Sometime in the next day or so, a Bootcamp is going to go up for Johannesburg, South Africa.
After the awesome success of our Glasgow and Dublin Bootcamps, Cajun and I are interested in getting our travel on, and visiting some new and far-flung places. We figure South Africa is about as far as you can get.
This is going to be our first bootcamp in Africa, and this is probably going to be a one-time-only event. There are only six seats available, and they’re probably going to fill up fast, so make sure to sign up now.
Savoy has a little poll going on down at The Attraction Forums, asking people who their favorite instructor is.
Right now, I’m losing to Cajun and Fader, and am nearly tied with Braddock. Personally, I think it’s embarrassing that they’re even considered in the same league as me
Anyway, one of my defining characteristics, and something that has helped me immensely with my game, is the fact that I have no shame. So I’m not above trying to stack the deck by begging my blog readers to log onto The Attraction Forums and vote for me.
First of all, for those of you who don’t believe in magical stuff, please give me a chance before you reject this notion. I’m not going to blow sunshine up your ass, or give you some kind of wu-wu new-age energy field you can manipulate to help you solve your life’s problems. But I will explain to you, in an entirely scientific and rational way, why “magical thinking” make sense sometimes, specifically in social situations. [Read more →]
You’re probably thinking to yourself, “What the hell is a spandrel?”, and “what the heck does this have to do with picking up women?”. And the answers are “a concept in evolutionary biology which is inspired by architecture” and “not too much”.
Last summer, Cajun and I went out a few times with a video camera to try and make some pickup videos with the idea of eventually making a product or something out of it.
Anyway, I got busy with school, and the product idea kind of got put on the shelf. We’ve been sitting on the video for a while now, so I decided to just take a few clips and release them free to the interenet. These videos are pretty basic; the target audience is more a newbie who wants to see what good kino + bodylanguage looks like rather than advanced pickup guy. But considering all the crappickupvideos out there I thought I could do people a service by putting something out there that doesn’t suck… in any case, we have some better footage that I’m still holding on to in the hopes of making a pickup product out of them.
Anyway guys, I’m interested in hearing what you guys think of this, and if you have suggestions for something that you’d like to see in a future video, Cajun and I will be going out and trying to get more footage this winter.
I want to apologize a bit, because I’ve been neglecting Mantalk.ca (Canada’s Pickup and Dating Messageboard) for the past few weeks, while I’ve been in Ireland and the U.K.
Anyway, I want to make sure everyone knows that Mantalk is still going on, and since I haven’t done the draw yet, I’m going to keep the contest open for another two weeks, until October 27th.
Also, I’ve changed things around a bit, so now you can browse the forums without logging in, if you want to have a look before you register. Also, we were getting a bit of spam, so I got a better captcha registration process that should fix that.
Someone forwarded me this post from a public forum, and I thought I would start a discussion here… I think this brings up some pretty profound philosophical questions. Also, it’s hilarious.
Siamese Chicks!!! HELP!!!!!
Ok, so I meet two HB (Hot Babes) 8.5’s…they’re siamese. We met at a campus club, and they’re connected at the waist. Here’s the thing, I DHV’d (demonstrated higher value… aka, acted cool) Toward the Obsticle (the left side)whilst negging the target (right side) But the obsticle now likes me!!! Fuck!!!
SO I have a few questions: First of all, If I do hook up with them what does that count as, score-wise? 1 f-close or 2?
First of all, congratulations on being open enough to hit on Siamese twins, while also being picky enough to fine one of them unattractive. I mean, everybody has standards, right?
As for how this counts, score wise, I think it’s a bit of a philosophical question - you might even be having your first threesome! Personally, I would go by the number of vaginas involved. If she has two, you can put two notches on your bedpost (or maybe one big two-headed notch, like a Y), if there’s only one vagina, I’m afraid you can only add one notch. Those are the rules, I’m afraid.
If you’re curious (I am), you should ask her politely “how many vaginas (vaginii?) do you have?”. Try not to look like a creep as you’re doing this.
Certainly, it’ll be a good story to impress your friends!
Glasgow has been a great experience. And I thought I’d pass on some things I’d noticed about Scotland.
