one of the top ten most influential-of-me essays I've read--I can't find it now, it was something like 'On Being Polite'--discusses this at lengthhttps://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1416861867331313665 …
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the essayist explains a party game he and another aggressively polite person would play you go to a party and try to go as long as you can without talking about yourself every time you talk about you, you get a point winner at the end of the night has the fewest points
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"what do you do" is sort of a party turd in the punch bowl because it's a stale cliched question and because mostly talking about work at a party is tiresome. there are so many more interesting things one can elicit from people
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Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot
people have been saying lately "what do you do" is a dc area thing and I had no idea because I don't think I've been to a party where people didn't ask that and it just seems normal to me?
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like, surely you came prepared with a canned answer, right?
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i usually make something up on the spot which has nothing to do with what pays my salary
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just leave the typo there pls
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