banter

It is the banal banter of the boring.

People don't just want to watch a show about advertisers with a lot of sexist banter--they want to watch Mad Men.

There is banter, and sometimes it's not 100% HR approved, but I've never felt that it was mean spirited or intended to put me down.

It's this very banter that creates the group identity that then shuns other people for being "weird".People are some funny animals.

I don't want to be asked how I'm doing or discuss the weather every time I call you for a quick question, wasting lots of time with useless polite banter.

Background != DirectionAll this banter about it being a bad choice or a good choice because Satya's current role is enterprise focused is just goofy.

Dude, Get your ass to SF so I can buy you the many beers I owe you!I get truly excited when I see your replies, I'd love to banter in [inebriated] public!

Based on such principles, it's no wonder the author delves into ridiculous banter about singularity.

So we listen to the right music, have the right opinions, and banter on about the right topics in the right way, all the while doing more than just a little social posturing and signalling.

It's depressing that the first few top level comments here have been deleted due to their ridiculous content, people presumably read the article then decided to post things like "its banter, get over it.

Normal banter between men about women kept on the "acceptable in a sitcom" when not directed at any specific women, in my view is not sexual harassment, but clearly some people disagree with that.

Some poorly described problem with Ubuntu with irrelevant banter about wiping Windows 8 is making the front-page of Hacker News ?Half of the top comments then become a mix of wild guesses towards a solution, and the other half become a "[Windows|OS X|BSD] is so much better because ...".