises its "ALWAYS bout dah Benjamins" and 'ass, grass or gas, Nobody rides fer free!' and just as in Herbert's 'DUNE' ..."the Spice MUST flow" so operating 'deep cover' and solo, One MUST set pragmatic achievable 'goals'.

In my most challenging recent interdiction I exploited the underlying principle of "the Devil's BEST argument IS, that the devil doesn't exist" to make my high-valued 'groomed' PYT TOO visible. In their frustration to acquire her, an egotist decided I needed to 'have an accident' when I couldn't be bought off. By HIS vanity he elected a sloppily-done attempted car bombing to remove me from her. By doing so, he turned over their well-worn 'damp rock' and the publicized notoriety brought MUCH unwelcomed here-to-for discomforting questions for a loss of trafficking revenue in kidnap-to-order and recreational pharmaceuticals across the Montreal-to-Boston corridor for over eighteen months, I'm told to around over 1.5 Million U. S. dollars!

My would-be Latino Assassin's machismo egotistical hubris got him an unwilling midnight 'swim' in Lake Champlain BECAUSE "the spice DIDN'T flow" and THAT $$$ was unacceptable.

(Just as Jeffery Epstein managed to hang himself in a solitary heavily-surveilled jail cell BEFORE he could name embarrassing names for a lighter sentence).

Cathy7734 · Answer

I reconnected with an old friend, via email. I asked some personal questions such as what has happened in her life since we last spoke. She told me about her divorce. I asked her some questions about the divorce and her husband. She wrote back in capital letters that it's none of my business. She said she feels offended that I'm trying to pry into her personal life. That wasn't my intention.

wheresmrcunnunglis · Answer

"Toss your salad" I was literally referring to me shaking the dressing in my salad as I was on a work meeting and the guys ( friggin nerds ) on the meeting fell silent and shot me a pervy smile. I had to look up the phrase to understand why I received the reaction. Since never in all of my adult life have I ever used that friggin phrase in a sexual context before. However, I also realize I rarely say that phrase to describe me shaking my salad and use, " shake it up" or " shaking my salad" Sigh, people be messing up innocent phrases for the rest of us.

blackgaletiger · Answer

My co-worker brings his Nintendo switch to worker and we run super smash bros online during our lunch. We use a free office room on the upper level and run the game on the projector. I have a habit of yelling out profanity so all you will hear in the next room without knowing what is happening me yelling
"Get fucked" over and over again.

call_me_scar · Answer

A neighbor that I live behind waved at me I gave them a annoyed look and kept walking context to this is a few months ago her dogs attacked mine on two separate occasions I would have given the finger but that would involve wasting my time to argue with them

thatkendy · Answer

I scream at my father when he explains to me something i did wrong He always takes ages to explain his point and often repeats himself.

NopeWhatTime · Answer

Something was stuck between two walls at work and one of my coworkers is particularly strong, so without thinking I yelled "I need your yanking skills!" and didn't realize my fatal error until he looked mortified and everyone else laughed 🤦

Valso · Answer

Years ago, when I was younger, I was in a... I think it's called a "quiz" or "trivia" in English. Not on TV but in a bar. I had 30 seconds to answer as many questions as I can which time included hearing the questions and answering them. I don't remember the exact question but it was something about having kids in the future and when I said I prefered little girls, it sounded a lot dirtier than intended. Fortunately later I had the chance to explain my answers and cleared that one out.

NathanDavis · Answer

sent someone to the ICU for three months... lol, well... two months

Anonymous · Answer

Got kicked out of school when I was 14 because I took a knife to a teacher and a group of students in the cooking room, I got tackled by the teachers assistant.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

People blame me for being aggressive with my dad but they don’t understand that I have to be aggressive with him because he is abusive and does not understand emotional boundaries.

CheeseMonster · Answer

I prefer the things that sound fine out of context and bad in context. But something I said yesterday was "Look, he killed two babies! What a good boy."

WhiteSteve · Answer

I beat up a homeless guy once. I’ve told the story to a crowd before and they’re usually just looking at me like 😮😮😮😮😮😮 until I get around to the explanation lmao.

XXblack88 · Answer

I was talking on the phone to my sisters some point she tells me her son is playing at a toy work bench. When he come over to say hi I asked what he's been up to and he told me he's been playing with a screwdriver and without even thinking how dirty that sounds I asked what he was screwing. Thankfully he was One and a half or two at the time.

MrtoddsWildRide · Answer

Last week I came inside my friend’s wife.  (It was his idea)

Anonymous · Answer

When I have stayed quiet if someone is disrespectful towards me or lying about something until I get to the point where I lose it and just tell them what I think of them in front of whomever. Then people assume I was unprovoked and say I am crazy or whatever?

Bball24 · Answer

“You dismissed how I felt, by not acknowledging what I said, you lack compassion”

EspressoTeen234 · Answer

I rejected a girl at school. She asked “Can I be your first kiss” and now after I rejected her friend wants to literally kill me for rejecting. Kids in middle school are either high, crazy, depressed, or normal in my opinion.

Wonderer89 · Answer

I told an employee who just had her lower leg amputated that it’ll be great to see her once she's all healed she’s back on her feet 🤦🏻‍♀️

michael1469 · Answer

I am responsible for anything i say. I am not responsible for your interpretation of what i say. Deal with it.

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

The pic looks like the reincarnation of Tom Petty 22 years before he died!

Anonymous · Answer

I called this guy a dork. He told me to suck it... Once I was talking about how filthy my dads car was and I said that there was a bunch of junk in the trunk and yeah...

Anonymous · Answer

watching sports and saying america will kill russia or vice versa

novaSFW · Answer

Blamed and cussed my mother out for basically all my current life problems. and choked my girlfriend till she passed out

Anonymous · Answer

Me in front of my front door pissing myself. I don’t think it gets much worse than that.

JustiReno · Answer

Cheat 10x on my ex…

jimmy2 · Answer

You did what. well it becase i was stone

Citizenkirk · Answer

That blows

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