Please don’t do unserious answers, or at least add a disclaimer before it and make sure the question has been answered seriously prior to that.
My question:
Is it normal using cutlery always hurts? Every single time I use knife, fork of spoon for anything else but scooping something soft, it hurts. It’s been like this my entire life. Are people really in pain every time they eat without anyone speaking of it???
Do people just like… walk up to strangers and talk at them? And people are okay with this???
What the hell.
I think this should become common again. How can we build class consciousness and solidarity when everyone is meant to be in their own little bubble of smartphone and airpods?
It has happened to me a few times so I think it’s normal. At least in my country.
We should walk up to them and talk to them about how the boss is stealing from their pockets
Sometimes yes. I travel home to my parents by international bus and I talk to people sitting next to me sometimes. Or they talk to me first.
The other day I saw a guy in the street working on a van, converting the back seat and trunk into a place to lay down a mattress. I have been thinking about doing the same for a while now so I asked him some questions about his progress. It was a nice talk.
It’s not like I’m going around bothering random people. Or so I hope. And if you’re not a being a complete creep most people are fine with a chat every now and then.
I bike everywhere on a step-thru bike and older people love to walk up and talk with me about it. I’ve just come to accept it and advocate for more people to take a bike ride instead of a drive and I have seen more older people on step-thru bikes in my town than when I first moved here so I hope I’ve encouraged people to try riding again even if it’s just casually.
In the USA? This is threatening, sociopath behavior.
From what I hear though, pretty normal in a lot of the rest of the world.
One of the most unnerving things about being in the US is people with open carry starting up conversations with me for my accent. So the US doesn’t feel as different to us foreigners as back home. But it does feel threatening, thanks to the random arsenals people like to wear on their hips.
Its a cultural thing, some places do, some places dont.
Glasgow for example is known for having a culture where everyone talks to one another on public transport. Its actually pretty great tbh.
Some places. The place where I climb I talk to strangers way more than anywhere else.
You don’t walk up, usually you have to be in close proximity for a reason (waiting for a bus, in line for something, etc). Then you singly make a comment about something and probe for a conversation. It’s quite fun and you meet some very interesting people this way.
Imagining some rando coming into the bus stop and talking at me makes my bones itch.
We can smell people like you from a mile away.
It’s like cats picking the only non-cat person. We will specifically pick you out. Welcome to the conversation.
But genuinely, it’s not directly coming up to a person. It’s more like you’ve both been sat there for 10 minutes, and there’s some sort of event that someone can comment on, like a person tripping on the sidewalk, it raining, etc.
… The Working class is being exploited by the owning class is this topic enough to start talking with the random stranger on the bus?
‘Let me tell you about the word of our Lord and savior Karl Marx’
“So you see, Stalin is the Chad and Trotsky is the Soyjack because during the 13th Congress of the Party…”