Useless and unnecessary conversation attempted to fill the silence in an awkward situation. Commonly backfires into feelings of loneliness and social discomfort. Usually is intiated by comments regarding the current weather, weather pattern of the past/future few days or major weather disturbances in the recent past.

A bullshit social ritual where people decide to talk about the weather and how they're doing instead of topics that are actually interesting and fun to talk about. People often resort to small talk to avoid being awkward and as a way to conform to acting normal or expected.

The act of supplying a person with irrelevant information about oneself in an attempt to appear friendly and normal to a person one is meeting for the first time. This practice I'd particularly important to extroverts (people who take pleasure in spewing random bits of their life stories at anybody who will listen,) who use it to try to judge and impress others with the ability to observe the weather and remember how many siblings they have. Unfortunately, these skills are widely regarded by introverts as both unimpressive and anyway pointless due to the fact that introverts and extroverts alike do not usually give a damn about how long their neighbors have been married and are not likely to remember unless their neighbors are close friends, in which case small talk usually isn't used anyway. Note: all people resort to small talk in uncomfortable situations.

When you come across that person you haven't seen in a while, but you really have no close connection with them anyways. But you know... you don't want to be rude and just walk right past them... so then it turns to a complete bullshitting session between you and this aquiantence.

Example conversation:

"YO! Hey whats up man? What you been doing?"
"Oh.. yeah I had a baby and shit..."
"Oh thats cool....."

"OK BYE!"
"BYE!"

Conversations about nothing that make you waste your breath, time, energy and ask why me? People with low intelligence usually make small talk because they do not want you to realize how stupid they are. Small talk is why people have become dumb, conformed and useless. Small talk is a way for nosy people to try and find out who you are. And when they do not find out who you are, they keep the small talk going leading to infinite small talk about nothing of substance. What is better than small talk? Dentist. What is better than small talk? Falling asleep on the subway with an open purse.

The mild exchange of information between two or more people. The contents of the information is entirely comprised of facts all parties were already aware of. If there is an exchange of opinion it must be a shared opinion.

Also known as ST, a 'general' subforum on PBNation, the 3rd largest (largely due to ST itself) vB bulletin. Arguably the largest breeding ground of idiocy, ignorance and general flaming, I myself am th emost hated poster.

A subforum of pbnation.com. It is sometimes called "the playground" by elder members.

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ST

idle, relaxed conversation