@SuperiorWood said in #9:
> It's really not hard. One of the key mechanisms behind padding, or filibustering as the Americans might call it is allowing your stream of consciousness to take you on a journey while keeping it reigned in enough to seem relevant. When we engage in padding it's often a social activity indicating nervousness, a desire to dominate one's interlocutor, a lack of social skills, or simply not giving a flying hoot.
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> It's also important to take as much time as you can to describe, in excruciating detail, known concepts. For example when we talk about nervousness we're not just talking about the classic talking too much because you're worried, but it could be that you're not entirely focused on the situation, or you could be trying to cover up some other tic or habit you have lest you be found out. I suppose the desire to dominate, a lack of social skills, and not caring about the other person are birds of a feather in a way, that's another good one, idioms, it adds a sense of familiarity to your speech or writing that zaps the reader's brain in to thinking this is normal by association.
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> Anyway generally being unaware of or uncaring for your conversatory partner's experience throughout the ordeal is a surprisingly normal trait among monkey brain homo sapiens who won't show any interest unless one of the three Fs is on offer. Or as I like to say, one of the three Fs or a G&T.
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> These explanations give us a big picture understanding of the context at large, and so we can move on to the next stage in our master plan, weaponising GCSE English. Remember the 5 Ws? When, where, what, why, and how. That's only four Ws I hear you cry, and you are correct. You got me. So we've covered the when, let's moove on to the where, what, why, and how now brown cow. Or let's not.
Nice prose mate, but it don't answer the question why a user would say I have a confirmed rating when I don't.
