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Underwolfe's avatar

Classic! Are you that bloke…. NO… I can imagine the look of confusion! The thing with skanks is that they are fairly predictable… and the mind is more than likely strained from some sort of concoction.. you may get a few extra seconds of confusion with these sorts with the right choice of reply! Well played.

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Blimey. A horseman we respects asks people, when they are describing some sort of explosive behaviour from a horse, “did it come out of the blue or were there warning signs?”. He always thinks there were warning signs. The question is designed to find out how aware the human was of the build-up to the explosive behaviour. If the human says “oh, no, absolutely no warning, completely out of the blue” he knows there is work to be done on their perceptions, and removing their filters. A more aware horse-person might be able to give a detailed account of innumerable small behaviours from the horse that made them aware that all was not well and that a catastrophic loss of calm might ensue.

If things had turned out differently with the Junkies that night, it would have seemed to those women that the attack was completely out of the blue.

If they had been facing in the other direction, would they have picked up on what was going on, I wonder?

Or, does the fact that they were happy to stand with their backs to the main road indicate that they had such low expectation of anything bad happening that they wouldn’t have picked up on the potential danger of the situation?

It’s interesting to ponder how much our perception of safety is down to not noticing ill intent and potentially bad encounters.

And I suppose it can go the other way, seeing threat everywhere, like the woman who said to me that *every single man* she passes in the street, she is *certain* they are going to attack her. Even though she has never actually been attacked (which is an astonishing statistic in itself).

Accurately reading the warning signs is a key point I’m getting from this series, as well as the usefulness of manipulative behaviour.

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