Chatroulette. We all know it, and a lot of us loathe it. If it's not sweaty fifty year olds trying it on, it's a laughably sized phallus staring you in the face. Of course, we've all heard the legends of the man on the piano, and people with something genuinely interesting to say or an amusing hand puppet, but do we ever see these elusive figures? Of course we don't. How to make Chatroulette worthwhile then? Well it's quite simple if you're not a completely useless bastard: take the initiative to be one of the interesting people. Easy enough, you may think, but it'll require some enthusiasm and a lack of shame. Here's a few ideas to get the old creativity flowing...
Place a sheet over your face and pretend to be a ghost
Place the webcam in your mouth*
Read passages from the Bible and claim to wreak God's wrath upon your chat partner
Treat men as women and women as men
Selotape your face into obscure positions
Throw rice at the webcam and laugh manically
Draw a Hitler moustache on your screen at random and wait for that beautiful, fleeting moment when it lands on someone's top lip
Lower the lighting to disguise your face, and make sexual advances to people whilst keeping the subject of your gender ambiguous
Dress as Paul McCartney and convert people to vegetarianism
Attempt to baffle your chat partner with card tricks
Cover the webcam lens with jam and cream, and lick it off without using your hands to hold it
Pretend to have an epileptic fit
*Best with a throat infection
