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Old 10-07-2015, 07:12 AM   #21
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No concept of personal space.

Inappropriate social touching (touching too much, OR not touching when expected to).

Eating food with your left hand.
Eating food with one's toilet hand isn't a -15 OPH. Maybe -10 if you use your toilet hand to give food to others with the expectation that they eat it. But if you just do it on your own then I can't see it being more than -5.

Also, the No Personal Space thing can be reversed. If you keep too great a distance, in a culture where closeness is expected, that can well be an OPH ("Why does he keep away from me like that? Is he trying to insinuate that I have bad breath?"). But I don't think it'll be as bad as a -15 OPH in either case.
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Old 10-07-2015, 09:58 AM   #22
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Insulting a revered cultural icon in public.
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Old 10-07-2015, 10:47 AM   #23
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In many a large city there will be designated places where any conceivable activity is tolerated or even expected which would be an OPH in other places.
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Old 10-07-2015, 11:29 AM   #24
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Regularly eating a bacon double-cheeseburger, while wearing a polyester T-shirt, on Saturday, at the Wailing Wall(not that I would ever do such a thing, but it took a little imagination to see how unkosher I could get).
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Is it an OPH if you eat a hotdog at Auschwitz?
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Old 10-07-2015, 11:39 AM   #26
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Incessant recitation of movie quotations. Especially Monte Python.
I don't think that's a -15. Annoying, yes. Anthropophagy annoying no.
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Old 10-07-2015, 11:52 AM   #27
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Is it an OPH if you eat a hotdog at Auschwitz?
Yes I thought of that, but I thought that went just a little to far into "dude, not funny" category for some reason. The first joke was stretching liberties a bit for a gentile though even pious Jews sometimes joke about religion, or so I heard, and would probably be willing to let it go with a grin of their own. But Auschwitz was not somewhere I wanted to go.

Also I wanted the ingenious device of seeing how many transgressions I could get into one sentence.
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Old 10-07-2015, 11:56 AM   #28
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Is it an OPH if you eat a hotdog at Auschwitz?
OPH isn't doing one annoying thing. It's doing something annoying all the time. For example if you habitually make jokes about historical and current mass murders, that's an annoying habit.
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Old 10-07-2015, 12:08 PM   #29
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OPH isn't doing one annoying thing. It's doing something annoying all the time. For example if you habitually make jokes about historical and current mass murders, that's an annoying habit.
That reminds me of that Chang's Mongolian Grill ad, "Somewhere Ghengis Khan is smiling...". But most viewers wouldn't care enough to be annoyed.
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Eating food with one's toilet hand isn't a -15 OPH. Maybe -10 if you use your toilet hand to give food to others with the expectation that they eat it. But if you just do it on your own then I can't see it being more than -5.
This thread may be hoping for mostly -15 point OPHs, but it's collecting mostly -5s. Quoting Monty Python is not a -15 point OPH.

Insisting on only speaking in Monty Python And The Holy Grail quotes, and only responding to people who do the same? Beside being a "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" level of communication problem, that's possibly a -15 OPH. Either that, or a Delusion.
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