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post #51 of 75
4/11/08 at 6:12pm
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Originally Posted by devincf View Post
Pleasant small talk is a fucking nightmare. Have something of interest to say or shut up and leave me alone. Small talk is one of my biggest peeves.
Actually yeah, I have to agree with you there. I think I just used it as an example because LD brought it up in an earlier post.
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post #52 of 75
4/11/08 at 6:15pm
I don't know...I'd say unpleasant small talk is a nightmare. I don't think Devin's statement makes a whole lot of sense. If he met someone and said "what did you do this weekend?" and they replied "I set up a new birdfeeder", he'd be bored as hell. If they said "I went to the New Beverly", he'd be interested. You can't blame the tool for that. That's just conflicting tastes.
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post #53 of 75
4/11/08 at 6:16pm
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Originally Posted by The LD View Post
Absolutely. But, going up to a stranger in a bar and saying "Hey, tell me about your passions" is creepy as hell. We didn't develop small talk as a social tool because it's useless. People who are good at it use it to create effective social bonds that enhance cooperation. People that suck at it bitch about it. I'm not that great at it, but I recognize why it exists.

Yeah, but when you have someone random cube crawler join you on the elevator ride at work and asks or talks about the weather, I want to not be there in a very bad way. Many people will talk when another stranger is there to fill dead space, for no reason.
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post #54 of 75
4/11/08 at 6:20pm
One person's uncomfortable small-talk is another person's uncomfortable dead silence.

Though I throw in with the first group.
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post #55 of 75
4/11/08 at 6:24pm
Small, interpersonal activism isn't terribly newsworthy, and posting about it here would make one sound like a bragging, self-important asshole. More importantly, would it change your view at all? The bad shit you read about is just as isolated, but sells more papers.
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post #56 of 75
4/11/08 at 6:46pm
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl View Post
Oh, I was kidding. You just weirded me out with that description of all the good or decent stuff that happens during your day. I see the same stuff, I guess that in the end I consider pleasant small talk to be fairly minor when compared to all the awful things you see walking down the street. Anyway, I wasn't actually trying to be insulting, so apologies if it was taken that way.

On any given day walking down a city street you can see a ridiculously high amount of homeless people huddled in doorways, crackheads screaming at each other or kicking the shit out of each other, heroin addicts shooting up in doorways, drunk guys peeing on the side of buildings, garbage absolutely everywhere, pollution, rude assholes on the bus picking fights, Pro-Life people screaming that you're going to go to hell, Jesus freaks screaming that you're going to go to hell, etc. etc. etc.

To me this only supports the impression I get of humanity from the news, and seeing the occasional happy couple or little kid playing at the park only does so much to sway my opinion.
I'm getting the impression you live in the wrong country.

Worst I see in the poor industrial cities of norrth englad is drunken teenagers breaking bottles, and the occasional homeless bloke. One a week, say.
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post #57 of 75
4/11/08 at 6:49pm
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl View Post
On any given day walking down a city street you can see a ridiculously high amount of homeless people huddled in doorways, crackheads screaming at each other or kicking the shit out of each other, heroin addicts shooting up in doorways, drunk guys peeing on the side of buildings, garbage absolutely everywhere, pollution, rude assholes on the bus picking fights, Pro-Life people screaming that you're going to go to hell, Jesus freaks screaming that you're going to go to hell, etc. etc. etc.
Where the hell do you live? Hamsterdam? I mean, if it bothers you that much, move or do something about it. Judging from your posts, you're obviously depressed and unhappy, so why not make a change in your life? It doesn't have to be anything drastic, but I have no idea why you'd just stay the course until you kill yourself.
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post #58 of 75
4/11/08 at 7:06pm
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Originally Posted by Xagarath Ankor View Post
I'm getting the impression you live in the wrong country.

Worst I see in the poor industrial cities of norrth englad is drunken teenagers breaking bottles, and the occasional homeless bloke. One a week, say.
One homeless guy a week? Seriously? I see at least 20 every day when I'm commuting to work.
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post #59 of 75
4/11/08 at 7:09pm
I work in Philly and 20 would be a stretch. Find a new neighborhood.
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post #60 of 75
4/11/08 at 7:11pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Anthony View Post
Where the hell do you live? Hamsterdam? I mean, if it bothers you that much, move or do something about it. Judging from your posts, you're obviously depressed and unhappy, so why not make a change in your life? It doesn't have to be anything drastic, but I have no idea why you'd just stay the course until you kill yourself.
Vancouver's a fairly normal city as far as I know, there are a lot of beautiful things here that make me want to stay. I've seen far worse examples of human misery when I was staying in San Francisco and LA, a walk through the Tenderloin at night is way more bone chilling than East Hastings.

