4 ms·
Since when did making small talk become "flirting"?
by roncesvalles 2y ago
Since when did making small talk become "flirting"?
- delecti 2y agoAs I've heard it, it was characterized as flirting by the employee.
- throwaway48476 2y agoFiltered through the police and then through the media. It's a game of Chinese telephone and a lot gets lost in the translations, which leads to a huge amount of misinformation. Case in point b and t 9.
- soperj 2y agoSince when is it "chinese telephone" and not just "telephone"?
- throwaway48476 2y agoPick a common language in a different language family that results stilted translations. It was always Chinese telephone.
- hinoki 2y agoIt’s a mixture of Chinese Whispers and Telephone, two names for the same game.
- plasma_beam 2y agoI agree. The media seemed to have jumped on the flirting angle because he was smiling. Isn’t that a little insulting to the hostel employee? I smiled at my barber today. Definitely wasn’t flirting.
- coldtea 2y ago>Isn’t that a little insulting to the hostel employee? Why would that be "insulting"? HE was supposed to be flirting, not necessarily her. Plus, even if both were flirting, there's nothing insulting about that.
- plasma_beam 2y agoIf I am the employee, I don’t want my employer to think I’m flirting with customers when it’s just small talk. And..uhh..if I’m married, etc. Anyways, we don’t know for sure either way
- FooBarBizBazz 2y agoSince the Millennial generation, pretty much, at least among the (over-)educated. It kills me; I'd prefer to pretend we're all participating in some shared project called "civilization". But, as the shooting in the street and the cheering on the Internet have shown (and the price gouging before that), our society has been coarsening along a great many dimensions.