how are youhows things with youhows workhows such and suchhow you feelinghow you liking that
with no questions being returned. people like that, even if they dont realise theyre doing it. really annoy me. in fact, when they dont realise theyre doing it, it makes it worse.
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)
Plus, even with the people that you know well enough to do that, there are still preliminary questions that you ask, even if it's "so what have you been listening to lately, gone to any good gigs, what about Top of the Pops last week, eh?!?!?" rather than asking about life and work and stuff.
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)
and im actually referring to some family members who dont seem to have grasped the concept of conversation.
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)
im probably the last person who should be making a post like this, as i can be found guilty of doing what someone posted above as "Sometimes it's just shyness. Or not wanting to be rude or intrusive, or honestly not knowing what questions to ask. I can be like this, though I try very hard not to be. I'm just crippled with this social paranoia about what questions I can and ask completely strangers - or even my friends."
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)
x-post x4
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)
Maybe the person does't actually WANT you to be asking all those questions! Maybe they feel like a bloody butterfly on a pin!
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)
then again, these partic. people, i feel the need to ask them bits and bobs - nothing insanely personal by the way, cos if i didnt, they would likely be met with complaints that im too quiet!
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)
-- splooge (sploogeyo...), August 12th, 2004 3:05 PM. (later)
are they going on and on and on about themselves though? or just answering and then not asking questions back? if it's the latter maybe they just don't want to talk to you and is hoping that you'd go away! (if it's the former then yeah, self centred fucks)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― na (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)
If they are going on and on at great length about themselves, then that is rude. I'm more guilty of the one-word stuttered answers and then awkward silence while I try to think of what to say.
― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)
*weeps*
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)
Anyway, you are clearly cool, as is Scott = Rufus is THE COOLEST KID EVAH. Who isn't Charlotte in NYC.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)
(Rufus is a cool name btw! :)
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, Dufus. We call him that lovingly sometimes. Every name is easy to bastardize.
I'm good, jel. I'm listening to Pedro the Lion. I should be working.
What are you?
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)
"How are you?" isn't annoying in itself--the intention of it is just to draw the other person out, but it's a shallow enough question that my answer (like many others') is "okay". Okay means, still breathing, haven't had a nervous breakdown, yay.
The initial thought about self-centered people--I immediately thought about certain friends I have who just talk on and on about things in their life, in such a way that I can't get a word in edgewise. I might have lots going on in my own life that I might want to talk about, but it can feel like a major effort to switch from all-about-friend to hi-I-exist-too-this-is-what's-up-with-me. I hate that.
On the other hand, sometimes I don't want to think about what's up with me and just want to listen to stuff about other people's lives, so my friends probably get mixed messages about that from me.
Lots of people on this thread OTM about various things, but I've forgotten who, because it's a long thread...
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)
Greeting Conventions
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)
YOU DAMNED EGOMANIAC.
I try and be cheery in those 'i am antisocial/tired' moments when I am out and about. How to quietly flee is important.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)
I usually am interested in other people. I'm glad to let them talk if they're talkative sorts. Sometimes I interject with a question, sometimes I don't. I'm really more intuitive than inquisitive.
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 12 August 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, I hate those questions. I prefer:
How's that such and such working for you, baby?How you feeling down there? Good?How you liking that, bitch? Huh? HUH?
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)
Also, whenever people ask me "how are you", I TELL THEM. I tell them I'm tired, or angry, or happy, and I tell them in detail.
That'll learn em. Dont ask if you dont wanna know! >:)
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)
anyway, hope everyone is fine this morning.
― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)
when we got to the restaurant however, the drinks started going the opposite, non happy way and i found my self looking everywhere but the table, at other girls (though i dont think anyone noticed this, i hope), her boss's blouse, and wondering if a group of corporate workers could be any more mediocre and boring. i might just be tired this week, but i think im turning into an anti socialite, almost proudly so. apart from saying i looked bored and unhappy as the night progressed, my gf said she had a good night. so the night gets a general )-| to :) rating.
how was manchurian candidate?
― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― --, Saturday, 14 August 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)
Manchurian Candidate was excellent. I don't remember the original because I watch movies and promptly forget them, so I can't get into the argument about remaking something that was already perfect. I go in for conspiracy theories, so it fed that paranoia of mine.
As for your night, sometimes it's important to just be there for your gf -- if necessary entertain yourself by looking at other girls (that's harmless) -- no shame in finding company mediocre.
It's funny on this thread how we're embarrassed to seem self-engrossed.
-- --, you're probably on to something about the class differences. Some people feel so uncomfortable with a moment of silence while others feel uncomfortably yakkity-yakking.
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 14 August 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 14 August 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)
anyway i have other friends who don't ask me questions about my life and it doesn't bother me as much cos they are shy. and sometimes i feel like that too, you know, i just don't know the right questions to ask to get conversation flowing freely. to the person who reckons that a lot of people who claim to be shy aren't, its worth asking why (some) extrovert people are the way they are. some of them, in social situations, act because they are uncomfortable with talking to people.
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 14 August 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 14 August 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)
You know what they say about how good conversationalists hardly talk themselves, but instead encourage other people to talk?
I'm the sort of person who's only too happy to blather on and on about me and what I think and what I like, but unless I'm with close friends, I stifle that in favour of trying to be a "good conversationalist". Of course, if the other person's asking, I'll give whatever answer I think is appropriate, but I agree with whoever wrote: I feel like shit when I realize people have been asking how I am and I haven't responded in kind.
And of course, almost every time I've tried this lately, I either get the self-centred prat who pisses me off or the colourless bore who exhausts me. I can usually sense if someone's just a bit shy though, and try to be a bit more patient in the hope that they'll warm up.
― syntaxfree (syntaxfree), Saturday, 14 August 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Fonzy, Saturday, 14 August 2004 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)
"Growin up as a nigga in the cash game, livin in the fast lane now, for real"
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)
I can go on and ask ppl endlessly about their lives, without giving the other ANY opportunity to even ASK me anything.
that comes with my biggest fear: ppl asking me how I am, I habve that question.
― erik, Saturday, 14 August 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 14 August 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 14 August 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 14 August 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 14 August 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)