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What's the longest period of time you've ever been personally scolded/yelled at/aggressively lectured to, without any meaningful time spent responding?

<2 minutes
29.1%
3-15 minutes
43.3%
15-60 minutes
16.3%
Over an hour
11.4%

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6:32 PM · Oct 23, 2019

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All of the behaviors you list are borderline pathological, especially in the context of one way communication. If subject to any of them one needs to either break off the communication and exit the interaction or establish meaningful two way exchange.

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I suspect a lot of people are answering from their time as children.

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Bootcamp had a lot of this

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@kultofkylie

Oct 23, 2019

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@Aella_Girl

I see you’ve met my school headmaster.

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4 hours. Someone's dad spent 4 hours telling me why charging people to go to the doctor is a good thing.

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@SealOfTheEnd

Oct 23, 2019

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@Aella_Girl

You are missing 'over a day' category.

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@The_Digital_Kid

Oct 23, 2019

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@Aella_Girl

WTF can you do that takes over 30 seconds of scolding, ever? i mean even attempted suicide could garner like 3 minutes, tops.

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German Class (In German) Student: Why is your prized clock missing from the wall? Mrs. Granke: It’s broken Me: Like Kansas (teacher’s fav college 🏀 team that just suffered a huge upset loss) Mrs. Granke: *30 minutes of hysterical angry ranting before kicking me out of class*