I try to collect conversation starters so I have things to talk about with people I like.
Some of them are general and work on anyone, like: “I’m moving soon!” or “how was your weekend?” or “did you see that ludicrous display last night?”. Others deal with shared interests or common friends, so they’re person specific.
What’s a word to describe collecting conversation starters? Borrowing from other languages is legit.
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did you see that ludicrous display last night?
is from the IT Crowd (fr/en). I had a friend who started following hockey, specifically to have more to say to her coworkers.
I joined the office fantasy football league for that same reason. I had heard it was like D&D for jocks, so I figured I could do alright.
It is not like D&D. I did not do alright.
It was still fun to be involved in the hype and razzing though. Didn’t join the next year, but I don’t regret playing.
It is not like D&D. I did not do alright.
Yeah. D&D isn’t nerdy enough.
I got started collecting conversation starters when I heard podcast about it. I can’t remember which podcast, but I’m pretty sure they said Japanese has a word for it. It was something like “neta”. Googling around, I think I see that “neta” could mean collecting joke material.
It’s called “being an Uber driver”
A good conversation-starter is something that you can bond over or that you know to be of interest to the audience that you can reasonably speak to intelligently
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