A List of Things That Kill Your Aura - Rick Glassman
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Discussing a list of the most difficult things to do while looking dignified:
- Picking up a moving ping pong ball.
- Starting a stopped bicycle.
- Turning around ever.
- Eating a little bag of cereal with your hands.
- Consuming soup that's too hot.
- Eating from an ice cream cone that's melting and getting around the sides quickly.
- Working out how to sleep inside a blanket in a room that's too hot while you're too cold, or too cold while you're too hot—deciding whether to go arms under and poke head out like a mummy or take arms out and pull blanket down.
Being in a bedroom making love, then going to the bathroom while partner stays in bed. If you have a small ass, you either moonwalk back so they see your big rockhard dick or say, "I have a little ass. Don't look at me."
Why is it still hard?
It was hard, but now it's not. Being seen naked used to be embarrassing and vulnerable. If intimate with someone and they see you soft, that's fine—it's going to happen. Humiliating if a woman sees penis soft before hard. Okay to go from grower to shower, but not soft to hard. As long as they've seen the Statue of Liberty.
It's like she thinks when seeing soft penis, "Is that his penis when it's hard?"
Sidling into a booth at a sports bar, being the one at the very end.
Closing a car door while holding two bags of luggage—use knee or keep low and nudge, don't lift high like in a romcom after a date.
Drinking from a straw during a fight. Missing a straw while watching something or talking—looks like a horse.
Idea of rules to the game and setting them up is getting on the same page with somebody. Con of saying "Wait, hold on, I'm confused" or "We have to serve to the opposite end of the court" is breaking the flow of conversation, cannibalizing momentum. Easier to maneuver without stating it.
Most comfortable talking about pickleball rules than conversation rules because pickleball has legitimacy—ancient scroll with rules. No such scroll for conversation.
Capacity at pickleball not judged close to sense of self. Error like stepping into kitchen doesn't mean you're bad. But social errors like sidling into booth end, girl seeing flat little ass, or saying something potentially offensive (e.g., noting someone was Indian)—feels like it affects self-worth.
Addressing something stops momentum. Debate on whether something is funny or a bummer—can't say both. Where are rules written?
Throwaway: Little tag—if you hear it enjoy it, if not no exposition, doesn't matter. Like "Oh yeah, nice car."
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