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I was wondering if anyone else agreed with the majority of the "nice gestures" listed in this link below, that they are actually usually unhelpful and actually may come off as more rude than the opposite that is intended. Normally I would say that it all depends on how you present yourself when you try to make the "helpful" gesture, whether it will be taken to kindly by the recipient or not. But, some of the things listed here I really do think are, in and of themselves, just blatantly rude or overbearing to most people. Like, just straight up saying that you'll order for your date at the restaurant you've gone to (or the friend you are taking out to a place you've been to before but he/she hasn't)? Or trying to be "positive" by simply saying stuff like "come on, cheer up! Just snap out of it!" to a depressed friend, without really even listening to them? Yeah, stop that. It's not helpful; it's condescending to most people.
The 25 Most Secretly Unhelpful Things Nice People Do
I was wondering if anyone else agreed with the majority of the "nice gestures" listed in this link below, that they are actually usually unhelpful and actually may come off as more rude than the opposite that is intended. Normally I would say that it all depends on how you present yourself when you try to make the "helpful" gesture, whether it will be taken to kindly by the recipient or not. But, some of the things listed here I really do think are, in and of themselves, just blatantly rude or overbearing to most people. Like, just straight up saying that you'll order for your date at the restaurant you've gone to (or the friend you are taking out to a place you've been to before but he/she hasn't)? Or trying to be "positive" by simply saying stuff like "come on, cheer up! Just snap out of it!" to a depressed friend, without really even listening to them? Yeah, stop that. It's not helpful; it's condescending to most people.
The 25 Most Secretly Unhelpful Things Nice People Do
Cause it's my birthday:View attachment 191052
You had Taco Bell for dinner that night, didn't you?I hadn't thought about this one cute, kind of mousy little girl named Megan I graduated high school with in a really long time, but, strangely she appeared in my dreams as a girl I had been in love with all throughout my high school years and I had just now gathered the courage to confess. Among a bunch of other unusual things that occurred in that same dream which seemed to actually stretch on for hours. One such unusual event being my guarding my great-Aunt and uncle's house in Signal Mountain, Tennessee from Purge-style terrorists by shooting them in the face with a miniature rifle that was maybe ten inches in length from the safety of the front door, as they all kept menacingly (and stupidly) creeping up to the house through the front yard, which IRL is probably at least half the length of a football field. The Purge people were mostly wearing masks like in Phantom of the Opera and seemed to be taunting me via radio the whole time, that I was too young and naive and "liberal" have the guts to shoot and kill any aggressor on my property, that i could never be "enough of an adult" to fight back against robbers and murderers. ... Even as i took a six-barrel shotgun in a panic and blew one of them clean away when they made it all the way to the front porch and tried to force open the door, breaking the chain.
I also think that the next day, when the sun arose and I had survived the night clearing away the Purge people and getting over the embarrassment of kissing Megan on the lips after confessing my love and apologizing profusely for doing so at the slightest indication from her that the moment called for a kiss, I then celebrated my survival and sort-of potential romance begun with Megan by stepping out into the morning sun and telling the neighbor across the street that I thought it was a good day to take an endless sprint down the entire Atlantic coastline, which incidentally was somehow just a mile down the road. ... And sure enough, on foot, I began sprinting like a mecha-powered super gazelle down one end of the entire Atlantic beach to the other.
All in all, a stupid but vaguely awesome extended dream. ^-^
And by the way happy birthday to you, Mr. Mojo, my comrade in arms in defending the rights of women warriors to be taken more seriously in @MrMoe's recent parody of The Gladiator. =P
You had Taco Bell for dinner that night, didn't you?
Nah, can't say I'm a fan.... Except for when they had those frozen Mt. Dew slushie things a few years ago. Those were pretty awesome.
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