Fake smiles

brianthebard

Do you have one? How often do you use it? I'm just thinking about it because sometimes I find it easier to smile and nod and pretend to understand than to spoil a conversation, but I always feel a bit bad for it for some reason, even though no one ever seems to know, or at least they don't call me out on it.

What's the boardsies opinionsies?


(I know this all a bit vague, I'm just a bit bored and tired and should really go to bed.)

Backtoblack

God yeah.. I use it all the time at work!

brianthebard

Yeah that's definitely a time when they are necessary!

slipss

Almost everyone has a fake smile, it's just some people don't realise that they do it, there mouth(the voluntary part) smiles but the area around thier eyes(the involuntary part) stays still. I personally don't, I unfortunatly have to mantain a pretty serious demeaner most of the time in public, but I think that is better sometimes because when I laugh or smile people seem to appreciate it more because they know its sincere.

Call Me Jimmy

EDIT: wrong thread

Rabies

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/abr1353l.jpg

Black Swan

Don't you just love the beauty contestant smile? "Please, please, pick me, pick me!" Especially when one contestant congratulates the girl that just beat her? (Smiles, but would really like to bite her head off!)

Dave!

Nobody knows it... but you've got a secret smile... and you use it, only for me.

ahem.

I don't have a particular fake smile that I use, but I usually just smile if the conversation is pleasant or laugh if someone tells a joke.

My ex used to call me on it when I'd laugh at an unfunny joke (with mates, etc) and I'd always just say that the alternative is to look at them stoney faced when they were trying to be a bit funny. I'm not there to critique their humour, it's just a conversation, and pity laughs are harmless.

Karl Hungus

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Hagar

All smiles are fake. We make them happen when we need them. They are just a social convention.

Red Hand

Yep, use it at work and other places for the sake of manners, I guess. There are degrees of fakeness though. Some people just manage to twist the mouth up in an inverted parabola without a hint of at least politeness.

Caliden

use it when I'm stuck talking to someone extremely drunk.

Seth Brundle

This thread reminded me of something I saw years ago.
Can anyone find the worst Irish 'celebrity' fake smile?

Im off hunting for some now...

Terry

kbannon wrote:

This thread reminded me of something I saw years ago.
Can anyone find the worst Irish 'celebrity' fake smile?

Im off hunting for some now...

That eyebrow chick.

Marksie

No i try not too have a fake smile.

Its in the eyes anyways and i have been told they are open enough.

But if annoyed, my smile goes tight lipped

WhiteWashMan

Hagar wrote:

All smiles are fake. We make them happen when we need them. They are just a social convention.

thats just silly.

have you never walked down a street with a smile on your face when youre in a good mood?

do oyu never watch something on TV and smile when something funny happens?

do you never smile when the team you support scores?

they are not social convention.

Overheal

My old school had this one older teacher who would freak you out:

She smiled.

She did nothing but smile. I have never seen that woman's lips because she always has her whites showing.

So I'm guessing she was constantly under some kind of narcotic or she got some kind of plastic surgery... or she was just a genuinely happy person.

but we all reckon she's a miserable alcoholic (not really she was cool).

that woman smiled for 6 years. she should be interviewed by Guiness or something.

Marksie

Overheal wrote:

She did nothing but smile. I have never seen that woman's lips because she always has her whites showing.

That doesnt sound like smiling that sounds like grinning like a maniac! lol

thats a smile, thats for six years is a basket case

MontgomeryClift

The fake laugh is worse.

Marksie

MontgomeryClift wrote:

The fake laugh is worse.

ahh yes... the ahaahhahahhhhaaaa, followed by a touch on the arm and a little grin as if you have just said the funniest thing in the world.

I always look at eyes regardless of smile or voice..was on a date once and looked into this womans eyes and i saw a perfect reflection of myself in them. She was just so shut off, they were dead like a glass deers eyes.

Tzetze

Speaking of fake laughs...


Graham Norton: Hnyuk hnyuk hnyuk hnyuk hnyuk

^ Most irritating fake irish celebrity ever

blocparty

everyone has one! its easy for me to use mine cause most of the time im actually smiling! and no im not weird