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This probably only works if you're Richard Feynman.
by dwwoelfel 17y ago
This probably only works if you're Richard Feynman.
- kareemm 17y agoNever know until you try. Fortune favors the bold...
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- aaronbrethorst 17y agoNot in the slightest. At the risk of destroying my chances of ever getting into YC (hi JL, PG, RTM et al!) I had astonishingly great luck with asking attractive women if they wanted to make out with me last Spring. Seriously: "hey, let's make out!" or "would it unduly offend you if I asked you to make out with me?" You're probably better off asking this sort of thing after conversing with them for a bit so you don't come off as a creep. As long as you've established your bona fides you won't, especially if you say it with a smile. I think I got one rejection, and her response was more of a good natured, laughing 'that sounds fun, but i shouldn't' variety.
- zackattack 17y agoIronically this probably increases your chances of getting into YC. Showing a history of assertiveness and getting what you want, Sam Altman-style!
- aaronbrethorst 17y agoI figure that my 'i know i'll be downmodded for this' aside zeros things out ;)
- zackattack 17y agoHaha you should email me I think we'd be friends
- JabavuAdams 17y agoAw that's cute. Are you going to make-out?
- jackowayed 17y agoEh, if anything it'll help you. It shows that you're not a wimp and that you're willing to experiment, both good things. And they're all human, you know. They realize that people do sexual things, even successful startup founders. And PG and JL have a baby. I'll let you draw your own conclusions based on that.
- araneae 17y agoI'll let you draw your own conclusions based on that. Ah, the wonders of in vitro fertilization.
- enneff 17y agoIndeed. I've had great success with simple, blunt solicitation.
- wallflower 17y agoThe shock & awe opener http://www.rsdwiki.com/index.php?title=SHOCK_and_AWE..._The_Apocalypse_Opener http://www.rsdwiki.com/index.php?title=SHOCK_and_AWE..._The_...
- aaronbrethorst 17y agopursuant to the content of said wiki entry, that only works if the bird is pissed in some edinburgh pub. ahem :) edit: ok, i finished reading the whole thing and that is absolutely hilarious. I have a friend who writes copy for those 'Learn how to train your parrot in 21 days' eBook sales websites (and makes obscene gobs of money doing it). He writes EXACTLY like this. It's uncanny. My gorgeous female Russian biochemist friend (no, you cannot have her phone number) is currently reading this next to me and thinks it's absolutely hilarious; she says this has worked on her before. Bravo and well played. Seriously.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agothe value in trying this and having it work is that you instantly understand just how little any of the surface bullshit matters. confidence. end of story. there is nothing else.
- powauth 17y agoWell, for the 14% of the population that works on, sure. Confidence is key, but there is a difference between a confident stud and a confident creep.
- RevRal 17y agoI'm not sure what a confident creep would be like. Confidence is confidence. A confident man knows restraint, and as long as he's good with restraint, he's not in danger of being a creep. It is good to play with expectations, to acknowledge them without actually "acknowledging" them. A creep wouldn't have the confidence to let this play out; they have to confirm that the other person is aware of the "acknowledgment" being played out. It's like some guy saying "did you get it? Did you get the joke?" Except the creep is saying this with everything he does. His body language, tone, talking speed, and even with his language. A "confident creep" is a contradiction.
- nandemo 17y agoSeriously, you should leave out the "would it unduly offend you" part. If you don't believe me, try an A/B test and report the results to us.
- aaronbrethorst 17y ago"unduly offended" never failed. The former did once.
- vidarh 17y agoI think actually saying "unduly offend" is so quirky and strange that it won't come off as weak. It'll sound like he's having fun with it, and doesn't really care if it offends at all. In fact, he's saying he doesn't care if it offends - as long as it doesn't "unduly offend". I'm tempted to try adding "would it unduly offend you..." to a lot of things now..
- msie 17y agoHmmm, good-looking guy doesn't have a problem with the ladies. What a surprise!
- ErrantX 17y agoBear in mind though your asking them to make out; which is fine, something they probably already planned to do. (as an aside your first line is bad in terms of a "shock and awe" opener. The second line is better not because of the "unduly offended" (that waters it down) but the "would you") If you asked them to sleep with you then success rate would shoot down (guaranteed; I tried it for a while just to see)
- nzmsv 17y agoI doubt the girls in the bar knew anything about physics, or who he was. If you try asking a stranger in an average bar who Richard Feynman is, I am predicting a bunch of blank stares and trying to guess something along the lines of "actor?"
- eli 17y agoI think dwwoelfel meant "famously charismatic" not "well-known physicist"
- froo 17y agoI know a Welsh guy named Ed (very short guy) who never leaves a pub without a girl on his arm. I always wondered how he did it so I asked him and he told me his pickup line. He said: "I go up to a girl and I start off with saying hi, introducing myself as Ed, I then say to them this line" "Look, girls are into honesty right? Well the truth is I have a big d!&k and want to put it in you" He told me that the secret to it is that you have to sell it like it was the most normal thing to say in the world. As you can imagine, I was completely stunned, but he swore it was the truth. It's a little more crude than feynman's article, but the principle is similar. Strange huh?
- froo 17y agoany mods able to delete this? it somehow duped and I was unable to remove it myself due to noprocrast kicking in.
- froo 17y agoI know a Welsh guy named Ed (very short guy) who never leaves a pub without a girl on his arm. I always wondered how he did it so I asked him and he told me his pickup line. He said: "I go up to a girl and I start off with saying hi, introducing myself as Ed, I then say to them this line" "Look, girls are into honesty right? Well the truth is I have a big d!&k and want to put it in you" He told me that the secret to it is that you have to sell it like it was the most normal thing to say in the world. As you can imagine, I was completely stunned, but he swore it was the truth. It's a little more crude than feynman's article, but the principle is similar.
- jonny_noog 17y agoWhat was the quality of the women who responded favorably to this line? :P I think it's also worthy to note that the origin makes a huge difference. If you e.g. have an underwear model trying that line on a woman, it will no doubt succeed more often than if a stereotypical truck driver delivered it in exactly the same way.
- potatolicious 17y agoI wouldn't be so sure about that - the greatest womanizer I've ever known is a lanky, almost scrawny nerd with curly hair. What he lacks in looks he more than makes up in his personality - he's the life of the party, knows everything about everyone, a master socializer... etc. He's a shoot first ask questions later sort of guy - will never betray a moment of doubt, I think that's what makes him successful at both life and women.
- jonny_noog 17y agoI'm pretty sure of it dude, looks matter, period. Although I don't think there's any denying that personality generally seems to factor more heavily in what is attractive to a woman as opposed to what is attractive to a man, Ill certainly give you that. But as I alluded to in my previous comment, all the womenizers I have known have had more than their fair share of skanky chicks because after all was said and done, they were pretty skanky themselves. There is usually a certain type of woman who will go for "Look, girls are into honesty right? Well the truth is I have a big d!&k and want to put it in you" and I've found by and large that those aren't the most interesting kind. My strategy has been quality over quantity and it's worked out pretty well so far.