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A friend recently got me a copy of The Game by Neil Strauss (a late bday present), which I've just finished. If anything I thought it was an amusing read.

I have to wonder though whether its all so true and does this stuff actually work?

Any charming pick up types roaming these forums?
 
I just ordered this :o
I'm more interested in the stories/what not to do, I don't think I'd be up for trying the challenges where you chat to X people, use X opening line and all this.

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Any charming pick up types roaming these forums?
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Negatory.
 
Whatever you do, please don't start using the terms in the book in general conversation - nothing marks out an utter gimp than when they start talking about 'opening sets' and 'amogging' people :facepalm:

I can summarise the book for you in one short sentence:

"Girls like confidence"

Yes it works, in that it provides various 'techniques' for getting socially-inept individuals into situations out of their comfort zone but provides them enough structure not to descend into a gibbering mess. When they realise that actually, girls are not something to be afraid of, but also have interests, desires and emotions, the fear dissipates, they appear more confident and quelle surprise, they appear more attractive to the opposite sex.

It's a fun read, just take it all with a pinch of salt and don't make it your Bible. :)
 
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Rich_L said:
"Girls like confidence"
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Thats pretty much what I got out of it too :D Explains why most men are so useless I suppose.

Just, some of the opening lines used and stuff I think would make me look a right ****** (or would it?). Heh...
 
I have read it, and if you are quietly confident about yourself, then some of the techniques will work. Its not a sleazy book as such, but it does use some psychological warfare on the female mind. :) I would say I have taken on board what i needed from it, and it comes naturally now. I wouldn't recommend it as a bible though and if your a spastic who can't talk to women, reciting its lines and bodging its techniques is going to lead to you looking like a fool.

A very useful show to watch to see how its not done, or in some cases (very rarely) can be done, is The Keys to the VIP. Its a Canadian show where they are given difficult tasks to pull of on women.
Its funny as.
 
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If you go out and talk to girls, you will get laid more.

If don't go out and don't talk to girls, you will get laid less.
 
Some guys can charm the nickers off any girl. Not me though I was not blessed with those particular skills. Not done too badly but though:)
 
My flatemate is infatuated with that book and has tried to sit me down in his room and show me his 30Gb, yes 30Gb of pick up lines including pictures of body stance, chat up lines and routinely watches the informational videos of the guy about how to get your mojo for the night.

This is what he uses, every night.

He says ''Hey, sorry for bothering you but we need a womans opinion. Is kissing cheating?'' Depending on what they say, you have this back story to develop. Your friends girlfriend went out and kissed another girl, is this cheating or just friendship? (Normally the girls say friendship.) Then you go on to explain that she has done this more than a couple of times, even though she says sorry to her boyfriend she keeps doing it.

He does this to like, 20 girls a night and it's not uncommon for him to ask the same girl the same question. And this is where the problem lies for me. While in theory 30Gb of information is great, it hasn't in practice even moderatly helped him.
I've been living with this guy for a half a year now, and I think it got him laid once, with an ugly girl that could be argued if he didn't even use the pick up line that he would have bedded her anyway.

For me, I think it's just a easy way to break the ice between a girl but the way to pick up a girl lies in your banter and the way you carry yourself. Thats why guys who are good looking can struggle to get girls and bad lookin lads are like a hot knife through butter. In theory again, learning the ways seems like it has merit in helping you, but in practice with my flatmate who lives and breaths this stuff and is by no means a bad looking lad has had no luck so even though there seems to be merit there, I don't think it helps.
I think most of the way to pick up a girl comes from your subconcious body language she picks up that is just natural and that just comes from the practice of talking to girls and confidence.

But hell, what do I know! Thats just my opinion, not trying to start a flame war here or defending my opinion, that just what I know about the subject and the lads who use it. =]
 
Its an entertaining read and very funny. The pick-up stuff seems like gold when you read it, but then you get out into the world and realise its a load of phony tosh.
 
But hell, what do I know! Thats just my opinion, not trying to start a flame war here or defending my opinion, that just what I know about the subject and the lads who use it. =]
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If you want him to STFU, tell him if he doesn't you'll AMOG him by taking print-outs of his favourite 'plays' and once he has 'broken the ice' you will step in, show the girls his 'line' is straight out of a book and then occupy the still-warm seat while he scurries off :p
 
I've read the book myself and it is pretty interesting to read! The problem is, you can be like style and pull girls like how he does it. Question is....what happen if she found out that you're fake?
 
madcat said:
Question is....what happen if she found out that you're fake?
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I guess thats why it should only be taken lightly, like inspiration in some way and you have to develop your own ways......
 
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I utterly hate that book.

A "friend" read it and started hitting on my female friends (and to be colleagues). Unsurprisingy he was utter cack, my female friends and I ended up being wound up by it when he wouldn't stop.
 
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