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Re:How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name? by 121789 on Saturday October 13, 2018 @02:29PM (#18209317)
No it doesn’t. Everyone with a mild bit of common sense knows what you’re doing
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Re:How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name? by drb91 on Saturday October 13, 2018 @02:31PM (#18209324)
What, they refuse to answer? How rude.
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Re:How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name? by b_tterc_p on Saturday October 13, 2018 @02:38PM (#18209354)
They’ll play along, but be aware that not only have you forgotten their name, you also believe you can fool them into thinking you didn’t
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Re:How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name? by kakarot on Saturday October 13, 2018 @08:17PM (#18210682)
Yeah it's double patronizing. It's worse than just coming clean and shifting the burden to yourself by acknowledging your poor memory skills.
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Re:How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name? by coldtea on Saturday October 13, 2018 @05:01PM (#18210000)
The goals wasn't to relearn their name, but to relearn it while not showing that you forget it. The latter part is what fails...
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Re:How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name? by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday October 13, 2018 @04:06PM (#18209749)
As rude as lying to save face?
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Re:How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name? by drb91 on Saturday October 13, 2018 @04:56PM (#18209985)
The lie would be for the benefit of the person whose name was forgotten, not to "save face". From what, forgetting a name? Nothing is more human.

I do agree that to lie at all is a terrible idea.

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Re:How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name? by PakG1 on Saturday October 13, 2018 @08:02PM (#18210642)
Now I'm curious. If lying in general is a terrible idea, how does the person whose name was forgotten benefit, otherwise what makes the terrible lie worth it?
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Re:How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name? by drb91 on Sunday October 14, 2018 @01:29PM (#18213998)
White lies are confusing things.
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