Have I misinterpreted the OP?
When someone says 'overly nice' I get an image of a permatanned, fixed grin American stylee customer services person...
Ain't nobody got time fo that! :laugh:

Yeh that's what I saw too. Like I said first time there's nothing wrong with happy people, they are great but there's also that type of over the top nice that is so obviously patronising it's gut wrenching. I think that's the type Smeagol was on about.

You need to see her playing GTA5

Yep, for most it's glaringly obvious when sentiment isn't genuine.

Yeah I was thinking this too

I dont trust anyone..

/close thread

There's an overly happy bastard right there! :wink:

But i still love callum and that but i guess you can get his type of nice that he was in the big brother house and you can just get the normal nice.

I would say the overly nice that callum was? Is more hard to trust.

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Im a sad bastard

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Nah your sound mate.

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Look at this overly nice exchange... #bromance :laugh:

Definitely patronising Kizzy. Your overtly niceness doesn't fool me! :cloud:

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Aw I'm not patronising you, it's lovely.. :love:

This thread is too happy and nice for my liking look what you've done Smeagol. :nono:

most of us are not on about genuine nice friends, we are talking about some that do it for other reasons.

I think people should get the benefit of the doubt. We're all different - I don't think anyone would accuse me of being overly nice, but I'm confident enough in myself to not feel threatened that other people are nice.

The people to be wary of are the ones that go from best friend to slagging people off in about 2.5 minutes. Genuinely nice people just don't do that.

Not that kaz, she just bums everyone to be popular :idc:

Bingo. I have a few friends who never want to talk about books, movies, their views on things or anything. Their sole interest seemingly is just ... talking about people. I hate that. It's like there is absolutely nothing more to their existence than sending the "drinks?" text, talking about people, getting drunk, putting the pics on Facebook etc.

I find it so dull. That's why I generally get on better drinking with my dads friends. I don't seem to get along with people my own age a whole lot and find nothing to talk about with them.

But yeah this thread reminds me that I'm a surprisingly trusting person. I usually take to people straight away and even if I have an inkling that they're capable of talking about me behind my back later I don't get offended because I just chalk it up to the nature of the ego, so to speak.

There was a period for a few years where I pretended I enjoyed it all, yeah, but it involved me having to drink loads to get there.

:shocked:, but she is friends with you:shocked:, so it must be true:shocked::joker::joker::joker:

She's a very good judge of character actually :D

I genuinely don't like people whose main attribute is "oh they're nice" - because there is nothing else to say about them. I don't mind "oh Rachel's nice, she does lots of charity work and she lets homeless people stay in her guest bedroom" - Rachel sounds like a stand up gal. What I don't like is "Steve's a nice guy. Yep. Doesn't talk much, mind, but he's nice. Doesn't have an opinion on anything, but he's a swell guy." I can't talk to people who are so "nice" they're afraid to express an interest or opinion in anything for fear of somebody taking issue with it.

that's an interesting take on it zee, good point.

Oh dull people can suck on one. It's even worse because you're not allowed to rib on them because their niceness is perceived as being some sort of get out of jail free card. Ol' Johnny who doesn't question his job or place and just likes pleasing his equally vacuous girlfriend and watching the footie. It's all alright with this world if I can watch my team win this Sunday lol. Can't wait to get married, have kids and die.

I'm reading Generation X too much again.