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		everyone on May 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If someone asks if you have any questions, ask a q... Additional: Asking a question just for the sake of it, or for the sake of appearances, is what some idiot does at the end of a meeting, making it go on for another half an hour and wasting everyone presents time.

jl2718 on May 10, 2020 [–]

Somebody didn’t bring a present for everybody so nobody asked a question to waste everybody presents time before anybody left.

Who’s on first.

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