Working on social skills this summer

[Aegrus]

dude, i think you're perfectly normal. i read everytime you post and i see tons of humor (and i'm always dying laughing at the jokes), like you're just sitting home playing a role to see who bites. even on this thread, you seem like you have it all together. you say stuff like you're desperate and then you say you sweet talk her. who are you foolin zentor? lol.

. . . I see nothing incongruous about his posts. It seems a lot like me, actually. Aside from the "love talking to people" part.

[jackman]

for instance, he didn't run away and hide when the girl said "don't call me sweetie" again. he just chucked it off, like "ouch" and kept it moving. that kind of thing, tells me, he's not hurting for people skills.

but of course, i could be wrong. tho, i don't think i am with him.

[kılıç_mehmet]

It's only bad advice if you are a disingenuous asshole at your core.

No, some girls do like that type of guy. Actually most do.

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"Just be yourself" advice is really a bad advice. If I acted the same in front of girls as I did in front of guys, or how I act when I'm on my own, no girl would ever would want to speak with me(they would automatically assume I'm a poor, uneducated bydlo). I change between accents, and ways of acting when dealing with different groups of people.
I suggest you do the same.

Usually I hate your advice, but I actually agree with this. For some people, being themself gets them no where. Ever.

I don't really understand what it means "to be yourself". I don't think that there is a genuine me down there somewhere. I see a collection of masks that I continuously switch when dealing with people.
I believe that many people do this. Or maybe I'm just a single case, who knows.

[Epimethean]

"No, some girls do like that type of guy. Actually most do."

How old are you? All those years of experience coming into play now? Put it this way: If you have to change who you are between circles in a major way, you're nobody. Get on witcherbadself, Nemo. Girls like men who are men, and who have passion for something other than themselves. The dumb ones like assholes. I don't date those girls. Oh, but waitaminit: You're the guy who insults women from countries other than yours, so this may be a Turkish flaw.

[kılıç_mehmet]

"No, some girls do like that type of guy. Actually most do."

How old are you? All those years of experience coming into play now? Put it this way: If you have to change who you are between circles in a major way, you're nobody. Get on witcherbadself, Nemo. Girls like men who are men, and who have passion for something other than themselves. The dumb ones like assholes. I don't date those girls. Oh, but waitaminit: You're the guy who insults women from countries other than yours, so this may be a Turkish flaw.

I am 23 years old.
Besides, I'm as much as a "nobody" as you are, friend. Who are you, to call me a nobody, while you're obviously not a front man of science, politics and the arts?

You're the guy who insults women from countries other than yours, so this may be a Turkish flaw.

I have not insulted anyone, merely told people about my observations.
Of course, it's up to you whether to take it as an insult or not, I do not really have to answer the rest of your words directed at my manhood. We cannot test that through the internet, obviously.
Besides, I do have passions for things other than myself. I've repeatedly told this on this forum that I am not a staunch individualist, and certainly no egoist.

[Epimethean]

Nationalism pulls the Turkish chicks, eh?

[kılıç_mehmet]

Nationalism pulls the Turkish chicks, eh?

I don't know. Besides, it doesn't have to. This is not the reason why I have chosen to walk this path.

[Epimethean]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g6iKZlRcYc