I know someone who does this, it's got so irritating I tend to avoid talking with him anymore
It's as if they are assuming you are hanging on to every word they are uttering as with with profound meaning or intellectual significance.

Wrong, it's as boring and irritating as fuck. I think it's got to the stage where the person I know who does it thinks i'm being rude when i'm in their company; especially when I walk off in the middle of one of these long pauses.
( Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 11:11, 1 reply)

On the other hand
I knew a guy who did this. It was a minor epileptic fit - sometimes known as a 'petit mal'. He would just go away for a few seconds or a couple of minutes, and then come back again with no idea that he'd even had the fit. He wasn't allowed to drive a car because of this.
(Smale is stuffed, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 11:23, closed)

The person I know is not having an minor epileptic fit, however
it's simply an extremely annoying trait of their personality I can't be arsed to deal with anymore
( Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 11:34, closed)

You should hoof him in the works.

( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 13:28, closed)

Having a conversation with him is excruciatingly painful
so I tend not to now.
( Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 15:26, closed)

Fuck conversation.
Hoof. Works. Now.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 15:38, closed)

Have you tried
Doing it back?

"Oh, by the way, did you...."

And just stand there looking at him until he walks away.
(TheASK, Tue 2 Oct 2012, 3:55, closed)

To much effort

( Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 2 Oct 2012, 9:38, closed)