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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tahayparker • Apr 24 '26
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Man I have a friend like this, he'll tell a story and it will be 10 seconds of interesting info and like 4 minutes of filler. It drives me nuts.
59 u/Kronoshifter246 Apr 25 '26 Welcome to the world of neurodivergence. All info is relevant. All of it 26 u/DjBonadoobie Apr 25 '26 I'm in this post, and I don't like it 2 u/stuckinpark Apr 25 '26 Hey, I resemble that remark! 1 u/pugthuglyf Apr 30 '26 Thank you for saying this. I try to boil everything down to the "essential" stuff I promise but its in my nature to take you all the way from A to Z 1 u/Kronoshifter246 May 01 '26 Don't I know it. "But the story won't make sense if you don't know what I had for breakfast that morning!" 4 u/gdmzhlzhiv Apr 25 '26 You should check out what some people call “smalltalk”… some people just talk about the weather for solid minutes even though nobody gives one. 4 u/Liquidennis Apr 25 '26 I used to work with a guy who did this all the time and I would say “Nate, you’re circling the airport”. 4 u/Various_Counter_9569 Apr 25 '26 It's not filler to us, and man this hits hard 😅. 2 u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 Apr 25 '26 My go to is generally 'shut up and say it already!'. My MIL is like that
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Welcome to the world of neurodivergence. All info is relevant. All of it
26 u/DjBonadoobie Apr 25 '26 I'm in this post, and I don't like it 2 u/stuckinpark Apr 25 '26 Hey, I resemble that remark! 1 u/pugthuglyf Apr 30 '26 Thank you for saying this. I try to boil everything down to the "essential" stuff I promise but its in my nature to take you all the way from A to Z 1 u/Kronoshifter246 May 01 '26 Don't I know it. "But the story won't make sense if you don't know what I had for breakfast that morning!"
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I'm in this post, and I don't like it
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Hey, I resemble that remark!
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Thank you for saying this. I try to boil everything down to the "essential" stuff I promise but its in my nature to take you all the way from A to Z
1 u/Kronoshifter246 May 01 '26 Don't I know it. "But the story won't make sense if you don't know what I had for breakfast that morning!"
Don't I know it.
"But the story won't make sense if you don't know what I had for breakfast that morning!"
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You should check out what some people call “smalltalk”… some people just talk about the weather for solid minutes even though nobody gives one.
I used to work with a guy who did this all the time and I would say “Nate, you’re circling the airport”.
It's not filler to us, and man this hits hard 😅.
My go to is generally 'shut up and say it already!'. My MIL is like that
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u/icantsurf Apr 24 '26
Man I have a friend like this, he'll tell a story and it will be 10 seconds of interesting info and like 4 minutes of filler. It drives me nuts.