Stupid questions about yourself people always ask you.

[Silence]

Studying history and philosophy

"What do you want to do with that?"

I don't know, maybe I study it because it interests me and not because everything needs to be related to a job?


I also got the "Are you twins?" with my brother. At least we both had long hair.

 

[ghalleon0915]

I've gotten the "why are you so quiet/angry" query often enough, though I am still perplexed about why people think I look angry; if anything, disinterest would be more appropriate.

Most often though, I get asked why is my head so shiny, and why is my voice so deep... I simply reply that I coat my head daily with cocoa butter and chew on raw ginger. I don't, but it seems to assuage their concerns.

The latest one though, is one where people seem genuinely surprised I don't follow boxing ( haven't since Hagler/Hearns) or more precisely - "You're Filipino, why don't you follow Pacquiao". The question itself doesn't bother me, it's the follow up questions that do because they won't frigging stop.

Oh, and how can I forget.....whenever I introduce my girl to people and they find out she's from Oz ( Aussie, not the other Oz) they ask "Oh, I didn't know you were into online dating". That always leaves me speechless...even when I explain that we were introduced by my friend I was visiting in Melbourne they insist that I met her through online dating services.

People are funny....sometimes not ha-ha funny though. Oi.

 

[FPLOON]

"So what do you wanna do with your English and Creative Writing degree?"
"Write novels and maybe screenplays, if I can."
"Oh. What kind?"

...Um, good ones, with interesting stories and developed and likable characters? As if I'd set out to do anything else? What do you mean, "what kind?" I assume you're referring to genre? But why would I limit myself to a single genre when I might come up with story ideas for any number of genres, or no genre in particular?

You know, I'm starting to get those kind of questions whenever I do tell people I'm getting a degree in Creative Writing... and I always answer by generally saying something akin to "I'm going to be writing some good random shit in the Random genre, you know what I saying?" only without a hint of sarcasm...

 

[SadisticFire]

"Why are your nails long"
Jeeze, I don't know. Maybe because they I can't withstand the feeling of them short and renders me inept with my hands for the next 2-3 weeks till they grow back? Seriously, I hate the feeling of short nails, it just makes my skin crawl, and makes me want to bite my fingers off in frustration.

 

[LightningFast]

I'm colourblind, first thing people ask when I tell them: "So... what does this look like to you?"

"The same thing as you, only it's a little harder to tell the greens and oranges apart. Shut up."

The most annoying question I get is "Can I try on your glasses?"

Sure! Get the lenses smudged, then make fun of my bad vision!

 

[Brainpaint]

I keep getting asked if I moved to England because of College or University.

If I could get it free in my home country of Scotland (and everyone in the UK knows it), why would I move to the North for higher education instead of Oxford, London or Cambridge?

 

[Chefsbrian]

I get "Is that your really your hair color?" a lot, because people seem to believe that silver, red, and brown hair can't coexist on the same head. Given how it's a mixture of colors with no broad, uniform swaths indicative of dye, there's no new roots revealing any other color, and you can see individual hairs of each color growing among others in a fashion that no sane (or even insane) hair colorist would bother trying to do, you'd think that "it's an odd but natural pattern" would come to mind long before "this madman regularly spends hours of time dyeing single strands of hair different colors hundrends of times in such a way that they're uniformly distributed."

.... Are you some sort of hair wizard? I've never seen anything like that before. But that's how people should ask.

With me, Its always "Are you a recording" Because I work a shitty retail job, and people always expect the sort of dead inside responses you usually get when you call a shitty retail location. I, however, put on my best radio voice and answer as enthusiastically as possible. There's a moment of silence, and then that bloody question. On a few occasions, I've even had people press buttons on their phone in an attempt to navigate my dialog tree.

Otherwise, I usually hear ones like "How do you know so much about this stuff". Its hard to not sarcastically say "Because I didn't really wholly on my public school for education and strove to learn outside of high school." Since my manager disapproves of that. Instead I usually come up with some dumb excuse.

