But it wasn't long before I started telling people it was time to go, polite-Dirty-Harry style.
If in doubt, always go more polite than less polite.
Remember that anyone can be confident, avoid drama, hang out with people they enjoy hanging out with, learn to let go, be polite and basically do everything listed below whatever their hair colour.
It's less psychological and more experiential - but both are taking you places you aren't used to going in polite conversation.
AS a rule, when nice people go mad in polite Victorian fiction, their relatives discreetly remove them from society and lock them away in the attic.
Some of it was bordering on impolite but who wants to go to a polite debate?
Instead of an angry, "Why do this?", I tried to go for a polite, "Have you tried doing this?" But whenever I started to lose, I found that I was filled with resentment again.
As far as revolutions go, Estonia's was polite.
As polite compliments go, "clean" is rock bottom: if you want to not praise someone or something, praise its hygiene.
"That reinforces to me, as an activist, that if you go through those formal polite channels, there's every chance they will just ignore you," she says.
People ask, "What went wrong?" "How could a company that large, that successful, go bankrupt?" The less polite say: "General Motors' leadership is corrupt".
