How do you respond to 'are you winning'?

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07 May 2016, 3:08 pm

If an acquaintance sees you and says 'are you winning' and that's all how do you respond? I never know what to say

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07 May 2016, 5:21 pm

Never heard that expression before.

Got me as to how to respond.

Must be a new trendy greeting. Like back circa 1990 guys would say "workin' hard? Or hardly workin'?" to each other. Caught on like wild fire, and then quickly got old, and disappeared like wild fire.

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07 May 2016, 5:44 pm

People only ask me that if I'm playing a game.

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07 May 2016, 8:09 pm

Respond with ... "Always"

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07 May 2016, 11:39 pm

I'd say "I'm trying" or "I wish".

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08 May 2016, 1:46 am

Jermaine wrote:

Respond with ... "Always"

I'm sure that's how Charlie Sheen, who originated this, would've responded LOL. I've never been asked this, but my friends and I make fun of it :-)

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08 May 2016, 10:08 pm

My respond is "I don't care, I want some chocolate or ice cream, or go back to knitting or drawing, and I'm bored".

I hate competitions.
Competitions don't put me to my fullest, it puts me to do things half-heartedly not because I'm being 'gentle', simply because I don't care and I want to get over things with regardless the outcome.

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09 May 2016, 11:24 am

Cheers for the replies guys

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09 May 2016, 11:26 am

I'd just tell those people that I always win.

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09 May 2016, 11:27 am

I just nod and look smug.

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09 May 2016, 8:42 pm

It sounds like something that idiot Trump might come up with.

My answer would be: "I'm alive; therefore, I'm not losing."

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09 May 2016, 9:15 pm

I'd tell them I am bi-winning,

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09 May 2016, 9:19 pm

Realistically I would just respond in confusion, "what?!?!?"

but the response to the question would be 'hahahaha no."

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10 May 2016, 6:21 am

"Are you winning?", in my experience, means one of two things (other than the literal):

1) are you managing to progress with a task (that you have recently discussed as being potentially problematic/difficult)?
2) are you well? (as in a general greeting, not with the expectation of a detailed or meaningful answer)

I'm in the UK, so it's possible that, if you are in another country, it could have other connotations.

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11 May 2016, 10:43 am

Do like DJ Khaled, and put on a smug face as you explain that "All I do is win".

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