Wannabe flaneur

[Anonymous No.3647992]

Do you address strangers? How often? What do you say to them? Can you share some experiences?
Do you think people today is hermetic and if you touch someone on the street she will think you're gonna rape her?

[Anonymous No.3647995]

Bro, I'm a journalism major.

My classes are basically ambushing random people and asking them personal questions.

[Anonymous No.3647998]

>>3647995
I'm carrying a rusty screwdriver, just sayin'

[Anonymous No.3648007]

>>3647998
You won't have to use it, I'll just jump out from a corner and yell "how do you feel about campus safety?" and run off.

[Anonymous No.3648102]

"The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His passion and his profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world - impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito. The lover of life makes the whole world his family, just like the lover of the fair sex who builds up his family from all the beautiful women that he has ever found, or that are or are not - to be found; or the lover of pictures who lives in a magical society of dreams painted on canvas. Thus the lover of universal life enters into the crowd as though it were an immense reservoir of electrical energy. Or we might liken him to a mirror as vast as the crowd itself; or to a kaleidoscope gifted with consciousness, responding to each one of its movements and reproducing the multiplicity of life and the flickering grace of all the elements of life."

[Anonymous No.3648116]

>>3647992
Flaneurism is just observant walking.

[Anonymous No.3648133]

>>3647992
It's basically going for a stroll turned into a lifestyle. There is nothing to do.

[Anonymous No.3648272]

The problem is that there are too many people to be addressing everyone you pass. I won't force it to speak to a stranger but if a slight opportunity arrives I will try and take it. Sometimes those little moments can completely brighten your day. Brings a bit of spontaneity to the drudgery.

[Anonymous No.3648302]

>>3648272
>flaneurs
>drudgery

[Anonymous No.3648383]

Yes sometimes around noon I get too drunk to read or watch a movie so I just go for a stroll and "talk" to people. At least now, except death and taxes, I have a new certitude in life : I don't have much charisma. At least half the people I talk to end up telling me to fuck off or shut the fuck up. I think alcohol is both benefic and malefic. If I don't drink, my knees start shaking at the simple thought of opening a conversation with a stranger, especially female but if I drink then, although I talk, I talk shit.
I enjoy it, though, I always feel like I'm bettering myself. If there's a crowd big enough like a local fair (I live in a rather rural town) I just go around with the attitude of Alex DeLarge visiting a record shop.
Old people are nice, they're the only ones.

[Anonymous No.3648398]

>>3648383

Dude, it doesn't look good from the outside.

[Anonymous No.3648411]

>>3647995
I am also a journalism major. I've found that I really have no interest in interviewing and reporting, but I'm too far in at uni, the best I can hope for is a minor in English or Classics.

[Anonymous No.3648429]

>>3648383
why old people
DOES ANY OF YOU FIGHTED WITH A STRANGER?

[Anonymous No.3648444]

>>3648429
I don't know, but so far they're the only ones that haven't been mean to me even once.

>>3648398
Yeah, thanks captain obvious. You have any suggestion about how I could become human ?

[Anonymous No.3648454]

>>3648444

fight me.

[Anonymous No.3648455]

Just walk bro. If something happens and the opportunity arrises say something. But don't force it. The flaneur lifestyle is all about the flow of life.

[Anonymous No.3648459]

>>3648444
You don't need to, you just need to appear mysterious and attractive enough for people to find you intriguing.

[Anonymous No.3648467]

>>3648455
This man knows.

[Anonymous No.3648474]

>>3648469
>muh higher power
Where do nihilist alcoholics go?

[Anonymous No.3648472]

>>3648454
gib dat to mface nd not on the comp n c wut cums about, m8.

[Anonymous No.3648480]

>>3648469
Honestly I'm not alcoholic, I sometimes forget about alcohol for weeks, life just sucks if I don't drink and it was like before I even started.

[Anonymous No.3648487]

>>3648444
Well, psychologically speaking the way people get over fears is by slowing exposing themselves to it.

Like if you're afraid of dogs, people start with stuffed animals, then small cats or something. It's a step by step process.

[Anonymous No.3648503]

smells like buk spirit

[Anonymous No.3648510]

>>3648503

will you be my friend?

[Anonymous No.3648515]

>>3648503
>bukowski
>walking around for fun
>not being a filthy recluse

[Anonymous No.3648521]

>>3648487
Thanks, that's what I've been doing for a few years but I'm still at the stage of muttering inaudible bullshit and getting weird looks. I'll keep on trying, that you can be sure.

[Anonymous No.3648526]

Tip for fellow flaneurs: Try walks between 4 and 7 am once., on a wee kday. You meet the strangest people.

[Anonymous No.3648534]

>>3648526

will you be my friend?

[Anonymous No.3648536]

>>3648526
>Being awake in the morning
Do you even literary life ?

[Anonymous No.3648541]

>>3648536
>implying he's even gone to sleep at that point

[Anonymous No.3648545]

>>3648536
Lel, I mean still being awake, not rising early. I go to bed in the morning.

[Anonymous No.3648567]

>>3648545
>wasting precious daylight on sleep

I can understand sleeping late but if you're missing out on half the day because you went to bed at 8 in the morning, you're not doing it right.

[Anonymous No.3648578]

>>3648567
I sleep from 6/7 to 13/14. Gives me plenty of daylight for afternoon walks and I like the night.

