I need a toastmasters type thing. I used to be good at public speaking. I don`t know how I talked myself into not being good at it but I want it back.
Mal: So we run. Nandi: I understand, Captain Reynolds. You have your people to think of, same as me. And this ain't your fight. Mal: Don't believe you do understand, Nandi. I said 'we run'. We.
'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Liese S. - Nov 09, 2010 12:54:03 pm PST #4476 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
amych - Nov 09, 2010 12:54:25 pm PST #4477 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, but as an English teacher you don't get to award yourself a new title for telling people how many times they said "um".
Strix - Nov 09, 2010 1:00:39 pm PST #4478 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
as an English teacher you don't get to award yourself a new title for telling people how many times they said "um
and yet again, I was doing it wrong. I had many titles, including La Maestra Suprema, Lady Miss G, and Empress of Grammar.
If they hadn't fired me, I'd be Potentate of the Multiverse by now. Stupid wonky uterus ruined my 'verses domination. Bitch.
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2010 1:04:16 pm PST #4479 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I miss public speaking. That was a good part of my MI job. Overshadowed, but good.
Where's the cranberry? Seems like a gimme.
Strix - Nov 09, 2010 1:05:47 pm PST #4480 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, dear god, ita.
That was nastier than goatse.
Jesse - Nov 09, 2010 1:10:19 pm PST #4481 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think that looks fun! And possibly delicious.
But you'll remember my obsession with meat muffins last winter....
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2010 1:12:11 pm PST #4482 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::deletes Jesse::
billytea - Nov 09, 2010 1:12:39 pm PST #4483 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
IIRC, our own Billytea is a member.
I am indeed, though given my history with the FAC, this may not settle the matter.
Anyway. It's a public speaking club. It gives people a safe venue in which to give speeches and get peer feedback, and a program to work through different aspects of speechcraft.
I had considered joining Toastmaters at one point, but the uberserious turned me off.
This baffles me. I've been a member of several TM clubs, and never encountered anything like this. What do you mean by uberserious?
It basically sounds like Toastmaster's needs 6 people to do every month what 1 English teacher does every day.
Um. No.
amych - Nov 09, 2010 1:20:33 pm PST #4484 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Um. No.
I'd hope that's the case, given that I know it's been an important thing for you -- on the other hand, they seriously need someone to include moar fun and less Robert's Rules in their website and wikipedia page.
brenda m - Nov 09, 2010 1:20:51 pm PST #4485 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
BT, for me it was the titles, and repeating everyone's titles, and clapping people up and down to the stage, and all the letters after everyone's names, etc. Just set me twitching.
Unrelated to that, I was reading through the suggested table topics guide and their suggestions were all weirdly inappropriate, for a work setting anyway. Very strange.
People have had fun at the two we've had so far though.