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This week's New Scientist has a feature called "How To Get Exactly What You Want", listing eight methods of persuading people to give or do what you want. No, it's not NLP, but it is an interesting read.

Cool.

Is the magazine good? I've always wanted to read it but never got round to buying it...

The New Scientist is excellent, when bought at the airport

My French teacher buys it each month?(or however many times a month) and keeps them in our classroom. There is literally stacks and stacks on them, and it is really rather fun to go right to the bottom and have a look at the scientific discovery then, that is just taken for granted now!

Cool. I'll buy it soon.

I have found that a gun to the head is rather convincing when it comes to asking people for things of theirs that you may want or feel you need at the moment...

Good issue of New Scientist actually!

The stuff on persuasion was quite enlightening

Craig Browning wrote:I have found that a gun to the head is rather convincing when it comes to asking people for things of theirs that you may want or feel you need at the moment...

Well that's the Americans for you!

VoodooMick wrote:

Craig Browning wrote:I have found that a gun to the head is rather convincing when it comes to asking people for things of theirs that you may want or feel you need at the moment...

Well that's the Americans for you!

I knew you'd understand... but how else with someone with my last name deal with the concept?

a short skirt and tight top tends to work quite well too Obviously I wouldn't recomend the boys trying this one.

Lady of Mystery wrote:a short skirt and tight top tends to work quite well too Obviously I wouldn't recomend the boys trying this one.

I'll have you know that I'm a Rocky Horror Show veteran, and I've got the ankles to prove it. Ouch!

Tomo wrote:

Lady of Mystery wrote:a short skirt and tight top tends to work quite well too Obviously I wouldn't recomend the boys trying this one.

I'll have you know that I'm a Rocky Horror Show veteran, and I've got the ankles to prove it. Ouch!

Funny, I never took you for being a Bizarrist Jon (and you in Tim Curry drag is certainly bizarre)

Lady of Mystery wrote:a short skirt and tight top tends to work quite well too Obviously I wouldn't recomend the boys trying this one.

Joking aside (for a change), I saw a program once where a young, rather attractive young lady was struggling with some cases at a railway station. Except she was an actor and it was all being filmed by hidden cameras. Anyway, their results strongly suggested that if you're a) female and b) easy on the eye, then loads of men will be falling over themselves to help you out with your suitcases. But if you're male - or female and not quite so well blessed, shall we say - then you can handle your own damn cases. Bit obvious I thought, but still made for interesting viewing.

Tomo wrote:How To Get Exactly What You Want

I find blackmail works extremely well

Replicant wrote:

Lady of Mystery wrote:a short skirt and tight top tends to work quite well too Obviously I wouldn't recomend the boys trying this one.

Joking aside (for a change), I saw a program once where a young, rather attractive young lady was struggling with some cases at a railway station. Except she was an actor and it was all being filmed by hidden cameras. Anyway, their results strongly suggested that if you're a) female and b) easy on the eye, then loads of men will be falling over themselves to help you out with your suitcases. But if you're male - or female and not quite so well blessed, shall we say - then you can handle your own damn cases. Bit obvious I thought, but still made for interesting viewing.

i never offer to help any attractive woman with her suitcases anymore in london tubes/trains...mainly because i think women know full well that they'll get some bloke helping cos they're pretty so hang around throwing doe-eyed looks around...

and twice i ended up straining my back carrying what seemed like two dead bodies in suitcases for a woman little over five foot tall...

ladies - only pack what you can comfortably carry...

and i've never seen a woman ask a man if they'd like a hand - or even another woman for that matter...

someone once said chivalry is dead - because women killed it...