1 - Bars and Clubs don’t seem to play that house music bullshit that has infected the rest of the world. I was pleased to see that Glasgow is a city where people actually DANCE to rock music.
2 - The girls in Glasgow were hotter than I expected… but my expectations were low. It probably helps that I like the rocker look, which 2/3rds of the women in Glasgow under the age of thirty are sporting.
3 - Scottish chavs are called neds (Non-educated Delinquents), and are much more rediculous than their American cousins, “white trash”. We sat behind a family of neds on the flight from Dublin, and they were hilarious and obnoxious. The best part was the 8 year old daughter of the family, who had a rediculous fake tan, complete with orange hands, and was talking about some contestant on X-factor (think American Idol) and how she would love to “do” him. Priceless….
4 - Flights in Europe are rediculously cheap… troublingly so. I don’t understand how you can keep an airplane from falling out of the sky when you’re charging 1 euro for a ticket. Also, flights are cheap enough that Neds can afford to travel. I prefer the days when air travel was a bastion of the privileged classes.
5 - Scottish women have a really odd, dry, sense of humor. They’ll make fun of you even if they like you, and you need to hit back. I got confused a few times, not knowing what was going on as scottish girls teased me. But if you give it back better than they can (and I can be as mean and sarcastic as anyone), you win.
Just when you thought that you couldn’t fuck things up more, the US Congress has gone ahead and demonstrated that they really don’t have a clue what’s going on. This is really troubling.
I’m not troubled by the fact that the bailout package failed - it was a flawed bill, and there were good reasons to vote against it. Unfortunately, this package failed for the WRONG reasons.
The bailout package failed, not because it was flawed, but because more than half of congress doesn’t understand shit about finance and economics, and it’s those people who are running the show these days. If they had voted the package down over technical details, or because they wanted more oversight, I would understand - but they didn’t vote it down for that reason. They voted it down because they are unable or unwilling to understand the consequences of the impending crisis.
For example Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican from California, said to support the would be like placing “a coffin on top of Ronald Reagan’s coffin.” (What?) Or they’re against this bailout because their constituents don’t support it, which is also stupid because your average person can’t be expected to understand the significance of the problems the US economy is facing - this isn’t a simple problem that you can figure out by watching Fox News.
The US government needs to do something, not to bail out Wall Street, but to keep these credit problems from screwing up everyday life in America. We’re at a point where profitable factories are going to close because they can’t get the credit to buy their raw materials, one where you can’t buy (or sell) a car without $20,000 cash. Banks will go down left and right, wiping out people’s savings (only your first $100,000 in an account are protected) and crippling business.
Oh, and home prices will probably fall even further if that happens, which will compound the mortgage crisis and screw over everyday people even more.
A bailout isn’t about helping bank executives, or stockholders (though they may benefit), it’s about helping the innocent depositors, debtors and businesses that deal with the Banks. Yes, stockholders and executives may benefit, but government has to rescue the good with the bad. It’s as if we’re all on the Titanic, and the Republicans seem more concerned with ensuring the captain drowns than saving the ship.
It’s that kind of idiocy, more than any problem in the markets, that concerns me now.
As a Canadian, one of my favorite things to do when I’m traveling is to act like a complete jerk, and then tell people that I’m American. I know it’s a pretty terrible thing to do, but I’m a bit of a nihilist, and kind of like contributing to Anti-American sentiments worldwide - if only just to stir the pot a bit.
Anyway, in the spirit of this game, I will introduce to you a 100%, guaranteed way to piss off a bartender in Dublin. It goes like this.
Bartender - What can I get you..
10Mag - I dunno.. do you have any local beers?
Bartender - Well, we have Guinness!
10Mag - No, I don’t want a Guinness… What’s that local beer you have… the dark one?
Bartender - Guinness!
10Mag - No, not that one… it’s really dark. I can get it at my bar back home.
Bartender - ??
10Mag - Heineken? Is that made in Dublin??
Then, continue to describe Guinness in as much detail as possible, all the while insisting that you’re NOT talking about Guinness. Eventually, give up and order a Corona, and then tell them how “we saved your ass in World War II”.
This joke was inspired by the Kids in the Hall skit below.
