What are your interest?

Passport

When asked by a stranger, probably an outspoken american, a friend of your room-mate and on the other side of pretty "tell me about yourself"
what's your reply?

I usually waffle on incoherently, though that exact question doesn't really often come up.

sceptre

Myth wrote:

I usually waffle on incoherently

Ditto. That's why when I've gone to tea with anyone over the past few months it's usually taken about five hours or so. I'm a big fan of reciprocated waffle.

What's "on the other side of pretty"? Frankenstein's monster's bride?

MrJoeSoap

Probably go on some rant about why Matt Le Tissier is the greatest human being ever.

I apply my personality in a paste.

Ruu_Old

Lots of talk like the previous posters, normally turning well off the original topic and drifting off for sometime, like Grandpa Simpson. Plenty of ranting also. Tea and biccies ftw.

MrJoeSoap

Ruu wrote:

drifting off for sometime, like Grandpa Simpson.

"... and, that's everything that happened in my life right up to the time I got this phone call."

aidan_walsh

"tell me about yourself"

"I'm a member of boards.ie"

*highly awkward silence*

Ruu_Old

aidan_walsh wrote:

"I'm a member of boards.ie"

*highly awkward silence*

A little worse here.
"I'm a mod on boards.ie"

*cloud of dust, door slam, screech of tires*

aidan_walsh

You win. Or lose. I'm not sure

el rabitos

Passport wrote:

When asked by a stranger, probably an outspoken american, a friend of your room-mate and on the other side of pretty "tell me about yourself"
what's your reply?

i often like to take grandpa simpsons advice and rephrase it to my own needs:

"One way to get rid of them is to tell 'em stories that dont go anywhere. Like the time we went over to shelbyville during the war, I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldnt get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones.................now where was I........oh yeah, the important thing was I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time, you couldnt get those... (trails off)"

works every time, that and i like to tell people i'm the champion of the madagasgan wrestling federation :eek:

Muzzy

In an interview situation I give my philosophy, I am like life, there are two options, I am either dying or growing, but I am never standing still coz if I stand still, the rest of the world is growing and therefore I'm dying, and I'm not dying, I'm growing.

But in a social context; "I am into tunes, small quite gigs, pool, my girlfriend, the Roisin Dubh in Galway, Delight sambo bar and taking it easy..., and what about you?"


......Basically, I'm "cool"!!!:cool:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i'd look at them like they were stupid and ask that they not ask me to answer silly questions like that. Being pretty is no excuse. I'll reply here again if it ever happens.

Black Swan

I play for pay.

Jonny Saviour

I usually say peadophilia. they say oh really? I say ah yeah... looked into it much bar the Sun newspaper? bit like AIDS. Not really bad when you get a few people behind the cause.

here fishy fishy.....

WhiteWashMan

Jonny Saviour wrote:

I usually say peadophilia. they say oh really? I say ah yeah... looked into it much bar the Sun newspaper? bit like AIDS. Not really bad when you get a few people behind the cause.

here fishy fishy.....

banned for this and your abuse in the other thread you started about saturday 15th (and also for not realising that the 15th was actually a sunday)

come back in a month.

bluto63

Who asks such a broad question? Where do you begin...

Pigman II

I just look at them nose-upturned as tho I've smelt their fart, give a swoop of my cape as I turn and then just walk away.

Alter-Ego

"I'm a sex offender" usually shuts the nosy gits up.

EOA_Mushy

A quick rant about my general affairs, none of the boring ones, and swing the question back to them selfs. Women like to talk any way...

OR

Walk out of the room.

tman

I dig slutty American chicks

then shoot her one of these bad boys - ";)"
follow it up with "and what makes you tick?" and you'll on the home straight

Can't say anyone has had the nerve to ask me such a ****ty question though... guess i'd just go on about my hobbies or something. then make a point of turning it back on them

Car Mad

Passport wrote:

When asked by a stranger, probably an outspoken american, a friend of your room-mate and on the other side of pretty "tell me about yourself"
what's your reply?

im a secret agent working for the taliban now im going to have to kill u:D
I MEAN IT:p
Nah id tell em im a reincarnation of einstein:rolleyes:

**Had to edit im none of these things i just like making things up

Knowing me, I would probably say something along the lines of "boobies" before bursting into a fit of laughter.

But then I'd waffle on for ages about something, realise I've been waffling for so long, then go try awkwardly to switch the subject from me on to the other person.

I'm my least favourite topic.

r3nu4l

This question came up in an interview I was sitting for a job that it urned out I didn't want (only realised this during the interview) so as soon as I was asked about myself I just said:

Me: "I play the banjo"
Interviewer: "Really, that's unusual these days isn't it?"
Me: "Yeah but I usually only play it when I'm up in the mountains"
Interviewer: "What do you in the mountains?"
Me: "Mind my own business unless city folk coming for canoeing and kayaking trips disturb me"

At this point one of the guys copped on to what I was doing but the other guy and girl didn't.

Interviewer: "So, you work on kayak tours?" (very confused look on his face)
Me: "Nope, I just don't like 'em folk in my territory. Have to make em squeal if the tresspass. Squeal like piggies."

The third guy broke his arse laughing, the girl looked confused, the main interviewers face went red as he realised what I was doing and he kicks me out and tells me never to apply there for a job again.
I didn't!



This really did happen, it's not made up, I was bored, didn't want the job and the guy had p*ssed me off earlier with a comment he had made so...meh!

Musashi

My interests are actually in Hunting, Knives (and all things Sharp), Martial Arts, Computer Science, Learning, Reading (mainly Pratchett and everything else), and killing things. I hate job interviews!

NoDayBut2Day

I don't see anything strange from getting a question like "can you tell me about yourself?" i usually just say that i'm a student at such and such college, this is what i'm studying, this is what i'm involved in.

no harm in that, imo.