Africa
Casual Conversation
Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you desire. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.
RULES (updated 01/22/25)
- Be respectful: no harassment, hate speech, bigotry, and/or trolling. To be concise, disrespect is defined by escalation.
- Encourage conversation in your OP. This means including heavily implicative subject matter when you can and also engaging in your thread when possible. You won't be punished for trying.
- Avoid controversial topics (politics or societal debates come to mind, though we are not saying not to talk about anything that resembles these). There's a guide in the protocol book offered as a mod model that can be used for that; it's vague until you realize it was made for things like the rule in question. At least four purple answers must apply to a "controversial" message for it to be allowed.
- Keep it clean and SFW: No illegal content or anything gross and inappropriate. A rule of thumb is if a recording of a conversation put on another platform would get someone a COPPA violation response, that exact exchange should be avoided when possible.
- No solicitation such as ads, promotional content, spam, surveys etc. The chart redirected to above applies to spam material as well, which is one of the reasons its wording is vague, as it applies to a few things. Again, a "spammy" message must be applicable to four purple answers before it's allowed.
- Respect privacy as well as truth: Don’t ask for or share any personal information or slander anyone. A rule of thumb is if something is enough info to go by that it "would be a copyright violation if the info was art" as another group put it, or that it alone can be used to narrow someone down to 150 physical humans (Dunbar's Number) or less, it's considered an excess breach of privacy. Slander is defined by intentional utilitarian misguidance at the expense (positive or negative) of a sentient entity. This often links back to or mixes with rule one, which implies, for example, that even something that is true can still amount to what slander is trying to achieve, and that will be looked down upon.
Casual conversation communities:
Related discussion-focused communities
Tequila
Blurred Lines
Baby Shark, followed by Wonderwall.
The Mountain Goats' "No Children", but very intensely.
I would be so hyped that someone is playing The Mountain Goats in public I would probably join in.
“Memories” from Cats
Weird Al.
Or Eminem.
Or Weird Al's Eminem parody.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this at a dueling piano bar. The crowd was into it.
Dead puppies
Somebody that i used to know
Goodbye my Lover by James Blunt would work to kill a hyped up mood.
Urgh just whatever I think might be fun at the time, it's always bad
In the arms of an angel....
Best answer, IMO. Whole bar in tears.
We Are the World which might be fine if everyone in the bar was fifty-plus, but wouldn't work today.
Woman Is The N***** Of The World
(Although anything by John Lennon would probably work lol)
Wtf? I have never liked the Beatles, I find most of their catalog grating to listen to, and most of their lyrics either nonsense or fart sniffing. This one, though it's a Lennon and Yoko, has to be the pinnacle of sniffing their own farts.
Yeah, even ignoring the obvious issue with the lyrics, it's a dog shit song.
The ISIS song
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. A jaunty little sea shanty about a ship sinking in a storm and killing everyone on board.
I sang that two nights ago, at our local open mic. Went over very well, but then again the average age was probably over 70.
It's a banger though, as long as everyone in the bar is over 35.
Wouldn't work as I'd be singing along
Sinead
Alice’s restaurant- Arlo Guthrie
I worked with a 17 year old once who knew the entire lyrics to Alice's Restaurant and would recite them, not sing them, in the most deadpan voice.
I miss that guy.
If that kills the vibe, you got the wrong crowd.
I repeat the last song.
Or anything from an obscure screamo band.
Ave Maria. Twice.