That feeling you get after you are caught telling a little white lie over nothing but instead of coming out with the simple truth you double down & it was accepted and you finally feel relief.

possiblylinux127, 14 days ago

You know that feeling when your reading the title to a post on ten forward and it seems pretty long and you don’t really feel like reading all of it but you do anyway but it still doesn’t change the fact that it is to long even though it is in fact way to long because reasons

saltesc, 14 days ago

It wasn’t accepted how you think.

The other person still saw right through your bullshit but let it fly through a combination of a) they can’t be bothered to not play along; b) they do the same bullshit too and expect you to “accept” too when their time comes.

GBU_28, 14 days ago

The final gambit is to excoriate them at the first opportunity, exposing them for being a dirty fibber

Aganim, 14 days ago

Or:

c) calling you out on it releases such a political shitstorm that it is better to just leave it at that.

For example when a commander tries to hide the fact that his favourite tailor blowed up a high ranking politician in order to establish a tenuous military alliance.

littlebluespark, 14 days ago

Ah, a student of politics too, I see

FlyingSquid, 14 days ago

Sisko is a massive dick, but he’s our massive dick.