[QUOTE=L.Kizzle]Damn man, why you always in my shit? You wanna be me nigha![/QUOTE]
Yes, I want to be so Afrocentric that I wake up drenched in soul-glo.
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[QUOTE=L.Kizzle]Damn man, why you always in my shit? You wanna be me nigha![/QUOTE]
Yes, I want to be so Afrocentric that I wake up drenched in soul-glo.
[QUOTE=RaininTwos]Yes, I want to be so Afrocentric that I wake up drenched in soul-glo.[/QUOTE]
I never used jheri-curl activator in my life. I did have a conk for a short time.
-2
Seriously, though, 1. :(
[QUOTE=The Macho Man]Scale sucks. Plenty of people are confident and speak well but just run their mouth and are boring/annoying as shit.[/QUOTE]
:lol The scale is more about the description than whats in brackets, though I'd say in general whats in brackets are pretty accurate.
In all seriousness, I want to be a thorpe/10 in terms of story telling. That area is kinda weak for me. the way he tells stories makes me lean towards the monitor and swipe my screen like I'm reading a book on my phone to get to the next page. then i break out of my idiotic trance and realize that I need to use the mouse to scroll down and i get sucked in once again.
[QUOTE=Mr. I'm So Rad]Nah Rake tells the best stories. Really, all of his posts have a weird aura about them. Like for some reason I read all of his posts in a semi-sarcastic, yet unaware tone but most of the time he's being serious.[/QUOTE]
We've talked about this, he's awesome too. :oldlol:
I can never tell if he's being serious or not, but he's entertaining as hell.
[QUOTE=ace23]I randomly start convos with a lot of strangers for trolling purposes, and I'm pretty fluent with them. I'd give myself a 8-9 there.
With my friends, probably about a 6-7.
With people I know who I don't consider friends, probably 2-3.[/QUOTE]
So in other words, you have better conversations with strangers than with your friends? :oldlol: Mind blown
Probably around a 3 with a random dude which I don't have much in common.
With my friends, probably around a 6. I'm no comedian, even though I occasionally blurt out some funny shit at times. If it's a large group, I usually be more of a listener. But tbh, how much I talk, usually depends on who I'm talking to
Probably 2. With people I know, 5.
[QUOTE=Eat Like A Bosh]So in other words, you have better conversations with strangers than with your friends? :oldlol: Mind blown[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I just say whatever comes to my mind around people I know I will never see again. Told this random n[COLOR="Black"]igga[/COLOR] he looked like A$AP Rocky the other day. Asked him when the album was dropping.
I'm 10 times better with random chicks I get at on the street than I am with bitches I know.
[QUOTE=BuGzBuNNy]If you can remember, about where would you say you rated prior to taking some of the key courses to get your degree?[/QUOTE]
Before college i'd probably say I was at about a 6 or 7. My overall self confidence skyrocketed in college as opposed to the HS version of myself. I was always good when it came to holding convos with friends and stuff, but the communications courses and just social life in general thru college made me a lot more comfortable when it came to speaking to strangers.
Part of it was just natural growth and maturity that comes with getting older, part of it was increased self confidence and part of it was the actual classes and major.
I think I am pretty high on that list. Rarely do I have to clarify, and when I do, it is because of the comprehension skills of the person I am speaking with.
**waits for somebody to ask for clarification**
Definitely on the high end, but required to speak, give seminars, hold meeting with potentially intimidating colleagues, and teach material on a regular basis. Pretty comfortable, don't stammer, very aware of pacing ums, sos, and other distracting repetitive banter. Definitely keep the mood light with what's been described as enthusiastic cynicism.
harvey specter is a 10 :rockon:
me on the other hand, prob a 5 or 6. i dont go out of my way to talk to strangers but i am ok with them if they ask questions. being in nyc, there are 10 million strangers, so cant avoid them all lol.
