INTP trait?

[LucasM]

I think this is an INTP trait.

Do you ever see some saying on an ad or billboard that is supposed to be 'intelligent' yet isn't (doesn't fit in with you worldview) and it makes you so angry that you just suddenly snap and freak out everyone around you. Sometimes I do, and my friends who know me find it hilarious, especially when it comes out of nowhere. I don't snap violently, sometimes I swear out loud.

 

[saffyangelis]

I just give whatever it is evils and roll my eyes, and insult them in my head.

 

[Ermine]

That kind of stuff makes me angry, but I keep it to myself.

 

[Nightingale]

Doesn't usually inspire anger in me, but I cannot resist delivering a critique (often aloud).

 

[LucasM]

And, then, another thing I do is, while I am usually not that social, every once in a while, while on a train, or in a park, or anywhere, if I am in the right mood, I will go up to a complete stranger and 'initiate' a conversation like this...
'Hello'
'Uh, hello'
'I feel like to talking to you. You seem a nice chap, what do you do?'
'Uh, ....'
And it is an overall interesting experience, especially as I'll never see them again. I say stuff I'd never say to people I know.
But it has to be the right kind of person. Alone, not in a crowd, and I guess I use my intuition.
But I have been brought up to try and be 'social'.
Any thoughts?

 

[saffyangelis]

I've been brought up to be social, and I'm now good at faking it. I don't tend to walk up to strangers, I'll just make up a conversation in my head, rather than actually talking to someone, in case they think i'm weird. but that might just be me.

 

[Nightingale]

And, then, another thing I do is, while I am usually not that social, every once in a while, while on a train, or in a park, or anywhere, if I am in the right mood, I will go up to a complete stranger and 'initiate' a conversation like this...
'Hello'
'Uh, hello'
'I feel like to talking to you. You seem a nice chap, what do you do?'
'Uh, ....'
And it is an overall interesting experience, especially as I'll never see them again. I say stuff I'd never say to people I know.
But it has to be the right kind of person. Alone, not in a crowd, and I guess I use my intuition.
But I have been brought up to try and be 'social'.
Any thoughts?

Does this usually go over well?

I don't mean to offend, but if I were that lone person on the train, I would honestly find this approach creepy and wonder what you were after. I don't usually enjoy conversation with strangers anyhow, but this seems like an especially unnatural conversation opening.

 

[Anling]

I hate the commercials that make it look like we're all uncoordinated idiots who can't get along with out their product. I know that the purpose of commercials is to make you want to buy their product, but I cannot stand it when they seem to be belittling my ability to function without them. I like commercials that are more like "hey, we just came up with this awesome thing that will make your life easier." And sometimes when the irritating ones come on I do tell whoever happens to be there that it's nonsense.

I must admit I have initiated conversations with random strangers. I usually keep completely to myself, but every now and then someone sits next to me and I apparently just feel like discussing something. I actually met my former boyfriend that way. While it lasted, we had some great debates.

 

[LucasM]

Actually, to be honest, I have never initiated a conversation like that, but it got the idea across. Usually, I try to mention something about him or her that may be in common, ask them about it, and end up just listening to them talk with the occasional interjection. Of course, I can't do it smoothly so it kind of sounds like my example in awkwardness.

People like talking about themselves.

 

[siroboris]

Getting "angry" and spewing obscenities is exactly what I do when I come across something I find particularly moronic. I also have the tendency to flail my arms about, which has been the source of amusement for my family and friends for years.

 

[Weliddryn]

I write when I see something stupid, and on rare occasions I will attempt to initiate a conversation. This is probably due to my years being drug out of classrooms by guidance counslors wondering why I am so withdrawn. If I talk to people once in a while, maybe people will leave me alone.
I also tend to leave things like a volume of the Death Note manga on the table in the open to discourage anybody from coming near me.
-Weliddryn

 

[saffyangelis]

That'd just make me come and talk to you about Death Note =)

I read it all online =)

 

[Fukyo]

It happens to ma all the time,but I just keep my reaction internal.

 

[Weliddryn]

If somebody were to come over to talk about death note, it would set them apart from the overwhelming crowd of idiotic children I must deal with everyday, and I would welcome their views on the story.
As for most people, they would just walk by, giving me the "omg, what is WRONG with her?" look and whisper about me to their "friends".
So it attracts people I prefer the company of and repels those whom I've just about come to despise.

 

[Jesin]

As for most people, they would just walk by, giving me the "omg, what is WRONG with her?" look and whisper about me to their "friends".

Wait, because of a volume of Death Note?

 

[Weliddryn]

Yes. That's the way the people I go to school with are.

 

[saffyangelis]

............your school is weird. In my year, my 'friends' tried reading death note before they decided I was weird.