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TwixVoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 10:05 PM
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Poll question: Is this Asian saying true? "When the character of a person is not clear to you...."
There is an old Asian saying

"When the character of a person is not clear to you look to that persons friends"

Is this saying true?
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 10:06 PM
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1. What does this have to do with one hand clapping?
:shrug:
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 10:44 PM
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2. eh
i know plenty of people that i like who hang out with douchebags. and i certainly have friends who differ greatly from me in personality and temperament.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 10:55 PM
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3. Why do you like to hang out with douchebags?
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 10:58 PM
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4. For that spring-fresh feeling?
:shrug:
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 10:58 PM
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5. i didn't say that
i said I have people i like who hang out with douchebags
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 11:03 PM
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6. Why do they like to hang out with douchebags?
and please don't say for that spring fresh feeling......................................
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 11:06 PM
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7. I'd guess because douchebags get all the chicks
'Course, those chicks are also douchebags...



:popcorn:
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 11:10 PM
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9. hmmmmm .....................
Yes, that would stand to reason one would think................................

although that does blow the "opposites attract" theory out of the water, does it not................................
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 11:27 PM
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13. 'Ah, the song of the *truly* desperate'
— Marriage counselor Dr. Simon Finch-Royce (John Cleese), to Diane when she brought up "opposites attract" in a "Cheers" episode...........................
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 11:30 PM
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14. yes.........
like magnets they would attract and then repel.

I can see, perhaps for a fleeting moment, a reason to be curious, but once knowing the matter of the beast and having my curiosity sated, I believe that I would then choose to Walk On........................
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 11:10 PM
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8. dunno
self esteem issues? beats the hell out of me.
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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 11:14 PM
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10. My problem : My friend and my SO's BEST Friend bro for life is married to...
A woman who thinks that muslims are evil and we were created magically some 6000 years ago and evolution is not possible and all Jews have big noses good at comedy and economics. I have written him off for not being strong enough to make his views known but my So as said person is his bro for life well ... I would be more understanding but she got jealous when he gave me a ride to the bus stop so I would only have to take two busses instead of three. And she is a bitch
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 11:18 PM
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11. God, I hope not.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 11:23 PM
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12. Wow. Asians speak English AND carve wood?
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 12:23 AM
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15. I have a wood carving with that saying
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 12:25 AM
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16. This thread is already not going well.
:popcorn:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 12:28 AM
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17. I'd say it's sometimes true...
without saying it's more or less often than not.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 12:36 AM
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18. Yes, almost always. The only time it is NOT true is the rare occasion ....
...when the 'person' in question is some sort of sociopath
who is completely dishonest with EVERYONE they associate with.

And that doesn't happen very often.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 01:49 AM
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20. There are more sociopaths at large in society than one would
think..................................
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 02:41 AM
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21. Well, I am certainly not the "one" of which you speak.
I am well aware of the fact that they are EVERYWHERE.
It's a fucking EPIDEMIC, these days.
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Grey Donating Member (933 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 12:39 AM
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19. My Mother liked to remind me.......
"Birds of a feather flock together". Or,
Grandpa would say "lay down with dogs, get up with fleas".
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