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Unsolicited comments: • Compliment people behind their back. It’ll come back to you. Super pragmatic. A tad selfish (complementing people in the hope it comes

Unsolicited comments: • Compliment people behind their back. It’ll come back to you. Super pragmatic. A tad selfish (complementing people in the hope it comes back around), but I still like it. • Your best response to an insult is “You’re probably right.” Often they are. This has been my default for years. It also disarms cunty humans (even when drunk at a pub). • Always cut away from yourself. When you learn this lesson the hard way, it sticks forever. • In all things — except love — start with the exit strategy. Prepare for the ending. Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. "except love" U WOT M8? Begin with the end in mind. You'll enjoy the experience more knowing the good times can end at any point. You also want to have your life in order to handle a massive emotional trainwreck.

domnomnom 5y ago
Do people respond to insults? Why not just walk away or engage in what is banter?
mr-wendel 5y ago
Unsolicited meta-comments: > Super pragmatic. A tad selfish (complementing people in the hope it comes back around), but I still like it. Yah, talk about doing the right thing for the wrong reason but still beats many alternatives. Also way up on my list is spreading good rumors without sharing the source: "someone... I'll never say who... said this nice thing about you!" > It also disarms... I can't even say it. I'm not Australian. I'll try admitting guilt though (not that I'm a...). > "except love" U WOT M8 Anything can end at any point, including this precious life. Relationships ARE special though. Sometimes you get glimpses where you know it isn't gonna work out (and if you're red-flag aware... it won't take long). In that case, yah... look at those exits and appreciate what led you into this potential disaster while you can and learn. BUT. BIG BUT. If this relationship has a chance then you have to throw the exit strat thinking out the window. That doesn't mean go get joined at the hip, but self fulfilling prophecies are a thing. If its a good thing, your partner will absolutely see you have one foot outside and hedge bets accordingly. Have faith! Not that you won't have problems, but that they will be worth overcoming.
- AussieWog93 5y ago
  Unsolicited meta-meta-comment: >I can't even say it. I'm not Australian. It's not just Aussies that say the word cunt a lot. It's relatively common in most of the major English speaking nations: England, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand just off the top of my head. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Scots say that word more than we do (measured in microcunts-uttered-per-second, normalised on a per-capita basis). We do seem to have the most variants of the term (tough cunt, hard cunt, dumbcunt, shitcunt, gaycunt etc.), but that could just be my bias as I'm less familiar with slang from other countries. The US and Canada really are the exceptions to the rule in this regard, ascribing disproportionate levels of offensiveness to the word compared with anywhere else on Earth.
  - harry8 5y ago
    It bothers me a little that the slang term for vulva has always been somehow vastly more offensive than the equivalent slang term for penis. See now if the overly-woke could conceive and "amplify" a massively offensive gender-neutral term for genitalia for use in abuse that is frequently needless, I could totally get behind insisting on it in place of prick, cock, cunt, et al. It would be political correctness and wokeness gone completely and utterly sane! I guess "wank-stain" just about does the same job, cheers Scotland! Be excellent to each other.

domnomnom 5y ago

Do people respond to insults? Why not just walk away or engage in what is banter?

mr-wendel 5y ago

Unsolicited meta-comments: > Super pragmatic. A tad selfish (complementing people in the hope it comes back around), but I still like it. Yah, talk about doing the right thing for the wrong reason but still beats many alternatives. Also way up on my list is spreading good rumors without sharing the source: "someone... I'll never say who... said this nice thing about you!" > It also disarms... I can't even say it. I'm not Australian. I'll try admitting guilt though (not that I'm a...). > "except love" U WOT M8 Anything can end at any point, including this precious life. Relationships ARE special though. Sometimes you get glimpses where you know it isn't gonna work out (and if you're red-flag aware... it won't take long). In that case, yah... look at those exits and appreciate what led you into this potential disaster while you can and learn. BUT. BIG BUT. If this relationship has a chance then you have to throw the exit strat thinking out the window. That doesn't mean go get joined at the hip, but self fulfilling prophecies are a thing. If its a good thing, your partner will absolutely see you have one foot outside and hedge bets accordingly. Have faith! Not that you won't have problems, but that they will be worth overcoming.

AussieWog93 5y ago
Unsolicited meta-meta-comment: >I can't even say it. I'm not Australian. It's not just Aussies that say the word cunt a lot. It's relatively common in most of the major English speaking nations: England, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand just off the top of my head. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Scots say that word more than we do (measured in microcunts-uttered-per-second, normalised on a per-capita basis). We do seem to have the most variants of the term (tough cunt, hard cunt, dumbcunt, shitcunt, gaycunt etc.), but that could just be my bias as I'm less familiar with slang from other countries. The US and Canada really are the exceptions to the rule in this regard, ascribing disproportionate levels of offensiveness to the word compared with anywhere else on Earth.
- harry8 5y ago
  It bothers me a little that the slang term for vulva has always been somehow vastly more offensive than the equivalent slang term for penis. See now if the overly-woke could conceive and "amplify" a massively offensive gender-neutral term for genitalia for use in abuse that is frequently needless, I could totally get behind insisting on it in place of prick, cock, cunt, et al. It would be political correctness and wokeness gone completely and utterly sane! I guess "wank-stain" just about does the same job, cheers Scotland! Be excellent to each other.