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Once again I am so grateful to live in a small town in Southern Patagonia Chile where no shares pronouns or any of this woke ideology.

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The only thing this person is thinking as they do this is "everyone's attention is totally focused on me, hooray hooray internal wriggles of ecstasy"

that's why the whole thing keeps getting added on to: for the kind of person to whom it appeals, anything that makes it longer and longer is an absolute delight. They haven't anything interesting to contribute but they DO like demanding attention. What a godsend these practices are to them!

If you wouldn't get in trouble for it, the best way to deal with this is to look at your phone while the whole routine is being put through its paces. This robs the narcissist of the one currency they most desire: your focus.

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Or walking away out of the room, saying over your shoulder "I'm still listening".

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lol to the power of lol!

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Thank you. Glad to have made you laugh....my Substack posts are more generally in a somewhat weighty vein!

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You missed one attribute to add. Likelihood of survival once society collapses. In his case nil.

We really do need a reset. A hard one to clear out all the voluntarily mentally ill.

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I feel like you'd want to keep that card close to the chest. Wouldn't want to tell all the unprepared people how prepared you are... might decide your place is the best one to rob when the going gets tough.

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Totally agree.

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I wish my brain didn’t auto-assume that the person who indulged this and wasted everyone’s time was progressive. They/we need to start calling this BS out directly so political affiliation is no longer married to this insanity. My current response to “and what are your pronouns?” is “whatever you assume,” you know, like back-in-the-day of not that long ago.

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I was asked what my preferred pronouns were. I am 72, so I can act socially clueless. I hesitated and said "I like them all. I use them all depending on to what or whom I am referring." No, I mean which pronouns do you use about yourself? "Oh....huh....I and me, I guess. What else would I use?" They gave up, rolled their eyes and looked at a couple of other wokies.

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It’s the sign of a time where people have replaced their own judgment with the current trend. There is far too much value put on going along with the prevailing thought. It seems to be everything to a large group of people, like students at Ivy League universities.

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This was fun. 😁 Sheesh, I’m glad to be living in my part of the world. The pronoun craze isn’t trendy here, and if somebody would attempt to introduce it here to “educate the society” we, latvians would just laugh in their faces and walk off. 🇱🇻

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And I grew up near Latvia.. in Danzig as it was called then!

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Yey! Danzig that’s Gdansk, Poland?

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Yes, but when I lived there it was still Freistadt Danzig . Now Gdańsk.

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The latest upgrade on my iPhone has not only name, address, phone number and notes for contacts but also PRONOUNS!! I thought I’d barf when I saw that! Jeez! Can I complain to Apple for being so “ woke” ? For my pronouns I think I’ll put “buzz, off”

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Mind blowing- 100% right “It was possibly the most self-serving, narcissistic and sociopathic thing I have ever heard.” - in addition to being self centered, I’d add that it feels cultish.

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Thanks for sharing, what an outrageous thing. And yes, the person in question is a raging narcissist. At least he did you favor of outing himself, so you can now avoid him.

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Good for you! I used to consider myself a liberal, but now with their tiresome virtue signaling, and more important, their authoritarian push on others to do the same stupid thing, I have said goodbye ! I am a women. That’s all! I introduce myself by my name and maybe depending on where I am, my hometown! If people can’t tell what pronouns to use for me, I’ll offer them the name of my Opthalmologist! This absurdity is eating away at our society , and if there’s anything I can do to stop it , I’ll do it. Certainly no liberal Democrat who supports this Maoist Cultural Revolution will ever get my vote!

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Vyky Saiz wins the comments parade. The perfect response to his/her/they/them intros is simply ‘whatever’.

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Sounds like a long long long meeting that day.

Friends in government management positions always tell me about co-workers and underlings that love to waste time on meetings and Zoom calls as opposed to getting things done. Also known as doing your job.

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OMG one-upping the dude with a MORE obnoxious introduction would have been hilarious.

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I'm self employed and financially secure. If confronted with this I would probably say something along the lines of," Hi. I'm Dean. And I'm not an asshole". Just because I can and want to take a stance for those who can't.

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Jeez, Kamala, I would never have guessed that you are a woman! And because of that you have these pronouns, she, her , and whatever! Wow! And I couldn’t know about your blue suit until you pointed it out! Thank you for this very important information !

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I was in a business meeting. The guy went all wokey wokey on me. I sat through it for 3 sentences or so, and then cut in. "Stop. I'm not doing any business with you." And, got up and walked out of the meeting. He was shocked. But, I don't need him. Easy-ish for me to do. If I needed a job, for example, I might have had to suck it up.

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"Hi. I am William. My pronouns are he/him. I am a cis male, heterosexual, I have a medium to small sized penis. I enjoy oral sex...with women....just to be clear. Giving and receiving. I eat too much chocolate and wouldn't get out of bed in the morning if I knew I were out of coffee. I am deeply committed to white patriarchy and continuing for my kind to run society. I prefer closed borders unless I personally can make more money allowing someone in. Thank you. Oh, and I am wearing blue jeans with my wife's panties on underneath."

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Hahaha

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Hi, My name is Reni,

And I am in my old years but not dead yet .

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