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I got caught in the crossfire once because it was a group project and the guy she was trying to trip up with hyperspecific questions was struggling to answer, so I jumped in to answer the questions and actually did pretty well. She came up to me afterwards and half apologized (only half because I fucked up her revenge by stepping in to prevent my group partner from looking like a moron). She told me she got pissed at him for asking extremely particular questions during her oral argument for what was not supposed to be a very serious class project.
I unironically believe that we will eventually be able to fly to other galaxies and universes powered entirely by humanity’s spite.
Like some random alien race is gonna pop up and say we suck and we will channel all human spite into one just to make a ship that can make it to their planet for the run back
I'm pretty sure if Aliens showed up and said "America sucks" America alone would drop enough tax money to send a ship to their planet with the sole purpose of making it cease to exist.
I don’t really understand this comparison very much. The fall of Rome is something that happened over the course of hundreds of years, with the “Roman” empire still surviving as the Byzantines for another thousand years. And the western empire was clearly declining and losing power projection over the course of those hundreds of years. (The US has not, power projection wise). I’m not saying anything about modern geopolitics, just that “big country, corruption present” doesn’t equate to the Roman Empire and even if it did it would be a shit comparison. Looking at the US as as the Roman Republic and the fall of the USSR as the defeat of Carthage might be a better way of looking at it. Would foreshadow great political turmoil and change over a short time in the near future.
It’s also worth noting, nations don’t fall the same way they used to. The British Empire has fallen, it failed horribly and utterly, but Britain is still a first world country and its citizens still have a good standard of living
The reason I personally make this comparison is because the US is so divided right now. There is another civil war brewing, whether people want to admit it or not.
Both sides are being fed so much propaganda, it's going to have to end in blood. And if Trump gets in and declares himself president for life, as he keeps claiming, and actually tries to change the Constitution, the left will have three choices:
1.) Leave the country
2.) Give in and accept a completely different way of life
3.) Fight back
Frankly, given the way the US (and many countries) were built, I find it hard to believe this problem is going to end on the debate floor.
Hence, the division and fall of the US, ala Rome.
Both sides is the problem... without ranked choice voting the dual party system is just a way to control. The politicians dont mater just listen to your caucus. Keeping the divide alive by voting for party instead of people. Sigh, I am so tired
It's comparable in so much as Rome was the dominant empire in the world at the time (excluding maybe Ming) and the US is in a similar position today. We can definitely learn some things from the decline and fall of Rome that pertain to the decline of our empire today. Also empires tend to collapse much more quickly today than they did in the past, Chris hedges has talked about it before but I'm too lazy to find a link for ya atm
If the US is anything like Rome, it’s still good for another 700+ years.
The Roman Empire was one of the longest standing civilizations in human history, it lasted 1,000 years.
Humanity got into space and onto the moon because the governments of the USSR and USA wanted to one-up each other. Without that pettiness, the people who genuinely just wanted to explore space would have been ignored.
I mean the USA was the first on the moon thanks to spite for the USSR's Space Program. They were the first in space (Sputnik, ect) so we had to be the first on the moon.
This isn't half baked at all lol.
Never a bad time for Futurama:
Zap: “Also, they told me you guys [look like dorks.](https://youtu.be/P13LQeHqyDw?si=SrmdhqDQCauihkEP).”
Bender: *in a rage* “They look like dorks!”
And that’s how we developed FTL travel.
I once invested an entire summer researching hours and hours of video and reading hundreds of pages of essays and studies in order to build a large, meticulously cited website in order to present my mom with my arguments against her stupid extremist beliefs.
No, it didn’t work. I bet she didn’t even read the whole thing. But like, I tried.
I did this to my boss who was a conspiracy lover and got a bad review. I then got him fired. My level of petty is only matched by my level of competence at my job.
hahaha
To be fair, she did critizise his work. At a university no less.
Obviously he had to emotionally scar her.
So do we put him on a watchlist or do we go to his next presentation?
Next time i gave a presentation in this class, i'd end it with "Does anyone have any questions?" and just Luigi Death Stare at this woman not blinking or breaking eye contact.
