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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How are you? ---> I'm good.

What do you do for fun? ---> I SAID IM GOOD. GAWDDAMN.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you superman? Because you do good.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Lol exactly what I was thinking about

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

“What do you do for fun?”

“I avoid these kinds of situations”

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

"When was the last time you showered?"

"What are you doing in my house?"

Geez, lay off me, I don't have all the answers!?!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"What do you do for a living?"

"Oh, you're one of THOSE people."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Match with someone on dating app

They ask how I'm doing

OKAY I GUESS WE'RE GOING TO BE SINGLE FOR ANOTHER 7 MONTHS

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So what are better icebreaker questions? I admit I often ask these types of questions in social situations with new people, but usually I get very little back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

What:s your second favorite dinosaur?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I ask those questions too, especially when I’m not fully present. It goes better when I ask something less abstract that refers to our shared situation (location, unusual weather, the food if we’re eating, the show if that’s where we’re at).

I’ve checked info I wasn’t fully sure of at train stations with strangers. I had good conversations sometimes because they followed up with something else or offered to let me know when my stop was coming up.

Best thing really is to actually be interested rather than scripted. Or to get there ASAP after the ice breaker.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Constantly in a room with the two guys who tell only truth and only lies, getting grilled on what I think about this weather.