# I want to give a formal apology to the SDMB

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 10, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-give-a-formal-apology-to-the-sdmb/846200 "2020-01-10T01:56:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-give-a-formal-apology-to-the-sdmb/846200/114 "2020-01-16T19:03:00Z")

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You just said this, two hours ago in the thread about blind dates:

> [@Lawyers are terrible on blind dates.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/25):
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> When I was actively dating, I went out with a few lawyers. Never again. Every single one was a trainwreck but I just kept doing it because I wanted to piss them off and refuse them. They don’t tend to make good romantic partners.
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> I am sure there is a good one out there somewhere that will make someone happy but it isn’t going to be me. I developed a long list of women that I would never go out with over time based on experience - corporate execs, QA people, lawyers, strippers and many others. Those are all neon stay away signs to me.
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> Thankfully, I am off the market but I had to learn to stick to teachers, nurses and clergy the hard way.

I’m simply gonna leave this here. A reminder that you date women just so you can “piss them off and refuse them” and another reminder that you write off entire swaths of humanity (wtf is a “corporate exec” anyway?) based solely on their means of earning their daily bread.

In general, though, people who inform you that they are funny aren’t fucking funny at all. People who are good-hearted don’t go around saying they are; they go around being good hearted. The shittiest parents are inevitably also the ones who command adoring gratitude for how wonderful they are to their offspring.

In other words, people who feel compelled to announce loudly that they ARE something positive … never genuinely possess that characteristic.

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