HELLO, HOW ARE YOU?
Honestly?!
Hello there. How are you? Are you OK?
These fairly innocuous enquiries are almost mandatory openers in British conversation and generally elicit the autonomous responses of "I'm fine thanks for asking" or maybe the slightly less optimistic, and hiding a multitude of complaints response of "I can't complain."
Never having been one to 'burden' others with t…
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