yes its the question i dread. also: what sort of stuff do you play? what are you into? and having to tell my life story to people. i want a disk that i can just give to people so they can see for themselves and save me the trouble.

It's a bit like when you ask someone what they do because it's a formality but you secretly wish they'd just tell you that they like to walk their dog and picking their nose.Music-wise i never know what to really answer when my music taste is called out,so i try to avoid the music chat if the person i'm talking to has the vibe of someone who just likes to disagree or being antagonistic.

Yes, I hate those questions too. The music one stumps me because I'll listen to anything so I endo up saying "oh you know, all sorts, rock, jazz, funk, hip-hop...whatever really" which is really shit. I keep meaning to think of a good response but I can't come up with anything other than "oh just fuck off" which is what I usually want to say.

It's worse when you are playing records in public and people request something that you haven't got and then start asking "what sort of thing do you play?, what genres?" Open your fucking ears for fuck sake.

And I hate the "what do you do?" thing even more. Not so long ago I was in a wanky cafe place where my housemates film was showing and there were a bunch of other short films showing so there was plenty of other filmmakers and art wanks there. I was talking with my housemate and a group of others and I had this conversation:

Girl: Do you make films?

Me: No

Girl: What do you do?

Me: Nothing interesting, don't worry.

Girl+others: Ahahahahahahah...

I wasn't actually joking though. Luckily I know the girl in question a bit better and it turns out she isn't a complete cunt.

i used to hate that question and considered it not only nosy and rude but also lacking in any sort of imagination. how can you have a decent conversation with pedestrian questions like that? booring!!

however-- since these days every social interaction is a potential business deal for me, i now have no qualms about lowering myself to this level of vulgar interaction and whoring myself and my skills, and then shoving a business card into their hands. as unpleasant as it is, as boring and bourgeois a situation, beats working for someone else's profit.

i also hate it when people ask me (insistently) how much i pay for my house. NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS!

sounds like true love iain.

Yeahp, the house price one is very rude but I don't really mind it so much because I have really quite cheap rent so the person who asked me usually ends up a bit miffed when I tell them. That'll learn 'em.

Another one is the 'how much you earn?' question.That's none of your fucking business either.I only tell personal information like that to people who i know well enough and who don't form opinions on somebody's social status.

great idea! i shoud make up a fantastically low price, just to fuck with their brains...

that is true! I get the same shit! NUNYA BIZ-NASS Mo-FO'S!

i wouldn't say that sort of behaviour is the reserve of gays only. i have a friend who is like that, although funnily enough i think he's a secretly repressed gay.

I bought my house so long ago that I don't have to make up a low price. It was right before the big spike in housing costs.
Still, personal finance questions are every bit as off limits as sex life questions.

I hate those sex questions. However I am reserved when you first meet me.

I was thinking about a specific group of people i know when i posted that.

i prefer in many ways to be anonamous.

are you lionel hutz?

who?

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oh! i had to google that as im not a simpsons fan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Hutz

no definitely not, i am neither a cartoon nor a lawyer, but ha! i do seem to have several overlapping occupations.

you should come to america & see for yourself. everybody but everybody asks you upon first meeting you "what do you do?" "i eat, i shit, i fuck, i sleep" is never a satisfactory answer for nosy people.

Everyone asks the same question here. I think I'm going to make an extra special effort in the future to answer in a way that makes it clear that I don't much care for the question. Any ideas other than just "fuck off". That's perhaps a bit too rude.

Piss of wanker? or Stuff.

Just for the record - I have no problem with people who have discriminating taste. I have my own particular tastes too.
I have a problem with people who make character judgements on others based on such useless criteria as what kind of music they listen to / what kind of clothes they wear etc.. Like having lofty ideas about art and music or whatever is some sort of key to the universe that the rest of us dullards will never know.
If somebody enjoys listening to music you don't understand you should be happy for them.
That's all I have to say on the subject.