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The analogy worked so well in helping her to understand her co-workers that I decided to write it up and put it on the web. I've gotten quite a few email messages since then from other people who have also found it helpful. All people have a "tact filter", which applies tact in one direction to everything that passes through it. Most "normal people" have the tact filter positioned to apply tact in the outgoing direction.
Thus whatever normal people say gets the appropriate amount of tact applied to it before they say it. This is because when they were growing up, their parents continually drilled into their heads statements like, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all! " "Nerds," on the other hand, have their tact filter positioned to apply tact in the incoming direction. Related Links. Apropos of Something » Apropos Comics. Posted on March 31, 2008 “Unimproved” image via The Daily Batman. The Apropos Comics archive is here. Posted on August 6, 2007 I just love the casual, conversational pose the Watcher (a.k.a. tall, chubby Professor X) is striking. The Apropos Comics Archive is here. Posted on May 30, 2007 What happens when you cross Lolcats — those ubiquitous cat photos with the poorly-spelled captions — with Batman?
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