[amelius]

> I know this is old-fashioned, but business is business, personal is personal.

People are mixing the personal domain and business all the time. For example: in business meetings, people smile and they tell jokes; also, business people often go out for dinner together.

[huffmsa]

Yes, but we have 50,000 years of evolutionary practice understand what a smile means in real life.

And we recognize that we still don't all interpret those smiles the same way, as is evident in many legal codes not enforcing "handshake" deals, and written agreements almost always supercede oral ones.

[tremon]

Yet somehow, people don't write jokes into their contracts.