An aspect of your demeanor that you've corrected

Several things but the one I’m most grateful for is completely losing the ability to hate anyone or anything.

To the OP

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I was frying an egg with my young daughter, and the egg slid over to one side of the pan. I leaned over in an exaggerated fashion to mimic the egg, just play-acting with my kid. Kind of like "Woah! There goes the egg!". She laughed, but gave me that "Oh dad!" look.

Later, while eating the egg and browsing though Boards, I happened upon this thread and I immediately thought "BH probably leans over like that, and people will be giving them that look too". Not an "Oh dad!" look, but a certain bemusement. So I just thought I'd mention it. From your reply here, it seems pretty obvious that you do, even if you don't want to admit to it, so my hunch was correct. As for your height and hearing, I have no particular preconceptions. I do imagine that you feel the cold, however.

Look, there's no judgement here. Continue leaning all you want. It would just explain some things, that's all, so it's good to be aware of it.

In light of today's developments and DPP, yes. I visualise Leo kicking a pebble around his back yard today, muttering "big mistake" under his breath.

I used to be quite a big “consumer” of kiwi fruit. Loved the things. Skin and all. Then I met my current partner whom, it turns out, has quite a severe allergy to them.

Knocked them on the head, except the very odd serving when required due to an internal “plumbing” emergency.

Had to switch to latex free johnnies too, for some reason there’s a “connection” with whatever is in latex and the kiwi allergy. The things we do for love, eh?

While no one likes an opinionated know all I find it quite hard to deal with a person that won't accept logic in an argument or make a counter point backed with something substantial but instead flies off yhe handle in the event that they are demonstrably wrong or challenged in a way they don't like.....a terrible trait for a person to have even though they can be top class people in other ways.

Slagging culture is definitely something I've been trying to lean away from, unless I know it's someone with whom I have that kind of relationship.

I had anger issues that went away and now Im fairly placid, I dealt with them .

You dont strike me as being the nicest of people mate however Im quite prepared to be proved wrong. Enjoy your Sunday

Excellent. I'm sure it feels empowering. Almost like a work in?

Indian?

That is they way they do it

Correcting people

In the past I would sometimes correct people on points of information, common misconceptions etc - not as a put down or to embarrass them in a big “ACTUALLY xyz” show or anything. For my own part I prefer to be corrected if I say something wrong (who wants to go around continuing to say the wrong thing?).

Over the years however I realised that many people take offence to being corrected, regardless of how gently you do it. They see it as an insult to their intelligence (even if they’re incorrect) so unless it’s something egregious it’s better to just nod and say nothing, lest you be labelled a know it all

When it comes to social/family occasions I simply don’t go to anything I don’t want to go to anymore. It doesn’t matter how much perceived “pressure” there is to attend, I’m just not going and not sending a present either.

And in actual reality nobody misses you from that function and everyone in your circle stops assuming that you will be there.

Don't go.