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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m not saying all small talk is interesting I’m saying not all small talk is boring. For whatever reason people have it in their heads that if it’s small talk, it’s boring, and if it’s not boring it isn’t small talk. That’s not what the phrase means though.

  I get it, people can yap, and sometimes it is boring as hell. I’m not trying to say the boring conversations you overhear at work actually are thrilling.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    IDK what to tell you. I don’t think of interesting conversations as small talk. That’s not what I’m complaining about when I say I don’t like small talk. What I think of as small talk is when people seem to have to run their mouths just to ruin a perfectly good silence with shit about the weather or sports or something. That’s just how it is. If the conversation isn’t going to go past small talk I’d be just as happy to not have it at all.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What are things you like to talk about? It’s possible other people say the same thing you just did but list the topic you said instead. Weather is fascinating. Sports are fun. People like different things.

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      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s fine that others don’t share the same interests as me. I don’t expect them to talk to me about them if they don’t want to. We can sit in silence. That’s nice too.

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  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well put.

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