#5
8 in terms of conversational ability, 5-6 in terms of delivery
i talk waaaaay too fast and i haven't felt nervous, anxious or anything in quite a minute
its seriously a fukkin pain in the ass like u know how latinos specially ricans speak ultra fast to communicate themselves like ten syllables a second
yeah same thing
Anywhere from 2-5, depending on the person I'm talking to.
3-5 depending on the setting and who I'm talking to.
I don't get it. I have nothing to talk about, period :(
Maybe its because I don't lead an active life? Is that it? Are most of your conversations about something you did earlier that day or earlier in the week? Do I just need to start doing more so that I can talk about what I did?
[QUOTE=Mr. I'm So Rad]Make up a fake life or talk about someone else's life as if it were your own. We have plenty of good people to choose from here on ISH.[/QUOTE]
But then I'd have to keep up the fake life lie.
[QUOTE=Mr. I'm So Rad]Well maybe it's just me but lies are easy to keep up with. I don't have much of a real life to clutter the memory storage space where my lie would be stored so I can pull it off.
Are you just trying to talk to women?[/QUOTE]
Ha, I'm the same way really. But If I'm trying to get close with the girl then that'd make it difficult to keep her from knowing the lie was a lie, depending on how big the lie.
Primarily women since I don't really care that my conversation skills suck when talking to guys, though it'd be cool to improve that too.
[QUOTE=BuGzBuNNy]I don't get it. I have nothing to talk about, period :(
Maybe its because I don't lead an active life? Is that it? Are most of your conversations about something you did earlier that day or earlier in the week? Do I just need to start doing more so that I can talk about what I did?[/QUOTE]
Talk about the other person.
[QUOTE=BuGzBuNNy]Ha, I'm the same way really. But If I'm trying to get close with the girl then that'd make it difficult to keep her from knowing the lie was a lie, depending on how big the lie.
Primarily women since I don't really care that my conversation skills suck when talking to guys, though it'd be cool to improve that too.[/QUOTE]
Practice.
[QUOTE=RaininTwos]Talk about the other person.[/QUOTE]
Gets me nowhere. I just got out of one of my classes. I sit next to a girl who pretty clearly wants me to talk to her. Literally, she's just sitting there kind of looking my way like, "are you not going to say anything?" while playing with her pen in her hand. This is common with me, happens in basically all my classes.
She told me she had an exam in her next period. I waited til after class to tell her "good luck on your exam", and she responded "oh thanks I need it". By then I was already turned around walking away :facepalm
My speaking skills rival Barry Obama, William Clinton, JFK, and FDR.
[QUOTE=Mr. I'm So Rad]You know what? It's stupid that a thread like this even has to exist. (No offense OP), but all a bitch has to do for a guy to want to f*ck her is be pretty and not have AIDS. They don't have to have any personality or actual worth as a person. But guys, we have to do all of this extra shit. And even then it's not even guaranteed that she'll f*ck us afterward.[/QUOTE]
Welcome to the real world.
We do all this shit. We in the gym, gettin' our money up, nice car, nice place of residence all to (try) and get some psuuy ... try.
All a bich gotta do is offer ... hey you want some ... and before she can even finish "yes bich, yes."
Usually when I try to talk to them about them, I ask a close ended question where they can respond yes or no..but to avoid the awkwardness they try to elaborate in which is still awkward because I have nothing to say after they're done elaborating. And if I do its something like "oh thats cool" or another closed ended question.
[QUOTE=Mr. I'm So Rad]Don't feel bad. 9/10 times they're just yapping off about some bullshit that no one cares about so it's no surprise you aren't interested enough to keep the convo going. That's her fault for being boring, not yours.[/QUOTE]
True, I went on a date last week and she was just yapping about random shit. They talk for about seven minute stretches, and once they finish you gotta br paying attention so you can jump in and give your 2 cents like "yeah, I know what you saying" or "for real, that's good."
I went on a date two weeks ago. We don't talk anymore.
[QUOTE=BuGzBuNNy]I went on a date two weeks ago. We don't talk anymore.[/QUOTE]
Why don't you talk anymore?
