are you good at public speaking?
no.
shareThe worst thing imaginable for me.
sharei hear ya
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I spoke at a funeral recently & now I get to speak in front of a Judge and Lawyer, fun times
shareIt's been so long....
I did do well in the public speaking classes in college but I didn't like it.
It’s something I get paid to do, so I hope so, lol.
shareYes. Probably hereditary.
shareYou're obviously very pompous, full of yourself, and on the fast track to becoming just another attention whore here.
shareWow. Now you have a mad-on for me too? I forgive you.
shareYou can't claim you didn't ask for that. Yeah, I believe in turnabout is fair play.
shareYou mean when I asked you why you are so aggro toward ShogunofYonkers? I guess pointing out your poor behavior constitutes "asking for it." OK man. Get it all out. Talk some shit. I am, in fact, pompous so you need to hit better than that. Go read all of my posts. lol
shareYou came at me in the guise of objective criticism then proceeded to take a number of cheap shots and culminated it by playing armchair psychologist. You even admitted to being snide.
You're the one that needs to go back and read with a semblance of comprehension because the conflict between yukkers and myself is not the one-sided attack you made it appear to be.
That is what it seems like to me. At least here you managed to ... almost explain your rude behavior.
Yes, I did take cheap shots at you. You showed up to the BBQ drunk and hostile while everyone was having a nice time. You deserved every shot. You deserved much worse frankly.
I have seen you be cool in other threads. Why are you being such an asshole? No one cares about your imagined slight from Shogun. It doesn't seem to exist. You are just tripping out and lashing out.
"What it seems like to me."
Yeah, that really sums up your perception, Mr.Moral High Ground.
You try to come across as so intellectual....where did you get the absurd and arrogant notion that I'm supposed to succumb to your distorted expectations?
You're so much like yukkers, (explains why you're such a blind suck up) and that's exactly how he and I ended up where we are now.
You don't see a common theme here regarding your angry/oddball behavior?
You'd be pretty taken aback by the number of posters who have reached out to me about your tantrums
Relax, this isn't the War of 1812 pops😉
Not going to deny there's some anger involved when you start the name-calling animosity but there's nothing oddball about retaliation. After all, you're the one with the egomaniacal moniker of a wannabe warrior.
I seriously doubt that claim. Why can't those fictional posters confront me themselves? I'll at least give Anubis credit for that much.
Oh No!!
I made an angry asshole mad?!?
Way to read too much into an online handle blockhead lol
I'm certain none of the numerous posters who regard you as a cranky jackoff want any 'credit' from you, after all, your bank is a bust
Now go smoke some herb, crack a beer and spy on those neighbors of yours in their cozy family home you grubby goat😗
"Now go smoke some herb, crack a beer..."
Hah, keep on displaying your blatant hypocrisy. Kellai was right, you're the grouch. Your neighbors bitch about the noise coming from your garage when you're tanked, lol ! And then there's Halloween and the kiddies at the end of your driveway.
Keep bringin' it punk.
Ooh, your blood is really pumping now you mummy😜
shareActually, I was just very relaxed, content, sipping a beer and watching a sunset in my western sky. Unlike you, dreading another day in the rat race tomorrow, desperately wishing for retirement in Florida, years from now, when that day might never come.
shareOuch, so angry about a guy you'll never meet...You sure can't take it goofball
shareI already said "bring it", you limp dishrag.
share Bring what DBag?
A urinal cake to your lonely boy party?
Keep 'the hits' coming, you are an amusing waste of time
Wasting time is your specialty, you infantile prick.
shareYowza! For a tired old boy who's pecker and waistline gave out during the Clinton Administration you sure do have gumption!
Keep it up, it's good to get those veins flowing👍
What does political affiliation even have do do with it, especially coming from someone who's always slamming the Politics Board? Keep bringin' it, you sickening fake!
shareHow about clearly explaining in detail your beef. All I get from you is rage and ninja sniping in threads unrelated to anything to do with you. Why? Just why? You won't be specific. You are abusive and if anyone points it out you think that justifies more abuse from you.
shareYou're such a classic, pandering, name-dropping, suck up! Are you that desperate to get into yukkers' sickening clique?
shareDrama Queen!!!!!
shareAttention whore turncoat!
