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OftenBen  ·  3834 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I make people feel stupid? Patronized?

    If it makes him feel better to whine for five minutes, just agree and he'll probably move on quickly.

If it wasn't a chronic thing I wouldn't talk about it. This guy is my best friend in the world, brother to me in all but blood, but he's a whiner. About absolutely trivial shit. This episode I just described lasted like 15-20 minutes of 'Uh huh' and 'Yeah he' s a dick, what are you gonna do?' before I started in on the 'Why are you still going on about it?'

If solution

        Apply solution
Else

        Stop bitching about it, it just makes things worse.