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Not funny and anally retentive. Maybe that was the point, but in that case what has really been achieved?

Hint: it's not really about personal debts.

For those of us who feel exactly the same, there's a lot of humor in someone saying out loud what we constantly say in our heads.

indeed

>> ^Kreegath:
Not funny and anally retentive. Maybe that was the point, but in that case what has really been achieved?


I reckon I must've walked a mile in his shoes at some point in my life, seeing it from the same perspective gave me a good chuckle

Indeed Indeed

If you lend someone £20 and you never see them again, it was money well spent.

I think the system is fine. The onus is on the bastards who must keep a tally in their heads to balance things. Otherwise, gifts are gifts, dammit. If you actually consider it a loan (or a gift balancing act), don't give another one until the previous one has been repaid, but otherwise let it go.

And... if this isn't about personal debts, what was he going on about for 3 and a half minutes? Must have gone over my head.

>> ^MaxWilder:

I think the system is fine. The onus is on the bastards who must keep a tally in their heads to balance things. Otherwise, gifts are gifts, dammit. If you actually consider it a loan (or a gift balancing act), don't give another one until the previous one has been repaid, but otherwise let it go.
And... if this isn't about personal debts, what was he going on about for 3 and a half minutes? Must have gone over my head.


No... argh, you're not getting it. It's NOT that people who worry about this stuff (which I am one), get concerned about OTHER people not paying US back (at least, this is the way I work), it's the other way around... If I've been out with friends, and it ends up that one has shouted me a round, or paid for lunch/dinner whatever... then I am forever trying to make sure that I even up that debt lest I be thought of as a cheapskate who just takes.

I find it very hard to accept that while I am more than happy to just shout someone a drink/coffee/whatever now and again with no care for that ever being squared up, that everyone else could be just the same. See, I can't tell if internally that person who has just shouted me a coffee now has a tally in THEIR head and are going to keep note if I don't shout them an equal number back.

This leads to me doing extravagant office wide coffee runs on my own dime every now and again to try to 'clean the books', and demonstrate that I'm not a moocher at all... really I'm not. :-/

I, and I'm pretty sure he, are well aware it's our own failing, and not others... he's just articulating in a funny way the thought processes that go on in our heads. He's not REALLY suggesting that this be the new order, he's being FUNNY Damnit.

people really keep a tally in their head?
man..let that shit go...
if i offer to buy you lunch or whatever it is due to a few factors:
1.i have the extra cash
2.i like spending my extra cash on friends.
3.i really have no affection for money other than its ability to buy me things.
a.this is why i rarely have cash,maybe if i cared more i would have more but i dont..so screw it.
4.when i spend this extra cash on you it makes me happy and there is no invisible balance sheet in my head tallying who did what for whom.so while YOU may have the tally sheet in your head crunching the numbers i have already forgotten about any frivolous purchase on made for you with my extra cash.
5.could i borrow some cash?seems i am a bit short....

I got the joke..My mind does the same shit all the time when a buddy does something for me or I do something for a friend.

I think it was just how the joke was delivered...You can see him reading off cards and that detracted from the humor too.

Introduce him to the Dutch...

>> ^VoodooV:

I got the joke..My mind does the same shit all the time when a buddy does something for me or I do something for a friend.
I think it was just how the joke was delivered...You can see him reading off cards and that detracted from the humor too.


Oh, no, now that you pointed it out ALL I CAN SEE ARE HIS EYES MOVING EVER SO SLIGHTLY TO READ OFF THE TELEPROMPTER. ------------------->

Guy I used to work with drove some coworkers and myself to lunch one time and afterward asked everyone to chip in for the cost of gas -- and was serious.

That was the last time he drove.

I get what you're saying spoco2. Sucks to worry about stuff like that.

And yes, his eyes reading the teleprompter has always bothered me. He really needs to fix that somehow.

It's incredibly simple. When somebody offers you money or offers to pay for something on your behalf, you are to respond with "are you sure?" At this point they will either say "forget about it" and nullify any debts on your part or say "you can get me back later." The debt to be repaid later need not be exact, just comparable.

The money is completely irrelevant. You're not returning money, you're returning FAVORS. If you're an uptight douchebag who feels the need to catalog every penny in and out then tell people ahead of time so they don't OFFER you monetary favors.