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[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (16 children)

"How are you," is one of those loaded questions I never know how to answer.

Is it part of a greeting? Do you genuinely want to know? Do I lie and keep the peace, or do I open up and bring you down?

Anyway, I'm doing fine, how are you?

[–] oyfrog 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"I'm alive" is an appropriately ambiguous answer, imo.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Living the dream

Translation: existential woe, thx for asking

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same old, same old

Translation: still stuck in some horrible cycle

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

How's it going?

It's going.

Translation: I'm like 3 bad days away from totally losing it.

[–] PwnTra1n 3 points 4 months ago

The longer the ooooh at the front the less time you got

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Another day in paradise.

Translation: Fuck this world and everything in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

How's it going?

Good, good, how about you?

Translation: Let's not talk about my shitty life.

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