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Comment author: CronoDAS 09 April 2010 09:22:23PM 4 points [-]

Cultivate social spontaneity. This one is hard to define, so I'll give an example. I was waiting for a bus and a woman I'd never met before in an awesome homemade knitted cloak tottering along on crutches said she loved my jacket.

WARNING. If you're male and you attempt to talk to a woman on public transportation, you may very well end up making her extremely uncomfortable. This xkcd comic triggered a major backlash.

Comment author: Alicorn 09 April 2010 09:31:07PM 15 points [-]

If you do not have practice using social spontaneity to good effect it is ideal to try it in situations where the other party may both physically and socially escape, just as a general rule. On public transportation is not a physically escapable place to be.

Comment author: thomblake 13 April 2010 04:40:36PM *  13 points [-]

Yes, what I used to do was yell greetings at random people on campus. Sometimes questionable propositions. Plenty of room for escape, especially when I'm sitting and they're walking. I met several good friends that way.

ETA: "questionable propositions" here being things like "P=NP" or "multiple realizability is true"

Comment author: Curiouskid 26 November 2011 03:15:03AM 1 point [-]

Which questionable propositions? Some strange things come to mind.

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