| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Bradford
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: May 22, 2008
Age: 59
Posts: 58
Location: SW Colorado, rural
|
 Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject: Real answers to small talk questions |
 |
|
Ever try silencing the insincere questions with real answers?
What's up?
Any radial vector drawn from a reference planet's centroid of mass.
How do you do?
By metabolizing food. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Aalto
Velociraptor
Joined: May 04, 2008
Age: 17
Posts: 404
Location: W. Yorks, UK
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| I've never figured how to answer those the accepted way. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Mage
Phoenix
Joined: Oct 11, 2006
Posts: 839
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject: |
|
|
IF 'How are you?'
THEN 'I'm great, thanks!'
IF 'How's it going?'
THEN 'Great, thanks!'
It works much easier if you can just program yourself to spit out meanless statements in much the same way the meaningless statements are sent out in the first place. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Grimfaire
Deinonychus
Joined: Aug 06, 2007
Age: 38
Posts: 346
Location: Michigan
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I've found in answer to most any nonsensical question.. use "It's %currentdayofweek%" that seems to satisfy them and let me get on with my day.
_________________
When in trouble or in doubt; run in circles scream and shout. |
|
| Back to top |
|
catspurr
Phoenix
Joined: Jan 16, 2008
Posts: 781
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject: |
|
|
What's up?
(points up) |
|
| Back to top |
|
Aspinator
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Feb 24, 2008
Posts: 74
Location: AspinatorLand
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject: Real Answers |
|
|
I don't feel most people want real answers.
They want superficial replies. If someone says to me "Whats Up? I am going to reply "hey ____, good to see you" I feel most people are too self absorbed and wrapped up in their own life to be concerned with mine. |
|
| Back to top |
|
dtoxic
Deinonychus
Joined: Jun 23, 2008
Age: 38
Posts: 313
Location: Boston MA
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject: |
|
|
My personal favorite is:
"What's up?"
"Remarkably little." |
|
| Back to top |
|
2ukenkerl
Phoenix
Joined: Jul 20, 2007
Posts: 4860
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| catspurr wrote: | What's up?
(points up) |
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
Fuzzy
Ack! Thbbbt!
Joined: Mar 31, 2006
Posts: 2082
Location: Alberta Canada
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:19 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I say "stuff" instead of "nothing" when someone asks whats up.
_________________
davidred writes...
I installed Ubuntu once and it completely destroyed my paying relationship with Microsoft.
"I spent an interesting evening recently with a grain of salt." -Mark V Shaney
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Greentea
Bull in China Shop par Excellence!
Joined: Jun 15, 2007
Posts: 2528
Location: Middle East
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Brilliant OP!
Reminds me of how I used to answer to:
"Sorry I haven't had time to call you"
with:
"You've had 24 hours a day like everyone else; what you chose to do with them is another story."
_________________
"It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl" - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
| Back to top |
|
5thelement
Raven
Joined: May 25, 2008
Posts: 105
Location: the edge of the sea - england
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
- I am sorely tempted on hearing the 'see you later' 'verbal communication' to ask precisely when - as to me, it implies that there is either an appointed time that we have both agreed on or that it will be the same day.
I detest 'laters' - this answer is 'probably, yes' - unless there is a meteorite heading towards earth that I don't know about - but , even so 'yes' again - even if the world / universe / multiverses are on the edge of dooms and oblivion there is always going to be a 'laters'. In truth I consider it to be a noun. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Greentea
Bull in China Shop par Excellence!
Joined: Jun 15, 2007
Posts: 2528
Location: Middle East
|
| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:40 am Post subject: |
|
|
I once did this one:
"I'll call you."
"No, you won't and we both know it."
_________________
"It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl" - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
| Back to top |
|
MR
Deinonychus
Joined: Jun 25, 2008
Age: 39
Posts: 392
Location: USA
|
| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:07 am Post subject: |
|
|
| I'm always amused when someone says "How are you?" and breezing by leaving no opportunity for even the briefest answer. Though at least it saves me the trouble of answering. I so don't like the how are you thing. One of the few times I'll lie. Usually when I'm not so good, something on my mind's got me down, and what's on my mind is none of their business even if they did want a sincere answer. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
