Hey Pandas, What Was The Last Straw That Caused You To Block Someone?

One of my students committed suicide in May 2020 because his treatment was abruptly halted because of Covid and he couldn't cope on his own. An old Karen commented that it was this young guy's fault anyway because Covid was exclusively caused by young people partying, so nobody should feel sorry for him. I didn't just block her, I reported her.

If a guy sends me a dxck pic, I will block and report him immediately.

I actually have two:

1) I suspected a friend of mine had a problem with gay people when she was telling me a story about a friend of hers, in particular, a daughter of the friend "who decided she was gay."

I brushed it off until a few weeks later when she posted a piece saying "There is only one God, two genders and marriage is only between a man and a woman." Yep. Blocking now. I also suspected she was secretly racist...but hadn't confirmed that yet.

2) We had a huge hurricane a few years ago. Wiped out or flooded most of the major roads leading into town. I spent one night helping this friend navigate the roads to get back home. She was texting me from 8pm to about 4am until she got home.

The next day she gets on Fb and complains that the local Planet Fitness was closed and that she thought the staff were lazy for not showing up so she could do her workout. I reminded her of how much difficulty she had getting home and that others were probably having the same issue. I also reminded her that some businesses were closed because of hurricane damage.

This is the same girl that would get on Fb and ask if anyone wanted to go to the beach or out to dinner with no notice. Then she'd get hostile if no one replied. She was also angry that her teenage daughter left to live with her father and then tells me in the same rant that she would go out to bars and pick up random guys to have sex with while her daughter was trying to sleep in the next room.

The Planet Fitness rant was the last straw. I told her she was selfish and self centered before blocking her.

I blocked someone because he took it personally that I don't celebrate christmas. It began as him asking what I wanted for Christmas and complaining that he only got an e-giftcard from his gf. I explained that I do not celebrate it and that I would prefer not to get a gift (and also that any gift means someone has thought about you at least a little, maybe it was all she could do-- as she was abroad for Christmas). He insisted I tell him what I wanted, I kept saying I really didn't want anything and hoped he could respect that. He said I was a brainwashed cult member.

... it isn't a religious thing, I just grew up not celebrating and as an adult Ireally don't get the point of mandatory gift giving (if I really feel like being high and mighty the point of Christmas, as I understand it, apart from the Baby JC is the spirit of giving not receiving so I usually take shifts from people who want to be with their families to celebrate it or I volunteer-- I do that all year but moreso in winter when people tend to struggle the most.) I give gifts throughout the year when I see something I think someone would like not because I'm obligated to. If that sounds self-righteous, fair but I'm my defense i didn't say anything like that to him until after he was literally seething over how I refuse to celebrate it.

I explained it was my right to not celebrate Christmas, many people in the world don't and I don't need a teligious excuse not to... I simply don't. I also told him tgat it should make no difference to him either way. I explained that it wasn't a religious mandate as I am agnostic and all my friends celebrate. I just personally am not interested in the commercial side of a religious holiday I don't even celebrate. I didn't want anything. It was fine that he did, I had no issue with it so didn't know why he took such issue to me not wanting something.

He called me an AH and a b***h, told me he couldn't be friends with someone as brainwashed as me so after 20minutes of nonstop insults I blocked him.

Had a friend who said that their mental health was your responsibility. My pet died and they asked me to grieve by myself as it was triggering for them. No sorry, no condolences. Blocked immediately

When I was having a perfectly fine day, until they texted me out of nowhere asking me to call them. No clue as to what they wanted to talk about, could have been nothing at all, could have been they wanted to scream at someone and decided it was my turn. Just seeing their name on my phone made my stomach tie up in knots. I fretted over not wanting to call, but knowing the longer I waited the more upset they'd be, and trying to figure out what they might want in advance so I could be prepared to defend myself, etc. After about an hour, I suddenly realized, there was no reason to let anyone make me this miserable, even if they were family. I blocked them everywhere and haven't regretted it for a moment, even years later.

A guy from my programme and I would chat frequently. He was nice enough and we were study buddies And lab partners.

One evening he just went on a rant, out of nowhere, about how women have no place in STEM. That women are generally stupid and inferior and should stick to art and cooking. Being that I am a woman in STEM I got pretty offended but thought maybe his phone was stolen or what. (He did assure me that I'm "technically fine" but I do ride his coattails and without him I'd be "pretty middling"). The next day I talked to him being like "WTF" and he said that he was sorry, he had been drinking and he said some things he maybe shouldn't have said. I am a big believer that the way people act when they drink is the most honest indicator of their true feelings.

I blocked him real fast.

He failed our final laboratory individual assessment. I got the third highest mark (96) and had a perfect technique mark.

My oldest friend and flatmate contracted covid right at the very beginning before vaccinations were available. They were fit, healthy with no underlying health conditions yet, it destroyed them. Multiple strokes, organ failure and now a diagnosis of aggressive, progressive ms and early onset dementia. They've just turned 53 and can't even recognise their own kids - or me. Anyway, a friend - who was fully aware of the situation, told me that it couldn't possibly be covid since it wasn't real and that I was just exaggerating ... I immediately blocked her.

