Using Pickup Lines?

recyclablebanthas · 2017-04-26T04:21:20+00:00

So i'm a virgin, so take what i have with a grain of salt.

Your virginity is not immediately relevant, but okay.

There's a stigma against pickup lines and how you should never use them.

Sure. Because they're robotic and not connected to the situation.

I agreed until recently. It seems like if you use the right one, it might actually work. Not in a serious manner though. Basically, use something that is obviously corny, so both of you get a laugh. What do you think?

Look, in some ways, it's less about what you say, and more about how you say it. Delivery matters.

But overall, if you deliver a line, even if you do a great job, it's funny and you get that laugh. Then what? What do you talk about? And before you think that you can plan something up that will work, realize that you're wrong: planning a conversation ahead of time won't ever work the way you think it will.

So even IF the line works, and it might not...... you still have the work ahead of you to come up with something to actually talk about.

Which is why the following process is better:

Connect with the world around you. Stop trying to cook up something in your head and observe what's going on around you. Because the world around you is going to provide SO much to talk about.
It doesn't require much. Doesn't require some special thing to say. You can literally offer someone an obvious observation that ANYONE could make, and it would be enough. It might even be funny.
People just walk around not paying attention so someone who actually does AT ALL, is like the one-eyed king in the land of the blind. Often if you're commenting on something going on right then, you'll be getting into someone's head because they were either thinking of that very thing.

Side-note: Most or all of the best "pick-up" lines you see floating around out there, are actually born of these sorts of observation techniques. Then some guy thinks it was the line, when really it was his observation skills that led to it.

MonkeyFist4150 · 2017-04-26T06:19:32+00:00

Don't do pickup lines.

MrEros · 2017-04-26T15:33:46+00:00

Pick up lines are never a good idea because instead of cementing confident within your skill all they do is cement confidence on these lines. This means you'll end up basing all your success on which line you use. Rather, do the exact opposite, walk to a girl and use the dumbest opener you can think of, like " hi do you like cheese? ".

It sounds crazy I know but what it will do for you is help you see that it's not about what you say, it's about having fun and being natural, no matter what you're saying.

ethical_slut · 2017-04-27T06:34:30+00:00

You're gambling with pick up lines. They typically don't work on sober people. They typically don't work on most people.

Avoid them unless you have nothing to lose and have an extra shirt stashed somewhere.

chadjugo · 2017-04-27T01:22:40+00:00

Only ironically.

Title	Using Pickup Lines?
Author	helloworld-21
Upvotes	1
Comments	21
Date	April 26, 2017 4:08 AM UTC (9 years ago)
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