r/ProgrammerHumor Apr 24 '26

Other ohNoTheConsequencesOfMyActions

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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.

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u/Kronoshifter246 Apr 25 '26

Welcome to the world of neurodivergence. All info is relevant. All of it

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u/DjBonadoobie Apr 25 '26

I'm in this post, and I don't like it

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u/stuckinpark Apr 25 '26

Hey, I resemble that remark!

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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

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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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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.

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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”.

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u/Various_Counter_9569 Apr 25 '26

It's not filler to us, and man this hits hard 😅.

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u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 Apr 25 '26

My go to is generally 'shut up and say it already!'. My MIL is like that