#directness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #directness, aggregated by home.social.
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💁♂️ Oh, behold the brave soul who yearns for Crocker's Rules—a permission slip for your friends to verbally joust with you, all in the name of "directness." 🤦♂️ This is the social equivalent of begging for a wedgie and calling it a growth opportunity. 🙄
https://lr0.org/blog/p/crocker/ #CrockersRules #Directness #VerbalJousting #GrowthOpportunity #SocialDynamics #HackerNews #ngated -
A quotation from Robert Holmes
THE DOCTOR: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.
Robert Holmes (1926-1986) British television screenwriter
Doctor Who (1963), 11×01 “The Time Warrior,” Part 1 (1973-12-15)More about this quote: wist.info/holmes-robert/80483/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertholmes #thirddoctor #directness #discovery #distance #doctorwho #interest #journey #straight
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"There is something so #attractive about #intelligence, and #patience, and #experience, #directness…and also, a sensual kind of darkness."
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Why the #Dutch always say what they mean - #BBCREEL
In my experience, this is absolutely spot-on, especially when dealing with people from the North of #Holland such as the #Frisians. They really tend to be quite #Honest and #Direct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrEZwe1nbBU&ab_channel=BBCReel
#Language #Culture #DutchCulture #Directness #DutchLanguage #BritishCulture #EnglishCulture #English #EnglishLanguage #Directness #PlainSpeech #Rudeness #Politeness #Translation #Friesland #Friesian #Fries #NoordHolland