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Originally posted by miamigo3

Oh boy, another alt.

I think TA needs a couple more mods.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Oh boy, another alt. I think TA needs a couple more mods.

Nah, sorted.

He probably thinks I was the one that banned his first account, even though I try to make sure they're actually an alt (being quite tolerant to stupidity)... oh, well, he doesn't seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed anyway

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles I mostly suck at face to face stuff, so the net has been pretty good for me; but I don't know, maybe it was just a convenient excuse to avoid getting better at offline stuff.

Exactly what it is. I can say I used to be of this sort. I had horrible social skills and had no tact or social etiquette. A select few friends coaxed me out and I slowly gained social skills. I am by no means a professional or skilled in my own view, but I am glad that I socialize. It has prepared me for many situations professionally that if I weren't more sociable, I would have had a harder time interacting with those within the workplace. It also has had more obvious effects with the ladies.

Is this similar to when you ex-gf says "surprise, I sent you a message on myspace" and you be like "oh great. what did it say?" and she says "read it, it's on your myspace" and your like "well, why don't you tell me face to face?" and then she's, like, a ****

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel Exactly what it is. I can say I used to be of this sort. I had horrible social skills and had no tact or social etiquette. A select few friends coaxed me out and I slowly gained social skills. I am by no means a professional or skilled in my own view, but I am glad that I socialize. It has prepared me for many situations professionally that if I weren't more sociable, I would have had a harder time interacting with those within the workplace. It also has had more obvious effects with the ladies.

whoa, you pretty much summarized me in that paragraph. I used to hide behind online first person shooters until a few months ago, when I woke up let my social life take over. Somehow I became much more empathetic, allowing me to make more true friends in the last two months than in perhaps the 8 years before then. I love face to face interaction, and don't remember being more alive.

And I barely touched a video game since.

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Originally posted by Lira oh, well, he doesn't seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed anyway

I think Jimmy Carr said it better when he said " He isn't the sharpest tool in the box, in fact he isn't even as sharp as the box". Love that man.


As for the article. I am actually reading more since i started reading books on my phone. Its not that hard to find a text version of a book you own online and transfer it to you phone. Sure its all on a smaller screen but you have more opportunities to read tat way. Is your friend a couple of minutes late for an appointment? Just pull out your phone and read until he arrives. Girlfriend wants to try to many different clothes in the store? No biggies, just lean on the nearest wall and read until she finds the item(s) she likes. You can go trough a couple of chapters if she is really into it.
If digitised books didn't exit i would be reading far far less then i am now. Picking up a proper book takes time i do not have, im not home much and when i am, i am usually busy with school work, no time to read for pleasure. And dragging even a paperback around everywhere is inconvenient at best.

As for iPods, i do own one. I mostly use it while im exercising though. And of course in the car. An 80gb storage is much more convenient than any cd radio in a car (even if it does read mp3 files)

good read, i think the ipod or just portable music device is a gift & a curse, having the music with you all the time when it's boresome, like in a commuting situation is great. i think i do shut out most of the world when i strap on my earbuds, not that it has affected my socialskills greatly but it's damaged it slighly since i'm told by alot of people that i come of as a recluse. to me it's bullshit since i'm fairly outgoing, i just don't want to be bothered with people sometimes. i know that's bollocks as well, i don't care.

We're missing out because we listen to our iPods instead of interacting with the people on our commute? I listen to my iPod specifically to AVOID talking to people on my commute. In the days before I had an iPod, I would read a newspaper to avoid talking to people. I still read the paper, just with my 'phones in.

We're staring off into space? Yeah, 'cause I'm digging what I hear and listening to the nuances of the track.

I don't take transit to make friends, I take transit to get where I'm going. I HATE people talking to me on the train...look, I just got up, haven't had a coffee yet, I'm tired, I'm going over my day in my head and thinking about all the other minutia of my daily life, I don't give a shit about you or your kid, or your fucking cat. Leave me the fuck alone. If I wanted to talk to you, I'd have started a conversation.

You aren't my friend, I don't care about anything you say. It's not that I lack social skills, I have friends and a life and some people think I'm a pretty cool guy to hang around with - it's just that I don't, and don't care to, know you. Now step back, you're standing on my dick.

Congratulations for reading 6 books a week, but Archie comics don't count. Unless you're some kind of sevant, there's no way you can absorb and consider what you've read if you take in that much raw data. I'd rather enjoy 1 book over the course of a month than speed-read 6 in a week...it's not a race. The author didn't write it to be read as fast as possible. It's not a competition. I frequently go back and re-read pages, passages and chapters to make sure I understand what I'm reading properly.

Basically, I think she's an older, out of touch, lonely woman with a deadline and no ideas, just saw someone with headphones and thought, "what an ubiquitous device, I'm sure I can do a couple hundred words on that".

Next.

Dr. Das reminded me that one of the things I like to do the most when I travel by bus is to see whether I can find someone to talk to. Not everyone is open to conversation, which is why I don't actually talk to others as often as I wish I did but... it's often a fun experience

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Originally posted by Moongoose I think Jimmy Carr said it better when he said " He isn't the sharpest tool in the box, in fact he isn't even as sharp as the box". Love that man.

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Originally posted by Moongoose As for the article. I am actually reading more since i started reading books on my phone. Its not that hard to find a text version of a book you own online and transfer it to you phone. Sure its all on a smaller screen but you have more opportunities to read tat way. Is your friend a couple of minutes late for an appointment? Just pull out your phone and read until he arrives. Girlfriend wants to try to many different clothes in the store? No biggies, just lean on the nearest wall and read until she finds the item(s) she likes. You can go trough a couple of chapters if she is really into it. If digitised books didn't exit i would be reading far far less then i am now. Picking up a proper book takes time i do not have, im not home much and when i am, i am usually busy with school work, no time to read for pleasure. And dragging even a paperback around everywhere is inconvenient at best.

I'm exactly the same with audio books, and I really feel like getting a handheld computer (or even Amazon's kindle) for that exact same reason.

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Originally posted by Moongoose As for iPods, i do own one. I mostly use it while im exercising though. And of course in the car. An 80gb storage is much more convenient than any cd radio in a car (even if it does read mp3 files)

Once again, +1

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Originally posted by SuspicionVandit Is this similar to when you ex-gf says "surprise, I sent you a message on myspace" and you be like "oh great. what did it say?" and she says "read it, it's on your myspace" and your like "well, why don't you tell me face to face?" and then she's, like, a ****

That's why I just send her lolcats... it's like roses, only cuter and with broken grammar

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