# Gabbers, and their gabbing **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 24, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabbers-and-their-gabbing/341469 "2006-01-24T23:24:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabbers-and-their-gabbing/341469/101 "2006-01-27T21:30:34Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Not necessarily. > > There are good reasons to have sex, and many bad reasons to have sex. To fit in with the crowd, to trap someone into a relationship, to give someone a disease – these are all bad reasons. > > But I once had sex with a gabber simply to put something into her mouth besides noise. How bad is that? > > The worst part was, when it was over, the gabbing started again. (\*\*\* NSFW \*\*\*)[Eh, could have been worse…](http://chugworth.com/comic.php?id=162) ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabbers-and-their-gabbing/341469/102 "2006-01-27T21:57:44Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > I know, I am dreadfully rude asking if my colleagues had a nice weekend. In future I shall greet them on Monday morning with… > > Me: “Good weekend?” > Them: “Sweet as” > Me: “Cool. Check in same time next week?” > Them: "Shut up! I need to unwind! > > I feel the zen flow over the work enviroment already. Not at all, in fact if you read post 91 you will see that I realized that I was being a bit rude myself, and that we came to an understanding that met each other’s needs. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabbers-and-their-gabbing/341469/103 "2006-01-28T00:10:15Z")
So we’re cleaning the house for an engagement party. Downstairs is a pigsty, (I’d rather clean 5 urinals than clean that bathroom again) and Lil 11 yr. old brother\* is one of the worst offender. And he follows me around giving me advice! He never shuts up! HEY FUCKER, I AM CLEANING UP YOUR MESS! It’s bad enough when you’re doing some sort of manual work and people just talk to you, but when you’re cleaning up their shit and they’re giving you advice? Fuck you! He gives me advice on everything. How to make coffee, how to cook… etc etc, I work in a restaurant fucker and you are 11 yrs old! Don’t give me fucking advice. \*He’s my finacee’s brother, not mine. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabbers-and-their-gabbing/341469/104 "2006-01-28T00:24:43Z")
You could have probably shut him really quickly by offering to let him make coffee for you, and make you whatever food item he said he could make. “You can make coffee?! Great, could you go make me some then?” He’d probaly have become very interested in playing a video game and staying away from you if you’d been somewhat insistant on the matter. “I’d really love some coffee, can’t you make me some?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabbers-and-their-gabbing/341469/105 "2006-01-28T00:27:47Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > You could have probably shut him really quickly by offering to let him make coffee for you, and make you whatever food item he said he could make. “You can make coffee?! Great, could you go make me some then?” Tee hee! How to be evil to kids. I love it! ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabbers-and-their-gabbing/341469/106 "2006-01-28T00:32:52Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > You could have probably shut him really quickly by offering to let him make coffee for you, and make you whatever food item he said he could make. “You can make coffee?! Great, could you go make me some then?” He’d probaly have become very interested in playing a video game and staying away from you if you’d been somewhat insistant on the matter. “I’d really love some coffee, can’t you make me some?” 😃 Yeah. Eleven-year-olds are great at knowing everything. Not so good at doing everything they know about. Which is sometimes a good thing, though. ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabbers-and-their-gabbing/341469/107 "2006-01-28T02:27:00Z")
Sorry guys, I’m gonna have to ask for this one to be closed- not because of what you were talking about, but because someone might bring something up about one of my posts. Mods, please close this. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabbers-and-their-gabbing/341469/108 "2006-01-28T16:33:36Z")
> [@andrewdt85](#): > > Sorry guys, I’m gonna have to ask for this one to be closed- not because of what you were talking about, but because someone might bring something up about one of my posts. > > Mods, please close this. Closed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabbers-and-their-gabbing/341469.md?page=5)