Just a report from the swedish night-life, not necessarily interesting.
I don't know whether it's fun or sad that most of my nights out look like this.
I worked until nine pm yesterday, and went directly to a birthday party, although I have this big schoolproject to hand in tomorrow and am going to work all day today. Me and time just don't cooperate that well.
I met with my friend, and as it got late we decided to go downtown, and meet with my sister Amanda and her friends instead. The rest of the birthday people were boring and just went home, except for a french guy who accompanied em and my friend Tobias.
So we met with my sister and her friends, among them Matilda, with whom Tobias has some sort of open relationship, which all is pretty weird.
They also left their boring friends except for one other girl, Sofia. The six of us went for a good disco.
In a local park, my sister thought it would be fun to push Tobias and Matilda in the fountain, so I helped her carry out this project. It started out as a joke, but ended in Tobias and Matilda actually being in the water, soaked and a bit suprised.
I couldn't stop laughing. But they deserved it, with this open relationship and all.
They went home, and the remaining four went to the disco.
In the line to the disco, my sister suddenly had some ache in her stomach, so she and Sofia had to split. I was left with this french guy whom I didn't know, but we were both
drunk and enjoying the exciting twists of the night so far.
Anyhow, he rapidly got more drunk and turned out to be that stupid kind of dancer who goes for sexual exhibitionism instead of fine-feathered manners like me while dancing.
Apparently he was good-looking, because a variety of chicks surrounded him and seemed happy with that.
At a pillar beside the dance-floor stood a cute girl all alone, so I approached her with the intention of picking her up, more or less. As I started talking to her, she said:
"Trying to pick me up? Allright, you've got three chances to say something I will remember tomorrow."
Although this was a weird thing to do, I was challenged and accepted it. Considering myself pretty witty in these situations, I actually thought I could do it.
But I was completely dumbfounded, and couldn't come up with anything good at all. My first attempt was some sort of parody of the regular cliché lines, like do you often go here or something. I don't remember exactly what I said.
She just said "You've got two more chances".
I don't know what my second attempt was, but it failed again, and here I think I started laughing about how silly the situation was and that she was actually a real bitch, but it was a fun game, so I made a third attempt which resulted in her just leaving while I looked in the ceiling trying to come up with something.
We went home, and since this dumb french guy didn't know where he - or rather the girl with whom he was staying - lived, he had to follow me home and sleep in my room. I actually concidered just running while he was taking a leak, but I was worried I might meet him again.
So here I am today, stupidly hung over, soon going to work where I will spend the whole day changing dipers on old senile smelly people. Then I will spend the whole night writing on my project, even though my student home is having a house party tonight.
I can't call my friend because supposedly his mobile phone broke in the water.
Perhaps the chick in the disco actually does remember me today, how silly I was. At least that's something.
Hehe looks like a good new addition to your adventure games.
You should say "You dance like a dairy farmer!"
How appropriate, you ARGGH MY SPINE!
Tell them that you've got VD...
(from http://www.psy.mq.edu.au/328/WilliamsDolnik.pdf):
In her honors thesis, Kathy
Zablocki (1996) looked at the effectiveness of stealing thunder on the early stages of
dating. She was interested in whether males who were waiting for an experiment
along with an attractive female (who was actually an experimental confederate)
would agree to join her for coffee after the experiment. From other research
indicating that males are quite willing to agree to female pick-up lines (Clark &
Hatfield, 1989) the answer to this question would seem to be fairly obvious. But there
was a catch. In two of the three conditions, the males found out that she had genital
herpes. While waiting for the experiment to begin, the attractive female chatted
pleasantly with the unsuspecting male. During this 5-minute interchange, the males
were exposed either to no information regarding the herpes (no thunder), witnessed
a prescription for genital herpes with a pamphlet about the disease fall out of her
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purse as she left for the restroom (thunder), or prior to witnessing the purse?s
contents spill, were told by the female that she had herpes (stealing thunder). After
she returned, she asked the male to join her for coffee, and recorded his response.
In the no thunder condition, 60% of the males agreed to join her for coffee.
When they saw the herpes-related contents spill out of her purse, only 50% agreed.
But, when she stole thunder by telling them about her herpes prior to the contents
spilling, 70% agreed to join her.
wow dude, at least you can be comforted in knowing you're social life is more interesting than mine. Just once I'd like to meet a drunk-off-his-face french guy and take him home. "He followed me home. Can I keep him Mummy?"
"You've got three chances to say something that I'll remember tomorrow."
Hmm... I'm going to have to try that one
*laughs evilly.*
That's way too hard for me. If a girl said that to me, my brain would probably explode, I wouldn't have a clue. I've spent a few hours mulling it over just now and drawn a total blank to be honest. Hope its not a new trend, if so I'll be staying indoors for a few months, it sounds scary.
hehe, so from what i understand, you don't remember what you told her ? :)
looks like you should forget about the fine-feathered manners and go for the exhibitionism-dancing
Wearing a kilt is guaranteed to get the girls trying to think of chat-up lines for you, rather than the other way around. They always seem to want to know if you're a "true Scot". Some even try and find out while I'm standing there with my arm around my wife's shoulders!
