I speak like a politician - eviltoast

I want to convey all of the context to my yes/no answers first, but people get frustrated because they just want the answer

I was gonna make a different meme about how godly I feel when I can respond to an open-ended question with yes/no but it just didn’t come together and then I thought of this instead

  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Do you break the law? Yes or no?

    The answer is almost certainly yes, but it definitely requires context. Are we talking speeding? Murder?

    It’s like on a physical health assessment I have to take yearly that asks if I’m a smoker with the options ofa pack a day or more, a pack a week, I quit smoking, or I have never smoked a cigarette.

    Sometimes (often!) A simple yes or no doesn’t answer the context of the question.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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      8 months ago

      You can add context and still answer a question.

      The answer to “Do you want breakfast?” can be more than a simple yes or no, but it should not be a 15min monologue about the importance of nutrition and why your political opponent tries to undermine nutritional freedom by increasing taxes.