Posted on 10/12/2012 5:26:32 AM PDT by beebuster2000
So, you are at a meeting at work, or say at a Church meeting. You are talking, and some guy is constantly mugging, laughing smirking. You are distracted by it, as is everyone else. But if you stop and call him on it, engage, he just turns up the juice, becomes totally disruptive, and wins. so what do you do?
Ignore it and hope everyone else sees him for the fool he is? Or come out with some clever one liner, if you can think of one: "didnt your parents teach you any manners?" Or reach over and slap the guy as you really want to?
What would you do?
Leave. Turn my back on them in midsentence and just leave.
Since I am a Senior Officer in the military, and more than likely othrank most folks, I don’t see that happening.
“You are distracted by it, as is everyone else. But if you stop and call him on it, engage, he just turns up the juice, becomes totally disruptive, and wins.”
He doesn’t win with anyone worth caring about. Never argue with idiots, you always get pulled down to their level.
...it's easy...
...just look them square in the eyes and say...
..."bless your heart"...
...game over...
“Bless your heart” works for me.
I would of said something like...
I know you think it’s funny, but the middle class that has been buried by your policies these last 4 years isn’t laughing Jo!
He was acting like a smart alec child smirking at his Mom.
Ryan should have treated him like a child and told him to “wipe that smirk off his face, America is going bankrupt under your policies”
You beat me by 22 seconds!
We have a winner
Doesn't work so well in a one-on-one debate, but in a group it seems effective.
I think there are still some old fashioned Democrats who are increasingly appalled by the current status of the party. The behavior of the current VP last night must have appalled them. This is the kind of thing that causes people to quietly tiptoe over to the other party. For me, it happened in 1992 when the DNC trotted out Bill Clinton.
... ;) ...
the more you ignore, the faster they run to the edge
That’s right ;D!
Biden is a sociopath. I would give him a lot of rope to hang himself with, then jerk him up short, and arrange to have hinm kicked out, and if he got physical, I would kick his ass out myself like a bouncer would.
The world is full of Biden bullys, and the best thing is to give them a dose of their own medicine.
My daughter laughed and smirked when I was being serious...once.
When “Man Bear Pig” shows up (SEE: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s10e06-manbearpig ) don’t listen to the Algore, and stay out of the Treasure Cave ~ it’s all fake stuff.
Believe it or not this clearly anti-democrat storyline is preceeded by an Obama advertisement. Seems to me the Democrats don’t understand humor!
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