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When you fly into Israel their security officers interrogate you. They'll ask random questions with you don't expect. The officers are trained at detecting huma

When you fly into Israel their security officers interrogate you. They'll ask random questions with you don't expect. The officers are trained at detecting human lying behavior. Your actual answer to the question is somewhat irrelevant, it's all HOW you answered.

hinkley 4y ago
When you're rehearsing a difficult pitch to your manager you expect roadblocks to be thrown up in a particular order. When you realize that you're somewhere doing something that could possibly get you into trouble, you rehearse a much simpler story. Like realizing halfway to your new apartment with the last carload that you put all of your liquor in a box, but that box is not in the trunk (or you don't actually have a trunk because SUV) so technically you have open alcohol in your car, or having to piss like a racehorse driving home from the airport at 2 am because your flight was late and you don't know where anything open is so you're just doing 40 in a 30 the entire way home. These are all things within the normal realm. And then there's making up a completely fictional person and pretending to be them, after almost no practice. Having never impersonated anyone, I can't tell you much about this, other than what you've all seen on TV. But I do know what it feels like being stuck in a conversation where you don't like where it's going. Was that question innocent, or loaded? What is this bozo going to ask me next, and at what point is he going to compare me to Hitler or Charles Manson? So your brain is trying to unravel the rope that you're pretty sure is being slowly coiled around your neck and hoping you can pull off some verbal judo to duck out of it before it starts to tighten, without coming off like a complete ass to do so. That sort of dishonest communication usually is in front of an audience, so it matters to the audience that the walls of this jail cell are built in an orderly fashion. If I'm just trying to figure out if you're a drug mule or a cell leader instead of a journeyman jeweler looking for a business relationship then there is no audience, and I can ask the questions in whatever order I feel like it. The audience comes later when I'm testifying against you, and the prosecutor and I can build the story after the fact.
tacocataco 4y ago
Oh man, I would not do well under that kind pressure. When I go into a store and can't find what I'm looking for, I feel obligated to buy something so I don't look like I'm shoplifting.

hinkley 4y ago

When you're rehearsing a difficult pitch to your manager you expect roadblocks to be thrown up in a particular order. When you realize that you're somewhere doing something that could possibly get you into trouble, you rehearse a much simpler story. Like realizing halfway to your new apartment with the last carload that you put all of your liquor in a box, but that box is not in the trunk (or you don't actually have a trunk because SUV) so technically you have open alcohol in your car, or having to piss like a racehorse driving home from the airport at 2 am because your flight was late and you don't know where anything open is so you're just doing 40 in a 30 the entire way home. These are all things within the normal realm. And then there's making up a completely fictional person and pretending to be them, after almost no practice. Having never impersonated anyone, I can't tell you much about this, other than what you've all seen on TV. But I do know what it feels like being stuck in a conversation where you don't like where it's going. Was that question innocent, or loaded? What is this bozo going to ask me next, and at what point is he going to compare me to Hitler or Charles Manson? So your brain is trying to unravel the rope that you're pretty sure is being slowly coiled around your neck and hoping you can pull off some verbal judo to duck out of it before it starts to tighten, without coming off like a complete ass to do so. That sort of dishonest communication usually is in front of an audience, so it matters to the audience that the walls of this jail cell are built in an orderly fashion. If I'm just trying to figure out if you're a drug mule or a cell leader instead of a journeyman jeweler looking for a business relationship then there is no audience, and I can ask the questions in whatever order I feel like it. The audience comes later when I'm testifying against you, and the prosecutor and I can build the story after the fact.

tacocataco 4y ago

Oh man, I would not do well under that kind pressure. When I go into a store and can't find what I'm looking for, I feel obligated to buy something so I don't look like I'm shoplifting.