One exclamation mark is sufficient, ignoramus.
You do see how this is going for you, right dumbass..?
A lot of people are a tad tired of your angry, spastic lashing out and your random attacks
Take a nap with your pillow as that will be your only company tonight and every other night sad lad
See you soon, sharpen your knife😉
Not a lot of people, just your blind minions.
Nothing spastic and random about retaliating against a lowlife punk. Learn some originality.
Sharpen that screwdriver, you paranoid fuck.
Oh my!
Profane language...I guess I got to you as usual (it's not hard to do)
My 'blind minions' have overwhelmingly agreed in PMs that you are an odd and angry sneak attacker...if you can't see how weird and angry you are all the time that's entirely on you doofus
"Oh my." You obviously don't realize how pussified that comes across. You're a master of Freudian slips, a**hole.
shareYou have a clear rhythm to your arguementative posts...
1. Random insult out of nowhere
2. Personal insult
3. Profane language
4. Full retreat
Sharpen your blade old boy, you are ridiculous
I'm not going anywhere, get your shit together stupid
"Profane language", hah.
You come across as the ultimate shrew and prude. Congrats, you old biddie!
Funny, I didn't even read your last post, you have become very predictable
Keep it up, your posting style is a little bit entertaining
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That's why you're responding, dumb shit, because you didn't even read it. You obviously have an alcohol-pickled brain.
shareI don't bother to read most of your garbage posts because you always come off as the same cranky jerk and let's face it, a dickhead like you is not writing the next Great American Novel asshole
Have a beer and a bowl you fat old tick, I'm here all night and week
Are you saying that just to prove me right? Because only a DRAMA QUEEN could complain about too many exclamation marks!!
God, why am I so on point with words?? WHY??? It's just so unfair for the rest of the db20db of this world!! They only have whining as defense machanism. Oh Lord, have pity on them and make me less perfect please!! Thank you.
You really appear ignorant and illiterate in a lot of your posts and this one is just another example. Are you sure you're not just frustrated because your puppet master Deliciousfeet disappeared, creep?
shareAwww, Indo miss him... he was much much cooler than you and used words Incould understand with my simple mind. 😁
shareYeah, so cool he eventually also became unpopular on that other, troll-filled site. Like the saying goes, you're known by the company you keep.
shareSo you followed him there? You missed him more than I did I guess. And I do miss him.
shareYou're an idiot, and you're doing a good job of keeping my contempt for you updated.
shareAnd you’re sad. Just sad. I’ll go back to having fun with the rest of my friends and leave you here in your own dark corner, all alone and
Brooding.
You and your idiot buddy yukkers sure overuse that word a lot, applying it to the most irrelevant topics on the board. Such and such is just so sad all the time. Oh woe! It reveals you for the whiny pussies you are. Yeah, do that. Go back to that convoluted game that you claim was your creation when you actually just imported it from IMDb.
shareH A T E R
shareI'll second nyctc7's reply -- over-preparing is also my approach to handling it. And I don't try to memorize every piece of information. If I've used a particular book to prepare and think I might be asked about something from that book, I'll have it at the podium with me, bookmarked with Post-It notes. Between that and my knowledge of the topic, I'm confident I can handle any question thrown at me.
"Handling" doesn't mean knowing the answer to everything. There's nothing wrong with saying, "I don't know." If you've answered most questions well, your audience will consider you well informed, and admitting you don't know a particular thing just adds to your credibility.
One thing I keep in mind is that the verbal slips, awkward pauses while groping for an answer, and so on, that tend to seem like HUGE, HIGHLY EMBARRASSING SCREWUPS when making a speech are actually small things that most in the audience don't think remarkable at all.
My worst demon is talking too fast. To practice speaking at a good pace, try talking along with a news anchor, repeating lines just after he or she does. They deliberately speak slowly so to enunciate clearly, slower than normal conversational pace.
Generally I'm at my best in front of people I know very well, because their opinion of me isn't going to change, or total strangers, because I'm not concerned what they think. I'm the most nervous in front of a crowd of casual acquaintances.