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Can people really be that sorry, or are they sorry that I found out or sorry that I moaned at them because they screwed me over? If you're sorry don't do it!
Everyone makes a conscious choice to do something. Discuss!

Although I'll be out most the day, feel free to leave your opinions of the word sorry.

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Sarah.
 
Sorry but I don't get what you're on about.:shrug:
 
ha ha very good. I just think the word sorry is so over used, and is meaningless. Everyone makes a conscious decision to do stuff even if it screws somone else over.
 
Yes, sorry is overused, expecially by me! :P
 
I'll tell you what. I'm sorry I ever looked at this thread;)
 
squizza said:
ha ha very good. I just think the word sorry is so over used, and is meaningless. Everyone makes a conscious decision to do stuff even if it screws somone else over.
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not at all, people don't make a conscious decision to do something that is an accident that they then say sorry for.

Example, I walk a bit to fast in my grans house and my arm clips a photo frame which hits the floor and breaks. I'm sorry that I broke her frame - there was nothing conscious about my action.
 
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Sorry is a feeling isn't it ?

If you are 'sorry' then you're feeling sorrow.

Telling somebody you're sorry is different than feeling the need to apologise.
 
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well so far, a sorry lot of reasons..!
 
jokes aside I think it depends on circumstances

if someone has knowing done something wrong then they cant be sorry for doing it, they maybe regretful but not sorry

where as you can be sorry if you are clumsy for instance. dropping something you didnt mean to, that type of thing
 
squizza said:
Can people really be that sorry, or are they sorry that I found out or sorry that I moaned at them because they screwed me over? If you're sorry don't do it!
Everyone makes a conscious choice to do something. Discuss!
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The answer is "it depends." There are unforseen consequences that merit apologies and these are genuine, but then there are situations where "sorry" doesn't mean anything, other than being a way of assauging the guilt the person saying it feels as they have made a decision that they aren't going to change.
 
In my experience "Sorry seems to be the hardest word".
 
MOUSEBENDER:
Well, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to shoot you.

WENSLEYDALE:
Right-O, sir.

MOUSEBENDER:
(Shoots him) What a senseless waste of human life.
 
This is a sorry excuse of a thread :D

Serious answer: saying sorry is an easy way of diminishing our role or responsibility in bad decisions. And yes, it's way over used these days. There was a time when saying it really meant it.
 
I say to my kids "Only ever say sorry if you mean it. If you're not going to say it like you mean it you might aswell say sausages"

To which they usually reply "sausages"

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Well, you can make an honest mistake and be "sorry" about it afterwards... And I guess you can make a fool of yourself and be sorry for that too.

However, to do something on purpose, knowing it will upset somebody, and then to say "sorry" is a bit of a liberty TBH.

Steve
 
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Not as hard as llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
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:lol: haven't quite got my tounge around that one yet, but would make a good way to say 'sorry' if that is what it meant and people didn't understand it, but then "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave" doesn't constitute an apology :lol: and I have also been there, got the T-shirt and means Jack Sugar!

Back to the OP..... too often people say 'sorry' when they hear that someone has died, why? there is nothing they could have done to prevent it????

Leading on .... there are things that happen in life too that people are 'sorry' about, but hey, **** happens and people learn from those experiences, so why be sorry for something you learn from?

Personally I think that the word 'sorry' is used in the wrong context.

However, there are ways to express how one feels, i.e, be it sympathy, regret, apology, grief, affliction, pity, pain, misunderstanding, misfortune, etc, etc, without having to use the word 'sorry'.

As Elton John sang, 'Sorry seems to be the hardest word', and in some respects he was right.

The question is ..... how do we teach our children and others to say sorry? And more importantly, what are they sorry about? hmmmmm .....?


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Sorry only means something if the person apologising cares enough to mean it, most times it's as said above, an excuse and a way to minimize responsibility.
 
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