PocketMatrix

Really? I got a couple of dirty looks, but I'm pretty charming. It's all in how you do it and whether or not you got game playa. Fro shaggiteh.

It's a great opportunity to polish your ability to make a great first impression. Excellent life skill--good to master when you're young and to integrate it into your personality.

Some tricks.

1) Find a high traffic area.
2) Make sure it's a choke point so that they can't dodge you. WUHAHAHAHA!
3) SMILE!
4) Tailor your greeting to the people you meet.
5) Dress well. People will assess your personality based only on how you look (clothes and apparent attitude). People like to associate with those who exhibit qualities they admire.
6) Apparent attitude is all about confidence. The smile being the biggy--other factors being a healthy volume for your voice (not too loud or quiet), good posture, and "open" body language.
7) Make sure not to get too close. I really hate it when strangers move into my personal space.

It's like a microcosm of life and business. [edit]If your life and relationships with other people are largely superficial.

that's fucking intense! that guy rules. seriously.

And it's people like chuck that make me glad Kerry didn't win.

because i thought it was strangely poetic that a man would actually end his life over a president being elected?

"that's fucking intense! that guy rules. seriously."

"i thought it was strangely poetic"

Doesn't sound like the same message to me. And yes. But what do I know, since I'm not in an college economics class!

Poetry is at its best when it effectively conveys an emotion or idea.

I agree with chuck on this one.

Sure, it may be poetic, but "that guy fuckin rules" is far from expressing his view that it's poetic.

People die for a lot of stupid things.

For some reason this guy felt his life was worth trading for a strong political statement. Some people die for abstract ideals, for religion, whatever--I don't see how this is any different.

Anyway, I connected the words "intense" and "poetic". Assumedly, chuck believes the guy fucking rules because of the intensity of his statement.

If anything, I'm surprised there weren't more of these.