Common Pick-Up Guide Techniques

Ignoring the Hot Girl:   This is the theory that if you ignore the hot girl and talk to her friends first, that she will be drawn to you out of jealously and a sense of challenge.  This is true for a good many girls.  Hey, I’m not going to lie to you.  This works well on the girls whose self-esteem is built around their looks and those who aren’t happy unless they win.  Hell, if you are using this technique, you don’t care anyway.  If it works it works, right. 

The trick involves talking with a hot girl’s friends, both male and female, and entertaining the group while appearing not to notice the hot girl.  The hot girl is then supposed to be interested in him, because she is used to every other guy hitting on her and it is fascinating when a one guy doesn’t.  This trick works just a well, maybe even better, on men. 

One draw-back is that if you speak to a girl’s friend and the friend likes you, you are sometimes screwed.  It depends on if your intended is a good friend or not.  In my case, if a guy approaches and friend of mine, and she likes him, then he is off-limits.

Sometimes this trick appears to work, but really doesn’t.  For example, if a guy I think is particularly hot tries this maneuver, I often pull my friends aside and ask them if any of them happen to be interested in the guy (I always give my friends first dibs, except in the case of a straight forward come-on), and then, if they say no, I proceed to screw with his mind until he either breaks down and admits he came over to talk to me or he runs away.  It’s fun. 

Being an asshole or making mean comments:  such as pointing out that a woman’s clothes have a stain or more subtly making duplicitous comments such as, “Is that your natural hair color?” At best, this is like grade school teasing, at worst, this is sociopathic, manipulative behavior.  This is an attempt to wear down a woman’s self-esteem, to break down her resistance by making her needy for male attention and affirmation.  This is just sick.  This is just a lesser form of the typical emotional abuse men use to make their wives and girlfriends stay with them:  “No one else would want you” and “you are so fat and gross, you are lucky I love you”.  This is dangerous territory. Women who fall for the more aggressive forms of this trick have very low self-esteem and can be unstable.  Women who fall for the very subtle form are probably either overlooking it or are aware that you really like them and probably just assume that you are so nervous and intimidated by them that you couldn’t think of any better way to talk to you.

If a woman wants to overlook this sick behavior and forgive the man using it, the best way to do so would be to confront him with his behavior and force and apology.

The Distraction: This includes the funny pick-up lines, the puppets, the magic tricks, and whatever other gimmick you can come up with to make women pay attention to you.  Sure women will pay attention to this.  It is amusing.  It is entertainment.  It is obviously a desperate attempt for female attention and women understand this.  They don’t care.  In fact, a lot of women will like it because it is fun and gives them a chance to talk with guys.  Yes, women go to the bar because either they want to talk to guys or one of their friends does.  We could just stay home and drink wine and watch gay porn if we weren’t interested in talking to you.  Ok, most women don’t watch gay porn, they watch Sex in the City or something less obvious than gay porn but still involving hot men in uniforms. 

Good Boy, Bad Boy:  One guy is rude and presses himself on a woman, then his “nice” friend arrives and says “leave her alone, dude, you’re drunk.”  Then the “nice” guy  asks her if she is okay.  Can he buy her a drink?  This is a take-off of good-cop, bad-cop.  It only works on the stupid.  That’s fine for most of you though.  Hey, stupid girls for everyone!

Don’t forget though, that in addition to stupid girls, a smart girl who happens to think the “nice” guy is a catch will sometimes pretend she was “fooled” by the ploy just to talk to the man.  She will be more defensive though.  You will have more hurdles to jump than if you had just gone with the straight forward approach.

Straight Forward:  “Hi, my name is Tom.”  “I saw you from across the bar and I thought you were cute.”

This technique, which is really no technique, will work better than almost all the others in almost every case if done correctly.  Doing it correctly means that you do it with complete confidence.  Don’t look around.  Don’t stall.  Don’t talk quietly.  Touch her on the arm.  Smile.  Stand up straight.  Act like you know she will be happy to talk to you, but not like she is privileged to be in your presence.  The only exception will be if you can’t pull it off smoothly because you are too nervous without your puppet.  Also, sometimes gimmicks help if her girlfriends are entertained as well.  Usually that will apply to younger women.  The older the woman, the better the straight forward approach.

Also, if the girl you are trying to talk to is the former prom queen, it might require the next step.  If the girl ignores you rudely – go away and forget about it.  Let it go and don’t let it stop you for trying again with someone else.  But, if she talks to you for a minute, but continues to look around and doesn’t seem that interested, say “Sorry for brothering you, I’ll leave now.”  And go across the room.  If she was at all interested, and she might be, because women are taught to play hard to get, she will come to you.  If not, forget it.  Whatever you do, don’t hang around hoping she will pay more attention to you.  She won’t.