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How’s it going?
I mean as small intro talk at work that almost everyone feels obligated to say every damn time.
The various questions with the answer being “yeah… People are weird, right?”
Being asked a million questions when someone finds out I’m a communist
I wouldn’t be getting an interrogation or being tasked to do a History/Political Science 101 lecture on the spot if my politics were anything else, and the last thing I want to do is get into fights with someone I don’t know or care much about because they refuse to question the propaganda they’ve been given and I absolutely need to be convinced by them
At my job I stand behind a counter with a 30 foot wall behind me covered in pegs holding key blanks. Customers approach me and ask “do you make keys here?” Of course we do we don’t just have all these blanks for show.
Except for that one time I actually needed a key made. Went to a place with blanks displayed on the wall and they told me they didn’t make them anymore because they didn’t have anyone who knew how to use the machine.
“What’s it like being a twin?”
I don’t fucking know, what’s it like not being a twin? They’ve always been there. It’s like having a sibling only we share a birthday??
Then if it stops there I’m fine. But usually they ask shitty sexual questions. Less as we’ve gotten older cause old women are gross.
I tell people that we share the same pain cuz it’s funny when people are like WHAT. lol. Then I say sometimes I send him messages telepathically, cuz I actually do. Does it work? Only twins know…
If it did work, it stopped when we were kids lol. Mother lives to recount getting me and twin our earliest vaccines.
Twin went first, needle goes, me in a different room SCREAMS.
Also when twin broke their arm as a toddler downstairs while I was upstairs with mom I apparently screamed. Twin did not.
Twin never screamed when I was in pain. A one way connection LOL.
My girlfriend has twins and i love them so much. They are sweet and nice, but also so different. I also happened to know a few twins when i gew up. So to me it is always important to be able to tell them apart and just treat them like their own person they are. I can tell how annoyimg it can be for them, and they aren’t even six years old yet. Even their teacher often says things like: alica, tobias, frederick, and the twins over here…
One time we went for a stroll and one of them held my hand and she asked me: do you know my name? (I only knew them for like a week or so) and i told her yes, you are:… And she was so excited, because people often don’t. Or don’t even really care, because it’s “just the twin”.
When i was little i always imagined how awesome it would be to have a twin brother, and i’m sure it is, but it also has to be so annoying a lot of the time. Not because of the twin part, but because of the people part.
The people part is annoying yes lol.
Luckily despite being identical I’m like 6 inches taller than my twin. Turns out being born weighing twice as much means my twin never caught up in height! So easier to tell apart.
But that means very few people believe we’re twins now though. It was less pronounced as kids.
Hope your girlfriend’s kids grow up and punch the weirdos who ask the sexual questions.
Haha i’m the one being really annoying when tjey get asked stupid questions. I’m really good at making conversation awkward for everyone involved. Not twin related, but they both play soccer and they are the only girls in their soccer team. Their trainer is like 65 and he told me that he wishes he had more girls playimg soccer. The next time i was watching them, some boy was yanking on her hair. Like violently. And one of them grabbed the other one between the legs. I had to be really careful to not drop kick a 6 year old in the face. I told the guy: soo… Are you gonna do somethimg about it? And he was like: what? So i told him. And ge said: yeah the girls keep tellimg him that they yank their hair, but he hasn’t really seen anything. And you know how boys are, in a few years, they are gonna love this.
I had no idea i had as much restrained in my body to not beat the ahit out of him. And in hindsight, i wish i hadn’t. Anyway, they are now in a all girls team.
Ah yes, the being tormented! A ‘fun’ part of childhood!
I kicked the one boy who did it the most while I was wearing cowboy boots as hard as I could. Mother told them if they had stopped it, maybe he wouldn’t have had his shins kicked in.
Having to deal with chikdren made me realise how hard it sometimes was to be a child. I think it was sometimes easier being a boy, but just like later in life, i didn’t really enjoy spending time with guys. Like my friends are nice and cool. Random guys, yeah no thanks. But also, girls can be just as bad, in a different way. Like they are really skinny, and do sports like soccer and muai thai, and we hike a lot. One day a girl came home and asked me if her legs were fat, because that’s what the girls in school told her. Her sister who dresses similar as her identical twin got made fun of because she’s wearing pants instead of a dress. It’s often shit they saw on tik tok.