[Anonymous No.3648590]

>>3648567

I'm going to adapt my body to run on 3 hours sleep a night. Imagine all that could be done. Get to live for 25% longer for a start.

[Anonymous No.3648596]

>>3648578
I don't know, man. Late morning seems like the best time to walk.

[Anonymous No.3648598]

>>3648590
Except you won't because you will die young. Sleep deprevation is tremendously unhealthy. Besides, sleep is delicious and if you don't work there is plenty of time anyway.

[Anonymous No.3648608]

>>3648596
I sometimes switch it around and do the morning person thing for a while for novelty. If I do that I get up very early though. I hate the whole run of the mill rise between 7 and 10 thing.

What I really like is walking in the late afternoon when the working folk start trickling into the street wearily glad to be done. Especially if it's a beautiful day.

[Anonymous No.3648619]

>>3648598

not if i kill you first

[Anonymous No.3648745]

>>3648619
Shitpost, mate.

[Anonymous No.3648765]

>>3648590
Don't do that, idiot. If you want to be productive start on the Uberman schedule.
http://www.ubermansleepschedule.com/

[Anonymous No.3648768]

TAKE THIS SHIT TO /B/!

[Anonymous No.3648810]

>>3648765
That's bullshit as well and only takes the sleep the brain needs in consideration and backfires when you miss a nap.

Also productivity is for faggots and sleep is delicious. If you want to make the most of your time you're better off mastering lucid dreaming.

[Anonymous No.3648813]

>>3648768
>literary life
>not /lit/

Lel

[Anonymous No.3648822]

What are some good shoes for a flaneur?

I want a decent pair that aren't running shoes or something.

[Anonymous No.3648829]

>>3648822
Wear boots. Shoes are for fags.

[Anonymous No.3648850]

>>3648829
Sorry, that's what I meant. I just want a pair that are comfortable to walk around in for a while.

[Anonymous No.3648858]

>>3648822
Guacho shoes

[Anonymous No.3648866]

>>3648858
>Guacho shoes
What the hell are 'guacho' shoes? Do you mean "gauche" or "gaucho" shoes?

>mfw "guacho" means orphan in Spanish, and is used in a derogatory manner

[Anonymous No.3648877]

>>3648411
I'm double majoring in English. You should do that. It's quite a lot of extra work, but it's fun and you should feel accomplished when you finish (at least, I think I will. Not there yet).

The degree is useless but it's interesting.

[Anonymous No.3648886]

>>3648877

*yawn*

[Anonymous No.3648904]

>>3648886
What?

[Anonymous No.3648907]

>>3648850
Ask /fa/

[Anonymous No.3648924]

>>3648866
Yeah, I meant gaucho shoes.

[Anonymous No.3648956]

>>3648886
>>3648904

Other journo major again, that wasn't me. I'm fairly certain a double major would require at least two or three sessions of summer classes. I'm just going out for the minor and hoping to amass enough extracurricular activity for grad school (for English, fuck journalism).

[Anonymous No.3649001]

>>3648924

also mean cowboy in south america... aren't metaphors fun?

[Anonymous No.3649012]

>>3649001
Yes, that's what gauchos are.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Gaucho1868b.jpg

[Anonymous No.3649720]

>tfw I'm on the other side of things
Strangers on the street are always trying to start up a conversation with me. I don't know if is my face or some essence I give to people, but everytime I go out, at least one person, without fail, attempts to talk to me. I always remain quiet or just give a gentle nod or a polite smile, and they promptly remain quiet as well, well, most of the times. I fucking hate it. I'm going out to go someplace, somewhere or meet somebody, I'm there to meet the destination, in automatic mode, just going through the motions, until I hit my goal, and these people keep coming onto me. It isn't obnoxious, but I would hope people would just stop this bullshit with me.

[Anonymous No.3649731]

I always talk to people in elevators. Fuck the weird silence. If they don't respond I turn to face the corner and moan so they just think I'm autistic, and then it's like they're in the wrong for not humouring an elevator retard

[Anonymous No.3649733]

>>3649720
female tected

[Anonymous No.3649748]

>>3649731
>my eye contact visage when releasing large volumes of warm gass in a barely audible manner, like a breeze

[Tallis !!DxrlCMGAS2J No.3649750]

>>3647992
I fucking love strangers.

[Anonymous No.3649758]

>>3649733

As soon as I read this post, i imagined a female being smashed between two impossibly large tectonic plates. I thought about making some kind of image as a play on this idea but I can't figure out how I would go about it. Just thought I'd let you know

[Anonymous No.3649768]

>>3649758
inb4 someone suggest blueberry expansion

tnx though

[Anonymous No.3649779]

I was out cycling once and saw this man running with a giant backpack. I pulled up along side him and asked if he was training for the military.
he said, "no," in a heavy English accent. "I'm actually running from Boston to New York."
"What made you do that?" I inquired.
"Well," the 20 something odd bloke said, "I wanted to run from London to Paris but the English Channel got in my way."

[Anonymous No.3649796]

I talk almost exclusively to online strangers.

[Anonymous No.3649930]

>flaneur

seriously guys, stop it

[Anonymous No.3649975]

>>3649930
>Some guy is just enjoying life, being himself and buying groceries
>Woman turns into judgmental bitch on the fly of it
Granted that fedoras are always a bad idea, this comic is shitty.