How do you make small talk?
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- SteveJobs0
depending on the company, small talk is just a precursor to a conversation. if you're not a conversationalist, then you're out of luck.
and no matter how much of a conversationalist you are, if she's *that* hot and you're that socially inept, you're probably just going to bore her anyway.
if none of that's true, then you're just over-thinking it.
- well if it's a girl then it's a whole different storyeighteen
- marychain0
ask what they read while pooping
- or if they fold and reuse the sheet, and if so how many times... or just get a fresh one each time.********
- Assume asking if they take a quick look at their poop once is floating is alright too.VectorMasked
- what the fuck! who folds and reuses the sheet!bigtrickIII
- lol seriously. I'm a bunch up and use the whole head of lettuce man.cannonball1978
- forward or back?Juanmonk
- or if they fold and reuse the sheet, and if so how many times... or just get a fresh one each time.
- dan53820
Call out the awkward silence. i do, most times it makes people laugh.
- airey0
are we fucking serious with this thread?
- boobs0
I usually ask pointed questions about sexual behavior, hygiene, role play, technique, and morals.
- ********0
hi, how are you?
good, how are you?
i'm good, how are you?
good thanks, how are you?
great, you?
i'm good, how are you doin'?
good, how about you?everybody is always doing "good". and they want to know how you're doing... and you're always "good". repeat 100x per day.
i get tired of these exchanges.
- boobs0
Perhaps you should try to be interesting?
- monospaced0
Ask questions. It's really that simple. The trick is asking questions to which you wouldn't mind hearing the answers. Eventually you'll be discussing a detail within an answer and small talk progresses. Weird thread.
- hey mono. how are you?********
- Doing alright despite an incredibly heavy workload. Glad to be home now and finally get to my trolling.monospaced
- And this weather! It's so hot and humid out. How are you, iCanHas?monospaced
- good.********
- What you saw here, kids, was the beginning of small talk. You can see that a response of "good" will quickly end the conversation.monospaced
- conversation. A proper response would have addressed my initial reply and we could have initiated "chit chat." Lesson learned.monospaced
- http://www.rollograd…********
- chat." Lesson learned.monospaced
- hey mono. how are you?
- SteveJobs0
ask open-ended questions. that is questions that can't be answered with a simple yes/no.
Say this:
how do you maintain such a perfect fro?Not this:
that's a pimp fro. is it hard to maintain?
- ********0
what if the person doesn't have a fro??!!
being social is so hard!! ahhhhhhhhhh
- eighteen0
fuck me then i guess
- great idea. skip the small talk and get right to the point.********
- great idea. skip the small talk and get right to the point.
- sputnik20
as long as a person is receptive to conversation, i never run out of ways to talk to them.
- you are female. half of your brain is solely devoted to talking.********
- OOOUUUCHbigtrickIII
- your intellect outshines us all again, icanhaz.sputnik2
- you are female. half of your brain is solely devoted to talking.
- ********0
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- whatthefunk0
Go to strip clubs and practice - just sit there with a beer and while the girls come up to you just bullshit with them and see how long you can hold her interest until she walks away. This is the best place to practice small talk, for both talking to women and people alike, the girls are trying to sell you on a dance and you're trying to keep them interested until they walk away.
- this is the kind of advice Chris Klein would give. "everything, my friend, can be learnt at the strippers"inteliboy
- but strippers are more inclined to tolerate whatever you're saying (in hopes of $). whereas a regular girl wouldn't stick around.********
- that's why they call it practice so u do it enough that it works with "real" peoplewhatthefunk
- like a regular girl isn't motivated by $ - jus sayin is allwhatthefunk
- ahahahahahaah this advice is greatbigtrickIII
- eighteen0
^^^
I used to try doing that when I worked part-time as a cashier, you've got the person in front of you for up to a minute and you can pretty much say anything to them that isn't overtly offensive. Whether it goes well or not you're already on to the next person by the time it's over.
- utopian0
Sup bitch!
- whatthefunk0
^^^
See, I'm telling you man - sometimes I go and try to sell the girls on having me design them a website, sometimes I pretend to be a photographer, sometimes I pretend to care what they're talking about (just kidding)! It's really the best place to bone up on your "small talk" skills - especially for me after getting out of a 7 year relationship. You can be whoever you want to be in a strip club and if you do it well you'll find that you actually get dances for free and a phone number - bonus!!- "bone up." nice.bigtrickIII
- glad someone finally picked that upwhatthefunk
- sorry but strip clubs are for really sad loser fucks.PIZZA
- cannonball19780
i love how small talk turns into pick up techniques in this thread
- tasty0
sometimes it's fun to talk about how CRAZY it would be if the elevator fell 20 floors while you're in it. People seem to enjoy that.
- i did that the other day. elevator 2 acted up on me the day prior. stopped between floors, etc...prophet
- the next day there's like five people in there and it kinda jolted and i told them about it maybe keeping us captive...prophet
- the two ladies were not amused. they gave this super concerned "oh shit, you serious?" look in concert, lol.prophet
- it was funnier at the time...prophet
- ...and no further conversation as they stampeded out on the main floor.prophet
- prophet...you making small talk with yourself?tasty
- haha, errr apparently. sadly, this begins to happen in your 30's...prophet