Also i just googled how much 6 inches are. Wow that’s a sizable difference. That’s pretty funny actually. No way i wouldn’t call my twin mini me
Twin would shank me for saying that. Twin also reads my lemmy occasionally, so eventually they will come up to me and say “Yes I would shank you” lol
Hilarious. Sometime you gotta risk a bit of shanking for the bit.
“What race are you?” It’s an extremely insidious, loaded question usually asked by someone who believes race is a biological reality. Things change however I answer this question, but nowadays my attitude toward the asker is what changes the fastest.
people… ask what race other people are? Wow.
People ask me that sometimes. Because I have a unique look that people can’t quite pinpoint. They think Italy or Greece or Latina or one person thought I was Chinese 🙄
But I’m 50% German, 25% Irish, 12.5% Spain, and 12.5% Navajo.
The Navajo olive complexion is strong, with a German big nose, and fiery Irish personality & stoic pragmatic blunt German demeanor.
“Are you human?”
I understand why it’s needed, but it’s damn annoying when every single website asks.
It’s even more annoying when it’s random people asking me.
I hate it when they ask me to prove it by blinking, can’t wait until the firmware update where I can actually do that
“What would you do if you had a million dollars?”
“What would you do if you could pursue your passion if money wasn’t an issue?”
“What would you do if you won the lottery?”Fuck all money-based questions. Do you want to know what I’d do with so much money? Just give me it and you’ll see. Otherwise, piss the fuck off. I don’t spend all of my time, daydreaming of having lots of wealth when I know, I’m never going to see it.
“What’s your deepest and darkest secret?”
Why the fuck would you ask me such a question? Whose business is it of yours, to know what my secrets are? It is simply for blackmail or for you to get your rocks off, knowing you have sensitive information on someone. And if anyone answers these questions honestly, you’re a fucking dumbass.
“What’s your deepest and darkest secret?”
I was pre drinking with my friends once and we were playing something like truth or dare. Someone asked the question “what is your biggest fear”. People gave answers like spiders and shit like that, but I was too drunk and gave an apparently too honest of an answer cause the whole vibe was instantly dead.
I said
My biggest fear is that all my friends are fake and just hanging out with me out of pity.
Sure it’s a fucking mood killer but you’re asking me and I’m too drunk to realise blurting it out is, so I’m only partially to blame imo
I get that. My answer to that question will always be: i’ll dissapear and do nothing. The only reason i work is money. I don’t want to think about money anymore.
Same with tv shows that is basically: look at these rich people and the quirky things they buy with their wealth. I could not care less.
“How tall are you?”
“Do you play basketball?”*
*This one turned into did you play basketball last week and it stung
“it’s not working” posed as a question
Have you tried restarting?
Yes
uptime: 3 years.
How are you?
What’s for dinner? Why do I have to eat this? Why do I have to go to bed? Why do I have to get up? Why do I have to go to school?
The flip side of having kids is when they start asking really fun questions about science and nature and you get to share the wonder of the universe with them, but holy hell kid… I’ve answered your question 5 times already and the answer isn’t changing at all.
Right there with you. Everything right now is “why” five levels deep. I love explaining things to him, but there’s a limit.
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“How’s it going?”
Using this as a greeting with “good, you?” as the conventional answer is so stupid but so normalized, I feel much more strongly about this than it actually justifies lol
What’s your go to alternate?
I don’t like small talk and avoid it with people who know me already, but if I’m masking and talking to a stranger I try to replace it with another meaningless question that’s less personal.
What question I end up going for is pretty context dependent, like if someone just arrived somewhere then “get here okay?” or similar questions about their transit are an easy replacement that’s a lot less invasive imo.
If the person has made any conscious fashion choices I notice and like that’s another easy one, though ‘conscious choice’ is key (“I like your hair” or “nice stickers on your water bottle” are good, but “you have nice skin” is serial killer vibes imo).Finding alternatives requires a tiny bit of thought each time, but imo that’s what communicating with another person should need.
“Do you have any sugar?”
I offered you sugar and cream when you ordered the coffee, and you just said “cream”. This is on you.
