El Guepardo
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Maybe dance around them, and then when they ask what you're doing... say, it's a dance off!
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Talkers
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El Guepardo
Rafael Van Der Vaart
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Sheldon is the perfect example, here, of the kind of person that ****s us off.... that Chess clock situation is perfect for summing it up.
Sheldon is the perfect example, here, of the kind of person that ****s us off.... that Chess clock situation is perfect for summing it up.
thfcsteff
George Hunt
My missus was once accosted by one at a party...after 5 minutes she suddenly, loudly barked "DON'T CARE!" and then started laughing. When the antagonist gasped, she said 'only joking but I just have to go to the loo..." needless to say, that was that. It was fantastic to witness!
johnola
Jermaine Jenas
Aha good thread.
Talkers who are toppers can also be repeaters, rising toners and arm crossers.
I can think of several one is my dad and two are my immediate neighbours in the office.
Unrelated but I heard a German have a word for those with a face in need of a fist, ein backpfeifengesicht.
Talkers who are toppers can also be repeaters, rising toners and arm crossers.
I can think of several one is my dad and two are my immediate neighbours in the office.
Unrelated but I heard a German have a word for those with a face in need of a fist, ein backpfeifengesicht.
AuroRaman
Chris Armstrong
Hahahaha!
AuroRaman
Chris Armstrong
Arm-crossing talker and topper! My best friend is exactly this! He also turns his head slightly away from you, speaks out the side of his mouth and looks at you really condescendingly. ****ing macaron.
I'm not trying to top your examples by the way
Alaric
Erik Edman
The novelist John D MacDonald wrote a series of books about a private investigator, Travis McGee, set in Florida. McGee had a friend Meyer who had a technique for dealing with bores. Instead of nodding politely or looking away or stifling a yawn or any of the usual things people do when faced with a relentless talker, he leaned in as if fascinated. He got too close, uncomfortably close, to them as if he couldn't be happier and as if he was hanging on their every word. If they backed away, he followed to again invade their personal space until they broke off the conversation.
This obviously won't work on the phone and I've never tried it, but I'd loved to hear if you have success with it.
Another tack would be what I over heard a co-worker once say to a notoriously boring salesman, "Let me stop you right there Bob." And then she walked away.
This obviously won't work on the phone and I've never tried it, but I'd loved to hear if you have success with it.
Another tack would be what I over heard a co-worker once say to a notoriously boring salesman, "Let me stop you right there Bob." And then she walked away.
7percent
Pascal Chimbonda
Are the repeaters the people who tell EVERYONE the same story? I know a girl who would tell a story once, then go and tell the next person in the group the story, and the next person. If you followed her around the group though the details would get bigger and bigger. By the last person the story of the two lairy bitches in claire's accessories would become the story of how she stopped the mongol hoards looting the tower of london, during the zombie apocolype, during the blitz.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
I have some poppers if your interested
El Guepardo
Rafael Van Der Vaart
What the **** is toppers? Is that people that make things up and just go overboard about stuff? Is it like Jay from the Inbetweeners?
It's like if you tell them you're going to Tenerife, they'll tell you they have been to elevenerife.
As for talkers, this only ever happens at my work. If it's an aspergers type, I just carry on with what I'm doing and ignore them (we've got one guy like this -- can't really have a go at him, it's just how he is). If it's one of the younger lads, then I just tell them to shut the f**k up and that they are doing my head in. But I work in a warehouse and we talk quite harsh with one another just to help get through the day. :lol:
Though I also say "Oh, right, yeah..." like I'm really interested and then walk off. I've done that so much that I can now jokingly say "oh right, yeah" to someone and they'll just stop talking about whatever boring sh1t they are going on about.
If it was an office or customer facing environment, it'd be harder to avoid people and their sh1t.
El Guepardo
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Oh yeah, now I know what you mean! It's people fighting to compete to help their own self esteem. It's amazing how long ago events can happen & yet somehow still be relevant!
dawaxman
Gheorge Popescu
The irony of you lot wittering on about who knows the more annoying topper....
SHUT UP!
: )
johnola
Jermaine Jenas
I mean those people who tell you the same thing again and again with no recollection of telling you. Could be several times on the same day.
Rob
Peter Taylor
I have a lot of people like this come into the pubs I've worked in. Got pretty drunk during the summer and went in one of my old boozers, this guy comes over and starts in his monotone voice so I just said "listen I don't work here any more so I don't get paid to listen to you, ya boring ****".
I felt both pride and shame in equal amounts as I'm normally way too polite and get lumbered!
I felt both pride and shame in equal amounts as I'm normally way too polite and get lumbered!
