I've got a problem - my shoulders are not broad enough. I was thinking about having a steamroller run over my body so that they get wider - what do you guys think?
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Cigarettes for a Deeper Voice
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Most splendid idea, but I would rather recommend tank tracks instead. You get extra rough look for free at the same time.
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Learning to control your voice (maybe take up singing?) is going to give you far better, and safer results.
Cigarettes, if they end up giving you a deeper voice, will be after significantly long periods of heavy smoking. The only people I've ever known to have their voice affected by smoking are chain smokers, and guess what? It's not "changing" their voice, it's ****ing up their throats to no end. You don't want to damage it.
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Spoiler!
First, let me say that Red Orchestra 2 is my favorite multiplayer game currently. Actually, my favorite game at the moment. Therefore, RO2: Rising Storm is a game that has me so hyped that, if Steam didn't exist and I had to buy it at a store, I would wait outside for hours until the store opened. The very knowledge that, right now, you are working on it makes me giddy with excitement and I wish you and your team the best during the production of it! Keep up the good work, chaps!
That being said, that was an awful and inaccurate analogy. :-|
The main difference being that having a deeper voice IS better, more attractive and generally makes life easier for the person with it. Job interviews become easier, attracting the opposite sex is easier (seriously, it is. A quick Google search or looking up a Barry White interview proves this.
) and it boosts confidence, since this is what you guys seem to keep bringing it up. Why struggle gaining confidence in an environment that is not conductive to it ... when I can get a deeper voice and automatically get a confidence boost?Getting back to your analogy, you could have the broadest shoulders and the most extreme confidence, but a crappy voice will still lead to you being single on Valentine's day looking at porn, believe me.
If not cigarettes, then surgery or injections will have to do. I refuse to have this crappy voice. Sorry.
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Confidence is just another bump in the road you have to drive over. You gain it through experience and conditioning. Being accepting yourself by having good self confidence is healthy and will help you in the long run. Getting treatments for a deeper voice because you happen to want a deeper voice, there is nothing wrong with that. However if you are getting it because you don't feel good about your voice due to confidence issues, you are simply applying a bandaid to the "Problem" so to speak. Your voice might sound "better" but what happens if you find something else you are insecure about? Will you try to change that too or will you solve your issue constructively?
And why does everyone always bring up being single on valentines day? Is it REALLY that bad?
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It's not being single that's the problem, it's just that valentines day is the one that really rubs it in.
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Your beard must be broken. Have you tried getting a new one?
I guess the built-in Girl-Magnet had it's polarity reversed somehow, but unfortunately the warranty ran out
As far as the dentist goes, there is nothing wrong with my teeth apart from the fact that two of them are turned 90 degrees. They don't hurt me, and i'd prefer to have actual teeth than two holes in my mouth right next to the vampire-shaped teeth
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As others have pointed out, what if you find something else that you might think is wrong with you?
You might solve this issue, but what if others pop up? Are you going to try and find whatever kind of solution for those as well, ending up with so many countermeasures to insecurities that you forget to just relax and be yourself, as you worry yourself to an early death? Stress isn't good for you my man.
It might be harder to fight to gain confidence in an environment that is not conductive to it, but if you manage to get that confidence regardless than nothing will be able to take it away from you, ever. And the environment that you think is not conductive to getting self-confidence might turn out not to care so much as you do, and the problem is in your own mind.
But honestly, the battles fought hardest to win will give you everlasting peace with yourself. Everything else is just a stopgap measure, the so-called bandaids. And bandaids rip.
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Doesn't look like much, but I can assure you your investment in my amusement has no effect on it whatsoever, so don't worry about it.
As for your plan: You should probably invest in some sound equipment so you can accurately measure how deep your voice is, just so you know at what point in the gradual effing up of your throat over decades you can magically switch confidence-gears from creep to womanizer all of a sudden...
You don't want to ride the wave of costly and increasingly socially unacceptable addiction, stinky clothes and apartment, and cancer longer than you absolutely have to!
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i've smoked a pack a day or more for 35 years. my voice is the same now as when i was 14. not deep now, not then. who cares? wherever you heard that you'd get a girl if you had a deep voice, must have been pulling your leg, son.
sounds to me like you need to get out of the house. you're 18 and it seems you hate your parents anyway. so why not get out and see the world. you aren't gonna get "any" living in mom's house. you want confidence, get out and become a man. your self confidence will grow leaps and bounds when you have your own place.
this whole idea of smoking to change your voice, to change your life, so you can get a chick is the most absurd thing i've heard in 49 years. chicks don't like licking ashtrays. unless you want a chick that smokes, all you'll do is drop your chances at getting a girl by about 70%. doesn't sound to me like you can afford that.
sounds to me like you need to get out of the house. you're 18 and it seems you hate your parents anyway. so why not get out and see the world. you aren't gonna get "any" living in mom's house. you want confidence, get out and become a man. your self confidence will grow leaps and bounds when you have your own place.
this whole idea of smoking to change your voice, to change your life, so you can get a chick is the most absurd thing i've heard in 49 years. chicks don't like licking ashtrays. unless you want a chick that smokes, all you'll do is drop your chances at getting a girl by about 70%. doesn't sound to me like you can afford that.
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My point is, why do something with a really high chance of causing an addiction that would lead to loss of money, then health, then life; on the offchance that it will deepen your voice, on the offchance that THAT would make you more, rather than an awful lot less, attractive to females?
Somebody dying of cancer really is not a very attractive proposition.
I guess a supplementary question is how f***ed up would you have to be to even consider such a thing?
Somebody dying of cancer really is not a very attractive proposition.
I guess a supplementary question is how f***ed up would you have to be to even consider such a thing?
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ahahahah
he said he never been on a date... ok listen to me.
