Originally Posted by
Jack Daw
I just ignore these obnoxious types b/c attention is what they are after.
Absolutely fine advice.
In fact I gave it to my son recently to deal with a school bully. My lovely wife suggested adding a bored just slightly irritated (at the distraction not the speaker's actual words) of "Whatever" .
My son reported after using this tactic only twice, the bully quit trying to get his goat.
Granted my son is a third grader, but the people we are talking about dealing with aren't that much more intellectually developed. 
Cheers
Jamie
-See it there, a white plume
Over the battle - A diamond in the ash
Of the ultimate combustion-My panache
Edmond Rostand
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