The Guys not talking about Guy Stuff Thread

[CezeN]

So guys, I had this big year long bet/dare with one of my friends this recent school year, where if I walked up to a random(someone we didn't know) attractive girl and said "let's have sex", he'd do the same.

After a year of "you first""No you", I finally manned up and did it about a week before school ended. My friend, lacking the balls I have, came up with excuses not to do it.

Any of you guys done that, or the equivalent, before?

[Janus%TheDoorman]

Try the Line Game.

Make a decision via Rock, Paper, Scissors or some other method as to what member of your group will use The Line. Then, the rest of the group decides on The Line which includes any spoken words, body language, broader movements or anything else you can think up, as well as the woman he has to use it on. If he doesn't do it, he buys the next round for everyone else. If he does, someone else buys his next drink.

Most of the time no one gets hurt, and a completely over-the-top farce of a pickup line accompanied by a group of friends laughing hysterically can actually serve as a decent icebreaker to lead into an actual conversation, depending on the girl.

[CezeN]

Sounds fun ^-^

[Janus%TheDoorman]

It is, until you're forced to use "You wanna know why you're the luckiest girl on the planet? Cause you're talkin' to THIS GUYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" complete with two thumbs up and a bug-eyed smile.

And even then it's fun for the rest of your friends.

[CezeN]

Oh, so are you a guy then?

[Luet]

Uh, his name is "Janus TheDoorMAN".

[CezeN]

I don't read past the Janus.

[Janus%TheDoorman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus

Look at that beard. I mean, damn. The reason he's got two head is because he thought, "Damn, this beard is stylin'. No one should ever have to go without seeing this beard" and BAM, he had a second face, so that even people behind him could see that beard.

It's like ancient greek spinner rims.

[CezeN]

lol

Janus seems like a girl name to me, though. Honestly.

[Janus%TheDoorman]

You're probably pronouncing it "Janice". It's Jayne-us. Like this guy:



... That doesn't actually make it sound less like a girl's name, but try saying that to someone manly enough to wear that hat.

[Jayelle]

Janus is a Roman God, not a Goddess.

Also, the namesake of January.


Also, Janice is me.

[locke]

it's a damn cunning hat.

[jotabe]

The man they call Jayne!

I pronounce it like this: Ha-noos

[Mich]

Man, I've always though "yawn-us." You know, how James Bond taught me to pronounce it!

But the Man They Call Jayne will be acceptable, I guess.

[Eaquae Legit]

None of the above is correct. Jota is closest, though. His Spanish accent just gets in the way a little. Silly colonies and their bastardisation of the Mother Tongue. Mich is pretty close, too.

It's YAH-noos. Most definitely not "jayne-us". If you want to be a silly Angle about it, you can pronounce it "JAH-noos", but that's as correct (or incorrect) as Jota's Ha-noos.

/Latin

[Syphon the Sun]

I've just been pronouncing it with the J totally silent...

Just kidding, Anus.

[locke]

I've been thinking the past few days about how my future dating scenario is likely to play out and then I kicked myself. I realized I was doing the same old bullshit mistakes of thinking women are people and that I should be considerate of their feelings. As jeebs so accurately pointed out above, "all bitches is hos." D'oh and here I was about to go down the same path/cycle I was before. I have to work to quash all those feminine instincts to be nurturing and caring and devoted, they get me dumped every time. Sometimes I am such a doofus.

[Petra456]

Took me a bit to figure out the new poll.... At first I thought it was about sneezing... Then wondered why you would shower after you sneezed.

[Caspian]

Adam, I'm very sorry you've been hurt.

[daPyr0x]

Jeeze, Locke; you should know better than that by now! Listen to Snoop!

Silly of me to fall in love with a bitch
Knowin damn well, I'm too caught up with my grip
Now as the sun rotates and my game grows bigger
How many bitches wanna f*** this n**** named Snoop
Doggy, I'm all the above

[CezeN]

So... what are the best pickup lines that you can use on a girl?
Or for that game?

Now, I don't ever use pickup lines, but
I'm thinking

I lost my number, can i have yours?

or

does this rag smell like chloroform to you?

[buckshot]

It's gonna happen soon enough !

[Janus%TheDoorman]

So... what are the best pickup lines that you can use on a girl?

All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us.*

Most guys try to "fix" the problem of difficulty with women, and so they look at what's "wrong" with their efforts. Whether you want to argue that that's because of evolutionary biology or cultural pressure, guys like to be problem solvers, and so that's how we approach almost everything. When it comes to women, we face failure most frequently during the first 30 minutes of a relationship (This is simply because it's the most frequent interaction we have, not because the first thirty minutes are harder than the rest of the relationship) so that's where loads of focus has been on "solving the problem".

Women don't do this. They don't spot the guy across the room and visualize and simulate the next 30 minutes and try and recall all the advice they've been given about how to attract a guy. They never really leave the moment they're in.

