@ThanosReXXX I've never had a good voice. In my head now it's just a New Yawker b/c of my 8 years in Kentucky w/ everybody telling me how much of a NYer I was. But not manly, not deeply, not overly high pitched but enough so that I've been made fun of over it. Perhaps b/c of all the whining and complaining.
I always figured you had a deep voice, but I don't really think about voices all that much. It's only when I hear someone speak for the first time that I'm usually surprised b/c I just expect everyone to sound "normal" but there is no such thing. Mostly it's all about the txt nowadays anyway, my ears and voice rarely get used. Maybe if I had a banjo.
Someday we'll find it
The rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me
@Tyranexx Had I know I was going to be in a voice conversation I would have stuck w/ my Roddy avatar from the days of yore. Not that I sound anything even remotely like him, but still.
Someday we'll find it
The rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me
Anyone that doesn’t like Veal Recipes clearly hasn’t experienced Veal Recipes enough. The Nitneod Swatch isn’t powerful enough to pierce the muscle, that’s why Veal Recipes will never work on it. You need to try Veal Recipes that are designed from the killing floor on more powerful and sharper Veal Recipe devices.
@ThanosReXXX Thanks for the compliments. Not worrying about what others think is something I've been trying to work on. In my case, it isn't so much my appearance I'm worried about; it's more my personality and awkward social skills. For example, small talk at events seems generic and feels almost like I'm playing a role. I used to joke to close family members that I needed to create a FAQ and hand it out at events I attended.
As for the latest Avengers movie....I've seen the first Avengers and Age of Ultron, but literally when I got around to trying to watch Infinity War, it was booted out of theaters. At this point, I'm probably just better off watching the movies in the correct event sequence and catching up over time like with half of everything else I don't get around to watching. XD
@Tyranexx If you have Netflix, it has Infinity War @Morpheel Sometimes it’s hard for me to catch what’s being said on Live PD when they cut to deputy in Rhode Island. For a good fifteen minutes I was wondering why a line of questions started when the officer saw a “charbroil”. He was really saying “chore boy” (the metal scrub pad)
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As for using/creating social skills: you can use a sales & marketing trick, that's called mirroring. Basically, it's just leveling up or down, to equal a person's demeanor, volume and speed of conversation. So, for example, if I get a soft-spoken person on the phone, I'm not going to raise my voice to overpower him. I'll just stay even with his level, and then communication will be on equal terms.
Of course, there's obviously a difference between business and personal communication, but it does help, and it can help to keep the conversation going, which in turn can help overcome the awkwardness. Most importantly: conversations in general should be (or should at least feel) as organic as possible, so a FAQ wouldn't really help. Even though it was only a joke you made, there's always some truth to it, isn't there?
On a side note: doing the exact opposite of mirroring can of course also be a handy tool to cut unwanted conversations short...
But all kidding aside, I may be a very social person, but I'm honestly not all that fond of the obligated family gatherings, other than the big holidays, but birthdays and such are always an event with the same old conversations, the same questions, so it's a lot of rinse and repeat, which sometimes makes it feel as if you really have to soldier through it. And don't get me wrong: I love my family, but there's only so many times that you're willing and able to answer certain questions...
Most of the time, I just speed up my intake of the first couple of beers, and after that, everything is funny and cozy to me...
Veal Recipes is the new VR for any articles. It's how I'm going to refer to it from now on. It makes the discussions bearable for me
Also, mirroring is fantastic. I use that for work about 80% of the time. Many folks think I'm cheerful and pleasant now; I would push them into the pool if I could.
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@Heavyarms55 I love my PSVR, but it has a long way to go. The cables, the strapping in, and the #($!@ camera mixing with an onscreen controller that jumps 12ft randomly and then reappears sideways and I can't correct it, and the "out of range" errors if I lean outside the camera space drive me crazy. The camera *NEEDS to go in the future.
@ReaderRagfish....I still...don't get the snowboard thing You're spot on with rjejr and Aloha though. Sitcom best friend indeed!
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