When it did become the normal response to respond to every fucking question with “that’s a great question”? Really? Every question is a great question? It’s not true and it’s annoying. Closely followed by its equally annoying sibling, “thanks for the question”. Umm, your welcome? It’s a fucking interview/press conference. It’s all about questions then answers. Usually in that order. Ugh.
Posts: 7542 | Location: Florida | Registered: June 18, 2005
It allows time to think about the response…or in the case of politics, to formulate the lie.
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I was watching SportsCenter. They asked some Mexican guy who I assume is a soccer coach how the USWNT will view their legacy after their earliest exit ever from the World Cup. That’s a great question. First off I bet he knew what the question was going to be already. It’s an annoying affectation. Just stop. Just answer the question.
Posts: 7542 | Location: Florida | Registered: June 18, 2005
Originally posted by 12131: Thank you for the question, Senator.
You're NOT welcome. Just answer my f***ing yes/no question with either YES or NO.
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Weren't you paying attention? How f*kinq idiotic are you ya stupid sonofa bi**h? Hello!
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Years ago, when I taught classes re The C Programming Language, and UNIX-related stuff, I would tell the class "There's no such thing as a dumb question."
I lied.
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Posts: 32066 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010
Originally posted by PASig: Just like “bless your heart” means the opposite, this too means “Your question sucks so let me think of an answer here”.
If it's a politician, it usually means "I'm a lying, cheating, stealing asshole, and just wait for the line of bullshit I'm about to feed you, yet not really answer your question!"
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Posts: 8831 | Location: Attempting to keep the noise down around Midway Airport | Registered: February 14, 2008
I get it during Congressional hearings. Stupid easy way to eat up time. So transparent but still eats up the clock. Somehow it has translated into normal interviews and q/a’s though. Ugh. Again
Posts: 7542 | Location: Florida | Registered: June 18, 2005
Every time they give that limp-wristed response it uses up the senators time, meaning they will have to concoct fewer bull shit responses. If the hot seat occupant does that with say, 15 questions and plays Jose-fuckaround on each for 5 or 10 seconds that's a minute or a minute and a half that he doesn't have to worry about getting xerself indicted.
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Posts: 6652 | Location: Washington | Registered: November 06, 2006
Guilty of using "That's a great question" in the classroom. I only use it when a student asks a question that I know the answer to! If they ask a question that I don't know the answer to I say, "let's not get ahead of ourselves, we'll cover this in class next week".
Posts: 46 | Location: Central Florida | Registered: May 31, 2021
Daily I answer the phone at our shop and the first thing out of the caller's mouth is "I have a quick question" To which I immediately reply "I have a quick answer".
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