I don't consider myself depressed, just realistic. I'm not entirely sure why other people aren't bothered by the same things.
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post #61 of 75
4/11/08 at 7:12pm
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl View Post
One homeless guy a week? Seriously? I see at least 20 every day when I'm commuting to work.
I have one sleeping on my couch.
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post #62 of 75
4/11/08 at 7:15pm
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Originally Posted by Xagarath Ankor View Post
I'm getting the impression you live in the wrong country.

Worst I see in the poor industrial cities of norrth englad is drunken teenagers breaking bottles, and the occasional homeless bloke. One a week, say.
City, not country. Vancouver is Canada's.. Detroit? No, that isn't artsy enough.. but Vancouver is hardly reflective of the rest of the country. I don't usually see more than a couple homeless on a venture downtown, and I don't see many shooting up while pissing themselves and screaming at me about the end of days and how I'm going to burn in hell.

Rude assholes though, are global phenomenon. Of course, you could pass by 100 perfectly polite people for every rude asshole, but since only the asshole stands out in your mind it seems like you're always encountering one. Same with the good stories/bad stories I think.
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post #63 of 75
4/11/08 at 7:29pm
Natalie thinks each and every hamburger is a tragedy. She won't be cheered up.
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post #64 of 75
4/11/08 at 8:56pm
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Originally Posted by Tieman View Post
I have one sleeping on my couch.
That's not what grandpa is called.
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post #65 of 75
4/11/08 at 10:19pm
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl View Post
On any given day walking down a city street you can see a ridiculously high amount of homeless people huddled in doorways, crackheads screaming at each other or kicking the shit out of each other, heroin addicts shooting up in doorways, drunk guys peeing on the side of buildings, garbage absolutely everywhere, pollution, rude assholes on the bus picking fights, Pro-Life people screaming that you're going to go to hell, Jesus freaks screaming that you're going to go to hell, etc. etc. etc.
Gotta echo the other "you really need to move" posts. I've been in NYC for 19 years, and I don't see that much stuff.
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post #66 of 75
4/11/08 at 10:38pm
What about all the alligators and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
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post #67 of 75
4/11/08 at 10:40pm
You can't forget about the C.H.U.D.'s and pimps either.
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post #68 of 75
4/11/08 at 10:42pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
Natalie thinks each and every hamburger is a tragedy. She won't be cheered up.
The Big N Tasty is considered a war crime in most European jurisdictions, just so you know.
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post #69 of 75
4/11/08 at 11:27pm
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl View Post
What about all the alligators and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
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Originally Posted by BubWilliams View Post
You can't forget about the C.H.U.D.'s and pimps either.
Those are all friends and/or co-workers of mine, and I won't have you speak ill of them. One of the Ninja Turtles rocked the vending machine for me one day when my peanut M&Ms got stuck in there. He was on his way to accounting, and he could have kept going, but no - he stopped to help me out. Hero in a half shell, you guys.
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post #70 of 75
4/12/08 at 2:47am
New York's also got all the Blaculas.
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post #71 of 75
4/12/08 at 2:49am
And the majority of the Sons of Kong.
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post #72 of 75
4/12/08 at 9:30am
Ah, but New York does have superheroes! Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The Avengers, etc. and there's always the chance you'll see them in a kick-ass battle with a giant robot or supervillain horde as you get your morning bagel!

I am SO jealous of Lisa right now.
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post #73 of 75
4/12/08 at 10:02am
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl View Post
One homeless guy a week? Seriously? I see at least 20 every day when I'm commuting to work.
Well, I could probably find one a day if I walked through back alleys more, but this is a welfare state.
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post #74 of 75
4/12/08 at 10:49am
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl View Post
One homeless guy a week? Seriously? I see at least 20 every day when I'm commuting to work.
But the weather is so nice the homeless like being outside so you see more of them. Here in Calgary it's too damn cold so we keep them locked up. Plus, we drive them out of town during Stampede so people don't think we have a problem. Hate to admit to the world that our vision of ourselves as one of the wealthiest cities in Canada is flawed.

I'm not being facetious here either. (Okay, maybe about the Vancouver homeless enjoying being outside)
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post #75 of 75
4/12/08 at 11:14pm
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Originally Posted by Ryan S~ View Post
(Okay, maybe about the Vancouver homeless enjoying being outside)
Of course they do, why else would they be homeless?
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