# What they say/what it really means **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-they-say-what-it-really-means/532288 "2010-03-12T20:02:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-they-say-what-it-really-means/532288/8 "2010-03-13T16:09:39Z")
> [@Proposed: No Toleration of any Slur Words in Pit Titles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-no-toleration-of-any-slur-words-in-pit-titles/531641/79): > > A (female) friend once told me that one of the first things she had noticed about me when we met (after several months of online chat) was that I had kind eyes. Was she trying to avoid saying something else? While I’ve heard it used for that, I’ve also heard it in another context. I saw this woman walk into the library. I smiled that little “Sorry I’m looking at you” smile, and she smiled back, and held it a little longer, so I similed back at her. She came over to sit across from me on one of the computers. I went back to what I was doing, looked up, and she was smiling at me, so I smiled back. I looked up a few more times, and she was doing the same thing. She then says “Oh, I’m sorry. You just look like someone I know. You have these kind eyes.” She later gives me her email address and tells me to write. So I think it depends on context. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-they-say-what-it-really-means/532288)._