“I am a news anchor” and “I just beat Ocarina of time” contain far more information that your post did - if written like your post they just be “I have a job” and “I beat a game”.
A statement as open as “I’m a new anchor” allows room for all kinds of questions to ask, like what a newsroom is like, if you’ve had an embarrassing on camera moment, or what the biggest story you’ve reported on is. “I have a world record” opens the floor to exactly 1 (one) question, which is required for anybody else to ask an questions about that world record - “world record in what?”.
Because that’s the only possible question, everybody assumes that the answer will be unimaginably boring, and so don’t even bother to ask in the first place. After all, if it was an interesting record you would have just said what it is, and skipped straight to the interesting questions.
If I were to hear someone say they beat a world record, I for one would have many questions I might like to ask, including what world record it is, how long it took to beat it, if they did it alone, if they did it on purpose or on accident, how long it has been beaten, what the verification process was like for them, if they have any fans as a result of it, if they have any other goals for world records, etc. Nobody has asked even the one question you’re thinking of.
Nobody has asked even the one question you’re thinking of.
No Leni, they haven’t, instead they’re taking the piss out of you. They’re asking silly “what do you think about [totally irrelevent song]” questions instead of ones about your world record because they don’t care about your world record.
“I am a news anchor” and “I just beat Ocarina of time” contain far more information that your post did - if written like your post they just be “I have a job” and “I beat a game”.
A statement as open as “I’m a new anchor” allows room for all kinds of questions to ask, like what a newsroom is like, if you’ve had an embarrassing on camera moment, or what the biggest story you’ve reported on is. “I have a world record” opens the floor to exactly 1 (one) question, which is required for anybody else to ask an questions about that world record - “world record in what?”.
Because that’s the only possible question, everybody assumes that the answer will be unimaginably boring, and so don’t even bother to ask in the first place. After all, if it was an interesting record you would have just said what it is, and skipped straight to the interesting questions.
If I were to hear someone say they beat a world record, I for one would have many questions I might like to ask, including what world record it is, how long it took to beat it, if they did it alone, if they did it on purpose or on accident, how long it has been beaten, what the verification process was like for them, if they have any fans as a result of it, if they have any other goals for world records, etc. Nobody has asked even the one question you’re thinking of.
No Leni, they haven’t, instead they’re taking the piss out of you. They’re asking silly “what do you think about [totally irrelevent song]” questions instead of ones about your world record because they don’t care about your world record.
That on its own wouldn’t be suspicious if not for the impression that I disobeyed some community rule by means of mass disapproval.
Sib you are conspiracising your post sucking. Just stop sucking and post good instead.
No, I’m simply asking why their stance is how it is. Which this community was made for.