jane
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not a bad day for it at all at all at all.
i've to do a lot of small talk in work.
don't like it though.
the thing that annoys me the most is the way some older irish women say "yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah".
it's the way it's done that bothers me. there's a continual inhalation of breath as they're saying "yeh" about seven times in a row. so it's like "yeah-yih-yih-yih-yih-yih".
does that make sense? anyway, does my head in.
This freaked me out completely the first time I heard it. I think I asked if the speaker was okay and maybe needed some water.
Sometimes you see younger Irish women doing it, too, and you get a flash of them just sort of waiting to grow into their housecoats and daily mass, the sort of women who are born old, born to 'tut-tut' at everything. The kind who ask you how things are, you're sort of pleased to be able to tell them if someone is sick or something because it makes them kind of light up. My grandmother on my dad's side was like that. Mega-hyper-super-Italian. Must be a Catholic thing.
The first few times someone said "C'mere to me" I bonked heads with them.
And the first time I saw Mr Jane discuss football with a taxi driver, I nearly burst a vein in my neck from the suppressed hilarity. The only sport in which he has even a passing interest is international rugby, and barely, so I was rather surprised when he carried on a rather spirited conversation with the driver (which had been started by the driver).
He explained that all you have to do is plug in some stock phrases, disagree/agree with statements without a discernible pattern, and pick a few names you've heard on the news. Easier than the awkwardness that follows if you admit you don't like sports, and kind of fun when the other person gets all hyper about something you've said.
If the driver asks whom you support, say that you watch the games, but you don't actually support any Oppressor team because it goes against your principles.
It's genius. I'm sure loads of you fellas do it.