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29 November 2006

accidental bad habits: [More:]a little background, people in less cosmopolitan areas don't simply let you be. There is a certain necessary back and forth that goes on where in if you make eye contact you smile or if someone says hello or some such, you must response or seem "uppity".
While i have this auto rictus thing going on for my smile requirement, i just realized earlier i have been returning people's verbal greetings with an exact imitation of whatever noises they make at me during a particularly froggy baritone in the market.

This problem has occurred before when i'd automatically respond "fine" or "thank you", and then realize while i was doing it that it didn't apply to what was said.

Oops.

my circumstances are a bit different that your average joe hellos but i see this as a sign of the dreaded prefunctories taking hold, so instead of hello, i say:
Hey, Metachat? What part of your autofunction are you bucking off?
What part of your rhythm are you keeping?

meanwhile, i have to make something to eat
i can not decide vat to make und i am trapped en ze german accent! Eet can not be stopped!
Eet started vit Heidi on ze PrrrojecT Runvay and eet vill not stop!
Eet gets all giddy and high pitched like a leetle girl!
*holds pen like a nazi holds a cigarette*
Mine blood craves sugar!
Mein caprice wants audio function!
IST EST WURST!
posted by ethylene 29 November | 17:20
I do that to reply to people bidding me farewell, like "have a good day", "have a good day" [in a reply tone]. I always reply the same, in a reply tone (by reply tone I mean the tone you say "you're welcome" when one thanks you). Sometimes it sounds bizarre, specially when I repeat random biddings like "drive carefully", that, as you say, don't always apply.

In my defense, this is a heuristic that saves me the hassle of coming up with a creative reply, and it is good enough most of the time.
posted by qvantamon 29 November | 18:16
I do the inappropriate "you too" alot. The comedian Brian Regan has basically built his career around a bit about the inappropriate "you too."
posted by jrossi4r 29 November | 18:19
It's not really so bad, except i've been literally parroting back at people the exact sounds they make, which could denote mocking.
This isn't so bad either except that i caught myself doing it unconsciously.

Actually, i just thought it was funny, and stopped myself from filling this thread with random onamonapia swearing because i feel unconscionably unfocusedly goofy with that lack of food headache again.
posted by ethylene 29 November | 18:33
When I am absorbed with something, I tend to respond to any greeting with "fine, how are you?", which can be embarrasing.
posted by dg 29 November | 18:36
right now i'm trying not to make inappropriate jokes in other threads

don't do it don't do it
eat something
posted by ethylene 29 November | 19:37
here's a weigh in on marinating the bun in the oven (NYT).
Laura Bennet admitted to sipping in her third trimester. (i wanted to be her for Halloween but didn't want to make the hair commitment, despite wanting the waist room.)
But it's considered risky for both man and woman to not be in your early twenties. But i know people who's mothers smoked and drank and worse and those kids aren't so bad... or so great. It goes on and on and on--
good god i'm glad this isn't my problem.


Cheers!
posted by ethylene 29 November | 22:01
Here and then gone again || OMG TINY BUNNY!

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