20 Smart & Interesting Ways to Respond to 'What's up?'

Hello everyone and welcome back to english with lucy today we are going to address

a very important question a very overused question what's up what's up is

one of those generic phrases that you will get asked time and time again a

question to which we are all socially programmed to answer not much you now

I'm going to provide you with some alternative responses I'm not going to

commit to the objective funny I will say that they are different and potentially

interesting if you are learning English as a Second Language and hopefully this

lesson will help you understand a little bit more about the British sense of

humor and it should assist you in expanding your vocabulary slightly so

that you don't have to just respond with nothing much or good thanks you before

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to sign up right let's get started with the lesson so a lot of these responses

are quite a sarcastic when we ask the question what's up we are asking sort of

what are you doing how are you how are you doing and we expect a generic answer

but sometimes we want to provide the Oscar with something a little bit

different take a look at my first example what's up well it's a movie

about an old guy who makes his house fly away and captures a small child this is

because we are sarcastically presuming that the person asking the question is

asking about the movie up number two what's up my blood pressure actually

another option continuing on the unhappy theme what's up my rent my taxes my

bills this is true life is getting in very expensive well we could have a nice

one number four what's up my serotonin levels after seeing you my friend I like

that one I think I'm gonna use it more frequently or we could add a little

suspicion into the mix number five what's up why what did you hear well we

could take the question more literally number six what's up it's a two letter

word indicating direction or if you like grammar you could say number seven

what's up a preposition because it is another one

number eight what's up not my salary unfortunately in a previous video which

I will link down below we did discuss the difference between wages and salary

if you want to use a general term you can say okay another one

number nine what's up my anxiety levels it's true story another one what's up

aeroplanes Birds clouds what do you want from me stop asking this boring question

ooh the next one is quite threatening number

eleven what's up your time on earth I can see it oh you

could just be really honest and say what's up the opposite of down now

another one that I really like because I feel like people ask what's up when they

don't really care about what you have to say so you could kind of scare them and

say something like how much time do you have honestly so much is up I'm so

stressed let me tell you everything or this great answer - what's up something

really refuses to give to anyone if you don't understand that I have got a link

to the full explanation video for that one in the description box some other

obvious ones we could say the sky or the ceiling or a couple of planets you could

also mention some uncomfortable to some social issues like homelessness or

childhood obesity or if you just want to be really honest you could reply to

what's up with not me actually I've been feeling a bit down right that's it for

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