Rate your social skills

Greg wrote:

Gunndar wrote:

Flagpoles’s social skills are a bit below average. Greg you are in the bottom 10 percent. All you do is pump yourself up and then get hostile if anyone disagrees with you. Flagpole does the same but he tries to use humor and is a bit more agreeable. Both of you are Narcissists.

You have 0 evidence to support me acting poorly in a social situation, a real life situation where you can observe me in person.

As an example I may go to a meetup group for a walk in a few days.

about a dozen strangers will be there.

For me to be in the bottom 10 percent I'd probably need to act horribly, insult people there and be asked to leave.

Well, I've been to such groups in the past and this has never happened.

So you're telling me I'm going to have a very difficult time if I go to this group for a walk?

Explain how you know exactly I will act.

LOL

Greg wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Sure, Greg, you are the only person with autism who has excellent social skills. Diminished social skills and difficulty understanding tone are things that are key to people with autism. I do not need to know you in "real life". I see how you interact with people here. I have seen your angry and defensive YouTube videos. You are quickly triggered and defensive and you go to projection almost immediately when someone disagrees with you. None of that shows excellent social skills.

I'll not comment to you again on your social skills (not in this thread), but dude, they are not excellent. They are not "fine". Below average is what they are...and again, that is understandable and ok. I do not judge you for it...but I WILL tell you the truth.

Flagpole, I could be at a party, the same party as you and interact with the same people you do.

I could do so with ease and the people might say that I have superior social skills over you.

You would have no way of knowing how you would handle the situation nor do you have any idea how I would.

All you are doing is saying I have bad social skills based on Letsrun,. That's all.

Get over yourself.

You have no idea how I'd act in a real life situation and it's quite possible I would get along in many social situations better than you would.

Greg wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Sure, Greg, you are the only person with autism who has excellent social skills. Diminished social skills and difficulty understanding tone are things that are key to people with autism. I do not need to know you in "real life". I see how you interact with people here. I have seen your angry and defensive YouTube videos. You are quickly triggered and defensive and you go to projection almost immediately when someone disagrees with you. None of that shows excellent social skills.

I'll not comment to you again on your social skills (not in this thread), but dude, they are not excellent. They are not "fine". Below average is what they are...and again, that is understandable and ok. I do not judge you for it...but I WILL tell you the truth.

Excellent may be a stretch but I am confident in social situations, period. I have 0 stress or anxiety about being in any social situation. I am comfortable in my skin being around strangers. I am just as comfortable being quiet as I am engaging in conversation.

flagpole there's no need to always try and peg me down a notch but it's a consistent theme for you.

Anything is say, you seem to want to go out of your way to try and peg me down a notch.

A few examples:

-I talked about retirement, you had to make a big deal about it and said I had no business talking about it. Well, I can still talk about retirement if I want. It shouldn't be a big deal for you but it is.

-Piano playing, you arrogantly believe you have the same level of musicanship as myself despite having no training to back up this claim. Sure you are a musician but you can't say you have learned the same quality of music when you haven't. You play pop music in bands. I've done that myself.

I've also played a lot of challenging classical music which you haven't. You also suggest your neighbour at age 7 is a superior musician to me. That made me kind of laugh. No I'm not the same musician I was at my peak but a 7 year old would have to have excellent abilities to play what I spent a large portion of my life working on. I just don't buy your bogus claim because it's you sounding ignorant.

-BLM. I said it should be ok to say All Lives Matter without having any ill intentions towards black people. You then claim I'm a racist for this statement. Get overyouself, I am not a racist.

All lives matter. Does that bother you? If so, get help.

I could probably find other examples but I don't want to because I should sleep.

Flagpole just realize you are 1 guy in Ohio who is opinionated. You don't have anything over me and your opinions don't carry a lot of weight. You come across to me as quite odd being well into middle age, supposedly happily married with hobbies and full time work to boot yet spending enormous amounts of time on this site.

That's all it is Flagpole. If you want to spend your life arguing with me that is sad.

I think you should just give up the arguing and maybe practice piano more or spend more time with your wife. You are unlikely to convince me of very much because your arrogant tone is predictable and a turn off.

