"hi, How Are You"

Seph_Kimara · August 2004

So...People asking "how are you" don't actually care how you are except when they do.

...what?

Mantrid · August 2004

You're all thinking about this WAAAAAY to much.

Seph_Kimara · August 2004

I'm just trying to make sense of his thought pattern and ultimately failing.

Zig · August 2004

seph, i'll explain it to you. he's come upon the realization that certain phrases and words in the english language can have different meanings, but still be the same phrase or word.. the part that you probably can't connect to that is the fact that he's overreacting like his discovery is the magical cure for AIDS and cancer all in one :\

Seph_Kimara · August 2004

Yeah, that's probably it.

Soylent_green · August 2004

I can't stand most of the standard polite drivel.

My mom still insists on saying "hi", "goodbye" or "how are you feeling" to me every once in a while, even though I've been solidly ignoring these statements for half a decade and never uses them myself unless it's someone I don't know and feel compelled to, but only if they go first.

My friends and I don't even say good bye to each other, the conversation ender is usually "OK..." or "allright..."

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Phoenix_Six · August 2004

It's like the way cliched ideas, phrases, or buzzwords are overused, and eventually become meaningless. Like an evolutionary deadend, these vestigial remains of our lexicon only serve as a social buffer like saying "um..." or "like" while we think of something useful to say.

I hope, like, you can, um.. see where i'm like going with this. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Melatonin · August 2004

I find somthing along the lines of 'how is life treating you', or 'what have you been up to' or even 'how have you been' serves the same purpose of inviting the other person to start a conversation.
[N.B. my verbal communication is terrible]

though theres really nothing wrong and certainly nothing rude about asking how someone is.. its acepted manners.

what i do find annoying is when people get arsey if you dont ask them back.
Theres a guy at my work who will always go "oh fine thanks" really sarcastically if you dont ask him back, and I find it so mechanical to stop and say "good thanks [pause] and how are you?" whenever he asks me how I am.

eBnar · August 2004

I see

Tequila · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (FCC @ Aug 10 2004, 08:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Blobby @ Aug 10 2004, 02:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> So all this time that I've been responding, "I'm a little hungry and low on cash," it was the wrong thing to say? I always take that question seriously. Sometimes I say 'good' when I am good. But that's not always the case. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
No, you're simply responding to a pseudo question in hope of reviving the true context of the question. The one who is performing the wrong-doing is the person asking you the question. He doesn't actually care whether you're hungry or low on cash.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
£10 bets you couldn't even pronounce "pseudo"!

Zig · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Soylent green @ Aug 10 2004, 03:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I can't stand most of the standard polite drivel.

My mom still insists on saying "hi", "goodbye" or "how are you feeling" to me every once in a while, even though I've been solidly ignoring these statements for half a decade and never uses them myself unless it's someone I don't know and feel compelled to, but only if they go first.

My friends and I don't even say good bye to each other, the conversation ender is usually "OK..." or "allright..."

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
but is it really OKAY? is it really ALRIGHT???

<b><i><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>HYPOCRITE!!!</span></i></b>

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

Melatonin · August 2004

next time someone asks how you are, why not take them aside and explain to them how rude they are being ...

im sure theyll never ask you again <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

im_lost · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zig @ Aug 10 2004, 03:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (FCC @ Aug 10 2004, 01:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> To those who wish to be unique and answer the actual context of the question, good for you. But for those who aren't, the question itself can be passed by as something offensive. As can thank you, sorry, when they they don't mean anything. But whatever, what can you do about it? Just give up and become assimilated into the growing world of idiotic phrases - LOL!!!!!! I rest my case. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
you rest your case..? what <i>CASE</i>??

you mean your observation of common phrases having different meanings? guess what, einstein, it happens fairly often <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
I think his case there was the use of LOL.

Zig · August 2004

well it sure was WORTHY of an lol <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

BlackMage · August 2004

"hi, how are you"
"i am incapeable of feeling"
"why is that"
"i am a figment of your imagination"
"oh, that's so sad"
"i will now bend you to my will and take over the world"
"thats nice"
"now go forth and make with the takings-over my peon"

*** CONVERSATION TERMINATED ***

CommunistWithAGun · August 2004

People get mad at me when they say "Hi, how are you" and I reply with "Hello, not to good *insert_15_minute_dismal_story*"

FCC · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zig @ Aug 10 2004, 11:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> well it sure was WORTHY of an lol <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Don't even get me started on the use of LOL. It would make you <b>actually</b> laugh out loud, not some pseudo LOL.

Gliss · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (FCC @ Aug 10 2004, 09:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Don't even get me started on the use of LOL. It would make you <b>actually</b> laugh out loud, not some pseudo LOL.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
I knew someone once who said LOL instead of laughing. Even on the funniest jokes, he'd go, "THAT IS LOLOLOLOL (Loll-oll-oll-oll)". I "accidentally" shoved him off a cliff and he was never heard from again.

Seriously though omg it was the scariest thing ever... he would ALWAYS say it, to the stupidest things.

NzNexus · August 2004

<b>We are all friends and brothers in this forum. Amen.</b>

CommunistWithAGun · August 2004

Even with us troll folk? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Zig · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (FCC @ Aug 10 2004, 09:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zig @ Aug 10 2004, 11:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> well it sure was WORTHY of an lol <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Don't even get me started on the use of LOL. It would make you <b>actually</b> laugh out loud, not some pseudo LOL.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
and <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /> means colon, letter D, and not happy face.

give it up, man. you're just being obsessive over something that really shouldn't matter to you unless you're just that - OBSESSIVE.

kida · August 2004

Holy Jesus, just leave it alone...Don't go so deep into the semantics of wordplay; it''ll leave you more doubtful and curious, like a thought of thoughts.....

What do I say?

"What's up man?"
"it's cool."
"yea?"
"yea..."
"well ya know...hl2 is gunna be 1337."
"nekkid pix?"
"ohlolol u said nekkid pix.."

You see; like stupid stuff. I suggest you put your good sense of logic in math or the bigger questions of life: metaphysics. Anyway, it was interesting to hear it different.

CommunistWithAGun · August 2004

About the naked pictures....when can I expect them

Snidely · August 2004

CWAG, you gotta give a little to get something. Strip down, please, and smile for the camera.

The_Nemesis · August 2004

We should just return to the nineteenth century English how d' ye do (pronounced as one word). They didn't even expect an answer.

Seph_Kimara · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Aug 11 2004, 08:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> About the naked pictures....when can I expect them  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
When you remove your hands from the cavernous depths of your ponce and go looking for them.

"hi, How Are You"

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