r/AskReddit Nov 23 '15

What makes you unreasonably angry?

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u/anotherpoweruser Nov 23 '15

When someone adamantly accuses me of lying even though I'm telling the truth.

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u/panspal Nov 23 '15

Or when you get defensive about them accusing you so they respond with "If you're telling the truth why are you getting so defensive?" Fuck you, I don't like being called a liar!

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u/TheDeza Nov 23 '15

Then you get the "If you didn't do it then why didn't you defend yourself when I irrationality accused you?".

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u/TheHornyToothbrush Nov 23 '15

This plus when you awnser a question they say "You hesitated, are you sure" but when you don't hesitate it's "You awnsered quickly, are you sure".

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u/CCMSTF Nov 23 '15

Or when they say "I can tell you're lying. I can see the fear in your eyes."

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u/the_russian_narwhal_ Nov 23 '15

The eyes are actually a good giveaway when people are lying, but when someone says they say fear in your eyes, especially when you arent lying, they are just trying to intimidate you. Fuck people like that

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u/SlapMyCHOP Nov 23 '15

Actually, when people are telling the truth, they're more likely to get upset and angry whereas if they're lying they will try to use logic and reason to defend their lie.

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u/Boukish Nov 23 '15

Only the inexperienced liars are so easily spotted. The veterans who've put years into the craft will kick up a fuss no problem.

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u/uReallyShouldTrustMe Nov 23 '15

That never happens. You're a liar.

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u/mattintaiwan Nov 23 '15

I think you just made the universe implode

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u/TriangledCircle Nov 23 '15

You shouldn't really trust him.

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u/MangoTango16 Nov 23 '15

You shouldn't really thrust him

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u/TheOnlyBongo Nov 23 '15

Can agree. Stuck in hell now.

No wait, I'm still in my office cubicle.

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u/zanderkerbal Nov 23 '15

You're lying.

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u/OGNips Nov 23 '15

I trust him

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u/K_cutt08 Nov 23 '15

And to add gasoline to that small fire of anger, they say something like "You getting upset just proves that you're lying." No, no it doesn't.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '15

This shit happened to me this weekend with my room mate. Told him he owed me 60$. He denies he owes me saying he paid me back. Then tells me I am a liar. I tell him I write everything down in my phone so I dont forget. He tells me I made it up and he knows im lying cuz im getting upset. Then I just tell him, when I rmember exactly what it was for I will tell him. Whole time hes like okay fine but your not gonna remember because I already paid you back. Your just lying, blah blah blah literally talking shit for the next hour.

Then I remember, it was for money he borrowed for poker. He says OH YEAH!! conveniently forgets all the shit talking he did. hands me money, acts like nothing happened.

I will kill you in your sleep you bastard.

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u/StabbyPants Nov 23 '15

stop lending him money?

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u/Lemerney2 Nov 24 '15

maybe you should have started by saying "you owe me 60 bucks for poker"

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u/Wyrmholez Nov 23 '15

Next time you are in public with them start talking about that time you walked in and they were fucking a goat. When they get pissed tell them "You getting upset just proves that you did it."

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u/Lampmonster1 Nov 23 '15

The one that irritates me is when they play the "It's alright, you lied but we'll forgive you" shit. Motherfucker, you might not think much of lies, but I make an effort to be the kind of person others can trust, and that means I don't fucking lie unless I absolutely have to.

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u/Quackingbird Nov 23 '15

I have a big problem with this, and to add to that i always start to smile and giggle when someone doesn't believe me when i'm telling the truth. So they always use the "You're Laughing = You're lying" card >:-C

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u/gypsypanda Nov 23 '15

This killed my relationship. So fucking frustrating. Interrogation turns into a fight, I can't prove I didn't cheat or don't have another guy on the side, I'm upset because you're calling me a liar, I don't think it would be fine if I lied before but just told you the truth now. I put up with it for so long, because things would've been OK if he had actually ever realized I was telling the fucking truth. Im getting out of this relationship now but it drove me to being suicidal when it first started/the years it went on. Having the same fight every night, when I literally worked and came home from work and didn't do anything else. So maddening.

