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Re:Basic Social Skills Guide (2012) by retrac on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:18PM (#21596565)
> An actual quote, yelled before storming off: "oh, that is just like you, trying to solve everything".

Maybe they wanted comfort, and not a solution?

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Re:Basic Social Skills Guide (2012) by dspillett on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:05PM (#21597235)
If so, maybe that was clear and I missed it. Or maybe it very much wasn't, and they should know me better than to expect different behaviour in that case.
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Re:Basic Social Skills Guide (2012) by deanCommie on Saturday November 23, 2019 @12:50PM (#21615366)
It seems that you have fallen for Geek Social Fallacy #2: http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html
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