RichardKennaway comments on How to always have interesting conversations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 16 June 2010 03:19:04PM 0 points [-]

Just one social blunder after another.

You're there to talk, they're there to talk, you say hi, and they disconnect. Where is the "blunder" and who is making it?

Comment author: simplicio 16 June 2010 03:46:54PM 2 points [-]

No worries, I was just amused. I've chatted on Omegle before. I have actually kept in contact with a couple people, including a young lady from Portugal who sent me YouTube videos of her grandmother and her singing old folk songs.

Comment author: khafra 16 June 2010 05:51:46PM 3 points [-]

His most obvious faux pas, if that was Chat Roulette, was not immediately exposing himself--conversants on that forum tend to become suspicious if the expected visual greeting is not performed.

Comment author: fezziwig 24 April 2014 05:43:46PM 0 points [-]

I'm very late to this party, but just in case: to a mundane, "what ho" doesn't look like a casual, old-timey greeting, it looks like a typo for "what a ho". Maybe that's what went wrong here.