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I don't mean can I call you.
I mean are you the sort of person who is happy to talk about nothing and everything for age's
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Like me a phone conversation is usually over in a minute or two with very little in the way of conversation? |
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"I don't mean can I call you.
I mean are you the sort of person who is happy to talk about nothing and everything for age's
Or
Like me a phone conversation is usually over in a minute or two with very little in the way of conversation?"
Minute or two at a stretch. Although I was on the phone to hmrc last week for over an hour. It was traumatic |
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"Yep I love having a chat on the phone. Even better on FaceTime 
I just sit there and it's like pulling teeth.
Yep, no, ok thanks, see ya"
I think it all depends on the person OP. If it’s not your thing it’s not your thing |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don't mean can I call you.
I mean are you the sort of person who is happy to talk about nothing and everything for age's
Or
Like me a phone conversation is usually over in a minute or two with very little in the way of conversation?"
Depends who you are chatting to, you wouldn’t have long conversation with someone you see every day or every week. Long conversations are usually for friends and family you don’t see often. |
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By *ddie1966Man
over a year ago
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I actually prefer to chat on the phone.
It's difficult to put intonation into a text style chat.
Sure, you can use imojis etc, but something gets lost in translation.
And unusually, for a bloke, I can chat mindless gabble for ages as long as I've got a mug of tea with me...
And let's face it, you can say more in 30seconds with a phone call than you can typing a text message out over an hour.
And you don't have to put up with bloody contradictive text on a phone call....  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Absolutely not. You can't fill awkward silences on the phone in the same way you can in person and I used to have quite a bad stutter when I was a child which comes out again if I try to fill gaps in a phone conversation  |
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By *apnDomMan
over a year ago
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"As long as the other person reciprocated, I could talk for hours "
See, the real art of being a good conversationalist is not how much you talk yourself, but how much you can make the other person talk. Just food for thought. |
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"As long as the other person reciprocated, I could talk for hours
See, the real art of being a good conversationalist is not how much you talk yourself, but how much you can make the other person talk. Just food for thought."
Why thank you for letting me know how conversations work  |
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By *apnDomMan
over a year ago
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"As long as the other person reciprocated, I could talk for hours
See, the real art of being a good conversationalist is not how much you talk yourself, but how much you can make the other person talk. Just food for thought.
Why thank you for letting me know how conversations work "
You DO make it sound like you blame others when the conversation is not going well, as if it's their fault for not saying enough |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I hate it. I've only ever been able to chat away to a handful of people easily on the phone and they are my nearest and dearest. I find with others I get too stressed not being able to read body language etc. Conversation flows much easier when I'm face to face with someone. |
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"As long as the other person reciprocated, I could talk for hours
See, the real art of being a good conversationalist is not how much you talk yourself, but how much you can make the other person talk. Just food for thought.
Why thank you for letting me know how conversations work
You DO make it sound like you blame others when the conversation is not going well, as if it's their fault for not saying enough "
You DO make it sound like you blame her. A person who you don't even know. That's nice. 
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By *apnDomMan
over a year ago
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"As long as the other person reciprocated, I could talk for hours
See, the real art of being a good conversationalist is not how much you talk yourself, but how much you can make the other person talk. Just food for thought.
Why thank you for letting me know how conversations work
You DO make it sound like you blame others when the conversation is not going well, as if it's their fault for not saying enough
You DO make it sound like you blame her. A person who you don't even know. That's nice.
J"
Yeah, I do blame her. If her conversations die down, it's because she wasn't a good enough conversationalist to keep or get them going. Simple truth. |
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"As long as the other person reciprocated, I could talk for hours
See, the real art of being a good conversationalist is not how much you talk yourself, but how much you can make the other person talk. Just food for thought.
Why thank you for letting me know how conversations work
You DO make it sound like you blame others when the conversation is not going well, as if it's their fault for not saying enough
You DO make it sound like you blame her. A person who you don't even know. That's nice.
J
Yeah, I do blame her. If her conversations die down, it's because she wasn't a good enough conversationalist to keep or get them going. Simple truth."
What about the other person. Surely they bear some responsibility too? 
J |
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By *apnDomMan
over a year ago
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"As long as the other person reciprocated, I could talk for hours
See, the real art of being a good conversationalist is not how much you talk yourself, but how much you can make the other person talk. Just food for thought.
Why thank you for letting me know how conversations work
You DO make it sound like you blame others when the conversation is not going well, as if it's their fault for not saying enough
You DO make it sound like you blame her. A person who you don't even know. That's nice.
J
Yeah, I do blame her. If her conversations die down, it's because she wasn't a good enough conversationalist to keep or get them going. Simple truth.
What about the other person. Surely they bear some responsibility too?
J"
No? Of course some people are better at conversations than others, but if you're really good at it, then you get engaging, interesting conversations with people, that normally don't say very much.
It's a skill. If you're good at it, you can have great conversations with anyone, and not just with people who naturally answer well.
As I said earlier: A great conversationalist doesn't talk very much, but gets others to talk very much. |
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