# Why do you complicate everything?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-complicate-everything/1020861>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 15, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-complicate-everything/1020861 "2025-07-15T02:14:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-complicate-everything/1020861/41 "2025-07-16T23:25:52Z")

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Indeed, to me that is most definitely not how real friendships work.

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**Author:** ![We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/We_re_wolves_not_werewolves)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-complicate-everything/1020861/42 "2025-07-16T23:29:06Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> One of the treats of being past 50 is pretty much nobody in my peer group DIYs any more. So many fewer wasted weekends and skinned knuckles.

that’s pretty interesting. In my experience, it’s the older dudes who make an effort to DIY just about everything (even when they probably shouldn’t), while it’s the younger generation who are often too busy with kids, work, etc. to do so, and instead find professional help.

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-complicate-everything/1020861/43 "2025-07-16T23:41:29Z")

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I’m all for tootin’ your own horn, @HoneyBadgerDC, when deserved.

But if you come off to these people as Mr. Know-it-all, you’ll not be welcomed.  
In fact, people will actively avoid you.

Don’t be that person.

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**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-complicate-everything/1020861/44 "2025-07-16T23:47:32Z")

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WOMAN: I didn’t know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

DENNIS: You’re fooling yourself. We’re living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes–

WOMAN: Oh, there you go, bringing class into it again.

DENNIS: That’s what it’s all about. If only people would–

ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?

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