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LA, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 6:25:50 PM EDT
I find it hard to hold a conversation lately with people. Especially over the phone. It seems like every time I'm on the phone with someone they have to be the one doing all the talking. I even wait patiently for a pause and try to get my point in but I inevitably get interrupted and talked over again. Rinse and repeat.
I'm sure this is a result of a shrinking attention span en masse. Has anyone else noticed this? |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 6:26:36 PM EDT
[#1]
Can’t argue with that
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Posted: 4/27/2024 6:27:46 PM EDT
[#2]
Only some. Most people are normal.
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LA, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 6:28:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By zach_: Only some. Most people are normal. Normal is a sliding scale. What was normal isn't anymore. |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 6:29:04 PM EDT
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You know my boss!
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Posted: 4/27/2024 6:31:25 PM EDT
[#5]
I don't answer questions.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 6:31:57 PM EDT
[#6]
Very much so.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 6:33:05 PM EDT
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Most people are not listening they are only waiting to live stream their life to you.
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VA, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 6:33:28 PM EDT
[#8]
Maybe they are just excited to talk with you.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 6:38:17 PM EDT
[#9]
Yes. And they're ALWAYS assholes.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 6:39:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By XJ: You know my boss! |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 6:55:11 PM EDT
[#11]
Harpo Marx (R.I.P.), (R.J.) Teller, and all French mimes would disagree.
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IL, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:16:27 PM EDT
[#12]
I've been experiencing same. At first thought it was due to my teenage girls, then just me getting older and grumpier.
Then I realized the 50+ year olds at work did the same shit. I would try to get a word in at a pause but there was never a pause. Recently this fucker was going on at 90MPH pace and asked a question I had the exact answer to but he wouldn't shut the fuck up long enough for me to tell him. I ended up letting him walk away still pondering that question. W. T. F. Either I am getting less patient in my old age or these gadgets with the constant Social Media is frying some brains. |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:18:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By zach_: Only some. Most people are normal. Normal is just a cycle on my washing machine. |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:22:26 PM EDT
[#14]
Yes, it's very hard to have an actual conversation with anyone these days.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:24:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CentralScrutinizer: I've been experiencing same. At first thought it was due to my teenage girls, then just me getting older and grumpier. Then I realized the 50+ year olds at work did the same shit. I would try to get a word in at a pause but there was never a pause. Recently this fucker was going on at 90MPH pace and asked a question I had the exact answer to but he wouldn't shut the fuck up long enough for me to tell him. I ended up letting him walk away still pondering that question. W. T. F. Either I am getting less patient in my old age or these gadgets with the constant Social Media is frying some brains. More than once I have told a customer, "you called and asked me a question, but I can only answer it if you stop talking long enough for me to." |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:25:23 PM EDT
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I usually tell them they have diarrhea of the mouth or that they talk so much their tongue is sunburned
I usually do this in front of other people who laugh at them That usually shuts them up and they avoid me for future conversations |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:27:48 PM EDT
[#17]
OP knows my brother.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:28:33 PM EDT
[#18]
Assert yourself, that’s part of conversation.
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:32:15 PM EDT
[#19]
Yes. It's like they have to force their point with you. I think it has something to do with shorter attention spans. It's like they don't know how to have a two-way conversation where you take turns talking.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:34:28 PM EDT
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Yeah, but then nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of gibberish
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:35:32 PM EDT
[#21]
Do you actually listen, or are you just waiting to talk?
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USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:38:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By tsg68: Assert yourself, that's part of conversation. |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:39:07 PM EDT
[#23]
I was taught to listen more than you talk, so it all seems to work out.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:45:26 PM EDT
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One of the old project managers at work used to do that. Nice guy, but you'd end up talking to him for 45 minutes, maybe 3 of which you'd have anything to say. He would go on, and on, and on, and on, and on. Rarely asked you a question, and if he did it was "do you know about xxxxx?" Even if you said "yes" he'd still explain it to you. You would learn a thing or two, but he'd do this as you passed him in the hall. So whatever you were trying to do you would never get to it. I'd have to act and get wide eyed real quick "oh fuck, I forgot about that thing I gotta go check on! Sorry Tim, gotta go!"
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:49:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: RattleCanAR]
[#25]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By samsilk: I don't answer questions. I often give 3 word answers but often they expect to get a simple answer when they ask, what they think is simple question but it actually has a complicated answer. |
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CT, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 7:57:55 PM EDT
[#26]
Don’t care I don’t listen to anyone.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 8:03:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By intheburbs: Do you actually listen, or are you just waiting to talk? |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 8:08:59 PM EDT
[#28]
Just my mom
. Talk and talk and talk then ok bye. I can't get a word in. Then I'll talk to my dad and tell him stuff then later she'll say "you never told me that!" Because I never had a chance ma She says it's because I never really talk much in general so she feels like she has to carry the conversation. Maybe that's how people feel about OP too?
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Posted: 4/27/2024 10:03:47 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Mooseless]
[#29]
I have a theory as to why this is increasing.
It’s loneliness. You’ve probably already noticed that lonely people talk a lot. They don’t get a lot of human contact, so when they do they tend to overcompensate by talking nonstop. So consider the last four years and the changes we’ve seen. Lockdowns, WFH, societal division, increased use of text, internet, etc. Almost every survey shows people are alone more often and lonelier than ever. I think this is one of the consequences we’re seeing. |
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KS, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 10:09:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Joe731: Yeah, but then nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of gibberish  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 10:12:18 PM EDT
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Most people are not lustening, they're only waiting for their turn to talk
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MS, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 10:15:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Joe731: Yeah, but then nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of gibberish And motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 10:31:44 PM EDT
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Most people are stuck on transmit. Even when others are talking they aren’t listening, but thinking of what they want to say next. A nation of monologues pretending to be engaged.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 10:40:31 PM EDT
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God gave you two ears and one mouth, use them in that proportion.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 10:43:56 PM EDT
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Meh. Let them carry the conversation. Less work for me. I have no desire to compete to talk on the phone or with anyone else.
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OH, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 10:52:28 PM EDT
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I've found the contrary. Most folks I interact with would rather not be involved in any conversations. Just send a text and be done about it.
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MI, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 3:50:51 AM EDT
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It's a sign that you are talking to a person with a narcissist personality. In that person's mind, what he or she has to say is much more important than what you have to say. They will talk over you. They will cut you off in mid sentence. Basically, they are children in an adult's body. My father was one.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:06:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Glocked: And motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre. |
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