Admitting you are wrong

What do you do if you are wrong?

 

I don't know. I'm always right. At least in my mind I'm always right.

Peace

 

Honestly?

Usually continue as if I were right.

Later I can admit it. But not immediately.

 

I have NO problem acknowledging the fact if I am wrong. I will admit it and then apologize. It does sometimes suck knowing your wrong but what's the point arguing about it especially once you've seen the light. (truth)


Live & Learn

 

Many people have the same policy as you.
But if you start typing or talking like that, it makes you a bit of a plonker, don't you think.
Mercilessly thinking you are right about things is the third sign of madness.

It is my policy to admit if I am wrong, or the stronger argument wins.
It has served me well so far.

 

Pretend like I was never wrong and hope people don't remember.

 

Absolutely.

I was a little like lode, but then it made me feel dirty.


But, I suspect it depends who you are talking to.

The majority of people here and in the real world, I'd put my hands up asap, and get on with discussing things further, with the new found knowledge at hand.

I don't include my immediate family in that, as I am ALWAYS right, when speaking to them, ALWAYS.

 

I still remember you being wrong the other day.
I'll never let you live that down.

 

When I was younger I used to butt heads a lot. I wanted to be right. I felt so strongly in my emotions. Now I have a husband and children and I have to give up that side of myself in order to show my children that it's okay to be wrong. Plus my husband has called me out in so many areas where I was wrong. I'm a comprimiser. I don't like fighting or tension. I'm not a debater. I just want peace. Saying that doesn't mean I let people walk on me.

 

:smilielol5:

You're awesome. That made me laugh.

 

I understand madness very. But what hell is a plonker. I may be one but I don't what it is.

Peace

 

Yeah, I wish I was a more honest person when I was younger.
It was a difficult process coming to the realisation being wrong, was better than thinking you were right.

I hope your husband is as honest as you.

 

Plonker is a slang term of British or Australian origin whose meaning has evolved over time. Partridge in the third edition of his A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in 1949 recorded the term as "low" slang for penis, "since ca. 1917". The term remains in recent use with that meaning.

By 1966, the term had also acquired the meaning of a stupid or inept person, and in the 1980s it gained very wide circulation through its frequent use in Only Fools and Horses, and has entered common usage.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...plonker-label-Only-Fools-And-Horses-days.html

 

Geeez that's alot of terms. Partridge ? I thought they were a family that road around in a bus back in the late 60s and early 70s and sang lame songs. Oh and thanks for pointing out all my short shortcomings to me.

Peace

 

He is now but we had issues with lies and hiding things from me. I can't stand the way that burns which I think is another reason why I like to be honest and admit wrongs.

If you tell me the truth and let me be a big girl and digest it I will be a MUCH calmer person. Plus I will tell you I appreciate you trusting me with the truth and not lying to me. It sounds crazy but hey...I'm a nut.

Thing is I wasn't always trusted with the truth because people feared, Husband feared my reaction. I've worked really hard proving to them and myself I can handle the truth.

Lies are webs and webs make me vomit emotions I don't like.

 

shistakovitch man, none of us are infallable. no sense screwing everything up trying to deny that we're not. ego tries to get in the way of that of course. only human there too of course, and sometimes i have just as hard a time with it as anybody else.

=^^=
.../\...

 

I was giving you the opportunity to either agree or disagree.
I was not suggesting I was right or wrong.

Now you know "plonker" is "out there", a whole new universe will open up for you.
You will have fun calling people a "plonker" (there are many of them about).

Oh, by the way, The Partridge family are all plonkers, great big plonkers.

 

For once I actually understood what you wrote!

However what does shistakovitch mean?

 

Thanks.

No, it does not sound crazy at all.

Thing is I wasn't always trusted with the truth because people feared, Husband feared my reaction. I've worked really hard proving to them and myself I can handle the truth.

Me too.

 

It is a little difficult for me still...yes we are all fallible.
I doubt the truly despicable liars will be raising their hands in this thread.
So, we are all fairly honest in this thread, from the get go.

Yeah what does it mean (shistakovitch)
The nearest thing I could find:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich