A reader whose handle I forgot asks,
I thought you might have a post about this or would have some good suggestions: you know when you’re in a big group of new people and they have a “introduce yourself” for everyone–and to say “one thing that is interesting about you”. What’s some good ideas that are appropriate but somewhat interesting for the ladies in the group? Something serious, something funny, joking etc
Your question appears to imply a formal setting, like a work retreat or a school function or an AA meeting. Am I right? Because if it’s a casual venue, like a bar, where one girl, the social butterfly, is rushing around trying to get everyone to meet each other, then the range of your workable responses would be much wider.
If it’s a casual context, may the charismatic jerkboy force be with you:
“My name is Santa Claus. Stop asking lame questions or you’re getting a lump of coal this year.”
If it’s more formal:
“Hi, I’m [Neptune’s Uni-Pronged Trident]. Something interesting about me…. I sleep eight hours a night.”
This is a form of self-disqualification, and in the right circumstances (such as this one), it can be a DHV — demonstration of higher value — to 1) answer a serious question with a glib reply and 2) self-deprecate when it is obvious that you don’t really mean it.
This is far from the only way to parlay a contrived social situation to your personal SMV advantage. For example,
“Hi, I’m [Loki’s Hammer Envy]. Something interesting about me… I tend to get into a little more trouble than it’s worth.”
The implication that you’re a badboy should be plenty to get the after-hours conversational ball rolling with any women in attendance.
What happened to Heartiste’s twitter, anyone know what got him suspended?
[CH: the rude egg is dead, long live the rude egg!]
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What! Outrage! Vive le tiste! Vive le tiste! VIVE LE TISTE!
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Love live The Shiv!
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Heh, even if that was autocorrect error, it still sounds pretty cool.
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Obviously a truth-telling Twitter account will get banned sooner or later, that’s a given when you start it. You just make another one and keep going. Funny that CH predicted this kind of imminent censorship – in a Twitter post – just these last few days.
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“say one thing that is interesting about you.”
lostas cockas lzozozozozozo but actually dat is two things as da gbfm cockas is so bigz so i shoulda said coc and left it at dat sorry! zozlzlzolzozolz
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Was it a particular tweet that caused the ban? Or an entire career of hatefacts?
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what color is he?
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[…] A Proper Introduction […]
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Bare in mind that twitter hired a purple haired woman as chair of bullying so she could bully, i mean ban, people she thought were guilty of ‘harassing’. I expect that anti-feminists and pro-gg people will all be banned. if i recall there was even a site set up for you to report twitter accounts and I was thinking about flooding it with outrageous reports. i can’t find the article about her now.
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bear*, here is something I found.
http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-twitter-out-to-crack-down-on-abusive-tweets-2015-4
the point is that they hired a bunch of sjw’s to monitor accounts. I would be outraged by that.
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[…] By CH […]
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I am the only gay in this village.
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Your dominant hand must be very tired then.
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Oh Daffyd.
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At a church youth retreat for junior high students, the (married) guest speaker introduced himself as “Hi, I’m —- and I had sex last night!”
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cringe
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We laughed our asses off, and I still remember it forty years later.
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to steal one from duchovny
“I have an eleven inch penis….. around”
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Twitter: I want to know why a picture of one man expressing his love for another man’s anus is not allowed on Twitter. Why are you censoring the beautiful male on male sex act? Don’t you believe #LoveWins? Or didn’t you have any idea what degeneracy you were unleashing on the world.
Gay sex is not a rainbow. They wanted to force gay marriage on us (hey, isn’t that the definition of rape?), let them see it. Shove it in their faces.
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OK, seriously, how do we help recover your Twitter?
[CH: its death was preordained, sooner even than cynics imagined. let it rest. something bigger, brighter, more powerful, will rise from the ashes in time.]
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Yes. “kill the white people hammer attack” is real, MSM jewry buries it.
CH the voice of truth is banned.
fuck and I do mean FUCK this gay earth right now.
when in the everliving fuck do we fight back?
when???
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CH: Ten-hut!!!
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Chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear.
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It is only a matter of time before this blog is erased, too.
We are enslaved.
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Time to PDF everything.
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We? Got a mouse in your pocket?
Fuck, what’s with the constant defeatism? If I didn’t know better I’d think that plants were sent to right wing type sites to instill an atmosphere of defeat. If I didn’t know better.
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somebody post how to write directly to twitter, using snail mail or email.
I read CH’s twitter daily as part of my education — my study of political science and real-facts history and politics.
twitters fag agenda is violating my rights.