[QUOTE=L.Kizzle]Why don't you talk anymore?[/QUOTE]
Don't think they talked to begin with.
amri?
[QUOTE=L.Kizzle]Why don't you talk anymore?[/QUOTE]
Well...
When I left her house two Saturdays ago (A little after midnight) she told me to text her when I got home. She was already dosing off before I left so she probably was asleep by the time I did. I texted her again later the next day saying something like "just got the email, thanks for returning the movie"(We rented a movie from Redbox, my credit card, I left it there because she told me she'd return it since there was one close to her apartment). She never responded. True enough neither of the texts I sent her warrants a response, but something tells me she wouldn't respond if I said something like "hey" or "what are you doing this weekend?", and I honestly don't feel like sending her a third text in a row and coming up blank.
Probably thought I was boring. She did say "you don't talk much, do you?". She stays like 40 miles away and I was kind of mad she sent me home that night so I probably wouldn't drive that far again unless I knew I was getting some.
[QUOTE=Batz]Don't think they talked to begin with.
amri?[/QUOTE]
:oldlol: basically
I am extremely introverted, so there is no easy answer. I'm not bad at talking, and I'm quite good at speaking (they're different), but it's always an effort. I guess the baseline would be a 3, but with a lot of exceptions. And with those exceptions I can go anywhere from 4 to 9. (9 would be like: a debate setting, or some setting in which I was very knowledgeable and was placed in a leadership role, like when I'm teaching. With people I'm very comfortable with I'm probably like a 5-6.)
There are also exceptions where I get really nervous and anxious in which I'm a 1. This is usually when there are a lot of people around me I get a very bad feeling about. I went to a convention of vendors for work a couple months ago, which means that I just walked around a room for 2 hours while every smiling face was trying to profit off me. Disingenuousness and dishonesty clam me up. When I get the feeling I'm not talking to real people.
11...
I dont talk to males and i am just to attractive to be needing to speak to females, the times i sometimes speak is only to answer a question from females and that is mostly "Yes or No" after a careful evaluation of that females appearance (a typical question is "Will you please *beep* me?"), but even that can be bypassed using simply head movement or facial expression...
:cheers:
[QUOTE=pauk]11...
I dont talk to males and i am just to attractive to be needing to speak to females, the times i sometimes speak is only to answer a question from females and that is mostly "Yes or No" after a careful evaluation of that females appearance (a typical question is "Will you please *beep* me?"), but even that can be bypassed using simply head movement or facial expression...
:cheers:[/QUOTE]
:durantunimpressed:
5 or 6 with random people.
I alternate between 5 and 6 on average.
[QUOTE=BuGzBuNNy]Gets me nowhere. I just got out of one of my classes. I sit next to a girl who pretty clearly wants me to talk to her. Literally, she's just sitting there kind of looking my way like, "are you not going to say anything?" while playing with her pen in her hand. This is common with me, happens in basically all my classes.
She told me she had an exam in her next period. I waited til after class to tell her "good luck on your exam", and she responded "oh thanks I need it". By then I was already turned around walking away :facepalm[/QUOTE]
Thats a weak as **** approach, but at least you said something . If you really wanted her ,i hope you at least asked her how it went and started another conversation with her. Trust me, being a great conversationalist isn't an easy task and I doubt that I'm at that level but getting better and being able to handle a variety of personalities and situations does wonders for your confidence .
[QUOTE=RaininTwos]Thats a weak as **** approach, but at least you said something . If you really wanted her ,i hope you at least asked her how it went and started another conversation with her. Trust me, being a great conversationalist isn't an easy task and I doubt that I'm at that level but getting better and being able to handle a variety of personalities and situations does wonders for your confidence .[/QUOTE]
She was looking at her review so I asked what class it was for. She told me and added that it would have 100 questions on it, I responded "wow", then she proceeded to explain how she'd been studying all weekend. That was before class started. I plan on asking how it went tomorrow.