Are you a brutally honest person

[JitterbugPerfume]

or do you fudge a little on the truth to spare peoples feelings?

I try to never hurt anyones feelings , it makes my stomach ache to be brutal.

[Karenina]

1. IMHO, "brutal" and "honest"

passen nicht zusammen.

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. translation?

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

7. don't go together

that is the translation. I'm sorry I didn't clarify that at first.

[NMDemDist2]

31. 'xactly!! truth without love is brutality

and I avoid being brutal whenever possible

now a quick slap up side the head, that's another story........


:yoiks:

[ThomCat]

3. Usually.

I've pissed off a few people (and most of my family) for failing to sugarcoat things.

I view it as being honest, informed, and involved. They view it as not being nice. Apparently being nice requires lies, ignorance and apathy. :shrug:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

23. I'm the say way.

Don't you hate it when someone asks you a question, but when you actually answer it, they get pissed?
Duckie

[ThomCat]

24. Hi YRD!

:hug:

It bugs me a little, but it tells me quite a bit about them too. I take it as a lesson in who I want to bother talking to. :)

[DS1]

4. I think a lot of people just use that phrase as an excuse to be assholes

but then again, I'm a well-documented pathological liar.

[SarahB]

5. No, just brutally talkative.

:7

[skygazer]

6. It depends on your definition of "brutal"

I don't lie. But if I have to deliver hard truths, I try to do so in a gentle manner and I try to offer whatever support I can.

My family tried to "spare my feelings" when my mother was sick with cancer. They hid her illness from me until it was so obvious that they couldn't any longer. Even then, no one really talked to me about it because they didn't want to "burden me" with the details.

As a result, at the ages of 9 through 14, I lived in fear and ignorance, knowing full well that something terrible was going on, that my mother was likely dying but not having any real information that might have made it a little easier to bear.

I was not there when she died - they thought that would be too hard for me - so she simply disappeared out of my life and never came back. I was not at her funeral because I was sick and they felt I was suffering enough so I didn't get to say goodbye.

Brutal enough? They weren't trying to be brutal but in the end, that's exactly what it was. You can be honest without being brutal.

Sorry. Subject's close to the bone.

[Strawman]

8. The latter. I get in trouble lying to protect others' feelings

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

9. I'm brutally honest with a handful of people

that I really care about. The rest I just shine on.

[Mojambo]

10. Worse. I'm brutally dishonest.

When I lie to you, it is rough!

[crim son]

11. I'm brutally honest until I find that somebody is ultra-sensitive.

Then I'll tone it down. I'm not so much honest on principle as I am by habit.

[crim son]

12. Second post and already I'm duping.

Sorry

[trackfan]

13. Absolutely not. I tell people what I think they want to hear.

Life is too short for that kind of honesty.

[Deja Q]

14. Possibly, but some claim I'm brutally horny too.

See? That's being brutally honest! :7

[skygazer]

15. So, does that mean you like rough sex?

:hide:





On second thought, don't answer that! :P

[Deep13]

16. yep

Facts are a lot more important than feelings and I know I will not do anyone any favors by lying to that person.

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. And keep my job????

:rofl:

No, but I wish to hell that I could be.

:hi:

[Benfea]

18. You bore me.

I'm sorry, what was the question?

[Xipe Totec]

19. Never ask me a question

unless you're prepared to hear the answer.

It's part of the training as a scientist.

I once delivered a performance appraisal to a guy that made him to puke into my wastebasket.

[rbnyc]

20. I'm the master of spin.

I can be brutally honest, but I tend to tell people things in the way they'll hear it best. I'm a fund-raiser so I'm great at spin and presenting negative traits as opportunities.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. I'd answer, but you obviously don't care enough about the question to proof your post, so fuck it.

If you can't be bothered, why should I bother?

Missing apostrophes. A comma sitting out in the ocean by itself. Split infinitive.

Do you even care?

:eyes:





















:hide:

[JitterbugPerfume]

33. yes , I care

unfortunately I did not get to check this thread until today. I had a family emergency. Last week my daughter broke her back in a motor cycle accident and my great grand son had a seizure and I am three states away so I am just a bit stressed right now .

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. I'm terribly sorry!

I should have added the sarcasm smiley - I was being humorous to your "brutally honest" question by being brutally honest about irrelevancies in an ironic and hilarious way.

Obviously, I wasn't being very humorous, it got lost in translation, and it comes across as far from hilarious.

SORRY!!

I should have been more explicit to read it with tongue in cheek.

Apologies to you, and best wishes to your great grand son!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

22. If I'm your friend, I'm not going to lie to you.

If you ask me a question, expect an answer. If I don't like you, I just won't talk to you. There's not really any in between. If I don't really know you, though, I'm polite.
I can't stand people who expect their friends to lie to them. That drives me insane.
Duckie

[Flaxbee]

25. I can't lie about important things, but I'll fudge

about someone's favorite song or book or pair of shoes so I don't hurt feelings. Well, I can't lie to someone I know, I have no trouble lying to telemarketers or others.

I don't ever want to be 'brutal', but sometimes I can be quite blunt. And sometimes what I think might be a gentle or tactful way of putting something the other person finds hurtful. I never set out to be hurtful, though.

Hi, JP!! How're you doing? :hi:

[Wetzelbill]

26. I have been, but usually I try not to hurt other's feelings

[Digit]

27. Menopause has freed me!

I noticed that things would "slip" out of my mouth as I progressed into menopause. At first I was puzzled, but then I named it "menopausitude".

I am not cruel to people, but can't help but tell them what is on my mind. I am possibly too blunt these days, but I still really care for the people and I think they get it. I don't do it with any malice.
I am at least 10 years into menopause, and at least the crying jags have stopped.
I didn't even have PMS this bad!
Kinda makes me hell on wheels for telling strangers off though when they really tick me off.

[Little Wing]

28. Only to myself

Goddamn I need some drugs

[Forkboy]

29. Usually.It depends on the subject and/or the person it's aimed at.

With people I don't like I can be very brutal and call things exactly as I see them.I find that in most cases it's best to be as direct as possible to avoid any confusion about where I stand.I don't like to mince words.

With people I do like I'll still be just as honest,but I'll be nicer about it. :)

[bridgit]

30. your tedium is pregnant with the sustainable loft of a flying mallet, we dance now...

[wildhorses]

32. to be honest ---

sometimes i just want to get through the day

dodging bullets as they fly by

nothing else really matters