We used to call it taking someone down a peg or two, his cockiness and abrasiveness put him in a position to receive a slap down, she didn't wake up and think of getting at him, she responded to his attempts to wind her up, and I think her response was perfect for the character she was responding to in taking him down a peg or two.
Sometimes it's best to not dick around at the back, and just hoof it.
Neither had I. but he launched himself up against a teenage girl who is extremely well known throughout the world. He was then arrested as Romanian police had been investigating him since last April for rape, and trafficking.
It makes no sense as it’s not a well known phrase
Maybe small brain is a better way to describe him.
Context is important.
He swaggers around putting women down, boasting about his cars etc
The problem is that us on here ignoring him won’t make him go away. He influences children and is a part of the problem. That’s the point I have been trying to make, albeit clearly not very well. Anyway, new term next week and I now know the context of his name being mentioned so I am grateful to Greta for highlighting the issue.
Clearly as a very prominent person online she should be aware of what her posts will lead too, she has millions of followers, her posting this will inevitably lead to a hoard of her followers jumping in the bandwagon.
People like him are dangerous to ignore.
I do believe they all drive into Eastbourne Mackie d’s with their dustbins for exhaust pipes, total morons !
A late entry … but this is my post of the yearThey aren't both wrong. You've got it wrong. Tate is wrong. Thunberg isn't.
Perhaps you are expressing the natural response most of us have to people 'on the spectrum'. How many people would like to give Chris Packham a slap, for example? Or me?
It is a condition that is barely understood, especially when the person is high functional. I work in higher education and have published more than 100 research papers, have a patent on a new drug, and edit a science journal. Yet I have been on three disciplinary hearings. My thing is I come out with unpalatable truths when faced with 'bellcheeses' at work. I have a good nexus of pals, but some people dismiss me as a 'dickhead', and suggest I could have made more of my career if I wasn't 'my own worst enemy'. Personally I couldn't give a shit about ambition. However my work environment is not conducive to my 'having a proper word' with the senior hierarchy to get some support. I have broached the topic but my last two heads of department backed away as if they thought I was about to go for their neck
But even now, I do expect to be treated as an equal, and not bullied for being peculiar. That why I like NSC so much, because lots of people apparently 'get' me.
Having listened to a few interviews with Ms Thunberg, I would imagine she feels much the same, albeit she seems to have less regard for her detractors than I would.
As an aside I find it hilarious that so many men have been triggered by the small penis jibe. For some men, they always think their penis is too small, even when it is perfectly adequate. So yes, it is a metaphor, like 'small man syndrome', but in this case it applies to men who are relentlessly strident and confrontational, perhaps compensating for a small penis in their mind.
Being on the spectrum doesn't give you a get-out-of-jail-free card, however. I am as knee-jerk prejudicial as the next person when I let my id do the talking. Picking on weakness is a human characteristic, especially if we find someone weird and repellant for some reason. Instead of embracing these feelings, why not try to embrace the person? I have made good friends with people who I initially found repellant, and vice versa. Albeit I can still be a confrontational arse. As John Lydon once said 'I try so hard to be nice' but it doesn't always work
I’m getting concerned about the number of your posts I’ve liked today Clamp
It’s nice to have a sense of humour