Everyone has their limits, but why do we always try to conceal our anger? Gracefully telling folks to get lost can be healing and pretty satisfying, of course, but only if the setting is suitable for doing so.
Hiding our emotions for the sake of avoiding heated reactions will eventually backfire, where a minor inconvenience might set us over the edge.
Perhaps it would be in our best interest to start challenging ourselves and learning that swallowing our feelings and putting on an act of politeness will only harm us and our mental state.
However, sometimes words don’t hit the right spot, and life calls for creative solutions:
“What are some of the greatest [screw yous] in history?” – this netizen turned to one of Reddit’s most thought-provoking communities to ask fellow members to share the shadiest and most satisfying moments known in history. The post has managed to receive nearly 24K upvotes and 7.8K comments discussing the famous events.
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#1
Frank Zappa was interviewed by an abrasive radio host named Joe Pyne.
Pyne commented to Zappa, “So I guess your long hair makes you a woman.”
Zappa replied, “So I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.”
Pyne had lost his leg serving in WW2.
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#2
When France was invaded during WW2 they cut the lines to the elevator up the Eiffel Tower so when the nazis went to put their flag on ot they had to take the stairs all the way up.
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#3
In 1962, a wealthy Italian businessman met with Enzo Ferrari to discuss his displeasure with the famous luxury sports cars. His chief complaint was that the clutches didn’t seem to hold up well. Ferrari responded, “The clutch is not the problem. The problem is you don’t know how to drive a Ferrari and you break the clutch.”
The businessman happened to have founded and owned a successful tractor manufacturing company, so he knew a thing or two about vehicles. He was incensed at the reply, and not only vowed to never buy another Ferrari, but to begin building his own supercars to show Ferrari how it was done.
And today, the cars of Ferruccio Lamborghini are famous worldwide.
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#4
I’ve always been fond of the exchange between John Montagu and John Wilkes, both British politicians in the 18th century (Montagu was also the 4th Earl of Sandwich, the namesake and possibly inventor of the sandwich).
During one of their many verbal battles, Montagu reportedly spat at Wilkes and said, “Upon my soul, Wilkes, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox.”
Wilkes replied, “That depends, my lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.”
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#5
Joan of Arc’s trial was known to be tedious as the Church tried their hardest to find grounds for a conviction. In an attempt to trick her, she was asked whether she knew if she was in God’s grace. Since the Church believed no one was able to know if they were truly in God’s grace, either a yes or no could be condemnable. She responded by saying, “If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me”. Reports on the trial say that the court was stupefied by her deft answer. It was basically a mic drop in the face of the Church at the hands of what they saw as an illiterate and heretic farm girl.
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#6
When that dude on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? used his only lifeline on the final question to call his dad… Not to ask for help, but to let him know he was about to win because he already knew the answer.
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#7
King Philip II of Macedon sent a note to Ancient Sparta saying:
“You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.”
Ancient Sparta replied to King Philip’s threat: “If”
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#8
One general in WWII wrote to gen. Patton: “you can’t take Trier wtih less then 3 divisions”
Patton wrote back: “I took it with two, should I give it back?”
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#9
Calvin Coolidge, one of our late American presidents, was nicknamed “silent cal” because he was a man of very few words. A person once seated next to him at a dinner said to him, “I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you.” Silent Cal replied, “You lose.”
#10
John Paul Jones when, in a naval battle that he appeared to be losing, the British called for him to strike his colors (surrender). He replied with “I have not yet begun to fight.” He won, and sailed both ships home.
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#11
During the Korean War, a coastal battery got lucky and hit the battleship USS Wisconsin. It did minor damage but was the first direct hit on the Wisconsin. The USS Wisconsin then returned fire with all nine of her 16″ guns and pretty much reduced the coastal battery to atoms. The funniest part is that one of Wisconsin’s escorts sent a message to the Wisconsin afterwards that just said “Temper, temper.”
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#12
When the Royal Navy had finally cornered and were engaging the German warship Bismarck, one of the ships in the taskforce was actually made up of Polish navy crewmen who had escaped the country after the occupation. As the crew fired upon Bismarck they used their lights to signal the message “I am a Pole” for the Bismarcks crew to see.
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#13
When DeGaulle told Lynden Johnson to removes all US troops from French territory and Johnson asked him if he should “take the ones buried in Normandy.”
#14
Chesty Puller – They’re in front of us, behind us, and on both sides. They can’t get away this time!
Also Chesty – “We’re surrounded. That simplifies the problem.”
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#15
Basically anything that the Greek philosopher Diogenes ever did. The entire basis of his teachings and actions were to critique society and social norms, and make a mockery of contemporary teachings.
Perhaps the most famous incident is when Alexander The Great, a fan of Diogenes’ philosophy, went to Sinope to speak with him. Alexander offered Diogenes anything he wanted in exchange for teaching his wisdom, and the philosopher replied “stand out of my light”.
The man also had an infamously bitter feud with Plato, who was attempting, among other things, to define a human being in its most fundamental of forms. After arriving at “featherless bipeds”, Diogenes gate-crashed one of Plato’s symposiums with a plucked chicken in-hand, and presented it to the crowd declaring “Behold! I’ve brought you a man!”.
#16
50 Cent bought 200 front row tickets to one of Ja Rules concerts in 2018 and left the seats empty in response to something Ja said on Twitter.
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#17
I will forever love that in ancient Greece they had to make a law against prisoners stripping naked at trial because one woman managed to acquit herself of blasphemy by way of being too attractive.
After all, if she had truly blasphemed against the gods they would revoke the gift of her beauty?
I have to imagine that the session where they made that law was the saltiest runback.
Edit: Quick definition. Salty refers to being angry and a runback is (an attempted) rematch. Thought that the term painted a fun mental image of the forum.
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#18
Well, there is always that time when Amsterdam sold cannons to the Spanish army during the 80 years war, only for the Spanish to fire those cannons at the city.
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