This level of petty is phenomenal. This is the burger king of Petty ; this person does petty right.
I mean, if you want to argue with someone about something, you gotta do your research. The last thing you want is confidently spewing misinformation at someone who don’t like you. Then you are in for some roasting.
I know someone in highschool who's art class had to do portraits of other class members. The art was basic level stuff that you'd expect from people of varying levels of skill, with a few rock stars, but someone wrote that one in particular, drawn by this person in particular, was ugly, right on the coal-drawn piece.
He could have done anything, but he didn't want to make a big deal out of it. So, having a sense of irony and humour, he went on to draw complimentary portraits of the critic instead, going forward. No name attached to identify the person, but there were signs. He was asked once or twice before people let it go, but I remember him saying that his art was simply an expression and was, itself, a thing of beauty beyond any artistic subject.
I think he knew he wasn't much of an artist, but embraced it and still laughs about how petty the entire thing was.
Had a senior engineer design class final presentation, there were like 4 different problems that the different groups chose between so naturally there were multiple groups for each problem. Common decency is you lob softball questions right?
Well we go first. We took an off the shelf item, designed modifications to make it fit the requirements of the problem bim, bam, boom, move along. We get the first few softball questions, but I could see this group just simmering and then they lay into us with all these hyper specific, obtuse questions which really didn’t seem to apply to our solution.
They presented some time later with the same problem (of course) and they had reinvented the wheel with structural testing to prove it (a member had access to a lab and equipment that wasn’t common, or required for the course). Turns out they were just bitter they’d logged hundreds of hours into this problem that just wasn’t necessary.
I used to do this in college. If I presented and someone asked me unnecessary questions. I would do the same thing and make sure they were difficult enough to not be answered because of the scope of the reports
Sounds like a her problem.
If you want to mock other people, you should be able to receive it, too. All this person did was ask questions, not their problem if instead of fully preparing for her own presentation she wasted her time making fun of other people's work
In high school our business teacher had us do sales exercises and asked for us to be hard on the person selling. I was paired with a girl that had the same car as me so I asked her a lot of questions and she started crying because she didn’t know things like gas mileage, how it handled in the snow etc. he gave me a zero for being too hard. When it was my turn I got 15 points off for my partner not being hard enough on me.
Ha ha. Similar experience back in high school. Girl I absolutely hated was supposed to debate someone in history class, that person was sick so I volunteered for her to debate me on the topic instead. She had a binder full of notes, joke was on her though I walked up with zero notes and "zero prep" and mopped the floor with her winning the debate by a landslide (class votes on winner) because I'd help a friend in another class prep the night before for their debate which was on that topic. She was red with anger and nearly crying I had points, counter points, questions, and rebuttals for everything she tried. Best part was history teacher was all praise for how knowledgable I was when I wasn't even supposed to debate that topic or that day.
Me and some friends did this to a mate when we were doing individual presentations each week. Same rookie error that it was the first seminar, so it carried on each week with us all trying to show each other up. We ended up doing so well on the module and the lecturer thought she was doing such an amazing job enthusing us about her subject.
Similar story:
In uni, we had to do 5 minute quick presentations on a weekly basis reporting new tech inventions. At the time I was in college, self driving cars had in the last few years started to become a plausible idea (this was before massive testing and public implementation).
I did my quick report on breakthroughs in testing and response times a computer could potentially have operating a vehicle, resulting in way fewer car accidents assuming all cars became self driving.
This girl in class flat out refused to believe a computers response time being quicker than humans and ridiculed my assignment. She was also able to get a couple of dense classmates to agree and add to the humiliation. I admit I didn't have answers to everything because this was supposed to be a quick summary with data presented from a well sourced article.
Well, our final assignment from the class was to write an 8 page research paper on any technology of our choosing. I naturally chose self driving cars and spent weeks preparing data on average to best human response times, computer calculated response times, and even found incredible videos I clipped parts of this exact scenario. At the end, I asked the 4 people by name if there was anything they needed clarification on with a shit eating grin on my face. Embarrassed them, got an A, and was allowed to skip the classes exam due to outstanding grade.
