this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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Clever Comebacks

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What else should they have replied? They're not even being clever, their opponent is just really stupid.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you the media?

Enough of a red flag to never talk to that person again

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Why? Who the hell are you? The government?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would use this phrasing. What should I say instead?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Are you a photographer for a newspaper or magazine?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Also like oh no he wants to do hobbies in public. Let people enjoy public spaces

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's the context? Was this a covid thing?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

These screenshots might shed some more light. Looks like an employee was filmed doing something they shouldn’t by a train spotter.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

What a weird hill to die on lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Try to do that at an airport and you'll get arrested."

She knows plane spotting at big airports is a pretty common thing too right? Hell, some airports even have a place where it's specifically encouraged. Reagan Intl has a park that was built at the end of the runway for plane spotters.

"I'm the media"

You'd think she'd be better at researching basic stuff that takes a 5 second google search to know it's perfectly fine to do

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Y'all got any more of that tasty boot leather?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

2017, way before covid. Some dude never heard of train-spotting before and was very confused by it.