Poll: Would you tell a "white lie"?

You do realise that the no votes will most likely be lies too? ;)

Of course, it's only a matter of time before Linux succeeds on the desktop.

I'm curious about how "depends on the situation" interacts with the definition of "white lie", which I've always understood to mean "a harmless lie, generally told to be polite." I'd think that most cases one might come up with as being bad times to tell a white lie would be be cases where it's not actually harmless.

Besides, almost everyone is going to answer "fine"/similar to "how's it going?" regardless of how their day has really been. :)

Does "white lie" include diplomatic fictions?

I've been known to say things like "pleased to meet you" when I really couldn't care less about meeting the person in question; but I'm not sure that it's fair to call this a white lie, since it's a social pleasantry which everybody knows doesn't actually mean what it says.

If you limit "white lie" to mean things like "yes, your vegetable casserole was delicious", then no, I don't think I do tell white lies. (I have gotten very good at not answering questions, though.)

I marked 'no' but that's not a completely true answer.

I marked no, because I commonly do tell white lies (particularly on polls).

I would even tell a non-white lie.

That depends. Do those jeans make your ass look fat?