Topic for discussion: Do girls use pickup lines on guys?

[Warrior Poet]

On a whim, I wore a tuxedo to a Christmas party once. I was the only one at the party dressed so formally.

A woman I'd never met approached me and said, "What's with the tuxedo?" We talked for a while, the went back to mingling with other party-goers.

Later, when I was conversing with someone else, she strode resolutely across the room, put her hand on my chest, said, "Excuse me," to the person I was talking with, and pushed me away from the conversation so she could ask me out.

We dated two years.

Some women use a line. Other women grab you bodily.

Warrior Poet

 

[tarchon]

True, but since none of us are the ones for casual sex that usually comes from pick up lines, it's just a dorky way to entertain ourselves and parody the amazingly (and sadly) large percentage of the population that use them seriously.

Er... yeah... I would never think of doing that.

When they're so inclined, women tend to touch more than talk.

 

[GlassJaw]

I have noticed that men can be oblivious to a womans implications...

Or create some on their own when none exist. :\

 

[Captain Tagon]

Or create some on their own when none exist. :\

From my experience girls seem to do this a lot more than the boys.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

I've gotten this before, but it was, "What kinda car do you drive?"

Jon? Jon Favreau? Is that you?



AR

 

[Torm]

In junior high, in the middle of a harry-met-sally-esque conversation about dating and relations between men and women, a girl suddenly announced to me that she didn't believe I could pass "the gentleman's test." I asked what this was, and it turned out to be a test to see whether or not a guy could stand naked, with an attractive naked girl standing directly in front of him, without "having a reaction." Well, I was certain I could, she was certain I couldn't, and before long pride and bullheadedness (on my part, anyway) led to the test being administered. I passed - I was too much of a nerd to be thinking about baseball, but the same principle was involved.

I'm still not certain if this was a "pick-up", or if she originally intended to use this to embarass me somehow, but regardless, we ended up very good friends afterward , and before long I ended up going out with her best friend, "Jessica" (see Worst Dates Ever thread), for a while. :\

Along similar lines, after I moved to South Carolina, girls at the high school here had a challenge they would issue to guys, sometimes, to let them put their hand on your knee and slowly work their way upward while you whistled, betting you couldn't whistle "all the way up." After "the gentleman's test", this was a cakewalk , and I became a source of fascination for an entire chorus class full of young ladies one day, as they determined that they just "must not have found the right girl to do it yet..."

 

[Laurel]

Do they need too?

Have you ever had one used on you or used it on a guy..?

Do they really work?

I have never used one, and I don't think I have heard of one. Except the initial 'hi'

I will say that if body language could be counted though, then heck yeah girls have pick up lines. Some are the hair flip, some are the wink, some have any number of 'moves.' In some cases I think these end up speaking louder then words, and still keeps it as the guy making the first move- somehow.

 

[Angcuru]

Waitaminute! So with a lot of girls, simple conversation is a sign of attraction?

Heck, I'm not a simple guy. I'm as complicated as most women, if not more so. But if you're going to show interest in someone, casual speech is not the way to go. Jeez. All that says is: "I can stand being in your presence." To me, some subtlety is nice, but this is like telling someone you want to eviscerate them by glancing at them for half a second.

Doesn't help me out either way, since I have the curse of being attracted to women who are already in relationships, and attract women who only want a roll in the hay.

Y'know, I'm a nice guy. I expect my potention SO's to exercise some control over their loins, so I do the same. I just KNOW that if I start looking for meaningless sex, all of the flirtation directed towards me will cease instantly, as if the entire female population of the planet has some worldwide telepathic link/'player' RADAR.

Ugh.

 

[Afrodyte]

while pretending to be reading EN World for the fun of it...

I just KNOW that if I start looking for meaningless sex, all of the flirtation directed towards me will cease instantly, as if the entire female population of the planet has some worldwide telepathic link/'player' RADAR.

*saves this on the Women's Worldwide Telecybernetic Network Database, finds Angcuru's real name, address, SSN and credit card numbers, marks the folder with a red DANGER sticker, and files it away in the Black File Cabinet stored in a secret subterranean office space.*

I believe the Grays will be quite interested in the scientific data they can obtain from you, Mr. Angcuru.

 

[Angcuru]

Eek!