Active listening within friendships

[Edwardo Piet]

yeah!

I shall reiterate this:

Passive listening is better

/thread

'Twas my conclusion

[Excited Penguin]

I think those advices pretty much mount up to caring. That's that the article is actually doing, trying to make caring a science. 'Cause if you care enough, you're going to do all those things(and more) all by yourself. If you don't, then you don't really need the article anyway, do you?

[Banjo]

I tend to listen intently. Many years ago I discovered it to be the key to being a good conversationalist.

Mostly my conversations these days are professional in nature. So I am very careful to be polite and not waste time.

I am very careful with whom I am friends. So those who are I find worth listening too.

I save most of my silly arse stuff for atheist forums or when with other drummers.

[Edwardo Piet]

I'm almost always being a silly arsed turtle.

[Cyberman]

When done subtly this is nice. I really hate when I'm already frustrated and someone starts rewording everything I say back to me.

Old ladies do this all the time.

"I don't like that new doctor, Dolly, he's got such cold hands."

"...hands, yes."

"He reminds me of my dear Sidney, when he come back from Wipers. Stone dead he was."

"...was, yes."

"Mind you, he was a cold man generally, he was. Specially when they hanged him for them prostitute murders."

"... murders, yes."

"But you had to get on with it, din't you, when I was a girl. You got dragged up a dark alley, had your throat slit open with a strop razor and all your intesticles ripped out in a pile next to your still steaming corpse, you just had to pick yourself up, dust yourself down and just carry on. They dun't know they're born today."

"... vaginal laceration, yes."

[Edwardo Piet]

WTF

[Losty]

My grandma does it as you're speaking. It's like some sort of nervous twitch. You're trying to tell her something and she's trying to guess everything you say before you say it...lol

[Cyberman]

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