People giving pointless, inane opinions just for something to say - it's time to stop
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I don’t mean intelligent opinions about the political landscape or even stupid opinions about the political landscape, I mean annoying opinions. You’re familiar with the ones, the ‘You know what you really need to do…’ ones.
For example, I have just finished having a lot of work done on the house. For nearly two years I’ve had to fight with the mortgage company, wrangle with the planning department, negotiate with builders, live in a home made entirely of dust and those round bits of metal that hold scaffolding together you keep finding once you have builders in, try to not fall out of the big hole in the back of the house, sweep snow out of the house because it had blown in through the big hole, wash my plates in the bath, wash my body in the sink, boil the kettle in the bedroom, cook in a microwave in the hallway, eat balancing a plate on a sack of cement in the front room and come in to work with bits of plaster in the back of my hair.
Let’s just say it has been a slog. And then people come round to see it and they say, ‘Oh, you know what you really need to do? You need to get a shoe rack.’ Let’s just say I have been counting to 10, A LOT.
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You know when else these pointless small interjections happen? Anything to do with illness. You can have an ailment, and have been to the doctor, the consultant, the specialist, the World Health Organisation, hiked for 5 days in a snowstorm to be blessed by a 1,000-year-old shaman who lives at the top of the highest mountain in Neverlandia, undergone dodgy treatment in the back streets of Moscow because it hasn’t been licensed in this country yet and people will say, ‘You know what you really need to do? Try taking a paracetamol.’
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Why? Why, though? Why speak? They are not listening to anything anybody is saying and just waiting to put their (worth-less-than) two-pence worth in. That’s partly what’s wrong with the world.
People only care about what they have to say next, instead of listening to what is going on, then perhaps taking the option of just shushing. You know what they need to do, don’t you?