Flagpole wrote:

Greg wrote:

Excellent may be a stretch but I am confident in social situations, period. I have 0 stress or anxiety about being in any social situation. I am comfortable in my skin being around strangers. I am just as comfortable being quiet as I am engaging in conversation.

flagpole there's no need to always try and peg me down a notch but it's a consistent theme for you.

Anything is say, you seem to want to go out of your way to try and peg me down a notch.

A few examples:

-I talked about retirement, you had to make a big deal about it and said I had no business talking about it. Well, I can still talk about retirement if I want. It shouldn't be a big deal for you but it is.

-Piano playing, you arrogantly believe you have the same level of musicanship as myself despite having no training to back up this claim. Sure you are a musician but you can't say you have learned the same quality of music when you haven't. You play pop music in bands. I've done that myself.

I've also played a lot of challenging classical music which you haven't. You also suggest your neighbour at age 7 is a superior musician to me. That made me kind of laugh. No I'm not the same musician I was at my peak but a 7 year old would have to have excellent abilities to play what I spent a large portion of my life working on. I just don't buy your bogus claim because it's you sounding ignorant.

-BLM. I said it should be ok to say All Lives Matter without having any ill intentions towards black people. You then claim I'm a racist for this statement. Get overyouself, I am not a racist.

All lives matter. Does that bother you? If so, get help.

I could probably find other examples but I don't want to because I should sleep.

Flagpole just realize you are 1 guy in Ohio who is opinionated. You don't have anything over me and your opinions don't carry a lot of weight. You come across to me as quite odd being well into middle age, supposedly happily married with hobbies and full time work to boot yet spending enormous amounts of time on this site.

That's all it is Flagpole. If you want to spend your life arguing with me that is sad.

I think you should just give up the arguing and maybe practice piano more or spend more time with your wife. You are unlikely to convince me of very much because your arrogant tone is predictable and a turn off.

Well, you are wrong about at least a few things:

1) I don't believe I have the same level of musicianship as you. I am better than you. More skilled, play more instruments, have played in bigger venues both with others and as a solo act, have worked as a session musician, have made more money as a musician than you have, can play more genres, etc. You make a lot of assumptions about me and my music education that aren't true, and I've seen you play. You have never seen me play, but unbeknownst to you, you have likely heard my published music I have done as a session musician. Truth.

2) Yes, the young neighbor kid is a much better player than you...classical music only so far for this kid, but this kid is far superior to you. It's not even close.

3) It is not my fault that you don't understand that the comment "All Lives Matter" in response to "Black Lives Matter" is racist, but it is. It IS a racist statement. Who makes racist statements, ESPECIALLY when they have been told that they are racist statements? Racists.

4) You commented about retirement in an investing thread. That would be like me commenting on a thread about the wild foul in Edmonton.

Greg wrote:

1. I don't believe you are a better musician than me. I've probably made more money than you on a single contract. Money alone is not barometer of the quality of a musician, but because you brought it up, I earned over $10k for a 4 month contract playing 2 nights a week at a casino. This was over 10 years ago. 6 hours/week for $600/week for the first 2 months, then $750/week for the next 2 months.

I doubt you were ever payed this kind of coin by yourself for your abilities.

I haven't seen you play but I did hear one of your recordings. It was ok but nothing special. Certainly nothing I couldn't do. Did it impress me? Not really, it was a funky blues improvisation that told me you could improvise a bit. It did not stand out.

Also I played and was payed predominantly as a soloist.

You were always backed by bands. Playing solo is a better measure of musicianship.

Secondly I go back to the classical training I have which you don't. You can't compete with that, period. You can't learn Beethoven's 3rd piano concerto becausey ou aren't ready for that kind of repertoire. You are years and years from ever attaining the level of classical musicianship I reached and in all likelihood never will, it's too late for you anyways.

As for your neighbour kid at 7 years of age:

7: Look up a performers ARCT and the repertoire required to learn this. (then again, because you haven't any idea about classical music, I'm not sure why I'm telling you this anyways.. it's like telling someone with no concept of something to evaluate it.. it's kind of silly.) Unless they are playing that level of pieces, they have not reached the level I have. By the way, the youngest on record to ever recieve an ARCT was Glenn Gould at the age of 12.

So is this random 7 year old from Ohio playing at a superior level to what internationally renowned Glenn Gould achieved?

I am quite certain they aren't.

