Started by rapidhound90 · · 👁 6 views · 22 replies
steelskipper5 said:Don't put up with them, and it's definitely not smart to try and reason with them.
Just troll them instead—and remember you have two ears: one for listening and one for letting it all go right out the other side.
Plus, you might as well get some entertainment out of listening to another round of their mindless advice.
Sam Hayes said:I actually know someone just like that—honestly, you should probably just let it go. It sounds like an incredibly insecure individual who decided to use you as a punching bag for all their own deep-seated frustrations... You really don't need that kind of energy in your life. I guess it's best to just let them continue existing in their own tiny, narrow little world while you focus on surrounding yourself with much more grounded, healthy people...
steelskipper5 said:I know someone just like that.
She’ll give you advice on just about anything—it’s actually wild. After I broke up with my ex and started seeing my current girlfriend, she actually told me I’d be better off going back to the old one.
The woman weighs in on every single aspect of life, and not just with me, but with everyone she meets. She reminds me of my grandmother—she’s always trying to tell me how to pass my exams or how to handle a job interview or some work meeting, even though she studied something completely different from me fifty years ago and spent her entire life as a homemaker without ever working a real job. And she gives my grandfather tips on driving when she hasn't been behind the wheel in decades.
Honestly, I mostly just treat it like a comedy show.
wiredeagle25 said:This is a pretty interesting topic 🙂.
How should one actually handle people who make judging others their full-time job?
Ignoring them doesn't work—they just keep going and end up suffocating everyone around them (and I guess nobody is truly immune to constant criticism). Getting into an argument feels like a waste of time and energy, yet the situation just keeps escalating. Maybe patience isn't the answer either.😕
rapidhound90 said:You don't even have to go looking for them, because they’ll find you eventually... 🙂
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She’s got absolutely zero business sticking her nose into stuff she hasn't spent a single second actually dealing with in her life, and then she has the nerve to sit there trash-talking everything when she hasn't moved an inch past her living room couch since high school graduation!
wiredeagle25
It honestly kills me because I just don't view these people as having even an ounce of competence when it comes to giving advice, and frankly, I’m pretty sure they know it too, which makes the whole situation feel like some kind of chaotic circus where the lunatics are running circles around everyone else. You just have to learn how to emotionally detach from the madness... stop expecting these types to actually change or figure out how to stop taking everything so damn personally. Like rapidhound90 said—if you can manage it, you just have to start looking at this entire mess through a lens of pure, dark comedy.