Exceptions to your personal rule

[The Wykydtron]

I don't know if this is a rule exactly but I always have inherently tried to make a joke out of everything and anything. Seriously, someone asks me for anything and I am immediately looking for something witty to say back. I don't even consider a serious response.

Just one look over any few of my posts can pretty much tell you this, I am incapable of being 100% serious over pretty much anything. It wins me no favours when I suffer from temporary insanity and post on one of those spr srs -ism threads over there. God, you people cannot take a joke I tell you. THIS is why I never poke my head into R&P.

Oh when I do get serious, it's over the most trivial thing ever.

 

[Catfood220]

I will give everybody the benefit of the doubt, no matter how sketchy, dishonest, or poorly behaved they come across as

.....

Unless they drive a Mustang, then they're almost definitely a douche bag.

I have the same rule about BMW drivers. Even the rare ones that will occasionally let me out into the flow of traffic.

Also: don't kill insects outside, because outside is their home.

Unless they are pure evil. I was at Leeds Festival last year and I was just sat chilling in my chair outside my tent and I absentmindedly put my hands on top of my head and was somewhat surprised to feel an unpleasant stinging sensation on the top of my head. Yes, I had accidently put my hands on a wasp that took offense to it. That hurt all fucking day. Now I know how to deal with wasps that buzz in your face, you stay still and it will leave you alone. But come on, if you don't tell me you are there by having the common decency to buzz around me a couple of times. How am I supposed to know you are sitting on top of my head?

Wasp. When I find you, you are a dead insect.

 

[Silvanus]

If I'm over halfway through a book (or even less, if I've read a significant chunk at least), then I can't give up, most of the time. I'll even go back to books months or years later if I gave up on them before, for the sake of completion.

The exception was Cold Mountain. Slogged through 90% and am not going back.