How do you make small talk?
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- chuparosa0
You could try food chit chat (usually people have something to say about what they have been eating or want to try) or going down memory lane like stuff from your childhood that you may have been thinking about.
- Projectile0
whip out your iPhone, pull up the gif animation thread. Always entertaining.
- 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?
- iCanHasQBN0
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.iCanHasQBN
- 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.iCanHasQBN
- OOOUUUCHbigtrickIII
- your intellect outshines us all again, icanhaz.sputnik2
- fugged0
sometimes when i get high, i feel really, really small.
- megE0
Act genuinely interested in what people have to say - bartending for years, I can talk about anything... just keep asking questions
- 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.iCanHasQBN
- 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
- dMullins0
I try to tell jokes mostly—oftentimes crude or tasteless ones. It makes people feel more intelligent and mature than me, which is not the case, but they get a good feeling about themselves after talking to me at least.
- ^bigtrickIII
- I feel like constant jokes makes you a very Michael Scott charactermegE
- BattleAxe0
catastrophes make small talk a lot easier
- 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
- 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.
- 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.set
- 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
- 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