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05 Apr 2013, 4:30 pm

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Sometimes when people joke seriously i have no idea.

When i lived in SC my friends asked if i wanted to go snipe hunting. So of course i was like yea! For 6 months i bothered them to take me snipe hunting. Then finally my friend was like it's a joke, it's something you say to get a girl to go out to the woods with you at night.


When I've encountered it, it is for the purpose of poking fun at someone who doesn't know any better. You'd take them out snip hunting and leave them there with promises that you would drive the snipe to them. Then you had back to camp and leave them out there until they give up some time later, hopefully many hours.

When my cousin and I became boy scouts, on our first camp out someone wanted to take us snipe hunting. What they didn't know was that I already knew what was happening. So they told us this long winded story and took us out somewhere away from the camp to hunt snipes and left us there with the promise that they were going to drive the snipes to us and it was our job to catch them.

They were surprised when they got back to camp and found that we were already there.


My summer camp did a night time snipe hunt. Half of us would make nose by banging mess kits and move from one side of the woods to flush the 'snipe' out. Then other half had nets to catch it moving from the other side. The following day our counsellor told us it was a trick. But at lunch a guy from another tent got flushed with anger declaring "it was no trick I SAW the snipe!"

Power of suggestion? Or maybe he saw a snipe like real bird.

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05 Apr 2013, 5:05 pm

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This reminds me of the time I was cleaning a stain and my mom told me to put some elbow grease on it. I couldn't find the elbow grease. Or the time my teacher gave us a test on her and their was a question on the test asking what her pet peeve was. I knew she had a cat so I put that. I got the question wrong. So in summary, yes I am somewhat gullible.


People who work on tech support phone lines report that staggering numbers of people call in because theyve looked all over the keyboard and "can't find the 'Any Key'"!


The callers may think they are being funny, especially after this clip: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPDoZO5Tm_k[/youtube]



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06 Apr 2013, 5:12 am

Koi wrote:
Do you ever have problems with being gullible or naive?

Sometimes I can attest this to not understanding sarcasm right away, but other times I think I'm just easily tricked and gullible.

Is anyone else like this?


Yes!

Now, I am 59, and like Katylynn, I have learned painfully, but I´m still fairly "easy", and I still miss subtle jokes and sarkasm. My friends kindly explain to me :)


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06 Apr 2013, 5:30 am

I'm a mixture

I like to think I can detect when a person is being underhand towards me and I don't tend to come into contact with such people on a daily basis anyway, except when I've had to work with them

I can be gullible in relationships though if I really like a person but I think this can happen to anyone. A lot of NTs put up with being beaten up by partners - I'd never tolerate that so in that respect I'm far more on the ball

I think people think I'm very gullible at first sight but I'm so on the ball that I will have picked up that they're thinking this from the word go, so in that respect I'm the opposite of gullible

People give a lot away with their stupid expressions

A lot depends on how badly a person wants to fit in with a group

You are a lot more at risk of being taken advantage of if you crave group membership



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06 Apr 2013, 1:52 pm

nessa238 wrote:
I can be gullible in relationships though if I really like a person but I think this can happen to anyone. A lot of NTs put up with being beaten up by partners - I'd never tolerate that so in that respect I'm far more on the ball


Yeah, all people can have a hard time seeing the negative sides of those they really like and put up with too much

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People give a lot away with their stupid expressions

...and their condescending attitudes

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A lot depends on how badly a person wants to fit in with a group

You are a lot more at risk of being taken advantage of if you crave group membership

That explains why I haven't seen much of that problem myself! At the most I take interest in individuals. (Of course they can take advantage too if they realise, but I've either been lucky or not had anything of interest to take advantage of)


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