Small talk is either just a way to get to big talk or a way to pass small amounts of time.
I'm really discriminatory about my enthusiasm for small talk, attractive young females who I already know or at least know I will see again get the most enthusiasm, old unattractive females who are just talking in passing get the least. But in general I don't like most passing small talk, it doesn't matter who it's with.
If it's a conversation that's only going to last less than 2 minutes or around that mark, and I'm not going to see that person again in any meaningful way I'd rather just day dream to myself or look at my phone to pass that time.
I don't do football (soccer) small talk usually, which is a big deal in a working class environment, in the sense that there's going to be a few conversations per day you can't join in with and a few people you'll never got on with. But going back to the discrimination thing, if an attractive young female is telling me something about football it's very interesting.
Those are pretty much the two people that's best to avoid in the long term, the old family women and the football guys. There's guys in my work that I've never heard having a convo, expressing an emotion or telling a story that didn't involve them watching football. With anyone else I'm pretty good at escalating small talk to big talk.
I'm really discriminatory about my enthusiasm for small talk, attractive young females who I already know or at least know I will see again get the most enthusiasm, old unattractive females who are just talking in passing get the least. But in general I don't like most passing small talk, it doesn't matter who it's with.
If it's a conversation that's only going to last less than 2 minutes or around that mark, and I'm not going to see that person again in any meaningful way I'd rather just day dream to myself or look at my phone to pass that time.
I don't do football (soccer) small talk usually, which is a big deal in a working class environment, in the sense that there's going to be a few conversations per day you can't join in with and a few people you'll never got on with. But going back to the discrimination thing, if an attractive young female is telling me something about football it's very interesting.
Those are pretty much the two people that's best to avoid in the long term, the old family women and the football guys. There's guys in my work that I've never heard having a convo, expressing an emotion or telling a story that didn't involve them watching football. With anyone else I'm pretty good at escalating small talk to big talk.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