Rob
Peter Taylor
This is my dad. And my girlfriends dad. My girlfriends dad used to be a butcher - we used to run a sweep on how many times he'd say "did you know I used to be a butcher" during gatherings. Last crimbo at the dinner table I replied, "really? That's cool - How comes you've never mentioned it before?" He bit hook line and sinker! Lol
Rob
Peter Taylor
ledley's knee injections
Sean Davis
I work in an office, so anyone who like me works in an office will know that officers are full of f*****g talkers.
There is one guy who is relentless. All you have to do is say hi to him and he will literally not stop for minutes. Once he thinks he has some kind of common thread with you, you're in deep trouble. Ours is, obviously, football. He's a West Ham fan though :ross:, oh wow. His tactics are the same thing every time. Whenever he gets a chance to make a comment to me about Spurs, he takes it. Usually says something positive funnily enough, which must be part of his plan, makes him think I'll be more likely to talk to him or something?
I'll usually respond with as CLOSED an answer as I possibly can summon (him: 'Spurs were good on Sat weren't they?' me: 'yeah.'), but he'll usually interpret my monosyllabic, borderline rude response as some kind of permission to launch a discussion about Canning Town :ross:. As if it was the most important thing in the entire world. Telling me about Fat Sam's style of place, extremely detailed tactical nuances he's spotted, good young players they apparently have coming through, yada yada yada, going on as if I actually care about wet spam. It's actually unbelievable.
If left unchecked, he really would carry on for ages, did so in the early days but luckily I sussed him out relatively quickly. Over several years working in offices I have experienced a few of these types and luckily, I do have the ability to appear rather rude. I choose to do any of the following:
- pretend I need the toilet (has relatively limited uses, or at least without making him think there's something seriously wrong with me haha, but I doubt this guy actually even notices)
- if my phone is in my pocket, I will pretend it's going, walk away my desk to find somewhere quiet to 'talk'
-- pick up a file from my desk and go put it away
- pretend i've seen someone out of his eye line call me over, just walk off
The list goes on really lol. If passing him in the office or in the street he is in the "pretend to look at the floor & ignore" category. He once sat next to me on the tube I had my headphones in, I just stared out the window not even acknowledging him (he 100% clocked me and it was kind of awkward) LOL.
Maybe a bit rude but if he didn't carry on so much it'd be different! I'm not the only one either. He used to sit in my row of desks and he'd spend most of the day just making pointless inane comments out loud, to no-one in particular, but clearly trying to get someone to engage in convo with him. It was a game between my team of 'whoever responds first loses' - we even talked about this when he wasn't at his desk!! Btw I NEVER lost at this game, just pretended I was concentrating on my screen really hard, or typing away on a made up email :ross:
No idea why some people feel the need to be like this - one of or a combination of the following mainly?
- insecure
- not got many friends/family around outside of work to talk to?
- love of their own voice and/or complete and utterly lack of perception and emotional intelligence skills? (I would suggest this is very common)
I'm sure there are other, sometimes genuine, reasons. Maybe it's not their fault. I vibe with a lot of people and love talking, in a proper two way conversation, but people who can't do this should be able to at least work out if the convo is entirely a one way street and the person they are talking to isn't either responding or there is no flow to the convo, and shut up. Sadly, many are entirely devoid of this ability.
Worst place I can think of other than an office is being stuck at some wedding where you are placed around people you don't know and you get stuck next to a talker who you have nothing in common with... oh my days, this happened to me back in October, it was hell - no-where really to escape to other than the bar :ross:
There is one guy who is relentless. All you have to do is say hi to him and he will literally not stop for minutes. Once he thinks he has some kind of common thread with you, you're in deep trouble. Ours is, obviously, football. He's a West Ham fan though :ross:, oh wow. His tactics are the same thing every time. Whenever he gets a chance to make a comment to me about Spurs, he takes it. Usually says something positive funnily enough, which must be part of his plan, makes him think I'll be more likely to talk to him or something?
I'll usually respond with as CLOSED an answer as I possibly can summon (him: 'Spurs were good on Sat weren't they?' me: 'yeah.'), but he'll usually interpret my monosyllabic, borderline rude response as some kind of permission to launch a discussion about Canning Town :ross:. As if it was the most important thing in the entire world. Telling me about Fat Sam's style of place, extremely detailed tactical nuances he's spotted, good young players they apparently have coming through, yada yada yada, going on as if I actually care about wet spam. It's actually unbelievable.
If left unchecked, he really would carry on for ages, did so in the early days but luckily I sussed him out relatively quickly. Over several years working in offices I have experienced a few of these types and luckily, I do have the ability to appear rather rude
. I choose to do any of the following: - pretend I need the toilet (has relatively limited uses, or at least without making him think there's something seriously wrong with me haha, but I doubt this guy actually even notices)
- if my phone is in my pocket, I will pretend it's going, walk away my desk to find somewhere quiet to 'talk'
-- pick up a file from my desk and go put it away
- pretend i've seen someone out of his eye line call me over, just walk off
The list goes on really lol. If passing him in the office or in the street he is in the "pretend to look at the floor & ignore" category. He once sat next to me on the tube I had my headphones in, I just stared out the window not even acknowledging him (he 100% clocked me and it was kind of awkward) LOL.
