No. I don't give a fuck about todays weather everyday.
No. Your team you follow is shit.
No. Your kids are ugly and come from ugly stock.
I'm so god damned sick of having the same conversation everyday. Say something interesting.
Small talk is gonna kill me.
I like to think my brand of small talk is interesting.
"How about that typhus outbreak in California?" is my current go-to. Sometimes I'll mention the national debt if I'm feeling particularly antisocial.
I don't even know anymore, but I usually bring up the $170k per taxpayer figure.
Everyone's gonna die 4-5 states away. That's always the story.
Is Florida going to be the city of Atlantis in 2000 years? Did you ever think Atlantis might have been a real story about a city flooded by a hurricane?
I'm finally ready to become an honest human being.
A lot of small talk is just people checking that the situation is still OK. Silence makes some people uneasy.
People bragging about what their dumb ugly kids can do is another matter. Being able to talk to the TV or fiddle with an i-whatever, is no cause for pride.
But we are on the mountain top and they are in the valley. We must be kind to those that cannot see.