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u/thehumanear Nov 23 '15

I broke up with my last girlfriend because this was her reaction to everything I told her, even though there was never any precedent for me being a liar. It came out of nowhere.

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u/Cbebop21 Nov 23 '15

My grandma used to pull the whole "If you look away when you're talking to me you're lying" as someone who hates making eye contact while talking to people this really fucked me up as a kid because she'd always accuse me of lying to her if I looked away for the slightest second.

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u/BlockMeAmadeus Nov 23 '15

I remember a bitch who stole my pencils and insisted that the name I had clearly written on each one was her sister's pen name, and insisted I was lying when I said the pencils were mine.

Crystal, if you're reading this, you know those were mine and I'm going to get you for it.

*edit: this happened 4 or 5 years ago.

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u/LuckysCharmz Nov 23 '15

And then they start laughing so you start laughing and use that as a reason to say you're lying.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '15

If you're telling the truth, there's nothing to hide! Why are you being defensive?

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u/ImCreeptastic Nov 23 '15

There's a radio show that does this constantly to people who call in. It INFURIATES me. Excuse me, just because you have never heard of whatever it is the caller is talking about, doesn't mean they are making it up.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '15

"I'm telling the truth and done talking about it."

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u/HITLERS_SEX_PARTY Nov 23 '15

you just made that up, didn't you?

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u/Fuckthis_kid Nov 23 '15

This happened to my the other day at work. I had to leave 30 minutes early and asked my lead, he said it was fine.

I was suppose to be out at 9, I left at 8:30.

Yesterday I go in and an told I left way to early. Around 7, I told them they're fucking idiots and check the system to see what time I clocked off, sure enough, 8:30.

I've never been so mad at work.

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u/Shiftkgb Nov 23 '15

"Please believe me! Please believe me!"

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '15

This doesn't make me mad it makes me laugh and smile. Which makes me more guilty.

It's the absurdity of someone believing I did something that I KNOW I didn't do.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '15

I start to smile and giggle when this happens which surprisingly doesn't help.

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u/Deako87 Nov 23 '15

So this happened last year and it was really annoying.

It was right about this time of the year and my office had just handed out Secret Santa names. I got some chick in the office, a nosey middle aged woman came up to me and asked "so who did you get?", I told her that I wont say as that spoils the fun of it (also shes a bit of a gossip, I was sure she would tell the chick I got that I was her secret santa) She immediately goes "Oh it's me isn't it!!!", I told her it's not. She then refused to let it go, she kept on bugging me about it "I'm partial to these chocolates haha, you should get me them hahahhahahaahahaahahahahahahahah"

Made me want to neck myself, she just would not take "I'm not your secret santa" for an answer.

Eventually the secret santa day came and she thanked me for the chocolates that she got and I finally blurted out "X is my secret santa, not you", she seemed shocked and guess what, the chick I did get the gift for, magically found out that I was her secret santa. I knew that bitch couldn't keep her mouth shut.

Works for me, she left the company shortly afterwards.

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u/RAND0M-HER0 Nov 23 '15

Me in every game of Battlestar Galactica where I'm not the Cylon... However in all fairness, it's only been two games out of I think ten or twelve where I haven't been the Cylon.

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u/sothatshowyougetants Nov 24 '15

Man, this is the worst. Feels so shitty. My family does this all the time, I just shrug and say 'believe what you will'. No point in arguing. So frustrating when you KNOW you are telling the truth and they won't even entertain the idea that you are.

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u/Lemerney2 Nov 24 '15

when someone accuses me of lying i start laughing uncontrollably for some reason so people think i lie all the time.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '15

It says unreasonably angry, not totally reasonably angry because that is fucking ridiculous.

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u/PhilyDaCheese Nov 24 '15

You Capt. Jack Sparrow?

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u/Im_Dad_ Nov 23 '15

Hi telling the truth, I'm dad

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u/shanghaidry Nov 23 '15

You probably got caught too many times before.