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ThatNiceMan asks: Have you ever been talking with people down the pub when somebody throws such a complete curveball (Sample WTF moment: "I wonder what it's like to get bummed") that all talk is stopped dead? Tell us!

(, Thu 12 May 2011, 12:53)
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No I mean when she says she's had three miscarriages and is about to start IVF, how should they react to that?
The tumbleweed response is no good, nor is nervously babbling about some vaguely similar situation they can tenuosuly link to her experience (which I'm assuming they only do so as not to give her the tumbleweed response and make her feel bad.)
Should they maybe say "Oh my god that's awful. How are you coping?" Because I'm sure that if people start doing that she'll be back on here in a few weeks saying she's fed up of being simpered at.

I want to know how I should react in that situation, that's if I'm ever insensitive and intrusive enough to dare say to someone "Do you have any kids?"
(, Mon 16 May 2011, 13:26, 2 replies)
I have to say that your insensitivity and intrusivness
has always been your biggest flaw in my eyes.
(, Mon 16 May 2011, 13:28, closed)
Your bathroom flaw has always been the biggest flaw in your house
because you want your wife to find your fat dead arse in there when you die on the bog like Elvis.
(, Mon 16 May 2011, 13:32, closed)
Nope. How many 'woe is me' posts have I ever put on here
(out of all both of them)? If your question is actually genuine, then I'm still thinking.
My initial reaction was to wonder why someone wants to know?
I'm looking for helpful webpages that say it so much better than I can, since my words seem to come across as 'self indulgent and obsessed' or whatever.
(, Tue 17 May 2011, 6:58, closed)

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