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[RedKing]

There appear to only be four with airports (or, at least, airport codes): Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, and Jordan.

New Jersey is its own country now??!

YES! They're gone! We did it!! *pops champagne cork*


Oh. You meant the little island off the coast of France. 
_{*grumble grumble*}

[scriver]

If "Japanese" is too many syllables, then Nihon is a little bit shorter, and more respectful.  Will take some work to get culturally ignorant people to recognize that one, though.

It always bugs me that we don't call places by the name the people who live there call it. It's "Japan" and not "Nihon" like it should be.

Different languages have different names for different countries. That's only natural, and there's nothing inherently bad or offensive about it. I call their Nihon Japan, and they call my Sverige Suueden. I call Spain's España Spanien, they call my Svetige Suecia.

[Putnam]

I'm kind of ashamed to say this, but I understood that I hadn't been nominated in the gift giveaway thread (I don't do anything in the lower boards community-wise, so I don't really expect to be "recognized" for anything there) until I saw that Meph and Deon both were but not me 

[Bauglir]

... Huh. I thought you were on the list. Thought I looked. I must be going crazy but Imma go fix it. Y'do plenty.

EDIT: Okay it's done. You're somebody I recognize as making posts I like reading, so there.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

We have a gift thread?

[Bauglir]

This way.

There are actually several game-gifting threads in the Other Games forum, but this is one where you have to nominate other people. Youtube comments are the preferred place* to do so, but I have no account there and so cannot.

*This being the first time in history anyone's ever uttered the preceding six words in sequence.

[Tiruin]

I apparently suck at conversations! Who knew?
^{Not me of course. >_>}

[gman8181]

I apparently suck at conversations! Who knew?
^{Not me of course. >_>}

Conversation is a two way street. It's both parties' responsibilities to make it interesting, so don't hold yourself any more accountable than the person you were talking to.

If you want some tips to help make the other party find a conversation more interesting, just talk about something they like or can relate to. First try and get them to talk about it but if they lose momentum or have a hard time starting, just ask questions or tell a story about a situation they might find relatable.

Seriously though, if a bad conversation happens, the other person probably wasn't doing their part very well either.

[gman8181]

^^^
Most people love talking about themselves or their interests so even though you may not be enjoying the conversation, there's a decent chance they are.

Asking for clarification such as saying, "so you feel like . . ." or "you mean you . . ." show that you are interested in what they are saying and trying to understand. Most people like that and then consider you a good person to talk to... or talk at. Even if you know nothing about a subject, it can be easy to show interest with questions. Be honest about your lack of knowledge on a topic and act interested in learning more about it (even if you really couldn't care less). So "To be honest, I never really had an opportunity to get into Dr. Who. What about the show makes you like it so much."
Then the person goes along and talks about it with your occasional input question to keep the conversation progressing. Even if you never end up watching the show, you can use what you hear in that conversation for future ones. Talking to another person who likes Dr. Who and maybe mention, "Oh yeah, I heard about the one episode where . . . it sounded pretty interesting, I might start getting into the show myself."

The perfect situation of course is actually finding someone who has things in common that you both enjoy talking about. I'll admit it's easier said than done. I only have about two people who I can really communicate with and enjoy it fully.

[SalmonGod]

Prompting people to talk about themselves and their interests, and acting interested as they do so is pretty much the easiest guaranteed way to be like-able to just about anyone.

[kaijyuu]

In other words, appeal to other people's vanity.


Personally I have no reason to talk to people whom I don't want to talk to, so if I'm acting interested in what other people are saying then I actually AM interested.

[Descan]

How fascinating, Kaijyuu, tell me more~~~

SADNESS: Texas is depressed and that's why they haven't been talking. No one to be with on christmas.

* Depressedcan is sad.

[LordSlowpoke]

How fascinating, Kaijyuu, tell me more~~~

SADNESS: Texas is depressed and that's why they haven't been talking. No one to be with on christmas.

* Depressedcan is sad.

hey

hey listen

* LordSlowpoke stops being a fairy for a second

how about

no hear me out here

how about you

how about you go to the texas

and be with the texas ??­??­??­?

holy shit so many problems solved with that one simple gesture you only need to travel what a metric fuckton of kilometers? pff, that's nothing, you could walk that distance. with no legs.

imagine all the villages you could plunder along the way! you'd walk up to the texas like what up i got so much plunder that my back has been broken by it in several places please send help and then the texas would take all the plunder and go back to canada with you because you've got socialized healthcare there and you'd live in a castle that the texas built with all the plunder and be happy together sixever

flawless plan

[Jopax]

I'm a slight variation to that I think, I'll gladly get fired up over discussing a TV show or a game or something (to the point of childlike excitement). But when most people start prying into the more personal stuff I shut down immediately, change the subject, pretend they're not there anymore and the like.

I generally hate talking about myself in that way, mostly because I don't think anyone should care enough to listen about that crap, despite the evidence that they do actually care enough. I think that kinda scares me, or something, not sure, go away.

[Caz]

Oh man... a new year is coming up. Scary.