Best Greeting? "How are You?" vs "Tell Me Something Good" Video

[Dibbons]

The best ides of all: "“ama sua, ama llulla, ama quella” (don't steal, don't lie, don't be lazy) – traditional Inca greeting. In order to understand this greeting, we need to understand a little bit about Inca Culture. The Incas had three main laws: do not steal, do not lie, do not be lazy. Therefore, the Incas would greet each other with their code of living, by saying do not lie, do not steal, do not be lazy, and in return the speaker would say ckanpas inallatac (you do the same). So, when greeting someone in Quechua, you are literally repeating the Incan laws!

 

[WileE]

I use my own cultural Brooklynite greeting: " Yo, what's happenin' ? "

 

[RemCharger]

'Sup muh n evermind...
wrong forum..

 

[SteveSS]

When I hear how are you I reply "Good, good, good!" I remember in Deepwater Horizon (Coolest name ever.) John Malkovich had some classy greeting but I can't quite remember it. Loved that movie as a petroleum geologist. I was on a rig that had a blowout in Kansas. You have to know there is drilling fluid (mud) constantly circulating through the system. I saw the mud coming out of the hole at a fast rate. I knew we hit gas pocket and were going to have a blowout. I told the roughnecks to turn everything off, if you remember that from Hellfighters and I didn't want an explosion. That well threw rocks out 50 yards for three days. What a mess!

Does someone remember how Malkovich replied to a greeting?

 

[66 Sat]

G'day mate!

 

[Detective D]

How are you?
This is a simple, formal greeting among men. It is used because the answer does not obligate the responder to commit to actually commenting on how they are, what they did that day, or whatever else. It leaves the answer up to the responder to be as detailed or not as they wish.
In modern times, strong men will simply respond with "I'm fine." It is likely they are not fine, but it is social expectation they weather the storm anyway and keep up with life. And so it becomes a courtesy then to ask "How are you?" so that men do not feel required to express themselves and avoid the social awkwardness.

Sometimes a greeting is not about you the greeter, but about the person you are greeting. There are a lot of nuances depending on gender of the person you are greeting, level of interaction(friend vs aquaintence vs coworker for example) and the reason for the interaction. Polite greeting as you walk past? need to talk to a coworker about something pressing? Close friend you have not seen in a while?
"How are you?" if perfectly acceptable in some circumstances.

 

[SteveSS]

I had to rewatch Deepwater Horizon to figure it out. First some oil well facts.

I forgot how accurate this movie is. No fake company names. Everything sounds accurate to me. There's two sets of pipes when they finish a well. An inner and outer. The casing is the bigger (outer) When they are drilling, at least on land, they put the outer casing in to a depth the government says it can't contaminate the fresh groundwater. Then they pump concrete down the pipe and it squirts out the bottom and surrounds the outside of that casing. Then let it set up. Then run an electric log to make sure it's all good. If it is, they use smaller pipe and keep drilling down.

Same process at the bottom. They squeeze concrete out the bottom and it surrounds that pipe. They run another log to make sure it's sealed off. Then they shoot little charges through the pipe and concrete in the zone where the oil is.

On the Deepwater Horizon they were 43 days behind schedule and they skipped the concrete log. The concrete job was faulty and they didn't catch it. Oil men call it a swiss cheese event. Like the unlikely event all of the holes in a block of swiss cheese align. Everything went wrong.

Blow out. Think of it this way. gas is lighter than oil, oil is lighter than water. Gas comes out first in a blow out. Ignition causes an explosion then an uncontrolled fire. My uncle was killed in a gas well explosion, burned the inside of his lungs. People don't realise the risks some go through to put gas in your car.

What Malkovitch says when someone says "Have a good day." He says, "And to you sir." Sorry for the post highjacking. Have a good day sir.