How to... Have a Typical Adult Conversation

Welcome to RF's new "how to" series!
Today we will examine a topic that seems useless and boring to adolescents like you. (If you are not an adolescent, sorry, but I'm pretty sure you find this topic just as boring.) Having a typical adult conversation is truly not that hard, and it may or may not make you seem really mature when you speak to an adult. Of course, not all of these tips are good for speaking with an adult as a person who is not an adult. I have marked those only for adult to adult speaking with an asterisk.

How to Have a Typical Adult Conversation (with someone you've met before)

A basic, comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to read this.

By the way this is all based on my experiences, meaning it might not be too accurate at times.

1.  Greet the other person with "Hi" or "Hello." Never use "Hey!" or "Wassup" or "Yo!" Otherwise you will probably be thought of as an ignorant spawn of corrupt society tsk-tsk-tsk and all that.
2.  Ask "How are you?"
3.  Mention the time interval between your last meeting and now (years, months, a while, etc.).

4. Compliment the person on his or her clothing. This tactic works best on females.

5. *If his or her kid is present, be sure to say something about them. Common and safe choices are...

      a. Wow, he/she has grown so much!

b.  Oh, he/she is so cute!

Asian parents I have met tend to take this a step further. They add the phrase,

"He/she is fat/skinny/short/tall/a "spitting image" of Mom/a "spitting image" of Dad!"*

6. Nod for a while.

7. Make a remark on current events. Politics, sports, and weather conditions are popular topics.

8.  Nod for a while.
9. Suddenly remember something you need to do, and tell the other person.
10. Say your farewell's and leave.

  

Cure for the "Infection" #1

I am somewhat surprised, but yes, I am posting about the so called "One Direction Infection." (For those of you who are lucky or old enough to have avoided this, I will just say that this term refers to the widespread and spreading fan group of the band  One Direction.) Except, I am not encouraging it. Understand that. No, no, no, I am not encouraging it. In fact, I am doing quite the opposite!
I was inspired to write this post when some newly "infected" classmate of mine who joked, "I want a cure! Ha ha ha!" I, RF, am here to provide several possible cures. (not guaranteed to ever work, might affect your mental condition)

Possible Solution #1- Find a new, more worthy, less time occupying group/person/hobby.
NEW- Look, nearly all of America and Europe knows about One Direction. Mark Twain once said,  
If you have been "infected," pause and reflect. Think, Why am I so crazy over some people I have never met? Do I actually like their music or just the band members? Was one of the reasons I became a fan to fit in with the mob of girls at my school? etc. You will hopefully make yourself feel miserable or confused enough that you will slowly pull away from this interest. 
MORE WORTHY- I don't know what counts as worthy to you, so this one is ambiguous. Just find something more worthy of attention than a boy band. Try indie game developers, books, programming, etymology, photography, or something. I'm not saying One Direction is worthless, but I think there are more worthy things. Besides, if you really want a cure, chances are that you have begun to feel like this obsession is pretty pointless.
LESS TIME OCCUPYING - This one is not mandatory. Many interests take up large portions of time. Sorry, but that's the thing about interests. Anyway, I have heard from "Directioners" that they can spend hours at a time browsing fanfiction, GIFs, pictures, and more of One Direction. And what do they gain from it? I don't know...

'*More possible solutions will be posted as soon as I think of them. Well, then I have to type it, edit it, and label it, but I think you get what I mean. *

Zorpia

So today I looked at the blog posts list, and I noticed Nilai had started two posts about something I wanted to post about.
Since Nilai has needed a temporary break from blogging, I have decided to write about this topic.


So, about a week ago, I saw an email that was supposedly from JoshY about this website called Zorpia.
Then a couple of days later, I got another one of these emails from Wu. Then a couple more days later, I got another one from Wu. They were all about joining this Zorpia.

Whatever Zorpia is, I'm not joining. When I first saw the Zorpia invitations, I thought Zorpia was just a way for my email to get stolen. I still think that is the case.
What evidence do I have for being suspicious of this possible password-stealing social-media thing?
Well, first of all, I haven't talked to JoshY for about three years. Why the heck would he want to send me something like that after such limited contact?
I wouldn't be surprised if Zorpia hacked into JoshY's account and sent that email.
Andrew and JoshY are not really friends of mine.
They're more like acquaintances.
So, here's a message to the Zorpia team:

Dear Zorpia,
I'm not joining your website.
Sincerely,
GM

3D Chalk Drawing

Look at this amazing drawing of a shark with chalk. Almost looks real.

Dumb Ways to Die

Have you watched this video? It can be useful at points especially if you memorize the lyrics. That's just what I am doing.

What I Noticed: This video is about dumb ways to die..
After those monster thingies "died", they started to dance and sing the song. This is not possible.

A lot of these reasons WON'T get you killed but could make you sick.

Eating a 2 week old unrefridgerated pie for example..

Meow?

GM claims cats do not day "meow" or "purr" or make any other noises assigned to cats.
Do you agree? If so, how would the noises cats make best be written?

Stuff I Found This Week

Youtube comments can be surprisingly interesting. Whose side would you take?

Just an interesting piece of music.

Even more interesting music. In case you're wondering, I think it's in bass clef.

Aghhhh! Blargh! Bleh bleh bleh! Grrrrrrrrrr. *pants ferociously* I will make a seperate post protesting this! I will! In the mean time, read this. 
EDIT: Sorry, the picture isn't showing up.... Basically, it's exactly what is in the link below.

http://whynot2000.blogspot.com/2012/08/has-this-ever-happened-to-you.html

   

Really? That explains why a name of Greek origin was used for a Hispanic cartoon character. Or maybe it just happens to also be a Hispanic name.

Aaaand it's gone.

Magnificent idea by the person at Hyperbole and a Half. Explanation here-  http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

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Discover something awesome online and feel the need to share it with others? Give the link in the comments, and I'll take a look. If I like it enough, I will likely post about it. Or, make your OWN BLOG and post about it there.
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Disclaimer: None of the above images are mine.

Optical Illusion GIF

I really like this one!



Can you believe the size of those objects?

I did not make this wonderful GIF.

Chat

I took Lily's advice and created a chat room
Go to the Chat page and create a fake Nickname and password and join room Live_Chat
It is good but it wood be better if we could have more viewers so if you could share and repost

Some Results

So, I looked through all three completed forms.
I think you people who filled out the form need to re-read the questions because some of the answers were obviously not about what the question was asking. Not all of you did that, but I'm just trying not to name any names.
Also I'd just like to tell you people who submitted a form or will submit one that if you become an admin, you will be blamed for more problems more often. If you are an author, we can't blame you for anything but bad posting.
If you become a Why Not? team member, we will not necessarily tell you who Wendy is.
If you want to change any of your answers, just contact the current members of the Why Not? team.
I'm kind of disappointed with the example posts, too.