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“Are you human?”
I understand why it’s needed, but it’s damn annoying when every single website asks.
It’s even more annoying when it’s random people asking me.
I hate it when they ask me to prove it by blinking, can’t wait until the firmware update where I can actually do that
“How tall are you?”
“Do you play basketball?”*
*This one turned into did you play basketball last week and it stung
“How’s it going?”
Using this as a greeting with “good, you?” as the conventional answer is so stupid but so normalized, I feel much more strongly about this than it actually justifies lol
What’s your go to alternate?
I don’t like small talk and avoid it with people who know me already, but if I’m masking and talking to a stranger I try to replace it with another meaningless question that’s less personal.
What question I end up going for is pretty context dependent, like if someone just arrived somewhere then “get here okay?” or similar questions about their transit are an easy replacement that’s a lot less invasive imo.
If the person has made any conscious fashion choices I notice and like that’s another easy one, though ‘conscious choice’ is key (“I like your hair” or “nice stickers on your water bottle” are good, but “you have nice skin” is serial killer vibes imo).Finding alternatives requires a tiny bit of thought each time, but imo that’s what communicating with another person should need.
“Are you okay?”
Its like, I’m fine enough, thanks. You don’t need to keep asking.
My inner monologue says, “Fuck off. You don’t care anyway. Your pretentious caring has made me worse.”
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I get that. My answer to that question will always be: i’ll dissapear and do nothing. The only reason i work is money. I don’t want to think about money anymore.
Same with tv shows that is basically: look at these rich people and the quirky things they buy with their wealth. I could not care less.
“Do you have any sugar?”
I offered you sugar and cream when you ordered the coffee, and you just said “cream”. This is on you.
How are you?
Being asked a million questions when someone finds out I’m a communist
I wouldn’t be getting an interrogation or being tasked to do a History/Political Science 101 lecture on the spot if my politics were anything else, and the last thing I want to do is get into fights with someone I don’t know or care much about because they refuse to question the propaganda they’ve been given and I absolutely need to be convinced by them
For me it’s this one:
“What question are you sick of answering?”
😁 SCNR
“does the fediverse have something to do with the feds”
Glowieverse
“What race are you?” It’s an extremely insidious, loaded question usually asked by someone who believes race is a biological reality. Things change however I answer this question, but nowadays my attitude toward the asker is what changes the fastest.
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People ask me that sometimes. Because I have a unique look that people can’t quite pinpoint. They think Italy or Greece or Latina or one person thought I was Chinese 🙄
But I’m 50% German, 25% Irish, 12.5% Spain, and 12.5% Navajo.
The Navajo olive complexion is strong, with a German big nose, and fiery Irish personality & stoic pragmatic blunt German demeanor.
How’s it going?
I mean as small intro talk at work that almost everyone feels obligated to say every damn time.
At my job I stand behind a counter with a 30 foot wall behind me covered in pegs holding key blanks. Customers approach me and ask “do you make keys here?” Of course we do we don’t just have all these blanks for show.
Except for that one time I actually needed a key made. Went to a place with blanks displayed on the wall and they told me they didn’t make them anymore because they didn’t have anyone who knew how to use the machine.
The various questions with the answer being “yeah… People are weird, right?”
“it’s not working” posed as a question
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Yeah I tried restarting it three years back and it worked, and it stopped working now and I don’t exactly remember how to I did it, so - proceeds to explain how they turned the monitor off and turned it back on without restarting the PC
