Sweet.

This is from Tsbmag.com, check out their website, there’s a lot of pretty funny pickup humor there.

This is an interesting article I found on Slate.com

Essentially, the argument goes kind of like this.. (quoted from the article)

The pill also meant women felt more able to postpone marriage—why hurry? They could enjoy sex and a career without rushing to get married. And as more intelligent women delayed getting hitched, that meant that more intelligent men would be floating around, unattached. The dating scene became a more interesting place to dip in and out of for a decade or so, and the risk of being “left on the shelf” plummeted. The fewer people sprinted up the aisle, the less need for others to hurry. It looked like a cultural shift, but it had rational roots.

This sounds quite compelling to me… I’m 27 years old right now, and I really don’t see myself getting married for a hell of a long time. Sometimes I wonder if pickup has ruined me for marriage, that I’ll never ever settle down (if I wanted to), but I like this answer a lot better.

It just makes sense for guys these days to remain single well into their thirties. There are a lot more options these days for a single guy than there ever was before, and women are pretty much doing the same thing we are.

So we can afford to be choosy, and in the event that we eventually decided to settle down (wayyyyyy off in the future), we’ll know that the girl we picked was top-of the line.

Anyway, I’m interested in hearing what you guys think of this article.

Pickup Lines We Can Believe In

The original site is http://www.wecanbelievein.com/index.php … If you have a funny poster, you can just post the link in the comments and I’ll put the top ones on the site.

Disclaimer: Lovesystems is actually a lot more than just pickup lines. Actually, lines are pretty much just used as teaching tools, “training wheels” so to speak, to be abandoned once you’ve built some basic skills.

Everywhere you go in the pickup scene, there are guys telling you that all you need is ROCK SOLID INNER GAME to get attraction and to make you a superstar pickup artist. Once you have ROCK SOLID INNER GAME, all your pickup problems will disappear and women will flock to you. If you don’t have ROCK SOLID INNER GAME, you’re being fake, women won’t like you, and you’ll die a virgin.

Now, I’m not dissing inner game. Having confidence, not caring too much about outcomes, not trying to impress the people around you – all these things are really good for your game, and we go into these things a lot at a lovesystems seminar

But ROCK SOLID INNER GAME is more than that. ROCK SOLID INNER GAME requires

- *NEVER* doubting yourself, even for a second.

- Living COMPLETELY in your own reality, where other people’s reactions and opinions don’t matter.

- Posessing an INCREDIBLE energy, and being an UNSTOPPABLE MACHINE.

- Having no FEAR, ANXIETY, DOUBT, or DISTRACTING THOUGHTS

Basically, ROCK SOLID INNER GAME sounds a lot like mania, narcissism or doing a lot of cocaine. If you begin to exhibit the symptoms of ROCK SOLID INNER GAME, please speak to your doctor!

You know what, I don’t have ROCK SOLID INNER GAME. Sometimes I doubt myself, sometimes I treat a girl like she’s cooler than me, sometimes I think too much when I’m in set. When I’m in set and talking to a girl, I’m not perfect, I’m not trying to be perfect, I’m just trying to be better than 99% of the chodes out there who have been hitting on her. (And of course, I am )

Voltaire once said: “The perfect is the enemy of the good”, and I think this is especially true with inner game, and pickup in general. The myth of “perfect inner game” is the idea that we must, or can, eliminate all doubt, all fear, all of our human frailties, and become some kind of mental superhero. Well, I’ve met people without doubt or fear, and they were all batshit loonballs. Trust me, a little bit of doubt and fear is OK.

I don’t have ROCK SOLID INNER GAME. I have good inner game. I doubt myself, but only as much as a pretty arrogant jock would doubt himself. I care what other people are thinking, but only maybe a bit more than an asshole would. And I get afraid, but I like the taste of fear in my mouth and it excites me.

What you need is not ROCK SOLID inner game, but some deep seated confidence that stems from a feeling of self worth. Most guys in the community need to work on reducing and dealing with (not eliminating) their doubts, they need to learn how to reduce and get over their fears, and they need to learn how to not give a shit and “go with the flow”. Right now at lovesystems, we’re working on some programs that will help guys with their inner game, because it is an important issue, but it won’t be a magic bullet, and it won’t be ROCK SOLID INNER GAME

It will, however be some of the best work from the best minds in the dating science community… stay tuned.