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lil  ·  3657 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to Flirt

8bit, gang -- this article is HUMOR, or if you were in Canada: HUMOUR. That's all. It is not not a guide to flirting. There are many hints throughout the article, but if you don't realize by paragraph 3, where you are standing in the urinal contemplating your penis; then surely by paragraph 4 where the author says to buy the girl a drink and

    Also include money — maybe ten to fifteen dollars — with the drink

8bit: Please contribute to hubski when you have been gaming for 48 hours straight and your socks are wet. Contribute when your socks are dry. Neither of those conditions should affect your sense of humour.

Sorry OftenBen, I was wrong. It is more humor than satire. But there are elements of satire too. It is satirizing serious "how to flirt" articles. Like this one. I do kind of like what the linked article says here:

    Flirt to give, not to get. "Outcome thinking" (focusing on what you can get from a woman) sabotages your results. When you create a situation where you have to get a result from something you do, you no longer feel fun. All conversations where someone wants something from the other person inevitably become uncomfortable. So give her the gift of a laugh, and you're pretty much guaranteed some attention.




user-inactivated  ·  3656 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sorry lil but if it's meant to be humor than it just wasn't very funny. I mean I read it again this morning and still didn't find much that was even a little chuckle-worthy. Like I said though, maybe there's a piece to this whole thing that I'm missing.

lil  ·  3656 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Totally understood. One person's giggle is another's upchuck.

OftenBen  ·  3656 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's just sad right?

Personally I definitely went through a 'nice guy' phase where I put women that I found myself attracted to on pedestals, among other things, and to me, this just reads as mocking and sad.