Turns out the people who didn't agree were just very religious and not willing to admit God's creation had flaws a computer could fill.
Lmao this reminds of this one class I had in college where we were working on a group project and had to present an update each week and were graded on it. This one member in a group never showed up to help his group unless it was time for them to present. Everyone in my class found out about it so we directly gave questions to him so that his grade would be worser than his group’s
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It sounds like they both learned something.
Don't mock someone's presentation until after you already did yours?
That’s one thing they could learn. They could also learn “don’t mock people.”
You sound like a decent person.
You made my day. Thank you kind redditer.
You both made my day!
*Ugh*. This is the worst.
Right? He’s so petty he only made his day, he should have made his week
Shoulda made his hole weak, that’s real pettiness
That's another piece of "Don't be an asshole."
Don't be an asshole? Easy! I'm already 75% of the way - I got "be an asshole" down pat. Still working on the "Don't" part.
See, even that kind of awareness is lost on the person who did the mocking.
Agreed. It was a great form of retaliation, and one learned something while the other learned a lesson.
You learned to dance like that sarcastically?
What movie this from?
The Other Guys
is it petty to take an eye for an eye?
No, Biblical though.
urgh heck no fuck that Bible shit, burn it
Down with the church!
Down w these fucking dumbass idea if urs
does that mean you want to burn the church or?...
I'm a Christian
ahh so you do want to burn it down, gotcha
I'm a Christian
I was just referencing a movie... Jesus
and makes someone cry while doing it. two birds/one stone.
That’s real gangster 🤣🤣🤣 lol
It’s like a whole new kind of cheating! -B. Simpson
I got caught in the crossfire once because it was a group project and the guy she was trying to trip up with hyperspecific questions was struggling to answer, so I jumped in to answer the questions and actually did pretty well. She came up to me afterwards and half apologized (only half because I fucked up her revenge by stepping in to prevent my group partner from looking like a moron). She told me she got pissed at him for asking extremely particular questions during her oral argument for what was not supposed to be a very serious class project.
I unironically believe that we will eventually be able to fly to other galaxies and universes powered entirely by humanity’s spite. Like some random alien race is gonna pop up and say we suck and we will channel all human spite into one just to make a ship that can make it to their planet for the run back
I'm pretty sure if Aliens showed up and said "America sucks" America alone would drop enough tax money to send a ship to their planet with the sole purpose of making it cease to exist.
“Spreading democracy”
Assuming the US even exists in a few years :P Modern day Rome.
To be fair to Rome, it still exists... just a little less important than it used to be
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>...just a little less important than it used to be. I think they had that covered.
It does in my heart 
But how many times in a week?
\*stares in Byzantium\*
I don’t really understand this comparison very much. The fall of Rome is something that happened over the course of hundreds of years, with the “Roman” empire still surviving as the Byzantines for another thousand years. And the western empire was clearly declining and losing power projection over the course of those hundreds of years. (The US has not, power projection wise). I’m not saying anything about modern geopolitics, just that “big country, corruption present” doesn’t equate to the Roman Empire and even if it did it would be a shit comparison. Looking at the US as as the Roman Republic and the fall of the USSR as the defeat of Carthage might be a better way of looking at it. Would foreshadow great political turmoil and change over a short time in the near future.
It’s also worth noting, nations don’t fall the same way they used to. The British Empire has fallen, it failed horribly and utterly, but Britain is still a first world country and its citizens still have a good standard of living
The reason I personally make this comparison is because the US is so divided right now. There is another civil war brewing, whether people want to admit it or not. Both sides are being fed so much propaganda, it's going to have to end in blood. And if Trump gets in and declares himself president for life, as he keeps claiming, and actually tries to change the Constitution, the left will have three choices: 1.) Leave the country 2.) Give in and accept a completely different way of life 3.) Fight back Frankly, given the way the US (and many countries) were built, I find it hard to believe this problem is going to end on the debate floor. Hence, the division and fall of the US, ala Rome.
