Hi, friends!
I hope your day is going well. Topic of the night is what sorts of lies do you fall for? Doesn’t have to be serious or even every time.
Today looks gorgeous outside. It’s been sunny and not a cloud in the sky.
LIES!!!
It’s also cold and windy as fuck and the kind of weather you absolutely don’t want to be out in.
I’m pretty skeptical when people tell me things so only get fooled when I don’t really care to know the truth. “You look fine”. Yeah, sure. It snowed here last night but not too bad, though they still cancelled school all around. I went on a 15 mile drive to help a friend build a shed in the cold. We get there & they have no power! We did nothing & almost got stuck on a side road coming home. Waste of 2 hours of my life.
Oh man that sucks. I’m glad you avoided the accident!
Only the lies I tell myself: “I’ll get up early tomorrow and work out…”
I stupidly just bought a laptop with Windows 11, not noticing it was Win 11 S.
What’s the S, you might ask? Supposedly it stands for security, or some such nonsense.
What it actually means is that the only programs you can install are in the Microsoft Store, which is such a piece of crap it doesn’t include basic stuff like Chrome.
Oh, and they only want you to be able to log in with a Microsoft account. And you can’t even use Command mode!
Of course they’re lying about security. They just want to hobble competitors and harvest info from you.
After far too much time searching online I found ways to get around this stupidity and lies. But what a freaking mess.
Fucking Microsoft. I appreciate you mentioning this because I might need a new laptop soon and I guarantee I would not have even thought the S meant something that would make a difference for the user experience.
I’ve seen MS apologists in help forums saying “of course you should understand the difference.”
No. No, it’s not obvious.
Even after the divorce settlement for being a dirtbag, Bill Gates is still worth tens of billions of dollars. He doesn’t need apologists cleaning his feet with their tongues for free. Don’t do that.
Yeah not a chance in hell I’d pay attention to that or understand the difference.
Me? It’s work. It’s always work. I’m an incredibly fucking skeptical person, but somehow when a boss manages to scrape together a halfway convincing facade of actually caring about my welfare, I always fall for it. Every. damn. time. And they never do — they’re just out to use you to advance themselves.
I think it’s because my first boss truly was a friend and did care about me. I keep looking for that and convincing myself that I’ve found it, and I keep getting exploited. Like a kid that’s still looking for a father figure, I guess. And I should know better.
Oh, yeah, since we’re talking about lies: RIP, Christine McVie.
I have an inability to know when people are being serious or when they’re just fucking with me. I’ve had that problem for as long as I remember so it’s gotten me in a lot of trouble over the years.
I have a sibling who is possibly a pathological liar. I dont speak to them much, when I do I always forget their default is to lie first. Even about the smallest stupidest stuff. A recent example is when I asked what snowsuit they got their kid. They sent me a link and I was like shiiiit that is $350! Then they backtracked an said they didn’t actually get it but saw it on another kid. When they are caught in a lie (which is pretty often) they just shrug it off, make it seem like I misunderstood them, or change subjects. It’s annoying AF but also I believe a defense/coping mechanism which stems from having been in an abusive relationship. So I don’t tend to call them out on it.
Now that you say that, the lies I always fall for is from my alcoholic friend that is a pathological liar. I want to believe he is not drinking & digging more holes in his life so I just believe him since I can’t do anything about it. Ignorance is bliss?
You know how to tell when an alcoholic is lying?
When their lips are moving.
Same applies to coke addict.
my mom has a knack for asking me to come over and help her out with small jobs around the house….like when she wanted me to move a couple rooftiles the neighbours let her have for free into her shed
a couple being an entire roofs worth….
its gotten to the point where ive developped a twitch whenever mum mentions having a small job….welp…what you gonna do…its not like im going to refuse
I used to believe management (only an idiot… I know.) Now, I’d rather be blackballed from promotion than treated like a fool.
It’s why I rolled my eyes when given the same bullshit excuse as to why I wasn’t picked the for last job.
It’s why I don’t care that I embarrassed the director who initially used the bullshit excuse at a recent townhall.
It’s why I’m enjoying (soon to be former) management’s squirming at the ownership change.
What a fool believes? I still believe that I have a chance to get a promotion… I really shouldn’t but I still do.