The Stuff You Always Wanted to Say Game

[Chancellor Valium]

Bipolar? Who mentioned bipolar disorders? O_o

As for pseudo-obscure- things like a direct translation of Book X of the Aeneid would count as pseudo-obscure.

[Nate the Great]

I really, REALLY hate the terms "retard" and "retarded." Not for vulgarity reasons per se, more like "horribly imprecise." Some people use them as shortcuts to avoid using more accurate terms that could actually give hints as to how to interact with the sufferers. I jump to "bipolar" as the easiest catchall term that doesn't have negative connotations for me. Besides, most of the "three fries short of a Happy Meal" people I know are bipolar, so that's what I use.

[MaverickZer0]

And I really, really hate other terms used similarly, but let's not get into that. What and why is obvious if you know me.

Pseudo-obscure is what I use to describe things that I think are or should be obscure, then I find out they're not.

[Nate the Great]

There are a lot of things that should be obscure, no question.

[AKAArzosah]

I work in a post office, but people are always asking 'Do you sell stamps here?' There's always the urge to respond with the long, drawn out, dripping with sarcasm 'Noooooooo'.

But they frown on that - something about customers not coming back.

Last year though, one of our 'regulars' started getting money orders for an international competition, you know the ones that say 'send us this once only payment and go into the draw for X dollars!'? For legal reasons we couldn't advise her not to, and in the end, when her nephew heard about it, I think she'd spent at least $800 on the stupid things. You have to wonder how stupid people are that they actually fall for these things though.

PLEASE PEOPLE, DO NOT SEND MONEY TO RANDOM INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS

[Nate the Great]

Okay, first off, absolutely awesome avatar, AKA.

Oh, and I'd say, "Well, I don't, but that machine over there does. I'd be careful, though. You might get stamped out."

[MaverickZer0]

Update: There are many non-polite things I would like to say to people. However, they would get me fired.

[Burt]

Originally Posted by AKAArzosah

I work in a post office, but people are always asking 'Do you sell stamps here?' There's always the urge to respond with the long, drawn out, dripping with sarcasm 'Noooooooo'.

But they frown on that - something about customers not coming back.

Personally, I'd just say, "No." And then turn away from them and get on with what ever it is I was doing.
If a person needs to ask if a post office sell stamps, then they proberly shouldn't be sending letters on their own.