People think I'm stuck up too because I'm so quiet in real life, I just hate making small talk so much that I won't even do it.

People who know me through the internet think I'm going to be loud and extroverted when they meet me irl, and for some reason they imagine I have a really high pitched voice idk

I never contemplated you being loud or having a high pitched voice. Bob and I were talking this weekend and we thought you were one of the members we would most like to meet.

I wouldn't say I get any different reactions from people on the internet or in real life. I'm pretty much a book with just a cover, so there is nothing to misconceive.

You want to hear something crazy?

I just found out that one of the meanings (the main one) of rimshot is budum tsh.

Practically every other meaning had occurred to me but that one.

I would've thought you'd be introverted but snappy, not loud or high-pitched. Is that good?

But I'm aware I don't have that much to base it on. We just had that one bristly exchange really.

Like small talk with strangers or just everyone?

That's creepy, you two are perverts. Just kidding, that's sweet


Sort of, but I do mostly non verbal communication unless absolutely necessary


Everyone, I'll find a way to leave the conversation if someone tries to engage in small talk w/ me

So exactly .. Who are you trying to convince Svetlana Feodulova? :rolleyes:

Who?

I know I'm commenting to this out of context with what you were replying to, but I saw it and I wanted to posit the following:

While it may be admirable (and less of a hassle) to refrain from insulting someone based on a personal belief, how far does such a saying extend in terms of applicable criticism that ultimately serves the very important purpose of showing others that their perspectives are not the end-all of understanding, but that other people do think differently, regardless of who is actually correct?

Are we classifying "good" as an ego placation, or as a tactic employed by which an opposing opinion is formulated so that it is received well without losing its message?

I think there's a pretty important difference in the two, and a lot of people confuse "saying something good" with "saying something that the other person will agree with". And in that case, I think communication itself is being rendered useless as a function of the exchange of different ideas between individuals.
If we are only going to submit opinions that coincide with those that we come across, humanity may as well be one person in a series of mirrors.