White lies

[Chucky]

How many of you lie so not to hurt the other person's feelings?. It sometimes saves relationships and friendships but what happens if you are caught. Pretty embarrassing. How many of you ever get caught in a white lie and what did you say to get out of it. Another white lie?.

 

[Wanker]

1. It wasn’t me! – Because some things just aren’t worth taking credit for.
2. The table will be ready in 5 minutes. – Because it sounds a lot better than 15 minutes.
3. Oh, yeah. That makes sense. – Because option B involves admitting that I am clueless.
4. Thank you so much! I just love it! – Because telling someone that their gift sucked would make me look like an insensitive jerk.
5. Yeah, you look great in that dress. – Because it’s better than being slapped.
6. Oh, things would have been different if I was there! – Because I’m Superman and I can always make a difference… or at least that’s how I want others to perceive of me.
7. No, officer… I have no idea how fast I was going. – Because claiming ignorance is sometimes better than admitting to insubordination.
8. I’m 29. – Because 29 is like 20 years younger than 30.
9. Yeah, I’ll start working on that ASAP! – Because telling you I have 10 things to do first would just irritate you.
10. Yes, John was with me last night. – Because that’s what friends do… we agree and ask questions later.
11. My resume is 5 pages long for a good reason. – Because I’m darn good at bullshittin’!
12. Man, that sucker was 10 feet long! – Because anything less would be boring.
13. Yeah, I was a badass on my high school football team! – Because I want to be seen by others in an even stronger light than I see myself.
14. I’m 21, 6’5, with a muscular build. – Because you can’t see me in this online chat room… ha ha!
15. I thought I already sent that email out. I’m sure I did. – Because telling you that it was a low priority and I forgot would probably hurt our relationship.

 

[Butch]

 

[Macho Man]

I never say white lies.

 

[Swagger]

White lies are just the same as regular lies. Both are wrong, unless its to save your own life.

 

[tboy]

I try to be 100% honest all the time and have learned to tone down being brutally honest. That gets you no where quickly.

I think white lies are a necessary evil in order to survive in a society made up of others. Here's a good example:

I used to be really into high end car audio and "crank it up" cars...(my old pickup could hit 149 db, a 747 taking off is 130). There was this kid who spent a shit load of money and time on his mustang. It had a nice body kit, great interior, awesome sound system, but he painted it bubble gum pink. It was a really great paint job, well done, polished to perfection but damn, it was SO fricken pink. He was really proud of it. We were talking with him over everything he'd done to the car and was really proud.

When the gang moved onto the next car the GF said "how can you say you liked that? christ it was horrendous"...I said "hey, I may not have liked the colour, but he did and was really proud of the job he did, who am I to burst his bubble"? Plus you kind of have to hand it to him: not many have the balls to drive around in a bright pink car!!!!

 

[Jerkthis]

Tboy, was the dude with the pink car gay? Just asking.

 

[tboy]

^^^^ nope.... would be an easy explanation but he wasn't. His GF was hot......

This was the 'tween time, after big block north american hot rods were the rage and before the "Fast and Furious" rice rockets were in vogue. Now, it wouldn't be a big deal, back then, a bright pink car was SO not cool....Maybe he was ahead of his time?

Oh, one other thing on the topic: I used to work for a company who repeatedly asked me to lie to customers about stuff. I can't tell you how many blowouts I had with the upper ups because I refused to.

 

[McGuinty]

I never lie........................................

Time to raise more taxes.....................