Originally Posted by elphenor

my roomates jab at me a bit for this, but if I'm sober I find eye contact unbearably intense and awkward

I generally stare off into the distance while socializing

one of those things that I've never grown out of, I've simply adapted around it

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.