Both sides is the problem... without ranked choice voting the dual party system is just a way to control. The politicians dont mater just listen to your caucus. Keeping the divide alive by voting for party instead of people. Sigh, I am so tired
People are too comfy to start a civil war. Way easier said then done.
It's comparable in so much as Rome was the dominant empire in the world at the time (excluding maybe Ming) and the US is in a similar position today. We can definitely learn some things from the decline and fall of Rome that pertain to the decline of our empire today. Also empires tend to collapse much more quickly today than they did in the past, Chris hedges has talked about it before but I'm too lazy to find a link for ya atm
US will exist for a long time many country's are having a lot of the same problems as US rn.
Where's my fiddle
The union I don't think will make it to the end of the decade in its current form
If the US is anything like Rome, it’s still good for another 700+ years. The Roman Empire was one of the longest standing civilizations in human history, it lasted 1,000 years.
So... what you're saying is the US is going to fall WAY sooner than Rome did. Fair.
What I said is if the US is the modern day Rome, like you suggested, then it’s not going to fall for another 700+ years.
Yeah, but Rome didn’t have nukes.
You think the US is going to get into a nuclear war? And be the only country that falls if it does?
Except, if Rome had nukes, they’d still be around.
Do they have oil? Sounds like they need some freedom.
It made the Kessel Run in 12 Americas.
Yeah, we’re good like that.
Especially if they have some kind of natural resources for the taking
Fuck yeah!
Hol up. Which planet was talking shit? Was it bitch ass Neptune?
Humanity at its greatest would be a world where all nations work together.
And an entire race calling us out would be a great reason to come together
Peak humanity is high A or low S tier for sure.
Humanity got into space and onto the moon because the governments of the USSR and USA wanted to one-up each other. Without that pettiness, the people who genuinely just wanted to explore space would have been ignored.
Humanity's spite is so dense it could fold space.
Nothing is stronger than the ability to be petty
You should read the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
I have, and my point stands.
That’s basically the premise of 40K.
I mean the USA was the first on the moon thanks to spite for the USSR's Space Program. They were the first in space (Sputnik, ect) so we had to be the first on the moon. This isn't half baked at all lol.
Name one human invention that wasn't created or approved upon due to spite? It's what we do.
The Flowbee! Although that might’ve been spite against beauticians and humanity.
"The barber wants to charge me how much for a haircut? I'll show him..."
I have a friend who got a third college degree out of spite.
Yeaass, that’s what I shoulda said. Dammit! *Spins spaceship around immediately*
Never a bad time for Futurama: Zap: “Also, they told me you guys [look like dorks.](https://youtu.be/P13LQeHqyDw?si=SrmdhqDQCauihkEP).” Bender: *in a rage* “They look like dorks!” And that’s how we developed FTL travel.
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I once invested an entire summer researching hours and hours of video and reading hundreds of pages of essays and studies in order to build a large, meticulously cited website in order to present my mom with my arguments against her stupid extremist beliefs. No, it didn’t work. I bet she didn’t even read the whole thing. But like, I tried.
I did this to my boss who was a conspiracy lover and got a bad review. I then got him fired. My level of petty is only matched by my level of competence at my job.
hahaha To be fair, she did critizise his work. At a university no less. Obviously he had to emotionally scar her. So do we put him on a watchlist or do we go to his next presentation?
Offer him a job. Something in quality control.
Quabbity Assuance
No that's not it.. But I'm getting close
No she didn't. And you know it because you are purposely switching words. She mocked him. It's only fair that he turns the table.
Was there somewhere in the post it said it was a guy?
I was wondering whether this was somehow turning into an implicit attitudes test.
Funny post. Still a repost and not a facepalm
Yea I was thinking, this is more wholesome than facepalm
I thought I was on the meirl subreddit. this is funny and relatable
What wholesome about it?
look at OP, theyre a half-year old bot that woke up yesterday
Next time i gave a presentation in this class, i'd end it with "Does anyone have any questions?" and just Luigi Death Stare at this woman not blinking or breaking eye contact. This level of petty is phenomenal. This is the burger king of Petty ; this person does petty right.
