One can learn a great deal about someone based on how they respond to seemingly innocuous questions. People will forever be interesting to observe.

@Really Here's an example: let's say you've got a new company that just went on the public stock market. And the stock price has dropped below half the starting price in the first few weeks.

Let's say the drop follows release of the news that last year your company, while private, lost $54 million on $4.1 revenue. And let's say you accuse some of the bigger players in the market of illegal corrupt practices (naked short selling) to cause the drop.

According to Emerson, this accusation of corruption might indicate a tendency towards corruption yourself. Especially if this accusation of corruption is part of a longstanding pattern.

Let's say part of the pattern includes cheating in the game of golf.
[quote]“I played with him once,” says Bryan Marsal, longtime Winged Foot member and chair of the coming 2020 Men’s U.S. Open. “It was a Saturday morning game. We go to the first tee and he couldn’t have been nicer. But then he said, ‘You see those two guys? They cheat. See me? I cheat. And I expect you to cheat because we’re going to beat those two guys today.’… So, yes, it’s true, he’s going to cheat you. But I think Donald, in his heart of hearts, believes that you’re gonna cheat him, too. So if it’s the same, if everybody’s cheating, he doesn’t see it as really cheating.”[/quote] He literally accuses other players of corruption to give himself and excuse for continuing to be corrupt.

Here he is cheating against Tiger Woods
[quote]“On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”

Meanwhile, on the other side of the fairway, Woods, being Woods, has hit his approach to a foot from the hole for a kick-in birdie. Everybody’s on the green now, with Trump about 20 feet from the hole, and getting a stroke. Trump said, “So, where does everybody stand here?”

FAXON: “Well, Tiger just made a three. What’s that [putt] for, Mr. President?”

TRUMP: “Four for a three.”

Faxon had to laugh because Trump was actually putting for a seven, but he was claiming it was for a four, which would’ve worked out to a three with his free stroke on the hole.

“How great is that?” Faxon recalled. “Four for a three! But he missed it anyway. It was really fun to play with him. He rakes [picks up] every putt [as if it’s conceded], but you kind of want him to. You’ve heard so much about it, it’s almost like you want to witness it so you can tell the stories.” [/quote]

Source, and many more first person reports of Trump cheating at golf: [b]https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods/[/b]

@ElwoodBlues [quote]According to Emerson, this accusation of corruption might indicate a tendency towards corruption yourself. [/quote]

That's precisely what I meant when I said that if someone doesn't trust me, I suspect they are not themselves trustworthy; sort of 'takes one to supect another'

Forget all that stuff about stock values, golf, trump etc.

@allygator18 'No I won't tell you', or 'No the forest isn't real'? Don't be so mysterious.

@allygator18 [quote]Unless of course I was typing as I fell down some stairs and when I reached the bottom, that is what you got[/quote]
... or something like that.

@darknessprevails How was your day?

@GeniUs eventful and productive. Hby?

@darknessprevails Mostly tired but I managed to get some gardening done.
What I learned about you: You still have the energy to get a full days work in!

@Hanginginthere [quote]people will always be people[/quote]What's your source for that?

@Really experiences. plus it's obvious

@Hanginginthere Not really. People turn to dust - or ashes, or ....

Clichés, on the other hand, go on forever.