I posted that I had gone to a comedy performance of someone famous that I remembered from college (which would be about 35 years ago) and found that he had changed ALOT! His act was very political and completely opposite to what I knew of him from before, so I was very uncomfortable. A friend speculated that he also potentially suffered a life-threatening condition, which might have altered his perspective on things. My brother-in-law misread what she wrote as wishing the guy dead, and proceeded to rip her and all liberals apart on MY page, saying it was like a liberal to wish him dead and that attitude was the cause of the Palestinian conflict. She politely disagreed with his interpretation of her comment, and he continued to rant. A little while later he texted me apologizing for his comments on my page, and I told him that he owed HER an apologize as well because she didn't say what he accused her of, and that oh by the way I was one of those liberals as well. He declined to apologize to her, so I unfriended him and we have not spoken except for short pleasantries at family weddings since that time. Don't regret it one bit.

I will block anyone my cat tells me to block.

I had a best friend for about seven years. We had the same hobbies, similar music taste, she liked stories I was writing. Then suddenly, shortly after we became adults, she started to act... weird.
She became condescending, acted like she's too good for things she adored not so long ago, started consuming weird pseudo-intellectual media and adopted philosophy of Jordan Peterson. Later, it became apparen she fell down some alt-right rabbit hole.
The last straw was when she just casually mentioned she supports conversion therapy ( = pseudo-scientific attempts to "cure" LGBT+ people often through phyiscal torture). At that moment, I knew that this indoctrinated, condescending person is no longer the girl I used to know.
I can tolerate some ideological disagreements. But the alt-right ideology and open homophobia is where I draw the line.

When he told me he loved me so so much, but then told me I was really pretty, and I shouldn't hide it so much. (I like leggings and skater dresses with goth boots) He said if I could update my style, people would see how pretty I am. Then during a discussion, he told me I was lucky he even talked to me. Lol. I told him I'll solve that problem, and ghosted and blocked immediately. In a much happier relationship now, with someone who encourages me to be me!!

having a really good date with a girl my friend set me up with. at the end, she turns to me and goes "are you transgender? i hate those fvckers." anyway i am indeed trans (FTM)

When they keep using the same excuses to their own problem, while blaming it on me

I blocked my father 8 years ago. My relationship with him was always difficult. He always expected everyone else to behave a certain way. Nothing I did was ever good enough for him and he never saw me as the person I am but rather the person I should be in his opinion but wasn't. He didn't like the way I dressed. He didn't think my profession was an actual job that earned money. The first thing he would do whenever we met was criticize something about me. I always laughed it off because I didn't want to fight with him. But when my grandparents died, he even criticized the way I dealt with the situation. That led to me having less contact with him. And of course, he would complain about me not calling him too. No matter if I did call him or not.

One day I just didn't answer the phone when he called. I had enough on my plate already and didn't need his negativity. I wasn't even thinking about ending things, I just didn't want to deal with him at that moment. After the second missed call, he called my work and had my CEO on the phone. That was the point where I finally snapped. Involving my boss, calling my workplace when he couldn't reach me was too much. That could have potentially hurt my career. I called him that night and finally told him all the things he did to me that hurt me and made me angry and that I would no longer allow him to do to me. He hung up on me after 5 minutes with the words "You're a lunatic. Call me when you're right in the head again."

I did exactly that and never called him again because I'll never be "right in the head again" from his point of view ever again. And if you think, those aren't good enough reasons to cut my own father out of my life: I merely scratched the surface and didn't tell what kind of psychopathic, choleric stalker he actually is.

I had an older straight guy friend (I’m gay) who would constantly pry into my personal life and overstep boundaries. Every time I would try to get him to understand that certain things are off limits as I feel uncomfortable discussing them he would stop for about a month and then bring it up again. The final straw was when I had to go do something and couldn’t talk anymore he said that I don’t have anything to do I just wanted to go “**** one of my friends.” Like… weird.

Had been through it for about a year with my dog (three surgeries and all that fun stuff), I had been busting my behind to make sure he was okay and to make payments. I had a night or two planned away for my niece's 20th b-day and left my dog with my ex (we stayed friends and my dog like him 😑). I drove 5 hours and arrived at night to my destination to messages saying my dog had bad diarrhea and it wasn't stopping. As it was late, I stayed the night (didn't get much sleep due to the festivities) and drove back first thing in the morning and took him to the emergency vet. Turns out he had eaten one of my crafts and it had gotten lodged in his stomach (I know, I regret not putting it away properly) and he needed surgery most likely to remove it. This would be the 4th in 14 months. I was exhausted, sleep deprived, stressed, facing another big expense in so little time (did I mention a vehicle repair and dental work for me in between everything??) and I was messaging my ex saying, and I quote, "I don't know if I can go through this again..." AND HE WENT OFF. Saying if I couldn't take care of my dog I needed to give him to someone who could and on and on. No support or encouragement or nothing. At that time, I just didn't have the strength to take on that treatment and didn't deserve that. Got the surgery and my dog ended up passing about 3 months later from cancer. I gave everything for him. 💔 RIP sweet boy.

When the person picked arguments over definitions of words that aren't normally fussed over. I'm pretty sure they'd have fought over the definition of "definition" if they got the notion. Since we both had English as a first language, and the same *dialect* to boot, it was.... ugh.

When my mother told me that without her I'd end up on the streets, broke and alone.

I was 32 at the time, happily married with a daughter and another baby on the way, and doing very well in my job.

Yeah Mom, that'll happen.

When I came out to my "friend" of 6 years and she told my very conservative parents.