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Can you predict anything anyone will ever say to you?

Fridgemagnetman

Fridgemagnetman

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Can you predict everything anyone will ever say to you?

Long time no see. @sidd851 said hello be funny or something on my profile so here is this.

wo reasons :

  1. I can’t maintain a pretend level of interest for longer than one second.
  2. I can’t break my habit of telling the truth, which seems to be social suicide.
I needed to find a way round this.

I needed a plan for when dialogue fails.

If I didn’t speak then would I actually be lying?

Without speech, I could pretend interest for much longer by just nodding and occasionally moving my eyebrows up and down randomly.

The Plan
I got some carded paper and I wrote down a response to everything anyone could possibly say to me.

I wrote it on a few cards small enough to fit in a pocket.

I figure I could keep different cards in different pockets so I could communicate quickly.

I would never have to talk again.

I had my cards at the ready.

Can you predict everything anyone will ever say to you?

To read the rest - a click and a clap.
 
Fridgemagnetman said:
Can you predict everything anyone will ever say to you?

Long time no see. @sidd851 said hello be funny or something on my profile so here is this.

wo reasons :

  1. I can’t maintain a pretend level of interest for longer than one second.
  2. I can’t break my habit of telling the truth, which seems to be social suicide.
I needed to find a way round this.

I needed a plan for when dialogue fails.

If I didn’t speak then would I actually be lying?

Without speech, I could pretend interest for much longer by just nodding and occasionally moving my eyebrows up and down randomly.

The Plan
I got some carded paper and I wrote down a response to everything anyone could possibly say to me.

I wrote it on a few cards small enough to fit in a pocket.

I figure I could keep different cards in different pockets so I could communicate quickly.

I would never have to talk again.

I had my cards at the ready.

Can you predict everything anyone will ever say to you?

To read the rest - a click and a clap.
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That was quick.
Eerily so.
So you haven't traipsed off as far as I thought.
We are still a village, though, and
we're still making calls.
We're trying to find our idiot.
We're one short.
(Oh, okay. I like frogs too.;))
 
sidd851 said:
That was quick.
Eerily so.
So you haven't traipsed off as far as I thought.
We are still a village, though, and
we're still making calls.
We're trying to find our idiot.
We're one short.
(Oh, okay. I like frogs too.;))
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I can imagine that doesn't make sense to many people.

As you'd have to read lots of different things in the right order :)

Yet it makes sense to me :)
 
Good seeing you roaming again ;)

Definitely need to visit the fish island more often. No fin is better than that bit of humour.

That was terrible.
 
Responses in the area I live in, usually in french.

Yes, lots of snow.
Three to one. (hockey related)
Yes his skates need sharpening. (Not very smart)
No, I don't come from this area.
I don't need a snowmobile.
 
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Of course not in that regard.
Reminds me of an episode on Frasier.
Caller: I.. have.. a ..fear.. of. talking.. on. the. phone.
Frasier: Are you reading that?
hear papers rattle
Caller: Yes.. I. am.
Frasier: What if someone asks something you have not anticipated?
papers rattle.
Caller: Goodbye.
I loved that call. :)

I remember an exact moment I learned something about communicating with other people. I was in my early 20's and on the phone with a very social sister. She kept asking questions about something I was going through and it dawned on me; "Ohhhh. So to make someone think you're interested in what they are saying, you ask questions." I try, but even with 40 years of practice still find that hard to do because I have no idea what to ask.
 
Lol - Actually, still in my 20's, my cousin's crazy wife called me one day and said she just shot herself in the leg. I had no earthly idea how to respond to that and remember thinking, ask questions, ask questions. So I asked the first question that popped into my head, "Is it bleeding?" Yes. Okay then.
 
Pats said:
So I asked the first question that popped into my head, "Is it bleeding?" Yes. Okay then.
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Pats, that is funny. I wouldn't know what to say other than, have you called 911, are you putting pressure on it? My first thought was: Does it hurt:D? Guess I'd say the wrong thing in that situation.
 
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Pats said:
Lol - Actually, still in my 20's, my cousin's crazy wife called me one day and said she just shot herself in the leg. I had no earthly idea how to respond to that and remember thinking, ask questions, ask questions. So I asked the first question that popped into my head, "Is it bleeding?" Yes. Okay then.
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I'd have likely responded in asking whether or not she was being metaphorical. But was that technically the correct answer?

I'd hate to blurt out, "You mean you could have had a V-8?" So much for navigating metaphors. :p
 
I'm actually mostly nonverbal. I get by most of the time by nodding my head yes, shaking it no and shrugging. I also use text to speech on my phone or use my phone screen as a flash card.
 
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