Metrion (or motolo or whatever name you have) it's surprising to me that you haven't signed into your alter-ego lately to add more useless drivel.
md17...putting aside the first post, honestly, i don't know what to tell you about Siri, you describe what sounds like a consistent connection issue with Siri, I've personally never experienced that, in fact, aside from when the couple of widespread outages with her happened, she's worked perfectly 99.99999999% of the time (with the occasional hiccup of picking the wrong word in dictation or not quite understand what i was asking...especially if i ask really fast).
Maybe you have a faulty handset, maybe you're in a funky network area where the carrier signal isn't consistent...it's hard to tell, and since Siri relies completely on network (and server) efficiency to function properly, this is probably the best bet for why you're getting bad performance (that is if the phone itself is fine). You said you're using the 4G network on the iPhone 5, that tells me you're in a smaller market coverage area, and that can very will be the culprit with your problems...you also said everyone you talked to had issues with Siri, are you speaking about locals? Perhaps that explains it even further, showing that your area's network is causing hiccups in Siri's performance. Everyone i know (and people ive just talked to) have loved Siri, use it often and don't have these consistent issues you're describing, not even close!
Literally, since day one of having the 4S, Siri has worked above and beyond what i expected out of it, and now with the iPhone 5, it's much quicker and more adaptive to what i ask...