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  • "How are you doing?"

    I hate this phrase. As I see it, there are two options for response:

    1. Be honest
    2. Be dishonest

    Nobody wants you to go the honest route--and admit it, you don't want anyone else to go the honest route when you ask them this, either.

    "How are you doing today?"

    "Oh man, I'm having a rough day today. Let me tell you about..."

    "Whoa dude, I just asked how you were doing. No need to get all serious and stuff."


    So instead we go the dishonest route:

    "How are you doing today?"

    "Oh, I'm great!"
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    I've experimented with an honest, yet still optimistic response: "I'm doing ok." But then people will say something like, "Just ok?" and the cycle begins anew.

    More research is necessary.
    I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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    I would be tempted to answer "How am I doing what?"
    ~ Russell ("MelMak")

    "[Sing] and [make] melody in your heart to the Lord." -- Ephesians 5:19b

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Zymologist View Post
      I hate this phrase. As I see it, there are two options for response:

      1. Be honest
      2. Be dishonest

      Nobody wants you to go the honest route--and admit it, you don't want anyone else to go the honest route when you ask them this, either.

      "How are you doing today?"

      "Oh man, I'm having a rough day today. Let me tell you about..."

      "Whoa dude, I just asked how you were doing. No need to get all serious and stuff."


      So instead we go the dishonest route:

      "How are you doing today?"

      "Oh, I'm great!"
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      I've experimented with an honest, yet still optimistic response: "I'm doing ok." But then people will say something like, "Just ok?" and the cycle begins anew.

      More research is necessary.
      I usually just say "hey what's up." Or if I have knowledge of something being wrong, I will ask about how they are doing. If they ask me that question, I just say fine - not get out of my face!
      Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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      • #4
        I usually answer, "I wish it were Friday!" and they go "Don't we all!" and then we have a chuckle and go about our day like ships passing in the fog.

        Except on Fridays. Then I say, "I am glad it is Friday!" and they say, "You and me both!" and then we chuckle and go about our day like ships passing in the fog. But a brighter and more friendly fog that will lift at the end of the work day.

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        • #5
          That's why, in Texas, we just say "howdy". Even though it's supposedly a contraction for "how do you do", it's understood that we really don't give a flyin' flip about getting an answer.

          Howdy!
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • #6
            When somebody asks me how I'm doing, I usually respond "I'm doing so good it hurts!" They usually just say "ouch", and walk away in wonder.
            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
              That's why, in Texas, we just say "howdy". Even though it's supposedly a contraction for "how do you do", it's understood that we really don't give a flyin' flip about getting an answer.

              Howdy!
              I wish it were Friday!

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              • #8
                Somebody tell Sparko he's on my ignore list, just in case he tries to post to me.
                The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                • #9
                  If I'm not doing well, I usually say "tired" or maybe "hungry" because one of those things is usually true along with whatever other stuff is going on in my life.

                  "Fire is catching. If we burn, you burn with us!"
                  "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay here and cause all kinds of trouble."
                  Katniss Everdeen


                  Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                    Somebody tell Sparko he's on my ignore list, just in case he tries to post to me.
                    Is it Friday yet?

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                    • #11
                      Them: "How are you doing?"

                      Me: "My hate sustains me."
                      I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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                      • #12
                        Howdy.
                        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                          Howdy.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by The Melody Maker View Post
                            I would be tempted to answer "How am I doing what?"

                            How do you do that?


                            Securely anchored to the Rock amid every storm of trial, testing or tribulation.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by The Melody Maker View Post
                              I would be tempted to answer "How am I doing what?"
                              How are you doing under there?
                              I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.

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