Maybe a bit rude but if he didn't carry on so much it'd be different! I'm not the only one either. He used to sit in my row of desks and he'd spend most of the day just making pointless inane comments out loud, to no-one in particular, but clearly trying to get someone to engage in convo with him. It was a game between my team of 'whoever responds first loses' - we even talked about this when he wasn't at his desk!! Btw I NEVER lost at this game, just pretended I was concentrating on my screen really hard, or typing away on a made up email :ross:
No idea why some people feel the need to be like this - one of or a combination of the following mainly?
- insecure
- not got many friends/family around outside of work to talk to?
- love of their own voice and/or complete and utterly lack of perception and emotional intelligence skills? (I would suggest this is very common)
I'm sure there are other, sometimes genuine, reasons. Maybe it's not their fault. I vibe with a lot of people and love talking, in a proper two way conversation, but people who can't do this should be able to at least work out if the convo is entirely a one way street and the person they are talking to isn't either responding or there is no flow to the convo, and shut up. Sadly, many are entirely devoid of this ability.
Worst place I can think of other than an office is being stuck at some wedding where you are placed around people you don't know and you get stuck next to a talker who you have nothing in common with... oh my days, this happened to me back in October, it was hell - no-where really to escape to other than the bar :ross:
AuroRaman
Chris Armstrong
I work in an office, so anyone who like me works in an office will know that officers are full of f*****g talkers.
There is one guy who is relentless. All you have to do is say hi to him and he will literally not stop for minutes. Once he thinks he has some kind of common thread with you, you're in deep trouble. Ours is, obviously, football. He's a West Ham fan though :ross:, oh wow. His tactics are the same thing every time. Whenever he gets a chance to make a comment to me about Spurs, he takes it. Usually says something positive funnily enough, which must be part of his plan, makes him think I'll be more likely to talk to him or something?
I'll usually respond with as CLOSED an answer as I possibly can summon (him: 'Spurs were good on Sat weren't they?' me: 'yeah.'), but he'll usually interpret my monosyllabic, borderline rude response as some kind of permission to launch a discussion about Canning Town :ross:. As if it was the most important thing in the entire world. Telling me about Fat Sam's style of place, extremely detailed tactical nuances he's spotted, good young players they apparently have coming through, yada yada yada, going on as if I actually care about wet spam. It's actually unbelievable.
If left unchecked, he really would carry on for ages, did so in the early days but luckily I sussed him out relatively quickly. Over several years working in offices I have experienced a few of these types and luckily, I do have the ability to appear rather rude
- pretend I need the toilet (has relatively limited uses, or at least without making him think there's something seriously wrong with me haha, but I doubt this guy actually even notices)
- if my phone is in my pocket, I will pretend it's going, walk away my desk to find somewhere quiet to 'talk'
-- pick up a file from my desk and go put it away
- pretend i've seen someone out of his eye line call me over, just walk off
The list goes on really lol. If passing him in the office or in the street he is in the "pretend to look at the floor & ignore" category. He once sat next to me on the tube I had my headphones in, I just stared out the window not even acknowledging him (he 100% clocked me and it was kind of awkward) LOL.
Maybe a bit rude but if he didn't carry on so much it'd be different! I'm not the only one either. He used to sit in my row of desks and he'd spend most of the day just making pointless inane comments out loud, to no-one in particular, but clearly trying to get someone to engage in convo with him. It was a game between my team of 'whoever responds first loses' - we even talked about this when he wasn't at his desk!! Btw I NEVER lost at this game, just pretended I was concentrating on my screen really hard, or typing away on a made up email :ross:
No idea why some people feel the need to be like this - one of or a combination of the following mainly?
- insecure
- not got many friends/family around outside of work to talk to?
- love of their own voice and/or complete and utterly lack of perception and emotional intelligence skills? (I would suggest this is very common)
I'm sure there are other, sometimes genuine, reasons. Maybe it's not their fault. I vibe with a lot of people and love talking, in a proper two way conversation, but people who can't do this should be able to at least work out if the convo is entirely a one way street and the person they are talking to isn't either responding or there is no flow to the convo, and shut up. Sadly, many are entirely devoid of this ability.
Worst place I can think of other than an office is being stuck at some wedding where you are placed around people you don't know and you get stuck next to a talker who you have nothing in common with... oh my days, this happened to me back in October, it was hell - no-where really to escape to other than the bar :ross:
