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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:44AM
I have a story for you. This one is about my 2 brothers. My girlfriend at the time and I are at a party. My 2 brothers show up.
2 brothers, on a wrestling team at the gym, tomatoes - and then aliens invade, from outer space - the aliens, and there was corn. Corn battles rage through the night while wrestling.. macho tomatoes with cabbage. from outer space - wrestling. At the corn battles, with 2 brothers.
Anywise, so there is a dude at this party. He is one of those hipster idiots who usually looks the fool and says retarded things, but people don't correct him - they just smile. One of those guys who (we're all in our early 20s at this point) brags about his 50k salary, and everyone just quietly lets him do it, despite it being less than what most people in the room take home. In short - he is a fool, but has low self-esteem. In order not to get depressed, he creates a virtual world for himself where he is awesome. Because everyone recognizes him as a fool, they know there is nothing they can say to convince him to stop acting like a clown. People are laughing at how stupid something he says is, and he thinks they find him funny.
Anywise, my brothers come in, and this guy talks to them for a while. Then my girlfriend and a couple of other bitches come by. Now, the douche has never met my brothers, or me, but he knows we're Russian. So does everyone else at the party, including the girls. He turns to my little brother and goes "Hey, what nationality are you guys". My brother, surprised, goes "Umm, we're all Russian dude." And then the douche goes: "Oh wow, your English is very good! Good job guys - I heard that Russians are very smart!" Everyone is laughing their ass off. Everyone in the room. In his mind he is the star of the party. He complements both my brothers' English as well as mine, several more times as the night progresses. The 3rd time people give him weird looks and don't laugh - they've stopped paying attention.
Now mind you - while my little brother can kinda understand Russian, he doesn't actually speak any, nor has he been to another country besides hopping the bridge to drink in Canada before he hit 21.
Later in the week I was hanging to 2 the girls who came by that night. While I was deep in thought trying to figure out why I have a girlfriend who gets fatter monthly, when I could instead be fucking these two flirty sluts, one of them asks me if that slow kid at whom we were all laughing got upset. She felt bad for laughing at him, but she was really drunk that night. I said the slow kid was fine - don't worry about it.
The next party was great. That girl was so nice to the douche. Attentively listened to things he said, replied on topic, even asked him what he would like to eat - she'd bring him a plate. He made a joke that while he's not Thai he would love some cat meat. The joke was funny - the only reason she didn't get it is no one expects a joke like that from a retard. With 100% seriousness she explained to him the you can't order cat meat in the US - even at a Thai place. He thought that was a meta-type joke and started laughing. She looked confused.
The guy later told me he thinks she's into him, and should he ask her out? I told him to definitely go for it. What sucks most is I don't know what happened after that. It must have been glorious though. I bet to this day that douche doesn't know most of the people at that party to this day think he has a mental disability. And that party being a small microcosm of the world, I bet this is a common thing in his life. A complete loser not realizing he is everyone's personal clown.
If one day the virtual world he's built up around himself comes crashing down - when he somehow realizes the truth, that's when the guy's life is going to implode. And then more likely than not, substance abuse, depression, AA meetings, relapse, divorce.
You can't order cat at any restaurant here bud. I'm serious. Don't even try.