Re: More Bloody Cheek

Peter Thomas said:
In message <4732489e$0$508$bed64819@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Robinson

People are not welcome to help themselves to undefined quantities of my
time for their purposes according to all these "suck people people into
conversation, get the agreeing to all kinds of stuff and then they find it
harder to refuse what you're actually asking for" techniques. I'm getting
Victorian in me old age, innit ?

Well, maybe. And you've got that little technique number so-and-so in the
droidbuch well sussed.

It's not exactly hard, is it ? Just say something that isn't in the script.
If they answer, it's a conversation. If they have to drag it back to the
script, there's a script. Like is-it-a-troll here.

On the other hand, flirting with a Jehovah's Witnessess the other day did
no harm save wasting a couple of minutes of their time. I was good and
didn't change into a definitely non-JW T-shirt beforehand. Rewarded by the
conversation being multi-levelled and eventually causing them to leave
with much goodwill but a tad puzzled. Take entertainment when and where
it presents itself?

Oh, sure, can be pleasant sometimes, if you choose to.


--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html
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