Smiling at strangers?

arknor

arknor

arknor

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anyone here smile at strangers and can give their reasons for it?
I personally don't smile at strangers as I just assume they would take it as me being weirdo :p

I do however get a few women smiling at me, some proper tidy milfs on occasion who no doubt would not want to copulate with me.

so why do they do it? does it make them feel safer?

anyone else just finds it weird ? maybe if it was someone you saw in passing fairly regular on your daily routine then fine but someone you never ever laid eyes on before :confused:
 
Those milfs want some they are probably bored with sexy time only coming around once per month. It is either that or people just think you are friendly. Have you tried to just slip the hand when they smile? Just pat the backside its the only way to be sure ;)
 
On the walk back from dropping the kids off from school I play "hello bingo".

Say "morning" or "hi" to people you don't know. A total ignore is zero points, a nod or a smile is 1 point, a "hi" back 2 points and a "morning" + some other random words is three points.

I'm still trying to figure out what the phone number is worth that I got last week ;)
 
All animals smile for different reasons, some to show no ill intent (no hostility) - others a sign of submission/mutual none aggression or even playfulness/increase sexual attraction.

A women smiling at a man will most likely be one of the above.
 
Doesn't happen where I live, but when I went down to my aunt's in a little village called Chiselborough in Somerset, I couldn't walk past someone without getting a smile, and usually a hello too.

The pub was even better, the governor used to let people pour their own drinks when he was brahms and liszt and couldn't be bothered.
 
Smiling is a signaling system that evolved from a need to communicate information of many different forms. One of these is advertisement of sexual interest. Female smiles are appealing to males, increasing physical attractiveness and enhancing sex appeal. However, recent research indicates a man's smile may or may not be most effective in attracting women, and that facial expressions such as pride or even shame might be more effective.
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Hmm you learn something new everyday. Wiki backs up my claims that you have been sending the local cougars into a frenzy. I was wrong on patting them though you apparantly need to do some weird pride grin.

Many people in the former Soviet Union area consider smiling at strangers in public to be unusual and even suspicious behavior
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arknor said:
so why do they do it? does it make them feel safer?
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Because they are trained from a very young age to do it. Just as boys are trained that it is "un-manly" past a certain age. Yes, that's a simplification, and much of the training is subliminal, but that's what is going on.
 
In general I don't, if it's somebody who I pass every day then I'll smile and say hello as I'm walking past. There's this one miserable **** who I see every day waiting for the bus just as I'm getting out of my car after work, I've walked past and said hello several times but he just looks right through me. :mad:
 
Rofflay said:
Many people in the former Soviet Union area consider smiling at strangers in public to be unusual and even suspicious behavior
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Well it is, whenever a stranger smiles at me I wonder what the **** they are planning. I get visions of myself being bundled into an unmarked transit van in ten seconds' time.:eek:
 
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