3. All lives matter is not a racist statement. It's about context and if you want to interpret it as a racist statement, that is your problem.

All lives matter, get it through your head.

4) You commented about retirement in an investing thread. That would be like me commenting on a thread about the wild foul in Edmonton

Sure, I offered my opinion. It's not a big deal.

Flagpole wrote:

Greg wrote:

1. I don't believe you are a better musician than me. I've probably made more money than you on a single contract. Money alone is not barometer of the quality of a musician, but because you brought it up, I earned over $10k for a 4 month contract playing 2 nights a week at a casino. This was over 10 years ago. 6 hours/week for $600/week for the first 2 months, then $750/week for the next 2 months.

I doubt you were ever payed this kind of coin by yourself for your abilities.

I haven't seen you play but I did hear one of your recordings. It was ok but nothing special. Certainly nothing I couldn't do. Did it impress me? Not really, it was a funky blues improvisation that told me you could improvise a bit. It did not stand out.

Also I played and was payed predominantly as a soloist.

You were always backed by bands. Playing solo is a better measure of musicianship.

Secondly I go back to the classical training I have which you don't. You can't compete with that, period. You can't learn Beethoven's 3rd piano concerto becausey ou aren't ready for that kind of repertoire. You are years and years from ever attaining the level of classical musicianship I reached and in all likelihood never will, it's too late for you anyways.

As for your neighbour kid at 7 years of age:

7: Look up a performers ARCT and the repertoire required to learn this. (then again, because you haven't any idea about classical music, I'm not sure why I'm telling you this anyways.. it's like telling someone with no concept of something to evaluate it.. it's kind of silly.) Unless they are playing that level of pieces, they have not reached the level I have. By the way, the youngest on record to ever recieve an ARCT was Glenn Gould at the age of 12.

So is this random 7 year old from Ohio playing at a superior level to what internationally renowned Glenn Gould achieved?

I am quite certain they aren't.

3. All lives matter is not a racist statement. It's about context and if you want to interpret it as a racist statement, that is your problem.

All lives matter, get it through your head.

4) You commented about retirement in an investing thread. That would be like me commenting on a thread about the wild foul in Edmonton

Sure, I offered my opinion. It's not a big deal.

Well, I am a better musician than you are. Dude, you are not even close to in the same category with me regarding making money as a musician...not on a monthly basis, not on an anything basis.

You clearly aren't very good at reading comprehension as I have already mentioned doing solo gigs. I have played a TON of solo gigs...just playing piano and also playing and singing. I disagree though that a solo performance shows better musicianship. You are not the player any number of players in bands are/were - Billy Preston, Billy Powell, Billy Payne, Jon Lord, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and a TON of others.

You keep saying I don't have classical training. INCORRECT! I was a prodigy and began classical lessons at age 5 and continued them into high school, playing classical music at a much higher level than anything I have heard you play...and your YouTube videos are amateur hour.

Yes my neighbor kid is better than you.

Yes, you are spewing a racist trope when you say "All Lives Matter". You either just want to be able to say that racist thing without consequences, or your disability prohibits you from understanding that it is racist. In any event, it's racist. You really should stop championing its use.

Oh...and I'm a better piano planer than you...all day and twice on Sunday.

Flagpole wrote:

Well, I am a better musician than you are. Dude, you are not even close to in the same category with me regarding making money as a musician...not on a monthly basis, not on an anything basis.

You clearly aren't very good at reading comprehension as I have already mentioned doing solo gigs. I have played a TON of solo gigs...just playing piano and also playing and singing. I disagree though that a solo performance shows better musicianship. You are not the player any number of players in bands are/were - Billy Preston, Billy Powell, Billy Payne, Jon Lord, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and a TON of others.

You keep saying I don't have classical training. INCORRECT! I was a prodigy and began classical lessons at age 5 and continued them into high school, playing classical music at a much higher level than anything I have heard you play...and your YouTube videos are amateur hour.

Yes my neighbor kid is better than you.

Yes, you are spewing a racist trope when you say "All Lives Matter". You either just want to be able to say that racist thing without consequences, or your disability prohibits you from understanding that it is racist. In any event, it's racist. You really should stop championing its use.

Oh...and I'm a better piano planer than you...all day and twice on Sunday.