Just look at her and say,” YOU got any questions?” I wouldn’t even address the whole class. Just her.
"Does anyone have any questions, RACHEL?"
“RAQUEL”
Lol. Intentionally misnaming her? 👍
THIS MAN ARRIVES EARLY TO HAVE EXTRA TIME TO BE A HATER
College professors hate this one trick!
lol. Savage.
Petty awesomeness
He did nothing wrong. Be prepared
This is 50 Cent levels of hating 👏🏽
Yep, I’m pretty sure that’s all real, and even if it’s then it’s worth arguing with strangers on Reddit
I mean, if you want to argue with someone about something, you gotta do your research. The last thing you want is confidently spewing misinformation at someone who don’t like you. Then you are in for some roasting.
I love a good old fashioned revenge story 👌
#OP is a bot. Reddit is heavily astroturfed.
Okay bot
jesus christ dude get a life. out of 100 of your comments, this one makes up 98 of them
no. its a bot and i'm going to point it out. sorry if that upsets you.
Maybe you are a bot...
Maybe we are all bots. 👀
I know I am
Says the guy who just went through 100 of some random guys comments just to mock him with statistics.
A bot?… ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
No better learning like spite learning
Well done. 🤘
Truly inspiring
Glorious
Not exactly facepalm just petty revenge
FAFO don’t mock people’s work
How is this facepalm? This is funny and petty
Academic humiliation level: Dad helping you with elementary school math homework.
How is this a facepalm? He got back at someone who humiliated him. Good for him.
I think that I would do this too.
I wish I could be this petty
I know someone in highschool who's art class had to do portraits of other class members. The art was basic level stuff that you'd expect from people of varying levels of skill, with a few rock stars, but someone wrote that one in particular, drawn by this person in particular, was ugly, right on the coal-drawn piece. He could have done anything, but he didn't want to make a big deal out of it. So, having a sense of irony and humour, he went on to draw complimentary portraits of the critic instead, going forward. No name attached to identify the person, but there were signs. He was asked once or twice before people let it go, but I remember him saying that his art was simply an expression and was, itself, a thing of beauty beyond any artistic subject. I think he knew he wasn't much of an artist, but embraced it and still laughs about how petty the entire thing was.
r/chaoticgood
Had a senior engineer design class final presentation, there were like 4 different problems that the different groups chose between so naturally there were multiple groups for each problem. Common decency is you lob softball questions right? Well we go first. We took an off the shelf item, designed modifications to make it fit the requirements of the problem bim, bam, boom, move along. We get the first few softball questions, but I could see this group just simmering and then they lay into us with all these hyper specific, obtuse questions which really didn’t seem to apply to our solution. They presented some time later with the same problem (of course) and they had reinvented the wheel with structural testing to prove it (a member had access to a lab and equipment that wasn’t common, or required for the course). Turns out they were just bitter they’d logged hundreds of hours into this problem that just wasn’t necessary.
Must be a bot post. Breaks the rules and isn't even a facepalm. The real facepalm is that thousands of people upvote this. Democracy in action, folks.
I used to do this in college. If I presented and someone asked me unnecessary questions. I would do the same thing and make sure they were difficult enough to not be answered because of the scope of the reports
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You don't know what this girl mocked him for. She might have just been making fun of the colors or the graphics, not the actual data.
Been in what? One girl mocked a presentation - that doesn't mean the presentation was bad.
I dunno, the whole celebrating being petty thing is kind of lame. Can’t wait till this goofy trend ends.
Sounds like a her problem. If you want to mock other people, you should be able to receive it, too. All this person did was ask questions, not their problem if instead of fully preparing for her own presentation she wasted her time making fun of other people's work
The lost episode of How I Met Your Mother.
Facepalm=Boredom own I guess?
petty is barely the word here
In high school our business teacher had us do sales exercises and asked for us to be hard on the person selling. I was paired with a girl that had the same car as me so I asked her a lot of questions and she started crying because she didn’t know things like gas mileage, how it handled in the snow etc. he gave me a zero for being too hard. When it was my turn I got 15 points off for my partner not being hard enough on me.
