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Originally Posted by heyitsme7
I wish I could just tone it down a little because others may easily be turned off by what I say. They may not even want me around. I've been doing a lot of thinking and I feel like sometimes I need to filter out some of the things I say, whether it's online or in real life. Sometimes I intend it to be a joke, but at the end of the day, people may take it as an offensive remark and just want to avoid me.
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Oh, yeah, I feel bad for just thinking things like that. Saying them is not good. Jokes - you have to think of who you are talking to. Do they know you well enough to get that it's a joke? Start tentatively with people you know well and see what they like or don't. People who think they are funny but aren't are bores. Basically, anything that could possibly be taken as offensive will be taken that way by someone. EG I had the recent experience of all-capping ONE word for emphasis in an email and the person interpreted that as yelling and that was the end of further discussion, really. (BTW, I am not yelling at you now.)