Being a total fucking misanthrope, I see the reasons for this bizarre phenomenon being one or more of the following:-
a they want something
b they're pretending they're so smart they already know what you're saying
c they're thick
d they have nothing to say for themselves, so are agreeing to deflect conversation from themselves
e they're wishing they were having another conversation, with someone else, or else they'd contribute something
f they're waiting for their chance to talk, so agree in order to pint out that everything you're saying is utterly superfluous
g they think you're a wank, so only enter into the minimal conversational requirement!
I'm aware many of these reasons totally contradict others, but they are all equal in the eyes of an attempted conversationalist who has ended up annoyed orator. Sometimes I disagree just for the sake of not having to repeat the other person by proxy, like the time I found myself arguing that Eminem was more of a true representative of the feelings of his generation than Bob Dylan had been, based purely on Dylan's tendency to go off on pretentious stream of consciousness rambles about Spanish leather boots, bloody traintracks or John Wesley Harding's beard or whatever. It wasn't how i felt for real, but it sure as fuck stirred the pot, like any conversation worth remembering usually does.
A conversation without even a tiny degree of opposition is pointless, like 5 word emails are. what's the point of bothering to switch a pc on, go online, type in your passwords, open up a mate's profile to say - "I'm oK, how are u?", its fuckin daft, man. Like "LOL", I hate fucking "LOL", whether it means Loads of Love of Laugh Out Loud, which is more often the case, because some people type it meaning that so often that if they'd been laughing out loud as much as they typed it in a similarly mundane real world conversation, they'd find themselves in Carstairs in twice the time it would take to punch them in the mouth for it.
Some couples have so little to say that they boast about being able to finish each other's sentences, like that's a good thing and if they're married it always makes me think, "well, that may be so but d'ye think ye'll finish the fuckin the life sentences ye handed each other in the church ya borin fuckin bastards?"
On the other hand, i can't stand people who need to be agreed with at all times, and occasionally take to reasonable debate like a spoiled child being told santa has them on the naughty list:- moaning like fuck despite the knowledge that they'll still get the moon on a stick come the 25/12 and bloody santa doesn't even exist anyhow. This need for vague approval through obedient agreement is so fucking annoying I'd rather tell a drunken copper I'd fucked his wife than an attention seeking model she was gorgeous.
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