Hey Pandas! How Have You Completely Shut Down A Karen, Idiot, Or Bully? (Closed)

I would calmly tell them that the amount of poop that is coming out of ur mouth it would make ur butt jealous period

There was a person who thought that my stories were awful (I write a lot of stories for fun) and said that it would be better if I killed myself. I responded with my favorite comeback ever, "Look, if I wanted to kill myself I would have climbed up to the top of your ego and jumped down to your IQ. Toodles!" So after that, I just walked away, but not before seeing that look of sheer disappointment on that person's face.

My story is that there was this kid who was always walking around telling everyone how they were dressed badly. He came up to me, I looked at his clothes and said, "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize it was 1966." He shut up after that

I didn’t shut this person down but it is a great story. I was at a restaurant and there was a 4 year old (estimating) boy. He had down syndrome and there was a group of people on a table near him. He got up and started eating their food (his food hadn’t arrived yet). A man from the table man gently went and told the mum and grandma who were with the kid that he was eating their food. The grandma got up and shouted in the man’s face claiming the kid couldn’t help it and that if he wanted to eat their food, he could. A waiter nearby came to pull the grandma away from the man and the grandma asked to see the manager. The manager cane out, the grandma screamed at the man again and the manager asked her to leave. The poor kid just looked so confused the whole time and was crying by the end of it.

We had this bully (a new guy) in our class, he was starting to bother everyone, and nobody checked him. He was getting really aggressive.

One day while the teacher was out of the class, he went up to me and asked what kind of tasks do we have to do and demanded that I should explain it to him and let him copy my work, "or else". I got tired of his threats and called him out. He told me to meet up after classes on The Mountain, it's we're the fights were happening. We've met up. He started verbally assaulting me and shoved me, I punched him in the face once, and it all ended. He became a nicer person to everyone after that, and his aggressiveness evaporated.

Just for the record, I regret fighting. I was really nervous after that, and was worried if he's ok, if I didn't do any long-term damage, if he's going to call his older friends, etc. Now that I look at it, I probably should've gone about it in some other way, but I was in fifth grade, so I didn't know what I was doing.

School bully. Picked on me for months. One day I turned to him, looked down on him (he was a bit shorter than I am) and said, he must feel very heroic. Insulting me, shoving me, trying to trigger a reaction from me.... while he is standing with is back to a staircase in Level 4 of our school building.

He turned very pale, very fast. Never talked to me again

I was bullied by this guy in school, he would make fun of me and kick the back of my chair all the time. I had been a bully when I was little and I had grown out of that, so I didn't want to react violently. So I kept turning the other cheek, I tried to make fun of him in turn, but it didn't stop him. I am also a total nerd and had a reputation of ignoring my classes to read whatever book I was into. One day, he was kicking my chair and I just felt peeved as I tried to focus on my book. The teacher left the room for a moment to get paperwork, he kicked harder. I got angry, I put my book down, stood up, turned around, grabbed his desk and flipped it. I then turned around, sat down, picked up my book and pretended to read. The teacher walked back in and was like "-person's name- why did you flip your desk? Pick that up right now!" He was aghast, "It wasn't me! It was her!" Teacher looks at me, apparently clueless to the turmoil going on behind me with my nose in my book "-person's name- pick up your desk NOW."

I teach painting and decorating. I once had a student and he was so open about being gay. (Good for him) There was another student who started hacking on him about this so I said to him "because he is gay it doesn't mean that he fancies you! How would you feel if you was judged by the colour of your skin?" He shut up after that and through out the course!

When my son was about 6 months old, I took him in his baby carrier to a local fast food restaurant. I was a tired new mom, and I was glad to get a quick bite without much effort.
I placed his carrier on the table, and began to eat my food. A woman approached, smiling. She told my what a beautiful baby I had, and handed me a pamphlet. As soon as I saw the pamphlet was 'Pro Life', I said "I don't need this, take this back."
"But you HAVE a BABY!" she exclaimed.
"Yes," I replied. "And that was MY CHOICE."
She left me alone and even left the restaurant!

