[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Lee.

Why the hell wouldn't you trust nice, happy people?? I try to surround myself with happy, content, positive people as I find cynical, grumpy guts who suck the fun out of everything bad for my soul.

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.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

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.

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.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

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

Not that kaz, she just bums everyone to be popular

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Not that kaz, she just bums everyone to be popular

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

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

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

She's a very good judge of character actually