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3. I have found that often times, someone else has told them they're wrong...so usually, you're

Tue Oct 10, 2023, 04:56 PM

Oct 2023

not the only person that feels that they're wrong. This is not the coward's way out, it's just that others have beat you to the punch.

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I have been trying to find polite ways to tell people that they are wrong. [View all] Old Crank Oct 2023 OP

Get the fuck out of here pwb Oct 2023 #1

Sometimes the yelling and screaming is revealing leftstreet Oct 2023 #2

Just laugh at em and Beachnutt Oct 2023 #4

Middle finger with a blond wig and a pink pinafore ought to do it rurallib Oct 2023 #5

I'm getting too old Old Crank Oct 2023 #7

You'll have to use less academic language MadameButterfly Oct 2023 #6

Depends on issues and facts. elleng Oct 2023 #8

Demand factual proof. Evidence. pfitz59 Oct 2023 #9

Thoroughly modern me, in the age of big data: usonian Oct 2023 #10

I'm kind of partial to: "Well, I'd agree with you ZZenith Oct 2023 #11

"I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong" nt Baltimike Oct 2023 #12

I like em all. yonder Oct 2023 #13

I like, "Interesting perspective". It's better than "Wrong" Joinfortmill Oct 2023 #14

Try "who told you a dumb thing like that?" Warpy Oct 2023 #15

I tell them, bob4460 Oct 2023 #16

Thanks for doing this senseandsensibility Oct 2023 #17

I like the Old Crank Oct 2023 #18