HOW TO GREY ROCK

If you’re looking to disengage from trolling and baiting discourse, look to national treasure Elaine May, who gives a master class on grey rocking in the 1990 movie In the Spirit. And she does it using only these words:

uh huh

uh huh

uh huh

I see

Here it is in context to see what a hero of restraint May is:

Jeannie Berlin: “Hi, um I came by, I dropped my June bible off here. I put it in your horse for Reba.”

Elaine May: “Uh huh.”

JB: “This guy Chuckles that I’m seeing”

EM: “Uh huh”

JB: “He’s giving me a lot of trouble about it.”

EM: “Uh huh.”

JB: “If I don’t answer his questions, he handcuffs me to the radiator.”

EM: “I see.”

Jeannie Berlin, Elaine May, Peter Falk in In the Spirit (1990)