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10103373 No.10103373 [Reply] [Original]

How do I develop a sense of wit?

>> No.10103375

Read and watch witty things - and try to talk to different people with different styles of communication.

>> No.10103403

learn Oscar Wilde's complete works off by heart.

>> No.10103418

>>10103373
raise your verbal IQ

>> No.10103493

>>10103373
listen to cumtown

>> No.10103520

>>10103493
I wanted to listen to that podcast but who the fuck names a podcast cumtown

>> No.10103563

>>10103373
If you mean out-of-the-box thinking and commentary:

It generally helps to be self-aware about anything you do or participate in. And it also generally helps to view a process as an apathetic faction or as an outsider, rather than being a follower or devotee.

Though if you overdo it, then you will just end up being perceived as an annoying cunt or chronic pessimist.

>> No.10103565

>>10103373
Wit is born, not made anon.

>> No.10103812

>>10103565
This, but quick thinking and learning to identify irony in situational experiences will help.

>> No.10104802

>>10103375
>>10103403
>>10103418
>>10103493
>>10103563
So this is the autism of /int/ i've been reading so much about

>> No.10104812

>>10103373
His most poignant work is The Mysterious Stranger. The scathing social commentary is so true. Human morality is fucking arbitrary and vacuous, we simple delude ourselves into prolonging our existence (biological impulses notwithstanding).

>> No.10104830

>>10103563
>Though if you overdo it, then you will just end up being perceived as an annoying cunt or chronic pessimist.
>tfw you know if no one seems like this around you than you must seem like this to everyone >tfw you find that the further you go both inside participation and outside the mindset needed to participate, the more absurd everything and everyone seems
>tfw you're noticeably happy and almost smug - definitely condescending, but not obviously.
>tfw you have every right kept on a scroll that you've framed inside your fortress, your bonehouse, the temple you luxuriate within

>> No.10105061

>>10103493
https://twitter.com/cumtownpodcast

>> No.10105120

>>10103520
if you have to ask, it aint for you my good bitch

>> No.10105129

>>10103493
I really wanted to like Cumtown but its just not funny