Mastodawn

💁‍♂️ 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

I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me | La Vita Nouva

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Nov 26

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

Doctor Who (1963), 11x01 "The Time Warrior," Part 1 (1973-12-15) - Holmes, Robert | WIST Quotations

THE DOCTOR: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting. (Source (Video))

WIST Quotations

Simple Dictionary Bot Oct 1, 2023

#Directness - The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

Jack Chidley May 25, 2023

Either I was Dutch in my former life or my Croatian/French upbringing, in England, made me equally forthright https://youtu.be/wrEZwe1nbBU #Dutch #directness #honesty

Why the Dutch always say what they mean – BBC REEL

YouTube

Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅Jan 18, 2023

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

Why the Dutch always say what they mean – BBC REEL

YouTube

JamesLaPlaine Jan 17, 2023

Respecting someone so much that you give them candid, constructive feedback, even when delivering that message is hard, is kindness.

#Kindness #Directness #Paradox #ParadoxPairs #DalaiLama

https://www.paradoxpairs.com/kindness-directness/

Kindness & Directness (Paradox Pair #76)

Respecting someone so much that you give them candid, constructive feedback, even when delivering that message is hard, is kindness.

Paradox Pairs

reinoud kaasschieter Jan 17, 2023

Video on why the Dutch embrace what the Brits hate to do.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀?

«#BBC Reel editor Melissa Hogenboom was born in the #Netherlands but grew up in the #UK. Noticing the two extremes between British #politeness and Dutch #directness, she explores how much truth there is to the #stereotype that Dutch people are direct.»

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0dvts1j/what-s-the-truth-behind-dutch-directness- via @BBC

📷 Public Domain via Publicdomainpictures

What's the truth behind Dutch directness?

What's really behind Dutch directness and how much truth is there to this stereotype?