Quote Originally Posted by Monty92 View Post
But we are often complicit in lies in the interest of good manners and tolerance of other people's peculiarities and flaws. If you go to a dinner party and the food is f*ucking rank, you don't come out and say it. And if you did, you would incur punishment in the form of social opprobrium from your fellow guests.
If you go to a dinner party and they serve you a plank of wood, you don't go along with the lie that it is food. It is wood. That is a fact.