SmokingFap
Gentlemanly pervert
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I start out those conversations with, “I’m not sure how to say this without sounding like an asshole, so…”![]()
It’s weird when people start a sentence “I’ll be honest…”
Does that mean it’s such a rarity that it has to be announced?
It's up there with, "with all due respect". People think that after they say that, they can be as much of an asshole as they want. Then it's, "Hey, I SAID with all due respect!"I tend to see this in a similar vein as the phrase "no offence, but"...
That it's a heads-up that their honesty is likely to hurt. Just as their words are about to offend. So, it's not that they're not usually honest, but that they normally put more tact into their words.
Or maybe I'm just naive.![]()