I'm voting for 'Getting People Wrong', as it sounds very similar to a challenge I suggested a while back
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Thu 2 Feb 2012, 11:54,
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I manage to avoid people doing this with me by prefacing everything I say with
"I'm not a racist"
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Thu 2 Feb 2012, 12:15,
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"Without wishing to be awkward"
"I'm not being funny"
"While I know it's important to you"
"I don't want you to get the wrong impression"
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Thu 2 Feb 2012, 12:24,
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"While I know it's important to you"
"I don't want you to get the wrong impression"
GAHH!!
I work with a guy who uses phrases like that all of the time, and then wonders why he is so easily 'read'
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Thu 2 Feb 2012, 12:26,
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