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Thread: How do you handle hecklers?
lol the way i want it? Honey, i'm not going to fight a rifle user from 60m away.A compromise would have been 15m away.
But again, i didn't really care where we started the fight. My 'whinning and crying' as you call it was just to get him to challenge me first. It's called intelligence darlin', you might want to look into it.
And really, if you don't know anything about pvp stop talking about it. Go back to the cantina and dance, you're good at that.
When it comes time to do some verbal sparring, making them look silly is always a great way to go about it. One of the funnest way it synchronized laughing. Basically you say something to slap him down, for example:
(Male dancers name) spends a few hours a day surrounded by all the pretty dancers, and YOU spend your time watching the tail end of a Rancor. And you want to convince us HE has issues?
Follow this up with EVERYONE in the Entertainer group targetting the offending player and doing /laugh 3 to 5 times. The effects are pretty good.
Then next time that person comes in, I usually ask them if they are gonna be nice today, or if we need to educate them more. More often then not, a crowd of 10-20 people laughing at them (along with the nice people that support their local dancers) will make them try to be a nicer person. If not, they a lost cause anyway. Just do the /ignore thing.
-F
Wow are we getting personal now? You know nothing about me dear, so telling me I need intellegence is a bit out of line. Just because I have a different opinion of the entire situation does not mean I need intellegence, so get over yourself.
And as for your snide comment about me going back to the cantina to dance, no thanks, I think I'm going to continue working up my combat skills 
Don't worry honey, I know you sterotype us as worthless dancers, but alot of us have other professions too! And anyways, why would I want to dance for someone that thinks dancers are worthless, I'd rather let you sit there until your BF and mind wounds went away on their own.
I refuse to comment on the rest of it. It isn't going to get either of us anywhere, you think what you want and I'll do the same. We will never agree
Relica Tremayne
Master Dancer / Image Designer
Eclipse
(Male dancers name) spends a few hours a day surrounded by all the pretty dancers, and YOU spend your time watching the tail end of a Rancor. And you want to convince us HE has issues?
Oh, now THIS is hilarious! Mind if I steal it?!
LOL!
Follow this up with EVERYONE in the Entertainer group targetting the offending player and doing /laugh 3 to 5 times. The effects are pretty good.
Wow - I was just talking about the impact of peer pressure in the "Denial of Service" thread. This is a superb idea!
Thank you!
Sinda wrote:
(Male dancers name) spends a few hours a day surrounded by all the pretty dancers, and YOU spend your time watching the tail end of a Rancor. And you want to convince us HE has issues?
Oh, now THIS is hilarious! Mind if I steal it?! LOL!
We tried a very similar line once... It just totally didn't work. I'm the male dancer... *sigh*... it went something like this:
Doctor heals you for 500 action damage.
Me: smiles at girl1.
Doctor say 'omg, you so gay'.
Girl2 kisses me.
Girl1 says 'he is all the man I want'
Me:wink at girl2.
Doctor says 'only gay men dance'.
Me: Have you ever been to a club/bar, doctor?
Several rounds of various fun socials and chatting between the girls and I...
Doctor heals you for 500 action damage.
Doctor says 'you are so gay'.
Now... we weren't dancing formal here.We were actually getting some pretty decent tips. And lots of the people were complaining about the sudden rise in air/body temperature watching us. And then this person comes in, and says stuff like this... how are you supposed to get through to him?
ChaoKuang wrote:
I think my most amusing experience yet was dancing in the cantina, and this one guy came up and started flirting with me. Winks, whistles, the whole shebang.....and then he realized I was a male! Heehee. Highly amused.
Speaking of this... I have one regular guy that usually compliments me on my looks. I don't have a problem with those that are gay, but I am not.I am just at a loss on how to handle this compliment in an appropriate way. Can anyone help me out here?
Handle it in the same way you would were it anyone you weren't interested in even flirting with.
On another note, I play Tiaga and he is a male dancer, so heckling is quite common. If I'm feeling rather mean, when the homophobe comes in and starts mouthing off, I let the girls know he's my mark, and I make sure to do formal or something similar near him. Since I'm usually friends with those in the band, they usually back me on this. I've gotten very good at aiming the flourishes in formal so I can land on my knees right at someone's feet. If I'm feeling particularly vindictive, I'll even toss a rose when I do that.
But in general, I just ignore hecklers. The dancing girls usually come to my defence for me, which does a lot more to stop it than getting a reaction out of me would, as the heckler realizes he's losing favor with the rest of the dancers.
Speaking of this... I have one regular guy that usually compliments me on my looks. I don't have a problem with those that are gay, but I am not.I am just at a loss on how to handle this compliment in an appropriate way. Can anyone help me out here?
That depends on who it's offered. Either way, I suggest a polite approach. Thank him for the compliment, but tell him that they make you uncomfortable, and would appreciate it if he discontinued them. No harm, no foul. I think perhaps also do it in a /tell if you prefer.
Yes, I do get the whole queer comments, they're not appreciate, but I am gay. Somewhat open about it, too. But I only flirt remotely with males, because I figure the majority as a whole are straight and don't appreciate it. I try to go by firstnames, but it is my habit to call people "babe" "baby""hon" "sweety" and the like as pet names, I do it to everyon and can't help it. But my emotes won't go much further than a smile and such.
But yes, before I rambled. The polite approach should do it. If he continues, tell him you'll consider it harrassment, and that should do it.
We male dancers have it rough. My friend and I were helping heal this guy, and halfway through he goes "Faaaaag." I immidiately stopped dancing, my friend and I told him to go heal himself and walked off. He ran after us yelling "Wait! I was aafk! It wasn't me!" My friend said "Yeah? Then apologize." Then the guy went LD.
I've gotten crap like "are you gay" "queer" "fruit". I got the fruit comment, I want tempted to write "If you don't like fruit you're welcome to find another bowl." But my mind works in odd ways, and I'd probably be the only one to understand that, lol.
I have gotten decent tips though, so I'm not too upset. Though someone did tell me I look like a "crack whore" or a "**edit**". I was a bit offed at that.
I think my most amusing experience yet was dancing in the cantina, and this one guy came up and started flirting with me. Winks, whistles, the whole shebang.....and then he realized I was a male! Heehee. Highly amused.
The only other heckler I can remember was another male wookiee dancer who didn't like the fact i was doing the exotic dances, so of course Ijust kept on doing them. I'm sure there's been more but I take smoke breaks a lot and generally don't go back and look at the chat that's happened while I've been gone. :/
*heckles Sinda* 