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By *ack London OP   Man
over a year ago

London

When people say 'to be honest' I shut down a bit.

Why, in the first instance would they admit to lie? To be honest, it is just a question.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When people say 'to be honest' I shut down a bit.

Why, in the first instance would they admit to lie? To be honest, it is just a question.

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is it the writer in you talking ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mwahahahahaha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When people say 'to be honest' I shut down a bit.

Why, in the first instance would they admit to lie? To be honest, it is just a question.

"

Maybe the cynic in me but when people say tbh I instantly think so everything else you say is a lie lol.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I'm always saying it, its a sort of verbal tic and has no more significance than that although I can appreciate that it must be intensely annoying.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tbh I would say is a statement rather than a question.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

to be honest....

to be honest ....

to be honest ....

repeat ad nauseum

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Or people who say 'genuine'

Or have happy, smiley, shiny avatars

It's Alice Through The Looking Glass

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I say it all the time and I never lie,

Honest

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Trust me, I'm a... fill in the blank.

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham


"When people say 'to be honest' I shut down a bit.

Why, in the first instance would they admit to lie? To be honest, it is just a question.

"

To be honest OP, I totally agree with what you're saying

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

People say it to make the bullshit seem more true.

"I'm a stock trader and I work on wall street"

Is taken LESS seriously than:

"To be honest, I'm a stock trader and I work on Wall Street"

Because you cannot read the rest of the sentence without accepting that he's being honest.

Even if it's shite.

You only come to the conclusion of it being shite after you accepted he was being honest and you needed to Prove it was bullshit in the first place.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sometimes, I imagine it's just habitual sentence prefix along the lines of "basically"...et al, and means nothing beyond adding emphasis

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm often amazed by how literally people take speech.

I say 'to be honest' a lot, I don't however think about those words and evaluate them with such intensity. It is just a habit of speech I've got into.

I say love a lot too, the last time I said it today was when I ate a juicy peach and I uttered 'i love this peach'... Now what could I have meant, am I a person without feelings, do I put so little emphasis on love and is it so meaningless to me, that I can attach that word to inanimate objects. Or have I just git into a speech habit...mm difficult one

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"I'm often amazed by how literally people take speech.

I say 'to be honest' a lot, I don't however think about those words and evaluate them with such intensity. It is just a habit of speech I've got into.

I say love a lot too, the last time I said it today was when I ate a juicy peach and I uttered 'i love this peach'... Now what could I have meant, am I a person without feelings, do I put so little emphasis on love and is it so meaningless to me, that I can attach that word to inanimate objects. Or have I just git into a speech habit...mm difficult one "

Agree with this. People often say "I'm starving"...they aren't they're just hungry, they didn't really nearly have a heart attack either and the amount of times I hear people say "I literally nearly died"....no, you didn't. But I think we all know that they are all just figures of speech.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Or people who say 'genuine'

Or have happy, smiley, shiny avatars

It's Alice Through The Looking Glass"

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