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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 13 July 2013 05:15:48AM 20 points [-]

I like this idea! I feel like the current questions are insufficiently "stupid," so here's one: how do you talk to strangers?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 16 July 2013 11:08:37AM 2 points [-]

I'd like to ask an even stupider one: why do people want to talk to strangers?

I've had a few such conversations on trains and the like, and I'm not especially averse to it, but I think afterwards, what was the point of that?

Well, that passed the time.

    It would have passed anyway.

Yes, but not as quickly.

At least the train eventually arrives.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 16 July 2013 09:02:24PM 1 point [-]

To meet new people?

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