Small Talk

Rds1989

I really hate it, does anyone else prefer "awkward" silence, maybe im strange much i much prefer conversations with people that actually have a level of depth not just some forced exchange. Also, does anyone know of a good hairdressers where all who work there suffer from mutism?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnh16Y8ZoaM

OutlawPete

So, how are you anyway?

landsleaving

Nice weather today.

Rds1989

Hmm i sense where this thread is going, im outta here

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Hows about that local sports team?

landsleaving

*Awkward Silence*

mrsdewinter

Hey, how bout them current affairs?

aido179

*awkward silence*
will this take off?

445279.ie

Going anywhere nice on your holidays?

stupidusername

I hate small talk, really annoys me. Don't know why anyone who gets into an elevator with me feels they have to say something. strangely enough though I rarely get a hairdresser that talks to me, most just work away without saying a word.

slavetothegrind

agree with above, barber i go to has few words of english and good skills, gets a tip every time!!!!

hondasam

I Don't understand people who cannot engage in small talk, It's not that difficult. Any hairdresser who does not speak to her client is not doing her job properly.

pragmatic1

Hate small talk. Its actually more awkward than an awkward silence.

Theodore Yummy Starlet

Theodore Yummy Starlet wrote: »

Hows about that local sports team?

I hear they won that regional championship

leggo

It's very indicative of Ireland's Catholic guilt that the consensus so far seems to be anti-small talk. Are we all ridiculously shy and ashamed of what we might say or what?

Now, that said, I hate it when it's unnecessary. Like in a lift, as someone said, where you're only going to see this person for a few seconds and don't actually have the time to form the basis of a good conversation...what's the point?

But has nobody here never went away from a taxi journey home having had a great chat? Or got talking to someone in a shop about the most mundane of topics, at first, then felt really happy that you clicked with someone out of nowhere? I find that really rewarding, to be honest.

The only thing almost as bad in the cliche backpacker conversation that always gets started.. Where you from, where you been, where you going.

Oranage2

Deleted User wrote: »

The only thing almost as bad in the cliche backpacker conversation that always gets started.. Where you from, where you been, where you going.

Or "Lonely planet says that....."



Hate small talk too:

"how's college going"
"any craic"
"how's work"

MJ23

"Ithink its to rain on Thursday is it"

slavetothegrind

hondasam wrote: »

I Don't understand people who cannot engage in small talk, It's not that difficult. Any hairdresser who does not speak to her client is not doing her job properly.

so have you any holidays planned?
cue her holiday stories...
any children?..
what do you work at?
where do you live?

may be i don't want to share all this with a stranger, and the 5 customers within earshot.

a professional can suss this in a person and leave it but they are not that common:(

pow wow

I usually just pretend I'm foreign and my English is 'very bad'

WindSock

If you hate small talk, why not try to engage someone into something more meaningful or interesting?

hondasam

slavetothegrind wrote: »

so have you any holidays planned?
cue her holiday stories...
any children?..
what do you work at?
where do you live?

may be i don't want to share all this with a stranger, and the 5 customers within earshot.

a professional can suss this in a person and leave it but they are not that common:(

Not typical questions a hairdresser would ask. Holiday plans yes, stories in the news, celeb gossip, chit chat.

A guard would hardly ask those questions.

jd007

I prefer big talk

Saila

*looks at feet and glances at tits*

slavetothegrind

now that you mention it.......maybe i was inadvertantly part of an undercover op!:D

ah i know what you mean, just hate it with the silent queue beside you, but that s barbers for you!

plus don't women generally get a good hairdresser and stick with them thus forging a relationship of sorts?

Saila

Deleted User wrote: »

The only thing almost as bad in the cliche backpacker conversation that always gets started.. Where you from, where you been, where you going.

depends on whether you actually go proper backpacking or just use a backback to pack your clothes in and carry from the airport to the hostel you stay in for weeks in a city somewhere..with your gaa jersy

fonecrusher1

What about the classic taxi man small talk.

So ya been busy?
Ah not to bad, usually busy enough on a saturday night.
So ya been busy?
ah?...yeah its busy enough alright.
So ya been busy?
?....ah
So ya been busy?
???....whats wrong with you?
So ya been busy?
..........
So ya been busy?
get out.
So ya been busy?
OUT.

I flag down another taxi.

So ya been busy?

18AD

I suck at small talk. That's why I simultaneously dislike it and wish to be good at it.

"Hows the wave/particle duality treating you today?"

UglyBolloxFace

Rds1989 wrote: »

I really hate it, does anyone else prefer "awkward" silence, maybe im strange much i much prefer conversations with people that actually have a level of depth not just some forced exchange. Also, does anyone know of a good hairdressers where all who work there suffer from mutism?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnh16Y8ZoaM

The most awkward thing is when you're walking along and you see someone you know walking toward in the opposite direction - then one of you say "ah howya, how's it goin" as a rhetorical question; cue awkwardness as the other person doesn't know whether to answer or stop or stop and answer.

amacca

18AD wrote: »

I suck at small talk. That's why I simultaneously dislike it and wish to be good at it.

"Hows the wave/particle duality treating you today?"

the light is good for me today

thank you for asking...

do you like small dogs?

18AD

amacca wrote: »

the light is good for me today

thank you for asking...

do you like small dogs?

I do like small dogs. But I prefer cats in indeterminate wavefunction states. I don't really like cats.

Have you heard the one about a tree falling in the woods? I never heard the end of it.

amacca

18AD wrote: »

I do like small dogs. But I prefer cats in indeterminate wavefunction states. I don't really like cats.

Have you heard the one about a tree falling in the woods? I never heard the end of it.

ah yes that is why we decided one must put them in a box

how can you be sure this thing with the tree really happened then?

18AD

amacca wrote: »

ah yes that is why we decided one must put them in a box

how can you be sure this thing with the tree really happened then?

Someone was telling me about it, but I forgot what they said as I was listening to a little bird. Turned out it was only small talk.

kfallon

Was talking to a midget the other day, very enjoyable and he had some great anecdotes so I'm defo a fan of small talk! :pac:

Saila

Saila wrote: »

depends on whether you actually go proper backpacking or just use a backback to pack your clothes in and carry from the airport to the hostel you stay in for weeks in a city somewhere..with your gaa jersy

Strange comment to make to someone who has his location as Hanoi.? Or maybe I'm just readin into things.

Chris P. Bacon

There isn't much drying in it today.

livinsane

I can understand small talk, politeness and all that. The best way to avoid it is to get in there first with conversation of merit.

What galls me is meeting someone after not seeing them for about seven years and they ask "any news".

Laika1986

Jez there's a great stretch in the evenings isn't there?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Did ya get the turf in?

Taco Corp

There's nothing worse than getting someone's life story when all you asked was "how's things?"

Norma_Desmond

So.....
A lot of weather we've been having latley......
Yup.....
No getting rid of that weather.......

W.Shakes-Beer

Yeah small talk is a pain in the balls. I hate awkward silences though, you know the ones when you're in the car with one other person and there's just silence. I feel obliged to speak about shíte.

orourkeda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyj2qL-bQ4E

Sofiztikated

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

Yeah small talk is a pain in the balls. I hate awkward silences though, you know the ones when you're in the car with one other person and there's just silence. I feel obliged to speak about shíte.

Damn you, I was just on my way in here to do the very same.

But not a bad spell of weather we're having. How about that sports game?

starviewadams

I'm awful at and fear small talk!
Part of my anxiety therapy is to actively engage in small talk in shops/at bus stops etc,it's horrible!

superelliptic

I like it, personally.