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How fake of a person are you?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    I'm generally sincere in my dealings with people. But I'm less honest with my family. It's sometimes easier than the row if I told them some home truths.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭B00!


    Well, my real name is not B00! ;) soooo....


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭fizzypish


    My glum exterior belies a truly miserable **** underneath. People I don't like I just don't talk with and if someone irritates me its usually because I see some reflection of myself so I try to keep that in mind when communicating.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    If we were all upfront and not fake all of the time there would be a lot of confrontation/violence..

    I don't like being told that i am an idiot /moron (even though I am at least some of the time )

    We just wouldn't be able to cope in a 'Non Fake "world..........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Generally at work I would be 'fake' in terms of not saying what I think of people. More diplomatic than is my nature But I can't suffer fools and the mask slips every now and again.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    I think we all wear masks in certain situations but generally I consider myself very real. What you see is what you get with me and I won't pretend to be something I'm not.

    I probably wore a mask a lot more in my late teens and early twenties but now that I'm 30 I am confident in my own skin and see no need to present a front to anyone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭angryIreGamer


    im not even that angry


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    me_irl wrote:
    Fake it 'til you make it. Just look at Trump.


    Just the 8 posts for the first needless reference to have a pop at Donnie T.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Chinese people love it when you call them fake (knock off) people, because they were made in China.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    neonsofa wrote: »
    In work I would be quite fake because the people who present to me need me to be put together and knowledgeable and calm. I rarely actually am. I also pretend to understand them moreso than I actually do, not in a malicious way, but if they find something difficult or frustrating, I will try to empathise with them so that they don't feel like I am frustrated or belittling their fristration. Sometimes I feel very false because I am thinking one thing but saying another, but I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't do that. I suppose ideally my thoughts/feelings should match how I behave but in reality they don't always so I have to pretend for the sake of those I am trying to help.


    Everybody else knows I'm a mess though. I don't try to hide that if I'm not being paid to :pac:

    I hope your not a doctor.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    Not really,i consider it dishonest,if i don't like you...You'll know about it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,935 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    I think everyone is fake but that doesn't mean its a bad thing,
    I'll be nice to people when im feeling down angry and not interested , is that a bad thing,
    I'll be way more composed and calculated in work than I would be at home with the missus,
    Id be more of alad when out with Friends and not the missus ,
    I don't see any of this bad just different ways to handle different situations,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭JoeyPeeps


    Is this a female thing because I don't understand the concept of being ''fake''?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭YourSuperior


    Performing in the show of conventional social interaction by way of phony personalities which are social constructs instead of true character -- this mass hallucination keeps us functional for evolutionly purposes to keep us content and happy to reproduce for the benefit of future offspring.

    It's about keeping the social function going and keeping the tribe together. Meaningless blather lets us delude ourselves and each other since most of us would prefer an ideal world instead of the one we currently inhabit thus we routinely tell white lies and use political correctness to avoid dealing with uncomfortable truths. Speaking off the script, phoning it in like a puppet without much thought means less autonomy and more cliche.


  • Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I am very far from fake and I've found it can be a lonely path at times. It's also held me back in ways. I saw others progress because they were able to say the right things and nod at the right times whereas I spoke from my heart and real experiences.

    Dating was often tricky because I didn't follow any "rules" and had no problem communicating how I felt. It came off a bit intense perhaps. Like I have this feeling sometimes that there's a lot of me. In saying all of that I wouldn't be anyone but who I am.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Plenty fake people around nowadays.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,051 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    In the personal realm, it helps to be honest, but in the business world ... not necessarily. To work as part of a team, you have to suppress your personal feelings somewhat. If you all have problems with someone, then it's pretty clear that that person is the problem. However, if just you have a problem with somebody, and no-one else does, you have to start wondering whether the problem is you. :p

    Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
    To murder men and gie God thanks?
    Desist for shame, proceed no further
    God won't accept your thanks for murder.

    ―Robert Burns



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