2011-03-18 - A Conversation About Conversations

People suck at conversations. Now admittedly I'm not the best conversationalist but I like to think that I am at least nice about it. Other people are just completely terrible at having conversations. So I thought I'd put together a list of the things that annoy me most about talking to people.

1. Superfluous Conversations: People feel the need to talk to other people. If you see someone you know you have to talk to them right? If you're at a get together you have to talk to everyone right? Wrong, that is completely wrong. The problem being that you don't actually care. That's fair, no one says you have to care about talk to everyone you meet. Personally I prefer the reverse because at least then you're not pretending to care. Having a conversation when there doesn't need to be one is just insulting and a waste of everyone's time.

2. Small Talk: This is rather an extension of the first point but in a special way. The world conversations and the most boring conversations are the ones with no point. "Hey, nice weather we're having" "Yeah, it's pretty nice", there you have just wasted everyone's time and have said nothing of value. That was some excellent work there spreading of trivial information. If you can't think of anything interesting to say don't say anything at all.

3. Arguments: Arguments are actually good. I love having arguments with people. The problem is that most people suck at arguments as well. To have a good argument you need to both be A) detached from the subject and B) able to say things about the subject. Now that's not to say they have to be correct, bull is the best cannon fodder for a good argument. Just yell mindlessly about something no one cares about with another person for a few hours and you'll be good. It's important to remember A) though, the minute you start getting upset and defensive about a subject the fun dies. No one wants to argue with someone who gets mad because you're talking bull about his favourite subject.

4. Why does word use a different quotation mark? I mean this is the notepad++ one ", and this is word's “, look at that, what is with that?

Now I don't expect anyone to listen to these points because stupid conversations and angry arguments are the name of the game but hopefully someone will.