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How To Know When To Drop A Subject
#21
RE: How To Know When To Drop A Subject
Is it true that Prince died to revive his popularity? That's what I'm hearing?
First he became a symbol, now an everlasting memory! He's a clever bugger....
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#22
RE: How To Know When To Drop A Subject
It's a lot easier in person. When the person you are talking with is seeming awkward or uncomfortable, it's time for a topic change.

In text is harder but if you're typing paragraphs and getting 2-3 word responses it might be time.

You don't need to announce you're changing the topic. Just start talking about something else. If you're worried that might be awkward, just say "that reminds me" and then talk about something else.
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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#23
RE: How To Know When To Drop A Subject
(April 22, 2016 at 8:24 pm)Evie Wrote: Hehe

I like "Well, there's only one way out of that situation."

And then when someone says "What?" say "I don't know. I just think there's probably only one way out of that situation." Followed by an awkward silence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AM4GJAqm0

7:56 of this scene.


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.

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#24
RE: How To Know When To Drop A Subject
(April 22, 2016 at 11:37 pm)Losty Wrote: It's a lot easier in person. When the person you are talking with is seeming awkward or uncomfortable, it's time for a topic change.

In text is harder but if you're typing paragraphs and getting 2-3 word responses it might be time.

This is all super helpful Smile

Quote:You don't need to announce you're changing the topic. Just start talking about something else. If you're worried that might be awkward, just say "that reminds me" and then talk about something else.

It's definitely preferable to just start talking about something else the to announce it. But I struggle to do that because my problem is I can never think of a topic and I therefore go quiet unless I keep talking about the same thing.
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#25
RE: How To Know When To Drop A Subject
If you say "how 'bout that local sports team?" it will use humor to alleviate some awkwardness while cueing your conversation partner that you're wanting to move on but can't think of anything to say. It gives them a chance to change the subject without feeling rude. I do this a lot when I realize I have accidentally bored someone to death with my choice of conversation topic.
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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RE: How To Know When To Drop A Subject
Does it work if I try to be funny but fail epicly due to a complete lack and absence of an actual joke, humor and wit (like now)? Big Grin
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(April 23, 2016 at 12:34 am)Evie Wrote: Does it work if I try to be funny but fail epicly due to a complete lack and absence of an actual joke, humor and wit (like now)? Big Grin

I think so. Though, it could make things more awkward. Tongue
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#28
RE: How To Know When To Drop A Subject
At work, it's not so much that looking around is a queue that the conversation is unimportant. It's that we are looking around for customers that are approaching the counter.

Granted, where I work, there are some who talk and don't look around, but I am the type who looks around because I know that is my first priority over the conversation I am having.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
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#29
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Balls. I am doomed to a life of awkwardness. Oh well at least some people like me anyway Smile
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#30
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Sometimes I PM people when I am drunk. That can be awkward... Smile
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