Speaking to strangers

[ultimate]

Why is it that when we go to the doctors and there is usually a crowd waiting, that no one speaks to each other even try avoiding eye contact, but on the forums we all converse with each other with no problem.

Is it a fault of the human body make up?.

[shiato storm]

dunno. I am aware of something called 'lift etiquette'. you try it next time you're in a lift - you'll notice no one looks at another person whilst they're in there - assuming they're strangers of course. its quite funny once you know about it, I guess its something about personal space and all that.

[ultimate]

dunno. I am aware of something called 'lift etiquette'. you try it next time you're in a lift - you'll notice no one looks at another person whilst they're in there - assuming they're strangers of course. its quite funny once you know about it, I guess its something about personal space and all that.

So true even when someone farts in a lift NOBODY lets on, but they cant get out fast enough

[Raz316]

a forum is a place you go to to talk with other people, a dont think that's the reason anyone goes to the doctors

[shiato storm]

So true even when someone farts in a lift NOBODY lets on, but they cant get out fast enough

you evil b******d!

[shiato storm]

oh and people come to forums knowing they will communicate and interact with others - you might not choose to do so in a lift. and if I were at the doc's I'd rather not get into a conversation with a probably much sicker person than myself next to me...thanks all the same.

[ultimate]

oh and people come to forums knowing they will communicate and interact with others - you might not choose to do so in a lift. and if I were at the doc's I'd rather not get into a conversation with a probably much sicker person than myself next to me...thanks all the same.

Thats true IF you did get talking to someone the you can bet your bottom dollar it's all about their ailments and you come out from the doc's feeling worse than when you went in

[shiato storm]

go in with cold, come out with some rare tropical disease that slowly eats your nasal septum away until your head caves in and you die. horribly. and probably very bloody and messy too. these things usually are, what lives in the rain forest should stay in the rain forest.

[Howard]

/me stays quiet and avoids eye contact with everyone in this thread

[shiato storm]

/watches with savage intent...

[mike_w]

I think the reason we're more comfortable speaking on forums is that we're not talking face to face. When you embarass yourself or make a mistake (as I regularly do) on a forum, then its not as bad as making a fool of yourself in front of strangers in public.

[Moonshade]

Why is it that when we go to the doctors and there is usually a crowd waiting, that no one speaks to each other even try avoiding eye contact, but on the forums we all converse with each other with no problem.

Is it a fault of the human body make up?.

That's something connected to the different customs in different countries. I mean I recognize the situation you mentioned above and it's so chilly and strange. It's not that I start a converstation with a random person in town or so, because if I did people would think that I'm strange. But if you goes away to Italy or Poland or some other country then you're polite to others on the trains/subways! Start talking to strangers and so it's not rude/irritating, it's something you should do.

It's quite strange..I come from sweden btw, maybe worth mentioning in this case.

[ACiD303]

My mum talks to strangers if they're Chinese. She's strange.

Had some spanish folk at my last work who found it odd that everybody at the same building gets on the same bus, but rarely anyone sparks up conversation.

[psychy]

Same here Acid, my mum speaks to anyone who is Chinese. She's a wierd woman.

Apparently, as quoted in Collateral (Tom Cruise new film), there was a guy who died on a LA tube but no one noticed him dead for 6 hours.....dunno if real or not. But if Tommy says its true....then its gotta be true.

[Twigman]

lol yeah I notice this. But I say hi to random people as I walk past, or smile and make eye contact. I have a habit of holding eye contact just a little too long so it annoys people that dont know me...lol

[Moonshade]

lol yeah I notice this. But I say hi to random people as I walk past, or smile and make eye contact. I have a habit of holding eye contact just a little too long so it annoys people that dont know me...lol

Well a smile is never wrong! I seem to be able to charm every guy that I meet, by smiling..well I'm a smiling person .