Body language, the most pointless thing of the new age.
95% bollocks and the people who use it could not decipher a turd from a piece of clay.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 11:59, 3 replies)

is it higher or lower on the absolute bollocks scale than handwriting analysis
because there are still large French firms that use that for all senior positions ... the fucking doppers
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 12:27, closed)

Since when can scarecrows write?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 12:48, closed)

I swear this swipe keyboard becomes more of an idiot every day

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 13:09, closed)

Better give it back to her, then

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 13:10, closed)

ba-dum tsch

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 13:26, closed)

swear this swipe keyboard s
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 14:34, closed)

chevron

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 14:36, closed)

If you are going to ask the difficult questions you will have to send money towards the ritualistic
slaughter of goats. Anyway, the entrails said that marginally handwriting is more utter bollocks than body language. Micro expressions are the key.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 13:27, closed)

To be fair
you can make a pretty good model turd from a piece of clay.

I seem to recall from pottery classes at school, that we rarely tried to make anything else.
(username failed moderation, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 12:54, closed)

Nonsense.
Body language and vocal tone combined are about 70% of the message you give across.

The words you actually say are relatively minor in importance.

To test this, get right up in a nightclub bouncer's face and scream "YOU'RE A FUCKING NICE BLOKE!" at him, and see how he responds.

Likewise the enjoyment of juxtaposing amorous body language and tone with expressions of hatred - stroking someone lovingly and saying softly "I'd like to watch you die in a fire ... "

Shit I'm sorry - I appear to be taking the internet seriously.

Ahem.

As you were, ladies and gents.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 14:36, closed)

Have i tried to pick you up at some point in time you seem very aware of my chat up lines.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 15:32, closed)

Vagabond is completely right on this one. I have to know all about this kind of stuff for my job.
Communication is about 70% body language, 20% tone of voice and 10% actual words.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 18:23, closed)

you work in the 'gullible hippy bollocks' department?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 18:36, closed)

No, I work with people with mental health issues and learning difficulties
Proper ones, that is
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 18:55, closed)

seriously? they let people who by into that pseudo-scientific wank work with people with learning difficulties? they'll never fucking learn at that rate

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 19:25, closed)

Don't forget colour and light therapy, oh and the real money spinner - drugs

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 19:49, closed)

Homeopathy isn't drugs, silly.
It's Crystals that's drugs.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 3 Jun 2014, 22:20, closed)

terrible homeophobia

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 22:33, closed)

I quite like the Iliad

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 4 Jun 2014, 8:37, closed)

To be fair, if your learning difficulties are so severe that you cannot really talk properly,
then body language is pretty much all you've got.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Wed 4 Jun 2014, 11:05, closed)

Prove it then.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 19:51, closed)

I'm not going to try to turn something qualitative into something quantitative
But consider how likely it is you'll be misinterpreted typing on the internet, then how comparatively less likely you'll be misinterpreted talking on the phone, then how vastly less likely it is that you'll be misinterpreted talking face to face.
(Eukanuba, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 22:08, closed)

nobody is suggesting that there is no non-verbal component to communication
but the 10% words claim is utter fucking twaddle. even the hippy psychologist who did the original experiments admits they've been misused by witless hippies and charlatans. the idea that those charlatans are working with vulnerable people is horrifying
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 3 Jun 2014, 22:35, closed)

My point is that the vast majority of people who have a belief in body language and non-verbal
communication do not know how to interpret it, have no real knowledge of it and therefore reach incredibly bad decisions based on stupidity. The OP's short term boss being a case in point. Also, all 'negative' body language can be trained out of a person. Micro expressions never lie but that is a real subject.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 4 Jun 2014, 8:35, closed)