What this adds up to is that pick-up lines don't work well simply because they come at a woman from a completely different experience than they're having. Most of the guys who I hang out with, when it comes to pick-up lines say the best lines put on display all their best characteristics - passion, humor, masculinity, determination, sexuality. This is nonsense. No woman has ever heard a series of words that make her go "Wow, this guy is amazing! He's so different than all these other guys that hit on me." If a line does go over well - if she laughs or smiles genuinely, it's not because of the words. It's so much more than that.

I said women never leave the moment they're in, but that doesn't mean their minds aren't working just as hard as ours. But they're working at processing the moment, processing everything they're getting from the world as it's coming to them. If you want to engage with her, you have to be in that moment yourself, with her, not off thinking of what you read on a forum or in a book, or that your older cousin who once had a threesome with Jessica Alba and Halle Berry once told you, or else the woman, who's aware of way more about you than you realize you're communicating will pick up on that immediately.

Be there with her - be present. Observe what's really going on, and engage with her about it. If her hair looks good, tell her that. If it doesn't, if she looks like she went through hell the night before, don't try and fob off some line about how she looks like an angel. Observe and engage. Don't try and pull her into your world, just enter hers.

*Not really, that song's just been stuck in my head

[Eaquae Legit]

This:

So... what are the best pickup lines that you can use on a girl?

Be there with her - be present. Observe what's really going on, and engage with her about it. If her hair looks good, tell her that. If it doesn't, if she looks like she went through hell the night before, don't try and fob off some line about how she looks like an angel. Observe and engage. Don't try and pull her into your world, just enter hers.

is decently good advice. If you're too busy figuring your "game", she's going to notice your attention isn't really on her. Frankly, if she looks like she's had a rough day/night, say hi, offer her a drink, and humorously comment that she looks like she deserves it. Ask her how she is and how she's doing.

You know, pay attention to her.

But then, my advice might be s***** for "normal" (non-geekly) interactions, so who knows. I know I'd probably appreciate the humour and the drink.

[Rei]

The trouble with pickup lines -- and many relationship issues on the whole -- is that too many people seem to forget that people are not games to be played. Just as much as I do not view myself as a game to be played or leveled-up in, so are others not games to be beaten/out-smarted/improved at/figured out/etc. Whenever we attempt to puzzle-out how to get past the barriers to achieve some personal-gain motivated end, we are treating the other person as a game, even if we do not realise that is what we are doing.

[Syphon the Sun]

"Hi. You're looking pretty mediocre and I would like to buy you a medium priced drink."

[daPyr0x]

You know, pay attention to her.

Some of the best advice since this topic began being discussed.

Oh and how I know some of you will call out the departure from some of my other comments on the topic, but nothing's really changing here. The underlying basis remains the same - live in the moment with her, not in your head trying to figure out hers. Be confident enough in yourself that you can do that - leave your head for a little while and just be.

[Gravity Defier]

You know, pay attention to her.

Some of the best advice since this topic began being discussed.

It is.


Janus wasn't too far off, started out strong in his paragraph that said basically the same thing, but then he said to say her hair is nice if it is (as an example) and I cringed.

In his defense, I'm not the target audience. I will fully admit that men scare me to a degree if I don't know them at all, and even more if I not only don't know them but think they're interested in something. It's why I will be very surprised if I ever accept, with the intent to carry out, a date proposal from a stranger. If he goes and starts making comments about my appearance, he's already lost and may as well pack up and go home.

I am, however, more than happy to hear such things from men I'm interested in. So it wasn't an entirely cringe-worthy suggestion, I guess.

"Hi. You're looking pretty mediocre and I would like to buy you a medium priced drink."

[CezeN]

Thanks for the advice, but still, this was more what I was looking for

"Hi. You're looking pretty mediocre and I would like to buy you a medium priced drink."

[locke]

"Hi. You're looking pretty mediocre and I would like to buy you a medium priced drink."

A Manhattan at the Tar Pit is $15

luckily I'd bought drinks at the first bar we went to (before the movie) and she managed to beat me to the bill and buy the drinks at the lounge we went to after the movie, so I didn't have to wince internally at the absurdity of some drink pricese.

Give me an Old Fashioned with Jack (or just straight up Jack if I don't think the bartender is competent), and I'm happy.

[Syphon the Sun]

Can I get you another roofie colada?
You don't sweat much for a fat chick.
I'm just looking for another notch on my belt.
I've had my lazy eye on you all night.
I'm the biggest lady-killer since O.J. Simpson.
I'm a Pweb mod.

[zeroguy]

I'm a Pweb mod.

"Go out with me or be kill evil banned"

[Rei]

As a shift back to hygiene, does anybody here use an old-style safety razor or a straight razor?

If so, what do you like about it, and what shaving creams and brushes do you use?

[buckshot]

straight razor for me , old mug with double duck brand badger hair brush and this shaving soap bar I get at the beauty supply called RK mens bar. anything else and I break out like a punk kid !

[Mich]

Wow, you just got +2 manliness, buck. That's pretty awesome.