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Faux pas

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Brettt

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Have you ever said or did anything that it is completely inappropriate, that you didn't mean to do, and it offended someone, or was just plain terrible.

For me, this Summer, I was in a mall with my cousin, and we were talking about our gardens (No, I don't remember why). I said that I didn't really have to do any yardwork since I have a gardener, and he goes, "Oh, aren't all Scottish gardeners like really mean?", and I say "Not that I know of, where did you hear that, I wouldn't think there would be any Scottish gardeners here," and he said "Nah, we got a few," And I say, "Wow, I thought all gardeners here were Mexican." Unbeknownst to me, there was these three mexican guys right in front of me, and when I said that, he turns around and looks at me. He might've said something, but I had dashed into the video store right next to us. Terrible.

Any good faux pas from the SPPf people?
 
Well once I went down to Hollywood with some friends, and for some reason we were telling racist jokes and one of them involved the N word and some huge black guy heard us say that and he socked one of my friends in the eye and he ended up being in the hospital for a week cause he cracked some bone in the skull.
Haven't been to Hollywood since.
 
I was at my house and my neighbors came over. I told my sister that I think they were awkward and she agreed with me. But I said it a bit to loud and they heard me. In my head I thought "oh sh*t"
 
Brettt said:
Not really, its more like a freudian slip, except of a concious level. You basically speak your mind before thinking about what you say or do first.
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Oh ok, I was thinking of posting when I called a bald guy Mr. Clean, but meh.

Once I accidentally told a Somalian friend to go back to Abu Dhabi, when we were making jokes and telling him to go back to class.
 
LugiaRules said:
Oh ok, I was thinking of posting when I called a bald guy Mr. Clean, but meh.

Once I accidentally told a Somalian friend to go back to Abu Dhabi, when we were making jokes and telling him to go back to class.
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isnt abu dhabi in the U.A.E.? mogadishu is the capital of somalia....

anyway when i was still a beginner at english, i was in uganda in an ESL program and i told the teacher "yo *****!" because i heard 50 cent say it :p the good thing though is i am black so i did not get into to big of trouble
 
Well one time I was at the mall walking around with a friend of mine and we walk by these hot chicks, and we just happened to be talking about Super Smash Brothers Melee because that's what we do for fun down here in Louisiana. Anyway, I was talking about playing as Jigglypuff and the words "And I pounded his *** until I knocked him out" uttered out of my mouth, and then I realized what I had said and I looked up to see the girls staring at me in disgust.

They were probably Lesbian anyway.
 
Let's just say lots of unintentional northern or blond jokes around my mom are not cool. Well, until she beats you up, then it's awesome.
 
Oh, yeah. I can be really awkward sometimes. I had just met some friends of a friend, and we were talking about how weird it is to hear about people from high school. They started talking about this one guy they knew who had committed suicide. I kept saying that I didn't understand it (because I, for one, find death extremely scary), and then... I asked "Was he poor?"

I was thinking you must have to feel like your future is really hopeless to kill yourself, and also about how that's more likely to happen with someone from a low socio-economic status... but that part didn't come across. The girls were like "What are you trying to analyze him?" Well, I guess I was... but it was really embarrassing.
 
Well I know when I was in Toronto, Canada, I was was walking a past a few DVD shops while muttering the fact that most of them are pirated.

Good thing they didn't hear me properly.
 
Oh, I was discussing why I was a moderate with one of my friends. I said that I didn't like the ultra-conservative, gun-totin', Bible-thumpin' Republicans, but I also didn't like the crazy Democrats who believe that 9/11 was an inside job. And my friend's like "I believe that." Wow. Awkward. And I bet someone here's gonna pop up and say the same thing.
 
Well, I haven't really done any I can remember, but I have been angered by one.

Me and my friend were talking religion one fateful day, my mind was on other things and I wasn't really listening until he starts talking about how the Jewish people are still receiving the punishment of god due to them not converting after the death of Christ. Then I just turn to face him and I say in a nasty voice "I'm Jewish you know...", yeah, he started stammering after that.
 
I can't specifically remember anything I've said at the moment, though I'm sure I'm guilty of saying some nasty things too, but I have an example nonetheless.

Senior year in High School everyone had to take a government class; we covered a lot of contemporary issues and had several debates. Once the class got into a huge argument about homosexuals and the like, basically whether or not it's legitimate, natural, etc. I guess my classmates forgot that I'm gay- they were saying some really infuriating things. Eventually my teacher saw how angry I was and called it off, but I wasn't exactly in the best of moods after that.
 
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Oh, yeah, I was pretty lonely in middle school. This one time, I was in a bathroom stall, and I heard some girls I knew talking. One of them was worried about a mark on her face, or something... I wanted in on the conversation, so when I came out, I was like "What happened to your face?" I didn't realize it until someone told me later, but she was upset and started crying. I felt really, really awful. It's really sad how awkward I used to be... I mean, I'm still awkward, but come on!
 
I have a couple of times where I did something that might be able to be considered a "faux pax."
Once, in Elementary School a few years ago, I was told by the teacher to hurry up to leave the classroom where I answered "Hold on! just give me a couple of secs!" (like plural of sec) The whole class laughed.
Also, last year in 7th grade, our pre-Algebra class was given a simple test of three questions of which the 6th grade also took. Our class did worse (I still got them right though because Im good at Math) than the sixth grade at which a kid in our class said "Dang! Our class is stupid!" I then said quietly "Nope, just Chelsea..." (who is a girl in most of my classes and who no one likes and whose friends defend or insult her). At this a girl named Kat who was one of Chelsea's friends O_o said "Did you hear what he just said..." " At this I was given many high-5's but Im not one to usually do that so... It was ackward...
 
I have a couple of times where I did something that might be able to be considered a "faux pax."
Once, in Elementary School a few years ago, I was told by the teacher to hurry up to leave the classroom where I answered "Hold on! just give me a couple of secs!" (like plural of sec) The whole class laughed.
Also, last year in 7th grade, our pre-Algebra class was given a simple test of three questions of which the 6th grade also took. Our class did worse (I still got them right though because Im good at Math) than the sixth grade at which a kid in our class said "Dang! Our class is stupid!" I then said quietly "Nope, just Chelsea..." (who is a girl in most of my classes and who no one likes and whose friends defend or insult her). At this a girl named Kat who was one of Chelsea's friends O_o said "Did you hear what he just said..." " At this I was given many high-5's but Im not one to usually do that so... It was ackward...
 
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