🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 3 days agoAnon's solution for first date nervessh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1339
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minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up157·3 days agoOP just learned what the ‘con’ in ‘con man’ is short for.
minus-squareAuraLeo@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 days agoOne day someone will have this same reaction to the word “rizz”
minus-squarepapalonian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoI had this reaction while playing Baldurs Gate. I knew what it meant to “rizz” someone but didn’t know where it came from. I had a high DC charisma check and, after passing it, said, “I rizzed em with my charisma! Ohh…”
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up62·3 days agoI’d be funny if he were, but no. “Con man” really is short for “confidence man.” It’s not actually about the scammer ‘being confident,’ though; it’s about the scammer winning the mark’s trust.
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoOr you could say it’s about winning their mark’s removes sunglasses confidence.
OP just learned what the ‘con’ in ‘con man’ is short for.
Are you shitting me right now?
One day someone will have this same reaction to the word “rizz”
I had this reaction while playing Baldurs Gate. I knew what it meant to “rizz” someone but didn’t know where it came from. I had a high DC charisma check and, after passing it, said, “I rizzed em with my charisma! Ohh…”
I’d be funny if he were, but no. “Con man” really is short for “confidence man.”
It’s not actually about the scammer ‘being confident,’ though; it’s about the scammer winning the mark’s trust.
Or you could say it’s about winning their mark’s removes sunglasses confidence.
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