I've had the same experiences re being talked over/ not being able to talk over/back etc... so its probably fairly normal...
On the one hand conversations will flit from one subject to another ... and i have had many half conversations that got cut off in the middle at crowded events, that i'd very much like to have the chance to finish sometime... but i guess its a problem when there's more than two of you...
I think each case is different - i don't think there's any one rule for its being ok speaking over others or not - sometimes i can go off on one, and appreciate when someone butts in - it keeps the conversation lively, keeps it moving... you cover more... but it depends on the situation... at home i've been completely and utterly ignored when trying to have a conversation with my father just talking over me and completely blanking protestations as if i didn't even exist - which was quite horrible, and this wasn't long ago...
I'd say it is polite to wait and see where the conversation is going first, but it wouldn't be wrong to start another as you arrived (you have the best chance of changing subject- and its in your control to apologuise for interupting and ask what they were talking about to see if its worth going back there...) and if you're bored, you'd have more right to interupt i guess....
The other thing is getting to know new people might be worth doing if those you know are already engrossed...
hmmm anyway not really got anything worthwhile to say here other than - "you're not alone"...
Oh and girls are supposed to be able to deal with multiple streams of conversation all at once, so could happily talk about several things at once, flitting between them, such that you couldn't "change" the subject so much as Add to them... but then i'm not wonderfully good at this, and i'm sure some blokes are... so again, it depends on the people...
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On the one hand conversations will flit from one subject to another ... and i have had many half conversations that got cut off in the middle at crowded events, that i'd very much like to have the chance to finish sometime... but i guess its a problem when there's more than two of you...
I think each case is different - i don't think there's any one rule for its being ok speaking over others or not - sometimes i can go off on one, and appreciate when someone butts in - it keeps the conversation lively, keeps it moving... you cover more... but it depends on the situation... at home i've been completely and utterly ignored when trying to have a conversation with my father just talking over me and completely blanking protestations as if i didn't even exist - which was quite horrible, and this wasn't long ago...
I'd say it is polite to wait and see where the conversation is going first, but it wouldn't be wrong to start another as you arrived (you have the best chance of changing subject- and its in your control to apologuise for interupting and ask what they were talking about to see if its worth going back there...) and if you're bored, you'd have more right to interupt i guess....
The other thing is getting to know new people might be worth doing if those you know are already engrossed...
hmmm anyway not really got anything worthwhile to say here other than - "you're not alone"...
Oh and girls are supposed to be able to deal with multiple streams of conversation all at once, so could happily talk about several things at once, flitting between them, such that you couldn't "change" the subject so much as Add to them... but then i'm not wonderfully good at this, and i'm sure some blokes are... so again, it depends on the people...
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