• cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    “Could you rephrase that?” Works every time and makes it sound like you didn’t understand the wording rather than “I completely fucking spaced”

  • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Question: where do you draw the line between when you totally space when someone else is talking and vs getting offended when you realize the other person isn’t listening?

    edit - why isn’t strikethrough not working for the suggested formatting?

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      where do you draw the line

      For me, life is too short to get offended that the other person isn’t listening.

      Anyway, if everyone listened carefully to everything I say, I would have to be a lot more careful when I talk.

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        I’d say the line is from knowing the person. It’s one thing if someone isn’t listening, it’s another if they get distracted.

        Nerotypicals do it too, just not as much.

        When it happens to me, I’m honest and open about it “I’m really Slsorry, I just spaced out for a minute, would you mind repeating that?”

        Sometimes I’ll ask them to repeat because I’m “not getting it”, which isn’t a lie.

        • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          my grandmother used to do it. she’d call me, ask me about my day, and then ignore and interrupt me once i began to answer her question. there are few things i can think of that were less infuriating. god rest her soul, she was a wonderful woman otherwise, but i still can’t shake that feeling of worthlessness i felt whenever she did that - and she never had any idea it mattered, because i’d never dare call out my own grandma.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      2 days ago

      Sometimes the formatting leaves a space between the last highlighted word and the inserted characters which breaks the formatting. I usually have to go in and remove that space and add one after the formatting.

      ~~Automatic ~~formatting.

      Fixed formatting.

      Screenshot of editor. image of text above to preserve formatting.

      • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        i just realized what i thought was wrong… i’m using old.lemmy.world, which apparently doesn’t display it like you’d expect. oh well. old.lemmy has a ton of faults, but i still try to use it as much as possible over the other options. because i’m old, too.

  • Stamau123@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    2 days ago

    Cowchop was a fun channel

    them and Funhaus were the only good part of Roosterteeth

    • techfox@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Honestly! I haven’t thought about them for a while now. I think I’m gonna go on a CowChop binge starting with “the accident” and working backwards.

  • Goretantath@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    2 days ago

    Is that uberhaxornova? Jesus christ its been ages since i watched him. Wonder how hes doing.

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Happens to me in meetings all the time. I messed it up for my team a few months ago and my manager had me and a few others turn on our cameras because he thought I wasn’t paying attention.

    I kind of was, but kind of wasn’t. It’s hard in a meeting of 9 people who spend 5 minutes each talking about things that have nothing to do with me but I have to pay attention in case I do have input to share.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Listen boss, having me look at a camera is the surest way for me to NOT pay attention.

      Now, if I work on something while you NTs ear rape me with your voice vomit, I’ll actually hear the important bits.