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so what happens if you didnt sugar coat and bull shit everything or anything for 24 hours ?

― anthony, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

24 [wiv Keever Suverlan'] would be boringer.

― david h, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you don't hve many friends. you don't get good marks in essays.

― di, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Frosties would be cornflakes and I would be constipated.

― Pete, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow you liked Jim Carrey's "Liar Liar"! Me too. Let's now talk about that.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my life would fall apart. TROO FAKT.

― katie, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd have to kiss goodbye my script editing career, which is what I feel like doing anyway as I am so fucking UNCREATIVE.

― Mark C, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I'd just hole up in my room with something to nibble on -- of course, I'd have to unplug my computer too. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hell if I know, I don't bullshit. Not purposely, unless I'm making it really clear, as in a joke. I just don't do it. I can't do it. It astonishes me when others expect me to do it for them because I can't.

― Kerry, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not quite sure what you mean Anthony. There's this idea that 'avoiding bullshit' leads to a kind of stridency and aggressiveness which is honest, bracing and neccessary. That seems to be a result of this kind of Rush Limbaugh/Richard Littlejohn/Bill Hicks "The Truth Hurts" attitude. I kind of instinctively recoil from that idea but I'm not sure how wrong it is. The idea I do reject is that no-bullshitness is always put in short-term, verbal terms.

For instance a friend might be going out with a new partner. And they ask me what I think of the new partner, who I don't like. Two honesties here conflict - answering the question truthfully is a kind of honesty, but so surely is the impulse not to upset or alienate one's friend. Where two honesties conflict I think the question to ask is, which will hold true for longest? and go with that one.

― Tom, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What I actually DO is be noncommittal to the friend and then bitch to other friends and then it comes out and I come across like a complete bastard/idiot. Which is because I can be one. (Hey! Look! Honesty!)

― Tom, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

See Grice's politeness maxims. I lie most of the time. Just on tiny little things that don't count, and the truth would be no more or no less remarkable than the lie. Sometimes on big things. I lie so I can get away from things unscathed. Sometimes I find myself saying something completely untrue, and I can't work out why. It's great fun not knowing your own mind.

― alix, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't think I do much of any of this. I'm occasionally polite to someone, which frequently counts as sugar-coating, but even that doesn't seem necessary often. I'm not some super-honest or "I speaks as I find, me" type, I just don't often find the need.

Um, this may mean I offend more often than a better person would, I think.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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