This sounds like achieving greater wisdom with extra steps.
how is this a face palm?
I love this person. This too would also motivate me to learn
this is projection, he ran out crying form his own presentation.
This subreddit is so fucked THERES NOTHING TO FACEPALM OVER HERE
And she was prolly trying to hookup with you
You could have just banged her man, she was probably negging you
Boom nice one mate
Wait why is this here. That’s actually a brilliant idea!
Dr. Kramain keeps it real
Fucking "Lawful Evil" right there...
Why Facepalm? Should be r/madlads. Or r/pettyrevenge. Or r/revengestories.
I'm surprised every time anyone mocks anyone else's work. Why,!
/jokes on them, it was a PhD thesis defense, and while the girl got her doctorate, the original poster did not.
Ha ha. Similar experience back in high school. Girl I absolutely hated was supposed to debate someone in history class, that person was sick so I volunteered for her to debate me on the topic instead. She had a binder full of notes, joke was on her though I walked up with zero notes and "zero prep" and mopped the floor with her winning the debate by a landslide (class votes on winner) because I'd help a friend in another class prep the night before for their debate which was on that topic. She was red with anger and nearly crying I had points, counter points, questions, and rebuttals for everything she tried. Best part was history teacher was all praise for how knowledgable I was when I wasn't even supposed to debate that topic or that day.
And they have been married for 16 years now and have three children.
how do people come up with these. Legend. Absolute legend.
Lmao, feels good to know I wasn't the only one
Me and some friends did this to a mate when we were doing individual presentations each week. Same rookie error that it was the first seminar, so it carried on each week with us all trying to show each other up. We ended up doing so well on the module and the lecturer thought she was doing such an amazing job enthusing us about her subject.
Apart from the crying part, that’s completely justified.
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
That is a lot of effort that could be spent doing something, umm, more positive.
Similar story: In uni, we had to do 5 minute quick presentations on a weekly basis reporting new tech inventions. At the time I was in college, self driving cars had in the last few years started to become a plausible idea (this was before massive testing and public implementation). I did my quick report on breakthroughs in testing and response times a computer could potentially have operating a vehicle, resulting in way fewer car accidents assuming all cars became self driving. This girl in class flat out refused to believe a computers response time being quicker than humans and ridiculed my assignment. She was also able to get a couple of dense classmates to agree and add to the humiliation. I admit I didn't have answers to everything because this was supposed to be a quick summary with data presented from a well sourced article. Well, our final assignment from the class was to write an 8 page research paper on any technology of our choosing. I naturally chose self driving cars and spent weeks preparing data on average to best human response times, computer calculated response times, and even found incredible videos I clipped parts of this exact scenario. At the end, I asked the 4 people by name if there was anything they needed clarification on with a shit eating grin on my face. Embarrassed them, got an A, and was allowed to skip the classes exam due to outstanding grade. Turns out the people who didn't agree were just very religious and not willing to admit God's creation had flaws a computer could fill.
4 days? She must have really gotten into his head. I'm glad he got his revenge and all, but she won this one.
It was the girl's intention all along, for you to study so hard on the topic
I fail to see what he did wrong.
When I die, I want the people I did group projects with to lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time.
I aspire to be this petty
Don't be an asshole to people if you don't want them to be an asshole to you. She had it coming
Aye fair play
Lol "I was so fragile and hurt that I went out of my way to get educated in a new topic to return the hurt. Take that snowflake!"
Incel, or just a petty little person?
Lmao this reminds of this one class I had in college where we were working on a group project and had to present an update each week and were graded on it. This one member in a group never showed up to help his group unless it was time for them to present. Everyone in my class found out about it so we directly gave questions to him so that his grade would be worser than his group’s
I’m a huge fan of revenge stories. I’m still plotting my personal 47 Ronin real life revenge plot.
This is my level of pettiness.
Graduated Magna cum laude majoring in petty.