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    Quote Originally Posted by ny biker View Post
    I just don't understand why someone would find it necessary to insult a total stranger that they would otherwise have no interaction with. I feel bad for the families of those people, and their co-workers and others who have to deal with them on a regular basis. They must be so unpleasant.
    I wonder if their wives, daughters, moms .... know they talk to women that way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trek420 View Post
    I wonder if their wives, daughters, moms .... know they talk to women that way.
    IME it works the other way. A LOT of people talk to their wives and daughters that way, who'd never say it to a stranger. And their moms probably got it from their dads, which is where they learned it to begin with.
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