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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 53 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Do you know who I am?!" is an instant self-own.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 41 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

"A chemistry professor at UCLA is conducting a final exam. He is an extremely difficult professor, and a bit of an S.O.B. He has told his students that all writing must stop when he calls time -- anyone who doesn't stop will automatically fail the exam. The class is in a large auditorium and is required for all chemistry, biology, etc. students. At the end all the students except one finish as instructed. The one student keeps writing furiously for 30 seconds or so until he is stopped by the professor, who tells him he has failed the exam.

The student walks to the front of the room with his blue book and attempts to argue. The professor doesn't budge, so finally the student takes a very arrogant attitude and says, 'Do you know who I am?' The professor sneers and says, 'No, I don't, and it wouldn't matter,' whereupon the student says 'Great!' sticks his blue book into the middle of the stack of blue books already turned in, knocks the stack down all over the place, and runs out of the room."

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

lol

Okay, so usually an instant self-own.

[–] Ch3rry314@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Slackers used it, but that story is an urban legend that goes back long before that. When I was a little kid in 80s my dad told me that exact story about a guy who supposedly did that at his college, and he went to college in the 60s.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 41 points 2 weeks ago

💯 she said "do you fucking know who I am?"

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 37 points 2 weeks ago

Making police and TSA seem sympathetic? That’s almost a super power.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Another day, another Nancy Mace meltdown. This piece of shit is spiraling like a turd in a flushing toilet

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

It's interesting, because I just saw The Bulwark do a video on her devolution over the years.

From a once supposed ally to to someone that now is posting about how it's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I kind of feel bad for her. She genuinely does seem to be spiraling

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's hard for me to wish her well given how she treats my people, but I do wish her sanity and to learn to live with herself

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe they should have tackled her and done some tasing just to bring the temperature down.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

She is the queen of the psychotic Karens.

[–] fedupwithbureaucracy@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Evil excrement who will kill her kids if they are gay or trans

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The arrogance that oozes from the government still shocks the hell out of me even thought the media should have desensitized me by now.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Mainstream media hardly ever talks about this kind of insanity, and when they do, they sanewash it by saying something like she had a “heated exchange”.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 9 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds so unlike her though... Surely they all colluded to smear her, right?

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

Cave Johnson is the only person allowed to ask if you know who they are.