Rehearsing conversations.

paleoperson

I think we all do this to a certain extent sometimes, just thinking of how something will go and what to say. There's a continuum there.

But do you ever feel like it's kind of... "cheating"? Especially if the other person thinks it's completely spontaneous, yet you've come up with all these things beforehand, good ways of putting things etc.?

Mister Vain

I'm glad I'm not the only person who does this.

RichT

You've rehearsed this thread haven't you.....

Buona Fortuna

It used to be my job so - yeah - funny how the habit kind of sticks though.

MarkAnthony

"What are you doing Prime-minister?"

"Rehearsing my impromptu witticisms." - Winston Churchill

A lot of life is about as spontaneous as the carefully rehearsed spontaneous witty 'banter' on Top Gear is.

I don't rehearse as much as I replay, and in the replays I'm cleverer, wittier, and much more spontaneous. :P

GLaDOS

Sometimes when I'm waiting in line at the chipper or something I repeat what I'm going to order over in in my head so I don't make a balls of it.

Menas

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Sometimes when I'm waiting in line at the chipper or something I repeat what I'm going to order over in in my head so I don't make a balls of it.

Especially at 3 in the morning with a confusing feed of pints scrambling your brain cells.

I always rehearse conversations in my head.

I'm always a billion times funnier in thoughts than speech, sadly.

Somnus

I do this all the time, particularly around people I don't know so well.

Think it comes from being such a quiet person when I was younger, I'm still so concious of what I'm about to say even though I'm a lot more outgoing now.

And I do the exact same thing with chipper/chinese orders!

Junkyard Tom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNkoEM3qxjo

Peregrine

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Sometimes when I'm waiting in line at the chipper or something I repeat what I'm going to order over in in my head so I don't make a balls of it.

Same but, sometimes, I end up thinking too much and still making a balls of it

Señor Fancy Pants

Yeah I do that too. I make some very legitimate, well thought out points....then it goes to crap as soon as I start the actual conversation.

Then I either lose the plot or else keep my mouth shut and put my "Fcuk you" face on.

Reiver

Worse when people catch you talking to yourself and think you've lost it.

The Backwards Man

Even worse is when you run through a whole conversation with someone in your head and it gets heated and you end up falling out with them without even speaking to them.

Reiver

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Even worse is when you run through a whole conversation with someone in your head and it gets heated and you end up falling out with them without even speaking to them.

Level two. I'm still working my way up to that. The potential pitfalls add to the challenge but maybe it's why you're further ahead in the game than me.

NachoBusiness

Sometimes I like to go on long drives in the mountains and imagine Helena Christensen is with me.

Hotblack Desiato

Talking to yourself is not a sign of insanity.

Arguing with yourself, may be.

HardenendMan

As someone who is socially anxious and awkward I do this a lot. If I think on my feet it will end badly.

paleoperson

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Talking to yourself is not a sign of insanity.

Arguing with yourself, may be.

Just to be clear I meant "rehearse" as in "prepare" or "think how it will go". I do not mean rehearse as in verbatum, clearly you don't know what the other person willl say.

cbyrd

you can stick that combine harvester up your ar$e

This is an old one, LOL

2 neighbouring farmers, one of them is in the middle of bringing in the harvest when his combine breaks down, he knows his neighbour has a brand spanking new combine and he wonders if he'll be able to borrow it. He jumps down and as he's walking across the fields he starts to practice how he'll ask

'howya Mick, can i borrow your new combine?'
'hello Mick, I'm nearly finished cutting the crop, is there any chance I can have a lend of your new harvester mine bit the dust?'

Thinking of some of the arguments that might be put forward seeing as it was only brand new and how he'd counter argue, he knocks on Micks door and says....

This was told to me when I was about 6, many many years ago

secondattempt

I don't get it.

OneOfThem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk9wCAc4Jzs

NachoBusiness

secondattempt wrote: »

I don't get it.

Wrong thread ...

bodhrandude

cbyrd

By practicing all possible outcomes for asking for the combine, he had convinced himself he'd be told no, so when the neighbour opens the door he tells him to shove the combine up his ar$e, he didn't want it anyway..
Cue the neighbour not knowing wtf he was on about..
Moral? Don't assume that you know what the other person thinks or will say

pillphil

cbyrd wrote: »

By practicing all possible outcomes for asking for the combine, he had convinced himself he'd be told no, so when the neighbour opens the door he tells him to shove the combine up his ar$e, he didn't want it anyway..
Cue the neighbour not knowing wtf he was on about..
Moral? Don't assume that you know what the other person thinks or will say

It was the reversal of the traditional

joke -> punchline

layout that confused me.

Savage Tyrant

I worked briefly with a lad that quit in this exact manner. Word for word.

"Stick this job up my arse. Fúck you. That's all I am"... Stormed out and slammed the door.

I couldn't help but think, he probably should have rehearsed it.