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[–] [email protected] 165 points 1 day ago (5 children)

lol the pettiness of some people

[–] wise_pancake 109 points 1 day ago (15 children)

We don’t know that was why they denied it, this could be shadenfreud (sp?) because they would be denied regardless.

At least I choose to believe that, because I can’t imagine being petty enough to do that.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Actually it is called "Scheidenfreude".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Vorlaut, aber gut

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I assume that was the case because it isn't really a human decision anymore. Whether a mortgage application is accepted or denied is based on the decision of a computer, the human just informs you the computer's decision.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

The best revenge is living well.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right? "Made me cry on a school trip" (for reasons that I'm sure we're totally out of line on the teacher's part and omitted just for brevity's sake)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I dunno, some teachers are sadists too proud or ugly for a career path more in line with their personality.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh my god, yes. Your best victory is the victory of succeeding at something and moving the fuck on with your life if you can. People are shitty. Our environment is shitty. It is what it is. Keep trucking. I am a product of my environment, but I can control some of it. In my opinion, chasing your goals, time and distance is a solution for all social ills. Well maybe not all but I mean shit you gotta try

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This type of thing is the nominal purpose of credit scores, I believe. (Whether they're implemented effectively is another story...)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (9 children)

How do people even remember names for so long?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Trauma sticks with a person.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Not weird to me. I still remember every single teacher’s name to this day…I started school in 1978.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's pretty impressive. I started school in 1973 and I can remember a couple of teachers' names at most.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's very amazing memory. I keep forgeting shit all the time. I sometimes forget the names of a characters of a TV show that I've been binge watching for the past few hours.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I only remember the names of two teachers.

The one that set fire to the science classroom, and thus became a legend. And the utterly horrible one that hated kids and should not have been allowed to become a teacher.

All the others have just faded into the background because they were neither fun nor memorable.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I remember all my teacher's names from preschool through high school, is that strange?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I can barely remember the names of my close friends from elementary and middle school. Can't remember all of them. Only reason I can remember the high school friends is the yearbook, and I've still forgot half of them.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

You get what you give. Don't become the monster. A real class act would just dangle it in front of them and then just approve it anyways. Like bitch I'm over it, I don't give a fuck. You're just a dumb ass speed bump.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Being a class act is extremely overrated. People should get what they have coming

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why not both? Give people who deserve it grace and be the bigger person and burn those that don't to the ground.

Of course, if you find out that they did deserve grace later, you'll need to destroy the biggest monster of all, yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Pft, like I'm ever wrong!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are some teachers I had who were absolutely bad people, but honestly, they are teachers and you are not. You already have the best revenge.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Well, OP is just an asshole then. (I'm guessing this isn't really OPs post)

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They didn't say they rejected it out of revenge.

Maybe the teacher was a shitty mortgage applicant with terrible credit and multiple foreclosures and the fact that they got to reject the application was just the cherry on top.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I bet the real reason they were rejected is because their only income is a teacher's salary. That's not enough to afford a house these days

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there are some strict guidelines around mortgage application acceptance or rejection.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Depends on the circumstances. One might feel a bit smug when karma strikes back as long as one acts professionally. The teacher might have gotten rejected for absolute objective and normal reasons. Like thousands of people do.

And after handling that professionally the poster can humanely feel smug and happy for a short moment in their otherwise likely stressful adult life. And that's okay.

By profession (emergency medicine with a stint in forensic mental health) I get into contact with some really bad people who have done really nasty things. Will I treat them as professionally as I treat every patient? Yes. But there are moments. Years ago I responded to a patient getting bitten in his ass by a police dog(as in the dog literally did bite a seizable piece of meat out of it)after fleeing a scene of a DUI stop(and punching a young police officer). At the same time as we arrive the detective superintendent arrives(as it is protocol here in these cases when someone gets injured by police directly). He is a fairly nice chap I went to school with - and who was relentlessly bullied by a guy a few grades above us. Like...really really bad...to a level that would land one in prison these days. Well, the world is small and guess who Mr. Dogfood was.

Well. We did our job as professionally as we do it with everyone. But when the patient was handed over in hospital we had a good chuckle, cracked a few bad jokes somewhere no member of the public could hear us,asked each other how the respective wives were doing and went on with our workday. And that's okay.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (8 children)

Someone was mean to me so i killed them - completely sane reaction.

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