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Hul-Gil comments on Discussion: Socially Awkward Penguin as a tool for unraveling social enigmas - Less Wrong Discussion

23 Post author: Raw_Power 17 June 2011 12:52AM

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Comment author: Hul-Gil 19 June 2011 12:16:04AM *  2 points [-]

I find that kind of stuff to be pretty funny. Alicorn has a good point in that in some cases, it can go too far; doing the hair thing to a stranger would be an example of that, perhaps. But doing it to friends or acquaintances, when you're reasonably certain they won't suffer from it? Seems fine.

(Also - the hair thing is gross! I wouldn't wash my hands in that water! But I'm just uncomfortable with other peoples' bodies in general.)

Comment author: AmagicalFishy 19 June 2011 05:09:24AM 1 point [-]

It's a weird thing; in my various mental, social, and emotional endeavors, I've developed a strange standard for what I think is gross—typically, if something doesn't have a high-chance of detrimentally affecting my health, I'm ok with it. (This has lead me to do things that other people wouldn't think of doing, ever, haha.)

Comment author: Raw_Power 21 June 2011 02:15:10AM 0 points [-]

You mean ME GUSTA sorts of things?