Wow Andail... Last night was in a so weird atmosphere that I am willing to join one of that nights... Let me explain... I am a cyclist whose can´t go thru the nights most of the year :'( I NEED one of that stange nights that start boring and become weird now... (put "The End" song of the Doors here for giving the appropiate atmosphere to the post...)
I´ve been thinking in joining Mittens for a long time, now I know that I can´t, but the idea of facing a girl with that sort of amazing challenge makes me feel so sorry about couldn´t be able to go...
Imagine how could your life been change if you´d said the right words...
But what could you say? I haven't seen a convincing reply to her challenge yet - not that I can come up with one.
And yes, strange nights that start boring and become weird are great.
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"Trying to pick me up? Allright, you've got three chances to say something I will remember tomorrow."
How about: "Nice shoes. Wanna f**k?"
Great old pickup line.
By the way, Andail, your social life compared to mine makes you a Casanova :)
Mmmm... Harvester, sure the girl should remember that the next day... But the image that I have in my mind is more like a Cameron-Diaz-perfect-girl whose could be deeply fall in love to you for just one sentence... (Sure that the real situation Andail lived has nothing to see with what I have in mind, but let´s imagine...)
Which could have been that magic sentence? Gonzo... Wanna play?
/me waves his hand, Jedi-like
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"You will remember this tormorrow morning."
im sure she'd remember
"I've got an STD but lets do it anyway"
Slightly OT, but this reminds me of something...anyone here watch 'The Office'? In one episode the goofy, socially inept, but says-he-was-in-the-Territorial-Army-and-is-hard-as-nails character Gareth is trying to impress a work experience girl, and his line is something like:
"People think, oh look, he was in the army, he's tough. But I'm sensitive, I'm caring. Isn't 'Schindler's List' a great film?"
As for the coming up with the line for that 'three chances' girl, I am still thinking, and will get back to you.
"I can see down your shirt. Please don't cover yourself."
Of course, there's always the possibility of going to a club to enjoy the music and dancing, picking someone up is not obligatory :P
Oh, and the answer to the question is of course "I make adventure games." ;)
Quote from: custard on Thu 29/05/2003 23:04:49
im sure she'd remember
"I've got an STD but lets do it anyway"
I think it would work better as a pickup line this way: "Hey baby, want some STDs?"
Ask her halfway through the act.
"Do you have Aids?"
"NO!"
"Well, now you do."
Quote from: CJ on Fri 30/05/2003 00:40:13
Of course, there's always the possibility of going to a club to enjoy the music and dancing, picking someone up is not obligatory :P
Cj, why do you think they call it a club? If you wernt supposed to pick up girls would they cal... Wait, thats a
strip club, my mistake... :D
Here is one i used last night...
'An ATM swallowed my card, can you buy me a drink.'
I bet those american chicks remembered me and my friend ronald when they woke up. 2 guys trying to convince them that its customary for girls to buy guys drinks.
Sounds like a cool crazy night. i had a cool crazy night last night, but mine ended in me being very pissed off and emotional. Ya take the good with the bad i guess...
slam both hands on either side of the wall near her head and scream very very loudly in her face
kinda like the TV demon from the Aphex Twin video... if you look like him it helps double plus
*Andail is taking notes*
Man, with your help I'll be the next Don Juan...thanks guys
What about...
"I will tell nothing, baby, but...
Tomorrow it will be you the one who won´t be able to stop thinking about how maravellous could have been the night with me"
?
What do you think? With that, we don´t need to think nothing ingenious and the next decission should have been taken by the girl...
All advantadges, Nacho wins!
I've heard that pretending that you're gay and that you need a "real" women to convert you to being het. works well... never tried it myself.
Or you could say that you fell into a vat of viagra when you has a summer job in the factory and haven't been able to get it down since...
Or just lick your eyebrows
Well... I tried to say that I was engaged and I needed to proove if my love to that girl was real...
It didn´t work...
Farlander, I really hope that sickeningly gooey chat up lines work for you.
"If I don't get laid in the next ten minutes then I swear to god I'll kill every girl in this room... starting with you. Time's wasting."
Flippy, I´m engaged... I was just trying to help Andail... But there should have been the words I´d said. ;D
The truth is:
Pick up lines generaly turn people off. Why? Well, they show that you only want one thing and you don't have any imagination/you're stupid and can't make for any interesting conversation. I think girls invented them in the first place to pick out people they don't want to be with :P.
Shit, MonsterShasha, Femme Fatale!
You have made me see the truth!
:o
Men are hotter than girls!!!
:'(
Quote from: Femme Fatale on Sat 31/05/2003 11:37:24
The truth is:
Pick up lines generaly turn people off. Why? Well, they show that you only want one thing and you don't have any imagination/you're stupid and can't make for any interesting conversation. I think girls invented them in the first place to pick out people they don't want to be with :P.
