> On Nov 10, 11:16 am, "Scruff" googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> Morning Guys! Happy Friday!

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>> Out in Leicester Square/Covent Garden last night for what started off
>> as a dinner with a few mates (1 guy, 2 girls and me). Ended up turning
>> into a very fun night in my favourite cocktail bar. 2 bottles of wine
>> and 2 bottles of champagne... Aren't the random nights out the best?
>> Man I needed it, I was getting stir crazy... and I NEEDED TO SARGE!

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>> And sarge I did. Opened 4 sets. First, a lone wolf - 6 (warm up act
>> only); second, a 2 set - both HB7.5s, English. Third, a lone wolf HB7
>> - I wanted to test how good I am at identifying what part of the
>> world someone is from simply by looking - guessed she was Australian
>> - close, she was a Kiwi - she was impressed. And then a 2 set I'd
>> had my eyes on from the start of the night -HB8s, Canadians. I
>> didn't have the confidence at the start of the night, but doing the
>> warm ups really helped.

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>> Openers used last night:

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>> 1) Drinking Champagne for no reason, give us a reason to celebrate
>> (then neg them when they come up with a crap reason)
>> 2) My mate is going through a midlife crisis, do you think he'd look
>> better in tight red leather on a motocycle or cruising in a Porsch?
>> 3) Are you Austrialian? you look it! (built in neg - sorry Aussies!)
>> 4) Cheer up! its a thursday! Thursday is the new Friday! that means its
>> a 4 day weekend! (easy to do that one when a lady is at the bar on her
>> own waiting to be served, they always look glum!)

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>> Best thing about the night is that I didn't even have to move around.
>> I was standing quite close to the bar, chatting to my friends and they
>> all came over to pass me on the way to the bar. It was easy as taking
>> candy from a baby:

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>> "Give me that candy, bitch!" *smack*

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>> well, maybe not.

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>> But anyway, I digress (awesome night... mmmm)

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>> Opened on this 2 set, turns out they're Canadian. Target and me
>> insulting each other for ages in this childish playground way. She
>> keeps calling me a looser. All night. Everytime she does I smile and
>> turn to chat to her friend instead, but not sure how well I played
>> that. Maybe I didn't neg enough, but I got the impression she's a
>> little too 'cutesy', not really a malicious person.

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>> 'SPLASHY-SPLASHY'

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>> That brings me to this theory... girls who like to insult you in
>> bantering way are obviously flirting with you. This is a very
>> schoolyard method of flirting, when two wee kids pinch each other call
>> each other names because they fancy each other and don't know any
>> other way of showing it. My mates refer to it as 'Splashy Splashy'
>> from when you go to swimming pools and have splashing fights with
>> someone you fancy - very adolescent!

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>> By insulting each other, its just a development of this very primitive
>> form of flirting. Girls who flirt this way are not overly sexual, or
>> really know how else to show that they like someone, they're still
>> have a very undeveloped sense of male-female dynamics.

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>> How can I guess this? Just from some experience, and also from the fact
>> that she told me that she had met her first boyfriend in that very bar.
>> She'd only been in the country 1.5 years! And she'd done a Masters
>> degree here... hmm... you see where I'm coming from? She must have
>> been about around 24 y/o and only had 1 boyfriend, that's not a lot
>> of experience of male-female social dynamics.

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>> Doesn't mean that she wasn't the sort to just jump on guys for one
>> night stands, but I got the impression she really wasn't that type of
>> girl (unfortunately!).

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>> COCKBLOCKING

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>> Man, I had to do some serious cockblocking/AMOGing... Don't you just
>> hate English guys! Smarmy bastards! In their pinstriped suits, hitting
>> on my targets. Every time a group came up - some with some good Game,
>> has to be said! - I immediately opened on them gave them all my
>> attention and stopped them from talking to my target completely until I
>> turned and put my arm around her.

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>> One guy did break through when my guard was down (he was good, got the
>> impression he knew the routines - maybe even into PU). I totally
>> isolated them both by turning to her and my friend and cracking a
>> couple of jokes, ignoring my target completely. Within a couple of
>> seconds she was back at my side telling me to pretend I was her
>> boyfriend. Awesome. I've never had to cock-block/AMOG so much, it was
>> constant battling, like some crazy computer game. Relentless. The place
>> was packed though.

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>> End of the night, I had to get going, been working on this Canadian
>> chick for a while but I have to go, had to be up early the next day (I
>> feel a little worse for wear at the moment, I can tell you!). So I
>> isolate my target to a quiet area, she follows when I simply give her
>> the follow me finger.

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>> Ask her if she's always that rude to guys (only some she says) and
>> get her number, but its wrong. She's looking at it thinking that its
>> not right, she tries it 3 times and she's pretty sure its right but.
>> I can't call her phone cos we're in a basement bar and I can't
>> give her my number (which she can't find cos its under a pile of
>> coats). I'm not hanging around, so I tell her I'll text her with my
>> number. Turns out it was wrong. Should have double checked, or gone to
>> the bar for a pen and paper.

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>> Man. Blocked.

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>> But I did get to k-close her though - even that was a lot of work.
>> Canadians... are they all like that?

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>> Good night, roll on the weekend!

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>> Scruff.she has a bloody boyfriend! cheeky woman!- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -