What's on your mind?

[Saucy]

Sup CF?

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

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

You have no idea how many times I got in trouble for 'breaking social rules' when I was just being honest.

Seriously, don't get angry at me if I said you actually looked fat in that dress after asking me. You didn't ask me for my opinion, you just asked me for validation.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Even as a fan of WCW back in the middle and high school days, I always did wonder what was up with the fanatical devotion that so many of my schoolmates seemed to have for watching WWF, and in particular this Stone Cold Steve Austin (I was told once, deadpan seriously by a girl in my class that I can just go to hell if I don't think Steve Austin is the coolest thing ever on television today). ... Curious, I searched YT just now for a few segments of the old WWF days, and I - without making this sound like I am some overly righteous conservative who sees evil everywhere, mind you - am actually a little disturbed by what I see, especially in the videos that Stone Cold had an appearance in, and how the fans just enthusiastically cheer for it all. I know what goes on in professional wrestling is supposed to be an act - it's all just for drama along with the mindless entertainment - but seriously, is showing Vince MacMahon constantly dropping his pants and making his employees kiss his fully exposed backside, or Stone Cold ruthlessly stalking a fear-filled, physically helpless woman half his body weight and size while making subtle threats about doing her bodily harm as he chases her around a building before an audience of thousands supposed to be any kind of viable entertainment? Seriously, what the hell?

I keep thinking back to the few years I watched WCW pretty darn avidly, but I don't remember anything nearly that uncomfortable happening even on that show, as opposed to what I mentioned seeing just now that used to happen on WWF. I mean, guys would hammer on each other with chairs and smash through tables all the time but at least they were (in the script, anyway) heavily-built men who fought for a living; it kind of would have been a whole different story if I ever saw The Giant or Bill Goldberg stare daggers like a modern-day Jack the Ripper at a non-combatant teenage girl as she fled from him for several uncomfortable moments, fearful of severe bodily harm such as, well, having her much tinier, clearly softer-muscled stature be slammed through a table. ... While thousands of onlooking people cheered for the aggressive lunatic stalker.

 

[Orange Crow]

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

Haha, I agree. If they happen to me I'd just find it annoying and I'd probably think that they just do it for their own benefit instead of being honest.

 

[mojoboy31]

Cause it's my birthday:

 

[Left]

^ Ha ha.

Happy birthday!

 

[Orange Crow]

Happy birthday Mojo!

 

[PunkyChick]

Happy Birthday Mojo!

OMM: I sent the first draft of my web serial off to 3 people today. Finally. Now it's time to freak out and wait I guess.

 

[Toro]

Cause it's my birthday:View attachment 191052

You may be aging into your personality.... Im aging away from mine

Happy Birthday

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

Happy Birthday, @mojoboy31 !

 

[Saucy]

Mojo! Happy Birthday man! Hope you have an amazing day!

 

[EyesOfKohl]

Happy Birthday Mojo!!!

 

[sunshineforJesus]

Happy birthday Mojo!

 

[SarahsKnight]

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

 

[Saucy]

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?

 

[SarahsKnight]

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.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

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.

Yum,I so agree

 

[Galatea]

Prince Albert was a REAL prince. I'm glad he and Victoria were in love, but sad he died young.

Real love stories are so wonderful, so unexpected for some reason. Why is it we are surprised when a Queen and prince love each other for real?

Anyway, Victoria is on Masterpiece Theater. Highly recommended for women who like romance and historical dramas.

 

[CodyFaith]

Happy birthday Mojo : )

 

[sunshineforJesus]

So how was church today everyone?