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MikeH is offline MikeH
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I actually once had a drunken mindfart moment once where I went up to a girl (without any real plan) and said "do you come here often?" Then I realised what I'd said, burst out laughing and said I was sorry, didn't know what made me say that. Blah, blah. She laughed... excellent start in the end.

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I've usually been too shy to approach women for the obvious purpose of picking them up. But I have found that by amusing myself and those around me and ignoring the girl that I am most attracted to in the room, there is about a 65% chance that she will find a way to approach me. It works.


This is quite true

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I actually once had a drunken mindfart moment once where I went up to a girl (without any real plan) and said "do you come here often?" Then I realised what I'd said, burst out laughing and said I was sorry, didn't know what made me say that. Blah, blah. She laughed... excellent start in the end.


Exactly the sort of situation it pays to be prepared for, and I so often haven't been. There was a girl who I was mooning over for weeks. She was in a kind of slow and distant orbit around the group of people I was hanging around with at the time. She was also gorgeous, petite, wore dresses. Very feminine with an easy grace. One night I was at a party, and being kind of bored I left the conversations in the kitchen and on the porch and went into the living room where the music was playing.

No one else is there, so I decide to play my favorite album at the moment which was helpfully sitting there. I put it on and within minutes I was transported into the wonderful world of that music. I closed my eyes and and sat back, drawing in the music and its emotion into every pore. I felt someone sit down next to me. I assumed that it is one of my friends, so I don't react much at first. Finally I decide to see who it is, and of course it is her! I'm speechless, but she's friendly and asks me what music is playing. I can't believe my fortune, and manage to put myself together enough to at least follow the conversation. But I was not prepared enough mentally to deal with the situation, and blew my opportunity by not making my attraction clear. A few weeks later she was dating another guy I knew. If I had stayed in Michigan I'm sure that she would have come around again (ie broken up with that guy, giving me another opportunity), but alas I moved to Boulder a year later. Well, at least there were others to occupy me most of that time.

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ok.
mission: approach woman (actually they approach me)
timeframe: next half hour
objective: to obtain future social contact


edit. who am i, the shermanator?

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Look at the girl he ended up with though...

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haha i bottled it. chatted for five minutes but forgot to ask her out.
shes coming back later in the week.

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Well it's pretty simple. It's like business. It's like selling a product, except that you are the product and the customer buying it is the woman. So, you have to be interesting. If she's a hottie, she gets all the compliments anyway, and has heard every single pick up line. Be original.

I have found body language to be maybe one of the most important things. Don't be a stick and blurt some nervous pick up line. Just be natural man...

.. or you can always go on a mission to talk lots of girls if you're nervous, and decide not to pick up them. Just say something to them. And if conversation really starts, then you can work on it. I have found that girls want to laugh, so it's good if you can make them laugh so that they're not doing it out of being polite, but because you can make them laugh. Then you can soon find out and master it, so you can control the situation and make her laugh at will. That's what I usually do, because I like to laugh myself and make someone laugh, so we wouldn't be nervous. It fails sometimes, but it works sometimes too. I'd give it a 50/50.

Depends very much where you are though...
'Can I stalk you'.

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Failing that, there's always www.sosuave.com...

Where's Bodds when you need him for a laugh?

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Oh yeah, I look forward to his expert posts on the matter later.

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I think he's banned for another few days sadly.

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whatever you do, the neanderthal method of picking her up, throwing her over your soldiers, and trundling off to your cave does not work these days, or endears you to the female of the species.

unless she's already with you...

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Amusing quote of the week from Boddington's: "I'd get a girlfriend, but I can't be bothered right now..."

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www.sosuave.com ... I planned to start an invasion to that site...

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haha yeah i can't be bothered either.

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All I have to say is spandex. Spandex.

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Amusing quote of the week from Boddington's: "I'd get a girlfriend, but I can't be bothered right now..."


For some reason they have this annoying habit of actually wanting to spend time with you and not just seeing you once every couple of weeks when you don't have any band activities and you fancy a ****.

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Slightly more passable excuse than Stew's...

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No, I don't have an excuse. I would have to ask a girl out for that to be an issue.

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In which case, you have something in common with Stew anyway!

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From behind the (preferably downwind), or from above out of the sun. Remember that their peripheral vision is better than mens so a side approach is fraught with danger.


best answer so far! this is what I always practice

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Yeah, but I have had girlfriends in the past.

And why don't you have a girlfriend Mr Forever?

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I always found that moving with stealth from behind them gave me my best chance on at least getting in a word or two.

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If you're at a club, approach the woman in question, looking bored and vaguely disgusted. Start people watching with her, and make fun of the various "pickup lines" you hear being fired off around you. Make up a few of your own (horrible) ones, and "pretend" you're using them (the worse the better), making fun of "those idiots."

Example:

* Velociryx looks disgusted at the latest pickup line by the guy at the end of the bar. Points the offending cretin out to the lady sitting near.

"I *really* hate that....no imagination whatsoever....he may as well stumble up to the lady he's after and say....h...hey baby, I'm a f....feces....what's your sign?"

Ice broken, and you set yourself apart as being a person who simply wouldn't stoop to using cheesy lines.

-=Vel=-

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I see there's a party in your mouth. Can I come?

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Sneak up from behind, chlorophyl rag at the ready. Pretty easy.

Actually, the first step is always eye contact. That's the best way to establish interest without saying a word and without setting yourself up for an embarrassing slice of rejection pie.

I will usually make eye contact with a guy I like, and see if does the same to me. It's hard to do, because I get easily embarrassed and shy. But a few vodka & sodas usually cures that pretty quick. Anyway, if the interest is apparent from eye contact, I'll just approach, usually as if I'm going that way anyway, and say "hi" when I go by. If they do more than just a curt "hi" in response (like say "hi, how are you?"), I take that as an in, offer my name and a handshake, and then the game's afoot!

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how do you figure out straight/gay preference out? I reckon that would be the hardest part. If you just meet someone you don't know their preference so would be a bit tricky imho.

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Well, presumably Boris would be in the GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BAR...

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yeah thats what i figured, so are you just restricted to designated places when attempting to meet new people or can you give it a shot in the wide wide world.

 
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