# "I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure" - other examples

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 18, 2014, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810 "2014-09-18T11:45:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/41 "2014-09-18T18:44:26Z")

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“I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.” – Tom Lehrer

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/42 "2014-09-18T18:52:40Z")

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Always finish what you

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**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/43 "2014-09-18T18:58:20Z")

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I may appear profound on the surface, but deep down I’m very superficial.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/44 "2014-09-18T19:09:56Z")

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> [@TriPolar](#):
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> And looking up that link I found [Paraprosdokian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraprosdokian).

It’s not quite this. The lines should be self contradicting. There must be a word out there somewhere.

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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/45 "2014-09-18T19:17:52Z")

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People say I lack empathy. Fuck em.

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/46 "2014-09-18T19:27:01Z")

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Roses are red  
Violets are blue  
Some poems rhyme  
But this one doesn’t

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/47 "2014-09-18T19:50:28Z")

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Stomp out violence.

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/48 "2014-09-18T19:53:50Z")

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> [@TokyoBayer](#):
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> Of all my outstanding qualities, humility is my best.

“Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man.”  
— Jack Handey

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/49 "2014-09-18T20:25:17Z")

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> [@TokyoBayer](#):
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> Of all my outstanding qualities, humility is my best.

Modesty is my middle name.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/50 "2014-09-18T20:43:38Z")

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The line from _Catch-22_ (the book) about Major Major -

“People who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/51 "2014-09-18T21:37:57Z")

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I can be spontaneous! When I plan to be…

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**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/52 "2014-09-18T21:57:46Z")

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“I can resist everything except temptation.” -Oscar Wilde

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/53 "2014-09-18T23:13:06Z")

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I was omniscient once. But I didn’t know it at the time.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/54 "2014-09-18T23:16:13Z")

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[Correlation](http://xkcd.com/552/)

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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/55 "2014-09-19T00:00:14Z")

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(Stolen from this board). Someone told me yesterday that I don’t understand irony. Which itself is ironic, because we were standing at a bus stop.

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**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/56 "2014-09-19T00:03:03Z")

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I hate Indian givers. No, wait, I take that back.

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**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/57 "2014-09-19T00:05:42Z")

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.  
Jean Giraudoux

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**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/58 "2014-09-19T00:14:19Z")

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My goal in life is to help stamp out and abolish redundancy by collaborating with a team that will help me achieve self-actualization and achieve the goal of reducing unnecessary or superfluous repetition.

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**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/59 "2014-09-19T00:56:38Z")

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Contorted syntax does not a clever observation make.

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**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-indecisive-but-now-im-not-so-sure-other-examples/698810/60 "2014-09-19T01:22:27Z")

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I hate all intolerant people.

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