There was a boy I once knew, he was very dense and just generally rude. He was super homophobic and would shove the bible down everyone's throat and would regularly make fun of the mentally disabled, like calling them Retard even after it wasn't a medical term anymore. I used to be close with him, but he was a horrid example of a human being. He came up to me one day and told me, that all my friends were going to hell in a handbasket and would burn for being sinners, I let him finish his rant before I started in on him, I stated, "I understand you aren't very smart or polite, but you don't need to expose others to your ignorance. So do the kind thing for all of us, and be silent before I cut off your tongue and shove it down your throat, you pathetic waste of humanity." Then I smiled and walked off, leaving him sputtering behind me.

I wouldn't say shut down, but when I was in 9th grade, this kid was being annoying while people were trying to do their work. Since he wasn't quiet, I asked him if he could stop. He didn't. This happened a couple times before I snapped and told him to just shut up and do his work. He didn't like this, and walked over to me and said he was gonna punch me. Now. I'm not sure why I did this, but something about him being a foot shorter than me and threatening to beat me up (which he was perfectly capable of doing) was so funny, and I literally laughed in his face. I wasn't mean about it. It was a genuine laugh. He got really confused, and sat back down.

Oh, my gosh, when I did Security work, I often encountered the kind of men who disrespected women in the Security field. One example is when I was doing traffic control at a school for an event. This doofus parked in the fire zone like he was special. I approached his car and asked him to move. His reply? "Well, if there's a fire, I'll move." (Sorry, dude, you'll never make a good stand up comedienne). I was firm and said "You'll move now sir." And I stood there until he moved. I suppose he thought I would just walk away and allow him to park there anyway. Besides parking illegally, he was blocking traffic.

this was a shutdown but my dad did it to some Karen at the grocery store. we were shopping that are wearing masks and this woman was not wearing a mask so my dad said to like one of the people should she be wearing a mask and the man said yes but he seemed not to really want to stop her. and then the Karen said oh you don't worry about me. and then my dad said I'm not worrying about you I'm worrying about everyone in the store. she said but do you have Jesus and here comes the shutdown my dad said no but I do have a PhD in epidemiology.
I've respected him more after that

Well, I'm not sure if this counts or not, but I think its a great story. So, at lunch at school I was doing my little hula hoop thing, and this kid from another just came up to me and purposely tripped me! There was a strict teacher there too, but she was always really nice to me. Anyways, I watched the older kid get yelled at for the rest of lunch. Then he never messed with me again.

Ok, here's one. We've all encountered online bullies on different social medias. One of my comebacks is "Excuse me while I go in the little girl's room and cry." Like what is this, mean girls in Jr. High School?

Every time this happens:
Them: *insert racist, sexist, whatever-ist statment*
Me: I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.
FOR REAL, PEOPLE! EVERYONE IS E Q U A L!

So I used to work at a horse trail riding centre, mind you I was 13 and one day we had this woman come in and she explained that she would only ride this particular horse because it was the prettiest and I said to her look we can’t do that, this horse is not suitable for you as you are only a beginner and it would be unsafe for us to put you on that horse and I just said I’m gonna have to send you off the premises if you don’t oblige by the rules thank you

I was in the 6th-grade band, and we were getting our lockers assigned. and while the teacher was away helping other students, some 8th graders ( in 6th grade because he failed 6th 2 times ) started shooting staples at people. everyone asked him to stop, but he didn't. So I went and told the teacher what was happening. after that he called me a bit*h, but no one got hurt.

Someone kept bullying everyone, commenting on how we look and stuff. After a while I said, I think you need glasses since you keep mistaking everyone as a mirror. Another one I used once was "I would challenge you to a battle of wits but I can see that you are unarmed"

i had a controlling "friend" that would not listen to me and was rude. she was one of the main reasons for my anxiety and Depression. i got angry and upset but I am too shy to tell the teacher so I got my friends to do it. my teacher let me move my seat away from her. it was the last class we had before we went on spring break but then covid came and I did see or hear from her for a long time. when I came back to school she said sorry and she changed so I am her friend again. she is a lot nicer to me but she is still a bit rude but we are working on it.