Why do people feel the need to speak c**p just so that there isnt a uncomfortable silence? Whats so bad about silence that people feel the need to fill it with rubbish?

I've always thought that comfortable silence is sign of a good friendship. You know that you're comfortable with the person when there's no need to fill the silence.

Originally posted by speeed
Why do people feel the need to speak c**p just so that there isnt a uncomfortable silence? Whats so bad about silence that people feel the need to fill it with rubbish?

*Seems like a very general question that is subject too many variables.

or

*Everyone is sh*t

pick one

one of the worst ones has to be lift silences!

Or when your in a taxi and youve exhausted the "been busy?" and "what time u on till?" lines.

Recent studies suggest that 75% of all communication is just to make noise. Therefore only 25% of what we say has any purpose.


I never realised that I spoke sense that much of the time lol

:D :thumbsup: :hihi:

I'm a pretty bad conversationalist in real life (you could never tell from my never-shut-up forum antics and fairly good grammar and spelling! ;) ), so i get uncomfortable silences, even with my best friends. I feel the need to speak more because i ahve things to say but don't know how to express them, or because i live with talkative people and feel left out a hell of a lot.

i recently got tired of taxi silences, and when ya drunk it takes the stig of it by being a it lairy

When i'm with my friends we talk non-stop because we have so much to say - we don't talk just for the sake of it.

Got a couple of friends i don't see very often but when we call each other you can guarantee that we'll be on the phone at least an hour and then usually have to finish the call because someone's at the door or something like that.

I'm quite happy and comfortable with my own company and can go days without talking to anyone. Sometimes when i'm walking my dog I avoid other dog walkers because I don't want pointless conversation.

Originally posted by Olliekitten
Recent studies suggest that 75% of all communication is just to make noise. Therefore only 25% of what we say has any purpose.


I never realised that I spoke sense that much of the time lol

The figures are more alarming than than, I can't remeber just now though :( *yawns

Originally posted by venger
The figures are more alarming than than, I can't remeber just now though :( *yawns

meaningless conversation has a meaning, even if its only a manifestation of the innate human desire to communicate - the medium is the message.

I think uncomfortable silences tend to occur when you are uncomfortable with the person or persons you are sharing space with

Originally posted by Hels
When i'm with my friends we talk non-stop because we have so much to say - we don't talk just for the sake of it.

Bloody women :hihi:

Originally posted by Andy78
I've always thought that comfortable silence is sign of a good friendship. You know that you're comfortable with the person when there's no need to fill the silence.

This is very true. My closest friends, I live with them, we can be around each other with no talking for ages, making breakfast or whatever. Yet I always know I've got someone to chat to if I want to.

I always find visiting the gents toilets in pubs rather awkward. Some things never leave you, no matter how rich and varied your life becomes; I am still impressed and fascinated by the fact that you can flick a switch on the wall, and electric light illuminates the room which has been generated in a power station miles away by burning fossilised prehistoric plants. Similarly, I remain slightly unnerved standing next to another chap staring at the wall while attempting to 'pass water' in a casual fashion. Men very rarely make conversation 'at the urinal' (and if they do, it is usually a worrying sign). Silence is the code.

A friend of mine called Martin told me years ago that he suffered from an unoffical syndrome called 'bashful bladder', and that the solution was to go through the thirteen times table. Maths is not my strong suit, so it works very well for me. Only the other night I was standing next to a swish chap who un-whatever it is you do with a belt - unfastened, that's the word - and got his Johnson out with the elan and confidence of a bullfighter in full flourish. I was rendered momentarily paraplegic and had to wait until he had finished (which took forever) before I could continue. He also 'splashed' very loudly, to show off.

Isn't it a shame, by the way, that all the good urinals seem to have disappeared? In the olden days, there were still plenty of subterranean palaces which were essentially visual poems, written in ceramics by Victorian craftsmen. Now all you get is stainless steel troughs with all the charm of an autospy lab.

What's gone wrong with the world? And why aren't there steam trains anymore? It's not fair................

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