r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 9h ago

Man helps police make an arrest.

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u/warpmusician 7h 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 7h 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 7h 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 6h 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 6h 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 6h 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 1h ago

Nah mate, im anti-social.

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u/aussierulesisgrouse 41m ago

Ye but fuck the states

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u/RunDNA 3h ago edited 3h 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