Work icebreakers, where the extraverted host on a training day excitedly says "tell me something fun about yourself" or even worse "two truths and a lie."

[–] magikmw@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh oh. "I know a little bit about almost anything"

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That sets you up for "tell me a random fact." I would be stuck buffering on that for a while.

[–] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Put these in your bag of tricks: the average human blinks between 15,000 and 20,000 times per day; and if the sun suddenly stopped shining we wouldn't know about it for about 8 minutes

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Those fucking suck. Over the years, I've come up with a very short list of "default responses" to those kinds of things. Not worth your time or energy to stand out in these situations.