Do you ever pretend to not know things to look like less…
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Do you ever pretend to not know things to look like less of an arsehole?
If, say, me and a friend are discussing something, and the friend shares a fact with me that I already knew, my natural instinct is to go ‘yeah I knew that’, or something to that effect.
I’m sure it’s a pretty human response and something most people would do.
But as I’ve got older, I’ve began to wonder if it’s more socially mature to pretend I didn’t know said fact.
It feels like it’s going against all of my instincts, and there is something mildly annoying about said friend thinking you didn’t know something that you in fact did know.
But in reality, what does it matter. It makes the friend feel better because they think they shared a new, interesting fact, and it makes me look like less of an arsehole, because saying ‘yeah I knew that’ always looks a bit arseholey.
Anyone feel the same?
#relationships
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If, say, me and a friend are discussing something, and the friend shares a fact with me that I already knew, my natural instinct is to go ‘yeah I knew that’, or something to that effect.
I’m sure it’s a pretty human response and something most people would do.
But as I’ve got older, I’ve began to wonder if it’s more socially mature to pretend I didn’t know said fact.
It feels like it’s going against all of my instincts, and there is something mildly annoying about said friend thinking you didn’t know something that you in fact did know.
But in reality, what does it matter. It makes the friend feel better because they think they shared a new, interesting fact, and it makes me look like less of an arsehole, because saying ‘yeah I knew that’ always looks a bit arseholey.
Anyone feel the same?
#relationships
source
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