I’m not even kidding.
we need to stop supporting Apple, twitter, google, youtube, facebook, etc. but how can we do it?
I’m not one of these hipster faggots who camps out overnight when the new iphone comes out, but I need my iphone. it’s required for my job.
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Is self-deprecation wise for LMV men (short, ugly, etc)? Irony seems like a more useful tool in the belt of men that have more room for feigned humility.
[CH: self-deprecation is a type of handicap principle in action. and yes, it can be risky for very low value men to indulge, mostly because these men tend to self-deprecate not in a charming fuck-all way but in a way that oozes hurt self-awareness. if you can’t handle the self-deprecation, don’t use it.]
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Self-deprecation draws attention to your flaws…it screams self-conscious. Being overly confident would be a bigger surprise. It would defy expectations and produce tingles.
I’m tall and fit, but when girls drop a compliment; “you dance well”…and I say “I know…” they’re surprised….they do a double take.
“Awww..shucks, you really think so?” is self-deprecating and doesn’t exude confidence.
“Thanks…” would be neutral, mysterious.
“I know…” would be cocky
My other neg is like this and you can do variations:
“You dance well…” ( or whatever you think she does well)
Her: Thanks
Me: I’m not finished yet… you dance well….(pause) with me” (or) “for a lawyer” or—insert whatever she is…
That little banter, always produces a great neg, then moves into comfort…you’re confident, she’s intrigued.
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I often use “Hi I’m Mel Gibson. I like long walks on the beach and I’m an Aquarius.”
It actually goes over the heads of some and they stare like idiots. The ones who understand get a good laugh.
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Delivery is, of course, of vital importance when answering simple questions with your choice of response (jerkboy, dry, self-deprecating, etc.).
I like to deliver the response above in deadpan.
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Deadpan, yes! That’s always fun to do and girls warm up to it.
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Speaking of, every man should watch Braveheart within the next 4 days. Fit it into your schedule. It’s on netflix. Homework assignment.
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Agreed. While I wasn’t a fan of the film, watching them band together and fight the king against all odds was damn empowering. Balls-to-the-wall testosterone!
The Bruce represents all manginas that cower. I love that line when he tells his dad he wish he had what Wallace had but could never achieve since he was born of privilege. Cannot recall the line, but it really showed the Bruce’s cowardice and his own weakness crippling him from attaining what he wants.
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Hi im Rick. Im currently working on starting a summer camp for kids! Kids with trouble focusing on school work etc, kids with ADD.
im going to call it The Concentraton Camp.
And my big dream is to open the worlds largest mall..this i am naming, The Malocaust.
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Her: “What do you do for a living”
Me: “You kind of sound like a stalker; did you know that?”
Her: “What do you do for a living?”
Me: “Alchemical Engineer”
Her: “What do you do for a living?”
Me: “Shepherd” (credit to Fletch)
Her: “Tell me something about yourself!” (close to the OP question)
Me: “I refuse on principle to do the Canadian Limbo.”
Her: “What do you like to do?!”
Me: “Your mom” (ok, not really, but it would be fun to try if she was uninteresting)
Her: “Tell me/us an interesting fact about yourself!”
(separate answers, best said in your most somber Steven Wright manner)
Me: “I am trained in avian CPR”
Me: “I can put on a turtle neck sweater with a lit cigarette in my mouth”
Me: “I once made the bed of my pickup truck into a big ass martini”
Me: “On the advise of counsel I invoke my 5th Amendment rights”
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My go to response has always been a shoulder shrug and an “I’m just me”.
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I raped Godzilla
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You used to say you choked Linda Lovelace…
Until she told everyone “Yeah, but it was with his hands.”
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I’m curious as to what specific tweet set the Twitter Equalists off? If for nothing else to know the boundaries of the current society.
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Reblogged this on XWorkx.
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“I’m a self help coach. My latest book is on sex addiction.”
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[…] Source: Heartiste […]
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Me: (In my best deadpan) I used to have a worm farm.
Her: That’s interesting. What happened?
Me: Stampede. It was like all of the pasta you ever ate, coming back to get you.
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“I killed and ate my grandmother”
Been thinking about signing up for one of those online dating sites with this as my About Me.
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”Hi I have a T-shirt that says, ‘This is what a misogynist looks like’
Try it!
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“International man of mystery” my go-to reply. Never fails to produce an IOI or “oh??”
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Her: Whats your name
You: Bond, James Bond
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I tell people I’m a conversationalist …
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