People who talk to much?

Question

What's the best way to handle someone who is a motormouth?

Answer 1

cautiously and without divulging your inner thoughts

Answer 2

My 13 year old daughter has this problem.She could talk her way out of a paper bag.She never seems to come up for air.Now I do listen to what is important,or any problems.But she gets very repetitve,or just starts talking nonsense.I mentally shut down and smile or nod every once in a while.It is weary,and sometimes I want to run.Once it gets totally boring,I try not to engage in any rubbish coming out her mouth.

Answer 3

Very very slowly turn away form them,dont say any thing, untill they stop. works every time. after a while they will notice this, the they will start diffent ways of trying to keep you atention, like talking slower, faster even or just cut out all the rubish and keep things short.

Answer 4

Tune them out. Tell them to shut up/be quiet. Buy earplugs. Turn the music up a little louder. Ask them if their lips hurt or if they've ever sprained their tongue. Those two questions usually get their attention.

Good luck with that they don't usually get the point until you are direct with them.

Answer 5

Duck Tape.

Answer 6

there's many ways to do this..one of my favourites is to actually just sew their lips together, just get them drunk and do it...pretend you're piercing them or somthing. I did this to a girl i know called sally, because she's been kinda screwing with my head lately, and you know she talks far to much. We'd been out to this rock club calle dthe underworld, and i'd bought her a few drinks, it was mostly alcopops that she was drinking actually, she says that beer makes her look fat, but anyway, i got talking about piercings and she was saying that she wanted her lip pierced...so i took her home under the offer of giving her a new lip ring and there i took my chance. Like a modern day sweeny todd, i sat her in my piercing chair (you see if been in piercing for years, and i have a second hand dentists chair that i put all my clients in, its very comfy actually, my friend dan fell asleep in it while i was piercing his scrotum! his bloody balls ffs!) and any way, then cos she was so drunk i managed to convince her thta i hadnt pierced her yet, and with each pierce i just wove the thread between her lips..in the end she passed out and i tied a great knot in the thread..when she woke it was soooooo funny, she couldn't speak for sh!t!

i untied her lips after a few hours but thats only one way to do it. A guy i know called mike totally loves himself and used to tlak about himself all the time..to shut him up i gto one of those special cars you see in american films, where they're having some sort of rally for a senator or somehting? they drive around with megaphone blaring out "Vote Senator Nixon" or whatever..?
anyway, with mike, i drove around town with one of these cars blaring out "MIKE IS GAY! HE:S REALLY ASHAMED OF IT! EVERYONE MUST TELL HIM ITS OK!!" now i've got nothing against gay people, some of my best friends have been gay, but for poor small minded mike it was his destruction! he NEVER talked about himself again! lol!!!!

also sometimes if i meet someone that i don't really know that well who seems to talk abotu themselves to much, i just tell them a bit abotu what i've done to the poor people i know who've talked about themselves, and the fact that i'm actually qualified to sew up peoples lips and have a really great dentists chair that mike and sally will never forget!!

well thats it from me, but maybe your situation is different..i mean the fact that im actually abel to destroy people really helps with those motormouth bastards. good luck!

Answer 7

If they're the approachable type and you like the person, ask politely why they feel the need to talk constantly. If you don't like them, keep your distance but be polite and civil if you need to be near them. Ask yourself if you need them in your life.

Answer 8

Talk over them - as if they are not talking - that works for me.

I was having a convesation lately that called for me to have some input and she would NOT SHUT UP - I just kept on talking. Eventually, after about three or four sentences, she stopped. By that time, I had made my point and was done. Her loss I say!

Answer 9

Use Earplugs

Answer 10

make a good excuse for you to get exit from her machine gun mouth.that's the best and a proper way (i guess?)