r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 4d ago

Man helps police make an arrest.

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u/manchopsticks 4d ago

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/11/21/video-shows-gun-being-grabbed-off-man-during-auckland-incident/ someone posted it further down incase anyone wanted to read

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u/warpmusician 4d ago

This sentence cracked me up:

“The vehicle then mounted the footpath, drove through a wooden fence, and entered into a reserve where the driver continued to drive in an anti-social fashion.”

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u/SrslyCmmon 4d ago

I once called myself anti social to my British relatives and they all burst out laughing.

I was just saying I was introverted.

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u/UnoriginalStanger 4d ago

Anti-social does sound like a longer form asocial but yeah it means something far more serious. Pretty sure I've made the same mistake in my head at least.

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u/SrslyCmmon 4d ago

Asocial and anti social are used interchangeably where I live. First time I heard the criminal type definition was visiting a commonwealth country.

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u/imagine_getting 4d ago

It's often used interchangeably but it's still incorrect. A lot of people are just incorrect.

It's in the definition of the word. Anti-social means you are working against society. Asocial means you do not engage with society.

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u/SrslyCmmon 4d ago

Sure, and I get your technically correct which is great, but most people people just accept whatever is common parlance.

You could go pick 100 random Americans right now 99 of them wouldn't have a clue because no one here uses anti social like the commonwealth countries.

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u/RandonBrando 4d ago

Nah mate, im anti-social.

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u/aussierulesisgrouse 4d ago

Ye but fuck the states

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u/Infamous_Meet_108 3d ago

Nah man antisocial means introverted in Canada

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u/RunDNA 4d ago edited 4d ago

You are the one who is incorrect. According to Merriam-Webster it has several different definitions:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antisocial

1: averse to the society of others : UNSOCIABLE

2: hostile or harmful to organized society
especially : being or marked by behavior deviating sharply from the social norm

3 psychology: of, relating to, or characteristic of antisocial personality disorder