When you have serious discussions, do you tend to beat about the bush or just get straight to the point?

Both. I talk too much in general. It’s one of my many flaws.

The only bush I beat is my own. Heh, sorry. No, I’m always completely to the point.

To the point. ;)

I am very direct as most of my readers on Fluther know.

@marinelife would you say too direct at times to the point where others may not like to hear the truth spoken?

Like a pencil to the sharpener. If you get my point :¬)

I try and go straight to the bulls eye, but I have to struggle with focusing all my personage on the point. I’m a lunatic, and sometime’s it’s even hard to know what’s being asked and what the issue is.

On a second thought I often get in trouble because I tell it like it is a little more than the next guy.
see a perfect example of my split personalities

@truecomedian join the RAVING/BUMBLING LUNATICS CLUB!

@ZEPHYRA
Is that a real club? Or are you just hating?

To the point and then I am out of here. Want to argue with me? Then you need a bitch slapping.

No time to jerk around.

@truecomedian REAL as can be! Never hating, never!

@ZEPHYRA
sounds like fun, I’m just a lunatic though, I don’t rave or bumble.

You tell me.

Right to the point. That’s how I like people to be with me. Do I find it easy? Never. But it’s better than making the other person wait for the shoe to drop.

@TheOnlyNeffie

Ditto…....

I ramble sometimes, sad to say.

@ZEPHYRA I hope not. I certainly do not want to hurt anyone.

I ramble, yes I do. I should start every statement with: “Well, to make a short story long…”

Are you talking about stating a position on something or raising a personal issue with a friend or SO? I am very direct in stating my opinions; it will sometimes take me longer to engage in a personal confrontation.

My problem is that I have always been accused of talking above my audience. I am such a storyteller that a lawyer once told me “Yes or no. Only yes or no!” I have this urge to explain myself.

I am to the point!

I rarely have trouble expressing myself. It’s one of my strong points.

I’m to the point so much that I don’t know what I’m talking about any more

I use humor as a way to defend myself against having to feel too much, when dealing or being confronted by some things. It’s exhausting because I am not facing reality, as I should, could be. I suck.