Around this time of year one of my best conversation starters is “What’s your least favorite Christmas song?”. Everyone (at least here in the US) has at least one Christmas song that annoys the shit out of them, but you’ll get tons of different answers.
But people are just as passionate, or hopefully even more so, of things that they enjoy. Why go into negativity when you could be listening to their positive passions?
Around this time of year one of my best conversation starters is “What’s your least favorite Christmas song?”. Everyone (at least here in the US) has at least one Christmas song that annoys the shit out of them, but you’ll get tons of different answers.
Or you’ll get murdered because now that evil song is stuck in their head until next June…
Hm… maybe a good ice breaker but a bit negative isn’t it? Why spend energy on somethin you don’t like ?
Because people are opinionated. It’s a fun way to hear someone speak passionately about something. Gives you a sense of who they are.
But people are just as passionate, or hopefully even more so, of things that they enjoy. Why go into negativity when you could be listening to their positive passions?
It’s pretty common to bond over dislikes. Besides, disliking something isn’t negative, and there’s nothing wrong with being negative even if it were.
British people are famous for discussing the weather as small talk. British weather is 90% shit. We’re still alive.
So I don’t think negative questions are a bad thing.
Slade’s Christmas song. Every fucking year without fail it comes on in supermarkets and has done for decades.
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Slade’s Christmas song
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