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[GlyphGryph]

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Honestly? As someone who hosts, this sort of behaviour is way, way more of a burden than the alternative, because this is how the hosts lifts the burden that is already due on account of your mere presence. It's pretty obvious that you're hungry/thirsty anyway, so you end up leaving the host stressing out over why you dislike them/don't trust them, and often conveys the attitude that what they are doing simply isn't enough and you expect far, far more. Just accept the goddamned stuff, the moment you do the burden ceases to exist, and the longer you refuse, the longer it lasts. Plus the sort of people who entertain or invite guests are usually the sort of people who enjoy hosting, and turning down their attempts to do so is downright rude.

I don't think I've told any blatant lies yet today, but it's still early - I'll give it some time and report back.

[gigaraptor487]

"I sorry, I didn't mean to spill my coffee on your computer"

To my brother

[gigaraptor487]

"what do you mean you can't find your car keys"

[Shakerag]

I'm waiting for the first "I love you" or variant thereof.

[MorleyDev]

"I'll just read the next few chapters of Skin Games before I do some programming". Rest of the day later, finished the whole book.

Damn you Jim Butcher, you brilliant evil dealer of literary crack.

[Xantalos]

"I'll just read the next few chapters of Skin Games before I do some programming". Rest of the day later, finished the whole book.

Damn you Jim Butcher, you brilliant evil dealer of literary crack.

Happened with every Dresden Files novel so far.

[cahocachi]

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It's also quite rude declining any food or drink where I live. Furthermore, there's this thing where we guys will argue (sometimes quite hard) over who pays the tab after some beers or a dinner, so it just resolves being the fastest to take the bucks out from the wallet. Dunno why, but it's strangely satisfying to be the one paying after a good meal with a couple of friends.

I even actually have a friend who to this day hasn't let me pay for a single time we've gotten out to have a couple beers and dine. You magnificent bastard...

"Oooh, yeah, I tooootally meant to do that!". Happens quite often.

[hops]

In which New Guy gets an etiquette beatdown.

[itisnotlogical]

"I'll just wait in the queue for a while, and after I finish this dungeon I'll start studying for Spanish." Hours later, I was completely finished with Stonetalon and about halfway done with Southern Barrens.

"I'm going to eat a real breakfast today." I currently have an energy drink and a brownie in my backpack because fuck it, I have some spending money and it makes me happy right now.

[MorleyDev]

It's also quite rude declining any food or drink where I live. Furthermore, there's this thing where we guys will argue (sometimes quite hard) over who pays the tab after some beers or a dinner, so it just resolves being the fastest to take the bucks out from the wallet. Dunno why, but it's strangely satisfying to be the one paying after a good meal with a couple of friends.

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That's the kind of thing that'd reeeaaalllly annoy me very quickly. I much prefer it when everyone pays their own way and nobody has any debt to anybody. I can't stand feeling like I owe someone, be it a bank or a person, monetarily or emotionally. Me and David Mitchell, apparently.

Likewise, if I decline a drink it is because I do not wish to have a drink. Maybe I am familiar with your pantry and do not wish to partake of any of the fine drinks within, maybe I am unfamiliar with it but just not fancying anything to sate my mild thirst at the present which will not become problematic until it starts being painful to me. If I start experiencing discomfort at the hands of my bodies need for regular liquid, I will announce so and request a drink. Until then, let us continue pleasant conversation without the need to force beverages down my gullet good sir and/or madame.

Even the Rounds System of drinking at the pub bugs me. No, I am not going to remember five people's drinks orders and no I do not want to pay for five peoples drinks just because it all balances out eventually as the night goes on. I will pay for my own drinks, and you all can do what you like

[/rant]

"I'm gonna revise for the test on Monday!". Then I remember that the test is on "Programming Languages, Client/Server and Concurrency" and I already know enough about such things to pass a BSc test on it.

And then I get sad because I feel like I shouldn't be able to be so blasé about my university education but the university standards are evidently lower than my own. Which is apparently why some of the lecturers describe me as a "good student", but also why every piece of coursework has stressed me out so far since I've been holding it against the standards I was taught whilst on my year in the industry, and not the "quick and dirty prototype" that they university expects.

[penguinofhonor]

I don't think I've spoken to anyone but my cat yet today, and I don't usually lie to cats.

[hops]

Not that you can lie to cats anyways, they're telepathic.

Meow

[TD1]

"Yes, this is ICT revision. Why is it called Dwarf Fortress? Just the name of the program I'm looking over, that's all."

[blazing glory]

"Yes, this is ICT revision.

All I could think of was how that sounds like Icy Tea when you say it.

[MaximumZero]

"Yes, this is ICT revision. Why is it called Dwarf Fortress? Just the name of the program I'm looking over, that's all."

lolololol

Also, "No, we don't have that in stock. Yes, we'll have it tomorrow. Yes, I show an inbound shipment." I don't work tomorrow. Then again, the item in question is street dated for tomorrow, so the customer couldn't have it today anyway.