This advice
is actually surprisingly worth heeding...if you don't take it too literally.

"Never apologise"

My colleague's rationale for this was, if you find yourself in a position where you have to say sorry, you can only have arrived at it by maliciousness because otherwise you'll have a perfectly reasonable excuse for your actions. So don't be malicious and you'll never have to say sorry.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Thu 27 May 2010, 0:44, 13 replies)

Mmmm...
Do you work for Claims Direct or something?

Accidents do happen you know, and not apologising will make you look like more of a cunt.
(god_is_a_ghoti Carpe Deum., Thu 27 May 2010, 9:28, closed)

I don't drive
but I'm told that this advice is to be taken completely literally if you're ever involved in a car accident, as insurance companies - working as they do on the assumption that everyone is as morally bankrupt and sub-human as they - take apologies to mean "the accident was my fault and I am completely liable."
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:17, closed)

I didn't mention driving.
"Claims Direct" are also personal injury compensation cocksuckers.

Accidents happen everywhere, not just on the road, but if I follow the advice that I must "never apologise" then I don't need to take any responsibility for anything I do.

That would make me a cunt.
(god_is_a_ghoti Carpe Deum., Thu 27 May 2010, 10:22, closed)

This is the sort of crap that late teenagers reading "The Game" spout
along with "out alpha-ing" each other and "gaming" women or whatever it is they do instead of actually having a personality and being interesting.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 27 May 2010, 9:36, closed)

Yeah,
I'm aware of a few people who take this advice to mean "be a bell end". I was given it because I was in the habit of saying sorry a lot, even for things I had no need to be sorry for. Hit just the right balance and it increases how confident you seem, take it too far and you look like a swaggering dickhead (though the aforementioned swaggering dickheads do seem to get a lot of women).
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:14, closed)

You did say...
..."Never apologise."

Which really leaves no room for interpretation.
(god_is_a_ghoti Carpe Deum., Thu 27 May 2010, 10:18, closed)

Well, yes.
but I did add the disclaimer not to take it too literally, and it was a direct quote from the guy who said it.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:23, closed)

Well...
...ok then. But there's not a lot of room for interpretation really, is there?
(god_is_a_ghoti Carpe Deum., Thu 27 May 2010, 10:27, closed)

In that case I'll re-word it to fit my circumstances and how I took it
"Don't apologise too readily or certain people will take you for a doormat and summarily take advantage."
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:32, closed)

Oh would you mind?
That's awfully kind of you - thanks.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:36, closed)

That's much better advice.

(god_is_a_ghoti Carpe Deum., Thu 27 May 2010, 10:49, closed)