This made me realize, talking to people is like forcefully inserting you thoughts into their brain without their consent. People should just stop talking in general IMO.
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I also dislike the “hey how are you?”. I understand they want to be friendly, but it only adds another step in the conversational exchange.
“Hey how are you?”
“I’m fine. You?”
“All good”
“Cool”
“[the actual request]”
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A great one alongside https://dontasktoask.com/
People actually do this!?
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"Hi, can I ask a question?"
No, don't ask to ask a question.
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I prefer no meta.
There’s also https://onlyhello.net/
And I think I recalled “hello considered harmful” and meta stuff like “considered harmful considered harmful”. Or were those on intranet?
Well, I usually take my time to reply. It's not my fault, when people then need to wait until they cut to the chase. That doesn't bother me. It's their problem.
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Hello...
This is a hello message.
Feel Helloed
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Life is easier if you don't get worked up about this sort of thing.
When people at work have this as their status I just randomly say hello to them. When they get mad I tell them I just I wanted to say hi.
Last week:
"Hi Neocamel, it's Tom from work."
no follow-up message
Me, 15 minutes later: "Hi!"
The end.
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Um, hello? What's with no hello?
Damn, talk about antisocial and weird.
What if I just want to say hi to start a conversation, and I don't have some ulterior motive? Or perhaps I'm waiting to gauge the other person's mood or something else before asking them something?
What a weird, weird thing for this person to get a stick up their arse about. I'm sure they're really fun to talk to :-/
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