Man, I feel so old now.
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So do I. I cannot believe this song is 30 years old.
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And Devo’s Jocko Homo is 42 years old. Man, in a few more years, the kids are going to regard our music as antiquated as we regarded The Charleston.
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I have to clarify that I know my answer is rarely because one of my nervous stress reactions is a mildly submissive half-smile. And I’m quite socially nervous.
All of my female friends get told to smile more than I do.
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You made me feel like a Downton Abbey character now. Hey, the Joker, Batman and Friends are old too. Maybe we could be cool too.
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Sometimes I feel like I have an unfair advantage due to having developed my “you will die shortly, by my hand” look while I was saddled with braces at age 13. I suspect your half-smile may hit the same danger notes. 
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All answers are valid, I think the aggregate data on that poll speaks to a pretty clear trend though.
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Looks like Harley Quinn. I guess she is kinda the female joker but, isn’t she married to The Joker?
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Totally understood. I’m 65, work for a hick town motel, and a customer asked me to give him a massage day before yesterday. This shit never quits.
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I work at a life insurance services company; after an hour of haranguing a very patient female sales agent, one customer literally ended his call by asking for a back-rub. The entire exchange was on the phone.
⊙_ʘ
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Did he think he was calling a sex line instead of an insurance company? Or did he just assume that all women on the phone are at his beck and call?
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I wasn’t the one listening in on the quality control session, but I’d still bet dollars to donuts it was the latter.
The guy said it in response to the perfunctory customer service closing-line; “Is there anything else I can help you with today, sir?”
He probably meant it “jokingly,” but we all know that no one is ever really ‘just joking.’
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When it comes to hiring/dating/etc decisions, can one ask if one finds being told to smile offensive?
I highly recommend it!
That way, when a woman hears that question, she will know the gentleman asking is so arrogant and entitled, that he thinks he can pass judgement on the severity of other people’s problems-- and she will know to avoid him as much as humanly possible.
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Being told to smile is a dating decision - just not one the guy will make.
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Exactly. 
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What, no deal?
You don’t wanna take a leisurely promenade around in my size 8’s for a few days; see how well you like it?
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Nature has its ways.
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Our children (and our children’s children) will look back on this period and laugh their collective heads off at how absolutely childish and conservative the world became
No, I hope our children, and our children’s children, will be able to say, “This was the time when women stopped putting up with patronizing, patriarchal nonsense. They stood up for themselves and demanded the respect they were due, and that’s why we’re living in a better world today.”
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