Retail people, where nobody know's what they want or what they need to do and its all too expensive for them. I cannot wait to finish this degree.

 

[Xisin]

"Can I touch your hair?" - Only a few of my exs would ask that when I dated them at the time and it was just... strange. I never knew a black persons hair was a mystery but I was never offended by it. Okay, hair is different and a ***** to comb lemme tell ya.

Lastly, I have a million more in the bank, "Why do you sound white"? - You mean formal because I don't speak slang and pronounce my words correctly and can't be arse learning a new slang word that seems to change each month? I didn't know you had to be white to speak that way. It's more confusing cause I have a Brit-American accent thing going on and I used to stammer as a kid so I had to try and pronounce words correctly.

For some reasons the questions were race related (not racist) but really weren't offended by them in the end.

I get this a lot. My husband is always touching my hair and when I finally asked, he said it was because it didn't feel soft like his. He also likes that it springs back up when you pull it downward.

I also get the - "You don't sound black," a lot. Accent and speech characteristics are based on region, not race; yet people seem genuinely baffled when I say this. It's really weird.

 

[NateA42]

"You can't be Jewish if you're Italian, Jews don't live in Italy"

Well fuck, I guess my family has lied it me all these years, immigration records too!
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"Annunziata, hmmmm, are you Hispanic?"

Have you never stepped off your backwoods ranch?
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"Why do you keep ban-aids in your wallet?"

Really?
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"Hey, don't throw out your contact!"
"They're disposable, that's what I'm supposed to do."
"No, you have to put them in their holder and let them soak, they cost a lot of money you know."

Damn, that box lied to me...
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"You play Viola? Don't you mean Violin?" (My music teacher actually asked me this once)

No....words....
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"How can you put in and take out your contact without touching your eye?"

The force?
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"Where do you live?"
"Wantagh"
"Where? Montauk?"
"No, two towns over, Wantagh."
"Montauk isn't two towns over."
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"How has gamegate effected you?"

It's hasn't, and it hasn't affected me either.

 

[NateA42]

"Why are your nails long"
Jeeze, I don't know. Maybe because they I can't withstand the feeling of them short and renders me inept with my hands for the next 2-3 weeks till they grow back? Seriously, I hate the feeling of short nails, it just makes my skin crawl, and makes me want to bite my fingers off in frustration.

I'm the exact opposite, it actually hinders me with how short I keep them.

 

[Saika Renegade]

.... Are you some sort of hair wizard? I've never seen anything like that before. But that's how people should ask.

That would be a fun question to get... but in all actuality, it's quite simple. Imagine dark brown hair naturally shot through with dark red, then add three years of near-constant illness and stress that bleaches out most of the color from a scattered handful of hair. I think the annoying thing about the 'is it real' sort of question is that it suggests that anything they can't believe is real is automatically meant to be some sort of attempt at deception.

 

[ShogunGino]

Wow, I actually have one that no one else yet has mentioned.

"How old are you?"

Since I was around 14-15, I've always looked and sounded older than I am. One lady at a dentist office guessed that I was 25 when I was only 15. One kid (a rather sharp kid) thought about it for a minute before guessing that I was 30 when I was 18. I'm 24 NOW. Well, in a month, I'll be 25...

But even so, I've been around 6'1''/6'2'' (always forget) since 8th grade, and I've been able to grow a full, thick beard since I was 15, and my voice has been very deep since about 16, so people always think I'm older than I am. My friends used to joke that I could probably go buy alcohol and smokes from a shop and not get carded.

But then, around 21, my hair started to get really thin, and is now falling out in the 'vertex' part of my head in patches. I've tried to find out why, but it seems to be just bad luck. Not even my parents' hair has fallen out like mine has, and they're both over 60.

So, yeah, being a 24-year old using Rogaine, most people for the past few years assumed I was 28-30. 30 generally seems to be the age I look like, but I still sometimes get questions by people who just can't explain why I'm in positions that no 30-year old should be in. My only hope is that when I actually reach 30, I'll still look 30 when I'm older.