Another one I thought of is similar to The Blueprint unstifling exercises.
When you're with your wings through out the night you have to point out impressions, impersonations, actions, voices, whatever for each of you to do, immediately, this can be whilst its dead quiet at the beginning, on the dancefloor, whilst ordering a drink, talking to a stunner, talking to a fatty, the bouncers, whatever.
I call it "Dare" I havent fully refined it yet as there aren't many people down here to play it with but the general rule is it must be something that makes (or you'd think) you look like a tit.
And the underlying rule is it has to be spur of the moment, obviously you can lie and say something you thought of ages ago but you get more out of it if its spur of the moment, made up on the spot.
Examples:
- Do alligator impression (Credit TD). Or anything.
- Donkey Noises.
- Go for the make out two minutes in.
- Do a funny dance to those girls over there
- Tell the barmaid she looks really hot, like your sister.
- Go convince that girl you're John Cena
Fuck, I'm getting excited thinking about it. Somebody come down Newquay for a night out so we can play it.
The other exercise I have is:
Cold reading. This is a good one to do with people you sorta know as well as new girls. The key is to be casual and normal about it. Not a fucking new age gay twat or stupid. Speaking to someone you 'sorta know' but you never get passed boring small talk and have awkward conversation with?
Try to throw out cold reads with whoever, the key is make them genuine not stupid, silly, new-agey or truisms. Say something about them that you think is true.
Do they look like a hairdresser? Then "you look like a hair dresser". Simple.
Its a good one to practice, obviously not with friends you know well, the goal is to learn to be able to get to know people better and conversate more fluently.
Another point is to make them positive and cool, don't lie but only say the positive things you can cold read them about.
"You look like you've never succeeded in life at anything you've tried at" isn't really connecting with people compared to "You're always looking out for the best in your group".
I started this one last night and love it. You cant run out of interesting conversation and the fact you're 'judging' shows value. But I really wanna play Dare with someone