Sorry to barge in, if this is a personal conversation but I was passing by and couldn't help listening,
my question is:
pick up lines turn girls off, but what I've allways undestand is that females are phisically beautifull beeings and so they apreciate, above all, a compliment about their beauty, as is their natural way of existing, so girls allways love to hear something nice even if it was used before,
now, if girls respond in a agressive way to a pick up line is because they were tought by older girls to do it and ignore it.
The same way, man will allways like a coment about their strenght, altough woman may say that they look for a inteligent man, they(man) still prefer it.
It's the way we are, man and woman, we can try to change and even pretend we are diferent but in the end...
Will you coment, femme fatale?
Using a pickup line and sayying something witty to get a girl to remember you the next morning are two very different things. Anyone can use a pickup line, only clever people can say something witty on the spot. Also, if you comment on something other guys who try to pick up dont notice, they like that.You have beautiful ears. Now you dont hear many people saying that now do ya!!!
*note: completly ignore what i say.
I agree - it was never really the question of saying something cheesy and classic - I tried to come up with some smart, existential yet funny reflection...but my head wasn't clear enough.
I also was a bit annoyed at bitchy women - just prior to this, a girl had kept teasing me for not wanting to use the urinoar in the men's room, while she and her friends were there too.
I don't have this huge urinoar-phobia, but I prefer taking a leak in privacy rather than in front of lots of people including girls.
They were really patronising, asking if I was too shy or concerned about the size of my penis or something. The most bothering thing was that the most bitchy girl was extremely attractive, so while I mobilised my verbal defence, I kept being distracted by her physical appearence.
So, you see, girls really know how to tease me.
There is a vast difference between a pick-up line and a compliment. A pick up line is :
"Are you tired? Because you've been running through my mind all day."
"Are those moon-pants? Because your ass is out of this world."
"I'm no cashier, but you've got two items I'd like to check out."
Pick up lines are prepared before hand to impress members of the opposite sex with your supposed intelligence.
A compliment, however, is usually a bit more spur of the moment; it's an observation that will make the person you're talking to feel good.
"That's a lovely outfit."
"You're a good dancer."
"I like your hair colour- green suits you!"
Okay, maybe not that last one. In conclusion, compliments=good, pick-up lines= bad.
And Andail- What were girls doing in the men's room, or do I want to know?
That´s the point... That girl was not looking for a pick-up line (I suppose, in fact, only Andail knows it...) but I suppose she wasn´t looking for a compliment neither.
That girl was looking for something more shocking like that... I wonder why didn´t Andail get it, because he seems smart and clever. I suppose his mind was blured by the alcohol or something...
I am looking forward for Andail´s posts talking about a second change with that girl... All the AGSers are thrilled by that!!!
Please Andail, get her! We wanna know! The truth is out there!
U´ve now a lot of suggestions... but I fear we don´t still have the good one...
Give her your credit-card and tell her the code.
That's something she would remembered....
"Thats a nice dress. It would look good at my bedroom floor"
"Come sit in my lap and let's talk about the first thing that pops up"
"Here's my wallet. Drink untill you think I'm handsome"
Actually I've tried the "Are you sitting here all alone?" -phrase, and it worked!
Yes, I dont need pickup lines anymore but one that I thought was a good one is "Ma'am, that dress(or whatever) is very becoming on you, and if I was on ya' I'd be cumming too." If women take it then...
1. Higher sex chance
2. They possibably are "dirty minded" which can be better
3. Higher sex chance
:P, so stay clean!
I'd just like to say that I really love andails story's of his adventures of the night. They are really great. Andail sounds like a really cool, exciting fellow to hang out with.
On another note, it makes me wonder how the toilets there are set up. Is it merely a trough or are there urinals with no partitions? I wonder because I was suspecting it was an utterly American thing to be self-concious about bathroom functions. (Because I've heard various stories about how public bathrooms can be abroad) My personal experiences with this have led me to be rather un-selfconcious. While in the Marine Corps, one thing they love to do is give you a restroom with toilets lining a wall with no partition. Once you've had someone else turn slightly to his left and ask if you're done with the sports section yet, that's about as unprivate as it gets, I suppose.
The trough is an important place of male bonding. It provides ample oppurtunity for friendly banter like "Looks like you've had a few" and provides a much more utilitarian place to talk than the mirror in the women's toilet.
Unfortunately many of the younger generations, left insecure by the images on television (and old men at the urinal) choose to hide themselves away, cut themselves of from their brothers by lurking in a cubicle to urinate.
That's not it man.
Oh man, CJ's line was actually amazing!
Another one you could try, would be: "I've made a habit of randomly selecting people at clubs and hitting on them, only to see the range of their responces. The ones that carry on with the usual social facade, be it either so as to get rid of me, or to state that they are interested in leaving with me, are spared. The ones that think it witty and all postmodern to dispense with such social games and come right out with it however, I ambush on their way home, move to a secure location, chop of their limbs, flay them, roast them, and then force them to eat the choice bits. Seeing how you've fared so far, I only have one question to ask: Would you like some fries with that?"
But you'd have to say this very very seriously, with no drunken slurring at all, and looking the other person straight in the eye.
I bet she would remember you in the morning.