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		codelikeawolf 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Social Anxiety Cheatsheet for Mingling Ah yes, conversational deadlock. The best way to release the lock is to say you need to go to the bathroom. Sometimes it just wasn't meant to be.

glonq 9 months ago [–]

That is much smarter than my tactic of yelling "pthread_mutex_unlock" out loud and then running away.

fch42 9 months ago | [–]

You got me there. Were this a social setting, that yell would have triggered my interest sufficiently to chase after you for an extended conversation. Resistance is futexile.

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