“Nice shoes. Want to have sex?”
Aaah, you’ve probably heard that one — hopefully not said it, but picked it up from the thousands of websites that list the best and worst pick up lines.
People love poking fun at pick up lines, if only to make such a potentially embarassing situation into something more funny and less intimidating. In fact, some men will intentionally use a very cheesy pick up line to make a girl laugh.
You can try different tactics.
- There’s the polite: “Excuse me, miss. I seem to have lost my phone number? Can I borrow yours?”
- Or the eager-to-lease: “I don’t know what you think of me, but I hope it’s X rated.”
- You can try to look like a genius: “Have you heard the medical research that Sex is a real killer? Do you want to die happy?”
- Or you can play dumb: “Excuse me, I’m new in town. Can I have directions to your apartment?”
Some pick up lines on those websites will get you slapped: “You’re ugly, but you intrigue me.” Some may even get you arrested. One actually suggests waiting until everyone’s too drunk or unconscious to really notice what you’re doing. Go up to a girl, holding up your car keys, and as she squints at you through an alcohol-induced stupor, take action. “It’s time to go home,” you say, pretending you know each other. Of course, if she falls for that, she’ll be throwing up in your car and too sick to do anything else in your apartment except pass out on your sofa.Well, pick up lines are an art form. And not all pick up lines work for each girl — you have to know what kind of personality she has, and whether she’d like something subtle, or see the humor in you using something as cheesy as “Is your father greek? Because you look like a goddess.”
And it has to be a line you’re comfortable with, or you won’t pull it off properly. So don’t be suave if you’re really a natural comic: get something really funny, but deliver it in a way that she’ll just burst out laughing — in a good way — and maybe give you an extra two minutes to make a proper introduction.
If you ask women, the pick up line itself isn’t what gets them to actually start a conversation. It’s how it alerts them to your personality, so they can decide whether or not you’re the type they’d actually start a conversation with.
Rule of thumb: nothing degrading, embarrassing, or in any so full of sexual overtones that she’d actually feel cheap for stooping down to entertain you. So that pretty much rules out “Let’s have breakfast tomorrow. Should I call you or nudge you?”
Of course you can do away with pick up lines altogether, and start with a white lie. Pretend you know her — “didn’t we go to school together” or stick to the classic, but effective, “Can I buy you a drink?”
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Umm… I’m sorry to say but study in human sexuality shows that the line doesn’t work. And for the most part it’s the women that initiate the action. For instance a man will think he’s real suave putting his arm around a girl in say a pick-up. Uh, hello? The woman initiated it… She did sit in the middle rather than passengers side.
Oh and a tip for men… if a girl likes you she’ll usually subconsciously cross her legs with the leg over pointing towards you.
The girl looks over at a guy in a bar. Guy gets hint, comes over. Guy uses a pick-up line.
Who was the initiator?