When you say something stupid...

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what do you do?

Clam up and hope nobody noticed.
6
12%
quickly retract and restate your...statement
12
24%
Realizing you just said something stupid, slap yourself in the head and turn red in the face. (followed quickly by a retraction)
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31%
If someone corrects you, you get belligerent and tell them to get bent; they're being a nitpicking asshole.
2
4%
Other.
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29%
 
Total votes: 49

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Post by Lord Pounder »

In here i have held up my hands when i've said something stupid. However in RL with people i have to look in the face i'll clam up and duck and cover untill someone else does/says something stupid.
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Post by neoolong »

Demiurge wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:I was explaining the movie Tremors to my grandmother one night when she was babysitting me and I accidentally let slip one word in my explanation which, while subtle, completely altered the intended statement. I said the giant subterranean worms popped up from beneath people and "enveloped them in their testicles" and dragged them down to be eaten.
I would watch that movie.
Wouldn't that make you feel inadequate?

As for me, it depends on the situation. If it was a simple slip of the tongue I'd own up to it. If not, deny, deny, deny. :D
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Post by Peregrin Toker »

To me, it depends totally upon whom I said the stupid thing to, why I said it, whether it was intentionally stupid and when I said it.
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Post by Zac Naloen »

i say, wait that doesn't sound right, and then rephrase

however... if i say something i later regret when im angry, something i've been doing a lot of as of late... i have to perform a lot of grovelling.
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