Cheap shots.

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Ever had someone try to impress you with such a low effort act it's almost as cringe as catcalling?

You know sometimes people try impress with words in a foreign language? A few days ago someone tried it on me with a bunch of disjointed Google Translate expressions. You know how different languages could have different sets of grammar rules, lacking direct rule equivalency in translation? You can get some hilariously embarrassing mistakes. In this case this person confirmed hilarity was not the intention.

THIS:



I was not impressed.

A "cheap shot" is a physical attack, or a verbal insult on you. Not something said to you to ...seduce you or impress you, nor anything like that.

In sports it meant "unnecessary roughness". And now more often it means insulting a person verbally by going after a known weakness or handicap they have.



I dunno if there is a correct term for what you're talking about. Saying something you think will impress only to fall on your face.

When my parents were young marrieds they meant a similar couple from England. And the English husband tried to impress everyone by saying "Hoover may not have been a good POTUS, but he is sure making a good head of the FBI". The guy didnt know that Herbert Hoover, and J. Edgar Hoover, were two different American people. Lol!

It was not in a "dating" situation but you can imagine a guy doing that to try to impress his date.

^ There would’ve been much rejoicing, but impressed? No.

Really? It would take incredible arm and shoulder strength.

I find this sort of a strange concern for a man to voice. When I was single, if somebody in whom I might possibly have romantic interest came up to me in a social setting and started showing off how she knew the word for "anvil" in 50 different languages, she would have had me at "yunque".

In dating situations its usually the guy trying to impress the girl...and falling on his face. Not the woman trying to impress the guy. But I suppose that happens too.

I met a girl a party in college... a psych major, who was telling me her planned career path.

She planned to (a) move to Jamaica (the island in the Caribbean, not the town in New York), and (b) specialize in counseling young folks there with anorexia.

I didnt question it out loud, but thought to myself "thats the stupidest lifeplan Ive ever heard. Moving to smaller country (with less population ergo less market for your services), which is also a poor third world country (where folks cant afford your services), and because its a poor country they dont have disorders associated with affluence like anorexia (or at least they have less of it relative to their already smaller population size), and hope to start a lifelong career. I sometimes whish that I had done her the favor of just laughing at her to her face.

I had a girl do something in front of me once that I really didn't like. I won't describe it because its more suited to the adult section. It turned out she'd been trying to get my attention for a while and I hadn't noticed (this is a recurring theme) and felt the need to do something obvious. She'd been drinking so that contributed.

She was perfectly okay, I knew her a bit and liked her well enough but the fact she thought this thing would appeal to me shows how little she actually knew about me. I just felt kind of sad and embarrassed for her.

I think she was embarrassed too. I don't remember seeing much of her after.

Do you think that she thought that whatever she did would appeal to men as though y’all are the same and like that sort of thing? If so, that’s really sad.

I’m not sure if guys sending me certain types of pics was an attempt to impress me or something else. I was not impressed.