How To Know When To Drop A Subject

[Thumpalumpacus]

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

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.

There's definitely an art to changing the subject. What I do is find where the topic fans out and intersects with something more to my interest, and then start inserting that into it. A thorough working knowledge of the language helps in that regard, in that you can use a word or phrase that has a couple of different shaded meanings and use that as a pivot-point to leverage the conversation elsewhere.

Knowing the language and its permutations is an incredibly important skill, for me.

[robvalue]

I tend to say something like, "I'm sorry, I've been talking a lot about this." That then gives the person a chance to indicate whether they actually want to hear more, or are happy for the conversation to change direction.

I find that if the other person hasn't spoken for more than a year or two, I've probably been talking too long. Or maybe I'm talking to something other than a person.

[ignoramus]

[FatAndFaithless]

All I'll say is that certain people should curb their habit of making thread after thread with the same/similar titles and OPs, with the same/similar levels of maturity (or lack thereof).

[account_inactive]

All I'll say is that certain people should curb their habit of making thread after thread with the same/similar titles and OPs, with the same/similar levels of maturity (or lack thereof).

Nobody is forcing you to post in the said threads.

[FatAndFaithless]

All I'll say is that certain people should curb their habit of making thread after thread with the same/similar titles and OPs, with the same/similar levels of maturity (or lack thereof).

Nobody is forcing you to post in the said threads.

I usually don't. Still irritating to see the same ignorant, ill-considered shite over and over though.

[Edwardo Piet]

All I'll say is that certain people should curb their habit of making thread after thread with the same/similar titles and OPs, with the same/similar levels of maturity (or lack thereof).

I agree. That would be redundant.

[Edwardo Piet]

All I'll say is that certain people should curb their habit of making thread after thread with the same/similar titles and OPs, with the same/similar levels of maturity (or lack thereof).

Nobody is forcing you to post in the said threads.

I think he has a point but I don't see what relevance it has to this thread or who these certain people he speaks of are. I think a certain chubby passive aggressive faithless person needs to either contribute something relevant to this unique thread (I have never made a thread on this subject before) or shut the fuck up and suck my turtley rooster, don't you agree ponykins?

[Edwardo Piet]

Nobody is forcing you to post in the said threads.

I usually don't. Still irritating to see the same ignorant, ill-considered shite over and over though.

I think certain people are idiotic to read through what they personally think is ill considered shite and and be petty dumbfucks by posting in it without addressing the topic merely to point out their own personal dislike of the topic as if that's not far more ill-considered and shite.

[Losty]

Nobody is forcing you to post in the said threads.

I usually don't. Still irritating to see the same ignorant, ill-considered shite over and over though.

Seems a bit random...