Any loud talkers here?

[redqueen]

I work with a few loud talkers... and my brother is one too. Is it just me or are many loud talkers just intense people in general?

One of the loud talkers here stomps just about everywhere he goes. It's wild. He walks really fast, and just pounds those feet right into the floor.

[gmoney]

1. I'm more of a low talker.

Loud talkers beat close talkers though...

[redqueen]

3. They beat open-mouth chewers, too.

I work with one of those. x(

[tigereye]

2. so my husband says...

:rofl: :hi:

[redqueen]

4. Hey there!

:hi:

So...are you an intense person in general, do ya think?

[tigereye]

19. no, I don't think most people would think so, but I suspect that people see

their relatives display a much broader range or emotions at home than elsewhere... :D


I suppose it depends also on what "intense" means- does it mean emotional? So in that case, I am emotional... and opinionated!


:hi:

[madmom]

5. Ummm well ummm.....

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=box_3&ref=profile&id=100000144050432#!/group.php?v=info&ref=share&gid=2229309618

[redqueen]

14. LOL

[SoxFan]

6. Apparently my whole family qualifies

The first time my wife attended my extended family Christmas party, her response was "why is everybody yelling at each other"? To be fair, it did sound like a houseful of Lois Griffins trying to outdo each other.

[PeaceNikki]

7. I am.

And I am kinda "intense in general". Though I don't think I "stomp", but I am not 100% self-aware.

[hippywife]

8. I tend to talk loud a lot of the time

but that's carry over from my job working with the elderly. You have to talk loud to nearly all of them and it's hard to just shut off sometimes.

:hi:

[Kali]

9. I'm pretty loud

and I have an obnoxious laugh.

[XemaSab]

10. I'm a loud talker

It's not that I shout, I just have very good projection. :shrug:

[Kali]

11. same here

although I CAN yell and shout - ask my kids}(

[redqueen]

13. Nothing wrong with it!

I was just wondering how many people here might also be loud talkers... and whether they thought they were kind of intense in general.

Maybe type A even?

[Gabi Hayes]

12. just a close talker:

[rainbow4321]

15. ALL of my coworkers

You can hear them from anywhere in our clinic..down the hall and around the corners. Not just that they are talking but you hear every blessed word of that conversation. Yet every staff meeting we hear "keep the volume down, the patients don't need to hear you joking/laughing/yelling while they are waiting on an exam room". Doesn't do any good.
The kicker is that a member of management is the loudest one in the group and another manager's office is right next to the nursing station and she does NOTHING when the loudness is going on..nothing. So her saying it in a meeting means NOTHING and the loud ones know that.
I have to stay on the other side of the clinic otherwise I get a headache listening to them 8 hours a day.
On the upside, when they are gossiping or trashing people, and they think they are whispering, they are talking normal and you can hear every word they say. I discovered a few two faced backstabbers that way. You know, the ones who smile to your face/act nice but trash you when you are elsewhere.

[redqueen]

20. That reminds me...

I went to see my dermatologist... and I sat waiting in his office reading for like 15 minutes... and the whole time I was waiting he wasn't with other patients or working at all... he was having a (very loud) chat with a few of his co-workers about his last vacation, I heard every (very boring) word. :P

[rainbow4321]

22. Which is one reason they give us for not talking loudly

Our clinic sees 70-80 patients a day and we don't have enough rooms so some of them have a loooonnng wait. The place where all the loud talkers hang out is just steps from the waiting room. So basically, the waiting patients hear all of them hooting and hollaring about everything under the sun and probably get the impression as they sit and wait, the staff is partying/ignoring them.
But like I said, management's office is literally right up against the room of loud talkers so they hear it quite clearly and NEVER stick their head out their door and tell them to settle down. Instead, one of the managers usually chimes in with her loudness. Then we all get lectured about being loud at our once a month meetings. As one of the "inside voices only" workers, I get tired of hearing about it.
Nothing pisses me off more than not being to hear a patient's blood pressure because I am too close to the "loud" staff..all I hear is THEM and not the BP sounds!

[redqueen]

24. Aw man no kidding...

you can't have a bunch of noise going on while you're doing that.

But yeah, that's the exact impression I got.


I'm a quiet talker, so I get razzed about that by my teacher when answering questions in class. :P

[Roon]

16. I am hearing impaired. Thus, I talk loud..

I have had people change their tables at restaurants because I was talking loud. I see people turn their heads at stores and on the bus when I start talking. Doesn't sound loud to me, but to everyone else? I'M LOUD!!!

[NJmaverick]

17. Let's put it this way

I can talk to a room of people with out a mike and no one says they can't hear me.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

18. I've learned to not be a loud talker as an American living overseas

because that is the stereotype of Americans, that we are loud and ignorant. Unfortunately, my hearing is on the fritz so I keep saying HUH? Thus reinforcing the latter stereotype. :dunce:

[nuxvomica]

21. I'm sometimes told to use my "indoor voice"

I prefer the loud talkers to the close talkers, stage whisperers, and, worst of all, mumblers. At work, I sit next to a loud-talking, hyper-tangential self-talker. I have to say to her, "Are you talking to me?" several times a day.

[MrMickeysMom]

23. ...WHAT?