I now been currently in a relationship for over.... 4years? I dont remember excactly atm. I've been in 3 releationships and I never dated my entier life! ^^
he said he never been on a date... ok listen to me.
I now been currently in a relationship for over.... 4years? I dont remember excactly atm. I've been in 3 releationships and I never dated my entier life! ^^
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I will answer you in a PM, if you would like.
I've decided to start letting this thread die, for obvious reasons, and my reply about stress, band-aids and confidence would be a bit long ... and this is going to be a long post as it is. :-/It would certainly make the process of getting one much, much easier, if anything. But, again, it is a KNOWN, PROVEN FACT that women prefer deeper voices in the first place. Any simple Google search will show you this.
Believe me, you don't know how much I would love to move out, mate ... and I agree with you that, once I have my own apartment, I will probably be a lot better off.
However, as I have said before, I have two *****y parents with double-digit IQ (they can't even figure out how to lower the volume on their cell phones without me showing them how). To break that down a bit better, I have a mom who love to tell me I have bad habits just because I leave a bag of chips open one time. And then when I don't pay any attention to her (who would?), Dad tells me that I'm not ready to live life on my own, I would fail if I did, blah blah blah. Then he starts comparing me to my ~40 year old homeless half-brother with a wife and two kids. The horrible irony of it all is that he never pays any attention to either of us, and we have to double check to make sure that he actually heard either of us, the old, senile fool.
And then people wonder why I don't have a lot of confidence.
To answer your question about how f'ed up I am, I really don't think you want me to go through my life story. It's not as bad as most, admittedly, but I can tell you that I didn't become like this because my parents got me a blue Lexus instead of a red one. Sorry, can't pass up the opportunity to mock rich, spoiled kids.
What I will say, though, to give you just one example, is that, if you have a kid, forcing them to, when they are 8, sit and watch you and your wife scream and yell at each other just because she was talking to some guy and threaten divorce and then continue this for many years to come about different incidents is not giving your child a healthy sanity meter ... then again, I assume that you are smart enough for me not to have to tell you this. And dad still thinks he did me a favor by forcing me to watch them ... (Again, double-digit IQ parents.)Again, I would love to go with Type 3 Thyroplasty or testosterone injections, which are admittedly safer and provide guaranteed results unlike smoking, but they are out reach and probably will be for a while. Also, what I do, career wise, involves what, for general purposes, I will describe as "public speaking". Therefore, having a deeper, more masculine and attractive voice is beneficial to me both personally and professionally.
So, that's really all I can say I guess.
Wait ... how the hell does one end up in a relationship and not date?
Is it a Norwegian thing? ... Because, honestly, I can't say I've heard of someone "being in a relationship and never going on a date" before here in "Amurrika". Or, then again, maybe that's just the USA for ya.
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It is always the parents fault.
If you want confidence, you have to cultivate it. There are no silver bullets or quick fixes.
Girls (or the lack thereof) are the least of your problems.
Aside from leaving the house and getting a job (or joining the service), my suggestion would be to find an evangelical church and start attending regularly.....
If you want confidence, you have to cultivate it. There are no silver bullets or quick fixes.
Girls (or the lack thereof) are the least of your problems.
Aside from leaving the house and getting a job (or joining the service), my suggestion would be to find an evangelical church and start attending regularly.....
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If you want to smoke then by all means do so. Your`e 18 and you can do what ever you want.
You may wanna try pipe tobacco. feels more in the throath than those filtered ones.
You may wanna try pipe tobacco. feels more in the throath than those filtered ones.
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Wait ... how the hell does one end up in a relationship and not date?
It's not a Norwegian thing - most people, even in the states, meet through friends, at parties and such, and just get along well enough to try a "relationship", at least for a while. Some of those relationships actually last a while.
Possibly quite a bit of alcohol is involved too, most of the time lol
I think the obsession with "going on dates" and specifically "asking someone out" is a Hollywood thing with little basis in the reality of how people really meet others.
I *really* hope you're being sarcastic, otherwise: Stupidest advice ever. Yeah, go unfiltered, be a man, die young
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It's not a Norwegian thing - most people, even in the states, meet through friends, at parties and such, and just get along well enough to try a "relationship", at least for a while. Some of those relationships actually last a while.
Possibly quite a bit of alcohol is involved too, most of the time lol
I think the obsession with "going on dates" and specifically "asking someone out" is a Hollywood thing with little basis in the reality of how people really meet others.
I *really* hope you're being sarcastic, otherwise: Stupidest advice ever. Yeah, go unfiltered, be a man, die young
yeah ,I was sarcastic. My advice still is: do what ever you want, but at the same time never leave a good advice unheard.
agree on the dating stuff allso, I`ve never ever heard of someone I know going out on a date
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I *really* hope you're being sarcastic, otherwise: Stupidest advice ever. Yeah, go unfiltered, be a man, die young
Pipe tobacco (and proper cigars while we're at it) are on completely another level than your random filtered and ****ty tobacco, but then again my own smoking is pretty much related to few times a year at most. In any case I can't stand any kind of [insert brand here] you find from the stores, because it tastes like **** compared to say, good Churchill or a good bowl of pipe.
As for OP: If you know someone who is into stage acting or has some basics how to do it, you could try to ask some help how to control your voice and perhaps some speaking lessons while you're at it. From there on to an extent just keep practicing and you can learn how to tone your voice to fairly wide range, even if some might be trickier than others. I can still scream to this day (yes, scream like a girl. Usually means my throat is sore for few days if I do it, but in any case) and my voice uncontrolled pitches easily bit higher than average, but I can still tone it down quite a bit and keep it on for fairly long periods of time before my throat's beginning to protest.
You'd be surprised how well you can do with “average” or even just slightly nasal voice as long as you can tone and control it as necessary.
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