Re: Do you speak up??

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

I find this to be much like when people on the board here correct others spelling,grammer or typos -- it is uncalled for and rude. What is the point? To make you feel superior?

Zhills · ‎11-15-2011

Some people have very bad memory.

I knew a lady who just went with the flow. If the conversation was "coffee"...just love it. Go thru McDonalds every morning, etc."

Next day, same people, conversation "tea"...I always drink tea, just can't stand coffee!

Agreeing with the "crowd" seemed very important to her!

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

As is constantly evident on these forums, people believe what they want to believe. It's human nature.

For something like the OP describes, I doubt the other person would care that they were incorrect, and probably be annoyed at your insistence. It's the way people are.

My own feeling about this in general is that *I* know I'm correct about whatever it is being discussed (from the news or fact-checking), so it honestly doesn't matter to me what others believe. It definitely doesn't matter enough to insistently badger someone about me being right and them being wrong. And of course there are *facts* - concrete facts such as the OP describes, and "facts" which have varying degrees of absoluteness and are not "facts" at all.

Life without Mexican food is no life at all

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

I probably would have said that I didn't know there was another sibling and let it go at that.

I can't see making a big to-do about it.

bonnielu · ‎03-11-2010

I would let it slide.

Dancing last night, square dancing of course. Our caller was experimenting with a higher level of dance and adding the figures (moves) but was instructing us how to do it, step by step rather than calling it by name. Hubby and I are taking more advanced classes from him and knew the move perfectly (well almost perfect) In any case I was correct in the direction I went, muscle memory. Another dancer started to pull and tug me the wrong way and told me I was wrong (nicely). IN any case I shut my mouth knowing I was right and he would never ever see the move again anyway. Not worth the confrontation.

Stormygirl · ‎08-01-2015

Sometimes is not about being "right" or "wrong", is about doing the right thing.....and oftentimes saying "Oh really" is the best default response one can say. (unless life altering of course) Personally I do not have the energy nor want to give my power away to anyone who has to be "right" all the time. Being"right" can be subjective depending on the source one get their facts.

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

I too, like to have my facts straight, but don't feel the need to correct others. In this situation, I would be content to know there was no other sibling, and would not mention it to my friend. As you said, it's not a big deal.

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@Stormygirl wrote:
Personally I do not have the energy nor want to give my power away to anyone who has to be "right" all the time. Being"right" can be subjective depending on the source one get their facts.

Yes, this ^^^

There are things that can be "facts" according to *current* belief - such as the Am Medical Assoc or the FDA declaring "studies show" that X is bad for you - and then a year or five years later they "announce" it's not true (and never was). Not the same kind of "fact" as 2+2=4. Some day even E=mc2 may be disproven. Not to mention, "facts" are supported and debunked in equal measure depending upon what sourse one chooses to believe.

Life without Mexican food is no life at all

Stormygirl · ‎08-01-2015

@Moonchilde for real!! I have a friend who likes to "get into it" with me when it comes to her Belief Based facts citing from the source of her book of beliefs. I have to bow out of that one due to the no win situation..... LOL. I love the "I saw it on Face Book or (chose media source/spin) so therefore it must be true. LOL.

Is a fine dance those facts and how one obtains those truths. After all the world was once thought to be flat eh? And that used to believed as a fact! LOL

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@Zhills wrote:
Some people have very bad memory.

I knew a lady who just went with the flow. If the conversation was "coffee"...just love it. Go thru McDonalds every morning, etc."

Next day, same people, conversation "tea"...I always drink tea, just can't stand coffee!

Agreeing with the "crowd" seemed very important to her!

@Zhills

Okay, now THAT is strange .... lol.